Essays on Fate

In Homer’s The Iliad books 1-14, Hector is an example of the ultimate Trojan warrior, who is brave, honorable, and willing to die to protect his city. As the leader of his troops, he is responsible for the fate of Troy. At the beginning of the epic poem, he is portrayed as a caring and responsible leader. However, he becomes increasingly reckless and his bravery becomes a sign of his hubris. He blindly believes in the protection of Zeus, breaks social norms, is overconfident in battle, and becomes wounded fighting Ajax. Nevertheless, he is still a heroic character, ...

According to Blackpast.org, history of the African-American population on the territory of the future United States of America begins in 1494, when Christopher Columbus arrived in Hispaniola with the first Africans and continues to this day (Timeline Home Page). During this time, African-American population of the US has experienced both ups and downs, bearing all trials fate has presented. It is no secret that African Americans have to face with various attitudes depending on the sphere of life. Under the various attitude I mean the presence or absence of any advantages in such aspects of life as education, health ...

In the Gutenberg Elegies: The fate of reading in an electronic age, Birkerts describes his childhood and his love for reading that led to a desire to write later on in his adulthood. In the books second chapter; the paper chase, He offers an autobiographical experience as both a reader and a writer. He tells of how he loved to read very early in his life, taking after his mother who was an advent reader. He would get gripped by the book to extents of not leaving the house an attribute that his father resented in his son as ...

Sophocles’ classic tragedy Oedipus Rex demonstrates one of the most prominent and fascinating examples of a tragic hero in its protagonist, King Oedipus. When his city of Thebes falls under the spell of a mysterious plague, he embarks on an investigation to find out who killed the previous king and brought the curse on them. By the end, however, he finds that he himself killed the king in a series of circumstances – who also turned out to be his father. Throughout the play, Oedipus himself fights against a sense of destiny that has written his fate since childhood, Sophocles ...

Analysis of the Sophocles’ Oedipus the King

THESIS: In this paper, I am going to analyze the impact of fate and human behavior and actions in the development of action in the tragedy. I assume that, in spite of the fact that in the classical ancient Greek tragedy, everything must obey the will of the gods and the evil rock, in the tragedy of Sophocles' Oedipus the King, it can be observed a big role of free human will, which leads to a tragic end. The human factor influences to the unfolding of the plot of this tragedy and all the vicissitudes of fate are not ...

Writing that person it's more than just a product of heredity and environment, Frankl pointed out that people are gifted with the ability to shape themselves and their life experiences. The man is influenced by nature (heredity) as well as by nurture (environment). But as Frankl emphasizes, a person always has freedom of choice. People can choose how to deal with what nature and environment “offer” them. On the one hand, I find it difficult to agree with the statement that Frankl, that man - is more than just the result of genetic and environmental influences. I believe that ...

The fundamental question that the author of the novel “The Bridge of San Luis Rey”, Thornton Wilder places at the heart of the novel is: “either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan” (Wilder 7). In order to try to answer this question, one has to take a deeper look at the sequence of events described in this novel soak oneself in this story. The novel begins with the description of a terrible tragedy, a bridge destruction that took away lives of 5 people, of which Brother Juniper was ...

Introduction

When it comes to story-telling, many people emphasize the story part, instead of the telling one. Nevertheless, the manner in which a story is told can be very influential in its reception. In fact, many people would say that the story itself changes depending on the discourse that presents it. This came to the limelight in the end of the nineteenth century with the Modernist current. Authors such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf deliberately modified the way that stories were told. They utilized many techniques that allowed them greater range of expression, many of which were not even ...

The philosophical view on death and immortality has been based on different views and perceptions of human nature, human behavior and other factors such as the existence of supernatural beings and fate. The varying factors in the view of death mainly emanate from the existence of different cultures and societies which have different beliefs and perception on life and death. However, the main similarity in the varying views of death is the agreement on the inability of the body to remain in its active state. Regardless of this knowledge, cultures differ on the nature of the soul and spirit ...

