Beyond Literature Reviews Samples For Students

Children’s Literature has often been ignored by the academic world, especially when it is examined strictly on its content matter. The level of sophistication, as a story and as a study, is questioned especially when pitted against criticisms that do not take into account the structure of children’s stories. A narratological approach may be a way to elevate the reception of Children’s Literature study and also give a deeper understanding of the story at hand. Before going on, perhaps it would be wise to understand what the term “narratology” means. Narratology refers to the branch of literary criticism that examines ...

One of the most important landmarks on way of teaching – learning process of a language is the sort of achievements attained through training on approach and its consequent reflection on the classroom practice. In a teaching context, what is the usual practice determines the areas and aspects of competence that the learners are most likely to develop; to which extent or to what end – just theoretical or practical- is an entirely different issue often not explored. When in such a context training is introduced, some scope of such query and analysis is created and certain specific ways to solution is opened which ...

Effect of Work Hours, Homework, and Brothers on High School GPA

Academic performance in high school is the ticket to enter the most prestigious universities. A grade point average (GPA) enables a student to get accepted in his or her chosen university and may also hinder such student to obtain a college degree and a decent occupation. It is important to bank on a good academic performance while still in high school since a student’s reputation may also depend on his or her scholastic achievements. For this particular study, there will be a determination of factors that may affect the academic performance of students and the people and environment ...

Abstract

The teachers provided the students’ learning with care, attention, and knowledge primarily needed by the students to engage in learning. In the contemporary world of learning, the strategies utilized by most teachers have shifted from the traditional ways to the student-centered learning in the principle that the students who are good readers are classified as good thinkers because they used the new technology in the application of the constant reading practices. The reading technological methods enhanced the reading abilities of the children at the elementary level, such as the library websites, EBooks, media using educational readings, and AR programs. ...

According to Card (1850), education is the centre of all policies and it is a necessity for both developing and developed countries. Without education, people can’t keep up with the technological changes in this fat moving world, thus it is a necessity which we can’t do without. Education is also crucial in promoting development, thus it is needed by both wealthier and developing countries. In fact in United States and United Kingdom, the returns of education have been established to be very high and important for the noted recent economic growths. Actually education is the way out from poverty ...

Visitors’ Perception on Westminster London as a Sustainable, Responsible, and Environmental Friendly Destination

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List of Figures
Figure 1. Findings from the questionnaires
Figure 2. Finding for three sections of sustainability, responsibility and environmental friendliness
Figure 1.1. Sustainability
Figure 1.2. Responsibility
Figure 1.3. Environmental friendliness
Abstract
Sustainable tourism is one of the rising trends in the tourism industry. More and more stakeholder groups are starting to realize the importance of their assets. One of the best ways to preserve tourist destinations (i.e. the assets) is to promote sustainable, responsible, and environmental friendly tourism management. Unfortunately, engaging in those kinds of practices and operations can be costly. Most tourism industry firms are still ...

Frankenstein is a novel written by Mary Shelley. Mary Shelley is an English writer who was born on August 30, 1797. Among her works it is possible to mention The Last Man, Valperga, Lodore and other. However, her most famous novel is Frankenstein. The idea of writing a horror story was proposed by Lord Byron. It was at this time when Shelley started to work at her novel Frankenstein which was written in 1818. The book immediately became a success. In fact, it is still considered as one of the most successful books of the 19th century and there ...

Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder is still a fascinating topic in the field of psychology with constant research being done on treatment and possible cures. Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder is noted for intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors that cause significant functional impairment and distress (Thiel, Hertenstein, Nissen, Herbst, Külz & Voderholzer, 2013). There have been countless studies on the treatment outcomes as well as the symptoms of this disorder. This literature serves to provide a synthesis of research on treatment methods as well as understand the classification of personality disorder. The selected literature are all scholarly and rely on current ...

