Essays on Glimpse

Coming into Language is an autobiography by Jimmy Baca that is used to depict the power of being literate. The author illustrates the life of a young illiterate Hispanic male who had to struggle through life in school, at work place and even unable to be stand up for his right to freedom. He compared his life when he was illiterate and when literate and shows the obvious benefits of being literate against the disadvantages of being illiterate. This is a story of hardship and gloom that ends in a triumph as the character is able to overcome his ...

Edgar Allen Poe wrote “The Raven” in 1945. The poem shows how lost love can lead to depression. Depression, and mental illness in general, is a topic common to many of Poe’s works, and he often uses an unreliable narrator as one of the primary means of showing such depression. Following the death of the woman he loved, a male speaker narrates “The Raven,” and through this first person account, the reader is allowed a glimpse of his descent into madness. Through the poem, Poe demonstrates to how the experience of losing a loved one can propel someone ...

There is no doubt that there have been several women writers who have not been awarded a justified position in the so-called “canon” of English literature. There are names such as Margery Kempe, Marie de France, Lady Jane Grey, Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Mary Queen of Scotts, Aemilia Lanyer, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Wroth, Katherine Philips, Margaret Cavendish, and many more who challenge an equivalent share of fame, with the labors of their classical male contemporaries because of their prestigious works. The prime focus of the paper is to discuss Margaret Cavendish, a writer from the 17th century and presents a ...

<Institution> As people grow from infancy to adulthood, they take on different roles in order to perform specific tasks that would enable them to become better suited to the environment or the society to which they belong. Due to the ever changing nature of human existence influenced by the environment and technological development, these different roles that people take also changes along the passing of generations. During middle adulthood, many people take the role of a romantic partner or a spouse. When a child is conceived and born, these people become parents during middle adulthood. In the past, ...

“Poor single mother on welfare tell me how you did it?” rings the famous lyric of the late Rapper-Activist Tupac Amaru Shakur. The son of a former Black Panther, this ode to his mother provides a glimpse into the conundrum of surviving in the wake of being poor and black on public assistance. What Shakur unknowingly reveals is the image of welfare in a more empathetic and realistic way that illuminates instead of ignoring the lived realities of its recipients. While Shakur’s lyric is compassionate in it’s depiction, conservative lawmakers are less considerate in their elucidation of ...

Comparing Brazil and US

The purpose of this essay is to look at cultures and diversity on the example of the comparison of two countries with very different profiles: Brazil and the United States. To ensure the quality of this high-level analysis, it was decided to focus on only three aspects: work, food and drinks and transportation.To begin with, it is important to choose a framework that could structure the analysis. Hofstede (2001) conducted a study, which made a significant contribution to the field of social and political studies.The author outlined six major dimensions for cultural analysis of nations. These dimensions include the ...

Yeager by Tom Wolfe

Summary: ‘Yeager’ by Tom Wolfe is an essay about a wonderful U.S airline pilot named Chuck Yeager. The essay begins with an airline emergency situation in which the airline has had trouble with its controls and its pilot Yeager handles the situation very comically and adeptly. It was hard for the passengers that they were in an emergency situation, judging by the way in which the pilot spoke. These, according to Wolfe’s descriptions, are greatness of Yeager, who with his enthralling Appalachian accent, could move mountains in a very casually seeming way. Yeager had fought during the Second ...

Raising a perfect family in the 21st century has proven to be a lot more different than it was two decades ago. With so many technological advancements around and many people going with the flow, family dynamics have changed. The present culture depends so much on what they find online whether good or bad. Friendships are formed through social so are they broken. At the family level, parents are constantly chatting with their peers and strangers, many more Facebook and send tweets even during family gatherings or meetings. The influence that social media has had on families is changing ...

Slavick (4) explains that Chicago School refers to building designs in the early 19th Century. Turak (60) claim that Chicago is indeed the birthplace of skyscrapers. In 1880’s Chicago manages to develop architects referred as the First Chicago School (Turak 60). At this time, Chicago is the second largest metropolis with a high population growth in America. People consider building large commercial buildings since low-level buildings are inefficient. Chicago experiences a booming economy and a lot of innovation that enables the building of skyscrapers to allow for more space for business people.

Chicago buildings in this era display diverse styles ...

Everyone experiences the world in different ways; however, sometimes physical differences contribute to the development of a different culture, as is the case with deaf artists. Hilari Scarl’s film See what I’m Saying allows the world to glimpse what such a culture is like. Making use of different techniques, the director immerses the viewer in a profound analysis of this culture, including the emulation of what this population actually hears. The waking of consciousness that results of this is important and beneficial, as it allows the viewer to empathize with the people that have this condition. Finally, while many could ...

