Essays on Triumph

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 ...

Introduction

The United States of America represents one of the most democratic nations in the world based on the history of the country. Americans have advocated for democracy through a number of movements that aimed at uniting or disintegrating Americans based on their agenda and goals. One of the issues that affected U.S. in the past and continues to portray its significance today is the discrimination against race, ethnicity, and color. White people felt as if they owned the country and looked for strategies to get rid of blacks through denying them some basic needs and using violence means to ...

When I was accepted into the program, I intended to work hard, get good grades and start my career. But my dreams were interrupted by devastating losses that ultimately cost me my financial aid. I am therefore appealing this decision, first, on the grounds of compassion since the loss of both my parents within a two-month span prompted me to drop a class and, second, due to the fact that the loss of financial aid will make it all but impossible for me to finish my studies. One of the things I have learned since suffering the loss of ...

Sarcophagus with the triumph of Dionysos is one of the most important specimens of the sculptural art of the Roman era. There are many other unique items of the Late Antiquity, which were dedicated to Dionysus; however, the sarcophagi represent a particular elegance and high quality. In 1972, the sarcophagus was bought out and is now exhibited at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It was made of marble in AD 190– 210 in the Roman Empire (Hägele, 2013, p. 107). In addition, it has a large size: 77.5 x 208cm (Hägele, 2013, p. 107). Most likely ...

For a moment there I grappled with whether to critique Mellody Hobson’s Ted Talk, “Color Blind or Color Brave?” because of its powerful content and almost impeccable delivery, but Lupita Nyong’o’s speech on Black Beauty at the 7th Annual Essence Black Women in Hollywood seduced me by its honesty, its content, its simplicity and its quiet power. Despite a runny nose that would have normally been overly distracting, Nyong’o wields her audience past the sniffles in to her story, to her inadequacies, her hope, her conquest, her triumph and to a call to action. The ...

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The Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is a popular, interesting and entertaining science fiction film. Its popularity even to this day can be attributed to how the makers of the film portrayed the mythic characters, especially of Luke Skywalker who is the main hero in the epic story. For one, the Star Wars (1977) was considered as a groundbreaking movie, and much of its success can be credited to how George Lucas introduced Luke, his family background and ultimately the events that leads him to take the central role in the story. Just like most movie heroes, ...

Humanistic model claims that the knowledge, skills and abilities (competencies) are perceived not only as a learning objective, but also as a means of development and implementation of creative students. Humanistic pedagogy teaches relevant to each individual child as a value. It tends to be a so-called "free education”, so try to adjust to the type of egalitarian relations in the educational community and partner interaction style of senior and junior. The humanistic model of education focuses on the variability of educational programs and the implementation of individual educational trajectories. Humanistic understanding of education and training processes allows to ...

Reading Summary about Fanon

According to Fanon, nationalist parties aim at mobilizing people in the spirit of independence (97). These parties do not have economic agendas for the nation because of their lack of an idea about their country’s economic status. Nationalist parties always operate on academic and approximate knowledge of the country’s present and potential resources; thus, they can only talk about the economy in the abstract sense. After independence, bourgeoisies undergo considerable stagnation due to the lack of capital and inability to adapt to the road to revolution. Scarce managerial talent and precarious resources force bourgeoisies to focus on ...

This paper is to research the nature of documentary films, their history and theory. Documentary films are movies with close-to-reality plots. The themes of documentary films are often thoroughly chosen and arranged according to the unknown things of the world. The documentaries give the audience the lessons and warning about the peculiarities of the arrangement of different things. Many components of the films are analyzed through the impact they carry along with background voices and meaning of the scenes. These components are timbre, gender, texture, tone etc. They have connotative meanings similarly to those which modes of documentary films ...

In simple terms, Gattaca, a 1997 movie, can be described as a sci-fi adventure that is combined with a crime narrative. The viewer is treated to a relentless action throughout the movie as the police engage in a search for a murder. As the story unfolds, the viewer’s attention is turned to a young lad known as Vincent, also named ‘Jerome’ by his workmates. Vincent is trying to overcome his biological challenges that he was born with in his quest to become an elite astronaut in a space program run by Gattaca Corporation. As the two stories unfold ...

