Essays on Autumn

Fashions trends determine the success of a product in the market. It is prudent for every business to understand various patterns of specific products before launching them into the market(Pan & Kim, 2014). Understanding the respective trends regarding the existing climatic conditions is fundamental in the sense that it guides the business decision-making on what best suits the customers and consumers of that particular product. It is important that a retailer understands the market and its various determinants so that right decisions that yield optimal results are made. Such decisions are critical in the business destiny and determine how ...

The anti-Semitic sentiment set in motion by Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta and the near Satanic equation of Barabas had buttressed the plan of a play Shakespeare conceived in the commercial town of Venice with its life-loving gentry. The gentlemen of Venice who paraded themselves in gondolas in the romantic canals and waterways were instantly cut out for popular sympathy and affection, as the very opening seems to suggest. The dolour of Antonio and the volley of indulgent comments and cajoling coming in response proves it beyond doubt. To add to it are the fancies of the wastrel ...

English:

Robert Frost, 1874 - 1963 Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first ...

The piece for discussion is Vincent van Gogh’s “Mulberry Tree”, which is part of the permanent collection at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. It is a relatively smaller-sized oil on canvas painting. The image is one of a single mulberry tree that seems to be in the fall stage, as the colors of the leaves are more golden rather than the usual green that one finds in any mulberry tree in the summer or when there are fruits on the tree. The single tree is set against a background of a lighter – colored ground and a very blue sky. It could ...

Chapter 1 Lesson 1 Checking Your Understanding page 5

- There are a variety of different ways that art can be around the world. Art can be in a book that is being read, the furniture that is being sit on, and in the video games that people play on a regular basis. Basically, art can be anything that a person sees, has seen, or might imagine like advertisements on TV, Internet, toys, fashion, cars, paintings, and movies. - Perceive means to become aware through the senses of the special nature of objects. When a person uses their sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste to perceive an object, a person will better understand ...

There is a relationship between volcanic eruption and the climate of a place. After the eruption, the poisonous sulphur dioxide which is emitted out as a volcanic product, reacts and get oxidized to form sulphate aerosols in the stratosphere, hence affecting the climate adversely (Forster 2007). Volcanic ashes and particles having diameter larger than 2 um also affects the atmosphere. According to Ramaswamy (1996), ozone depletion results when the volcanic aerosols react with the balanced chemistry in the stratosphere. Mid and high latitudes volcanic eruptions create drastic climatic changes. The aerosols here retain over the hemisphere and cause climate to change. For ...

Many haiku poems are often set on a theme but then the poet choses to capture a specific moment of the theme. That is always done in three lines that have a total of seventeen syllables. The first and last line both must contain five syllables and the second line often has seven syllables. The themes of haiku poems vary but the most common one is nature or seasons. Two examples of such poems will be the point of focus in this essay. The first one is a poem from Natsume Soseki and it is called Over the Wintry. The second one is ...

ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT AND HRM

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report provides an analysis of the case on Autumn Leaves Aged Care Inc. The researcher uses Organizational-level diagnosis model to identify issues and provide recommendations. The paper includes analysis of PEST and Porter’s Five forces on the aged care industry. The paper presents case summary followed by a thorough discussion evaluation of three tools of Organisational-level diagnosis model known as Inputs, Design Components and Outputs.

INTRODUCTION

Indian Ocean Developments (IOD) was known as a traditional organization with a strong reputation for organizational stability and time-bound results. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Ced Pearce, identified opportunity to enter into the ...

ORGANIZATION LEVEL DIAGNOSIS

ORGANIZATION LEVEL DIAGNOSIS

The Case Study

The development of the Autumn Leaves Aged Inc cannot be termed as a move that is unprofessional and unproductive. Setting up the entity was a brilliant idea by a Manager who was young enough to exploit all the available opportunities and maximize all the business ends to grow the company. However, series of considerations were not made. The manager, Ced, did not consider the basic fundamental requirements that were supposed to be initiated in order to ensure that the decision was made on mutual grounds that would minimize the overall risk of the investment.

Organizational Level Diagnosis

Inputs Risks Venturing ...

