Essays on Pride

Talking about Middle Age culture, it is necessary to underline the role of religion. The morality play Everyman is based on its principles and gives moral lessons to reader. This is a story about how an ordinary person is afraid of death and how he searches companions (fellowship, family) for his trip in kingdom come. Such notions as “Deeds” and “Goods” appear in the context in order to show reader the difference between them. Goods contribute to luxury life, but they cannot share with Everyman his trip to God. As for Deeds, they are insufficient as opposed to Sins ...

Analysis of Samsung Corp.

Introduction Samsung Corporations operates as a multinational company operating in electronics industry with the headquarter in Suwon, South Korea. It is a blue chip company listed in Dow Jones. The company makes profits in terms of trillion with over 200 trillion of assets and 168.088 trillion of equity (Michell, 2010). As of 2015, the company had around 307,000 employees contributing to its operations. This makes the company a big corporation thereby forming a platform for practicing how to analyze businesses. The profitability of a Samsung’s operation is dependent on the efforts put by the management towards ensuring ...

The recent print ad of Swiffer Bissell Steamboost promotes traditional gender stereotypes because it shows that domestic work is a woman's strength, something that she should be proud of. Because men and women are different in numerous ways, it must not come as a surprise that advertisements depict men and women in a different way. Stereotypes are formed through the continuous, prolonged exposure of viewers to the various devices of imagery. The notion, message, or idea of an array of depictions must be taken into consideration when analyzing stereotypes. As explained by Sheehan (77), a sole ad or any ...

Introduction

The commencement and ending of Homer’s epic poem the Iliad depict a rational existence of humans before and after the interference of the immortal beings respectively. The middle passages are different as they present a palpable yet gradual build up of human emotions that warrant an alliance with the gods and goddesses in the text. In turn, a paradox emerges in the depiction of the relationships between the mortals and the immortals in the Homeric poem: the gods are necessary for Homer’s presentation of the humans, but they are also to blame for the unstable attitudes and ...

Playing SPENT was a revealing experience. Being a person who enjoys online games, I eagerly started this assignment. Usually I find online gameplay more therapeutic and numbing than thought provoking, however. My experience with this game was indeed different. Opening up the UI of SPENT, you see a great design with bold typeface that sets the narrative in place. The player reads the set-up across the screen and enters into the world it has created. We are faced at first with macroeconomic statements describing the 14 million Americans experiencing unemployment (SPENT). Next, we are told to imagine ourselves in ...

Abstract:

St. Elizabeth of Hungary School is a Catholic run academic institution established on September 12, 1958 in Texas. At its inception, the school had a population of 27 students. The teaching was done by Catholic nuns in portable buildings, with the use of traditional writing materials and implements. To transform an academic facility into a center of moral and educational excellence, this calls for skillful direction and management. Such management can only be realized through definite procedures and regulations that effectively steer conduct and safeguard the professional ethics. Subsequently, the school has a definite code of its practice; with ...

How did the videos make you feel?

The issue of gay rights has resulted in much controversy over the past few years. Watching the YouTube and It Gets Better Project videos resulted in mixed feelings based on the content. While watching some of the videos, I could not believe the level of ignorance that once existed in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. The videos classified the act of being gay as a mental disease that was transferrable (Inglewood Unified School District). While listening to the anti-gay video, there was also a feeling of disgust and disagreement at the high amount of wrong information ...

Section 1: Benefits and Problems of Group Decision-Making in Organisations

Introduction In a globalised market, organisations with the capability to recognise and understand as well as rapidly respond to emerging issues and opportunities are likely to have the greatest chance of retaining their competitiveness and profitability in the long term (Chakraborty et al., 2013). Group decision-making is a process of arriving at a response to issues and opportunities based on the participation of several individuals working as a collective (Huczynski and Buchanan, 2013). Reaching a group decision is not easy. Due to the important role of group-decision making to the success and longevity of the organisation, the discussion provides ...

