Essays on Excerpt

Introduction

Homage to Catalonia is a book authored by George Orwell. The author details his memoirs of the author during the Spanish civil war. The book details the first hand information of the civil war. Orwell did not arrive in Catalonia until late in 1936. Orwell spend tome fighting Franco during the winter of 1936. He made his way to the Catalan capital in 1937 before the commencement of street fighting. His return to the battlefront was interrupted by the injury from a bullet fired by a sniper. The Marxist Party for which he fought had been suppressed which led ...

Amy Cornell in the excerpt titled Fiscal Independence and the College Experience makes strong persuasive arguments regarding the eminent discrepancies in law in relation to the definition of financial independence and goes ahead to describe her struggles in college to make ends meet. She narrates her ordeal from early childhood, having to put up with financial struggles given her mother was an elementary school teacher and his dad an electrician running a mini-shop in the neighborhood. From the onset, she knew that her parents could not support her through college and she had to maneuver through the odds to ...

Summary of the Content

The book that is the subject of this paper is entitled Debt: The First 5,000 Years. This book was published in 2011 by book author and anthropologist David Graeber. As the name implies, much of the content was focused on debt. It, however, tackled the said topic in relation to other social institutions and practices such as marriage, friendship, barter, law, religion, slavery, economics, and government management. By putting the topic in line with the very factors that make up human life and society, he basically showed that he considers debt has played an important part in it. ...

True Love Unites: The Final Romantic Word in Carver’s “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love.”

Raymond Carver is one of the authors who have explored one of the perspectives on love. In the short story “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love”, Carver explores the ideas of different people when they talk about love. There is a need to focus on certain elements as they are crucial to the understanding of the short story. One such element is the elusiveness of love. The fact that people have different definitions of love, or will find fault in one other’s definition of love is testament of this characteristic. This is evident in the ...

Love is arguably one of the most discussed topics in the social realms. Love is not just a preserve for the social circles. Scholars in the academic realm have explored various dimensions of the subject. Carver is one of the authors who have explored one of the perspective of love. In the short story, What We Talk about When We Talk about Love, Carver explores the ideas of different people when they talk about love. There is a need to focus on certain elements as they are crucial to the understanding of the short story. One such element is ...

Upon reading Jerri Cook’s excerpt, it appears to be anecdotal. It is a funny piece wherein she pokes fun at herself for her own actions, as she succumbs to the whims of society. The Excerpt also has serious undertones, allowing Cook to mention how we have shifted from a society that lets children grow and be who they are, to a society who fosters a sense of constant danger born out of the necessity to sell more things like safety equipment and antidepressants. There is too much information for it to be a simple thesis statement, and a ...

Ideology in Allen Ginsberg’s “America” and “Sunflower Sutra”

Ideology is a very important topic as it relates to literature. Literature is one of the primary methods in which people that perhaps are not within the mainstream of culture, politics and society employ to question hegemonic power structures. Dominant power structures are often posed primarily as the synthesis of modernity, objective reality, logocentrism, patriarchy, white supremacy and capitalism, which are often cited in shorthand as “imperialism.” The United States, after the Second World War the period in which Allen Ginsberg and the other beat generation writers were most active was arguably the point in world history in which ...

Question I

The Way of the World is an English play written by William Congreve. The play’s story is centered on the affair between two lovers Mirabell and Millamant. Both of whom were in love with each other. For most of the scenes in the play, they were planning for their future married life. In the presented excerpt from The Way of the World, love was presented in a unique way. The presented text centered on the plans of the two after their wedding. To be more specific, they were planning what to call and what not to call each ...

Question one4

SWOT analysis for Primark.4 Strength4 Weakness.4 Opportunity..4

Threat5

Question 1b..5

Question two6

Motivation6 Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.6 Herzberg’s Two-factor theory..6

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Marketing.7 Primark Marketing Mix8 Price.8 Product.8 Place.8 Question five9 Demand and price9 Quality..9

Question seven10

How globalization drivers affect Primark..10

Cost Drivers10

Government Drivers..10

Technological Drivers11

Market Drivers11 7b. The most Important Drivers (Technological drivers) .11 References..12 Question One 1. a) SWOT Analysis for Primark Strength The primary strength Primark enjoys is a large market. Primark has already concurred most of the European market and is expanding in the United States market. A large market is strength since it provides Primark with a large base of ...