The political environment in which the business functions is an important macro-environmental input to consider as it directly influences the operations of the aged care services facility in different ways that result in opportunities and threats to the establishment. Equally important is the internal political environment of the business. This is of particular importance when it comes to the decision-making process. There are different parties and management levels involved to make an informed decision and in most cases results to bureaucracy. When Autumn Leaves Aged Care Inc. was established in 2006, the chief financial officer, Ced Pearce had done a ...

Children, as our messengers into the future we will not be able to experience, are our most valuable resource. Hence, the serious threat juvenile delinquents pose to the current and future safety of the American society. Debates have aroused about parents’ legal responsibility for their minor children’s behavior, both civil and criminal. So far, there are laws established that hold parents only civilly liable, like the Parent Liability Child’s act, where the parent’s obligation is to pay, depending on the State’s maximum monetary amount, for damage done by their minor children until they reach the ...

Korean culture has been revealed massively globally in today’s generation. This can be seen through the many modes of media coming from Korea that are shown in other parts of the world. They start to influence other people through their music, movies, TV dramas and other media. Due to the high quality production, they were recognized from people across the globe, gaining popularity as the days go by. One of the most popular Korean TV dramas is the “Princess Hour”. This TV drama shows all about Korean culture and the traditional socio-cultural practices with touch of modernism. ...

The development of Russia had many historical turning points. These changes were mainly connected with such political figures as Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin. The Soviet economy depended on mostly political decisions but not economic programs. Although the basic economic system in Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev eras remained unchanged, there were some peculiarities in these periods. The effect of Stalin’s policy had a profound impact on people and the state. In 1928, the Communists instituted the first Five-Year Plan. It dealt with such aspects of development as an industry, consumer goods, agriculture, transportation, communications, health, education, and ...

Introduction

Pablo Neruda is a prominent person of the last century. He was not a poet, but a diplomat and the Senator of the Chili. Moreover, Pablo Neruda was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Neruda’s poems keep on magnifying people even nowadays. Although, his poems have been studied a lot, there is still a lot to research. This thesis is aimed at revealing the new side of Neruda’s work. In the thesis, I will consider the issue of filling loneliness in Neruda’s poem If you forget me. I have chosen this poem for my research, because there no single ...

Introduction

Headquartered in the City of Westminster, London, Marks and Spencer Plc. is one of the leading British multi-channel retailers of garments and high quality food products. Founded in 1884 by Thomas Spencer and Michael Marks, the company has 766 stores in the UK alone with 361 more stores spread across globally in over 50 nations (M&S #3 2014). With about 82,000 employees worldwide, the company aims to provide an excellent shopping experience to its customers, whether in stores, by phone or online. The company seeks to follow a green way of doing its business and hence it has engaged ...

‘Winter has settled down over the Divide again; the season in which Nature recuperates, in which she sinks to sleep between the fruitfulness of autumn and the passion of spring. The birds have gone. The teeming life that goes on down in the long grass is exterminated. The prairie-dog keeps his hole. The rabbits run shivering from one frozen garden patch to another and are hard put to it to find frost-bitten cabbage-stalks. At night the coyotes roam the wintry waste, howling for food. The variegated fields are all one color now; the pastures, the stubble, the roads, the ...

Wang Yun’s play A Dream of Glory; talks about a woman who wants to become a man and display his powers before the world. Wang Yun, a Chinese dramatist of the eighteenth century, could have been influenced by a number of incidents that took place in China during the century. The patriarchal system must have played a dominant role in eighteenth century China where men had all the liberty to choose the life they wanted while women were confined to domestic roles. As the name of the play signifies, A Dream of Glory can be juxtaposed to the glorious life of men, and ...

Anti-communist revolution of 1989 which is sometimes referred in Western countries to «Autumn of Nations», was a wave of regime change in Central and Eastern Europe in the autumn of 1989. During several months this waves have removed pro-Soviet communist regimes. In the Western countries this event is compared with «Spring of Nations» in 1848. Epochal events of the late 1980s and early 1990s were the main reason of collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and Soviet Union. In 1989-1991 system that was held on violence, coercion, usurpation of civil liberties, has fallen so fast and landslide that there ...

