Lifestyle Literature Reviews Samples For Students

Article Review Guidelines (each Article Review totals 100 points)

- Quote what you take to be the author’s thesis (using proper citations), and explain it in your own words. (10 points)
Here the author seems to like the idea of human exposition. He thinks that it is a good idea for exhibitions to be put up which demonstrate the costumes and ways of life of people from different cultures and different eras. He is not averse to people being exhibited for others to be able to learn from them. However he shows a sense of disappointment: ‘the observer does not stop to learn; rather he or she strolls, ...

Hypertension in children is becoming a growing healthcare concern in America. It is quite common to see reports of hypertension in children. Most cases of hypertension in children remains undiagnosed and therefore the present prevalence is an underestimation of the real scenario. Unlike adults, the normal blood pressure values in children can vary based on their age and height, and thus borderline cases of hypertension, escape diagnosis. Sedentary lifestyle and obesity are important risk factors for hypertension in children. Through proper lifestyle practices and diet, hypertension can be prevented in children. Preventing hypertension in children is important as hypertension ...

According to Dekun Zheng (1983), China has been one of Asia’s most distinguished countries, and it has been known to have a class structure which has divided it into two Chinas. The upper class and the rural class has had clear demarcations in the country. The upper class of the Chinese civilization has enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle which has been visible from their expenditure, way of living and spending. Moreover, the author mentions the importance of gaining a classical education, which has been important to the Chinese upper class that helped them rise above the rural class of ...

Introduction

Pregnancy is a milestone characterized by changes in many aspects of women’s lives in ways that can promote or undermine health. It is important for women to cope successfully and be healthy from conception through birth and beyond to achieve the best health outcomes for them and their newborns. Adequate physical activity has many health benefits and should be continued throughout pregnancy. Programs that promote exercise help pregnant women initiate and maintain greater physical activity and a healthier lifestyle. Such programs must consider the unique characteristics, circumstances, and health status of gravid women to be appropriate and effective. Using guidelines ...

2.0 Introduction
As identified in the first chapter of the dissertation, this study will seek to examine the elements of luxury goods positioning and branding. This will aim at examining the cultural settings in purchasing these luxury products in the British and Kazakhstani contexts. This literature review will analyse authoritative sources and ground-breaking definitions that relate to core concepts and theories in the area of luxury fashion and branding.
2.1 Positioning Strategies for Luxury Brands
“Brand vision and the culture, personality relationships and presentation are key components of corporate branding that builds brand identity” . Luxury fashion and products are ...

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a lifelong metabolic disorder which is caused by the abnormal level of sugar in the blood. The information technology is playing an important role in the seamless data collection of the diabetic patient’s glucose and insulin level, heart rate, and weight and transfer through different devices and made it available to the health practitioner for their observation. This helps the diabetic patient in self management of their health based on the data processed by the apps present in the phone or devices. This paper reviews the information technologies role and benefits in the management ...

Abstract

Physical activity (exercise) is largely thought to be an indispensable part of human wellbeing. The growing prosperity, material/food abundance, sedentary transport and sedentary lifestyles is linked with the growing incidence of lifestyle diseases including CVD. CVD is currently among most common diseases in developed nations. In the UK alone, an estimated 7 million people are living CVD, which accounts for 160,000 deaths annually. Treatment strategies (including physical activity) have been rigorously tested in cohort studies. However, the type, intensity, and duration of physical activity remain in question. This review is seeking to find theoretical and empirical support for ...

The topic whether meat or vegetarian diet is the better choice is a bone of contention for centuries. Admittedly, it is very difficult to figure out the advantages and disadvantages of both diets to determine what ways one overweighs the other. Volumes have been already written on the topic, and this paper in particular will argue that vegetarian diet is advisable when compared to meat diet that involves numerous risks. This will review a few reliable sources to make a clear view of the topic and its scope for further research.
Until recently, the advantages of vegetarianism were not clinically proven, ...

Obesity among adolescents in Saudi Arabia

A 2013 study by Abdulrahman Obaid Musaiger (University of Bahrain, Manama, Bahrain) and Nisreen Zagzoog showed interesting patterns in dietary habits and lifestyle among adolescent girls in Saudi Arabia. The study was designed to explore how differently girls from private and government schools live, in a dietary and health perspective. Most health and dietary surveys were traditionally focused and limited to government schools, but the research undertaken in the study took on a comparative aspect. A cross-sectional survey using multi-stage, stratified sampling was carried out on adolescent schoolgirls. The research design is experimental in nature. The research used placebo and control ...

