Romance and history: designing the times

Romance and Prejudice --- Comment on Contemporary University Students' Personality Value Orientation

This essay makes a survey on contemporary university students' personality orientation combined with changes of times. The main features of contemporary university students' personality orientation are multivariate and romance, utility and prejudice. Some suggestions about cultivating healthy personality are made in this essay.

Analysis of Romance in Beighami\'s Darabnameh

For centuries, storytellers and scops recited epics and national, tribal, historical, and religious stories for people, through musical speeches. Some of these narrators wrote down what they recited, and some others dictated them for scribes to be recorded. Some kings and lords also had scops in their courts to recite the stories to scribes. One of the old, oral stories of Persian literature th...

"Kissing is a symbol of democracy!" Dating, democracy, and romance in occupied Japan, 1945-1952.

Romance , Race and Resistance in Best - Selling African American Narrative

Title of Document: ROMANCE, RACE AND RESISTANCE IN BEST-SELLING AFRICAN AMERICAN NARRATIVE Robin Virginia Smiles, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Directed By: Professor Mary Helen Washington, Department of English This dissertation critically examines popular romantic fiction by African American writers and argues for its inclusion in the canons and curricula of African American literary studies. Wh...

Are English Learning Experiences Related to Taiwanese Female Students’ Aspiration to Cross-Cultural Romance with Western Males?

Desire has been a marginal topic in TESOL. This study investigated whether and to what extent English learning affects Taiwanese young females’ aspiration toward western males. Four hundred ninety-nine respondents filled out a questionnaire that investigates their English learning experience and aspiration to cross–culture marriage with western males. Sixteen were interviewed. Results showed co...