Introduction

In his widely read piece of work, The Protestant ethic and the spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber defines the problem he intends to pursue in part one of the book; he tries to establish the link between the general ideals of capitalism and the ethical issues that underlie Protestants. He discusses, in broad terms, the empirical evidence that defines economic prowess of the Protestants as compared to Catholics and also postulates theories from such evidence.

Religious Affiliations and Social Stratifications

In this part of his problem identification and statement, Max Weber looks at the economic differences in the society and tries to compare this ...

The French sociologist Émile Durkheim can be considered, with recognized authority, the main constructor of the modern social science, as we know it, as well as a sculptor of ideas, who chiseled the masterpiece of modern Sociology, creating a totally differentiated and unique field of science, not to be confused with other thought currents, like Philosophy or Anthropology, which were subjects Durkheim was rather versed on as well. However, can we proclaim that he influenced contemporary culture to the point of establishing the path it would follow to meet modernity with a new perspective? I certainly believe Sociology owes ...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the traditional institution of trade and economics among the Trobriand Islanders. The primary focus is on the symbolic interpretation of the acts involved in the kula ring and in yam production, display and distribution. The first section of the paper explains the kula ring and how it operated in Trobriand society at the time of the first ethnographic description of the Trobrianders by Malinowski in 1914. The second section examines how social hierarchy is expressed in trade within the kula ring. The third section looks at the difference between symbolic gift ...

Introduction

The way of speaking or writing is important for communication. The message in any literary piece is not just contained in the text only but also the presentation of the text. In the same respect, the message in a verbalized text is not just contained in the words only but also in how the words are verbalized. The analysis of conversations entails the evaluation of the language used by the notion that the use of language by the people involved in the conversation is meant to inform the other person of the intentions that one had in speaking (Heritage ...

The excerpt provided has reflected the life in New York City as challenging especially to the girls who are leaving home at the age of eighteen. From the excerpt, it is easy to note the different forces that are present in the city that can help the girl become either better or worse. The forces may seem appealing and attractive but in reality, the forces may be misleading. The excerpt also shows the city to be having human beings who have hidden agenda but present themselves as people who are willing to help others. Life in the city is ...

Introduction

Energy is a key driver of any nation’s economy. The extent to which it contributes to the performance of all activities surrounding the human life is beyond measure. This is because energy contributes almost fully to the economic development of the economy. In its physical form, energy is classified either as renewable or non-renewable. Renewable energy forms the green energy that can be reused again and is less toxic to the environment. On the other hand, non-renewable energy is exploited once it’s used and mostly pollutes the environment. All this energy forms can be either used directly ...

For the discussion, the excerpt from the film ‘Dead Poets Society’ has been chosen. It depicts the studying process of the group of students who read aloud the piece of poetry and make own conclusions regarding it. Students in late adolescence encounter the meeting with the teacher, who tried sharing the concepts of understanding the poetry and making own conclusions upon it, changing students’ lives. The scene portrays the teacher, who asks to read a piece of the poem and asks questions regarding it. The majority of students are concerned as, frankly speaking, they have not experienced much in ...

Comparison of W.H. Auden and John Dryden One of the differences in the stylistic choices of the two poets is the use of rhyme. In his elegy, John Dryden employs a rhyme scheme after every two sentences throughout the poem.

Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, While his young friend perform'd and won the race. O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more?. (Dryden) As seen in the first six lines of the poem, every two sentences maintain the same rhyme scheme. John Dryden employs an intricate and deliberate choice of words ...

