Literature Research Papers Samples For Students

Late last year an important discovery about Neanderthal was presented to the public. A 130,000-year-old Neanderthal toe fossil discovered in a cave in Siberia, Russia, allowed scientists to sequence a complete Neanderthal genome. This information is important both in terms of studying Neanderthals, and also understanding of what makes the lineage of humans unique. It will allow scientists to how Neanderthals and Humans interacted and the breeding habits between both species.

Nature was the journal that broke finding to the public in their peer-reviewed journal in an article titled, The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains. ...

This March, the whole world celebrated the 161th anniversary of the birth of Vincent Van Gogh's, whose paintings are now included in the list of the fifteen most famous and expensive artworks in the world. The paradox is that it was the artist's lifelong dream to sell at least one of them to get the money and pay off his countless debts.
When a healthy boy was born on the 30th March, 1853 to the ...

Impacts of female roles in traditional Chinese drama on foreign audience (US audience) or impacts to spread Chinese culture

In Chinese drama, the female characters are referred to as Dan. This is a general name given to female characters that play different roles, and it can be subdivided into four: Wudan, Laodan, Huadan, and Zhengdan (Wertz, 2011).Zhengdan is also known as “Qinqyi”, and this character mainly plays the role of a middle-aged woman who is strong-minded and her behavior is full of elegance. Most lines acted by the Zhengdan character are delivered as songs. Moreover, the spoken parts of her acting are delivered as rhythms. This character is always dressed in blue gowns. Huadan character refers to young women ...

Abstract:

Karl Mannheim and Jean Baudrillard are two highly respected sociologists. They reigned in two very different periods of time and their views were inevitably shaped by the events and cultural realities of their days. Mannheim “spent his active life in the first half of the twentieth century, in the darkest years of Modern Europe”. (Karacsony, 2008) Mannheim observed and wrote about the self-serving separation of classes and how people behaved towards one another based on their economic status. Ironically, the same is evident in today’s times. He also believed that there is a relationship between human thought and the ...

The book ‘Frankenstein’ written by Mary Shelley and published in the year 1818 is one of the famous literary works in the genre of gothic horror fiction. In the book, the author discusses about the ethical issues of technological advancements and researches the relationship of man with its creator . Frankenstein is the story of Victor, a man who possesses health, wealth, friends and family. Victor has a deep interest in science and a burning desire for knowledge and research. Victor’s passion in science drives him to make a demon, which he later realizes to be a blunder. The demon kills Victor’s family ...

The “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was published in 1884, and it has become Samuel Clemens’s (Mark Twain’s) most successful novel. The issue that lies centrally at the core of this epic novel is racism; the book is about racism. Throughout the book, we read about we encounter the plights of Jim and Huck, two of the most important characters. These two are traveling down Mississippi River. The characters in this novel have a varied understanding of race and racism. When confronted with racism, they also act or respond differently. Moreover, the character’s definition of what race ...

The poems, “Do Not Go Gently into That Night” by Dylan Thomas and “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickenson, deal with the theme of death. Both poets use figurative devices to compare and contrast their abstract views on death. Thomas rejects the idea of death, and implores his father to fight his impending death. On the other hand, the woman in Dickenson’s poem embraces death as she goes willingly into death’s embrace. In essence, there is no specific way to present poems that share the same theme. Each poet chooses unique ...

The book ‘Negotiating International Business: The Negotiator's Reference Guide to 50 Countries around the World’ by Lothar Katz represent the fact that the culture plays an important role in the negotiation. The individuals while negotiating should be familiar of the fact that what others like and prefer in order to negotiate, and the practices they like to use. They should be familiar of the fact that in order to build the relationships certain techniques are required, such as convincing power that plays an essential role to persuade people, further, the method of conducting the negotiation will also ...

The main objective of the author was to establish the relationship between the reasons why females practice cigarette smoking with the notion that the behavior helps to control body weight. The author wishes to establish that the same objective can be achieved through other means such as physical activity. The author intends to examine the effects of a behavioral task. Body image exposure was meant initiate concerns on body weight and their image among women. The women’s ages ranged between 18 to 24 years. It is also important to note that they did not have the same levels of ...