Q1. Why do you believe cities are thriving today?

Thesis of the Statement We will be studying about the developments of the urban cities of present days. The reasons why they are thriving today and what are the benefits of these developments on the economy.

Introduction

The reason was that people went to settle or find job in those cities where there was modern facilities, entertainment, prospect to rise. If we see the data we will find that mostly cities that are besides any water body like sea or ocean mostly those cities thrived fast due to trade. Trading with different countries was an important source of income for ...

Public Relations (PR), is at its most dynamic when it is used to handle a crisis situation, since, a crisis can make or break an organizations reputation that has been built strategically over a period of time, the case study of BP’s Gulf Mexico Oil spill is a major PR disaster that was handled inefficiently and BP paid the price both monetarily and most significantly the image was severely tarnished. The company in question Carnival Cruise Lines has been known for bungling the cruise experience and the disasters that have hit the cruise line are the fire in ...

Nationalism is defined as the devotion that a particular person has towards his country. It is widely described as a sense of belonging that many people feel important. This sense of belonging allows the person to put primary interest to the nation. Many historians differentiate nationalism from patriotism by saying that nationalism is a state of belonging that people have over a country that is not yet free while patriotism is the love and loyalty for a country that is free. Arab nationalism is the state that arose among the Arab-speaking nations which felt the necessary urge to unite ...

People now struggle to be unordinary as the modern world requires us to be. David Cope is one of those who did managed to compose something that can wow humanity today; fortunately or not, he came into another understanding of the word “creativity”. “In his view, all music — and, really, any creative pursuit — is largely based on previously created works. Call it standing on the shoulders of giants; call it plagiarism. Everything we create is just a product of recombination” (Blitstein). David Cope is the one who combined the artificial intelligence and music. We are told that he tried ...

Culture:Roman

Medium:Marble Dimensions:Overall: 34 x 85 x 36 1/4 in. (86.4 x 215.9 x 92.1 cm)

Classification:Stone-Architectural-Inscribed

Credit Line:Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1955 Accession Number:55.11.5 The magnificent, highly detailed and splendid in design Late Roman marble sarcophagus displayed in Metropolitan Museum of Art immediately draws viewers attention. The exhibit is extremely well preserved for the work dated A.D. 260–270, it is clear even for non-professional eye. The museum records state that ‘it has been preserved almost intact and only a few of the minor extremities are now missing’. The literature available in the museum collection also states that ‘originally it ...

The poem “Home-Baked Brad” is about femininity and it deals with the writer’s feelings towards cooking. There is symbolism as well because the role of women is depicted by bread. This product baked by women represents the warmth that only women have. The author of this poem, Sally Croft is trying to make the readers visualize the feminine desire and the sense of power as well as tenderness. The woman in this poem embraces her role of the caretaker in a household. She is a traditional woman and is good at cooking which is a way for her ...

Half the House Book Review

Introduction Half the House: Memoir is a cutthroat masterpiece by Richard Hoffman, and it was first published in the year 1995. The book was then republished in 2005 with an afterword added to the memoir in 1996. Hoffman claimed that the book was nonfiction and the scenes described in the book were experiences he underwent in his childhood life. However, the names of the characters have been altered safely for the name of the football coach that had sexually molested him in his childhood. The book describes the hardships Hoffman faced in the hands of the ruthless society, his ...

Introduction

Richard Hoffman wrote Half the House: Memoir, and it was first published in the year 1995. The book was then republished in 2005 with an afterword added to the memoir in 1996. Hoffman claimed that the book was nonfiction and the scenes described by the book were experiences he underwent in his childhood life. However, the names of the characters had been altered safe for the name of the football coach that had sexually molested him in his childhood. The book describes the hardships Hoffman faced in the hands of the ruthless society, his poor family, and an abusive ...