Peace that people enjoy nowadays uninterrupted is, of course, not a new phenomenon. However, what is interesting is that the humanity has lived only several hundred years without warring for whatever reason could bring large armies face-to-face in a lethal confrontation for questionable reasons. Besides soldiers, the brute force of conflicts, the main tools of war have always been weapons indicating the state of technological advancement of nations, being the litmus paper and the benchmarks of progress. Thousands years ago, there was no such concept as a long-lasting peace, and the weaponry was a lot more different than it currently is, being used ...

Fiction Analysis

Need a title In his Gothic tales of horror, Edgar Allan Poe focuses on the literal and figurative elements of death. This may have to do with him watching his mother suffer with tuberculosis. From the fear of the descending pendulum of the Spanish Inquisition or the metaphorical aspects of the plague from the Red? Black Death, the end of life is a topic that thrills Poe, and it is used throughout his stories. One of the main features of Poe’s fiction is that his settings are revolved around the fantasticthe fantastic, severed from practical reality. By combining the ...

Innovations and various developments have been developed over time to in attaining the modern day fashion and design. The predecessors of fashion and design formed a core background for the various designers that emerged after them; hence, their designs were used as reference designs. The borrowing of ideas in fashion designs is common in the development of fashion. Outstanding designs have been used as a source of inspiration and motivation for upcoming designers. This evaluates how Vivienne Westwood and Zandra Rhodes have drawn inspiration from historical dresses in the pre 19th century. Zandra Rhodes carried out an extensive research on ...

In his Gothic tales of horror, Edgar Allan Poe focuses on the literal and figurative elements of death. This may have to do with the fact that one of his earliest memories was sitting and watching his mother cough her life away, a victim of tuberculosis. Whether it is the fear of the descending pendulum that was one of the creative torture devices of the Spanish Inquisition or the more metaphorical aspects of the Red Death, the end of life is a topic that fascinates Poe, and it infuses almost all of the elements in his stories. The connection between the ...

A Comparative look at the theme of nature in the poems “The Oak” Alfred Lord Tennyson and “The Road Not Taken” Robert Frost Both Alfred Lord Tennyson’s The Oak and Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken deals with the theme of nature. Both poets incorporate each word in a specific manner that adds literal and figurative meanings to the overall essence of the poems. Robert Frost and Alfred Lord Tennyson use symbolism, figurative language, and rhyme to convey their views of the road that Frost cannot choose and the oak tree that develops from a human perspective. Tennyson ...

English: Essay

The three works collected for this midterm essay are “The Thousand and One Night” from Arabian literature, “The Bhagavad-Gita” from Indian literature, and “Tale of Gengi” from Japanese literature. Finding out the similarities among the three literature works from three different cultures is an interesting subject. In this essay, an effort will be made to identify the aspects found in the literature of the present era and relevant to today’s society. “The Thousand and One Night” is a collection of stories compiled in Arabic and translated into many other languages during the golden age of Islam. The stories ...

One of the art works exhibited in the Legion of Honor museum, a subsidiary of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (FAMSF), is Vincent van Gogh’s Flower Beds in Holland (1883). The FAMSF commissioned van Gogh’s work from the Intimate Impressionism collection of the National Gallery of Art. Art works in the museum will be exhibited from May 11 to August 3 this year. Van Gogh’s Flower Beds in Holland is considered a Post-Impressionist painting because it represents the artist’s subjective views or perspective of the world, particularly of nature. Since Post-Impressionist views are subjective, artists ...

One of the art works exhibited in the Legion of Honor museum, a subsidiary of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (FAMSF), is Vincent van Gogh’s Flower Beds in Holland (1883). The FAMSF commissioned van Gogh’s work from the Intimate Impressionism collection of the National Gallery of Art. Art works in the museum will be exhibited from May 11 to August 3 this year. Van Gogh’s Flower Beds in Holland is considered a post-impressionist painting because it represents the artist’s subjective views or perspective of the world, particularly of nature. Since post-impressionist views are subjective, artists ...