Embedded Expertise and the New Terrorism is a journal for crime, conflict and the media written by Jonny Burnett from University of Leeds and Dave Whyte from University of Stirling. The article was written in December the year 2003. The article surveys the field of terrorism since the attack of September 11th. The article does try to assess some of the main successes, future challenges and perennial issues. The authors of the article claim that terrorism studies has matured and grown since the attack took place. Some of the successes of the attack include new dedicated researchers and scholars and ...

The two poems, Because I Could Not Stop for Death, by Emily Dickinson and Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, by Dylan Thomas deal with the theme of death. Each poem looks at death in different ways. Thomas does not accept death readily, but implores his father to hold on to life. On the other hand, Dickinson accepts death calmly. Both poets make use of figurative devices such as metaphors, personification and alliteration as they explore their opposing views of the concept of death.

Dickinson creates the feeling that death has compassion and creates a contrast in how ...

Virginia Woolf's novel, Mrs. Dalloway, is considered by most to be a baffling read. This is partly because the novelist, Woolf, experiments with the technique of connecting the character's internal and external dialogues in the text. This is quite obvious in the author's characterization of Mrs. Dalloway or Clarissa, the protagonist of the novel, and Septimus. Many critics contend that both of these characters are a doubles. This idea, of course, comes from the “Introduction to the Random House edition of her novel” which states that, “‘Septimus, who later is intended to be her [that ...

All over my life, my interest in conducting a research about the Vietnam War has been intensive. Vietnam War was a long struggle between the nationalist forces who were attempting to unite Vietnam under the government of communism while the U.S was trying to inhibit the spread of communism in the country. The U.S lost the support of the public in the war and ever since the war ended, it has become a benchmark for the act that should never be repeated in all the future United States foreign conflicts. I commenced my research on this interesting topic at the start of ...

Burtless, Gary, Siegel, Sarah. “Medical Spending, Health Insurance, and Measurement of American poverty”. Brookings Institute 2001

The article of the authors addresses the ongoing debate on the mechanism that is being used to measure poverty in the United States. Opponents of the mechanisms have long argued that the data, given that the mechanism where it is derived from is flawed, is inherently unreliable. As the work deals with medical spending as a component of the definition of poverty, then the method by which medical spending is integrated into the understanding of poverty in the United States. In the work of the authors, there are several points worth noting. One, medical expenditures, integrated into the construction of ...

Alesina, Alberto. Political Cycles and the Macroeconomy. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.: MIT Press, 1997. Print.

This book was written by one of the most experienced persons on the field of political influence on businesses. Alesina Alberto is a renowned Italian political economist who has authored several books and articles on the relationship between business and politics. He is a professor of Political Economy at Harvard University and as such speaks authoritatively on the subject. The book addresses the relationship between economic/business cycles and the political cycles. It examines how the timing of elections, electoral laws, the nature of competition between political parties and its influence on employment, the ideological orientation of governments, inflation, monetary policies, inflation ...

Animation is not truthful; in fact it can be summed up as a deceptive way of entertaining people. This is so because it is generally a rapid sequence of purely still images put together in order to give an illusion of movement. It is a human creation that can even be seen as a trick that eyes play on an individual but gets some form of interpretation in the human mind. It is important to understand it from this perspective otherwise comparing and contrasting American animation and Japanese animation also known as anime will not make sense at all. Both of them are ...

Borschel, A. (2012) Sleuthing the truth in the media. Washington: IBJ Book Publishing.

In “Sleuthing the truth in the media”, the author Audrey Borschel questions the truthfulness of media and of the messages that it sends. Borschel argues that in the current world, when the thirst of information is so high and people are dependent on interesting, engaging and sometimes scandalous news, journalists tend to deliver precisely these assets, while transforming the truth into what people want. Nevertheless, this comes with a cost: the cost of the accuracy of the news and the cost of the integrity of the journalists. Various media contents are being analyzed in order for their messages to ...

