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The Persistence of Red Scare in Contemporary American Society
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Sara Klobučar This paper will consider the stubborn presence of anti-communist tendencies and the paranoid fear (as described by Richard Hofstadter) of leftist ideologies in the American society and beyond it since the Bolshevik Revolution until today. The evolution of these tendencies will be contextualized through three different stages of the phenomenon known as the “Red Scare”; starting from the years after the Russian Revolution, to cultural Marxism and its proponents, and lastly, focusing on the...
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The Poetry of the Great War and Propaganda
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Nika Božić The main objective of this thesis is to analyze some examples of First World War poetry regarding, on one hand, its function as propaganda and pro-war material, and on the other hand, its function as anti-war material. It demonstrates how the Great War influenced and challenged the poetic conventions of the period, but also how poetry influenced the war. The poets examined include Rudyard Kipling, Rupert Brooke, Jessie Pope, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, and Wilfred Owen. The first three...
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The Quest for African-American Identity in James Baldwin's Fiction and Non-fiction
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Eni Mamuzić James Baldwin comes into the spotlight once again due to the release of his FBI files, Raoul Peck‟s 2016 documentary I Am Not Your Negro, and the Black Lives Matter movement. Baldwin is an inevitable figure when it comes to African-American identity. This paper examines racial relations and the African-American identity formation in the United States from James Baldwin‟s point of view. By examining some of Baldwin‟s works, I clarify the exceptional importance of his contribution to the...
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The Relationship between Teacher Motivation and Learner Motivation
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Vedrana Ćosić The objective of this thesis was to study the relationship between teacher motivation and learner motivation. The study was conducted in Croatia among 77 secondary school students and their two teachers. The teachers and the learners were given online questionnaires. The results showed that both teachers and learners were motivated, had positive attitudes and identified various sources of motivation. Secondly, the results suggested that teachers and learners were aware of each other's...
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The Representation of Minorities in American Musical Theater since the 1950s
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Klara Krstičević This paper is a discussion about the representation of minorities, more precisely African Americans and Puerto Ricans, in American musical theatre since the 1950s. The discussion gives an introduction to representation of these groups in the American popular media, and then discusses and reviews five musicals which present different stages of inclusion of minorities on Broadway stage. Five musicals discussed are: Hello, Dolly! and its 1957 version with an all-black cast; Hamilton in which...
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The Representation of Minorities in the Golden Age Western (the 1930s-the 1960s)
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Lara Klarić This paper examines the connection that the Myth of the West and the American national identity have through the Western genre, a genre that is considered to be exclusively American. What is more, the position of minorities, especially Native Americans, is the focus of this paper due to their close connection with the frontier and the Myth of the West. Additionally, the stereotyping of women, African Americans, Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans in representative Westerns is also...
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The Role of L1 in EFL Learners' Meaning Construal of Polysemous Nouns
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Sara Kovačević This thesis delves into the intricate process of acquiring polysemous nouns in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and explores the pivotal role of learners' native language (L1) in shaping their meaning construal of these lexical items. Polysemous nouns, characterized by having multiple related meanings, pose a unique challenge for EFL learners, as they require a nuanced understanding of contextual usage and semantic nuances.
Drawing on the assertion that most natural languages are...
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The Role of Substandard Language Elements in the Construction of Protagonists and Translation Strategies for their Rendering
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Iva Stipanov This thesis consists of five annotated translations, accompanied by a discussion. Three types of texts were translated from English into Croatian (four pages of text from the book Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind., four pages of text from the book A University Education and four plain language summaries for Cochrane) and two from Croatian into English (six pages from the text Starčevačka kultura na lokalitetu Tomašanci-Palača and six pages from the book Društvene igre)....
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The Shawian Representations of Poverty: Pygmalion and Major Barbara
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Kristijan Dobroslav Zuzija This thesis provides a comparative analysis of two plays written by the famous Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Pygmalion and Major Barbara are both set against the backdrop of early twentieth-century England. Having emigrated from Ireland to England, Shaw is uniquely predisposed to noticing the social issues plaguing British society; issues that are imperceptible to those who do not have the benefit of Shaw’s outsider gaze. This thesis analyzes the state of society presented in the...
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The Third Wave Experiment: Novel, Film and their Implementation in German High School
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Petra Podrug This paper is divided into nine sections. The first section gives a brief overview of Ron Jones, his school experiment and its historical background (Vietnam War and racial issues). The second section presents the writer Todd Strasser, his novel The Wave and its historical background (Cold War and school shootings in the USA). In the third section, the movie Die Welle and its director Dennis Gansel are introduced as well as its historical context (the period of National Socialism in Germany...
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The Transfer of CAT Tool Skills in Translation Students
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Brigita Gašparić In the last decade, CAT (Computer Assisted Translation) tools have become irreplaceable within the profession of translation. This is true because CAT tools make translation faster and easier, with features such as the use of termbases and translation memories, segmenting of the source text, quality assurance, etc. Bearing in mind the importance of CAT tools, implementing the teaching of CAT tools in the education of future translators is crucial. However, there are so many CAT tools that it...
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