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Item The Narrative Structure Of John Milton’s Paradise Lost(University Of Ghana, 2018) Fosu, J.C.Paradise Lost was written sometime in the 17th Century by John Milton as a Christian epic with a Christian-redefined meaning of heroism. Using the epic structure, Milton successfully outlines the genealogy of man, even the state of the world before man was brought into it by God. Milton does this by tracing the linear stories of man from Genesis, through the Messianic and redemption stories, and the introduction of the eschaton by Jesus Christ in the New Testament. In Paradise Lost, Milton talks about three objectives. They are: the fall of man, an epic aiming to surpass all other epics, and justifying God’s ways to men. My thesis is a structural discussion of the three objectives by way of narratology. In order to prove Milton’s three objectives, my research discusses the structure of the narrative using Gerard Genette’s Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (1980). At the second level, my research focuses on the “Intertextual” elements of Paradise Lost using Gerard Genette’s Palimpsest: Literature in the Second Degree (1982). At the end of my discussion, it is obvious Milton’s epic is not a Miltonic Version Bible, but a work of art, borrowing its topic from the Bible and the epic form from icons Homer and Virgil. Indeed Milton has outgrown his occasion and withstood the test of time since Paradise Lost encapsulates the genealogy of man.Item Poor quality of the written english of students in tertiary institutions in Ghana: Is school pidgin the (sole) culprit?(University of Ghana, 2015-04-17) Asinyor, E.; Amuzu, E.It has become a truism in Ghana that the quality of the written English of students in secondary and tertiary institutions is poor and ever deteriorating. It has also become customary to point to School Pidgin (SP) as the main cause of this situation. This paper investigates whether it is fair to blame SP (alone) or not. The data analyzed are grammatical and spelling errors committed in essays written by members of two groups of students at Koforidua Polytechnics, where one group consists of students identified as notorious speakers of SP and the other of students who do not speak SP. It is found that to a very large extent SP is not the main culprit for the poor quality of the students' written English, that the real culprits are students' mother tongues and text messaging conventions, they have become addicted to. Two theoretical frameworks inform the interpretation of the data, namely Linguistic Relativity and Weinreich's (1953) Strength of Language of Literacy hypothesisCollection Collection Collection Collection Collection Collection