Introduction

Polar bears are a range of bears from the family Ursidae and genus Ursus that natively lie within the boundaries of the Arctic Circle which well includes the landmasses and surrounding seas around the Arctic Ocean . Considering the native geographical location where the polar bears reside, it can be safely assumed that these creatures live in a predominantly cold weather environment . In terms of general physical features, a male adult polar bear should weight somewhere around 770 to 1,500 lbs. ; a female adult on the other hand should be somewhere around half of this size . Polar bears are a sister specie of the ...

Adequate physical activity has been shown to benefit older adults by reducing the risks for age-related physical degeneration including osteoporosis, arthritis, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and a higher likelihood of falling (Tiedemann et al., 2011; Ewald et al., 2009). However, a sedentary lifestyle has increasingly become the norm among older adults. Inadequate physical activity is defined as engaging in moderate-intensity exercise for a duration that is less than the recommended 2.5 hours per week or failing to do moderate exercise for 30 minutes on most days of the week (Jancey et al., 2008; Sims et al., 2010). In Australia about 49-63% of ...

Prediction of PCL-R Scores

Psychopathy is defined as a mental disorder that is normally characterised by an individual always carrying out his activities in a manner that is selfish and manipulative and they always lack remorse. In addition to this, they are always in most instances emotionally detached from the public in that, they are always anti-social and further have the callous-unemotional traits. It was further realised, that in cases that the an individual shows these traits, then he or she ends up not caring that much about the people around him or her.Over the years researchers have had in place various theses ...

The Samurai Ethics: A Paradigm for Corporate Behavior by Shinya Fujimura

In this article, Fujimura advocates for the adoption of the samurai moral and ethical values into the corporate world. The author suggests that the integration of these values by corporate and businesses in wealthy countries such as the US and the UK would aid them in dealing with economic vicissitudes. Apparently, the ancient Japanese samurai culture exemplifies the importance of a society that is driven by loyalty, benevolence, and duty.
Fujimura studied for his master degree in public administration at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government where he focused on social change (Fujimura 212). Fujimura also ...

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 ...

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

Diabetes and other health factors have been a growing concern in recent years amongst food-insecure individuals and families. This review includes the concept of finding ways to overcome this issue. Low-income families already have numerous issues to deal with outside of health problems, but the inclusion of health issues makes the situation for these families worse. Within the past ten years research has been dedicated to this problem. Researchers have dedicated time to finding ways of overcoming the problem by using new tactics like motivational interviewing. It has become known that diabetes is a concern of lower income families ...

Office Base Strategies for the Management of Obesity 3

Introduction 3
Background 3
Aim 3
The purpose of the present literature review was to investigate obesity within the intellectual disability population. 3
Literature Review 3
Understanding the problem 6
Management Strategies 7
Policies at work Place 8
Awareness of Employees 9
Method 10
Results 10
Conclusion 10

References 11

Office Base Strategies for the Management of Obesity
Introduction
This research aims to discuss different office based strategies, which can help prevent and control obesity. The problem of obesity can be managed at workplace by providing financial incentives ...

Abstract

It is important for the organisations to carefully manage the cross cultural elements and factors which directly influence the performance of the employees in international ventures. One of the important issues in this regard is adoption of the new cultural and norms by the employees in the host country. The four main phases which are involved in this process of adoption are: honeymoon, cultural shock, gradual adjustment, and reverse cultural shock. It is important for the organisations to manage these phases in effective and efficient manner in order to make sure that the employees easily adopt the new culture ...

The major theme that shows up in the story is that of biculturalism and the fact that Tayo feels as though he is caught between two societies’. While he has grown up on the reservation surrounded by Native American culture. He does not feel as though he truly belongs because of his white ancestry. This is compounded due to the violent and negative history between the white man and the Native American, whose way of life and land was destroyed by the white mans greed and sense of entitlement. In biculturalism a person is stuck between the dominant culture ...

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Cancer is a disease of the cells in the body. ...

Comic books are a part of every society in the world. They represent ideas that the young minds who read them, can understand. In essence, comic books play a huge role in depicting what the society. In many comic books, there are always the protagonists and the antagonist, while they can be seen as villains and heroes fighting for an individual cause, these characters often represent the forces of good and evil in the modern contemporary world. The essays describe America as it is seen, through examining the cultural artifact – Comic Books and American Cultural History anthology – Arguments within ...