The term romanticism is “a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century, characterized chiefly by a reaction against neoclassicism and an emphasis on the imagination and emotions, and marked especially in English literature by sensibility and the use of autobiographical material, an exaltation of the primitive and the common man, an appreciation of external nature, an interest in the remote, a predilection for melancholy, and the use in poetry of older verse forms” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). The characteristics of romanticism literature include spontaneity, emphasis on individualism, leading a solitary life than societal life, and being free from rules. This literature was ...

There is an increasing number of electric cars in the world, with the US expecting to have 1 million electric cars by the end of 2015. Arguably, it is easy to increase the number of electric cars but difficult to increase electricity generating capacity at the same rate. Generating capacity to cater for the number of electric cars. The basic problem with electric vehicles require an overnight charging to ensure the car is fully charged when owners need it to commute in the morning. Any given grid can provide a certain amount of excess electric supply which it can devote ...

Using the Service Encounter Model to Enhance Our Understanding of Business-To-Consumer Transactions in an eEnvironment

Nelson Massad and Kevin Crowston
What the article is about:
Internet plays a progressively greater role in human life. Currently it is complicated to think about a person who is not aware of the terms “search engine”, “site” or “Web Page”. It was noted that the number of Internet users increases annually, so the number of customers, who wish to have the access to a huge amount of information on different products and services through service providers, also increases. Today the number of online start-ups and complement companies is magnifical, so consumers can do business with such providers, but they ...

Introduction

The article that formed the foundation of this analysis is “Taking patient history: the role of the nurse” by Tonks Fawcett T and Sarah Rhynas. The article was published in 2012 under the Nursing Standard Journal. The article examines the importance and skill in taking the history of patients before they are examined for ailments. In the contemporary nursing care provided, history taking, coupled with the right communication skills is what makes nursing care complete. The article goes into depth about the how the care is planned, the process of assessment and the how history taking facilitates all these ...

The first step in prioritizing healthcare resources is to estimate the burden of disease. High-income countries have reliable systems to assess the causes of death in the population; however, mid- and low-income countries do not have such systems in place, and mortality rates from a specific disease have to be extrapolated from incomplete data. Several studies have approached the problem of estimating the burden of disease by using a variety of methods to determine which diseases are responsible for the most deaths, which countries are carrying the highest burden of disease and death, and which populations are at the highest risk ...

HR and Information Technology (HRIS)

Introduction
Business undertaking involves various pitfalls such as poor organizational traditions, the big squeeze, identity crisis, and organizational failure. These pitfalls continue to be inevitable in an organization until effective HR is adopted. Research has established that the creation of consistent and sustained competitive advantage is achievable through effective HR (Pouransari, Al-Karaghouli, & Dey, 2016). Human resources must be managed well for the success of an organization. Every individual working in an organization plays a contributory role in its management. Tarawneh (2012) argued that since human resources are needed in all aspects of business operations ranging from production to marketing, ...

Factors that Influence Purchasing Relationship in Automobile Industry of China

Introduction
The USA, Western Europe, and Japan markets for the automobiles are almost stagnating causing an increased attention and concern to the world automotive industry. They have turned their interest in China market for cars. This is associated with the fast growing economy in China unlike that of European nations and the USA. The Chinese market for cars is indeed the turning point for all auto companies. The environment is conducive to start production in China to supply the potential markets and then export from there to other world markets. This literature will focus on the purchasing relationship in ...

How does cultural intelligence differ in India and the United States?

Cognitive Skills and abilities:
The paper “Social Skills Intervention for Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders: A Literature Review from the American Perspective” by Kaili Chen assesses the relationship between social skills and behavioral difficulties for students in special educational programs. The author contends that social skills are a necessary element in the learning environment due to the capabilities that they provide to learners in interacting and communicating in order to help determine their difficulties and to help them function more successfully. Difficulties with these faculties is often discovered to be a primary factor in the inability for an individual to ...

Literature Review: Principle of Equivalence

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Literature Review
Principle of Equivalence
Background
Usually, whenever a property is purchased or acquired from a willing or non-willing seller, it is expected that a fair compensation is given to those whose interests are deprived. However, it may be difficult to determine what a fair compensation constitutes. In some cases claimants may receive more or less compensation compared to the value of their property. In other instances, the monetary sum provided may be a huge sum, but it may not cover non-quantifiable losses such as psychological and social implications. As experience has shown, there are ...