Fate versus free will is a common theme in Greek tragedies. In many cases a person who tries to avert their predestined fate will set the pieces in motion that will inevitably lead to that fate. Laius and Jocasta from Oedipus are examples of this. On the other hand, you have characters like Prometheus, and Zeus, who knowingly put their own fates into motion bur want to avoid the consequences. Finally, you have Agamemnon and Cassandra who are resigned to their fates. In Prometheus Bound Zeus has ordered Hephaestus to bind the titan Prometheus to a rock as punishment ...

Abandoned to their Fate

Abandoned to their Fate The video is about the severely mentally retarded people, otherwise known as the ‘imbeciles,’ or the ‘idiots’. During the middle ages, there are some written documents about people with mental disability. They were either rejected by the community or were treated as entertainment by the public. The people with mental disability were locked inside the ‘idiot’ cage and were shown in the town center for public display. The most common case of people who are severely mentally retarded is their physical feature. In particular, their physical features were the source of entertainment because people back ...

Analysis / The Disney Cinderella as a modern feminist tale

Disney Cinderella movies are the favorite tale of children all over the world. However, studying the history of these films, it is possible to notice the changes between their gender stereotypes. Each subsequent film depicts an increasingly feminist history of poor Cinderella, who despite everything, continues to believe in a miracle. Charles Perrault's Cinderella was created to represent the post-war America a good poor girl, who with the help of her faith became a rich and happy princess. Unlike all the previous versions of Cinderella, in 2015 the happiness of the contemporary wretched girl depends not only on the ...

Book Review

ISBN: 0670033375, 9780670033379 There are many societal arguments that preoccupy modern American and worldwide issues affecting the globe today that have yet to be resolved. One of these arguments regards human society and its, largely negative, impacts on the planet. Global warming, air pollution, unclean water, as well as, environmental anomalies like drought, floods and diminishment of needed resources, like oil, are constantly being debated. As it stands, the many governments, like the United States, refuses to agree upon whether global warming even exists. If the problems are not being taken seriously or simply disregarded, then no solutions and ...

[Client’s name] [Institutional affiliations]Introduction The concept of love is ​​one of the few words that express almost absolute abstraction (along with the truth, god, and others). The fact that in the concept of love people put a different meaning is doubtless. However, the individual love has a right to exist, as the right to life and have a variety of psychophysical substance called man. There is hardly a man in years, claiming that he had never loved or even fall in love. Many want to love and to be loved themselves. In the course of a lifetime ...

“The Last Kiss” is an artwork created by the Chinese style Feng, depicting Chinese signs and a Chinese mother giving away her baby, which indicate that the action takes place in China. This essay will analyze the painting based on its subject, interpretation, style, context and emotion. The subject matter suggests a scene of a mother placing her baby in a baby box. The sign above the baby box, where the mother puts the baby indicates that there is an office, or an official institution that takes the baby from the mother. Next to the baby box, close to ...

In the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, the main character Willy Loman is a man in his 60’s. He is dressed in a drab coloured, ill-fitting suit. Willy shows early signs of dementia, as he spends much of the play having flashbacks or incorporating the past into present day situations. Through this the viewer learns much about Willy and his past. We learn that Willy is a salesman, who has had only minor success. Willy blames this on the fact that he is not well liked. This is due to the fact that Willy believes ...

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is one of the greatest American writers, who entered the history of world literature thanks to his wonderful novels about American life in the 1920s. Fitzgerald brought to literature, not only his talent, but also gave many people a part of himself through his art. He teaches the readers the mistakes of his life, mistakes of his generation, and they carefully heed this lesson. With his works, we can evaluate an entire generation, and through his talent of storytelling we live together with the characters of each story or novel. The main theme of his ...

