Tale Article Reviews Samples For Students

Derek Pearsall’s essay “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Essay in Enigma” is part of The Chaucer Review’s commemorative issue celebrating the work of C. David Benson as he approaches the age of retirement. Pearsall hearkens back to his master’s thesis days when he writes about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; he begins by noting that even though he is quite familiar with the plot of this tale, to the point where he can tell a slightly less salacious version of the tale to his children and grandchildren. However, he also points out that ...

“Fairy Tale is Form, Form is Fairy Tale”

1. According to K. Bernheimer, as fairy tales belong to the realm of classical literature, they are the source of many writing forms and techniques applied by representatives of both mainstream and avant-garde literary movements. Stating that fairy tales connect all people “in the act of living” (Bernheimer 71), she expresses the idea that they influence the way we perceive the world and react to it. These ideas seem to be well-grounded: the four elements mentioned by the author, namely “flatness, abstraction, intuitive logic, and normalized magic” (Bernheimer 64), are indeed found in both realistic and experimental literature, some ...

Gene Editing Techniques

1. Gene Editing – General Background
Gene editing entails inserting, deleting and replace the DNA in a genome of an organism utilizing engineered nucleases. Sections of the natural gene are replaced and completed using a synthetic DNA chain. Also, the natural repair process gets rid of the mismatches and gaps in the DNA. On the other hand, gene disruption is a technique by which the DNA fragment is utilized to replace a genome sequence with a chosen marker gene like the kanavanine resistance. DNA –binding proteins are proteins that consist of DNA-binding domains and hence have affinity for single and ...

Martin Amis's Other People and London Fields

As Brian Finney points out in Narrative and Narrated Homicide in Martin Amis's Other People and London Fields although he is not classified as a crime writer Martin Amis’s stories are filled with crime and focus upon death and murder. . Finney’s critique of Amis’s stories revolves around the continuing themes of women, death, murder and victimization along with their relationship with the enigmatic narrator.
In his analysis Finney looks into the author and the zeitgeist of his era as well. He notes that Amis himself describes his work as “"playful literature" (Neustatter 71) and describes himself ...

“The Monstrous Births of Aladdin Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic review Aladdin is probably everyone’s favorite folk tale from the Middle East, a fantasy story of a boy unwilling to learn the trades that come about through hard labor and apprenticeship. After his father dies, a sorcerer who claims to be Aladdin’s uncle by virtue of his being his late father’s brother pops up and demands parental rights. He tries the same thing his father did-to teach him a line of trade- but he won’t have any of it.
Disney’s rendition of the Aladdin ...

The article by Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld is a conversation the authors led with recognized New York chefs Andre Soltner and David Chang. The main topic of the conversation was how the time has changed the face of American cuisine. Andre Soltner mentioned that there was actually no American cuisine in the late sixties, and David Chang agreed that it has probably appeared somewhere in eighties. It has changed a lot since then, but French technique is still basis of cooking in New York City (Patronite & Raisfeld 182).
An important conclusion the interviewed professionals make is that people eat ...

Person and Place in PreClassic Maya Ritual

Person and Place in PreClassic Maya Ritual
The enigmatic Maya civilization evokes pangs of interest among historians and commoners. The ancient civilization was advanced in several ways and their quintessence is still existent on the heart of the world which is adorned by the massive archeological structures constructed by the Maya people. An insight into their constructions would enable one to decipher the intricacies of their culture. The Maya society and its structure can be comprehended in relation to the artifacts, paintings, monuments, temples and other structures. Excavations in the heartland of the ancient Maya civilization have unearthed ...

The proposed article, “The Tell-Tale Heart” as Evil Eye Event analyzes homonymous story written by Edgar Allan Poe (“The Tell-Tale Heart”). The article itself is written by James Kirkland and published in the Southern Folklore in 1999. Kirkland examines the substrate of the reference to the Evil Eye legend that Poe introduced in his writing. In relation to this legend, the author of the article analyzes various possible interpretations of the Evil – Eye, an old man who had a strange look (possible caused by cataract and the advanced age), thought by many to bring bad luck.
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The article “A tale of two corporations: managing uncertainty during organizational change” by Nicholas DiFonzo and Prashant Bordia discusses the detrimental effect, which inefficient communication may have on the organizational performance during the period of major organizational changes. Whether it is a change in technology or a complete company restructuring, employees are likely to perceive the change as hostile, thus resisting it and exacerbating the obstacles on the way of the change process (Herriot ). Effective communication, however, can have a positive effect on the change acceptance. The article tries to define the most important strategies for effective communication and identify the reasons ...