LITERATURE REVIEW

Advantages of Home Schooling
The first advantage of homeschooling that emerges from literature is the need for family members to bond. According to Arai (2014), keeping children at home rather than at school helps parents to have a close-knit family. Many parents regard homeschooling as an opportunity for them to learn more about their children and for the children to learn more about them. Arai (2014) notes that parents whose children have undergone homeschooling would make comments such as “we’re much stronger as a family now” or “homeschooling has brought all of us together as a family” (Arai, ...

Are most relationships nothing more than mere momentary impulses that fade with time? In everyday life, relationships are complex interactions that require nurturing, protection and consistency. In this respect, they are so much more than just about fiery first encounters. The literary work discussed for this paper was Katherine Mansfield’s short story entitled “Something Childish but Very Natural,” a literary piece published in 1914 about two characters, Henry and Edna, who meet each other randomly in a train station. In telling this story, Mansfield utilizes a lot figurative language and symbolism to tell the story of Henry and ...

Introduction

The appreciation for the literary craftsmanship of Franz Kafka cannot be understated. In fact, according to one journal article’s assessment by Berthoff, “Lovers of literature are forever indebted” to the writer’s friend Max Brod, “who ignored Kafka’s ‘last request’ to destroy all his manuscripts and proceeded to edit and publish” some of his novels (499). Also at the outset it is important to recognize that the original language Kafka wrote in was German, although he spoke in Czech. According to the same source Kafka’s office writings had been informed by – or at least and influencing ...

in the industrial and infrastructure sector

Abstract

In most parts of the Arab countries, the limited resources of water pose adverse constraints to both the social and economic development, while also threatening the people’s livelihood. The available surface water keeps on declining, and the ground water over-pumping that goes beyond the natural recharge rates has continued to cause great negative impact in the lowering of water table. Over-pumping of ground water also increases ground water salinity, ground water depletion, and ecological degradation (SCENR 5). The outcome prompted the Qatar government to start regulating its water resources as a measure ...

In the beginning of his first topic of discussion Inner Values in an Age of Science, he is expressing how you do not solely need to rely on the blessings of something there is also the action that is needed to be taken. Although he does still value blessings and prayers, they are just psychological benefits for everyone religious or not. He continues to compare prayer to modern science. Prayer does not come close to the success stories from modern medicine, for instance, he explains how you can pray for all kinds of things but medicine advances are what ...

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Research Purpose/Introduction

In a paper presented at a symposium on teaching children to think creatively, child psychologist E. Paul Torrance (1972), creator of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) (Torrance, 1980, 1966) says,
I know that it is possible to teach children to think creatively and that it can be done in a variety of ways. I have done it. I have seen my wife do it. I have seen other excellent teachers do it. I have seen children who demonstrated a disability for thinking creatively learn to think creatively. I have seen them continuing for years thereafter to ...

Even though the building of cities has a long and a correspondingly complex history, the concept of city planning as an organized profession has only been around for less than a century (Garvin). Practiced under several names (town, community, urban land use, or physical environment planning), most cities in the current modernistic concept of planning display considerable degrees of forethought and conscious design not only in their physical layout but also in their functioning. Today, the building of cities is done for several reasons that bear in mind the diversity potential of urban forms and the complex functions that ...

Media Capital: A Critique

The media capital is a new cultural analysis concept proposed by Curtin (2003). In lieu of conventional analysis of media and, for that matter, cultural patterns based on national boundaries, media capital is used. Given how an increasing number of capitals are adopting multi-channel satellite networks for broadcasting glocal TV content, media capital can be employed to better analyze TV content becoming increasingly uncategorizable as of one national character or another. The provided examples of Hollywood, Chicago and Hong Kong (Curtin) represent only an initial step into using media capital as an analytical method for media / cultural analysis. ...

