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Analysis of Horse Idioms in the English and Croatian Language
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Laura Štebih This thesis focuses on horse idioms featured in the English and Croatian language. It starts off with an introduction that deals with idioms in general, their usage and types. Subsequently, there is an overview of cultural influence that the horse has had on humanity and its development. In the past, it served not only as an indicator of wealth and social status, but also a symbol of fertility. When it comes to horse idioms, there is an abundance of them in the English language. They...
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Analysis of Stanley Kubrick's 1980 Film Adaptation of the Shining
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Timea Boroš The aim of this study is to analyze and compare The Shining, the 1977 novel written by Stephen King and the 1980 film adaptation produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The main issue considered is the subjective perception observable in the work of each of these artists. While Kubrick deliberately changed a myriad of elements to fit his own narrative, King was concomitantly quite upset with Kubrick’s interpretation of the novel and the artistic liberty he took with writing the...
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Analysis of the Dynamics of Hospitality and Hostility in Hugo Hamiltons' Novel "Hand in the Fire" (2010)
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Manuela Štefanac The thesis focuses on Hugo Hamilton’s 2010 novel, Hand in the Fire, and, in particular, on its protagonist, Vid Ćosić, and the dynamics of hostility and hospitality that he faces as an immigrant in Ireland. The thesis examines how he is portrayed, and
what this says about how Hamilton perceives Ireland’s behaviour as a host of immigrants. Immigration is something Hamilton and the characters Vid Ćosić and Kevin Concannon have in common, although all of their migrant situations are...
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Analysis of the Occurrence of Errors while Interpreting English-Croatian and Croatian-English False Friends
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Nika Barišić Ičanović The goal of this thesis is to analyze errors during the oral interpretation of false friends from English into Croatian and vice versa. The analysis of errors will be based on the results of three tasks, whereby the first task comprises an isolated word, the second task contains words followed by visual input and the third task includes sentences with false friends. This thesis aims to see whether or not the context and visual input will have an influence on errors made during the...
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Anaphora Resolution in Croatian by English-Croatian Professional Translators and Translation Trainees
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Vladivoj Lisica This thesis reports on the results of an experimental study investigating the resolution of intra-sentential anaphora and cataphora in Croatian in three native speaker groups English-Croatian professional translators, English-Croatian translation trainees and a control group of non-translators. The aim of the study was to investigate whether the professional translators and translation trainees were influenced by their use of and exposure to English, their L2, resulting in L1 attrition. The...
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Anarchism as a Culture?
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Ivana Kljajić The paper exemplifies an interdisciplinary approach to the concept of anarchism. It deals with the possibility of viewing the ideology of anarchism through the lens of the concept of culture.Key words used in the paper: anarchism, syndicalism, culture, ideology, nature and plasticity of man, ethnographic fiction, and fiction as ethnography relate to the interdisciplinary approach I used in addressing the question of the possibility of anarchism as a culture by applying it to the novel The...
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Andrija Kačić Miošić u svjetlu povijesne znanosti
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Laura Hrenić Andrija Kačić Miošić važna je ličnost osamnaestog stoljeća čiji se rad i djelovanje izučava sve do danas. On je nastojao opjevati povijesnu zbilju i istinu te ju predočiti na pjesnički način, što je i uspio. Tako je nastalo njegovo antologijsko djelo „Razgovor ugodni naroda slovinskog“ koje je predmet proučavanja ovoga završnog rada. Djelo je izuzetno domoljubnog karaktera sa naglašenom ljubavlju prema vlastitom narodu, domovini i jeziku. Napisano je na jednostavan način...
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Angela Y. Davis
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Valentina Kukuljan The Civil Rights Movement was a fight for the equality and justice of African Americans which took place in the 1950s and 1960s. Many African Americans were standing up for themselves and the rights they were not given, due to the systematic racism of the US. An active member of this movement was Angela Davis, who witnessed the oppression and racial injustice firsthand, growing up in an area very much affected by segregation. Angela Davis became known for her radical activism. As a proponent...
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