The Alamo is an important part of Texas history. Located in San Antonio, the Alamo represents Texas nationalism and pride. Over two and a half million people visit the Alamo every year; it is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Texas (Hinton 153). Many aspects of popular culture have re-created the events that took place at the Alamo because it is such a significant part of United States history. The Battle of the Alamo was an extremely important event in the Texas Revolution because it served as the turning point: it sparked the desire for revenge, causing ...

1. In questioning the ways that the Romans can be considered to have been heirs to Greek and Hellenistic civilization it becomes evident that there were various cultural influences that the Greek's idea of civilization provided to the Roman identity. In looking at the various aesthetic, cultural, and religious values that were derived from Greek culture, it is evident that there was a profound influence that occurred between the Greek and Roman's point of view. Furthermore, in comparing the answers to this question given by Professor Weber and by Professors Matthews, Platt, and Noble further insight into this relationship ...

Part 1- Race and Media in the Networked Public Sphere

The early newspapers were reminiscent of the gross prejudice and discrimination against African Americans. This form of media formed a basis for cultural and racial stereotyping. This prejudice has spilled over into the twenty-first century where multiple platforms free of government control are available and foster much more open and honest dialogue.

Part 2- The Civil War Legacy of Slavery, Racial Conflict Injustice of the Jim Crowe Days

Although the Civil War had not started as a fight for freedom of slaves, it quickly turned into that and strengthened the Union once they recruited the freed slaves to fight with them. While they won, the deeply rooted racial justice issues were not addressed, and the ...

It is difficult to measure the positive or negative effects of emotional development because for one, young people can only show us physiological differences and for two, many of the psycho-social influences do not manifest themselves until later in life and are then also conglomerations of one another and thereby makes it very difficult to realistically pinpoint causal mechanisms. What is needed however, is to then mark what is a common desire for individuals and parents to have in others and children. Ultimately, maturity is a sufficient umbrella term that could serve as an effective mark, but currently, modern ...

A typically developed ten-year-old becomes stuck in a small space and is not found and rescued for ten hours. A ten-year-old child understands their bodies natural needs of eating, drinking, and relieving oneself. Once the child realizes they are unable to free themselves, panic would be the first response, most likely followed by screaming for help. Each hour the child is stuck will add to the panic and despair felt by the child. Once someone has located the child, they will be able to reassure the child that help is on the way, and depending of the extent of ...

QUESTION A

As shown in the American Fact Finder, segmentation is much depicted among groups existing in market. The segmentation varies between groups but remains the same among the groups. Four primary bases can be used for segmentation within the consumer market: Geographic: This is based on regional variables that affect characteristics of individuals. These include climate, population density, population growth rate and region (McDonald & Dunbar, 2013).

Psychographic: This is based on value, lifestyles and attitudes Behavioral: This include usage rate and patterns, benefits sought and brand loyalty (Burkard, 2013). In a scenario where I am the marketing manager, the two ...

IT Today is a startup venture that intends to provide 24/7 customer service to those who deal with newest technological gadgets. It will give technological assistance along with assistance in networking across the globe. This paper will make a situation analysis for the company using certain popular industry analysis tools.

Market Segmentation

There are mainly four types of market segmentation through which a company can identify its customer needs and define its market segments. In the current scenario, it is advisable for ‘IT Today’ to adopt behavioral segmentation to define its market segments. As Goyat (2011) defines, behavioral segmentation is the ...

This paper will focus on The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It will address the purpose, history, and possible future implications for the act. It will also address legislation that has occurred since the enactment, consequences for employees and employers, and the opinion as to its fairness. Several laws were passed prior to the ADA banning discrimination. Laws prohibiting employment discrimination against minorities, gender, age, and religious persuasion, had been enacted, but none had specifically addressed those with disabilities. The ADA was first signed into law in on July 26, 1990 by President George H.W. Bush. (U.S. Department of ...

