Essays on Preface

Fredricks’ In the Midst of Crisis opens with foreboding of something fearful about to happen. The tone is one of impending doom, fear of the unknown by both the protagonist and the audience. While the protagonist is focused on the rescue ship’s absence, the reader is caught up in the darkness and silence the writer’s tone and words portray. The connection between the scene and nature connects the story to the most base of human emotions, while collections of words are used throughout the preface to instill the fear that all the people must be feeling. The ...

There are those who would justify the enslavement of humans by pointing to the enormous amount of wealth generated through that enslavement and that that enslavement was a sacrifice to which blacks willingly, though unwittingly, took part. If that were a valid assessment of the enslavement of so many for the benefit of so few, then its validity would sit on the testimony of those who were enslaved. However, that testimony, as found in Fredrick Douglas’ Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas does not support such an outlandish premise. On the contrary, Douglas’ Narrative witnesses the atrocity that ...

Classic English Literature

The ‘Lyrical Ballads’ is a combined work of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in the year 1789, which can be referred to as an autobiography, a philosophical work, and also a literary criticism. The fundamental principles presented in this work is the creative imagination of both the authors. The poetic principles that Wordsworth had presented in the ‘Preface’ of the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads essentially denounce a kind of revolution with respect to the critical notions concerning the lyrical language, the subject matter of the poetry, and also the role played by the poet. Dismissing the ...

‘Call to Arms’ book is excellent collection of short stories, written by Chinese author Lu Xun. The author, through his stories, tries to describe the cruel realities of traditional Chinese society. ‘Call to Arms’ stories were originally written during 1920s by Lu Xun in Chinese language. All stories of ‘Call to Arms’ were translated by Y. Hasien-yi and G. Yang and were published in year 1960 for the first time. The stories introduce readers to social, health care and other problems, existing in the China. The author tries to act as a social critic by depicting social problems of ...

It is a well-known fact that Mary Shelley’s family relationships were beset by difficulties, and she somehow ended up reflecting on them in her novel, Frankenstein. There are quite a few essays that prove the point that Mary Shelly expressed her own life into her fictional novel. However, an underlying subject in the novel has somehow evaded the critical eyes of critics, until Susan Coulter wrote about it in her essay “‘Frankenstein’ – a cautionary tale of bad parenting,” which is posted on Mary Shelley’s website. Through her essay, Frankenstein’ – a cautionary tale of bad parenting” and despite the use of limited ...

Japanese writing uses both Kanji and Kana. Kana includes both Hiragana and Katakana alphabets. A long time ago, there was no alphabet in Japan, so the characters for writing were borrowed from neighboring China. As ancient China was then ruled by the Han (Kan) Dynasty, all the characters were called Kanji and the Chinese writing is called Kanbun. Because kanji has many strokes, it takes a very long time to write and to memorize. Thus, the Japanese invented the Hiragana and Katakana. Women used the Hiragana alphabet in creating their letters and diaries. An example of the literature written in ...

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Culturally diverse countries of the world unite under a broad banner called Universal Human rights. Human rights appeal to all of us because we as humans crave freedom, equality, respect, and dignity in all occupations. We look up at the United Nations ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948’(UN, 1948) as a beacon to guide and protect our rights be it a Rwandan facing genocide or a young American girl in detention. Despite the declaration, human rights mean different things to different people. For example, one person employing a regular house cleaner for cleaning, laundry, and dishes- is a norm and ...

Nancy F. Cott. The Bonds of Womenhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England 1780 1835.

The purpose of the book, The Bonds of Womenhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England 1780 1835, written by Nancy F. Cott was to demonstrate that women from a century ago were breaking out of their traditional sphere of working in the home and shaping new roles for themselves in the community. During the process they also learned how to strengthen “the bonds of womanhood” with other women (Cott, 204). Cott (160) calls this new feeling sisterhood. New England middle class women were very smart about ...

- Introduction This report is elucidating the level of the employees’ satisfaction in the bank of Cyprus and the importance of employees’ job satisfaction. In order to explain the context, the background of the study is given. It can help in understanding the various aspects of the job satisfaction and its merits for the organization. The chapter is then leading towards the formation of the research objectives and research questions. These questions are leading towards the context of the study. At the end of the chapter the limitation of the study is given along with the significant of ...