Dear Sophocles,

I must begin by congratulating you for writing such an interesting play with many twists and turns. As the play unraveled, I could not help but wonder how long it took you to prepare the whole plot. What stood out for me was the nice interplay between characterization and themes. The use of stylistic devices was also crucial in developing the plot of the play. However, I was a little worried why you used a blind man to unravel a mystery (the killing of Laius) that no one else could understand. Was it your way of explicating sarcasm? Probably, ...

In Shakespeare’s, Macbeth, Macbeth is heralded as a heroic figure for having defeated his sworn enemy. In so doing, he shows is loyalty for his King, Duncan. The King, even calls him valiant and gives Macbeth his own title. Prior to this the audience, or reader, is already aware of the presence of the witches, as well as foreshadowed events that will eventually lead to Macbeth’s undoing. However, after the initial defeat of the enemy, and still basking in the glow of the King’s approval, Macbeth feels like a hero. Eventually the witches reveal Macbeth’s ...

One of the biggest questions in Shakespearean literature is: Who is responsible for Macbeth’s downfall? Some people see the witches as evil beings that turned Macbeth into a killer. I disagree. In Act I scene V Macbeth and Banquo come upon three witches, who tell Macbeth that he is going to become Thane of Cawdor and then King of Scotland. They also tell Banquo that he will beget kings, but will not be one. Right after this is said Macbeth is made Thane of Cawdor. After receiving this conformation of the witches’ prophecy being correct, Macbeth reveals in ...

Randall Kenan’s A Visitation of Spirits tells the story of Horace Cross, who is aged sixteen. Cross is plagued by problems that nag his impressionable spirit and sit in his mind in the form of loathsome demons. In one night, this climaxes into a horrible and tragic transformation. Reflecting on the fate of Horace, Reverend James Green (known as ‘Jimmy’) questions the values of the community in which they live and may have caused- even if by mere neglect- Horace’s fate. Jimmy focuses on the vicious cycle of poverty a community that hopes for the better, but ...

Even though the main story in “Paradise Lost” can be conceived to tragic, somewhat, it is a story of how Adam and Eve regain paradise. Book IX of the poem comes forth as the climax of the story in the poem and if at all Milton’s intention was to construct the poem as a tragedy, then the poem would have culminated at this point. However, Book X is introduced so as to give a resolution for the disobedience of Adam and Eve towards God. The regaining of paradise by Adam and Eve is manifested in the manner in ...

Visual Argument

Visual arguments are the quintessential form of conversing with the general masses with the claims, evidences and the assumptions and thus engage the people seeing the visual to the utmost degree. This picture in context was taken by a photographer named Kevin Carter and it depicts a child and a vulture in the land of Sudan. The photograph was taken as a document of the colossal calamity in the nation during a famine which left the world shocked by the extent of brutality of the nature and fate.

The photograph goes on to persuade the viewers to accept the idea that the famine ...

Dharma and destiny is that chapter, of the book ‘Thick Face Black Heart’, which answers the most important question of our life, which all of us have pondered at one point or the other: Is our fate pre-determined by a superior force, or is it a result of our own efforts? The author of the book, Chin-Ning Chu, lays equal emphasis on both identifying one’s destiny, and doing their present job with hard work and determination.

The chapter progresses with the author advocating the reader to both believe in his destiny and also advising him on the fruits of ...

Reputation as extremely important thing for some of Shakespeare’s characters. What Shakespeare might have been communicating to his audience about it?

Reputation is something which always have place in our world as it reflects the person`s alignment to the specific social group, its physical activities, educational background and origin as well as the position in the social hierarchy. It was present many thousand years ago as well as will be present in the far future. A lot of writers choose this topic for their masterpieces as one of the most important problems during people’s life ...

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The novel The Postman Always Rings Twice is an influential and notorious publication that revolutionized crime novels. The novel was influential due to the prominence of the themes of sex and violence making it provocative for the audience in the historical context. In order to comprehend the significance of the novel, it is crucial to explore the novel and the interpretations different perspectives.