Definition and description of osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a complex chronic disease, characterized by the reduction of bone mass, increasing the likelihood of bone fractures.
There are two types of osteoporosis. The first type is common among the women who have the lack of estrogen during postmenopausal period. The deficit of estrogen leads to the increasing rate of bone loss. Osteoporosis type 2 is common among the male and female who are older than 70 years (Peña & Perez, 2012, p. 37).
As Unnanuntana and Kleimeyer indicate, scientists predict that the incidence of hip fractures increased from 1.26 million in 1990 to 4, 5-million by ...

Literature Review

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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 ...

Psychology's Role in the Workplace: Promoting Well-Being and Raising Awareness

Any psychologically healthy business should foster its employees into the well-being while boosting organizational performance and productivity. Psychologically healthy and balanced workplace practices may be grouped into several categories: employee engagement, work-life balance, staff growth and improvement, health and basic safety, and employee recognition.
You should note that there is no basic approach to creating an emotionally healthy workplace. Accomplishment of this goal is based, in part, in addressing the problems unique to the organization and drawing awareness to programs and insurance policies to meet their employee’s needs. One problem in the workplace is stress. This may ...

Philosophy Journal

“Burnt Norton” by T.S. Eliot
This poem is told through a narrator speaking directly to an audience. He warns of living in the present and not to suffer the past or worry about the future, “If all time is eternally” present. To worry about what one has already done in the past, “Down the passage which we did not takeTowards the door we never opened will not help to live well in the present.” (Eliot) To spend one’s time think and planning for the future is also a waste, “Here is a place of disaffection Time before and time after”. ( ...

Analysis of relative success of Maintenance model in Turkey

Background to study
Shockingly, there are no support benefits in Turkey that gives the majority of the required maintenance services. For instance, to repair issues with power, an expert ought to be called. On the other hand, on the off chance that you are having issues with water; an alternate professional ought to be called. Since there are no associations that provide these services from a solitary call focus, individuals need to call distinctive professionals and get an arrangement which brings about losing significant time.
Likewise, upkeep issues stays as an issue for organizations. Confronting an issue in a ...

International Marketing

Abstract
Music plays an unchallenging positive role on the mental patents. Not only the advance researches have proved its importance, but also the evidence of music treatment were found in the ancient times histories. Music is the part of every tradition for many years and nobody can deny its importance.
Today, the role of music repetition has proved a way of treatment for the mental patients for the therapy and disorder purposes. The researches of the neurophysiological have described the demonstrational impacts of music not only the patients but also useful for the basic emotional system of the ...

Integrated Literature Review: Gender Differences in Dieting

Integrated Literature Review: Gender Differences in Dieting

Introduction

Gender impacts eating behavior of individuals significantly, and the same has identified in various studies conducted on the subject. In contemporary society, good body shape and good health are desired by everyone, irrespective of their gender. However, the role of gender on health behavior is examined and proven by various experts. Women are more inclined towards dieting and eating healthy foods, whereas, men are more inclined towards tasty food even if food contains lots of fat (Wardle et al., 2004). This paper intends to conduct a literature review to identify the role of ...

Did the Welfare System Cause the Dissolution of the Black Family?

Introduction

In 1965 when the civil rights movements was experiencing an explosion, Daniel Patrick Moynihan penned a report to President Johnson claiming that one of the major reasons for poverty amongst black Americans was the fact that a quarter of black families were being headed by women. While that report caused a lot of uproar for the then White House aide, today we still see that many African American homes are manned by single women as many black babies seem to be born outside of wedlock. This is a problem that looks to ...

One of the most important novels in 20th century American history, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is an influential novel about the need to discover one’s meaning in life, and often acts as the thesis for the Beat movement of the 50s and 60s. The novel follows Sal Paradise, a stand in for Kerouac, and his free-wheeling friend Dean Moriarty as they wander and hitchhike across the United States, searching desperately for belonging and a newfound sense of purpose in Cold-War America. This book provides an interesting portrait of 1950s America and the anxieties of its youth, showing the ...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one cause of mortality in the US. According to American heart association statistics, nearly one million men and women succumb to various complications from CVD. In the US, CVD claims more lives than cancer and AIDS combined (CDC, 2012). It is also one of the leading causes of deaths worldwide (WHO). The economic cost of CVD in 2008 was estimated to be $448.9 billion, which was double the cost estimated for the year 2007, $219 billion.
There are a number of factors to the incidence of CVD. These include non modifiable factors such ...

Introduction.