James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny’s Blues” is a unique and fascinating tale full of history, tangible drama, and pressing insights into the plight of African Americans during the early 20th century. Telling the tale of two brothers – the unnamed narrator and Sonny – Baldwin’s work explores the nature of suffering, and how it is filtered through many different outlets (denial, judgment, drugs, music). The result is a well-written tale that offers the audience one of the most intriguing statements about the American experience, drawing on history and people’s perception of it to come to its ...

The essays titled this old house and fish cheeks are very interesting in terms of the manner in which they convey the message intended by their respective authors to the audience. The essay this old house takes more of a rather detailed and vivid description in order to bring the author’s message home. In this particular essay, the author seems very interested in ensuring that the audience develops a clear mental picture of the house in question. The description is very vivid and comprehensive that it leaves little to imagination. The author focuses on the minute details of the house ...

Question 1: Determine the types of ecotourism activities carried out in your country, state or area.

Answer: Australia houses nineteen World Heritage Sites varying from Greater Blue Mountains, to the magnificent Great Barrier Reef, to the fossil mammal sites in Riversleigh/ Naracoorte, to the Gondwana rain forests, to the Wet Tropics of Queensland. Though the nature of ecotourism activities depend on the features of the ecosystem in some cases, in others, the activities are same, the place changes. Mountain biking is an example of the former, and, exploring the flora and fauna, of the latter.

The activities offered by ecotour operators include mystery tours to explore the legends, culture, myths, ghost stories and history of a ...

Dark Star Safari trails Paul Theroux's African adventure starting from Cairo and ending in Cape Town in a witty, observing and often irascible tone. The journey is spread with danger, pain, adrenaline, disappointment and dismaying circumstances. The traveler gets a taste of everything life in Africa means, from history and politics to health care, education, poverty and decay. He gets in contact with people of various nationalities, belonging to various social classes and activating in various fields, managing to get a glimpse of their own perspective on things before clarifying his own. Diversity is the word that describes the experience best, ...

Technology has changed the way humans interact with each other. The Internet has provided people with methods to interact with one another internationally. This provides the ability to develop intercultural relationships from the comfort of our own homes. It expands the boundaries presented by our physical constraints and provides the potential to expand our horizons. Social media sites provide forums through which people can connect with one another. It allows us to reach out to others regardless of the physical location and become acquainted with people and cultures that we may not be exposed to through traditional methods. It ...

‘The Sixties’ is an acclaimed book by Terry H. Anderson, a history professor of Texas A&M University. The book provides an extensive account of some of the most difficult years that America witnessed. This paper intends to discuss the book and other related aspects of the area under discussion. The book is written by the history professor and presents an authentic account of America when the nation was passing trough very tumultuous phase. Anderson presents the facts with a historian’s perspective and portrays how Americans successfully faced the cold war era and witnessed the transitional phase (Anderson). The book ...

‎Introduction

Literature tackles significant themes that relate to social issues and situations. Some of them are relevant in helping us understand human nature or explore life during specific periods in history. Nadine Gordimer's "Country Lovers" and Patricia Smith’s "What it's like to be a Black Girl” illustrate both concepts, such that they are different types of literature but an analysis of these two focuses on human nature in relation to the influence of a specific period of history, specifically during the decades that racism was prevalent in different parts of the world. Moreover, both literary works show the impact of racism ...

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot was an American-British scholar. The man was a jack of all trades with influences as an essayist, publisher, social and literary critic, playwriting and a major poet of the twentieth century. His work has been widely admired with the peak being the Nobel Prize in Literature, an honor that was granted upon him in 1948 in appreciation of his pioneer and outstanding contribution and influence on the present-day poetry. Other pieces of work written by the poet include the Waste Land, Murder in the Cathedral, The Hollow Men and Four Quartets among others. The love Song of J. ...

Introduction

Background of poet Thomas Stearns Elion was an American-British scholar. The man was a jack of all trades with influences as an essayist, publisher, social and literary critic, playwriting and a major poet of the twentieth century. His work has been widely acclaimed with the pinnacle being the Nobel Prize in Literature, an accolade that was bestowed upon him in 1948 in recognition of his pioneer and outstanding contribution and influence on the present-day poetry. Other pieces of work written by the poet include the Waste Land, Murder in the Cathedral, The Hollow Men and Four Quartets among others. The ...