Executive Summary

Marketing concepts represent valuable resources that can support marketers in designing marketing strategies for their products. The case of Ted Baker retailer in Leeds indicates how marketing strategies, such as marketing mix, segmentation or differentiation can impact the performance of its product, Ted Baker Bowicon Large Bag. This reports analyses the marketing mix used for Ted Baker Bowicon Large Bag, with the purpose of identifying if the utilized blend of product, price, placement and promotion is suited for the examined product. Based on the identified marketing mix, the report further discusses the targeted segments and their compatibility with the ...

Honor without sincerity in any circumstance is evident in the behavior and choices that are made by the individual who claims to have admiration and value. In the story “Everyday Use” by well-known African American author Alice Walker; evidence of insincere honor is displayed by one of the characters of the story. Dee, one of the sister’s in the story shows the lack of honor through her skewed sense of pride in the family heritage she has run from. The purpose of the following essay provides evidence of honoring one’s origin with sincerity as being more important ...

Made In China: Chinese Artistic Representations of Capitalist Consumption

In this exhibition, themes of appropriation and authenticity play themselves out in the works of Chinese artists Ai Wei Wei, Tamen, and Liu Bolin. Ai Wei Wei challenges us to reconsider what is authentic and what is consumerism. Liu Bolin’s works represents consumerism in the style of the vacation postcard — except in his photographs, the figure is camouflaged, evocative of the notion of China incorporated into a culture, but not identified. Ta Men’s paintings evoke the original anecdote of authenticity and food in the North American imagination. Chinese art that represents capitalist consumption brings to mind two ...

The hardship and constant struggle of life make the human relationship stronger and more mature. If the person is satisfied from inner, he does not need any kind of material pleasure. Even in meagre earning, and other hardship of the life, the person can be satisfied and mentally stable if he learns to measure the value of love and sacrifice. This is the major ideology on which the two stories “The Gift of The Maggi” by O Henry (William Sidney Porter) and second is “A Worn Path by Welty Eudora can be analysed. Finding our happiness in the happiness ...

Abstract

Shakespeare’s plays ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘Hamlet’, both tragedies have at their crux a strained relationship between the parents and their children. It is this strained relationship that causes a rift between them and ultimately leads to many of the decisions that the children make. Hamlet has a love-hate relationship with his mother that colors his views on other women and Juliet has a very formal relationship with her parents. Marrying Romeo is more of a teenage rebellion against her oppressive parents. In the two plays it is the rather dysfunctional and strained parent-child relationship that forms the ...

Introduction

Sport is one of the recognized means of promoting individual and communal health and wellness. However, the goal of deaf sports goes beyond this simple understanding to a more sophisticated form of social interaction. It is estimated that “one in every 1000 children” possess acute hearing loss at birth (Hopper). The diminished hearing capability during the formative years considerably hampers the acquisition of speech and language skills in individuals. Thus, the majority of deaf people exhibit stunted growth in cognitive, social and academic levels. This scenario changed radically with the advent and extensive adoption of deaf sports across the ...

Each individual encounters the challenge of pleasing others in their lives. However, striving to please others is an exhausting treadmill that leads to micromanaging of relationships, conversations, and situations. However, at times people may strive to please people without understanding the adverse impact these actions will have on their lives. Striving to make everyone happy leads to self-pity, discouragement, and relational stress. Christians in particular have a challenge in establishing a balance between pleasing others and pleasing God. Choosing to please God over man is the ideal manner in which Christians should live.

Paul said in Galatians 1:10, “If I ...

Change is necessary for any institution and people need to learn to live with it. In all institutions, there is a threat of competition and to remain relevant change is necessary. In health care change is common, and nurses with their busy schedules and their need to provide quality in caring for the ailing can cause them to be anxious. It is significant to create plans to include the staff in nursing, in the change process from the start. Nurses require understand because the changes and involving them in the process from the beginning to the implementation.To adjust to change, ...

Ashford University

In the analysis of personal organizational ethics, it is important to consider the identification of the key problems that relates to the business ethics of the organization. With these two organizations, the Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc and Jollibee Foods Corporation, both have its key problems. The key problems are the core targets to evaluate the stands of the organizations, how they responded to the problems legally, socially, and politically. Consequently, from the individual responses of the organizations on legal, social, and political perspectives, ethnographic researchers can provide reflections and criticisms of their actions based on the ...