My generation rarely likes classical music. More specifically, my friends most often do not like classical music. Today, it is extremely rare to meet a person who is in his 25 keen on classical music. Mostly, people do not know how to interpret it on their own. No one said them how to do that when they were kids. When they get more adult, they start believing that classical music is real boredom. Having no musical training, we pay attention to only the first impression of the music, and for spoiled with popular culture, classical music seems very boring. ...

Fables often bring about interesting morals that help to shape the way persons shape their actions. The story of “Cinderella” shows readers that good will always triumph over the evil of the society. Cinderella is symbolic of the number of challenges that children face in the society today. Many children have been left in the care of step-parents because of death, divorce, or personal choices on the part of one biological parent. The challenge is great as a number of step-parents face conflicting emotions in dealing with their biological children and the new child. In addition, some step-parents become ...

1.Journal article review "Political violence, ethnic conflict, and contemporary wars: broad implications for health and social well-being" shows that the historical memory of a specific community exists along with individual memory. It acts as a mechanism of social experience translation so D.Pedersen presents “psychosocial consequences of the various forms of political violence against individuals, communities, or specific ethnic groups” (Pedersen, 2002, p.175). Individual memory is based on the historical virtue because any person borrows the national memory. Further, these memories are selected, collated and categorized on the basis of personal experience, ideas, values ​​and attitudes. The historical memory includes ...

Abstract

This paper challenges the notion of traditional leadership. Rather than focus on the industrious, problem-solving nature typically associated with leaders, this paper explores a newer concept of leadership, which involves providing catalysts for change, as well as managing the anxiety and distress that inevitably appears as a result of groundbreaking change. It seeks to explore a various strands while settling on a unique definition of leadership. The paper features three separate leadership theories that have influenced the construction of this particular definition. The three leadership styles that are examined are as follows: Authentic, Servant and Transformational Leadership. The paper ...

James Baldwin wrote the short story Sonny’s Blues in 1957 and one of the main themes in it is music. The story is about the relationship between two brothers who lost their parents and the older one takes care about the younger one, Sonny. Music is about expressing feelings and Sonny is a person who is very emotional and prone to the feeling of sadness, which is why he finds comfort in music that takes away all the pain. The narrator is the older brother and he is a serious man who teaches algebra in school. Sonny is ...

All children grow up in the magical world of fairy tales that have been so gripping and inspiring. Most of the legends are about challenges and tough times plus how the main character deals with injustices in their lives. Although the primary motive behind telling those fairy tales is pure entertainment for children, the tales are well known as a literary genre. Thus, there is a lot more to those fairy tales as they have a lot to offer to people of all age groups. The setting of the storyline sis simple in nature and magical. The characters are ...

Wilt Thou not revive us again?

The concept of revival for the nation of Israel is often uniting once more with their God. Israel is notorious for forgetting the ways of God and following strange gods or falling into sinful ways. Every time God is unable to bear the unfaithfulness of His people, he would inflict them with some form of hardship. For example, occupation by a foreign power. The revival that this verse refers to is on these lines. The nation pleads with God to remember the old covenants to their forefathers in Abraham and Jacob. They also place their supplications in the matter ...

People of Renaissance had a fully-fledged and multi-faceted life and attained a high degree of perfection at the same time in different areas of knowledge and art. The aim of this paper is to review the life of one of Italy’s Renaissance men, Benvenuto Cellini and a review of his early work. The best prime years of his work as an artist were the years in which he sculpted the colossal bronze statue of Perseus. According to ancient Greek mythology, Perseus was the son of Zeus, Lord of the Olympian gods, who was attracted by the beauty of ...

Managing Tourism Organization

Introduction Cunard Cruise Line is a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & Plc which is established in 1840 and operated by Carnival UK. The Cunard Cruise Line is a leading cruise line which is providing luxurious and high end quality products to its customers across the globe. The Cunard Cruise Line has recently formulated its marketing strategy which is not aligned with the corporate objectives and mission of the company that is providing luxurious travelling services. The current marketing strategy of the company focuses on providing luxury vacations and destinations; however, the Company also aims to serve the middle class segment ...

