This research discusses the topic of Kevin Katchadourian’s archetype, as the main character in the novel We Need to Talk About Kevin written by Lionel Shriver. Kevin is described as a teenager with psychopath disorder who committed school massacre. The objective of this research is to analyze the persona and shadow archetypes of Kevin. This research uses character and characterization theory …
Song writers these days are unable to make their songs well-sold all the time, however Taylor Swift seems to be able to make all of her album well-sold whenever she launch new album. The aims of this study are to find out the types of figurative language found in Taylor Swift’s song lyrics in the album entitled Reputation, and to find out the meaning of each figurative language. In this resea…
This research focuses on social realities and socio-cultural values in United Kingdom’s readers that presented by Coelho through his potrayal of his social realities in late twentieth until twenty-first century. The objectives of this thesis are describing the congruences and finding out cosio-cultural values with cultural studies approach and Cultural Sociology approach. In carrying out this…
This research highlights the importance of academic writing in academic discourse which is thesis. This study examines the introduction part of undergraduate thesis of students in English Department of Widya Kartika University. Thus, the statements of the problems are how the background of the study compared to Swales’ CARS template and what the inconsistent moves are, according to Swales’ …
This research analyzes two statements of the problems. The first one is the analysis of the similarities between America in the late of 20th century and America in the beginning of 21st century. The second one is the analysis the concept of peace in three Martin Luther King’s speeches. Traditional historicist theory is applied to answer the first statement of the problem. The theory is fit to…
This is a research on rhetorical proofs in inaugural speech of United States presidents and first statement speech of United Kingdom prime ministers. Both of the countries have different government systems which are democracy and monarchy. The objective of this thesis are to find out the rhetorical proofs used in the last three inaugural speech of United States presidents and first statement sp…
Culture and history have a strong bond and complete each other. Culture and history have a very broad scope dealing with social issues which happened in a certain period. One of the social issues is women issues that become the focus of this thesis. Women issues which settled in America are vary in aspects. Therefore, the portrayal of women issues in America are only limited during nineteenth t…
This is a research about specific adjective formation in English. Grammar itself is a study of language according to its rule or formula. In relation to the problem formulated in this study are : (1) How are the form adjectives in English. (2) How to use adjectives in English. The objectives of this study are to use the formation adjective and compound adjectives for better grammar in English. …
The topic of this study is about talk show called Oprah Show. Oprah Show is one of the most popular talk show in America. This study is aimed to find out the communication style used by Oprah winfrey in Oprah Show to reveal the privacy of the guests about LGBT and the effect of communication style used by Oprah to the guests. This research use Hofnerr (2005) theory about communication style and…