The novel Waterlily was written by Ella Cara Deloria in 1940s but the writer insisted that the book must be published after her death. Thus, Waterlily saw the light 1988 when it was first published, eighteen years after the author’s death. The first publication of the book was almost twice shorter than the original novel. This editorial advice given by Ruth Benedict allowed to underline the plot focusing on its most remarkable parts and make the novel more readable. The book concentrates on the life of the Dakota state with exploration of its ethnography and local traditions. The ...

"All animals are equal, but some animals

Are more equal than others" Alexis de Tocqueville has been quoted as saying that the skills used to create marvelous literature do not necessarily produce coherent and well-founded political thought and in most cases one might say that he was right. But that was not the case for English novelist Eric Arthur Blair more commonly known as George Orwell, whose work is characterized by political insight, linguistic clarity and irrefutable literary value, a work that can still inspire almost sixty four years after his death. A keen analyst of his turbulent times, Orwell was, according to Newsweek magazine, the ...

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Theoretical Framework for Reflective Learning 3 Advantages Associated with Reflective Learning 4 Brain and the Reflective Learning System 5 Natural learning system of Brain 6 Emotions & Learning 6 Emotional Intelligence 7 Learning in Adults and Technical training 7 Conclusion 8

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Preface The reflective learning enhances the inner structure to promote the learning. It involves the various processes involving the brain and emotions. The brain is able to think consciously. It is also analyzing the working of the individual, e.g. what is he doing or is intending to do. For instance, in ...

Response to Readings

Dear _____________, I started reading a book today – The Spirit Catches you and You Fall Down – by Anne Fadiman. I just read the preface of the book and I think that Fadiman’s story is one that is interesting because the author immediately talked about the conflict around which the story evolves. Fadiman found several old cassette tapes of conversations between her and the Lees, a family of Hmong refugees. In 1980, the Lees traveled from Laos to the United States. One of the many reasons why I immediately took interest in the book was the way that Fadiman described ...

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As a father of free verse, Walt Whitman breaks the limits of the general poetic form, and in general, his poems are prose-like. Even though he did not invent the free verse form, he uses it effectively in his poem that gains fame among the readers. He uses profound imagery in his poems, including debris, rotten leaves, and everything in nature, especially what he considers as nature, which includes sexuality, including prostitution, and death. He reflects and mirrors the nature and the world around him because he strongly believes there is a symbiotic relationship between poet and world. He rightly says ...

After reading Mao’s own words how ideally communistic were his political views? What role did Mao feel that the arts should play in Communistic China? Are his ideals still in effect in China at the dawn of the 21st Century?

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Lin Biao has described Mao Tse-Tung as the greatest Marxist of his era apart from having developed that political philosophy much further due to his innate ‘genius’. Although these words may sound slightly over the top today there is no denying the fact that Mao was really a person of considerable historical importance and a Communist of the old school. ...

Presentation and Analysis of two poems – ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ by William Wordsworth and ‘Sailing’ by the writer of this essay – Reflections on the nature, tradition and reception of poetry as formed upon the readings of William Wordsworth’s ‘Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads’ and T.S. Elliot’s ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ - Comparison and contrast of the two poems of the essay in terms of the extent to which the preceding one has imposed its effect on the most recent one [The author’s name]

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Barry Nalebuff and Avinash Dixit wrote a very accessible and engaging work on Game Theory, which they support as a “Guide to success in business and life“. Game theory is the psychology and mathematics of social interactions in strategic situations. Drawing from their experience and professionalism, these authors sought to ensure that their audiences learn the concepts of their book. Avinash Dixit, an economics professor at Princeton University where he offered his popular freshman course in game theory for many years, and Nalebuff a professor of management and economics at Yale School of management both practiced their preaching. While Dixit is well ...

Abramson, J. B. (1994). We, the Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy: with a New Preface. Harvard University Press. Jury came up in 1994 at a period of fast growing cynicism concerning jury justice. There was exclusive concern allover concerning racism, which appeared as a critical impartiality obstacle. There were always concerns on white men being prosecuted of racially abusing African-Americans. However, there was misrepresentation of Africans in the jury since there were no Africans serving in the jury. This brought in extensive disagreements between whites and African-Americans who always viewed themselves as segregated in proper operations of ...

