In this paper, we propose a method for assisting amateur writers in novel writing. Amateur writers can publish their work intensively through web infrastructures. This situation is beneficial, because it encourages amateur writers to enhance their skills by sharing their work. However, writing a good novel is difficult for a novice, because the novel-writing task requires the management of many...

This paper views Agatha Christie’s works on how they’ve been formed. Her early novels were created on the device called “the least likely person ploy”, however, following the development literary narration, it turned into an innovated device, namely “the most likely suspect”, which also makes an obvious classification in her whole-life writing period.

about Consuelo, a Puerto Rican girl who must learn to cope with her schizophrenic sister and dysfunctional family. Consuelo leaves Puerto Rico for New York near the end of the novel to escape the negative influences of her family. Both novels are worthy of examination for their portrayal of adolescent girls’ telling struggle to define their identities among cultural and gender boundaries impose...

Granite is very widely distributed in the world, but granite an acidic aggregate with poor adhesion to asphalt. In untreated asphalt mixtures, pavement water damage and loose disease are more prominent, affecting service life of level. Enhancing road performance mixture generally improves properties granite. Qingchuan rock asphalt, anti-stripping agent KH5, aliphatic amine AJ-1 two groups compo...

this study entitled intellectuals and their relations to alienation: a comparative study of “ghada al-samman and ghazaleh alizadeh novels. the study includes ghada al-samman’s novels, namely: “beirut nightmares”, “the eve of billion”, as it discusses ghazaleh alizadeh’s novels, namely: “idriss house”. this comparative study uses the methods of the american school, which focus on common and unco...

Purpose – This paper’s purpose is to show how literary texts can be used as a source for gaining insights into social practices, including accounting. It aims to deepen our understanding of such social practices in their cultural, social, economic and political contexts by examining portrayals of business and accounting transactions and of reflections of social and economic concerns in two Germ...

We present an approach to the extraction of family relations from literary narrative, which incorporates a technique for utterance attribution proposed recently by Elson and McKeown (2010). In our work this technique is used in combination with the detection of vocatives — the explicit forms of address used by the characters in a novel. We take advantage of the fact that certain vocatives indic...