My client is the Manager of a computer maintenance company. One of his junior employees did not follow a maintenance instruction manual given, due to which the customer’s data got completely wiped out and he suffered huge losses. The customer wants to sue my client for breach of contract due to negligence of the employee, committed in the course of employment. Can my client argue that it is only the junior employee who is liable and not the employer himself? Support with recent UK case law if there is no Indian case law on the matter.

What is the crux of the matter?

Legal Issue ...

The title of this book is “The Goal” written by Eliyah M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox, written in the year 1984 it is ranked among the America’s Business Best seller novel. It also has included an interview with David Whitford; this book is a Narrative non-fiction or a personal narrative. The genre of this book is based on the tense with which this book is written and employment of first person narrative. The writer is also feted for other works such as, It’s not luck, Critical Chain and Necessary but not sufficient. The writer sales standing in ...

A look into the work of Fredrick Douglass and Robert Browning shows that the society around them heavily influences their work. While Douglass concentrated on larger social issues such as slavery and false use of religion, Browning looked into the interpersonal relationships of members of their societies. A common aspect of both writings, however, is the social critique that the two writers engage in. Through their work, they attempt to point out at the evils they see in their society, with the hope that their criticism will help change the situation . Fredrick Douglass, in his poem, a parody, analyzes ...

Canon Doyle’s version of characterization is entwined with social issues, especially with regards to relationships. The time and the context of Doyle’s stories gives a critical, yet contrasting relationship developed between male and female partners. Thus, the concept of sexually comes in, and Doyle is keen to express this concept through his stories involving Sherlock Holmes and his acquaintances. However, this concept would hold a different social paradigm in the modern society, as Sherlock’s nature would be interpreted otherwise. Asexuality is defined in Sherlock’s stories as lack of taste, mood, or interest in women and ...

1.0 Introduction In the recent past, inequality has greatly increased in the United States. Arguably, the inequalities are occurring because the country has become a democracy where the majority and the rich use their power to block the attainment of equality. What essentially instigates inequality? History shows that inequality is as a result of differences in income, wealth distribution, and other social privileges acquired by virtue of societal status. Ideology, in this case, refers to the current underlying school of thought that sustains such levels of inequality among people of different races, ethnicities, and income levels among others. This ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” presents the consequences of crime the ways in which persons accept the punishment for their crimes. The author explores the psychology of the criminal and presents the excerpt in a pensive tone. The narrator reveals that Raskolnikov accepts his punishment and reflects on the events of the last year and a half. Raskolnikov is forced to deal with the guilt that torments him as he sits in his jail. He has been honest and admits to his crime. The selection is important as it marks reveals the foundations of the novel and gives ...

Plato, Descartes and the Matrix.

The movie The Matrix, The allegory of the Cave by Plato and Descartes ‘Meditation have striking similarities as well the differences. All the three convey the idea that our world and life are just but an illusion. All the works also question the relationship that exists between our senses and reality. The three works attempt to question the reality in which we live. The authors feel that this seeming reality might be controlled by an external force that our senses might not decipher. Plato, Descartes and the Matrix were pursuing what is true reality, away from ...

Introduction:

Thesis: Whitewashing has become rampant in Hollywood movies and is beginning to reflect negatively on the American society. Body Paragraphs: I. Whitewashing in recent movies. A. Examples from movies that have been released in the past years. 1. The Last Air Bender 2. Prince of Persia 3. Argo 4. Cleopatra 5. Othello 6. Warm Bodies 7. A Mighty Heart II. Why Hollywood continues to use white actors to play Asian Americans in movies. Most of the time, this leads to them performing a racist and stereotypical role. A. Movie examples of white actors and actresses playing Asian Americans. 1. ...

Abstract

A conversation between the individuals not only discloses the exchange of information but also divulges other aspects of personalities of the partners. One of the most important revelations is the attitude of the people towards their partner. The utterances of the conversational associates clearly indicate the comfort level in the relation. By doing a discourse analysis, one can easily find out the behavioural pattern of the participants, as indicated by the stance indicators.

Introduction (Stance and Stance Indicators)

Stance is the attitude displayed by the speaker towards the topic of conversation in a particular situation. By carefully examining a talk, stance is expressed by ...