Introduction

The short story, a good man is hard to find by Flannery O’Connor, first appeared in her publication in 1955. It has, over the years, been regarded as one of her best work of short fiction writings. O’Connor is known for her writing characteristics; a contrast of violent action with humorously and carefully drawn characters and a philosophy that underscores her devout Roman Catholic faith. Literature critics have appreciated how she involves her catholic faith belief with the story. She brings out the role of God and how his grace plays part in the lives of ordinary people. The story ...

The character Frodo Baggins in the trilogy Lord of the Rings is a character who potrays bravery and courage and blind at parts. What is amazing about this character, is the will he shows, in the various quests he takes up. Frodo is the son of Drogo Baggins; he is a hobbit of the shire, of the third age. In the movie, he is the holder of the ring that is to be taken to Mount Doom to be destroyed. He is one of the three hobbits who sailed to the end of the third age in the middle of the ...

Introduction:

On page 41 of “Gawain and the Green Knight” the poem speaks more of metrical romance. In this context the poet brings the theme of hunting and seduction. This is in relation to the frequently distinguished corresponding flanked by the three consequent hunting panoramas which are followed by the three seduction scenes. This clearly highlights the correspondence of the scenes that actually does arise when the lord goes out hunting. In this context the scene that does arise is the one which is illustrated by the lord rising early in the morning and goes deer hunting.

In these ...

The physical rights over a property such as a book, manuscript, painting or CD is not similar to owning the copyright to the work personified in the item. Under the first sale policy, ownership of a physical copy of a material that has been protected by copyright permits reselling, lending, disposing of the item. Nevertheless, the copyright does not permit reproduction of the material, publicly performing or displaying it, or taking part in any activity that is reserved for the holder of the copyright. The transfer of the physical duplicate does not reassign the copyright holder’s rights to the item, including an ...

Section A: Plan of Investigation

This research paper involves an investigation on the effects of Mensur fencing fraternities in Germany in 20th century on student’s lives. It seeks to answer the question; was it necessary to affect Mensur in Germany? In conducting this investigation, there are various techniques and methodologies applied. Research papers, internet links, books, and other forms of writing will be resourceful in providing information involving Mensur how it came to be the targeted clientele that is the university students among other things.

Live interviews and analysis of reports of various media houses are also among the methods to be used ...

James Baldwin is best known for his novels, short stories and essays. Most of his work revolves around the themes of discrimination towards blacks and homosexuals. Most of his work is considered to be at least somewhat autobiographical because a reader can often detect the traces of his own past torture and dilemmas. The loneliness and the suffering from all the taunts which he faced all his life are reflected in his writings.

Baldwin was born in Harlem in August 1924. His mother was Emma Berdis Jones, who happened to be single and poor at the time. No one never ...

Introduction

The close examination and reading of the bible reveals various patterns of numbers in the bible. The pattern inculcated reveals that they have a special significance in the bible. The study of the bible pattern has lead to the specialization in the field of studying the bible in the context of getting the meaningful ideologies expressed in it. The biblical study of the bible gives the specialty in the perception where a person wants to know the numerology of it. Certain experts who have specialized in the field have identified particular repeated numbers with particular meanings. This trend runs both from ...

The Bubonic Plague is a grim but at the same time impressive page in the European history. This event triggered serious changes in society and economy. Naturally art and culture could not have left it without noticing and references to the Black Death are to be found in literature, paintings and other art forms.

Today most of the scholars agree that the most probable way by which the Bubonic Plague came into Europe was through trading. As for the trading route which was the main channel of the spread of the disease, the book by Robert Gottfried says the following: ...

Sometimes, it only takes one great act in history, or one great story for a hero to emerge. Such is the case with the Greek story Iliad, and the historical events in Jerusalem during the time of the crusades. To say that the heroes of these stories do not have anything in common, is a denial of the natural order of things. Both have somehow made a stamp in history, and both are touted as heroes, even up to this day.

