Writing Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Discussion 1 - Analyzing Point of View

A point of view is considered as the narration of a given story from a given perspective of the first, second, and third person. The importance of point of view is determining from what perspective a reader will hear a given story. Through the point of view, the narrator gets to revel given information to the readers. A writer can control how the reader understands the story by describing well his or her point of view (Clugston, 2010, p.74). Unlike a short film, which has picture, a short story calls for imagination through different perspectives or viewpoints that are ...

Introduction

Realism is a unique philosophical belief that suggests that a person’s reality (which can be characterized by his perception of life, including the things a person has and the experiences he has encountered), or a certain aspect of such reality is dependent on subjective factors and is ontologically independent from standard conceptual schemes, linguistic practices, beliefs, perceptions, and other established system . Realism is generally the view that entities, which in this are humans, have an objective reality, a reality that is completely and ontologically independent of those entities’ conceptual schemes, linguistic practices, beliefs, and etc. Thus, entities including ...

Indeed, Mixtec writing can be considered to have had an impressive history that spans to more than 2000 years. During this long duration, it has managed to express numerous aspects and concerns in regard to social reality in which it has been produced. Bringing us to the Mixtec-Aztec interaction, Mark B. King shows us how various characters and pictorials forms of writing represents complete ideas and words instead of sounds and syllables in poems and metaphors. The structure and meaning of the Mixtec codical symbolism have been examined and expounded in his article. According to King, the focus on ...

Li-Young Lee

Thesis:
The writer uses a series of lush sensual series of contrasts to highlight his personal sense of loneliness and isolation indicating that emotions are more valuable than physical enjoyment.

Discussion:

The poem starts in the autumn garden as the writer is pulling the last young onions from the cold brown ground. The closing day flames and he glimpses a cardinal. After pulling the onions, he washes them and drinks the water flowing out from the icy metal spigot. This imagery provides a series of acute contrasts between many of the poem’s elements. Young onions have bright green tops ...

In the world of journalism, one may think that words are all that matter. However, images are just as or even more important, as demonstrated by the saying “A picture is worth a thousand words.” This saying remains a cliché because images can convey a sentiment that all people can understand regardless of translation or intellect. Particularly powerful are images of people such as the one photographed by Iranian Newsha Tavakolian. The image depicts the subject’s desire for female equality and liberation in the Muslim world through a tense body language, worried expression, and overall bleakness, including the ...

The writer of the article (Aviva Dove-Viebahn) tries to give a review of a television series known as Mad Men. The series setting is in the last century, the 1960’s. I actually think that the title of the article should be “Feminism in a Man’s World”. This is because there was zero level of gender sensitivity at the time. Women were not held with esteem at all. We can argue that we have come a long way since then, because Americans are now more gender sensitive.
Aviva’s remarks, in “Feminism in a Mad World”, makes clear ...

Group work is one of the most important aspects of learning because it enhances creativity and sharing of ideas among students. I have studied the application of group work in the classroom context and acquired some ideas on how to improve learning. Even though most of the literature material on this topic focuses on ENL learning, I believe that teachers can also use group work beyond ENL learning. The second reading discusses the concept of group work in ESL learning. This discussion confirms my understanding that the concept of group work goes beyond ENL learning. The author provides a ...

2. Relationship between storytelling and religion in Life of Pi
With one voice, logicians and researchers through scholarly history have avowed the key relationships that exist between storytelling and religion. Basing on the relationship exuded between storytelling and religion, Martel wants the readers to emancipate the Life of Pi through a contemptuous perspective, whereby they can decide to have faith in it at the desired rate, almost as one can choose to trust in God because it is a common stance in the society (thesis). The young man, Patel, grasps this motivation in different sectors. He turns into a ...