There are several sources, which have analyzed the aforementioned novels. These sources give an in depth perspective of the work and its relevance to the literary world. These sources include reviews and interpretative pieces of ...

The proper order form of government offers one of the most effective forms of government. Under the proper order, the human interests, moral or material, reign supreme as compared to the other forms of government where the leaders protect their interests alone. Leadership protects and respects the people that gave them the power. Proper government is characterized by virtuous leadership in that leaders balance their interests and those of the people both in the short term and long run. Leadership if found at all levels of society and still offers virtuous leadership. ...

1) Is Al-Kindi a fatalist? Can his position be reconciled with Islam (and if so how)? Based on his writings and teachings, the essential message of Al-Kindi (the earliest known Islamic philosopher) is that of fatalism – in essence, that our lives are conditioned in detail by a series of facts that are immutable and unchangeable. Al-Kindi’s perspective, which he outlines in his teachings, is that we can do nothing to change these circumstances and events, even when they are uncomfortable and painful to us. However, he also argues that we have the capability of joyfully affirming these circumstances and ...

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 ...

Women of today are stronger. Their status is changing from the past to the present. Years ago, women are considered responsible only as wives. Simply listened to their husbands, became fulltime wives; they never enjoyed life and focused on how to serve their husbands, and no freedom to express themselves as women. Men believed that women have no right to pursue their career other than being homemakers and mothers; looked down by men. At present, women are more active in their role in the society, conscious about their status and they progress in view of their rights as well. ...

“In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it!” ~ (Anonymous, 2014)

Literature and other disciplines in Humanities fosters a sense of understanding regarding realities that discusses human experiences. From the definition of humanities and coining it from its root word “human”, it means can only originate from an aspect that entirely focuses on the aspect concerning human endeavors. True enough, humanities are a field of study that is involved in the pursuit of gaining understanding of concepts, principles and ideologies relating to human culture ( ...

Against the Gods: The remarkable story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein

People have always believed that no human being can go against the will of the gods. However, Peter Bernstein tries to explain how human beings have gone against all odds to beat the gods at their own game. In his book, ‘against the gods: the remarkable story if risk’ he tells the story of grasping risky opportunities to change the fate of the world. Peter narrates the story of a few scientists and their assistant amateurs who risked everything to bring the future to the present. What they discovered and invented aided the world with the necessary tools for foretelling ...

A merger is when two companies come together and become one by sharing the shares of the newly formed company. A merger can occur for a number of reasons but at the heart of it there are very sensitive issues that need be addressed. They are about more than just cutting down on costs and gaining market control; they are about improving the standards of the employees and the clientele (Richards Leigh, p67).

As a CEO of T mobile, you are expected to play very critical and important roles in the merger, this is because there is bound to be ...

1. In a clearly structured paragraph, identify (name) and define (explain) the Gestalt principles of visual perception discussed in Chapter 2 of the Johnson text. Cite Johnson in APA style.

Johnson (2010) suggests that visual perception operates on the so-called Gestalt principles, meaning that our vision automatically imposes structure to visual inputs received (p. 11). (Gestalt means “shape or “figure”). He states that the most important of those principles are “Proximity, Similarity, Continuity, Closure, Symmetry, Figure/Ground, and Common Fate” (p. 11).

- Proximity: Relative spacing between numbers of displayed objects determines how and whether we see a group. ...

The Bhagavad Gita and One Thousand and One Nights are two of the most important works of Eastern literature and philosophy; not only do they tell fascinating stories full of intrigue and entertainment, they also provide a degree of enlightenment and insight that is completely unlike anything seen in Western literature. Both stories handle the idea of storytelling and character, as well as plot structure, in extremely innovative ways, showcasing the ways in which unorthodox ways to tell stories can help to convey large ideas of faith, virtue and the universe. While the Bhagavad Gita relies centrally on one conversation ...