“This is going to sound crazy, but from the moment I first set eyes on you I haven't been able to stop thinking about you.” – Leigh Fallon. Do you believe in love at first site? No? Well, it was same for me as well. I also not used to believe in love at first site but one incident completely changed me in seconds. And now I have got my soul mate, my life, and it feels like I have achieved everything in life. Let’s rewind some pages of my story and focus on the main incident “How ...

The presence of archaeological sites has been a dream and admiration of myriad nations. A notable fact is that there is an explicit correlation between a country’s past and its present state. The past and the present invariably explain the socio-political journey that a country has travelled. Archaeological sites present a fresh memory on a county’s social and political history. Importantly, the government of various countries has been keen to attach value on the monumental sites, thereby, enabling the sites to be a national heritage. Similarly, the mentioned sites have been noted to attract tourist from the global world just to have a glimpse ...

Introduction

John Hubley was an innovative American animator. He worked for Walt Disney and UPA, but his greatest work is seen as an independent filmmaker. He is one of the rare filmmakers who gave the audiences a glimpse into the lives of those that were often ignored by other animation studios. He was born in1914 in Wisconsin, and into an artistic family. His mother attended the Art Institute of Chicago, and his grandfather was a painter. Growing up, he knew that he would be a painter, and studied painting at the Art Center in Los Angeles, California for three years. Hubley's cartoons ...

In almost any way you look at them; Chicago Illinois and Cape Coral are polar opposite US cities. One is situated on the Coast, the other in the Midwest on the shores of one of the Great Lakes. Their geography is vastly different. Their populations are different sizes. Their local governments operate in a vastly different way. But in so far as Chicago, Illinois and Cape Coral, Florida are US cities, they do have chronologies. The purpose of comparing and contrasting them gives insight into the similarities that cities have in so far as they are both cities in the ...

The central claim of this paper is: the movie Million Dollar Baby is a cinematic argument containing the central thesis of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave from Republic and Aristotle’s moral philosophy from Nicomachean Ethics. First, the allegory of the cave will be explained as well as Aristotle’s theory of virtue. The paper will give examples from Eastwood’s film to back up the thesis, along with possible counterarguments. The story of the cave is Plato’s argument for how knowledge begins in darkness and ascends towards truth (517a). The ascent to knowledge is gradual. Darkness ...

The Quest of Soul Serenity

I; Artist Statement

Artist:

Camera used: - Serenity is always an element that adds beauty to an image and let it speak on its own without the requirement of any word. Perhaps, it’s behind the notion that a picture speaks a hundred words within itself. The depiction in my shots is more of a similar nature. I found evident thrust n individuals around with the same gut. I rather like to catch the glimpse of such feeling wherever I find and the same is displayed from different dimensions in my shots. In fact, I can profoundly mention it as part of ...

Jennifer Egan’s novel A Visit from the Goon Squad discusses, among other things, the passage of time, the dangers of obsolescence, and the way cultures grow and change as the years go on. Egan approaches the social trends and fads of American culture in A Visit from the Goon Squad with a jaundiced eye, allowing readers to understand the fleeting and often ignored nature of very serious problems in favor of trivia and pop culture. In the stories “Great Rock and Roll Pauses,” “Pure Language,” and “Black Box,” the environment of the Earth, as well as its culture, is ...

The period from the 18th to the late 20th centuries has been characterized by a diversity of artistic styles. Four of the most prominent are Neoclassicism from the 18th century, Impressionism from the 19th, Fauvism from the early 20th and Abstract Expressionism from the second part of the 20th century. The Oath of the Horatii (picture 1) is a work by the French painter Jacques Louis David. The artist created the work in 1784 and the medium is oil on canvas (Facos, 2011, p. 39). Cornelia Pointing her Children as her Treasures (picture 2) was painted by Angelica Kauffmann is ...

The documentary Dear Pyongyang and Crossing the line were both filmed during the mid 2000s in North Korea and both were a reflection of what really transpired between two families who had their sons being citizens of the North Korea both willingly and unwillingly. This film takes us through the journey that these brothers had to endure in the foreign country showing us what really transpired in North Korea between the year 1960 to present times. The documentaries Dear Pyongyang and Crossing the line can be seen to both have an aspect of the present times in relation to ...