6. Examine the idea of heroism in Homer’s Odyssey: what makes Odysseus a hero? Is the Odyssey’s idea of heroism different from our contemporary ideas of heroism? How far is it different and in what ways? 6. Examine the idea of heroism in Homer’s Odyssey: what makes Odysseus a hero? Is the Odyssey’s idea of heroism different from our contemporary ideas of heroism? How far is it different and in what ways? There can be no doubt about the fact that Homer’s Odyssey is one of the most significant works of artistic expression in ...

Consumer behavior includes multiple elements that must be recognized, enumerated, and assessed depending on their specific product or service needs. According to me, the most interesting element of consumer behavior is the cognizance that acts a motivating factor to buy or ignore the product. Consumers make difficult buying decisions, and these buying methods are the main elements of the examination for the marketers. For an emerging expert in consumer behavior the expert must focus on research. Reducing the gap between conventional devices and the new equipment, surveys and feedbacks from the existing and potential consumers are also vital. According to , ...

America is a vast continent with a number of events that mark its history. In seeking to understand this continent, there are those major events that an individual has to understand in depth. These include the war and other notable events worth noting. While America is synonymous with world class power, its history is characterized by both positive and negative events, which take landmark positions in its timeline. This situation being the case, and war is among the primary events, albeit negative, on which the history of America stands. This paper endeavors to explain and illustrate why and how to understand ...

Just a few decades ago, the scientific community considered that the brain is fixed and programmed by nature. There was a consensus that the human brain can only deteriorate with age, but not improve. Today, the discovery of the fact that thoughts can change the individual’s well-being and psychological feelings is the most important achievement in the field of neuroscience over the past four centuries. Scholarly findings on the self-improvement potential of the human brain can now be used in everyday life, by ordinary people. The theory of thoughts’ influence can be transferred into its active phase by the integration ...

Introduction

In the 19th century, there were many problems faced in the society such as economic depression, corruption in businesses, and labor crisis . Added to these problems, the legalized segregation, and racial violence wherein local law enforcements never exercise their responsibility intended for the issues in the society. Both Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were frontrunners in the presidential election in 1912 with progressive philosophies, attitudes, and theories.

A Republic means nothing unless there is triumph of a real democracy. The triumph of a popular government, and economic system with guaranteed opportunity to every person. The success is great when the nation ...

Many people are unaware that they are a living magnet. They attract everything around them. This includes people, ideas, lifestyles, and other circumstances (Evans, 2006, p. 26). “I absolutely think that happiness is a choice. One of the most potent forces in human psychology is the power of habit. Do something, think something, and often enough it will become the only thing you can do or think. Choose to be unhappy and soon that’s all you will be. Live in a swamp and you’ll grow webbed feet” (Evans, 2005). This famous quote by Nicholas Evans explains that your life ...

Summary: This memo report intends to inform you on important updates about the printing and publication industry in India and how it connects to your business. It will cover important aspects of your business such as competition, recent activities, growth projections of the industry, legislation affecting the industry among other important points.

Introduction

The printing and publication industry in India is expected to grow at a high and increasing rate. The high demand for printing services in India is attributed to; the bigger knowledge of English language, increase in the level of literacy, the aged anxiety for knowledge and the rising ...

1. How are the demographics of the United States changing at present? How might these changes effect inter-ethnic relations in the US? And how could such effects be shaped in part by the structure of city infrastructure and related public policies? Finally, contrast how order and conflict theorists would differ in their analysis of the general trends you discuss. Make sure you draw on information and arguments from both the Eitzen text and the article by Anderson titled “Cosmopolitan Canopy.” 

Assimilation has been such a powerful theme in U.S. history that in the decades following the rapid industrialization, ...