Horror through Imagination: How do Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, and Shirley Jackson create suspense in their stories “Harvey’s Dream,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Lottery”

Introduction

Suspense is a literary style that is adopted by most authors to invoke the creative minds of the audience. Therefore, the authors intentionally fail to draw a conclusion to an event in a story, but instead live it upon the audience to think. On the other hand, mystery is an occurrence that is beyond human understanding, and in most cases it is associated with murder. This essay is anchored on these ...

Introduction

Organizational culture denotes the procedure an organization follows in conducting its daily activities (Alvesson 2011). Corporate culture impacts the efficiency of the staffs, which subsequently affects the output of the business. A well-ordered culture motivates workers to improve their performance; hence, attain higher output. The external environment refers to the relationship developed by the company and stakeholders such as suppliers, retailers, and customers. The external environment has an important impact on the business since it affects the organizational culture. This paper will provide a literature review on organizational culture.

Literature review

Culture has a long-term effect on the business. It determines ...

MEASURING ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: BEYOND THE TRIPLE BOTTOM

The following report is a summary of the investigation of an investigation of Graham Hubbard from the University of Adelaide, Australia on "Measuring Organizational Performance" specifically beyond the triple bottom line. The report will have the following points:

History in organizational performance measures systems.

The Triple Bottom Line.
Current sustainability report practice.
The sustainable Balanced Scorecard.
History in organizational performance measures systems.
The last two decades there is a change in the way the organizations measure their performance, but it is necessary to have a knowledge of the most common strategies used to measure performance both "high-performing" firms and "low-performing firms".
Balanced Scorecard: The theory ...

A Socio-Linguistic Study

Literature Review
A Socio-Linguistic Study

Abstract

The enduring widespread political and public engagements in the Arab world have actually empowered many segments of the public in those regions. The debate on the impact of social media on various aspects of the Arab world as well as globally continues among the Arab policy makers. The incessant strong progress, acceptance and diversity of the usage of social media platforms across the entire Arab world in the recent years, specifically in 2012points to the fact that many well-known movements like the Arab Spring and extensive social media usage are sweeping the Arab world. ...

Literature Review

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Masters of Arts in Psychology
2016
Introduction
With childhood obesity on the rise, there is increasing concern about the prevention and treatment of obesity. Current national data on childhood and adolescent obesity show 16.9 percent of 2-to-19-year-old children and adolescents are obese (Ogden, Carroll, Kit, & Flegal, 2014). An effective intervention to manage obesity is essential. The current weight management practices involve dietary modification, behavioral change therapies involving exercise, pharmacological therapy and surgical intervention. The purpose of this literature review is to explore the current research on Motivational Interviewing (MI) as an effective method for ...

The world of literature has always intrigued one and all with the sheer quintessence of art and aesthetics. The readers from all the corners of the globe have been immersed in the aesthetic charm and affective appeal of the literary works of the literary artists who have proved their genius though their unparalleled portraiture and content that have left an immortal mark in the very innermost core of thee hearts of the avid readers. The history of literature goes on to document the works of many such stalwarts who have left the readers stirred to the core. James Joyce ...

Abstract

Business environment is increasingly changing pushing firms to adapt strategies that seek to enhance not only their competiveness but also sustainability. One such strategy is the M&A that is becoming a crucial tool for growing in both local and international markets. In that respect, this literature review sought to identify the reasons for M&A, their advantages as well as disadvantages. To achieve the objective, the review used past studies and researches on the subject seeking various authors’ views on the reasons, benefits and disadvantages. In the review, it has been identified that M&As have various benefits for all participating firms. ...

The most threatening health issues in the world today are associated with the problem of weight. There have increased cases of weight related issues, the most common one being obesity. Obesity leaves a person vulnerable to other conditions like diabetes, hypertension, and severe instances of high blood pressure. There have been numerous efforts to increase healthy lifestyles that would reduce such conditions, but the issue of weight still looms in the background. One of the beauties surrounding the internet is that it has brought about is the use of online regulated diet programs that have proved to be more efficient ...