Introduction

Understanding the dynamics of Crimean War changing the European occurring over 150 years ago changing European history proved the undoing of the international system existing in Europe for a significant period aligned to how the prevailing rules European leaders conducted foreign policy and maintaining the peace. Until the onset of the Crimean Wars in the early 1850s, Europe’s five major powers engaged in a “complex” practices in dealing with allaying potentially dangerous confrontations. One example of the outcome of the Crimean War was the disassembling of the pact between the conservative Russian, Prussian, and Austrian monarchies known as the ...

Critical review of Chinese Art and Literature

Introduction: Chinese art is varied and intriguing both in the literary or dramatic aspect, as well as in the visual aspect. These two articles analyse various aspects of Chinese art dating back to several centuries. A typical example of the development of Chinese art are the famous flower paintings by Chien Hsuan that date back to at least the thirteenth century. This work, which according to a fifteenth century colophon, dates from Xhien’s maturity and is probably one of the finest of his flower paintings, apart from its interaction with poetry. The painting also reveals the richness and ...

Nikola Tesla is widely known for his great achievements in the field of physics. Once he turned upside down the people's ideas on the questions of commuted current and electricity, making a big step forward in the study of these phenomena. Much of his activity was beyond explanation, what as caused many myths around his personality, and I will try my best to convey the main objectives and achievements of his works in my paper. Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856, in the village of Smiljan (Croatia today) in the family of Serbian Greek Church priest (Childress, ...

Introduction

During the creation of the world, the world contains some amount of resources to produce energy. The need for light during dark period forced many scientists to invent the flow of energy called electricity. The need for electricity forced humans to use non renewable energy resources like coal, petroleum etc. The Human fails to understand the non renewable energy resources are depleting in nature and it will diminish after some years. Now all of them are searching for renewable energy resources, among them solar energy is the good renewable energy resources that can be obtained from sun. The suns ...

Introduction:

The region of Middle East has been marred by decades old dictatorial and authoritative rules and rulers. The people have been kept away from transparent and true government and in most of the cases democracy is either absent or sham. Syria and Egypt are two countries that exhibited nearly same outlook and had their rulers distant from the masses. Most of the states in the region were single party states. With little or no place for the opposition forces in political spectrum, the country is a single party state. Syria was the front runner in this regard and it ...

Last month I was invited to a wedding of my old college friend Diana. We used to be rather close during our studies there. We stayed in touch since our graduation, mostly over the internet. But frankly speaking I had been surprised when I got a phone call from her inviting me to her wedding. I had not hesitated for a minute whether I would go. Two days later I had found an invitation card at my mailbox and booked a plane ticket from Korea to US. And here I was, two weeks later, sitting on a bench in a local church of a town where ...

Introduction

Poetry is an art-form which has been for a long time and for different reasons. This is because of the intense value and wealth in knowledge that poems have been used to convey. Poems have been passed down generations as a way of passing knowledge. The Heian period was no exception. People utilized poetry as a form of expression for thoughts and feeling. This is partly because it was pleasing aesthetically and because poetry was easy to develop with puns and aesthetics. The Tale of the Genji is clearly depicts this. The story employs a wealth of poems to show their usage in ...

Introduction:

For this paper, the two literally works selected are the road not taken and I used to live here once. The theme of symbolism of the journey will be analyzed for both pieces of literature. Below is a critical analysis that compares and contrasts how the theme has been portrayed in both works.

Road Not Taken:

The poem Road Not Taken by Robert Frost was published in 1916. It has been described as one of the best known poems worldwide. The setting of the poem is unique; it immediately engages the reader and captures their attention from the start. It is one of ...

As a little boy of 9, Hannibal was begging his father, General Hamilcar Barca, to take him around on his campaigns in Spain, but before Hamilcar accepted to fulfil this childish wish of his son, he had him solemnly swear of eternal hatred towards Rome. Hannibal’s remarkable physique, bravery, endurance and his willingness to share all war hardships with his troop, saw him win his first laurels as a young officer under the command of Hasdrubal, Hamilcar’s son-in law and successor. General Hannibal (247-182BCE), quickly rose to become the greatest military leader ever in the history of the history ...