Issue 1- Ethics and Legal Environment

The situation that Arnold the CEO of gun manufacturing company found himself in is very critical. There are two conflicting and touchy issues that Arnold needs to give attention. It is an ethical dilemma situation that needs him to carefully weigh the options. There is a public outcry from the shareholders that Arnold must remove Mac from the Board of director of the company. It is challenging because the shareholders are the backbone of the company and whatever they demand must be attended to. Likewise, Arnold has to consider the profile of Mac, especially how much he has tried to ...

Introduction

Instructional design and technology has risen to be among the most sought after careers in the modern world today. This is because of the significance of the field of technology in most businesses and areas of work. It has been established that a proper utilization of technology enables an economical use of resources for any organization. This has led to an upwards trend of demand for instructional design technologists and specialists in the world of computer technology. For the purpose of this report, I have decided to explore the various available jobs in the field of instructional design and technology ( ...

It is always the desire of each person living to have a fulfilled life where they will live free of worries and anxieties. The steps towards such accomplishments are followed by various actions including working hard in life and even being nice to people. Everybody is usually looking for a secret towards success and once it is unveiled, everything will be done to ensure they get there. However, the definition of success defers from one person to the other and the level of hard work and commitment is not always the same. In an effort to achieve what somebody else has ...

The feeling of commiseration is entrenched in ancient philosophies and it is translated into the Christian fate through the potential for sensing compassion for other human beings (Elgie, 2007). This sensation is part of a nurse daily activity and Elgie (2007) explains how it was actually the compassion feeling that determined him to pursue a career as a nurse male, giving people hope, faith and most of all, bringing joy on their lives for finding their or their loved ones’ healing, just like Jesus Christ generated the happiness and gratitude of the individuals with various illnesses, out of kind-heartedness, and out of ...

Podolsky, S. H. (2005). The Changing Fate of Pneumonia as a Public Health Concern in 20th-Century America and Beyond. American Journal of Public Health, 95(12): 2144-2154. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.048397.

The article proposes the essence of understanding the history of pneumonia. The article covers historical data from the emerging awareness of the disease in 1930 to the 20th century. Within this timeline Podolsky illustrates the significance of vaccine, control programs and reeducation of physicians. The author also provides insights on how penicillin and sulfonamides affected control programs. As control programs regressed government concerns also become devoid. As a consequence, pneumonia reverted ...

1. Information gathering.

This comes as an unexpected fact that faces the economy of various countries. Having in mind the expanding high unemployment levels, but on the same note, industry watchers, private companies and government employers in harmony say they need to get workers with the required proper skills. Some employers are now worried on how they shall find, train and even keep them in their workplace.

A clear example can be in the motor vehicle industry where the industries have to send their new qualified employees to the welding class. The root of all this as experienced in some countries and ...

Tragedy had a narrower and more specific meaning in ancient Greek society compared to the modern world, where it can refer to a wide variety of circumstances. For that matter, the structure and purpose drama in the ancient world was not simply for mass entertainment like contemporary films, plays and television programs, nor was it produced by private companies in expectation of making a profit. Just the opposite, it had a distinctly religious and educational purpose, particularly in demonstrating to the audience the fate of those who offended the gods. In these ancient tragedies, the hero or protagonist had a certain character flaw that ...

Many stories behind the history of the blacks and their contribution to modern developments have never been told. The slave trade period was one of the worst moments of history and especially to the black generation. Apart from the psychological and physical they were made to face, being denied basic needs of life and being looked down, there was still more to their predicament that has remained underground. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a book that reveals to us how the black race was looked down on and taken advantage of when in the real sense, the contribution ...

The Solar System is located at the spiral arms of our Galaxy is called the Milky Way. It is basically made of the galactic dick, globular clusters and the halo. Scattered below and above the disk are the globular clusters. They are randomly scattered and they orbit in elliptical orbits. They have little or no gas in them and contain older stars than in the disk. The halo is the dim region that surrounds the whole galaxy. Now, the location of the Solar System is in the galactic disk’s spiral arm. There are six spiral arms arising from ...