Achilles is one of the many heroes in the Greek story Iliad. According to the story, he was recruited by Odysseus ...

Robert Hass born in 1941 in San Francisco is a contemporary American poet and has more often been referred to as a California poet; because sometimes his poems tend to have a West Coast based aura and theme. This poet has been recognized as the most celebrated and widely read contemporary English poet. His works don’t only include original writings, but he is also known as a critic and translator for the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz and the Japanese haiku experts Issa, Buson and lastly Basho. His translation of Czeslaw Milosz from “Hymn” goes on to say: “There is no ...

Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The Raven" is one of literature's most well-known stories, depicting the slow deterioration of the protagonist's mental state at the hands of a talking raven. Mourning over the loss of his lady love, his depression grows more gradually into madness, as the persistent isolation and the repetition of the raven's call "Nevermore" distress him even further. There are many similarities to this story and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” in which a timid housewife is prescribed a rest cure by her physician husband, involving her ...

Introduction

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in July 21, 1899, Oak Park, Illinois. He was an American writer and journalist. Most of his works were fiction characterized by mainly economy and understatements. Owing to his profession of being a journalist he was also an adventurous person. He did his production in the 20th century (the mid 1920s and also mid 1950s). He ventured into journalism after finishing school where he worked for The Kansas City Star. Afterwards he left for the Italian font where he became an ambulance driver during World War I. This is what led to the production of ...

The Canterbury tales is a collection of stories which were written in the Middle English at the end of the 14th Century by Geoffrey Chaucer. Most of the tales are in verses though some of them are also in prose form. The Canterbury stories were part of the story telling contest by a small group of pilgrims who travelled together on a journey from Southwark to Saint Thomas Becket where their shrine was located. Chaucer used the tales and the descriptions of his characters to paint a very critical and ironic paint of the English Community at the time in particular the church ...

Introduction

The urge to survive and feed our families, stretch us to eke out for a living with our flesh and bones. Caught in the middle of all this is women who though physically do not match their counterparts; the males are pushed to a corner where they have to do the similar works to earn a living. The situation is often worsened when ones husband kick the basket and she has to provide for the family, report to the capitalist “bread” factories whose major interest is to multiply profits and then come back home with the “bread” which is sold ...

False memory amounts to fabricated or distorted recollection of events that never happened in the first place. It is believed that memory is a recollection of things that happened in the past, accurately documenting them, storing them and making them available for remembering any time. A twist is brought in when false memory is put into perspective. This then makes memory get prone to fallacies (Frankel 1993). False memory is common among very many people and can range from mere curiosity to just developing thoughts about something that never happened but one which a person becomes certain it happened. One wonders ...

Jules Verne is arguably one of the most prescient science-fiction authors in history – his works are remembered for their vast imagination and endlessly prescient views into the future of science and the exciting nature of their adventures. One of his most well known works, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, is on its surface a fantastical tale of a group of men who stumble upon the secret submarine Nautilus, commanded by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. However, closer examination of the novel itself reveals Verne’s penchant for social commentary and intricate political subtext, as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea becomes a ...

Introduction

Wong, Carol, Jacquelynne, Eccles (1198) argue that, it takes a lot of courage to stand tall and defend ones belief and values. He cited examples using several people like Martin Luther king who stood to fight racism and ethnicity in America. They further argue that, helloes must have faced several adversities on their way to prominence. They mention of Jesus who died n the cross for all people without discriminating the gender, race, ethnicity or age. Jesus was stereotyped but yet he stood firm to accomplish his mission here on earth. The study shows that, the Black Americans face several ...

Introduction

Sexual offenses are a social menace and affect the public health directly. The growing instances of sexual crimes and growing numbers of sexual offenders have emerged as a major issue. The government, policymakers, and law enforcement agencies are very apprehensive regarding this issue and want this issue to be resolved as soon as possible. A number of steps, including treatment of sexual offenders, have been taken in order to improve the situation. This paper intends to discuss several treatment programs that are designed for the sexual offenders.

Literature Review

McHugh and Rider (1981) in his article “Treatment of sex offenders with anti-androgenic medication: ...