Just as Keats opens his poem ‘To Autumn’ by describing the abundance and intimacy with the sun, this summer autumn will be a season of mellow fruitfulness for me. When the word ‘Mellow Fruitfulness’ rings in my ears, I feel like it is something that people would say during a wine tasting I love the cool, yet not cold weather of this season of autumn. According to Edgar, ‘autumn winds blow colder than summer’ (Edgar, 1), and I believe I will enjoy it this time. Just as the fruitful harvests of the crops during this autumn, I have always loved the ...

In the medical environs, caregivers and families need to make various decisions concerning the health and care of patients. The approach of tackling these medical situations is often crucial which affirms the need for a bioethics mediator. Bioethics mediation is an integrated medical process involved in resolving dilemmas on the proper ethical procedures in health care institutions. It requires a bioethics mediator with skills in interpersonal communication, dispute resolution, listening and emotional intelligence who is responsible for assisting health practitioners, patients and families resolve their disagreements. In the case study, although an agreement was reached at the end, the bioethics mediator ...

Fitness is a term with many definitions all of which are interrelating. One of the definitions I that it is the state of being well, with the ability to take part in physical exercises and have low risk of problems relating to health. Another definition is the characteristics people get or achieve and are in relation to taking part in physical activities. Fitness is important for human health as it increases body’s efficiency as well as effectiveness and it is through enough rest, good exercise and proper nutrition which result to quality life. Physical fitness through exercises improves ...

The event started with a Pasodoble named Amparito Roca. Though the performance was good, it was slow and failed to impress me. But it wasn’t long before my disappointment evaporated and it was the second performance of the event that sparked the show. The performance in true sense set the tone for the rest of the show. The song named ‘Autumn Solliloquy’ by James Barnes wasn’t familiar to me. But I felt an instant and intense connection to the starting music of the song. The talent that James Barnes was blessed as a composer and lyricist was well on ...

Tone

The tone of this piece is the author’s concern with life and death. Her voice is personal, describing the world she observes with wonder and interest. The tone is not introspective, but instead has an external focus, viewing the wider world with a tone that suggests its impersonal yet implacable nature. Although the Woolf attempts to describe with detachment, her tone cannot remain so as she witnesses the life and death of the moth. Whether or not she wants to be, her tone is one of captivation by this example of life and death. Additionally, there is a tone of ...

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a new environment for creativity as expatriates in Europe, Williams lived a remarkably conventional life. A doctor for more than forty years serving the New Jersey town of Rutherford, he relied on his patients, the America around him, and his own ebullient imagination to create a distinctively American verse. Often domestic in focus and "remarkable for its empathy, sympathy, its muscular and emotional identification with its subjects," Williams's poetry is also characteristically honest: "There ...

Analysis of the poem: “My Thatched Roof Is Ruined by the Autumn Wind”

In “My Thatched Roof Is Ruined by the Autumn Wind”, Tu Fu (also called Du Fu) attempts to depict the impact of rough and destructive nature on the poor in a sympathetic tone. In doing so, he starts with a detailed portrayal of the damage done to the roof of the speaker’s house following boisterous “autumn” “wind”. Then the poem’s tone gowns further as the speaker admits his helplessness facing children’s mockery and plunder. And as he goes into his home seeing his son sleeping under a leaking roof, the speaker’s sorrow becomes deeper. Thus, he ends the ...

Short Story – Margaret Jams

Two little girl scouts made their way down the quite neighbourhood street, dragging a rickety wagon behind them. Its wheels squeaked on every rotation, burdened by the dozens of boxes of cookies. The girls very in a cheerful spirit, singing songs that children often sing, skipping after every step of two they took. It was a sunny day, yet the sun seemed a little dim, its light and warmth touching the earth, but not quite. Autumn was stirring, causing leaves to waft down from the drying branches of trees. The song of the girls, the beat of their steps, their intermittent giggling, and ...