The film is an embodiment of life overtaking events encountered in the aftermath of the Sino-Japanese war. The Dai family remains the most adversely affected by the war and their ever prosperous family now is on the brink of collapse as Liyan wallows in hopelessness while pondering the events of the war and its ruining impacts on the family. It is indisputable that emotional concerns still linger in the minds of Liyan and Yuwen despite several years of the emotional lowdown (Daruvala 171-187). Their marriage has been immensely affected by the ponderous adversity inflicted by the disastrous war. The ...

Annie Dillard’s “An American Childhood” is the author’s memoir of her growing up in Pittsburg. The excerpt under consideration dwells on the mother of the family. Dillard relates about some specific features of her mother’s character and on peculiar ways through which Mother would express herself. Dillard gives numerous examples illustrating her mother’s extraordinary ability to call in question everything around, puzzle people she encountered, check all the things she learnt and used. Mother could play a scene in front of some lovers in the park making them quarrel, or she could cheat in cards ...

The common standards of English learning in the United States dictate that learners are required to read and understand complex informational and literary texts proficiently and independently. The complicated texts limit the ability of the English students to grasp details easily. The reading procedure needs high-level processing to comprehend the literature. The type of processing assumes that the pupil can direct all his or her attentional resources to the component skills. Most of the abilities are carried out automatically until a challenge arises or the resources are not found. This article conceptualizes on the reasons a passage might appear ...

Civilization and Its Discontents

The excerpt looks into the illusion of man and religion as per the rules set upon them and how well one knows their religion. The excerpt is an expansion of Freud’s previous work, Future of an Illusion, where he talks more about religion and his thoughts about them including its variations. According to Freud, he has a problem contemplating the religious concept that doctrines provide and promise. For instance, most doctrines believe in the compensation of human beings in heaven for the things that occurred while on earth. He labels these thoughts as Providence and sees them as ...

“"Pulpete," said the taller, "now that we are going to meet each other, knife in hand—you here, I there,—one, two,—on your guard,—triz, traz,—have that,—take this and call it what you like—let us first drain a tankard to the music and measure of some songs."

"Señor Balbeja," replied Pulpete, drawing his face aside and spitting with the greatest neatness and pulchritude towards his shoe, "I am not the kind of man either for La Gorja or other similar earthly matters, or because a steel tongue is sheathed in my body, or my weasand ...

The book Gulliver’s Travel is a parody of science fiction. The witty dialogues and storyline created a subtle plot that mocks the vices human behavior. It deals with political ambitions of man, physical attributes, intellectual and moral aspects. As such, this story is a comedy masterpiece that tackles about stupidities of humanity. Mainly, the whole storyline was a satire itself, inspired by Swift’s pitiful social life. During his time, England was ruled by two opposing political parties of Tories and Whigs.

His father was an Englishman who died upon his birth, after that his own mother abandoned him. He solely became ...

Introduction

There are different levels that a person must undergo for the person to be a highly qualified writer. The skill of writing entails understanding the different requirements that a writer must put into action when writing of the different genres that a particular language has. The more a writer is exposed to different experiences and reviews, the more qualified and precise the writer will be. Writing academic essays entails learning the different requirements that a person needs in expressing ideas and thoughts into written form. There are ways that are applied by the writers so as to present their ideas in the most elaborate manner. ...

Deborah Root’s excerpt, Conquest, Appropriation, and Cultural Difference, and Olive Senior’s Mediation on Yellow poem present the same message about the plight of native nations in Canada. Canada, formerly a British colony, is home to many native nations that have over the years been conquered, displaced, and suffered in the hands of immigrants who came into the country. Despite the feudal past that characterizes the history of these tribes, it is apparent from both the poem and the excerpt that native nations of Canada continue to be discriminated against and being taken advantage of. Both Root’s and ...