Introduction

The Iguana Tree is a story that is set amid the perilous intricacies of illegal border crossings. The book narrates the suspenseful story of Lilia and Hector a couple who separately journey from the home in Mexico in search of employment and a safe home for their young daughter in the United States of America. This harrowing novel by Michael Stone meticulously reviews the obstacles that each of the characters endures in the pursuit of a new life (Stone 12).These obstacles include abominable acts like rape and murder in addition to manipulation at the perilous start of the border crossing. Further into ...

According to Hillman, Pictorial or wordless books contain pictures and pure illustrations in a volume that illustrates it all; “tell it all”. However, certain wordless books have minimal wording and labels. Others have phrases and single sentences alongside the illustrations (Hillman, 2010). These books comprise all genes; fiction, poetry, fantasy, biography and nonfiction. Such is a sample of books fellow learners, and I used to aid our understanding of the content of what is taught by the teacher (Wendy, Janice, Amy & Abigail, 2011). We actively participated and fully concentrated on what was taught by our teacher through graphical representations that were ...

Introduction

Research, according to Burns and Grove (2011), means to examine carefully. In essence, it is a diligent, systematic study, which refines or validates existing knowledge or develops new knowledge. Planning, organization and persistence are the key underpinnings of a diligent and systematic study. The main objective of nursing research is to develop an empirical body of knowledge for this profession. In addition, Burns and Grove (2011) contend that reading and critiquing research studies requires learning of new terms, understanding the steps of the research process and applying a variety of analytical skills. This paper critiques a study conducted by Karavasiliadou and Athanasakis (2014), ...

Introduction

Pop culture also known as popular culture is the whole entirety of images, attitudes, perspectives, and ideas that are usually within the mainstream of a specific culture. It refers to learned and shared human trends or patterns for living; day by day living trends. These trends pervade all aspects of social interaction. Different sets of people share a common culture that can be depicted through things like the language they speak, the foods they eat and the homes they live. It is believed that to learn about the finer things in life, such as priceless art and high social class would ...

Fiction can serve a true and critical part in uncovering and inspecting non-narrative truths, particularly truths on delicate subjects like race (Campbell and Bebe 962). Often an obstruction to legit race report is the protectiveness that Americans use as a hindrance to piece the correspondence when gone up against by racially chronicled certainties. The utilization of writing to inspect ourselves by looking at narrative characters might be a circuitous method for accomplishing immediate racial report and progress. Many of the issues encountered by the characters cause the dysfunction in their families and the public arena by and large (Davis).
At one ...

When many people think of satire, they understand that it is a subversive approach to a certain social or political issue through the use of irony. Works like the Earl of Rochester’s “A Satire Against Reason and Mankind,” Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal or John Dryden’s MacFlecknoe all make fun of some perceived failing of its audience, whether it be the “Satire’s poking fun at rationalism and reason, Swift’s pointing out of the problems facing Ireland as a result of English ignorance, or Dryden’s ridiculing of his contemporaries’ inadequate literary criticism. However, to what end do ...

The life of all the contemporary guitarists that started playing after 1980s was closely connected with the creation of grunge music and the “Nirvana”, in particular, as every guitarist had been learning the “Smells like Teen Spirit” as his first song on guitar during that time. The main goal of this paper is to discuss the genre of the band itself, the other characteristics of the genre that were used by different musicians of the time and after this period; the roots of the genre will be discussed there.
The musical style of Nirvana was best described by ...

It has been said that a definition of insanity is the compulsion to repeat the same actions over and over again while expecting a different result. This is evident both on the institutional level and the individual level, whether one looks at attempts by the National Football League’s Dallas Cowboys to spend heavily on a handful of players while leaving many of their other position needs unmet, or at the inexplicable tendency of victims of domestic violence to keep going back to their abusers, often refusing to press charges until the absolute worst happens. An unwillingness to change can bring turmoil ...