The Walgreen Company Profile and Objective:

Walgreens is a pharmacy-led health, wellbeing and beauty enterprise. It was first established in 1901, the company has grown into the nation’s largest reputation chain through matchless customer service and nationwide store network. Walgreens is distributing its products and services to the all nooks and ...

The United States has always been a nation of immigrants, but not all of them have been welcomed or received the same opportunities for a better life. The difference in treatment is explained by the concept of whiteness, which has evolved since colonial days. The immigrant group that set the standards of whiteness was the Protestant, White American who could trace his ancestry to the first Anglo-Saxon settlers. During the nineteenth century immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe began to make their way to American industrial cities such as Chicago. While these immigrants fared much better than the African slaves who ...

The poem “Boat in the Fog” written by Robinson Jeffers in 1924 talks about human life and existence, and its worthlessness compared with the excellent creation that exists in nature. Jeffers also talks about the everyday events of human beings that they find as very important, like sports activities and the Hollywood actors and actresses, the music industry, but they are really not very significant when compared with the importance of nature and how God created the balance in the world. Thus, the poem, is about human existence and how humans believe that they are the most important ingredient ...

Financial Accounting

Answer 1)

Referring to the ratios calculated of both the companies, having an overview indicates that the competitor of Tyson Foods, i.e. Pilgrim Pride Corp is more profitable company. The latter company is operating with high net profit margins of 6.53% as against 2.26% net margin of Tyson Foods. Not only net profit margins, Pilgrim Pride knows how to keep its shareholders happy. The company is operating with high return on equity of 45.87%, while Tyson Foods has significantly low Return on Equity of 12.74%. Pilgrim pride also has high Return on Total Assets, indicating that ...

Introduction

The lion is a member of the cat family. However, this animal is significantly different because more often than not, it does not display the typical characteristics of the cat family members. One of the least typical traits of the cat family members is sociality. This trait is however one of the most exciting aspects of the life of a lion. In fact, this aspect cannot be overemphasized seeing that most of the other cats are not social at all. The aim of this presentation is to explore this exciting aspect, that is the social behavior and structure of lions, in ...

Vernacular Architecture – Hassan Fathy

ABSTRACT

Before his death in 1989, Hassan Fathy proved a leader and innovator in a particular focus on vernacular architecture inspired by his intention to rediscover and use the traditional materials of the desert dwelling Arab of his beloved Egypt. In his journey, he realized the importance of the spirit of culture, of community, and of the roots of Islam influence on the best sustainable architecture of the desert dwelling Muslim in the community setting. Tasked with creating the design and development of a community for several thousand displaced people from the old Gourna village Fathy incorporated the poverty of the ...

- Introduction

1.1 Premise Understanding the motivations of sport consumers has become increasingly important to researchers, marketers and organizers of mega events worldwide. Because factors of motivation drive sport attendance of mega sporting events such as International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) World Cup tournaments directly, it has been suggested that they can provide insight about future attendance at these events. Mega sport events play a powerful role in projecting a desired image for the host nation that can go far beyond the event, especially in light of economic consequences and travel tourism following the sports tournament. The purpose ...

Argentina is the eighth largest country in the world and is located in Latin America, which means its culture, also known as cultura rioplatense (River Plate culture from the name of the River Plate Basin region, where the country is situated), is a result of intermixture of the extremely diverse European immigrant and local cultures ("Culture of Argentina"). It is deemed that historically the prevalent impact on the Argentine culture was made by the Spanish rule and Roman Catholic traditions. At the same time, although the migration of Europeans led to the demise of the indigenous culture, their influence is ...