Cases of diabetes are currently on the rise yet most of them are preventable while some can even be reversed if people adopt healthy lifestyles. Taking steps to control or prevent diabetes is not a deprivation of diet, as many would think, but it is a step taken to control glucose intake in the body, which result to rise in insulin levels. Eating right should be a concern whether one is diagnosed with diabetes or not, and being diabetic does not mean that one cannot eat right. Diabetes involves a lot of changes in the diet, which many consider as deprivation to the ...

Literature Review

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a country in the Middle East with a population of 3.1 million people. Over the last 30 years, the UAE has experienced rapid socio-cultural changes that have been brought about by the growing economy of the Arabian Gulf Region due to the discovery of oil (Bin Zaal, Musaiger & D’Souza 2009). UAE citizens have undergone significant lifestyle changes including a massive transition from deficiency diseases and under nutrition towards degenerative diseases that are associated with over-nutrition. There have been significant changes in food choices leading to a “nutritional transition” (Al-Haddad, Al-Nuaimi, Little & Thabit, 2000). According to the ...

Diabetes Mellitus Type 2: A Literature Critique

Discussion
Rationale for the topic
Diabetes is Australia’s fastest growing chronic disease (Diabetes Australia, 2012). It is the sixth leading cause of death in Australia. Up to 60% of cases of type 2 diabetes are preventable. This makes diabetes a topic of utmost public health significance. Implementation of public health measures could reduce the incidence of diabetes, which will not only result in savings for the health budget, but also increase participation and productivity in the workforce and, most importantly, lead to better health outcomes and quality of life for Australians (Diabetes Australia, 2012). This is why ...

Hector St. John de Crevecœur, the author of Letters from an American Farmer, was born in Normandy, France in 1735; he lived and traveled throughout America from 1759 to 1780, when he returned to Europe (22). He and his wife spent the latter half of their time in America on a farm on Orange County, New York (22). Because of his travels and experience in America, he had an excellent idea about the many ways the immigrants to America from Europe were conducting life and business in contrast to what they had experienced before as poor, landless people across ...

Franz Kafka wrote The Metamorphosis no so long after he had finished writing The Judgment. It must be noted that the two stories have a lot in common. After reading The Metamorphosis if a look is taken into the biographical and historical context of Kafka, it can be argued that this story that the author published in 1912 expresses not only his own sense of self-alienation but other various other aspects of his life. Like Kafka, the main character of the novel, Gregor Samsa is a German Jew living in seriously anti-Semitic times. Samsa’s metamorphosis into an abominable insect can be ...

How can content marketing on social media channels be used in order to increase the level of customer engagement for the UK fitness industry?

Introduction
Social media channels represent the new phenomenon, that has forced industries to change their attitude to marketing strategies, brand awareness, and customer engagement. The social media channels today pose certain threats to the traditional advertising, which treats the customers as a homogeneous crowd . In this extent, the social media channels are highly personalized presenting the versatile and verified social media content to the targeted audience.
The marketing specialists are always in constant search of ...

Introduction

A lot of global attention has recently been directed towards the ongoing conflict in South Sudan. Less than five years after seceding from the Sudan, the newly formed country has been embroiled in a tribal conflict that has quickly escalated into a civil war. At the very heart of the conflict is a fight over resources between the two major tribes, Nuer and Dinka, which make up the dominant tribes in the country. The onset of the civil war was a political power struggle between President Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar (Civil War in South Sudan, 2016). ...

Poems usually focus around different topics. “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brook, “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall, “Dream Boogie” by Langston Hughes and “The Red Wheelbarrow” by Williams have a lot of common and different features. It is necessary to analyze each of the poems in order to find them.
Gwendolyn Brooks' ballad "We Real Cool" aggregates up the truth that numerous adolescents confronted on the off chance that they cleared out school. Numerous adolescents abandoned the thought of having a future, since they were informed that they had no future; so why attempt. The young men in ...

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. ...

LITERATURE REVIEW: Determinants of health

In this paper there will be the analysis of cardiovascular disease and how it occurs in the UAE. This paper will be tasked with describing its nature, prevalence and importance as a public health issue; describe the individual factors that lead to this health issue (biology/behavior); a description of the determinants as the disease occurs in the society; prevention of the disease; how the society is working on limiting occurrences and also treating the disease as the cases occur. This literature review will look into this case in the United Arab Emirates, working with the statistics and what is ...