Hellenistic Civilizations

a. Art form or medium b. Purpose of the piece c. Individual or group responsible for the piece d. Meaning of the work e. The culture and the artist f. Influence by art and culture from previous civilizations g. Relation to artwork within the same civilization or era h. Meaning and value of the piece in modern-day cultures The different art forms and media whether architecture, music, visual art, or literature from different past civilization offer the modern civilization spectacular cultures and pieces that continue to greatly influence and act as a ...

Music in Silent Films

According to Kassabian, music in films has three main functions: first - that it is used for identification, then for setting the mood, and finally as a form of commentary for the film (53-56). Oftentimes, the type of music used for identification is quite different from the music that is used for setting the mood and making a commentary. In silent films, music is used mostly to set the mood, and to provide unity when there is disconnect between the visual and the auditory when watching a film. The music is the only thing that the viewers hear because the director or ...

English

Analysis of Advertisements According to Fowles’s Categories and Their Effectiveness with Bovee et al. Under Fowles’s list of fifteen emotional appeals, “giving form to people’s deep-lying desires and picturing states of being that individuals privately yearn for, advertisers have the best chance of arresting attention and affecting communication,” while Bovee et al (1989), suggests “that an effective sales pitch contributes to the advertising’s appeal to customers.” ‘The Time’ magazine, dated January 31, 2011, has quite a few news breakers, but one distinct advertisement that draws the attention of most of its readers is the one ...

Using the Service Encounter Model to Enhance Our Understanding of Business-To-Consumer Transactions in an eEnvironment

Nelson Massad and Kevin Crowston What the article is about: Internet plays a progressively greater role in human life. Currently it is complicated to think about a person who is not aware of the terms “search engine”, “site” or “Web Page”. It was noted that the number of Internet users increases annually, so the number of customers, who wish to have the access to a huge amount of information on different products and services through service providers, also increases. Today the number of online start-ups and complement companies is magnifical, so consumers can do business with such providers, but they ...

Introduction

According to Jowett & O’Donnell (1), propaganda is a method of communication which tries to elicit a response that propagates the desired intention of the propagandist. The art of propaganda has been studied in an array of multidisciplinary researches in the fields of journalism, sociology, history, political science and psychology. To study the art of propaganda as history means examining propagandist practices as distinct events and the resultant events as likely effects of propaganda. Nazi films were predominantly propagandist in that they aimed at influencing attitudes on life in a given context, and in terms of particular people and events. Perhaps the ...

World war Z is a real surprise. The zombie wars came very close to the point of eradicating humanity. With a high level of brilliance, Max Brooks takes us through the urgency of experiencing the acid-etched first-hand information about the experiences of the zombie wars survivors from the apocalyptic years. He opted to travel across the United States and the world at large, from the most remote and inhospitable areas of the world to the decimated cities that once filled up with more than thirty million souls. All along this journey Brooks managed to capture the stories and testimonies of men ...

Essay for Lesson 5: Hitler and the Aestheticization of Politics

Introduction One of the reasons behind the success of the Nazi Party in taking over Germany is on its extensive use of propaganda. Adolf Hitler, known for his penchant for populism, rendered the strong impact of images, films and other materials attributed to Nazism as essential for the political success of the Nazi Party and its agenda for Germany. As an authoritarian leader, Hitler saw the importance of extracting the patronage of the Germans not through forceful means, but through convincing and motivating measures that enticed their mental faculties. To make such a vision possible, Hitler commissioned the talents of ...

Titian or Tiziano Vercelli was probably one of the most famous artists of his time and was certainly an important member of the Florentine school of art which flourished in the 16th century. Vasari seems to have an excellent opinion of Titian, and he describes him as being incredibly prolific and full of artistic prowess especially in his great works. He also mentions the earlier parts of his life where he began painting at the age of 10. Titian’s artistic imagination is perhaps what sets him apart from other artists since he was certainly very innovative and highly ...