Vans - Sales Promotion and Personal Selling

Vans utilize consents and giveaways to market its products. It is worth noting that the company use contests to attract the young generation into buying their products. In fact, the giveaways build relationship between the retailers and the consumers, as well as the company. The contests encourage individuals to go online and buy the products of the company. The gi9ve ways create a platform whereby the consumers focus on buying the brand of the company. The contest is carried out in various countries and involve retailers to participate. Analytically, the contests tale place in the best season of the year, ...

Introduction

Wheat! Wheat!!! One of the most significant but neglected crops in the US and the whole globe. This is because most of the readily and mouthwatering foods available are mostly from wheat. Most of the diets in most American countries are usually comprised of wheat. For example most of the Americans are known to have a strong attachment with foods such as pizza, bread and pastas. But this has changed over the last few decades. This is because most farmers have since stopped growing wheat in the US. The reasons for my project is to have funds that will enable me ...

Introduction

Costco, the third largest retailer chain in the U.S. and the seventh largest retailer in the world, has significantly grown in the last ten years, a critical period disrupted by the great recession, e-commerce revolution, and global competition. Although a big number of retailing enterprises failed to survive the difficult challenges of the decade, Costco demonstrated an outstanding revenue growth performance over its key competitors – Wal-mart (includes Sam’s Club), BJ’s, Target, Sears, and JC Penney. However, based on an analysis of the 10-year financials of Costco and its key competitors, the profit performance of Costco has not ...

Advantages and disadvantages of Licensing: The Case of Walt Disney Consumer Products, DCP

Introduction

Walt Disney owns and runs the affiliate Walt Disney consumer products, DCP, that extends the organizations main brand, Disney, to merchandise including books, magazine, stationery, animation art, electronics and books through the organization’s lines of business; Disney fashions, Disney foods, Disney toys, Disney health and beauty and the Disney stationery (Jalan, 2008). As a licensor, the organization provides licensing services to foreign companies willing to market the Disney product in various nations, most of which are located in Europe and Asia. Disney Corporation holds and maintains the product ownership through patenting, and only allows the client to ...

In life, it is not always easy to identify oneself with a particular quality or features. Despite this fact, it is easier to count on oneself than counting on the other. This is contrary to the fact that knowing yourself is one of the toughest things in this society. However, despite the difficulty in characterizing myself, I have been able to identify pertinent features that have made me who I am. Wait a minute!! These features not only portray me as a person with positive personality but also brings out the negative side of me. This is sometimes referred to as being ...

An emotion regulation refers to the ability of a person to manage constructively and cope with his or her feelings. It can also be defined as means the process by which a person influence the emotions to have, when and how to experience the emotions. Individuals respond or express emotions in three ways. These ways are behavioural, experiential or physiological. Behavioural response means outward manifestation of emotions while experiential response implies internal reaction to an emotion. On the other hand, physiological response is body reaction to an emotion. Emotion regulation can occur prior to emotional response, antecedent focussed, or after emotional ...

Business

Introduction Marketing forms an integral part of organizational performance directed towards sustaining its growth and performance within the industry of operation. Organizations inculcate marketing as a tool for ensuring product awareness and capturing extensive markets through varied tools of operation. The tools emanating from marketing principles are crucial for ensuring plausible sales within the business. Thus, this paper will evaluate the marketing aspects of the operation through a case evaluation of Aha Beverage Company. - Develop the company's branding, pricing, and distribution strategy.

Branding denotes giving a business a distinctive branding that will focus on labeling and product packaging. A ...

Plan: Differences

Audience: Students struggling in their lives Purpose: To inform and entertain their mind on the power of humility Categories of Comparison: Personal life, way of talking and teachings Brainstorm: Comparison paragraph rough draft

At that time, the religious leaders and the teachers of the very arrogant, proud and, they were attention seekers. They demanded re from the people of the world especially by uplifting themselves and their social status above the rest of the people. Their teachings were riddled with pride and arrogance only similar to that of leaders who the world, who were interested ...

Introduction

The current era of entrepreneurship is known as the era of technology and industrialization as both of these things are some of the essentials for the growth of an entity. Organization is a place in which number of departments work together for the achievement of a single and pre-specified goal in particular and among them, the name of Marketing department is one of them (Burrow, 2008, pp. 22-29).