INVESTIGATING & CRITIQUING THE ROLE OF VISUAL MODALITIES IN MEANING MAKING IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM

Critical Articles’ Appraisal of the Described Visual Learning/Teaching Medium (Digital Stories) or Strategy 
PRACTICAL FACTORS IN THE USAGE OF VIDEO IN THE CLASSROOM IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
Christine Canning Wilson
Vol. 6. No. 11. 2000.
Video is best defined as the selective and sequential use of pictograms in an audio visual format. Considerable confidence has been placed in the valuation of audio visual assistance for enhancing foreign language learning, despite the minimal amount of empirical data on audio visual material in learning foreign languages. However, given the time devoted to utilizing video in the study of a foreign or second ...

At the time he wrote the article Why You Should Fear Your Toaster More Than Nuclear Power, Taylor Pearson was a sophomore student at the University of Texas, Austin. He prepared this article as a public argument for an academic assignment, developing an informal argument on nuclear power, as he indicates on his LinkedIn profile (Taylor Pearson). Although the writing is an informal argument, the author of this text is nevertheless credible and trustworthy due to his academic record, to his interest for world affair or political issues and his transparent, clear and accurate writing style. In the analyzed ...

- It is often stated that the process of writing a business plan is as important as the plan itself. Provide a rationale for agreement or disagreement to this statement. What is potentially gained from the writing process?
I agree with the statement that writing a business plan is as important as the actual plan. A business plan is a guiding roadmap which enables the entrepreneur to set the overall tone and direction of the business. A business plan is not necessarily a time consuming, highly formal and lengthy document. A single page with basic goals and strategies to achieve ...

Discussion on James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce had a copy of Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” with him. Joyce had a deep respect for Wilde, and felt a relationship with him, due to the fact that both of them were Irish. After reading The Picture of Dorian Gray, Joyce had an objection over suppressed sexual references in the novel, and wished Wilde had developed a better approach, as he stated in his letters. Keeping that in mind, when he wrote his novel, “The Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man”, he used a more modern and open approach, in order to make ...

Article Analysis

It is an interesting undertaking to study how valuable different people treat and hail the different components of life that attracts their hearts. Games particularly and bowling to be specific is one which cruises a lot of fans both loving to watch as well as to play. Paul Rudd observes the environment he finds himself in and tries to link it with the game he loves most. Considering all the activities one would find himself deeply entrenched in during the day, it would be to some degree, disturbing, why bowling would be the best of a choice to a ...

The development of language is an inherently puzzling phenomena that requires understanding to be able to evaluate the relevance of language acquisition. According to Hoff (2004) adults have lexical knowledge of language that consists of three major elements. First, knowledge of pronunciation of words that is called phonological knowledge. Secondly,they have grammatical knowledge that entails knowledge of the use of words in a sentence, which for some reason has been a matter of debate where scholars such as Dabrowaka (2011) notes that universal grammar is an illusion due to the simple fact that language acquisition is inert and ...

I have entered into a valid contract with my landlord through a contract of lease that grants me the legal right to enjoy the use and possession of the an apartment within a period of time and at a certain price or consideration. I can say the contract is valid because the five essential elements of a contract is present in our transaction namely: competent parties, mutual agreement or consent, lawful object, consideration and written format (Rogers, 2012). The contract was successfully fulfilled because all the elements of a valid contract are present. A critical insight that has brought ...

Article Used : Economic Crisis Engulfing Developing CountriesAuthor Name: Martin Khor

Publication: Global Geo Politics and Political Economy
Link:
http://globalgeopolitics.net/wordpress/2014/03/07/new-economic-crisis-engulfing-developing-countries/

Introduction:

In this article, the writer Martin Khor has mentioned the downfall of currency in many developing countries and it impact on the economies.

Statement of topic:

According to the writer, the stock markets are facing down fall and thus it results in the fall of a currency ( Prins, 15). This downfall has now reached America as well so we can say that this problem has covered not only the developing countries but the whole world is coming in its way.

Thesis Statement:

The depreciation has a direct negative impact upon the economy of state and ...

[Writer’s name]

The education system and examination go hand in hand around the world. All the educational institutions have a policy to take exams that will help evaluate which students have learned what has been taught in class and which students have failed to do so. But there are different schools of thoughts on the notion of whether exams should be taken in the first place or not? And if there should be exams, should the professors tell the students exactly what they will give in the exam?
Let’s look at the first scenario. If we agree ...