In “Idiot Nation,” Michael Moore discusses the condition of the education system in the United States, and what according to him is the reason behind its deterioration. According to Moore, Education in the United States is failing because there are not enough qualified teachers, and because of elected leaders. He believes that political leaders throughout the United States are not focused enough on improving the educational system. Moore finds it ironic that politicians complain about the America’s set-back in the educational aspect, when it is they who are refusing to finance education. According to Moore, there ...

Abstract

Geology has evolved into a very imperative discipline of science. Humankind's dependability on geology is clearly reflected by the changing attitudes towards the same. The following article provides a glimpse of the changing mindsets and beliefs regarding Geology, and how the science itself is not seen merely as a subject but as a strong platform to discover the truths about the Earth's existence and its parallel effects on humankind.

Geology is a field that studies the Earth its formation and the process involved and includes sciences such as mineralogy, geodesy and stratigraphy. Right from minerals, precious stones and gems, volcanoes to the solar ...

The awareness to the semantic knowledge is informed by the ability to control, understand and manipulate particular strategies in writing. My ability to revise the documents The Psychology of Writing, Ways of Knowing and Upcoming Visit to Sunny San Diego were informed by the knowledge around the process of narrative writing. The declarative, conditional and procedural principles in the Upcoming Visit to Sunny San Diego reflects a revision reflecting the communicative context that stresses on the functional task of communication. This is succinctly illustrated in the quote that was edited to address the role, imagery and designs of the visit. “ ...

Education has always been said to be the key to a healthy and prosperous life. I have had the opportunity to pursue both formal and informal education. In both forms, I have been able to draw not only practical guides on life and experience valuable for a career but also discern ethical and moral teachings that I now use as a guide to better citizenship and mental health. In this paper, I reflect on my education by reviewing and comparing it to Malcolm X’s education as it is portrayed in the excerpt “Learning to Read” from his seminal work The Autobiography ...

Overview

Balanced literacy involves language arts acquisition using a program consisting of word study, small strategy groups, and interactive read aloud, along with shared, independent, and guided reading. These essential components help a learner to understand written and spoken communication by emphasizing on reading, writing, listening, speaking, and viewing. Literacy is an important aspect everyday activities and modern social networks emphasize this, people cannot “Tweet” and comment if they do not write. Yet even with increasing trends in globalization some children are more advanced, and some need to learn solutions to their education challenges. Balanced literacy instruction supports students’ need by ...

Abstract

The use of affective technologies has been seen to be the solution to the development of intimate relationships between connected individuals in social networks. This will increase the way people interconnect. This development will give a way in which humans will eliminate loneliness and enhance the devices that can be used for connectedness. With this development, there will be optimized health and well-being of people because they are now able to communicate with one another. This proposal will focus on how automatic communications quantity communications have on perceived intimacy in environments which have been mediated. The research will take a quantitative ...

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Introduction In the excerpt "John Wilkes Booth killed Lincolnbut who killed John Wilkes Booth?" Jesse Hicks probes the ever-so-more confounding mystery of the death of Lincoln’s assassin, the famous/infamous John Wilkes Booth.

Thesis

This paper details the account she posits in the aforementioned article - a factual delineation of the official version of the assassination, John Wilkes Booth’s alleged escape, arrest and murder, the speculation regarding the murdered man’s identity, an uncovering of hidden secrets, conspiracies and a forthcoming of the ‘unofficial’ version of history, the increasing interest in the case of historians on either side of ...

William Shakespeare is one of the most influential ancient writers. His books and plays have been used in the present time, in different scenarios including education and entertainment amongst several other considerations. However, it is notable that, in his famous The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare borrowed his storyline from several other plays including The Gesta Romanorum and Giovanni Fiorentino’s Il Pecorone. In these plays, several similarities are witnessed including characterization and thematic compositions as well as the storyline. In this paper, I will consider the excerpt from The Gesta Romanorum and compare the storylines, thematic compositions and ...