NARRATOLOGY

Gerard Ganette was the great French literary theorist who is famous for his contribution in the field of narratology. His ‘Discours’ rightfully turned out to be a standard reference for the description of narrative theory due to the reason that it provides a model in relation to what systematic description, the writers can achieve. According to a preface of Gerard Ganette to the work of Kate Hamburger, with the title ‘The Logic of Literature’ that was published in the year 1986 in France, “Fiction is not connected with narrative since one cannot study fictional narrative as narrative and as fiction at ...

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Many believe that juvenile violence is on the increase and that in years gone by the problem was less significant than it is today. There is also a popular but mistaken belief that a reduction in the youth respect for the older generation and for authority in general is a root cause of the problem. This research paper investigates the history and examines and discusses juvenile violence statistics. It also looks at society’s perceived views of the causes of juvenile violence, including factors such as the child’s family background and upbringing, their environment and possible effects of exposure to / ...

The processes involved while handling felony criminals is a safe guard against the criminals, and the processes also helps with willful treatment of the suspected criminals. The processes are specifically designed to impose the constitutional rights of the suspected criminals and the defendants. The process starts from the police contact with the suspected criminal, arrest of the suspected criminal, investigating the crime, trial of the suspected criminal, sentencing and finally the appeal. The major constitutional provisions that regard the criminal procedures are found in the fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth amendment of United States’ constitution (Scheb & Scheb, 2013). The ...

The Nibelungenlied is a Germanic heroic motif which comprises of historic events and oral traditions. The accomplishments of the major literary work took place in the medieval German literature. The narrative shows the activities of lovely ladies and bold warriors who are high spirited during the period of great battles. Cultural trends have originated from the royalty imperial court and the German Empire from the eighth and thirteenth century. This is an influential and rich culture. The politics and humanistic imperial culture were as a result of the classical revival idea. The values of Germanic warrior culture and the courtly culture ...

HomeThere is no place like home. When you are there you feel so safe. You can kick off your shoesAnd just relax. Home is where you can be you And you are around your family. Home you feel so safe. Why do people make some homes not so safe. Home you should feel like it is the one place nothing can go wrong. How could you hurt such an angel. All she wanted was love and a home. All she wanted is a mom to hold her and tell her everything was going to be ok. All she needed is love. ...

According to the German philosopher Frederick Nietzsche ideas are as entities. They have the ability to transform themselves in unexpected ways as they are transmitted person to person, flowing and changing in the process. Nietzsche was a dedicated learner and had interest in a variety of pursuits from philosophy, poetry, music, literature. His philosophy also delved into many corners of study, from science, to religion, morality. His texts are written in sometimes-poetic aphorisms. His moustache was noteworthy. This essay endeavors to explore the development of Nietzche’s ideas and the important place in philosophy they still hold to this day. ...

Part 1: Current Events

Article: Coca-Cola Company (n.d) Governance and Ethics. Retrieved 6 April, 2013 from http://www.coca-colacompany.com/our-company/governance-ethics/governance-ethics Coca-Cola Company is a multinational corporation whose core business involves the manufacture, marketing and sale of non-alcoholic beverages. The Company has directed significant effort towards managing ethics and compliance within its organizational boundaries. A publication on the Company’s Website outlines its ethics and compliance practices. Although there is evidence of nearly all of the major approaches to the management of ethics and compliance at Coca-Cola, the company has placed its focus on the compliance-based approach (Coca-Cola, n.d). This approach stresses on the importance of promoting ...

Book Review: The Jacksonian Era 1828-1848

In The Jacksonian Era, 1828-1848, Glyndon G. Van Deusen examines the Jacksonian period in detail, defining it as the period of time between Jackson's 188 election to Zachary Taylor's 1848 election. Van Deusen provides us with a chronological look at the diplomatic and political events that took place during that time, though in an incredibly economical way. Politics takes a front seat to social and economic changes, the latter only showing up when they relate directly to the former. As such, the tariff, bank issues and the issue of western expansion are explored in detail and as expected, while the antislavery ...

