Literature Review Examples and Templates

Since the time of the Ancient Greeks, western philosophers like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle -- among countless others -- have wrestled with moral questions in order to establish a more complete picture of ethical theory. Two different disciplines have focused on questions about the moral characteristics, traits, and virtues of people: philosophy and psychology (Doris & Stich, 2006). For all its merits, philosophy does not focus on the scientific method to determine the context of an ethical theory, but the blossoming field of moral psychology utilizes an empirical approach in order to determine how morality fits into a framework built on the ...

Washington Irving is an author and editor of numerous fictional works and short stories. His fictional works, biographies, historical writings and short stories made him achieve international fame. Before his death in 1859 Irving was the United States ambassador to Spain and he used his position to promote international copyright law. Irving is a scholar for he studied law; however he was not an exceptional student, and he barely passed the bar. His writing career began by writing periodicals, whimsical journals and letters. Irving has many writings in his literary career. His works include The Legend of The Sleepy Hollow, ...

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This paper examines the practical nature of the security practices of nation-states. Of great importance is the examination of the relationship between national security and the global capitalist economy. Nations, such as the US, are committed to extending their economic and political power by participating in free trade and free markets1. Contrary to the need to realize the national security objectives, the aspect of realizing the objectives of achieving the objectives that come with global economic growth is subject to contradict with those of realizing enhanced national security. This brings in the subject of defining state identity ...

Seamus Heaney’s poem, “Mid-Term Break,” dramatizes the conflict of denial and acceptance, as the speaker, a boy, returns from school for the funeral of his younger brother. The reader witnesses the literal events as the boy waits at school, returns home to the mourning family, and sees the body of his little brother in the coffin. While the events in the poem seem ordinary and there is little question of what happened, Heaney had good reason to tell this story as a poem and not in prose. A clue to this reason for poetry versus prose comes from literary ...

Throughout Sappho’s poetry, one can hear a vibrant, yet somewhat melancholic voice that brings out sentiments of love and affection correlated with powerful natural imagery. The verses reflect a certain communion between love, reflection, natural symbolism and the act of communicating with the gods. It is both spiritually soothing and enlightening to read Sappho’s poetry, even though the bittersweet feeling of yearning is persistent in her lyrics. At the same time, Sappho’s verses are sensual and daring – no bashful tone resides in her expression of true and powerful emotions. Moreover, a nice feeling of intimacy is established between the ...

1. Robert Frost provides an excellent example of a poet who experienced a long career, going from strength to strength. Accessible and down-to-earth, his work still continues to be popular today. Although much of his material is based in New England, most readers can relate to it as he focusses so accurately on human experience; his themes have not aged over the years and show no sign of aging in the future. “The Road Not Taken” is a famous and well-anthologized poem in the history of American poetry. A common interpretation asserts that the narrator in the poem is upholding ...

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Emergency Hazards Comparison and contrast

Comfort, Hauskrecht, and Lin (2008) presented a dynamic networking modelling system to guide the process of assessing and managing susceptible risks. In their approach, they viewed the entire strategy as involving a multiplicity of diverse but adaptive process to guide the management of the emergency issue. They believed that the responsibility to protect life and property among other operations in a metropolitan region lies in the idea of managing the interactions between resilience and risk. On the other hand, the ‘all hazards approach” presented by Von Lubits, Beakley, and Patricelli (2008) argues that effective ...

INTRODUCTION: Owing to increasing globalization and technological advancements, organizations are looking for different methods and techniques to improve overall productivity and performance. With the passage of time different techniques and strategies have been implemented in this regard. The most recent and discussed techniques in today’s corporate world are of Total Quality Management and Six Sigma. Organizations are implementing the approaches of Total Quality Management and Six Sigma in order to improve the overall quality delivered to the customers. Six Sigma is generally used by the organizations to reduce the wastages associated with different processes and hence reduce ...

1. William Wordsworth’s poem, “She dwelt among the untrodden ways” deals with a woman who lives unnoticed and apart from the rest of the world. She is a woman the speaker loves.The figurative language that indicates this is in his first line, “She dwelt among the untrodden ways” (1). Wordsworth does not mean by “untrodden” that no one ever went to the place the maiden lived, but it implies a rural place that is not alongside any main road. He calls her “A violet by a mossy stone/ Half hidden from the eye!” (5). She is not really a violet, but figuratively like ...