Introduction

Morality deals with distinguishing the difference between right and wrong. It dictates the actions and behavior of people; what they should do, and what they should not do. However, because of the diversity of the human conditions and cultures all over the world, there are many ways to perceive morality. These various ways are manifested in different moral theories. One of them is utilitarianism. This is the moral theory that we will be focusing on. The questions that this paper will now try to answer are: what is utilitarianism and is it a valid moral theory? In order to ...

Inert Name:

Introduction In the book of Romans, Paul looks at the theme that humans are lost without the gospel. The gospel in this case refers to the teaching contained in the first four books of the bibles new testament. These books are; Mathew, Mark, Luke and John. All these books have the same theme and shade light the life of Jesus Christ and his teachings on various topics. How Jesus was sent by the father to save the world from sin by paying the ultimate price of death. Though he was blameless and did not deserve to die like ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

‘Subject’ Should the US have stricter gun control laws? Guns have a special place in American history and Americans have always had a love for firearms. This love affair for guns started in the seventeenth century, when the early settlers were required to carry gun to protect themselves from Indian attacks. The ‘Kentucky rifle’ of the 1700s, Samuel Colt of the nineteenth century and WWII veterans bringing home their enemy guns as trophies are all symbols of the proud American past. However, the spate of recent mass shootings has called for a stricter regulation of gun ownership and distribution. The ...

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Background of the Study

A useful lesson to illustrate a major pedagogical theory in education involves a close reading lesson given in the ninth grade English class. Many high schools English teachers report that their students lack the skill of reading a passage, whether fiction or non-fiction, and successfully draw inferences and figurative meanings or even critically analyze the readings. These figurative meanings are crucial to understanding the rhetorical argument of the piece, making this a vital skill. Furthermore, writing is also as complex a learning activity as reading that fosters the act of critically arranging the words to make perfect sense.

Theoretical Framework

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Introduction

Children are basically in need of love and affection. The attention they get from people surrounding them invokes a distinct impact on how they develop as individuals. When it comes to issues of being abandoned and later on adopted by foster parents, children often find it a blessing to have good alternative choices of having a family; but the completion of one’s being does not pull through especially if the child begins to understand the reality of things and how all the said matters do impose on the overall identity of the child as he grows further into maturity. Practically, the ...

Guan Yunchang, the author of the play, was a general who served in the late Eastern Han dynasty under the warlord Liu Bei and had extraordinary qualities. Guan is highly respected as an epitome of righteousness and loyalty hence he is still worshipped by many Chinese people to date. People from southern China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other Chinese communities also worship Guan (Wilt & West, 2012, p. 105). Therefore, his literary work is viewed as one of the key contributors to the world’s literature today. A critical assessment of the play reveals various concepts such as characterization that are ...

The people of Omela suffer but they do not express their suffering in real terms. Instead, they choose to be happy and hold celebrations about their situation much as they also have things to mourn about. Celebration is the order of the day and people have chosen to accept and live this kind of life as it makes them feel better. There were no rules in the society and if they did exist they were very few (Le Guin 231). This denotes that they are responsible for their happiness and they do not need supervision to make sure that ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

‘Subject’ Gun control vs. gun right “We have to try and stop this. It will be a long journey involving the personal choices of individuals and families, public discussions, mental health reforms, a change in the culture – you name it.” “I want people to be afraid of the fact that this could happen to them. But it’s real. It doesn’t have to be understood to be real.” The above words were uttered by Peter Rodger, father of Elliot Rodger, who killed six people in Santa Barbara, and Peter Lanza, father of the Sandy Hook killer ...

There are different levels that a person must undergo to be a qualified writer. The skill of writing entails understanding different genres of literature and their characteristics and knowing how to make a good analysis of these literature pieces. The more a writer is exposed to different experiences and reviews, the more qualified and precise the writer will be. My interest in this class spiked after I checked information on the class online and found out that one of the themes that was going to be explored in this class was about Sherlock Holmes. I have to admit that I have leant a lot ...