The Great Gatsby is an American based novel that was written in the year nineteen twenty y five by Fitzgerald F. Scott. The Novel primarily focuses on a very young and rich boy known as Jay Gatsby. Major themes handled include the theme of change and resistance, idealism and social encounter. The novel is with no doubt a good piece of art and I always find myself reading it over and over. The novel's ending is indeed a very fabulous one and captures the attention of its reader. Here is how the novel ends:
"And as I sat there brooding on ...

Socioeconomic status can be divided into many different sections. Some argue that it is only divided based on education, because this leads to certain occupations and a base income. These factors alone, some believe will influence one’s socioeconomic status. Moreover, some believe that the education one attains, and the socioeconomic status one rises to as a result of their education, may or may not have an impact on their obesity. Essentially, some studies show there is a relationship between education, socioeconomic status, and the level of obesity in today’s population, stating that how smart you are dictates how fat you ...

- Insurance premium formula
Insurance premium is a sum of all costs of insurance company. One of the essential and the most valuable components is risk cost (money paid when insurance accident occurred). Due to the nature of the risk it is the most stochastic variable. Therefore we can build premium cost model upon risk model because other price components can be easily predicted.
- Classic model
Starting with initial reserve x > 0, an insurance risk business earns money at constant rate c > 0. Meanwhile, according to a point process with times {TN: n ≥ 1}, 0 ...

In the modern century, the development of Information Technology has created numerous platforms of interaction in people. These platforms are not limited by location or proximity increasing the depth at which a person my acquire companionship. The claim may is evidenced by the growth of the social media. The social media incorporates information technology in social interaction sites. However, the growth of social media has created a social ill, cyber bullying. Schmidt (2013) defines cyber bullying as a voluntary act aimed at causing harm in a repeated manner through information technology. The seriousness of the issue has caused states to put in place ...

Elizabeth Villanueva

Evidence Base Practice
Abstract
Tuberculosis is a bacterial caused disease which majorly affects the respiratory system with its effects with time, affecting the body and the entire immune system. Tuberculosis in this age of HIV/AIDs is a major opportunistic disease which if not detected early can exacerbate the health of a patient with HIV/AIDS (National Tuberculosis Conference (Bangladesh), Hossain, S, & National Anti-Tuberculosis Association of Bangladesh, 2009). Immigrants have traditionally been the most vulnerable groups when it comes to tuberculosis. Immigrants globally have been a hot bed for the deadly disease. The level of exposure of Tuberculosis among immigrants around the globe ...

Literature review

Introduction
The Tokohuma earthquake in Japan occurred in 2011 on March. It occurred in the Pacific Ocean where it caused a huge tsunami that was very devastating. The earthquake was the largest ever recorded in Japan and the fourth largest in the world. It produced a tsunami of sixteen metres high. What’s more is that the tsunami hit Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan that caused an explosion which produced radioactive contamination which spread over Japan and the surrounding areas affecting the air, soil as well as the water. This disastrous event had adverse effects on Japan as a country ...

Introduction:

A literature of the Academic papers regarding harvesting ambient Radio Frequency (RF) energy shows that there are a number of potential application extant if harvested in sufficient amounts and with practically sized apparatuses. This RF (Radio Frequency) energy lends itself to a wide range of potential uses including, but not limited to, recharging personal and business usage to recharge communication apparatuses , . The greatest amount of the Academic papers reviewed look at this RF energy source as a method of employing battery-less, low-energy devices without the further complications presently inherent in solar power that is only effective in daylight situations. , , . The research available ...

Literature Review covering Media and Politics

Introduction
Media and politics come hand in hand because they combine to convey information to the public. Media is defined as the channel in which information is stored and transmitted to the population. The media has been given different names such as mass media or the news media. The media has many advantages and disadvantages that could end up ruining the country and corrupting the youth. Politics is defined as the practice of influencing people so as to do their civic duty in the society (Safire, p.566). By influencing people certain people are able to gain position of ...