Brittani Scott

Introduction Sickle-cell disease is an illness that is multisystem, linked to episodes of progressive damage of organ and acute illness, and is among the most common dangerous monogenic disorders in the world (Weatherall, Hofman, Rodgers, Ruffin, & Hrynkow, 2005). The sickle-shape erythrocytes were initially described in the year 1910 by Herrick (Herrick, 1910) and understanding has slowly increased from that time. Together with his colleagues, Pauling (1949) keyed out electrophoretic abnormalities in sickle HbS and made up the word molecular disease in the year 1949. The genetics, as well as biophysics of hemoglobin behind the disease, have been widely ...

Caravaggio’s influence has been felt within many different pieces of art. Caravaggio implemented the idea that idealized beauty was not essential to making interesting or popular art. Caravaggio moved away from traditional styles, making even religious subjects look like common people. Dramatic lighting and high contrast were also important aspects of his art work. Caravaggio’s use of naturalism created a new movement away from idealized beauty. Caravaggio’s style typically had less complicated iconography and a more straight forward naturalistic approach to telling stories. Caravaggio certainly took a different approach to the painting of religious scenes when be painted “ ...

Introduction

This historical account of the Japanese internment at Manzanar traces its genesis to the World War II. The war had been raging in Europe for three years, Adolf Hitler hoping to capitalize on his war machinery to give the Axis victory. All this while, public opinion about a direct involvement of the US in the war is divided. Japan, hoping to assert its significance in global politics and to advance a claim in the Far East; joins the Axis. The US is alarmed, but an ongoing negotiation with Japanese authorities is an assurance that war is not on the cards just ...

Every country in the world has undergone a gradual metamorphosis to arrive at their current status. China is not an exception. In the past millenniums, several dynasties ruled China and introduced distinct social-political changes, which had interesting succession dramas. These social and political struggles had two main competing interests; the quest for absolute power by the rulers and the people’s quest for affluence and equality. The Kangxi’s valedictory edict of 1717 provides a glimpse of this struggle. He lists some of his accomplishments in public service including sound financial policies that he initiated. Kangxi ruled as the emperor of ...

Background

Witness Protection Programs are an extension of law enforcement that is shrouded in secrecy. Originally developed to protect organized crime witnesses, these programs now have wider application (UN, 2008). In criminal cases involving members of organized crime, witnesses testify at risk to their own lives, or personal safety, as well as those close to them. This is not the only group with whom a witness may find themselves, and their families, in peril. Over the years, Witness Protection has evolved to also include other well-resourced individuals and groups who are facing criminal conviction, such as despots and war criminals finding ...

Active euthanasia has become a popular topic of discussion in recent decades, especially in the late 1990’s when Dr. Jack Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder for assisting the suicides of several of his patients. When Kevorkian died in 2011, the topic became popular once again. Had Kevorkian been wrong in what he had done, or was he right to help end the lives of those who suffered. I argue that Kevorkian was right, and that active euthanasia in certain situations should be legalized. “Active euthanasia is a type of euthanasia in which a person who is undergoing intense suffering, ...

Introduction

Set in the timeframe of 1981, ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’ is based on the real life story of Chris Gardner who ascended from a destitute to a stock market magnate. Cast in the role of Gardner, Will Smith did an astounding job in essaying the character to perfection. The movie bagged many accolades and awards upon its release in 2006. The most notable one was the Academy Award rewarded to Will Smith for best male actor. The opening scene gives a glimpse of the phrase ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ as mentioned by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence that the Americans are ...

Introduction: Book Information

This book is a memoir that is non-fiction of a Hungarian medical doctor that is Jewish. This man had operated and not horrible "research" on his fellow Jewish inmates. This man participated in killing Jews alongside with the help of the evil Dr. Josef Mengele who was known as the "Angel of Death." When the Nazis invaded the country the book explains how in 1944, the Nazis took most of the Jews from Hungary straight into Auschwitz death camp. Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Jew and a medical doctor, managed to escape from death in order to become a pawn of evil. This evil was ...

Analysing the passage ‘Asia’

Analysing the passage ‘Asia’

Introduction

Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the family is a very heart-touching account of how much he wants to travel to his motherland and relive his childhood which he missed. Each passage describes how he is connected somewhere to his past and craves for getting more connected to it. Though he has been living in Canada and evolved as a usual resident of the country but in his heart, but he is imbued in the memories with his family, motherland, trees, forests, animals and the essence of being connected to Ceylon or Sri Lanka. His emotions and nostalgia ...

The Exhibition:

- What gallery did you attend?

The art gallery attended is known Bahrain Exhibition of fine arts in Bahrain.

- What was the name of the exhibition?