Marketing department is the one which is used to present the products in front of the customers and it is one of the most effective departments from the viewpoint of an organization. There ...

The Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc or VF is working aggressively with other partners in innovating sustainable solutions to end human trafficking and the modern day slavery. VF is offers specialized services to the victims and their families, advocates for lasting changes, and builds social movements to fight human trafficking, exploitation, and domestic servitude.

History

Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc or VF is a Non Government Organization or NGO in the Philippines. It was established in 1991 regarded extensively in the innovation of sustainable solutions to end the modern day slavery totally. The founder and executive director of VF is Maria Cecilia Flores-Oebanda. ...

Introduction

The self is the way in which one perceives oneself. The self is influenced by self-concept, self-esteem, self-efficacy and the social self. Self-concept is the idea of the self and is derived from various factors such as personality traits, how one looks or thinks about their looks, their personal values, life ambitions and their role or place in life (Fournier, 2010). The self begins at an early age where children begin to understand themselves in the context of the social world. This developmental process is affected largely by how they relate to friends/ mentors and parents. As the child ...

Company Overview

Danone Groupe is one of the largest multinational corporations in the globe. The company, which was formed in France and later on moved to United States, operates in various countries, including: United Kingdom, India, Israel, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Turkey, among others. In the United States, it operates under the name The Dannon Company, which was modified when the owners moved the company into the country to make it sound more “American.” Over the years, the company has merged with various companies, which is one of the main impetuses for the rapid growth of the company in the global market. ...

Age: 32 years

Sex: Female

Marital Status: Married

Occupation: House wife

No. of children: 6

Religion: Islam

Gulsanga Sodozai is a female villager in Andkhoy, Afghanistan. Andkhoy is a town/village in the northern Afghanistan in Faryab Province. The population of the area according to the census in 2004 is 37,100. The town is located at the northern part of the province having the national border with Turkmenistan (“Andkhoy”).

Source adopted:”Map of Afghanistan”.

Figure 3 Map of Andkhoy

Source adopted: “Andkhoy”

The town was first founded by Alexander The Great. It was remained the part of Bokhara but ...

The article, ‘Koreas trade fire; island residents in shelters’ talks about how North and South Korea have deepened animosity against each other. They have done this by firing missiles into each other’s territorial waters. This article also explains how leaders of the two countries have been making war rhetoric to each other. It goes on to state how Pyongyang’s threat to fire at his neighbor drew wide international condemnation. In addition, the article talks about how the two countries’ rivalry has driven their citizens to temporary shelters because their homes have been destroyed and they fear ...

Introduction

As a writer, I have come to appreciate the exciting and lifting moment when my mind connects with the thoughts of another, through his or her piece of writing, which enriches the my experience of the world and the area of study. Further, it is because I – don’t only – get the opportunity to read the author’s piece, but I also get the chance to explore his or her true intention through the language and the literary devices employed. The overall purpose of the writer, about the piece they are writing, determines the techniques they adopt, as ...

Product Support of Mission Statement

The mission statement of our company is mentioned below,

“We enable consumers to improve the quality and convenience of their lives by providing high-quality, innovative electronic solutions”

- The company has selected small appliances for their business portfolio because the electronic appliance which the company is intending to launch is perfect and effective at the same time. The company feels that they are very much effective and successful in the small appliance market in total and their engineers are doing the same thing in total. However, the current marketing plan of the company is not very effective. ...

Marketing is a very essential activity when it comes to business success. It involves not only reaching out to the customers of a product, but also to get them purchase the product. An organization should be able to reach out to its targeted customers through the various methods of marketing. There must be a strategic plan on how an organization should market its products to the market (Pride, 2006). Many organizations have delegated this duty to the sales and marketing department within the company whereas in many cases, this duty is assigned to a specialist in marketing just like in auditing (Pride, 2006). ...