An abstract image is something, frequently a question, that stands for a critical notion or arrangement of plans. Frequently an image is significant of the qualities of the characters. In Beowulf, a portion of the most vital images are Hrothgar's mead-corridor, Grendel's hole, Grendel's arm and head, and the mythical beast's fortune trove. Typically, Heorot speaks to the accomplishments of the Scyldings, particularly Hrothgar, and their level of progress. It is a position of light, warmth, and delight, diverged from Grendel's horrible marsh and in addition the dim and icy of winters in Scandinavia. In Heorot, Hrothgar praises his triumphs and prizes ...

Part 1 – Explication:

O: Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deniest me is; I: Mark here means “See” or “Look at”. In this line, the poet brings attention of the reader to an insignificant flea. He relates the small size of the flea to the thing that his beloved has denied him, without knowing that the thing she has denied to him is very little.

O: It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee,

And in this flea our two bloods mingled be. I: He tells that the flea sucked, after sucking his blood, is now sucking hers. He is strangely ...

Abstract

The use of a systematic approach which eliminates wastes by the creation of a flow that is determined by customer pull has greatly transformed process design in organizations. This approach is known as lean thinking while the process of deploying this methodology and achieving its aim is known as the Lean process. This paper describes the concept of the lean process and manufacturing with focus on the Toyota Production System. A brief history and background of the lean process is described and the background of the Toyota Production System is also described.

Introduction

Several organizations today are making the lean process an ...

Today, we are bearing witness to yet a crucial shift in the community beliefs that prefers women who stay at home with their children and take care of them. In the year 1999, the percentage of women having children under the age of 18 who did not work outside the residence stood at 23%. The proportion showed a large increase in the recent years with this percentage standing at 29% in 2012. No doubts that the extra attention has been healthy for the kids and were surely helping them cope with their lives in a better way. The wellbeing of these children ...

Section I

Among the many definitions the term (jihad) is the value of the" war against the infidels in the name of principles or beliefs, which is a sort of terrorism and news media has reached to conclusion that term jihad presents radical Islamist ideology (Ford N.p). The last third of the 20th century was marked by large-scale revival of religious trends in the area of ​​the spread of Islam. In our opinion, to a large extent the activation of the Islamic movement and ideological doctrines of Islam due to the fact that many Muslim countries are often subject to military, political, economic ...

The scope of yellow journalism can be traced to the late 19th century, whereby it was utilized as one of the primary factors that supported the United States and Spain to triumph over Cuba and its ally; the Philippines. In fact, it is through the use of yellow journalism that the United States managed to acquire oversea territories across various realms during the late 19th century. While much has been hypothesized regarding yellow journalism, it is of the essence to note that it mainly connotes to a style of newspaper reporting that does not focus on facts, but over-emphasizes on ...

Afro-American History to 1877

“The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics” is a well written book by James Oakes. James Oakes in his book suggests that both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas fought slavery and stood up for the causes of slaves but they had different ways of fighting against slavery. The author presents thorough details of their working and ideas in his book. Oakes recognizes both of these leaders as reformers but portrays both of these leaders in different perspectives. This paper intends to discuss contributions of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas and how their ...

The westerns forces in mid 18th century needed Japan to open its markets for their merchandise because they needed to utilize Japan as a coaling station for steam engines. By 1856, France, Britain, the Netherlands, and Russia had additionally constrained Japan to sign comparative arrangements. In 1858, the Americans constrained the Japanese to open more ports to exchange arrangements. The settlements stipulated that the Japanese could just charge low import obligations on foreign products. Moreover, remote nationals were excluded from the Japanese law. Understandably, the mortifying settlements were loathed bitterly by the Japanese and called them unequal bargains. Moreover, ...

Nearly 3,000 years since their horrific stories were told in “The Iliad,” the Greek hero Achilles and Hector are still getting incredible literary makeovers. They demarcate a war that has never been experienced in Greek since memorial. In their character, they represent two powerful houses of Troy and Greece. Scholars on literature analysis, for several years, have worked around the clock to discover the origin, participants and the truth about these stories. With their documentary records, they have provided an elaborate synopsis showing the real story with its various characters.

