Essays on Benna

Introduction

In today’s business environment, many people feel the need to become an entrepreneur versus following the status quo. But this decision does not work for everyone as there are people who start a business; however, the business fails for any number of reasons. According to Carmody (2015), 96 percent of businesses fail within 10 years. An entrepreneur is a special individual who must possess special knowledge and traits in order to ensure the success of the business. One successful entrepreneur is Richard Branson; who is considered one of Britain’s highest profiled billionaires. Mr. Branson created a conglomerate ...

Jamaica Kincaid, an Antiguan-American novelist, wrote the short story under consideration. It presents one paragraph, which is really a flow of advice the mother gives to her daughter. The pieces of advice are separated with either semicolons or commas, while stops are completely absent. The end of the text is left open as it finishes with a question mark. Interestingly, the long list of the mother’s advice is interrupted twice with her daughter’s remarks highlighted by italics. Overall, the text produces quite an unusual effect due to the extraordinary punctuation. Therefore, the list of advice, the main ...

Girl by Jamaica Kinkaid

Girl is a short story that provides a mother’s instructions to her daughter. The instructions basically relate to issues such as good manners, household chores, cookery, social conduct, and relationships with men. Although the foregoing instructions seem challenging to the reader, the instructions are ultimately based on the parental efforts that are geared towards providing the girl-child with the necessary knowledge and skills to develop proper habits as they develop. All through the narrative, the mother accuses her daughter as concentrating on becoming a ‘slut’. Notably, the suspicion of the mother is not based on the behavior of the girl ...