Dubliners is a novel in the loosest of senses, much in the same way that The Martian Chronicles is a novel. Both books contain vignettes that can stand alone as separate short stories, although they contain characters and a sort of story arc that holds the whole entity together. One of the main elements that holds the story together is the plight of the poor in Dublin; despite the fact that most of the characters are poor, the truth of their poverty comes to the reader indirectly, through such details as the fact that Lenehan has not eaten all day, while he ...

American Life after the Cold War

American family life before and during the Cold War, as well as the changes commenced by the baby boomers have all been the subjects of numerous studies. One of the major acclaimed contributors in this regard is Elaine Tyler May, whose book Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era first published in 1988 contains a detailed analysis of the American family life, perception of gender roles and equality, as well as the results of the Kelly Longitudinal Study (KLS) that gradually reveal the realities of the nuclear families inside life. The central idea of the book is confinement ...

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is one of the heart diseases which cause death among people in the United States. Cardiovascular diseases are primarily caused by diets that have high saturated fat contents e.g. cheese and fast foods, as well as food containing poisonous toxins (Robison et. al., 2014). The disease affects different structures and the general functioning of the heart. Among the structures affected include the blood vessels, the coronary artery, aorta and the heart valves. Functions of the heart that are affected are the heart rhythms, and it can also cause both heart failure and heart attack. Various researches ...

“Nick stood up. He was all right. He looked up the track at the lights of the caboose going out of sight around a curve," are the words Ernest Hemingway’s “The Battler” begins with. From the first sentences, it becomes apparent who is the main character of "The Battler.” Moreover, Nick Adams is a protagonist of a series of Ernest Hemingway stories. For the first time “The Battler” was published in 1925 and it was a part of the collection entitled “In Our Time." In spite of being protagonist, Nick is not the only person this story is about. He is an ...

Recent research in industrialized countries provides evidence of the significant role that psychosocial factors play in health and disease. As such, these factors cannot be ignored in the assessment of patients, health promotion, illness prevention, and disease management. Examples of psychosocial factors are lack of social support systems and stress where individual experiences of these adverse events increase the risks for acute and chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease (CVD) and arthritis. Research provides evidence of psychosocial interventions and the important role of nurses in reducing these risks.
In their review of literature on the association of CVD ...

Literature Review: Childhood Obesity

Literature Review: Childhood Obesity
Childhood obesity has become a global scourge and an uphill task for many parents to handle. Obesity is a condition that is characterized by an increase in body weight caused by excessive intake of fats. Parents are the main determinants if their children will become obese or not. Therefore, educating parents on how to tackle childhood obesity by providing healthy lifestyle choices to them is the main way of preventing obesity in children. Childhood obesity is preventable.
This review will discuss ways to educate parents on how to tackle childhood obesity. Obesity is considered to ...

Sometimes, poor food quality can cause many diseases. In modern life, we are a victim of stressful lifestyle, suffer from different life style diseases and healthy food is becoming scarce. The necessity is to practice health-physical culture, which comes from healthy eating. In earlier days, the cause for a visit to the climatic sites and spa destinations were to regain health, now healthy people are also visiting those sites for mental-physical refreshment or revitalization.
The spa destinations can use ecologically cultivated products, in their refreshment or healing programs, and towards a healthy life, ecologically produced health-safe and nutritional foods can be ...

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The book analysis of 'Germinal' by Emile Zola
The book analysis of 'Germinal' by Emile Zola
The book of Zola portrays the women of the nineteenth century with the relevant perception of myths with concepts of the role and contribution of female in the society. According to the depiction, the women of the presented era display the same structure and features in terms of personalities and contribution and social life, irrespective of class difference. The specifications can be visibily categorised into three segments, the first is the motherly conduct or the maternal role, the second is the ...

Health promotion is the science or art that enables people to discover the synergies between optimal health and their core passions, thus enhancing their motivation to achieve good health and assisting them in changing their lives so as to move towards an optimal health status. Therefore, in other words, health promotion can be further explained to be the process that enables individuals to increase control over their health status and its determinants, and ultimately improving on their health. Generally, optimal health is perceived to be the dynamic balance of physical, spiritual, social and intellectual health. Consequently, various life changes ...

Chapter 1 Literature Review

CHAPTER 1

Introduction
During the past decades Vitamin D deficiency had become a major health concern among many Asian countries. Even countries where the sun shines all year round Vitamin D deficiency is still prevalent. This problem is attributed to the dietary factors, inadequate exposure to sunlight and skin pigmentation among Asian people. In terms of skin pigmentation, the majority of Asian inhabitants have highly pigmented skin. Although high skin pigmentation it is generally beneficial because pigmentation reduces the penetration of ultra-violet rays it can also reduces the production of building blocks required to produce Vitamin D. In Saudi ...