The three writers’ wrote books in the essence of being in sync with each other’s minds. The themes of their books are related in a manner when looked at in bigger perspective. All their literal works spoke of the same message repeatedly and it grew to a movement, which had many followers. Societal ideals and beliefs in those days were stiff and biased to one line of thought.
The work of challenging this beliefs and ideals through his ideals and literal works had quite an impact. This made him not liked but a certain group of people in ...

Fair and Tender Ladies, like Lee Smith’s novel The Color Purple, is a literary work in the form of letters. The letters in question are written by the novel’s female protagonist, Ivy Rowe, and through them the reader gets an intimate account of her life. Like other letter novels, Smith creates the impression that the letters are written over time, as narrations of experiences shortly after they take place. Moreover, Smith persuades the readers to perceive that Ivy writes the letters in the middle of experience, or at least while she is in the middle of construing ...

Critical Summary for A Heroine's Choice

Judging the paper based on Marius’ crucial steps to writing a splendid essay as well as the proposed writing process that would distinguish an excellent paper out of a mass, the Heroine’s Choice is a well-written, well-organized paper that abides by what defines a paper of great value.
In detail, the writer’s choice for their paper’s title is quite interesting and definitely prepares readers for what they are about to read. It could be a little bit catchier, though, in a way to create more enthusiasm and more eagerness to read further on. However, the writer ...

Critical Summary of “The Heroic Journey of Snow White”

Taking Marius’ qualities and the original peer review, as copied and pasted into the aforementioned document, it becomes obvious that the writer has done an exceptional job overall, meeting the length requirement and fitting the assignment in terms of interacting the major Campbell's theories with the movie itself.
In detail, the writer has indeed chosen a catchy title that does not bore readers and tells much about the content, inviting readers to further read. With the use of solid evidence, the writer has managed to make a clear connection between Campbell’s theories and the movie itself by including ...

Essay Review – Greed Viewed as Good

- The introductory paragraph of the essay comes across as sharp and factual that may be off-putting to some readers. The focus is also not on the topic itself but on supporting examples. The tone could have been less impersonal.
- The thesis statement is clearly stated in the introduction though it appears in the middle of the paragraph.
- There is no mention of the target audience by the end of the introduction. I believe that students and philosophers will take an active interest in the topic. Moreover, the topic can hold the attention of sociologists.
- The ...

The essay under discussion here, “Misconceptions about Gamers” is a nicely written piece explaining the basic misconceptions and the misgivings that the society has about the members of the Computer Gaming community.
Following is a review of the essay discussed in a comprehensive manner and to the best understanding of the subject which the essay attempts to describe.
- Does the intro paragraph catch the reader’s attention? Does the writer use any of the techniques we discussed in class? Make at least one specific suggestion that will give the writer a direction or an option for improving the ...

Critique Paper

Critique paper
Authors: Julie A. Reynolds, Christopher Thaiss, Wendy Katkin, and Robert J. Thompson, Jr

Article: Writing-to-Learn in Undergraduate Science Education: A Community-Based, Conceptually Driven Approach

Publisher: The American Society for Cell Biology
Volume and Issue: 2012 Spring; 11(1): 17–25.
doi:  10.1187/cbe.11-08-0064

An Overview

Improvement in student engagement and learning has been directly linked to writing. However, writing-to-learn (WTL) practices have not been applied in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). In particular, research universities have not taken steps with regard to this process. The absence of a scientific community that is essential for carrying out and applying the required pedagogical research is one of the ...

Abstract

This is a paper that will define and illustrate the elements of figurative language.
Misusing Figurative Language can be just as annoying or comical as misusing words; therefore it behooves the writer or the speaker to make sure that he or she is familiar with the term before using it.
It is more acceptable to use bad grammar than to misuse a word; especially if one is in public. No one can truly say that he or she has never used figurative language. We begin to use figurative language the moment we learn to speak, albeit we do so ...