The healing power of retreating to Nature has long been a natural instinct, and its use has been recorded in some of the oldest written literature. In The Epic of Gilgamesh, for example, the quest that Gilgamesh takes forces him out of his own castle and into a long march into treacherous parts of the world. In the New Testament, Jesus often followed up stressful situations, such as speaking to crowds of thousands, by retreating into Nature to meditate and pray. Nature allows for a sense of inner quiet and calm that are just not available in the hubbub of ordinary life. ...

In Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried," an American platoon experiences horror, death and loss in the jungles of Vietnam, all while carrying various objects of both practical and personal significance to them. O'Brien's language in this story, as he delineates and describes in great detail the appearance and source of all of these objects and what they mean to the soldiers, is scattered and stream-of-consciousness at times. This is meant to convey the abstract importance of these things in the soldiers' lives; some of them, like the M-16, are supposed to protect them, while others, like Lt. Cross' ...

Part I. The men in Trifles act like they are professional detectives who are on the track of a deadly killer. Unfortunately, in their haste to look impressive, they forget to check out items in the kitchen, such as the ruined preserves and the dead canary that is wrapped up in the quilting material. These “trifles” would have given them insight into the personality of the murderer, as well as some of the emotional influences she had been undergoing. Rather than look at the “kitchen things,” the men dismiss them, saying that “women are used to worrying over trifles” (10) ...

Bacon’s rebellion worked around the philosophy articulated in the 21st-century based on guiding principles such as the free markets as well as the individuals pursuing to enlighten self-interest is a very efficient means in the allocation of resources and wealth creation most of the time. In addition, the economy’s vitality and community’s well-being will also need collective action, which is based on both civic realm and governmental realm. The government’s involvement is also a necessary ingredient, as success will require constant monitoring. Even at the local and state levels, it could fall prey of organizing special interests ...

Introduction The constantly increasing number of people suffering from heart failure and other chronic conditions is always raising concern about the quality of health services accorded to these people. Admittedly, improving health care has emerged as one of the urgent issues around the world with governments, health care administrators and physicians, just to mention but a few, letting their policy objective be appreciably influenced by the desire to improve health care delivery, particularly for chronic and long term illnesses. This paper aims at describing the best model for care for heart failure. The paper also describes how models of ...

Lack of sleep can affect performance in the paramedics industry (Taheri et.al, 2004). As such, techniques to reduce the impact of this irregularity ought to be developed. Clients’ lives become at risk when functions cannot be executed efficiently due to lack of sleep. This literature review explains the importance/significance of the lack of sleep; describes current state of knowledge available on the issue; offers a critical appraisal of key papers; submits a theoretical or conceptual frame that is useful to guide data collection and/or interpret findings and identifies gaps in current knowledge leading logically to the research question and hypotheses.

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Introduction Cloud Computing Cloud computing applies to the development of parallel computing, distributed computing, and grid computing (Rad, et al., 2009). Cloud computing refers both to a platform and a type of application (Buyya, Yeo, Venugoplas, Broberg, & Brandic 2009). Cloud computing platforms provide the services necessary for developers to create new SaaS applications; it is a dynamic process that provisions, configures, reconfigures, and deprovisions servers. Cloud platforms provide a pool of resources to host different applications where computing power is delivered on demand (Van, Tran, & Menaud, 2009). Cloud applications use large databases and powerful servers that host Internet-based applications and services. ...

I have never read much poetry because it has never been a part of a class before. I find that poetry is a little bit scary because it could be hard to understand what the poet is talking about, kind of like a riddle. If a teacher asked me if I would rather write a short paper about a news article or a poem, I would choose the news article because I understand how news articles are written but I do not know much about poetry.

Even though I do not know much about poetry, I remember once when I was younger a teacher gave us an assignment ...

The inclusion of learners with special needs is gradually becoming a major concern to various governments (Holt, 2004). With the enactment of the Disability Discrimination act of 1992 and changes in community perceptions towards individuals with disability in Australia, mainstream primary educational institutions have had to prioritize children with disabilities’ inclusion (Forbes, 2007). Holt (2004) gives a social model definition of disability as the disadvantage or restriction of activity resulting from contemporary social organization which takes either little or no account of individuals with physical impairments thereby excluding them from mainstream social activities. Generally, children are considered learning disabled if they ...