The name of the exhibition was Bahrain Exhibitions.

- Who was / were the artist/s displaying their work?

The name of the artist is Hameed Mukhtar, an artist and photographer at the Artist Group.

- What was the title of the work of art you have selected?

Pending customer clarification.

- What medium/media was used to make this piece?

This painting has been created on canvas using oil paints with a paint brush.

- Is the work two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or relief?

This painting is two-dimensional.

- What is the scale of the work?

The painting is proportional in nature since it has maintained the aspect ratio of the subjects in the drawings.

- Is the piece representational, nonrepresentational, or abstract? The piece is abstract in nature since at first glimpse it’s difficult to identify the subject of the paintings. Though with minute observation, it can be made ...

Book Review: Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eye­witness Account by Dr. Miklós Nyiszli

Introduction: Book Information

This book is a memoir that is non-fiction of a Hungarian medical doctor that is Jewish. This man had operated and not horrible “research” on his fellow Jewish inmates. This man participated in killing Jews alongside with the help of the evil Dr. Josef Mengele who was known as the "Angel of Death." When the Nazis invaded the country the book explains how in 1944, the Nazis took most of the Jews from Hungary straight into Auschwitz death camp. Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Jew and a medical doctor, managed to ...

Introduction

In a village south of California, there lived a family consisting of caring parents who natured and brought their children in the nature that enables them to fit to the society in the most admirable and positive. It was in this family that a young girl by the name Joanne lived. She was a young girl and admirable in the face of the many people living in the surrounding societal set up. It was late in the evening that the girl decided to take the usual normal ride on her bicycle to the coastlands around the beach. The site was the best ...

1. Explain how they represent the fundamental ideas and techniques of that movement while at the same time reflecting the individual styles of the filmmakers involved. In The History of the Devil, the idea of Satan as a philosophical and psychological figure throughout history is examined, in a History Channel-documentary style program that demonstrates the new direction for these kinds of televised documentaries. The filmmakers present an extremely slick and sensational documentary with this film, offering many different interviews, powerful narration by a haunting British voice, and many moving illustrations that are dynamic and provocative. The beginning title splash card involves a ...

‘The Depression and New Deal: A History in Documents’ is an acclaimed book that intends to inform readers about the political conditions, economic condition, the culture, literature, and the people of united states of America. Robert S. Mc Elvaine’s written this book is an important source of information to understand the condition of America during 1920’s and thereafter. Mc Elvaine, a well known historian describes American history and several related aspects in his book in a very interesting yet very informative manner. This paper intends to discuss the book and several other related aspects of the book in a detailed ...

In this day and age, humanity is rubbed raw of cynicism. The information age is taking our world to greater heights and banishes all mysteries left in the world—and in such haste. In the mad rat race, people have grown weary and look at our reality as a dull brick wall devoid of any meaning and wonder. Once upon a time, the horizon promised exotic islands, unseen civilizations, treasures waiting to be unearthed. The only place where these seem to exist are places of fiction and fantasy. So where does a writer of literary realism such as John Updike belong, if ...

Outline 1. It is a scientifically proven fact that everyone dreams; however, why people dream remain unresolved. 2. Different theories explain why people dream; Sigmund Freud dream theory, Carl Jung's Theory, Alfred Adler theory, Calvin S. Hall, and Fredrick Perls theory of dreams. 3. Sigmund Freud's Theory on Dreams suggests that people dream because of the activities that they do throughout the day together with their wishes. 4. The id, ego and super ego form part of an individual’s brain. 5. Sigmund Freud's theory of id, ego and super ego, notes that people dream ...

Abstract:

This paper explores the depiction of the American justice system as it is presented through the film My Cousin Vinny.

My Cousin Vinny is a comical presentation that depicts the American system of justice. It displays the diverse components of the system as a whole. There are numerous formalities that are being convicted of a misdeed, as a preparatory stage, the key participants in the judicial method and lawless individual process. During the movie, I observed the dissimilarities and likenesses between the way the movie depicts the lawless individual fairness method and the actual lawless individual fairness system. The movie is set ...

1. This case study outlines a meticulous, multifaceted process that Standard Life utilizes in order to find the best candidates for this incredibly competitive job. The human resources management strategy they are implementing in this process is highly selective and aims for the best of the best, knowing that highly qualified individuals will desire to work for them. While they do send out information to all universities to let everyone know about their job opportunities, they only send out HR staff to career fairs at 25 of the most well-regarded universities, showcasing their search for excellent. Next, they have to ...