Introduction

Fashion forecasting mainly focuses on upcoming trends and how they may impact the fashion industry. A fashion forecaster is charged with the responsibility of predicting the colors, styles and fabrics to be presented on the runway or in the stores for upcoming seasons. This concept is applicable to all levels in the fashion industry and covers quite a number of activities. Trend forecasting on the other hand is the overall process which may focus on other industries not related to the fashion industry. The main aim of a fashion forecaster is therefore to attract customers and help the retail business owners ...

Introduction

The fashion industry is mainly about trends which are usually very dynamic. Trend is a very important aspect of the fashion industry and fashion designers need to ensure that they are always up to date as far as the latest trend is concerned. Since fashion trend and fashion forecasting in the fashion industry is a very important aspect, it needs to be given a lot of attention since they literally drive the apparel industry and ensure its success. The existence of a trend is not very important. The trend needs to be reported so that people can be well conversant with it so ...

Solstice occurs twice a year when the sun is at the highest or the lowest point as seen from the poles. Solstices mark the beginning of summer and winter in the southern and the northern hemisphere. This phenomenon occurs when the earth’s axis is tilted towards or away from the sun’s rays. The occurrence has an impact on the amount of daylight experienced in different parts of the planet. Solstices occur twice in a year; around June 21 and December 21. These seasons are opposite because Winter solstice in one Hemisphere is the Summer Solstice in the other Hemisphere. ...

The first pre-historic dynasty of the Chinese Civilization was known to be Xia (2100 BC-1600 BC), who believed in the myths of Pangu and presumed that mythological rulers like Huang Di, Yao and Shun taught the ancient Chinese the art of communication and survival. The excavations made in the 20th century at early bronze-age places like Anyang in the Henan Province revealed the prehistoric texts and urban civilization of Shang Dynasty and confirmed the existence of Xia.

The Shang dynasty (1700 BC-1027 BC) was founded by a revolutionary leader after conquering over the last Xia ruler. Anyang, was the capital ...

The reasons can be generalized into; Home, community and biology. There is a relationship between prenatal exposure and emotional behaviors. The causes of the aggressiveness may be a result of depression and mood disorders. The combination of parental neglect and inconsistent expectations may have shaped this behavior. Lack of socialism in the child’s life has led to the anti-social behavior. Early intervention is critical since it is easy to teach the child at this stage (Nelson, Benner and Mooney, 2008). The mother should stop using the drugs in his presence. She should introduce him to peers, age mates and relatives. ...

In these recollections from his two years living in Botswana, Sher recounts moments and describes images from the daily life in a remote village there. His message that comes through from his writings is that although he clearly loved the “timeless” nature of life there, he was always an outsider in his adopted village of Bobonong. Though he says that he almost never felt homesick for his family home and birthplace in Montreal, Canada, and loved the village where he says “I could have stayed forever”, he describes himself as perceived by the villagers to be “someone in the audience, a ...

The Great Depression started around 1929 and lasted until the early forties. It was a critical economic depression which effected much of the world, in the time leading up to the second world war. It was the lengthiest, most prevalent, and profoundest depression in the whole of the Twentieth Century. The causes of the Great Depression were manifold. Many attribute it to the massive stock market crash that occurred in 1929. Furthermore, bank failures, a reduction in public spending and purchasing and the American policy with Europe concerning the economy all played their part in the depression. The Great Depression differed ...

In “Ode to Autumn,” what is the State of Mind of the Poet?

The theme of the Romantic Period is nature; John Keats is one of the famous poets of this era. In his poem “Ode to Autumn” that has appeared in more anthology than any of his other poems; he uses imagery, word choice, and structure to express the speaker’s state of mind.

“Ode to Autumn” is Keats’ last ode. He wrote it after an autumn’s Sunday evening walk while he was staying in Winchester. “He was alone at Winchester, rejoicing in perfect September weather and in a mood more serene and contented than he had known for long or ...

Introduction

Unattainable love is something that all of us have experienced at some point in our life. It is both a painful and learning experience, and a subject that has inspired numerous artists both in literature and in the visual arts. It has also urged many to become better persons, although there are also others who choose to just give up in despair.