Question 1 Atticus Finch, although belonging to the white community, defends Tom Robinson, a subjugated black who stands of raping a white woman. Through his actions, Finch promotes equality and liberty, having a simple purpose of having justice served, regardless of race. However, he is opposed by the accusers; Mayella and her father Bob Ewell, while other members of the white community term him a "nigger-lover". In the novel, Bob Ewell is portrayed as a villain. His disregard for other human beings and his uncaring attitude towards his own family reveal that he is a man of limited values. It is his hatred ...

Cardiac arrests in pregnant women are rare – with only one incidence in 30,000 – but it can be a terrifying situation (Campbell & Sanson, 2009; Engels, Caddy, Jiwa & Matheson, 2011; Morris & Stacey, 2003). Pregnant women can undergo cardiac arrest due to various conditions that occur during pregnancy, while in labor and delivery, and during the postpartum period (Martin, 2003). These include complications of PIH, infection, and hemorrhage. Hemorrhage, in particular, can result in disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC), placenta previa, placental abruption, and uterine atony (Martin, 2003). Similarly, complications from anestheria, amniotic fluid embolism, and pulmonary embolism can result in cardiac arrest ...

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In the film, the replicant models are only given four-year life spans because they are genetically engineered to be better than humans - stronger, more efficient, better reaction times. By the time they reach four years old, though, they have begun developing their own memories and emotional reactions. Because they are already adult sized and supposedly better than humans in important ways, there is a fear that the emotional immaturity they express may cause greater harm or that they will come to replace humans. This can be seen by comparing the two-year-old model Leon with the four-year-old model ...

There are two aspects that predict whether a task has been performed well or not. The two aspects are life satisfaction and job satisfaction. Economic standing or performance is mainly influenced by life satisfaction more than job satisfaction. Our overall well-being and happiness, which are brought about by life satisfaction, are the core principles that reflect job performance. According to research done, there is a correlation between life satisfaction and job performance. When an individual is happy there are high chances he/she will perform exemplary at the work place.

Once the lives of employees are miserable there is likelihood that their ...

1. In Fritz Leiber's "The Winter Files," Heinie uses his imagination to picture himself in outer space, flying a rocketship. At the beginning of the story, we see Heinie, in his homemade wooden box and bowl-like helmet, making that very much real. However, as soon as Heinie says he's "going to take a trip" in his spaceship, the Man in the Black Flannel Suit enters, clearly a figure of the imagination due to his movements, and the fact that he does not have a name. He is Gott's fantasy, while flying in space is Heinie's. The fact that all the imaginative characters ...

It has always been the case in the modern world that, technological advancements in any area spark moral issues and a good example of such comes from the subject of abortion. What has prompted this kind of assumption is the fact that whenever technology comes up, there are always questions that come about. It has been proven to be very true that technology has enabled many people to understand where human life begins from. In this case, people have been made to know all that goes on before a baby is born but this has not been taken well by many ...

Dante’s Inferno portrays an interested concept of hell and a design of crime and retribution. Most of the punishments seem harsh in relation to their connected sins and, furthermore, the connections between the crimes and penalties appear tenuous.

As punishment, those overcome by lust are blown about to and fro by a violent storm. Such sinners are thrown and whirled by winds as in life they were helpless in storms of passion (Dante). This punishment is directly relevant to the crime. However, it seems somewhat harsh in view of the actual sin committed. After all, lust does not tend to ...

Thesis Statement: the paper intends to analyze two literary works “story of the prince and lions” and “Mwindo”. The paper will further discuss important themes covered in both stories.

Mwindo is a verbal story by Nyanga inhabitants of Central Africa. Mwindo is projected as a superhero, blessed with magical and supernatural powers. The story is full of adventures and magical acts of Mwindo. Shemwindo was father of Mwindo, who instructed all his seven wives not to deliver any male child otherwise he will kill the male child. Shemindo after birth of Mwindo, made two attempts to kill him but failed. Mwindo ...

