American Writers Classics, Volume I is the first volume in a series that represents a further development of the American Writers - A Collection of Literary Biographies. American Writers Classics provide substantial articles that focus on a single masterwork of American literature, whether it be a novel, a sequence of stories, a play, a long poem or sequence of poems, or a major work of autobiography or nonfiction.
It seems impossible that we can really study stars. They all seem so small and so far away-except for one. the Sun! Stars will show students the many amazing ways scientists look at the stars and how they can use what they see to answer questions like: What are stars made of? How far away are they? How old are stars? Students will learn about the life span of stars and the various stages they pass through, from protostar to main sequence star to red giant and eventually white and black dwarfs.
This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of instances of requests in everyday German conversation. Using the framework of CA, the study systematically analyzes the grammatical and syntactical structure of the request-turn and its response and of the conversational exchanges before and within the request base sequence, and the placement of the request sequence within the larger social interaction.
