Svenja Strohmeier – författare

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 2,0, University of Hildesheim (Institut fur englische Sprache und Literatur), course: Accents and Dialects in Great Britain, language: English, abstract: There are different sorts of accents in the English language in Great Britain. How come that one accent is seen as sweet, while the next one is "e;supposedly horrible"e;? This term paper will examine the developments of using the right"e; and the wrong"e; accents and show the importance of social esteem through accents. The aim is not to examine the whole variety of accents and dialects in Great Britain, as this task would be too broad. Thus, a representative variety was chosen and will be examined here.

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, University of Hildesheim (Institut fur englische Sprache und Literatur), course: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and the didactics of the classic novel, language: English, abstract: This term paper tries to work out the habits and social graces of the regency period by using the novel Emma. Emma by Jane Austen is a novel about a 21-year-old girl living in the small town of Highbury, Surrey, in England. The novel deals with the relationships between the neighbours, the class differences and, typical for Jane Austen novels, marriage and match- making. The characters in this novel may not be as highly-drawn as the ones in Pride and Prejudice are, but it delineates with great accuracy the manners and the habits of a middle class gentry (Gentleman s Magazine in September 1816: Lodge 1972: 46), and thus Emma is convenient to be a source for research for typical habits. In this paper, the aspects of family life, neighbourhood, manners and values in Emma (and thus representatively for the English Regency period) are to be portrayed.

Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, University of Hildesheim (Institut fur englische Literatur und Sprache), course: -, language: English, abstract: This master thesis examines Jane Austen's representation of morality and conduct in her two novels Mansfield Park (1814) and Persuasion (1818), as these two novels reflect the notion of the named aspects during the English Regency Period and Victorian time. Morality is a term describing the inner, partly learned notions. Conduct describes the shown behaviour of a person, determinable by their actions. Thus, this thesis examines the human inner and outer values during the English Regency and the Victorian period. The heroines of said novels, Fanny Price and Anne Elliot, are Austen s two heroines not appearing strong and autonomous from the beginning on, but developing to become so. This is the reason for these two Austen novels being chosen. By their use, the behaviour and expectations towards other people during this period are shown. A view upon the notion of women s nature in those times is given from time to time to complete the picture. This is necessary to examine if the notion of a woman s conduct is aimed to be understood.Men and women possessed conducts, standards and moralities to accept and to live after, these being examined in this thesis.Various conduct-books of that time are used to prove the novels to be exemplary for the conduct and morality during the Regency period, one of them being Sermons to Young Women by James Fordyce, the book Mr. Collins uses to read to and bore the Bennett sisters in Austen s Pride and Prejudice (published 1813). Another conduct book used is An Enquiry to the Duties of the Female Sex by Thomas Gisborne (1801), a book given to Jane Austen by her (often rather conservative) sister Cassandra. A Father s Legacy to His Daughter by Dr. Gregory (1774/2012) was so well known in Austen s time that other authors of various conduct-books assumed the knowledge of this book for their writings. There is a good case to believe that this book was a part of Austen s father s bibliography. The Habits Of Good Society: A Handbook for Ladies And Gentlemen, written by an anonymous author (1872/2012), provides a different, because broader view on the topic. The different situations where morality and conduct may differ in the said novels are divided into love, family, faith, conduct and the public life to achieve lucidity in this thesis.

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Grammar, Style, Working Technique, grade: 3,0, University of Hildesheim (Institut fur englische Literatur und Sprache), course: Forensic Linguistics , language: English, abstract: The question if the former US president Bill Clinton had sex with the 22-year-old internMonica Lewinsky in the year 1998 is a question with different possible answers. The president s answer was no . The media s answer was yes . But which answer is thecorrect one?To find out the truth, one problem is found: The problem of definition. The opinions offeredin this paper are the author s very own opinions and definitions as well as the media s. Also, Bill Clinton s and Monica Lewinksy s opinions and statements are shown. In the end,the question raised above is answered.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,3, University of Hildesheim (Institut fur englische Literatur und Sprache), course: -, language: English, abstract: "e;It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."e; (Austen 1813/1994: 5)The famous opening sentence of the even more famous novel anticipates the majority of Pride and Prejudice s content. This Bachelor thesis examines Jane Austen s representation of marriage in her novel Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813 in England during the Regency Period. Pride and Prejudice contains every sort of marriage a person like Jane Austen could imagine in those days: matched marriages, concerned of making a good match , the romantic love marriages including marrying under one s social rank, and the disastrous incident of lovers eloping.