Writing is an extremely critical task. Authors always try to come up with presentations that make them extremely relevant in the literature field. Their relevance in writing is usually defined by use of various elements. These are values that give any form of presentation taste as well as the definition of the issue being addressed. Stevie Smith remains relevant in presentation of “Not Waving but Drowning” poem. This is a hub of elements to make the poem attractive as well as meaningful to readers.
The first element that defines the relevance of the poem is an excellent choice of ...

Abstract 3

Toxic Leadership 4
Introduction 4
Research Purpose and Questions 5
Research purpose 5
Research questions 6
Literature Review 7
Characteristic and behavior of toxic leaders 8
Effects of toxic leadership 9
Can toxic leaders change? 10
Findings 10
Conclusions 11

References 13

Abstract
Toxic leadership in the society has been influential in setting bad precedent for organizations and groups of people. Toxic leaders are led by personal vendetta which seeks to enrich themselves at the expense of their followers. This has led to conflicts among employees as the behavior of ...

Introduction

America has the potential of reducing further the detrimental Juvenile crimes that are rampant in the US today if the Juvenile Justice will consider the Missouri model. United States have been one of the countries that have high cases of juvenile court cases. Statistics show that in every four Americans arraigned in court one of them has the capability of being a juvenile delinquent. California records high number of such incidences according to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The rising number of crimes includes the Juvenile of Ex-offenders. This is somehow unnecessary since the US Juvenile System provides for ...

A Very Brief History of Franchising

Most of the historians consider that the concept of franchising started in the middle ages, at the time when the feudal aristocrats have started to sell the rights of collecting taxes and operating markets to others on their behalf. This is however representing franchising as a political activity instead of the business activity. Moreover, according to some historians the very first example of the franchising indicating a method of conducting business is traced back in the mid nineteenth century in Germany where the contact was made with the tavern/bar owners in order to sell beer entirely in taverns. But, in the ...

Summary of the Article

The article entitled “Interactive Writing Beyond the Primary Grades” written by Heather Wall and published in The Reading Teacher in 2008 presented crucial information that focused on interactive writing through the experiences of the author in her traditional primary grade classes. The author explained the theoretical framework for interactive writing, which reportedly originated in 1991 through a group of educators and researchers in the Ohio State University . The rudiments of interactive writing were therefore expounded to aptly describe that the writing process entailed a collaborative and participative approach through enjoining the students to write while analyzing adherence to grammatical rules. The ...

In the document presented, there are various grammatical errors, which involve colloquialism, passive voice, simplifying, use of commas and long sentences. For instance, a whole new world is a colloquialism that should be replaced with a completely new world. The first sentence also contains passive voice by placing the phrase “was begun” where it was not supposed to be. The sentence would rather read as follows. “The begun of the History of Education was in the very beginning of time”. The writer had also made a simplifying mistake by not considering replacing the last of the conjunction with a comma. For example put into ...

Essay :

Contrasting Treatment of Time
The two poems, “Piano” by D.H.Lawrence and “To my Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell may appear to depict the flow of time, but while the first one turns the spotlight on the power of the past, the second one stresses on the importance of the present. It is also remarkable how each of the two poets uses language in his own style to produce a very distinct effect, making the poems dissimilar in many ways.
Both the poets have drawn vivid portraits with words. A song takes Lawrence back to his past, and makes ...

Arguably, education is one of the most important component in the life of human beings. As a matter of fact, schools in the entire world exist for various reasons. In England, schools exist for various reasons that needs to be focused on. Education in England is one of the essential things that help individuals b blossom both economically and socially. Schools in England exist so as to be the foundation of knowledge to students. Perhaps, children in England attend school so as to be imparted with knowledge of various fields, which include culture, people, politics, medicine, technology, mathematics, as well as ...