Arguably, the modern world has become very complex, especially when it comes to parenting. Parenting is a phenomenon, which is aimed at developing children or a child physically, psychologically, intellectually, as well as socially. The 21st century came with a lot of technological changes, of which it has affected various aspects of human life. The several stages of development and growth among children encompasses toddlerhood, adolescence, infancy, and middle childhood, whereby each one of it demands to change parenting needs, roles and stressors. Parenting in the modern world has become a controversial issue. As a matter of fact, Parents in the modern world have ...

Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings is a very important text in both American History and Literature. Most often heralded as a document produced by, and about, one of the most important of the Founding Fathers, it is also a work that employs several literary devices and introduces many of the values that remain at the center of American culture. In his book, Franklin offers a way to live ones life, which is, interestingly enough, the way he lives his life. The book also has a section entitled, “Franklin The Scientist” which contains a series of letters which document his experiments and successes in ...

The Efficacy of Bisphosphonates in the Treatment of Osteoporosis in Post-Menopausal Women

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This paper discusses some of the literature that explores the efficacy of bisphosphonates in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis among post-menopausal women. This is to determine the ways by which the quality of life of osteoporosis patients can be improved, as advocated by the Healthy People 2020 program. While studies have shown that bisphosphonates are effective in preventing and treating osteoporosis, caution should still be taken with regards to its prolonged use. With this, advanced practice nurses can contribute significantly to the proper administration of ...

The Necklace and The Story of an Hour have numerous common elements. For example, both are nineteenth century stories and both have unhappily married women as their protagonists. However, the overriding similarity is the central theme of gender roles that emanates from both. Mathilde and Mrs Mallard are both middle-class women of their time and, as a result of this, have very little control over their lives. Rather than providing stability and affection, their husbands are repressing them and hindering their sense of identity.

In both stories, the protagonist is a young married woman. Similar again are the feelings of the ...

Ramayana is a mostly read ancient Indian epic that forms important Hindu norms that are followed up to date. Ramayana means the march (ayana) of Rama in search of human values. It contains 24,000 verses in seven books and 50 cantos. The Ramayana is part of Hindus sacred literature for it speaks about the meaning of life and how one should learn from it and it is used as a guideline by the Hindus. It is a story of friendship and adventure at the same time it is a psychological insight that has spiritual meaning and wisdom .The story tells us about ...

Critical analysis About Belarus Belarus is a European country located in the east side of Europe and shares its borders with Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. It is a landlocked country with a total land area of 207, 600 square kilometers. Minsk is its capital city but it has other major cities across its land area. The country’s major economic activities are in the agricultural and manufacturing sectors. 40% of the country’s land area is forested thus having a cool and favorable agricultural climate. Belarus took shape in the early 1940s after joining the Soviet Union. Its borders ...

American history has had a number of poets who have had an impact on the direction the course of poetry has taken. Most significant contributions were done by Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman in the last century. This was the period referred to as the Conflict and Celebration era. Their style of writing poetry was different from how people used to write before. They abandoned the traditional style to begin a much more modern style in the expression of American ideas in a unique way. There are slight differences as well as similarities in the two poets’ works that warrant our discussion.

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Computed Tomography CT refers to an imaging procedure that has been popular over the last decade in the imaging of the human body. In coronary artery imaging, this procedure is called Computed Tomography Coronary Angiography (CTCA). This technique is used specifically in the imaging and assessment of the cardiac and coronary anatomy to determine if one has a coronary artery disease or to determine the extent to which the individual has been affected by the disease. This procedure is also used to evaluate the coronary arteries and their anatomy. There are also other methods or techniques that are used in ...

At one time in the life of an individual, it is often required that an operative surgery is done in order to correct some disorders in the body. Undergoing an operation is not easy to understand and accept. As such, many patients tend to have pre-operative anxiety. There are various ways derived to control this situation. The essay below looks at how music therapy can resolve this issue.

In the general concept, anxiety is the state where an individual does not know what to do or which action to take. The situation comes about due to various life situations ...

MicroRNAs are small, single-stranded, non-coding, 16–29 nucleotide RNA molecules (approximately 22 nucleotides in length) comprising of an evolutionarily conserved class of endogenous ribo-regulators that regulate (modulate) gene expression (Wiemer, 2007, p.1529; Zhang et al., 2006, p.9136; Garzon et al., 2009, p.168). They were discovered in 1993 in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (Espinosa & Slack, 2006, p.131). Currently, 4167 miRNAs are listed in the miRNA registry and 474 human miRNAs have been identified (Wiemer, 2007, p.1530).