Anne Jacobs’ “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” as equipment for living

Anne Jacobs was born in slavery in California, although the dawn of slavery came upon her when she was twelve after her mistress death. In writing the narrative, she explicitly analyzes the life she had as a slave, putting forward several points. The narrative provides the equipment for living for the slaves at the time of writing. At a time when life took different turns, scholars led by Kenneth Burke came together to write several material that would give the perfect recipe for life. In the most famous essays, Kenneth describes literature as the instrument for living implying many ...

In Virginia Woolf's literary essay "A Room of One's Own," the author explores themes of feminism through the viewpoints of a narrator who has a unique and principled view of how women are represented in the world. Throughout the text itself, Woolf denotes many things that have held women back from holding positions of power and wealth, as well as granting them agency in society. This point then extends to the limited and restricted body of work that women are allowed to have, seemingly due to the inequalities presented by a patriarchal society. This text sheds some light on ...

Zepeda (2008) reiterates that personal development encompasses skills as well as knowledge gained in the course of an individual’s learning process in various learning institution. The skills and knowledge later play an integral part in an individual’s professional and personal development. Considering the intensive nature I have approached the unit in question, I expect not only to significantly advance in my career, but also establish a company to create employment and further develop the society.
Having improved in interpersonal communication and interpersonal interactions as well as having acquired significant professional knowledge, then I will be in a ...

In the article The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet, which was published in the September 2010 issue of Wired Magazine, the authors Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff (2010) present two perspectives on why the popularity of the Web is declining compared to the popularity of services or apps. They contend that on one hand, the reason for this decline is the users or the consumers whose needs are changing and becoming ever more demanding (i.e. “Blame Us”). On the other hand, they also contend that another reason would be the innovations that are being constantly developed by ...

Introduction

One of the most prominent and probably the most transparent categories in the society is gender. Both the males and females play significant roles in the society and they are are defined by the nature of responsibilities and social obligations that each gender undertakes. Aaron Devor, the author of “Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings of Gender” and Reihan Salam, the author of “The Death of Macho” have illustrated gender in contrasting ways. One author believes that the time of male dominance has to come to an end while the other one describes gender as an identity ...

The importance of language in human history cannot be overemphasized. Many scholars have come up to explain the development of language which has been used since time immemorial by human beings. The idea on how the meaning of a particular word is defined in the dictionary and its use in the really life situation has not only generated debate among scholars but has also attracted attention from other groups like political class. The main purpose of language is to pass an intended message to a certain group of targeted audience. Different people across the globe have ways and means ...

English

Today, we live in an era characterised by the written word. Be it surfing videos on YouTube or getting invitees for social functions, the written word is everywhere and so is grammar.
Grammar has undoubtedly become an indispensable tool for day to day communication. For some of us, it takes the error indicating ‘grammer’ to realise that it is actually ‘grammar’! Now when grammar is such a crucial issue, how can business and technical writing remain untouched by its impact?
Many employers use grammar as their ‘litmus test’. There are often candidates who confuse ‘too’ with ‘to’ or ‘their’ ...

After reading the identified chapters from the book entitled Style written by Joseph M. Williams, I am hereby identifying my personal experience and reflections and would thereby recommend that it be used, in conjunction with other equally authoritative but more recently updated sources.
Chapter 3 on Cohesion was most helpful as it provided the conceptual and theoretical framework needed for advanced writers to focus on consistency and in structuring the arrangements of arguments in a form that is most understandable. Chapters 5 and 6 were likewise relevant in terms of expounding on the subject of Cohesion. Thus, these three ...

This paper gives a response to a picture of beautiful of kids at the ice cream point. A part from the kids, I can see an ice cream van with an open door, a person distributing the ice cream to the kids and a writing on the foreground of the picture. There is also another set of writing on the van probably indicating the kind of service being offered by it.
This architectural work was properly done as a good work of art. The artist made a good use of all the elements of art in it. There is ...