Canterbury Tales

Introduction
The Canterbury tales are a set of short stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in Middle English by the end of the 14th century. The Canterbury tales are a set of stories told in a pilgrimage to the pilgrims. This makes them very interesting as the analysis of each of the characters helps explore the culture and way of life in the 14th century. It also gives an insight into the feelings, emotions and social structure of the life of the English in the 14th century (Linne R. Mooney, 2006).

Character analysis

The four characters chosen for analysis include the knight, the wife ...

Reflection on the Creative Interpretation of the Scene and the Roles

Our group acted out the Act II, Scene IV and Act II, Scene V of the play “The Spanish Tragedy”, together in order to complete the assignment given to us. As a group we turned the play into a modern style scene using New York to make it closer to the modern lifestyle and to represent the gangster life there. Also because that is how we perceived the tone of the play would best be represented - where Bel Imperia is the beautiful, smart and educated lady princess, on the other hand her boyfriend, Horatio, is trash. I guess our perception ...

Introduction

The influx of international students is on a higher increase in Australia. The students will be advised and given a guide by the dieticians on how they can adapt the types of foods found in Australian and how they will ensure that they meets their nutritional needs for the sake of a healthy lifestyle free from diseases (Misner, 2006). The dieticians are charged with a responsibility to offer free advice in these institutions with international students and they will talk about the foods that are eaten to contribute to a healthy life. The dieticians also give advice in accordance to a specific health related goal ( ...

Introduction

Matcha Green Tea which is also known as maccha is a fine powder of green tea.1 It’s origin is in Japan though it has come to be spread in most parts of the world, notably in Asia. It is gradually creeping into the rest of the world, including America.4 Though it is mainly used as a beverage; matcha is also used in various ways such as flavoring as well as dying of foods which include green tea ice cream, noodles, soba and mocha noodles.1 It is also widely used for the making of Japanese confectionary also known as the wagashi. ...

In the writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are few ghosts as large and imposing as that of the Past. In The Great Gatsby, the tragic truth for James Gatz is that there is no way for him to overcome his history in time to salvage his dreams. As a poor youth, Gatz dreams about affluence, but he does not have the discipline to do the hard work required to rise legitimately: when he is given a work-study position at the university, the janitorial tasks he must perform in order to earn his tuition are, he feels, beneath him. When he ...

The Necklace and The Story of an Hour have numerous common elements. For example, both are nineteenth century stories and both have unhappily married women as their protagonists. However, the overriding similarity is the central theme of gender roles that emanates from both. Mathilde and Mrs Mallard are both middle-class women of their time and, as a result of this, have very little control over their lives. Rather than providing stability and affection, their husbands are repressing them and hindering their sense of identity.

In both stories, the protagonist is a young married woman. Similar again are the feelings of the ...

Belovezhskaya pushcha national park, Belarus

Critical analysis
About Belarus
Belarus is a European country located in the east side of Europe and shares its borders with Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. It is a landlocked country with a total land area of 207, 600 square kilometers. Minsk is its capital city but it has other major cities across its land area. The country’s major economic activities are in the agricultural and manufacturing sectors. 40% of the country’s land area is forested thus having a cool and favorable agricultural climate. Belarus took shape in the early 1940s after joining the Soviet Union. Its borders ...

Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Richard Corey”

Robinson’s poem, “Richard Corey,” fits into the genre of American Literary Modernism because it deals with disillusionment and individuals “trapped by blind laws of heredity and environment or buffeted with uncomprehended chance” (Perkins 130). The poem is written from the point of view of a poor person who goes “without the meat and cursed the bread” who is admiring and envying a rich man of the town named Richard Cory (Robinson 14). Like many Modernist pieces, it reflects back to an earlier era of literature for contrast, using Romantic language to describe Richard Cory. For example, the speaker says, “he ...

Background

Everyone feels hunger especially when there is not much food left to eat. This is a common scenario in third world and developing countries. At some point, hunger could also be seen even in developed and industrialized countries such as the U.S, Japan, and other prosperous countries in Europe. Whenever one feels hunger, it simply means that it is time to eat. But what if there is simply not enough food to eat or worse, there is nothing to eat at all? In that case, that person’s body, although still starving, will try to compensate by turning the body’ ...