The Conflict Between the Traditional Value and Reality In Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser relates a story of Carrie 's rise from a poor country girl to a Broadway star in Sister Carrie.An attempt is made in this paper to analyze the cold society.By way of analyzing this unequal and cruel reality to prove:in the world only the fittest can survive,the standards and requirements of morality are challenged and the traditional value is suspected.In the cold reality,any way that can protect oneself or survive in the world is sensible,morality and traditional value are weak and meaning...     

Fhe Conflict Between the Traditiona Value and Reality In Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser relates a story of Carrie＇s rise from a poor country girl to a Broadway star in Sister Came. An attempt is made in this paper to analyze the cold society. By way of analyzing this unequal and cruel reality to prove： in the world only the fittest can survive, the standards and requirements of morality are challenged and the traditional value is suspected. In the cold reality, any way that can protect oneself or survive in. the world is sensible, morality and traditional value are weak and meaningless.     

Silence in Cross-cultural Communication

In academic field,silence is classified as part of the nonverbal communication.Edward T.Hall regarded silence as a key standard of dividing high-context cultures and low-context cultures(毕 46).In high-context cultures,information is provided through gestures,the use of space,and even silence.Little information is explicitly explained by words.Chinese,Japanese,Native American cultures are high-context ones.However,"in low-context cultures,the verbal message contains most of the information and very little is embedded in the context."(Samovar,A.Larry,Richard E.Porter and Lisa A.Stefani 79).How do people from different cultures respond to silence? How their values affect their attitudes? What causes silence?     

How to understand and appreciate English poems

Poetry is an important constituent of literature.We may appreciate and analyze the English poetry from the rules,image,rhetoric and sound.As we know,English poetry is really a difficulty in English teaching.This article takes the Daffodils of William Wordsworth as an example,analyzing some expression ways of poetry briefly to help students deepen understanding and grasping to the poetry.