Social Learning Theories

Social Learning Perspectives
The term Social Learning Theory translates to different perspectives that can be broadly understood as behavioral approach that highlights the reciprocal interaction between environmental, behavioral and cognitive determinants. Such theories arose from Civil Rights movement and social reforms led by Lyndon Johnson during the 1960s. One example of many social learning theories is also named “Social Learning Theory” developed by Canadian psychologist Albert Bandura. The underlying principles in his theory pertains to vicarious learning phenomenon defined as the notion that people learn from observing others as compared to experiencing things themselves (Tracey & Morrow, 2012). Furthermore, observing ...

The author of the article, Helping Students Use Textual Sources Persuasively, was Margaret Kantz. She was a professor in the University of Central Missouri. The article was published at College English in the year 1990. This is a journal that is used by teachers of English language. The main target is college professors who are teaching English. The audience is college students of English who have a great need for writing papers that are rhetorical. It’s also published in JSTOR; an online store for academic papers that serves to keep papers from the physical storage where they are ...

Article critique

The article deals with one of the most compelling topics which most organizations tend to overlook. This topic is based on the lack of sleep and its possible hazards to an individual and the organization as a whole. The writer starts by suggesting that most organization take the issue of sleep lightly as it does not come under its purview. The introduction highlights past accidents to individuals and lists
down the losses incurred by firms due to lack of sleep. The article them describes its purpose by mentioning organizational factors responsible for sleep deprivation and its adverse effects on ...

Introduction

In these digital and information technology age, communication is paramount. Its significance is crucial not just in professional fields but in the personal spheres as well. Communication skills are tickets to success in both respects. These skills are very much required in order for an individual to overcome challenges and further pursue his goals.

Communication is a two way street, hence, improving one’s communication requires both skillful methods of sending and receiving messages. The communication skills still redound to the basic components of listening, writing and reading. In between these skills lie the more sophisticated skills of relating ...

J. Ann Tickner: Hans Morgenthau’s principles of political realism: a feminist reformulation

J. Ann Tickner’s article provides an interesting insight into the feminist aspects of political realism. Particularly relevant are the criticisms of Morgenthau’s principles. However, despite the article containing intelligent and well thought out arguments, the formal writing style may serve to put many people off.
Referring to Morgenthau’s portrayal of the international system, Tickner claims that it is, “a partial description of international politics because it is based on assumptions about human nature that are partial and that privilege masculinity” (Tickner).
Tickner points out that masculinity and femininity are socially constructed and are not based on ...

The U notation program as described by the Ohio Wesleyan University (2008) is a program aiming to challenge students so that they become better writers. U notation works by using end of semester writing samples and responses from a student’s questionnaire. The student identifies his or her areas of weakness. The student then revises the paper employing all the available editing and writing techniques with the aid of the tutors. After a semester, the U notation can be removed if the student demonstrates that he or she as achieved a considerable level of strength in writing. ...

Biography: Harold MacGrath

Harold MacGrath, both in 1871, is one of the foremost American novelists and screenwriters of the 19th and 20th centuries. After his first novel, Arms and the Woman, achieved prominence in the late 19th century, his popularity and renown began to skyrocket, as he released more novels and short stories in major publications, while many of his novels were adapted into films. He would even write directly for the movies, writing many short films and feature-length pictures, some adapted from his own material. However, it was not until 1932, less than a year before his death, that his article " ...

The Gold Bug, While Influential on Other Writers, is Not a Typical Edgar Allen Poe Story.

I. Poe has been called the “father of the detective story.”

A. This is primarily for his C. Auguste Dupin stories

B. “The Gold Bug” is a detective story, but with a different protagonist.

II “The Gold Bug” is considered as being influential upon the modern day treasure story. ...

The value of a contract in today’s life is bigger than the earlier times and the reason behind the importance of the contract is the increasing number of complications in the existing society. A contract is a very common necessity that is required in daily life, professional life and also used for special purposes. This paper discusses the contract, several related aspects and the requirements of a valid contract.
The term contract is derived from a Latin word “Contractum” which means drawn together and is based on the principle pacta sunt servanda which means pacts must be kept. ...