All religions in the world believe in the existence of an all-powerful and all-good God. They believe that God created all things on earth. Evil is also a thing. There is so much anguish and suffering on earth that critics have questioned whether God created evil or not. Questions have been asked that if God is Almighty and all-knowing then why did He create disasters, diseases and wars to inflict excruciating pain on man. So if God is all-good and all-powerful why does evil exist? These are some of the fundamental questions that Augustine seeks answers. Additionally, he also writes ...

1.It is true that agriculture has been one of the greatest inventions in the history of mankind due to the impacts it has brought to the world. Due to the competition between humans and animals agriculture has brought dependence and food security against the ever diminishing natural resources. Agriculture led to the invention of fire that has had substantial positive effects on the human livelihood in terms of domestication and other uses of fire. The invention of transport and communication means has also had big and positive impacts on the human life to a bigger magnitude. These inventions have enabled ...

Introduction

Naturalistic studies of children are special for those who have an interest in understanding childhood development. Children grow up in a social world within complex networks of relationships with others. It is within these social networks that they learn and develop their power of understanding, ability to communicate, sense of self, adjustment and power of coping with stress and changes. We are able to study children in a situation that have real emotional significance to them. This situation helps them make rational decision and choices that help to develop their critical thinking and decision-making. This also helps to study the aggressiveness ...

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, The Cask of Amontillado, is a confession of a murder that occurred 50 years prior, whereby the narrator was never caught or tried despite his wrongdoing. It tells of one man’s hatred against an unsuspecting individual, whom the narrator has been plotting to kill because of alleged insults the individual made towards him (Baraban 47). All throughout the story, it was never revealed what these remarks were, but which apparently wounded the narrator’s ego so much that he wanted to exact vengeance on the person. Betrayal is also a central theme in the story ...

While The Odyssey features Poseidon and the other gods largely guiding and punishing Odysseus, he does tend to bring about these outcomes through his actions. While he is a skilled strategist, often his pride gets in the way of sound strategy and he ends up making awful decisions to repair his ego. For example, his worst decision is fuelled by his pride; the decision to tell the Cyclops his name as he departs. He says that no one can defeat the "Great Odysseus," when, up until then, the Cyclops did not know his name. Having defeated and blinded ...

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 ...

Introduction

Afrocentrism requires that we examine aspects of African culture from an African perspective. Professor Molefi Keta Asante argues that the purpose of Afrocentrism is to “encourage black nationalism and ethnic pride as a psychological weapon against destructive and depilating effects of universal racism”. By extension, Afro centrism offers an alternative view of the world that analyzes the popular western view proposed by European scholars. Although the premise of Afrocentric ideas is the argument the genesis of civilization from Egypt was a black civilization, it also proposes for the reexamination of some of the traditions and way of life of traditional ...

There are two main reasons why nuclear energy has been attractive in the discussions of global energy supply. One major reason is the problem of global warming which is the major cause of climate change. For the past 100 years, the earth’s temperature has been increasing due to the gradual increase of heat waves which were trapped in the atmosphere because of the large amounts of greenhouse gases (Cravens 8). There are many problems and treats that are associated with global warming such as societal, economic and environmental problems. Another main reason is the reduced dependency on fossil ...

Ernest Hemingway is one of the celebrated modern American writers in the realm of World literature who has every privilege to be called a legend. He has authored a number of diverse narratives and short stories. He is famous for his two main and critically acclaimed novels, A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Both the novels project the war heroes, the passionate love and the inevitable climaxes that draw in wide public attention. One who reads the novels of Hemingway finds in him a superb craftsman, a great story- teller and also a thinker who has striven to give artistic ...

Introduction

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was a prominent American playwright who was born in 1930 in Chicago and died at the age of 34 in New York City. She was also a renowned stage director and civil rights activist. As a Black-American woman growing up during the depression, her life was characterized by the negatives that accompany slavery and gender discrimination. However, it was this same restricting environment that shaped her writing career because she was able to capture the struggles and conflicts within black families in her works. Her most prominent work of literature is A Raisin in the Sun which derives its ...