The miRNA genes are dispersed across the genome in gene clusters or as single genes. At least 50% of the miRNA genes are ...

In his article, George Orwell opposed implementation of the overused rhetorical devices with the help of the diction and intentional phrasing. In this way he explored the use of language, showing in particular that at that time it was in a state of decline. He also claims that it is morally incorrect on the politicians’ part to manipulate the language in the way they do for the purpose of deceiving the public and appearing sophisticated. Orwell achieves it through employing various rhetoric techniques that will be described below. One of the utilized techniques is repetition of the word choices. ...

The yellow paper is a story that is usually said to be horror. This is due to the mistreatments that were accorded to the women during the period. The fact that people see the mistreatments being abnormal makes the people to refer the stories as being a horror. Gothic on the other hand is a story that combines both matters relating to romance and horror. Most of the characters in the story have the characteristics of horrors. What the stories show is that the women were taken to be the weak creatures during the period when the stories were written. They were ...

Social identity refers to the behavior of a specific human being and his personal identity in relation in the social group in which he is a member (Turner 2000). Track and field refers to a sporting event whereby various activities are undertaken in one stadium. The stadium consists of a running lane and other facilities for jumping and throwing balls. Men’s performance differs when it comes to track and field. For instance, if a man runs alone rather than in relay, there is less probability of winning. In a relay, the fast runners compensate the loss made by the slow runners. It is therefore ...

The Electoral College is a constitutional electoral institution judged with the responsibility of electing the President and Vice-president. The Electoral College was established in the United State’s Constitution in 1798, when the country was facing political challenges of this time. The Electoral College was established principally because of the possibility of elections in the country degenerating into violence and chaos. The electoral institution was meant to thwart the politically charged environment of the late 18th century. The Electoral College also served to balance between the interests of the government and citizens during an electoral process (Honaker, 2009). Therefore the ...

Westendorp, Ingrid. Violence in the domestic sphere. Oxford: Maastricht Center For Human Rights, 2005. Print Ingrid Westendorp is a law expert of the English bar. She has a PHD in European Law. Most importantly, she has actively participated in the agitation of women rights around the world including Africa and Asia.

The author of the book, Violence in the domestic sphere, by Ingrid Westendorp has spent a lot time conducting research in the African continent regarding the practice of female genital mutilation. It is evident in his book that he has come to agree that female genital mutilation is part and ...

Notably Rovai (2002) argues that student sense of community refers to the feeling of belonging among people who are brought together by common goals and interests. The research undertaken by the various authors as expostulated in this paper takes a bias in assessing the role played by sense of community in the student fraternity and its overall effect on education and academic achievement. Drovin & Vartanian (2010) challenge the traditional view that direct face to face educational interaction is limited in terms of building a community of relations. Direct face to face educational set up is seen to be more profound in ...

First this paper considers the primary motivation throughout the action of the play. Both Oedipus and his wife Jocasta express disbelief regarding the validity of both the oracle; and all oracles, and yet they continually endeavor to prove to themselves that the oracle has no power or influence over their lives. Throughout the action of the play, his obsession with discovering the 'truth', leads the reader to assume that he deep within himself there was some doubt regarding his beliefs, thereby resulting in his continual justification of his perceived beliefs. His search for the 'truth' highlighted his ability to ...

Westendorp, Ingrid. Violence in the domestic sphere. Oxford: Maastricht Center For Human Rights, 2005. Print

Ingrid Westendorp is a law expert of the English bar. She has a PHD in European Law. Most importantly, she has actively participated in the agitation of women rights around the world including Africa and Asia.

The author of the book, Violence in the domestic sphere, by Ingrid Westendorp has spent a lot time conducting research in the African continent regarding the practice of female genital mutilation. It is evident in his book that he has come to agree that female genital mutilation is part and parcel ...

In Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour," Louise Mallard, a woman "afflicted with a heart trouble" learns over the course of the story that her husband is dead. The story follows the progression of her emotions from shock and horror to a feeling of liberation and freedom, as she feels relief of the burden of being wife. A very controversial story when it was first published, Chopin's tale (like many of her works) deals with the unexpected ability of women to liberate themselves and operate separately from men (Jamil, 2009). This theme of female empowerment in a patriarchal age shines through this short ...