Introduction

The Chinese Revolution which took place in the 20th century was as a result of intertwined socio-economic and political factors in China. The Chinese economy was predominantly composed of agriculture and the revenue load imposed on the peasants resulted in their outcry (Lieberthal et al. 12). The status quo was pronounced at that time and the Chinese politics were disorganized. Foreign powers had resulted in the division of china into spheres based on influence. They were only interested in their own agendas and sabotaged the genuine needs of the Chinese people. China’s war with Japan has also seen the ...

Before the advent of the computer, artists and artisans alike utilized a complex tool in making their letter forms; the hand. At ten digits, five for each hand, the hand was efficiently the first digital lettering tool, utilized in engravings, carving and in the production of the various letter forms. The hand, while allowing for a few technological flaws and eccentricities, still facilitated the creation of some of the most beautiful lettering forms ever made. The advantages of the hand as a lettering tool underscore the paradox that, with technological advancement, both a loss and profit were incurred. The computer, on the one ...

Introduction/Thesis Statement

Edith Wharton’s ‘The House of Mirth’ closely examines relationships, desire for personal autonomy and material success outside the boundaries or rules of the social world.
In The House of Mirth, Lily Bart, the protagonist, seeking a luxurious life in the high society is torn between wealth and marriage and is willing to go the mile to achieve her goal. In The Great Gatsby, Daisy is also after money and luxury, and uses Gatsby to achieve her ambitious pursuit. On closer observation, one cannot but think that the novel, ‘The Great Gatsby,’ and ‘The House of Mirth,’ was written ...

The overall research method used in “Teaching Diversity: What Can History Offer?” article is the descriptive qualitative method that involves comparing data from various articles. The descriptive qualitative method provides a tool for the author to develop detailed description importance of history using interviews, observation and document review. The strength of this method is that it provides the individual case information such as Clerk’s case. It also provides a description of the rich detail phenomena such as sexuality in disabled people. However, this method does not provide a way of testing hypothesis and theories.
The types of the descriptive qualitative ...

RESEARCH PAPER

- What is your thesis?
(This statement should be only one sentence long and must have three things in it: the name of the primary source author(s), the name of the primary source/story or stories, and the main idea that you are trying to prove. If possible, you may also provide a plan of development and list your 3-4 major points.)
The paper tries to analyze whether the protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story, Young Goodman Brown, is a hero or a dupe. It will show how Brown’s weaknesses, including conceit, leads to his demise. The analysis will ...

When analysing the book of Ephesians, it is normally imperative for one to consider learning the case usage on its various lexical semantics of verbs rather than using cases and functions. Based on this notion, approaching the exegetical perspective of Ephesians using semantic roles rather than the use of case categories helps the scholar to be able to focus further on the idea of the clauses more than on the individual ones. The book of Ephesians is one of Paul’s works that clearly demonstrates his motives towards how the relationship between Christians, God and the church out to ...

The element of nostalgia in the novel

Great Expectations is a novel that is based on elements of nostalgia. The arch typical nostalgic character is the doomed Miss Havisham, who lives in the past and cannot get over the jilting of her suitor – she leaves her crumbling house just as it was all those years ago. Pip longs for his dead parents since he is treated badly by his sister although he finds comfort in the kindly character of Joe Gargery, his sister’s husband. There is also an autobiographical sense of nostalgia coming from Dickens’ himself, especially with the Kent surroundings forming such an important part ...

Introduction

Textbooks are fundamental instruments of learning in our schools. The underlying argument of quality assurance is not based on the textbooks in general but on the specific textbook upon which a school and the subject teacher use as the course book. As a matter of importance, a teacher should consider the choice of books he or she uses to teach. Therefore, as part of the school textbook committee, a textbook selection program should be carried out in order to evaluate the best textbook that can be used for the Math Curriculum. Three Math textbook samples from different publishers, Edexcel AS & A Mathematics, Macmillan ...

