As a communication activity and featuring both cross-language and cross-cultural characteristic, translation transforms the meaning of one language into another. When it comes to translating, it is inevitable to compare features in two different languages. And the research purpose is to find the proper means to translate the culture-loaded words.

American messianism is based on the idea that the United States is the bearer of a divine message to all nations. This concept lies on several realities on which a certain mythology of America has been built over the centuries. In short, it is the idea that the United States is the best hope for solving many of the world's major problems and should show the way to other nations. This theory considers the United States to hold a special place among the nations of the world in terms of citizenship, historical development, political and religious institutions. Self-esteem is therefore a valuable commodity for any country, but the problem is that when a nation like the United States begins to think it has a mandate from heaven and is convinced that it cannot fail or be led astray, such a leadership would be regarded as imperialistic. The American model is now taken as a huge soft power propaganda using religious arguments and tools to ensure its domination over the world.

Edgar Allen Poe is well known writer in the history of literature due to being bestowed with the unique type of stories and novels. Horror, demise, fester, madness, lunacy and awfulness are the most common features of his work. Similarly, Gothicism is an important movement of Sweden that remained active for long duration of time. Furthermore, demise, madness and haunting places are also the major attributes of the Gothicism. Therefore, it can be observed that work of EAP is spell bound by the major features of Gothicism. Various stories and novels including “Ligea”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, “Tell Tale Heart” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” are the perfect examples for proving the fact that work of EAP embellished with gothic features. However, very literature is available for highlighting this important scenario of literature and needs a detailed analysis for enlightening the spell bound work of EAP by Gothicism. Thus, present research covers these entire research gaps and is a source of opening a window for new researchers to work in the light of above explained theme of work. In the light of results obtained by qualitative analysis, it can be concluded that our hypothesis that work of EAP is spell bound by the Gothicism is quite significantly true supported by the context citation of the above explained short stories and novels.

This study employed needs analysis approach to investigate EFL students’ needs to improve their writing skills. The data were collected from 28 EFL undergraduate students studying at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Zawia through the modality of questionnaire. The results suggested that the students believed that improving their writing skills is significant for their current study and their future career. The results also revealed that students needed to improve most of their writing skills and extending their knowledge about the writing aspects including content, organization, vocabulary, grammar, mechanics and others. These results implied that the students had limited knowledge of the necessary writing aspects, and they suffered lack of practicing writing in and outside their classrooms. Understanding the students’ needs to improve their writing skills, the study ended with suggestions and recommendations that might contribute in improving students’ writing skills.