The European Union can be considered today as one of the world’s most influential powers as it represents twenty-eight member states in major international and even regional affairs. Many member nations see the EU as the result of their desire to ensure European integration to keep peace in the region. Considering the membership of these European states to the regional organization, it is a question for member countries and non-member countries as to who is more influential or powerful: the EU or the member countries? For some experts, the member countries are more powerful than the EU because they ...

Question 1

Religion is an overarching theme in the Stranger. The antagonist, Meursault, in this novel is an atheist. He does not believe in the existence of God. He believes that the world is shaped and is as a result of fate. Meursault finds it difficult that there is the existence of a supernatural being that controls the world. The theme of religion is brought about in various sections of the plot in this novel. One of the main sections of the plot where the theme of religion is brought is during the funeral of Meursault mother. Meursault does not show any remorse ...

The poem entitled “I Ask It,” written by a renowned Aztec poet Nezahualcoyotl is a very short piece, though very potent as it touches upon profound human truths of existence and being, which is actually what the Aztec religion concerned itself with. The Aztec people understood their place on earth; that all life is transitory, and that humans are not granted the life cycle of nature, which is to die and be reborn every spring. The life of a human being is merely a speck in time, barely perceptible, and their fate is subject to the whimsies of the gods, who ...

1) Discuss some of the mythic and ritual elements, and the logical, rhetorical, and ethical aspects of Oedipus the King. Think about how Oedipus proposes to purge the city of the murder-pollution, the key arguments between Oedipus, Tiresius, and Creon, and the arguments Oedipus made to himself and acted upon to defeat the prophecy, the rhetorical device of irony that permeates the play, and the ethics of everyone's actions, the family members and others involved in the tragedy.

According to the traditional interpretations of classical drama, Oedipus the King was brought down by the gods or fate because ...

The Lord of the Rings-The Fellowship of the Ring is a film that has captured the attention of much audience from all parts of the world simply because it is related to issues that affect our universe and the things in it. This film captures various themes that relate to life issues. According to this film, human beings share certain characteristics regardless of the differences in location and race. This film consists of various characters that interact with each other to show the various themes depicted in the whole scenario.

There are certain similarities between the middle earth and the ...

The world of fairy tales is a world of black and white, good and evil, where the villain is perceptibly malevolent, his actions mirroring his wicked soul and he is eventually punished, righteously so in the end. Simultaneously, heroines are the ones who enjoy the symbolic protection of the fairy tale universe and it is this that proves to be their salvation, and not their own survival skills. However, one heroine rises above all of these passive damsels in distress and takes her fate into her own hands. At first, Gretel is obedient and passive, listening to her brother’s ...

In many ways this story is an inverted fairy tale – beginning with “once upon a time.” In what ways does the fairy tale motif inform the tale?

The fairy tale motif that informs this story does so in two main ways: firstly, it affects the way Godwin writes and the choices of language and descriptive detail that she uses; secondly, because of the mythic qualities that we associate with fairy tales – the notion that they embody some sort of moral message – the woman becomes an archetypal figure, not an individual, but a type or Everywoman. Finally, because ...

Communication

Introduction Gestalt psychology is built around the theory that the brain processes images and information in a holistic manner and creates self-organized juxtapositions. As per gestalt psychology, therefore, the ‘whole’ is invariably larger than ‘the sum of the parts’. Accordingly, the mind tries to make sense of images through the processes of ‘proximity’, ‘closure’, ‘figure-ground’, ‘common fate’, ‘similarity’ and ‘good continuation’ (Liquori, 2011). The principles of Gestalt can be best explained with a painting as an example.

Analysis of a Painting Using Gestalt Psychology

Figure 1: The Singing Butler (Vettriano, 1992) ‘The Singing Butler’ is a famous painting by Jack Vettriano (1992). In the image, we see a ...