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844 and died on August 25, 1900, was great 19th century German classical philologist, philosopher, and poet. He is known for his writings on critical texts on life and mortality, religion, philosophy, contemporary culture, and science, which displayed fondness for aphorism, metaphor, and irony. His writings remain substantial influential beyond and within philosophy, majorly in postmodernism, existentialism, and nihilism. One of his writing that “God is dead,” sparked a lot of debate in both circular and religious sectors.

The statement "God is dead" appears in a number of his works; for ...

The culmination of artistic explorations and developments known as the High Renaissance began with the works of Leonardo in 1480´s and ended in 1527 with the sack of Rome. High Renaissance represents a wide range of outstanding talents who worked in the same area and the same period of time, they did not follow strict rules of antiquity anymore. The main ideals of classical humanism were already successfully put into effect in painting and sculpture, now the artists had the tools, technology, ideas and belief in their own powers and abilities to go their own way. The smaller ...

‘The Hanging’ (1931)

‘Shooting an Elephant’ (1936)

‘Why I Write’ (1946)

Having read these three essays by Orwell and noting the dates they were published, I would have to say that what is important to Orwell does change to a certain extent, but some important things remain constant. The main thing that changes is his political awareness. In ‘Why I Write’ he states that.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.

He makes ...

The given statement of opinion, that appeared in newspaper call-in column portrays complete breakdown of logic. It is strewn with fallacious arguments, some of which cannot stand the test of deductive reasoning at all. To be able to identify such fallacies, it is imperative that we have a clear picture of what deductive reasoning entails as well as what fallacious arguments or statements really are (Vincent 2005).
Zearfsky and David (2002) say that deductive reasoning is the type of reasoning that subjects deductive arguments to an evaluation process in order to draw ...

Do the advantages of bureaucratic organizational structure outweigh the disadvantages?” The author’s purpose is to answer that particular question. He does this by describing the various advantages and disadvantages of bureaucratic organizational structure and their impacts. His conclusion shows what side of the bureaucratic structure his evidence supports. This critique will analyze the essay, paying attention to the chronological arrangement of ideas, presentation of points, discussion of the ideas, and the general formatting of the essay.

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Jesus Is the Christ

A paper

Introduction3

Summary of Critique4
The gospel according to Matthew6
Matthew's sinister motives?7
Jesus as the son of David7
Luke's gospel10
Conclusions11
INTRODUCTION
In the book; Jesus is the Christ, Bird focuses on the personal differences of the writers of the gospels as the reason for the variations in the details and inconsistencies between them. Bird examines the weaknesses of the writers in producing information that suggests their areas of focus and intentions. This critique seeks to identify both Bird's faults and strengths as well as establish the accuracy of his comments, assertions and conclusions to ascertain the relevance ...

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Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, who was born in 1876, was an educated and very influential Native American woman. She belonged to the Yankton Sioux tribe and was sent off to study in a missionary school at the age of eight. The writer struggled and faced many hardships at the time when prejudice prevailed towards the culture and traditions of the Native Americans. The women were the ones who suffered the most. When she began to write, Gertrude adopted the name ‘Zitkala-Sa’ as her pen name. She began to publish her work criticising The Carlisle Indian School from the 1900s. ...

Preface

The paper uses press excerpts for the year 1789 to highlight the perspectives held by different authors on the theme contained in these excerpts. This way, we are able to analyze the views of different authors on the French revolution that occurred precisely between the years 1789 to 1799. During this period, France witnessed numerous political, social, and economic changes. The nation went from being ruled by a monarchy to becoming a constitutional republic after the masses revolted against the monarchy rule blaming it for the increased taxes and cost of living. The events culminated with the execution of ...