One of the most beautiful ways of expressing the sorrow, despair, and frustrations that come with unattainable love is through the art of literature. In this regard, this paper reviews three prose and three poems that dwell on the ...

"The Necklace" narrates the story of Mrs. Madame Loisel, a charming and pretty lady and her husband Charles. Loisel had always imagined herself with wonderful jewels and in a high social position. However she was married to a poor clerk with a low salary. She had nothing to show off to her friends but her husband tried his level best to make her happy. As a quest of making her happy her husband begged at the work place to be given invitations to the party that was held by the ministry of public instruction. However, Loisel refused to attend the party by claiming she ...

The author of “The Swimmer” uses place, and sensory details of place, to highlight the happenings and the theme within the story. Mainly, through the use of pools and details of season change, Cheever allows the reader into the world of Ned.

In “The Swimmer” the author inundates readers with details from Neddy’s life: in the opening paragraph alone he speaks of the church, golf course, tennis court, and other examples (Cheever). Out of the smaller settings, perhaps the most significant to the story are the pools through which he swims.

The pools in which Neddy swims as ...

Religion forms a fundamental part of a community. One of the major religions in China is Confucianism founded by Kung Fu-tse, a Chinese sage. The name ‘Confucius’ is the Latin name for Kung Fu-tse. Confucianism not only exists in China but has also in Korea and Japan. Additionally, nearly 26,000 people in North America strongly belief in Confucianism. Research has shown that the religion has more than six million followers around the globe. Unlike other World religions, followers of Confucianism believe neither in the existence of a supreme being nor in life after death. Owing to this, many people argue that it ...

Abstract

Photovoltaic (PV) systems are one of the next generation’s renewable energy sources for our world energy demand. PV modules are highly reliable. However, in polluted environments, over time, they will collect grime and dust. There are also limited field data studies about soiling losses on PV modules. The study showed how important it is to investigate the effect of tilt angle on soiling.

The study includes two sets of mini-modules. Each set has 9 PV modules tilted at 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 23, 30, 33 and 40o. The first set called "Cleaned" was cleaned every other day. ...

BACKGROUND OF HIM AND HER AUSTRALIA

Him and Her Australia (HHS) is an Australian-based clothing retailer that sells designer and upmarket fashion clothing to both men and women in Australia. They have a substantial slice of the Australian retail clothing market, having amassed billions of dollars in profit in the decade since they began operating. There are nearly 80 shops located throughout the country, which was expanded from an initial run of 15 shops in their first year of operation in 2001.

HHA’s clothing comes from designer labels and outfits; there is an eclectic combination of younger Sydney-based designers, and classic Italian designs. Accessories are ...

Abstract

Global warming remains by far the biggest challenge humans have faced in this century. It affects the entire planet although not the entire plane is to be blamed for it. The emission of greenhouse gases and particularly carbon dioxide has been at all-time peak in this century especially the last half of the century. Studies show that the current concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is about 385 ppm, up from 285 ppm prior to industrialization. This has sparked an unstoppable change in the climate patterns in the world. The changes are mostly with regard to the precipitation ...

In his short-story “Early Autumn”, Langston Hughes manages to convey the idea that many writers need endless scores of pages to write. In just over a page the reader is put face to face with the problem of simply setting time aside to spend it with those who are close and dear for you. This universality of the story helps draw attention to the moral of it and opens up for the reader the message that the writer is sending forth. Everything in the short-story works together: the title, the setting, and the characters. Not much attention is draw ...

The name Edgar Allan Poe is synonymous with literary horror: his works such as “The Pit and The Pendulum” and his “Murders in the Rue Morgue” short-stories collection have managed to intrigue, woo and horrify readers for decades. His dark, suspenseful imagery has a distinctive style with its focus on the macabre and the slightly twisted. Poe is a master at creating horror without the need for graphic violence and gore, a talent which has long since been lost on today’s modern horror writers. “The Pit and the Pendulum”, for example, demonstrates a build-up of horror through an air of potential misery ...