Everyone feels hunger especially when there is not much food left to eat. This is a common scenario in third world and developing countries. At some point, hunger could also be seen even in developed and industrialized countries such as the U.S, Japan, and other prosperous countries in Europe. Whenever one feels hunger, it simply means that it is time to eat. But what if there is simply not enough food to eat or worse, there is nothing to eat at all? In that case, that person’s body, although still starving, will try to compensate by turning the body’ ...

In Wright et al.'s "Systematic Review of Antihypertensive therapies: Does the evidence assist in choosing a first-line drug?" the researchers review 38 different trials in order to determine if a first-line drug is identified in the realm of antihypertension drugs. According to the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) appraisal tool, the researchers provide a valid study that can provide clear policy and practice change in the field of hypertension research and treatment.

The researchers, in their review, ask a clearly focused question - they wish to compare the effectiveness and efficacy from reputable trials in order to find first-line drugs for antihypertension therapies, ...

Arguably, as computer technology develops, so does the criminal offences that come as a result of using computers and internet. The 21st century marks the peak season of various cyber crimes and cyber terrorism. As a matter of fact, human beings should learn and adopt to live with criminal activities associated with technology. Therefore, as a result of accepting reality, utilization of computer networks as well as development of cyberspace society, various strategies have been developed to perpetrate these crimes. The history of legislation to deal with cyber crimes began in 1970s. Generally, since the existence of computer technology, various crimes related ...

“Cultural neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field of research that investigates interrelations among culture, mind and the brain.”. It postulates in part that culturally based daily routines yield culturally patterned neural brain patterns and lay the pattern for the embodied construction of the self and identity. Other studies have found evidence for the prevalence of the diagnosis of disorders like AD/HD in some cultures and not in others. Implications for research on a possible link between culture, cultural neuroscience, OC/HD, diagnosis methods, illness perceptions and help seeking behavior are discussed.

The DSM-IV-TR criteria for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and international classification ...

Some say that ignorance is a blessing. There are times that the previous statement could really be true but when it comes to subjects such as the subject of human growth and development, authorities and the whole community could not afford to be ignorant anymore especially if the population we are talking about are the disabled adolescents. These are people whose future are still bright because of the hopes and faith they got. Their future is depended on the communities’ and the experts’ perception about disability. This paper will focus on the different aspects of development and disability among ...

This paper extracted evidences from Liu et al.’s The value of human resource mangement for organizational performance (2007), Chen’s Evaluation of Human Resources using Development Performance Management: a study among schools in Taiwan (2011), Hameed and Waheed’s Employee development and its effects on employee performance: a conceptual framework (2011), Shah et al.’s The impact of human resource dimensons on organizational performance from an international perspective (2011) and Tiraieyari et al’s A. Relationship between human development competncies and work performance (2011). Evidences were selectively extracted from these journals to serve as backup to the arguments in this ...

Tartuffe The play opens with Orgons’s mother; Madame Pernelle, convinced of Tartuffe’s piety, leaving rather than listen to the concerns of the rest of the family who have seen though him. (Moliere 3). As it the play proceeds Tartuffe divides Orgon from his family (Moliere 12). The more they try to expose him the greater Orgon’s denial of the truth. Tartuffe’s control Orgon reaches the point where he tells his daughter, Mariane to break off her engagement to Valere, who she loves, and marry Tartuffe.(Moliere 15) Orgon’s son Damis and wife Elmire ...

Empires and civilizations were definitely the order of the day in the period discussed in this book. Most certainly the most interesting civilizations came from the Middle east during this period, particularly the empire in Babylon led by Nebuchadnezzar. He was one of those larger than life emperors who demanded and commanded attention and with his considerable exploits created an empire which was hugely powerful. The Egyptian empire which was however shrinking during this period also provided substantial cultural influences especially in Africa. However the decadence of the Pharoahs who were still regarded as demi Gods at this ...

We discussed post-colonial theory in terms of these categories: history, language, education, place, body. Discuss the novel as it speaks to at least three of these categories.  In the Heart of the Country is a classic novel which demonstrates the relationship between whites and blacks in South Africa in the apartheid era. The principal topic which is very clear in this book is the history of the place where black South Africans are emarginated and almost eradicated by policies of resettlement applied by their white masters. In fact the main character in the book, Magda nurses a bitter hatred towards ...