A Christian View of Sexuality Within Marriage

Abstract The Gift of Sex, by Clifford and Joyce Penner, is a comprehensive, Christian educational guide for married couples about sexuality. Divided into a preface and five sections, the book uses Scripture and the authors’ expertise in marriage therapy to offer important information to couples concerning sexuality so that readers may overcome problems or enhance a relationship that is already good. The book educates married couples on Bible-based considerations about sex, physical aspects of sex, and unifying the religions and physical aspects of sex in order to have a more fulfilling relationship with each other. It answers questions, offers exercises, uses anecdotes ...

About the author

Scott Martelle is a veteran journalist and a former staff writer for the L. A. Times. He is a journalist of the third generation and was born in Scarborough, Maine. He spent part of his childhood there, and the rest in Wellsville, New York, which is two hours south of the town of Buffalo. He got his first newspaper job at age sixteen, where he wrote a sports column for a weekly high school newspaper called the Wellsville Patriot. He then started covering local news on a part-time basis for the Wellsville Daily Reporter. Martelle attended Fredonia State University. Here, he was the editor ...

The Puritans of the 17th century remained an extremely patriarchal people; their primary goals were to glorify God and place their earthly passions behind them, all the while placing men in positions of authority, leaving women little choices for activities and positions (Bremer, 1976). According to Edmund Morgan, "the central Puritan dilemma was the problem of doing right in a world that does wrong." If this is to be believed, then the works of many important Puritan authors would express this dilemma through prose - their feeble attempts to make right this flawed world that they lived in. In this ...

The Picture of Dorian Gray is an iconic novel by Oscar Wilde that tells the story of a highly cultured and refined young man, Dorian Gray, who inadvertently catches the attention of a local painter, Basil Howard. Basil approaches the young Dorian as a front man for a new kind of art he considers as an elemental turning point of his career. He essentially uses his mastery of art to showcase his feelings towards the young Dorian: feelings that he later deems a likely point of weakness on his part that should be checked. He then introduces Dorian to a close friend by the name ...

Lionel Casson is a renowned classicist and a Professor Emeritus of Classics, New York University. Besides Libraries in the Accent World, he has also written other books such as Ships and Seamship in the Ancient World as well as various other books on the history of the ancient maritime and ancient travel. However, it can be argued that tracking the emergence of the ancient libraries, in Libraries in the Accent World, was quite a tall order for him. This is evidenced in aspects of broken connections in the book, for instance, in recounting the emergence of the Museum at Alexandria.

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First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps is a book by U.S. Lt. Gen. Victor H. Krulak, a Marine commander who was conferred with several medals and honors for his pioneering strategies in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam (Goldstein). He was an exemplary Marine with years of service in the USMC, Lt. Gen. Krulak, who passed away in December 2008 at 95 years of age, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy graduate and joined the 4th Marines in China from 1937 to 1939 (Goldstein). It is known fact that the Marine Corps are the most potent ...

According to Edmund Morgan, "the central Puritan dilemma was the problem of doing right in a world that does wrong." If this is to be believed, then the works of many important Puritan authors would express this dilemma through prose - their feeble attempts to make right this flawed world that they lived in. In this essay, the concept of right versus wrong will be explored in the works of William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor.

William Bradford's book Of Plymouth Plantation was the perfect example of this dilemma; the Puritans themselves went to Plymouth in order ...

Cambridge Encylopedia of Language.

The term ‘preface’ usually refers to an introduction to a book. It gives the reader a sense of what the book will be like by setting subject and tone. Sometimes, the preface is written by someone other than the author, which often lends an air of gravitas to proceedings. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language is “a book about the English language.” (Crystal, 2010, p vi.) This, in itself, may seem like an obvious point to make about such a book but the words ‘English language’ cover hundreds of potential subjects and technicalities. The preface in the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language discusses various issues associated ...

One of the generally established positions considering the scientific revolution of the XVII century is that the European science (primarily related to the classical natural sciences) originated from it. It is interesting that it emerged at once in the interrelation of all components: theoretical knowledge, its rationale and mathematical description, experimental testing, social structure with network of scientific communication and public application. Among the phrases that can best show the way of thinking that started acting at that time, there is one William Gilbert wrote in his Preface: “LIFE is a Chemical Process: In that of every Individual there has ...