- Historical Synopsis
The Second World War of 1939- 1945 is classifed by many as the war that redefined the international hierarchy of nations as the war destroyed and weakened once dominant nations while some rose in dominance. Throughout the war, several critical conflicts had redefined the course of the war, and one of them was the Attack in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The Attack not only signaled America’s formal inclusion in the war, but highlighted that the war was not just in Europe but also in the Pacific. In a surprise attack, the Japanese Imperial ...

Problem:

How does better distribution ensure that developing regions are empowered to eventually solve their own hunger problems? What other development measures are necessary to strengthen a society? Is there a place for food distribution, perhaps early on in a development strategy?
The developing regions are unfortunately deprived of sufficient food, reason being the unequal distribution of food, hence scarcity of food in not the issue. The state governments and departments shall subsidize the purchase of food from under developed economies so as to increase their food supply, while farmers getting competitive prices. This will eventually better distribute the food, ...

Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was one of the most elegant and horrifying pieces of literature written in its time, and is still widely considered a Gothic horror classic. The book follows Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a reclusive mad scientist, who seeks to create new life by sewing together the limbs and remains of several other dead bodies and reanimate them. The book and its monster have been compared to many different things in a variety of subtexts, but one of the clearest readings of the book indicates that the monster represents the dangers of knowledge, especially as the book posits ...

Having seen the interview on YouTube, I have to say that I was not impressed by what I saw or heard. The interviewer was biased and her aggressive posture as the interview went along was a total give-away. The interviewer was unfair to Aslan, and in most cases, kept asking the same question again and again without justification. It was also obvious that she tripped, as her emotions got the better of her. Aslan was so convincing with his response that Lauren Green, the interviewer, made the interview so personal and hit out at Aslan, without even thinking about ...

English

Aimee Bender’s fictions are symbolic of human emotions and struggles largely analogized and formed through fairy-tale representations. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt is by and large in the same vein and is a collection of short stories that seems to suggest a narration by a teenage girl. On reading The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, in each of the short stories, the one common moral and that is one of trauma interlocked with pittance. The story about a young girl who comes home to find her dad carrying a backpack which seems to resemble a bag made ...

Film Studies

He again goes back to discuss certain academic writings by film scholars like Murray Smith, Richard Allen, Noel Carroll and David Bordwell. He maintains that these scholars do not find theory to be scientific (Turvey, 110). ‘Analytic philosophy wants to redeem “theory” for film by placing it in the context of a philosophy of science. At the same time, this implies that the epistemologies that were characteristic of the humanities for a number of decades are neither philosophically nor scientifically legitimate. And so the contestation of theory becomes a de facto epistemological dismissal of the humanities’.
The philosopher, Wittgenstein, ...

Ernest Hemingway was an American author born in 1899 in Oak Park Illinois to a conservative middle class family in the suburbs of Chicago. At his late teenage years, Hemingway travelled to Europe to serve as a Red Cross office for the Italian army at the onset of the First World War. Later, Hemingway was to travel to different parts of Europe including Germany and France eventually becoming the European reporter for the Kansas City Star Newspaper. Hemingway leaves a legacy of novels such as A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the most famous of ...

Analysis - Giovanni Boccaccio, "The Onset of the Black Death"

Boccaccio's Decameron is a masterpiece of early 14th century European literature; its bawdiness and its sheer wit are a wonderful, funny indicator of what life was like in 14th century Italy. However, the central framing device of the book itself - the Black Plague, which ravaged Europe around the time of the book's setting and publication - plays a somber but vital role in this important work. The importance of the plague to the story is no less evident than in the introduction, which demonstrates the awesome power of the sickness. Boccaccio's account of the plague during the time ...

Literary Criticism

15th of December
Beautiful Minds
Literal analysis is crucial elements that help in critical analysis of the works of literature. In the context of the play ‘Goodnight Desdemona, good morning Juliet' is an indication of a play that can be applied with the help of the theories. A vindication of the right of women according to Mary is evident in the play. Critically, we seek to understand the cries of women in the play and their seeking to find out the root causes of their problems and the best way to curb them. Her thought indicates that women should ...