Introduction

“Animal Farm” was written by George Orwell. It is a satire and political literature. The original title of the novel is “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story” that proves it as a fable written with a purpose. However, the author did a wonderful attempt to present the political crisis and tyrannical government through a story of animals in a farm. It is a dystopian and allegorical novel. Orwell’s intention is to reflect Russian Revolution and reign of Stalin in Soviet Union. The novel is about the life of animals in a farm. They wanted to rebel and save themselves from the clutches of men and set new ...

Introduction

Over the recent past, the rate at which academic citations are being used while writing academic works of different disciplines has been on the rise. More people are embracing the use of citations to show their sources of information. Also, it is becoming a requirement in almost every academic discipline to make use of citations while writing academic papers so as to show the sources of information.
In the construction of different literature and academic works, people are advices to use citations not only to show the source of their information, but also to show the agreement of their ...

- What are the common teacher incentive pay program designs?
- Are the teachers’ incentive programs effective in enhancing students’ performance?
In that view, the study summarizes the four articles’ study findings as well as authors’ conclusion and then draws a conclusion on the issue based on the quantitative studies presented by the authors. Those articles include Steele, Murname and Willnett (2009) that seek to analyze the effect of incentive on teachers’ retention. In the article, a natural experiment done in California between the year 2000 and 2003 involving an incentive of $20,000 that was called the Governor’ ...

Research Question, Rationale, Scope and Methodology

In this study, the research question is why the Russians failed to support the Polish undergrounds during their uprising against the Nazis in 1944. The rationale for doing this topic stems from the fact that there are two sides to this debate; on one hand, the Russians claimed that the Germans decimated their early advance on the Eastside of Poland thus reducing their tactics to defense only; on the other hand, western countries believe that Russia deliberately refused to assist the Polish insurgents for political reasons. Given that there are two sides to this debate, this paper examines the ...

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Philosophy of Happiness: Approaches to Happiness Around the Globe (A Cultural Comparison)
Introduction
It is generally understood that everyone would like to be happy. However, how happiness should be defined is often called into question. Happiness can mean different things to different people. The way that a person defines happiness for him or herself can be based on individual goals and values. This makes the examination of happiness difficult from a philosophical standpoint. Each person’s own definition of happiness makes it hard to measure what happiness is across a cross-section of people. What makes one person happy may not ...

Rita Dove and Katherine Mansfield were not contemporaries, nor do they write in the same genre. But two works, one from each author, are worth comparing and contrasting since both have a similar underlying theme, which leads the reader to a contrary conclusion.
“DayStar” is a poem by Rita Dove that has to do with the life of a busy mother who is only able to leave her perpetual duties for an hour a day. Katherine Mansfield’s “Miss Brill” is about a woman who is an avid people watcher who uses her avid imagination to find meaning in every exchange happening in earshot ...

Abstract

Automatism is a rather interesting and difficult issue in criminal law. Not every lawyer is able to help in such a case, as well as not every barrister will protect the defendant in the case of automatism. In this research paper, I will try to outline the main peculiarities of automatism and provide the examples of it. There are many cases when automatism has been involved and all they have their special features, their peculiarities. I will support my points of view with case studies, as well as with scientific findings and research results. I have based my research on the ...

Abstract

This paper discusses four research questions in the area of the writer's interest, which is the relationship between childhood obesity and the risk of cardiovascular disease in adults. The writer identified two qualitative and two quantitative questions. The qualitative questions dealt with the most effective intervention approach for preventing childhood obesity and the factors that enabled obese children to gain normal weights in adulthood. On the other hand, the quantitative questions dealt with the relationship between family lifestyle and childhood obesity and the relationship between breastfeeding and childhood obesity versus the relationship of bottle feeding and childhood obesity. The ...

Introduction

According to Jowett & O’Donnell (1), propaganda is a method of communication which tries to elicit a response that propagates the desired intention of the propagandist. The art of propaganda has been studied in an array of multidisciplinary researches in the fields of journalism, sociology, history, political science and psychology. To study the art of propaganda as history means examining propagandist practices as distinct events and the resultant events as likely effects of propaganda. Nazi films were predominantly propagandist in that they aimed at influencing attitudes on life in a given context, and in terms of particular people and events. Perhaps the ...