Ken Kesey was a stalwart American author whose novel, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, remains as one of the most noted literary works of the past century. The author was deeply influenced by the time he spent with the patients at the Menlo Park Veteran’s Hospital. The author strongly believed that the patients were not insane. They were actually misfits into the conventional structure of the society. These individuals were hence ostracized and left in the dungeon of the asylum from where they could pose no hindrance to the normative functions of the society. The author uses ...

Paper I (s1)

Teo, P. (2000). Racism in the News: A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Reporting in Two Australian Newspapers. London: Sage Publications. Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 7-49.

RESEARCH TOPIC

Racism in the news: a Critical Discourse Analysis of news reporting in two Australian newspapers.
RESEARCH QUESTION(S)
- What is the probe for ideological construction of racism imbricated within the structure of newspaper reporting?
- Is there evidence of systematic ‘othering and stereotyping of ethnic community by the white majority?

METHODOLOGY

Data: News reports and articles, political interviews
- The newspaper headlines were used to express a high form of ...

Recycling is the process of making use of a product more than once in its life cycle before final disposal. This means that a product is used and then after the use, it is treated in one way or another to enable its reuse. Recycling is very important since it allows for reduced initial product which would have resulted in increased resource use and exploitation. From this perspective, it helps in economizing on resources and ensuring proper exploitation. Closely related to this is environmental conservation associated with recycling. From statistics, recycling helps in ensuring that the environment is conserved and less ...

The poem entitled “The Brain - is wider than the Sky-“ written by Emily Dickinson uses different literary elements that would assist readers in understanding its meaning. At the start, the reader could perceive that Dickinson uses simple vocabularies that are easy to comprehend. However, when taken in its entirety, the reader needs to examine the structure, form, symbols, choice of words and figurative language to enhance audience appeal and to solicit the use of cognitive and analytical skills to unveil the author’s meaning.
The structure of the poem perfectly conformed to a numbered pattern: eight syllables for ...

ABSTRACTThis paper explores the many general similarities between Alice Walker’s "The Welcome Table" and Nadine Gordimer’s "Country Lovers", and the ways in which racism is presented by both writers. Both stories condemn the hypocrisy and attack the injustices of racist societies. Both stories have a symbolic element which is examined and discussed and the fact that both stories are set in very different societies and, therefore, have very different contexts and settings is always at the heart of the paper’s argument. Each story is also discussed and explored separately in order to focus on its individual qualities. ...

It has always been the case in the modern world that, technological advancements in any area spark moral issues and a good example of such comes from the subject of abortion. What has prompted this kind of assumption is the fact that whenever technology comes up, there are always questions that come about. It has been proven to be very true that technology has enabled many people to understand where human life begins from. In this case, people have been made to know all that goes on before a baby is born but this has not been taken well by many ...

In Camus' "The Guest," Existentialism is king; the desolation and isolation seen in the story is evidence of the emptiness of people's lives without a higher power. In this essay, the environment and mood of the short story will be reviewed as a criticism of Existentialism.

The setting of the short story is the desert region of Algeria; there is nothing in or around Daru's home. Food and water are scarce, and there is no one in any direction to speak of. This provides a unique sense of isolation for Daru, as well as anyone who would be in that situation. "This ...

Introduction

The theme of the story is the unappreciative nature of human beings. The story features two snails who had the whole forest build for them. The story reflects the story in the Garden of Eden in the Genesis chapters of the bible. The two snails had were of a kind just like human beings are when still were in the Garden of Eden. They were the only two of their kind in the forest; the story in part describes the snails to have been the “aristocratic race in the world.” This only shows how noble the two white snails were, ...

Abstract

In “To Build a Fire,” the man’s lack of imagination; his inability to reflect on and admit the reality of his situation; and to recognize his shortcomings represent mankind’s fatal hubris. Man stands apart from Nature, not understanding that he has a place in it – he does not hold sway. To deny Nature then is, in itself, an unnatural act.

An Unnatural Act: Man’s Fatal Capacity for Hubris

Jack London’s literary landscape is inhabited by characters pitted against the brutal forces of Nature, in which the aim is nothing more or less than survival itself. In this unforgiving world, man’s fundamental existence is stripped of ...