Czeslaw Milosz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, was a Polish writer who emigrated to the United States. He lived and taught in the United States for over forty years, from 1960 until his death in 2004, at age ninety-three He is best known as a poet, but he also wrote many books of nonfiction. A recurrent theme in his work is concerned with the struggle of an individual to maintain humanity in a world of senseless brutality. The piece of his writing entitled “American Ignorance of War” is a small excerpt from his nonfiction book, The Captive Mind. That ...

"Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did. They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of King Tching-thang to this effect: "Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again." I can understand that. Morning brings back the heroic ages. I was as much affected by the ...

An excerpt from the main book Manufacturing Consent (Pantheon, 1988) indicates a recognition of the functions of the mass media to communicate messages and assist familiarize the populace with values and beliefs that will help integrate them into the society at large. This role, as pointed out in this excerpt, is not possible without ‘systemic propaganda’. Media is controlled monopolistically and censored for being politically incorrect whenever their reports are not in sync with the positions held by the elite, who are strategically positioned to decide how the society operates. In an interview with various interviewers in 1992, Noah ...

Ludwig van Beethoven: Icon and Individual Summary

Regarded as one of the iconic composers of classical music, Louis Van Beethoven was born in 1770 in the city of Bonn, Germany. He is a son of a tenor and began his musical training at an early age. Under the training of Herr Neefe, Beethoven learned to play the clavier where his career as a musician officially started. After arriving in in Vienna in 1787, Beethoven met Mozart where the latter remarked that the former would sure to create a name for him self in the world. Anecdotes of Beethoven’s life and career suggest that he was able to establish his ...

Introduction

The concept of design thinking has been fronted as one of the most effective ways of solving organizational problems in the recent past. The term design thinking is however not new. In a 1969 book titled ‘The sciences of the artificial’ Herbert Simon, an American political scientist and professor at the Carnegie Mellon University distinguished critical thinking as the breaking down of ideas and noted that a design mode of thinking is a way of ‘building up’ of ideas and this is the foundation of this term, design thinking. In this book, Herbert defined design as the transformation of the existing conditions ...

Inniskillin is the brand product of Mr. Roger Provost. Icewine on the other hand is an alcoholic drink, mainly made as dessert and was created when grapes are frozen and pressed whilst in this particular state (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008). The main ingredients that give rise to this wine are the extracts, acids, and sugar which result in dessert wine when the frozen grapes are pressed (Jones G and Hirasawa J, 2007). The first production of this iconic product took place in Franconia, Germany. It then went on to be produced in Eiswein, still in Germany but also ...

The Prince is Machiavelli’s account of how Princes or Rulers should behave and treat their subjects, while Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier is an account of how subjects should behave while in their masters’ quarters. Niccolo Machiavelli begins this excerpt (Chapter 15) of his book with a discussion on how a prince is expected to behave. He acknowledges the fact that other writers have written about this before; but he is undeterred to bring forth a more practical and less theoretical perspective on the rules a prince should follow in his life (Machiavelli 530). On the other hand, Castiglione’s ...

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An essay comparing the book "The picture of Dorian Gray" to “Stavrogin's Confession” by Fyodor Dostoevsky excerpt in "The Evil and the Guilty". An essay comparing the book "The picture of Dorian Gray" to “Stavrogin's Confession” by Fyodor Dostoevsky excerpt in "The Evil and the Guilty" (Sackett, GreatBooksAll.htm). The two novels ‘The picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde and “Stavrogin's Confession "(Woolf-Stavrogin) by Fyodor Dostoevsky are the remarkable pieces of literature. However, the prime difference between the two is that of structure and style. The novel "The picture of Dorian Gray" is the only published novel ...

Book review; ‘Grief’

As the title suggests the excerpt revolves around grief. Grief is a situation of deep sorrow and devastation, which may come from loss. This loss takes different forms; it could be loss of a relative, friend or colleague through death and failure to accomplish goals among others. Despite the many sources of grief, there is always one big characteristic of grief-sadness befalls. Joan Didion explores the nature of grief and mourning as she borrows a lot from personal life experience. The author of this passage tries to cope with the death of her husband .She displays how grief can be devastating to ...