Psychology

“Failure to escape traumatic shock” by Seligman and Maier” (1967)

The importance of the study was to ascertain whether or not dogs that were used in the experiment would try to escape if they were placed under undue stress (electric shock). Seligman and his colleague tried to determine the ways in which the dogs could learn by exposing them to three types of electric shock experiments. They found that in the groups, the dogs, who were placed in three groups, escape, yoked and control, were able to learn the escape/avoidance training that was administered to them. The set in ...

Abstract

The child’s trust in people is formed in the early stages of development. The factors that influence the impact of the child’s ambitions, such as taking the initiative and being active in the world, feeling confident were discussed. In studies reviewed, researchers wanted to determine the impact of relationship with parents and educators during the early stages of development. Research methods included questionnaires, surveys and statistical data. It was found that the relationship between a child and significant adults is very important to shaping the child’s personality, trust and love for her surroundings. Keywords: childhood, parents, ...

Virgil’s Aeneid is a literary epic and the national story of the Roman Empire. The story is an attempt to link the history of the Roman Empire, and its emperor Augustus Caesar, to the ancient wanderings of the Trojan people to its establishment. By doing so, Virgil hoped to not only create a common national identity of his country’s people, but to link this identity to historical symbols that people would recognize, in an effort to legitimize the Caesar and his empire. By doing so, Virgil creates a story on a grand scale that encompasses not only the history of his ...

Hatim Ahmed Alghamdi

NSCI 306-1 Format A Abstract Study purpose is the establishment whether children’s’ trust to people is formatting on the early stages and in what amount it will affect his future. The work includes comparison of the factors that show the impact to the children’s ambitions whether to take the initiative and be active in the world, feel confident or how all of that is largely determined by the experience of interaction with his mother and father, from the first days of life. The work includes the analysis of experimental projects of education of children ...

Introduction

In the most traditional of African cultures, the duties of a woman’s role in society was never deemed as capricious, much less being awarded the honorary title of representation of an ideology known as ‘feminism.’ Yet, the memoir-enriched fictional novel, “So Long a Letter,” (Une si Longue Lettre – in French) by Mariama Ba inspired much hope for African women to convey the collective plight of their positions to the world. The book is remarkable in a number of profound ways. The book is a diary-type of letter written from the female protagonist Ramatoulaye her best friend from childhood, Aissatou. Ramatoulaye is mourning ...

Introduction

“Soldier’s Home” is an excellent story by renowned American author Earnest Hemingway. The story was written and published in the year 1925 as a part of Story collection, “In Our Time”. The story is a century old but is still read and liked by readers in same spirit. The author, Earnest Hemingway is one of the brightest stars of American literary world. He was born in the year 1899 in Oak Park community, Chicago. Hemingway was born in an educated, respectable and reputed family of Oak Park. Hemingway’s father was a physician and mother was a musician. Hemingway was very active ...

1. True or False ___ All speech sounds are either vowels or consonants.

True

False b. _____ In English, when either a voiceless alveolar stop or a voiced alveolar stop occurs between a stressed and an unstressed vowel, both phonemes become voiced alveolar flaps.

True

False c. _____ Essentially a hold-over from Medieval Norman French, in English, the form of the plural morpheme (either /s/, /z/ or /əz/) essentially “elides”: that is, it depends on the vocal attributes of the word-initial phoneme in the very next word. True False d. _____ With the exception of vowels adjacent ...

Tragedy is a genre rather than an idea. It depicts man as an unwelcome guest in the world and teaches the world that it is better never to have been born. Tragedy underscores the hopelessness of individuals’ attempts to remake the world. It deals with suffering through a series of experiences and conventions of life. Tragedy forces individuals to recognize that they may act against their own interests and that the consequences of their actions deviate disastrously from their hopes and expectations. In other words, tragedy refers to the inescapabilty of suffering and loss. Tragedy enhances any conceivable refinement of misconception, ...