Synopsis

The character traits of the two players can only ...

Introduction

“Into the wild” (1996) by Jon Krakauer and “Lead us into temptation: the triumph of American materialism” (1999) by James B Twitchell are two books with similar themes – the only difference being that one is an antithesis of the other. Before beginning on the journey of the exploring these themes and understanding what each of the author sought to achieve in writing the respective books, let us take a brief look into the story of each of these aforementioned books.

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

“Into the Wild”, though seemingly a fiction, is essentially a non-fiction book, which was written as an extension of an article Jon ...

Question six: Navy stakeholder-opportunities

- Risk assessment for the internal and external operations environment Assessing risk forms one of the major critical aspects of the organization. Organizations face internal and external risks that depend on the type of environment the firm operates. Risk assessment is a decision-making tool used by organizations in determining the best strategies to follow, and those to avoid (Hester 2). Navy should improve its risk assessment and reporting of internal and external controls in order to win a competitive advantage in the diverse business world. The firm must identify its stakeholders and their respective roles in the form, and then ...

Born in Cambodia, Mam rose to a height of being the CEO of Somaly Mam foundation-an anti-sex trafficking NGO. However, her life was soon to be followed by triumph after triumph of fabricated stories. Nevertheless, Abb Sher an award-winning author wholly believes that Mam played a significant role in helping young girls trapped in the sex trade. She tells the riveting stories of how Mam helped three survivors of sexual slavery. Abb Sher brings forth voiceless victims as well as the courageous girls who escaped the ordeal through Somaly Mam foundation. ‘Instead of running from her past, she chose to help ...

Robinsonade literature is literature in the tradition of marooned sailors. It gets its name from the literary work, which sparked the tradition, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. This essay establishes criteria for evaluating whether or not a piece of literature belongs in the Rubinsonade genre. It looks at an accounted of a shipwrecked Japanese sailor. The account, Nankai Kibun translates from Japanese to Sothern Ocean. It is an account of a Japanese sailor who was the only one of his crew to survive and one-day return to Japan. While the Japanese sailor's account is interesting, there are several reasons why it should ...

Abstract

Contemporary business environment demands from organizations more flexibility and higher responsiveness to the external pressures. Management capabilities cannot address these challenges. In the crisis situations, when there is a need to make fast and difficult decisions in difficult situations, companies have to rely on effective leadership to drive organizational development. The history illustrates various examples of the organizations, which are over managed and under led and it is a challenge and the task of the modern corporations to develop an internal framework for development of the leadership capabilities, which can take the organization to success through crisis. One of the ...

1. When was the Peloponnesian war? Who were the chief warring parties? What were the core issues at stake? Who was Thucydides? The Peloponnesian war was started in 431 BC and ended in 404 BC, the Greeks empire and the Spartan allies were the chief warring parties in the war. The core issues at stake in the war were the security and land ownership especially in the expansion of boundaries by the warring parties. Thucydides was an Athenian historian who wrote about the historic war between the Athenians and the Peloponnesians. 2. Who was Alcibiades? Alcibiades ...

Introduction

Steven Spielberg came up with a film meant to illustrate the role played by Lincoln where the abolition of slavery is concerned. On the other hand, Eric Foner saw the need to put this amazing story in writing. Both are award-winning pieces. Lincoln, the film, received much complimentary feedback and got nominated on many forums. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery also received acclamation from the various mediums existent. Given that both the book and the film have received great responses, the question would be which between the two is the most effective. In a highly modernised era, anything ...

Fascism and communism are two ideologies that presented the idea of reaching utopia. While fascism is on the extreme left and communism is on the extreme right, both ideologies believe that it is through the destruction of the world that a new order will be born from. Both ideologies do not see the good in the existence of the bourgeoisie and have endeavored to extinguish it. Lastly, communism and fascism are one in their goal of recruiting members that will compose and work with them in achieving their vision of the new utopia. Fascism had its seed firmly planted ...