Consents taking and documentation is a vital part of legal and medical ethics that guides medical practice. It serves as a tool for effective patient management. It is meant to be taking before any form of treatment simply because all patients capable of understanding of such form of information has the right to receive accurate information regarding his or her illness/condition, the physician treatment plan, associated complications and effect, and other available treatment options. It is the responsibility of the physician to ensure this is achieved and properly documented before any start of treatment.

The issue of improper taking of consent ...

Hopkin’s poem is indeed a powerful one and he invokes God in many ways especially in the powerful opening statement which is quite ravishingly beautiful to say the least. Dealing with nature and its power over man, Hopkins’ poem also invokes the beauty and serenity of God’s grandeur which at times may seem powerful yet in others may also seem awesome and charged with intense feeling. The World is too much with us by Wordsworth similarly invokes nature and its intense power as well as bringing the grandeur of God into the picture. Notwithstanding all the power ...

Autism is a behavioral disorder that affects social and communication skills of a child severely and also affects his behavior to a large extent. Experts of the area under discussion recognize autism as a condition of neural development disorder in which the system of information processing in a child’s brain is affected and he faces several behavioral disorders. Spectrum disorder is another name, used for Autism and this name has is used because symptoms of this disorder are found in a large numbers.

Wolery and Gast conducted a study to understand the effective process to transfer stimulus control. Authors studied about teaching autistic children and ...

Thanks to the New York Times, the elephant in the room has finally been acknowledged. Colorism, the unconscious prejudice, has long thrived since by and large it has gone unspoken. The writer gives light to this issue and explores the extent of its effect in society. Colorism is a form of discrimination through which people receive differing social treatment based on their skin color. It is not only an intra-racial problem, with people of the same ethnic group discriminating against each other, but also an interracial issue. Skin tone plays a significant role in who gets ahead and who does ...

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood was first published in 2003; the novel is a dystopian vision of world in the not-too-distant future in which humanity has been almost destroyed through a combination of careless and self-centred scientific practices and moral corruption. Like most dystopian fiction (indeed, like Atwood’s own The Handmaid’s Tale), the novel works less as a neat prediction of the future, but an urgent warning about our contemporary society and controversial issues within it. Ultimately, then the novel is less a futuristic nightmare than a satire on current developments in bio-science and in the world of technology, as well ...

The relationship between United States of America and Mexico is a complex love-hate relationship. The kind of rapport both the neighboring countries share is unique and reason behind such complex relationship is the huge disparity between both the countries. Various international policy analysts suggest that since the disparities between the two countries are in a large number and in all the fields the situation becomes difficult for the weaker one. This disproportion between the two countries is visible in all the fields, whether it is economy, size, technology, military strength, international ties and reputation or be it any other field; Americans ...

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 ...

Othello is not the only play in the Shakespearean canon that features racism, and it certainly is not the only play that challenges social mores. Whether it’s the feisty Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing, turning social convention on its head, in the sense that women were supposed to be prim and proper in Elizabethan England, when she wows Benedick with her powerful desire to save Hero, or whether it’s the Jew Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, endowed with many of the physical characteristics associated with the worst stereotypes associated with members of his religion but ...

The story of King Arthur has involved a number of symbols, places and characters who have extensively contributed to the flow and narration of that story. For instance Sir Ulfius whose real name was Merlin was taken to be noble knight who was used by the king as a messenger to pass information to and from the king and other characters in the story (Cutler 23).

King Arthur forms the main character in this story. King Arthur lived in a castle a place which was considered to habitant for the rich and leaders of a certain territories. In this castle, the king was being ...

Following a decline, since the mid to late 1990s, in the number of young people smoking, more recent reports have indicated that these numbers are now, once again, beginning to rise. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), figures from a 2005 study indicate that 23% of high school students had smoke in the month prior, which shows an increase from 21.9% in a 2003 study (Family First Aid, 2000-2006). This figure alone is enough to prompt fears that smoking could begin to grip our nation’s youth, irrespective of the amount of anti-smoking education that they are presented ...

I chose to look at Philip Larkin’s Ambulances. My initial response to the poem was to be soberly reminded of my own fate but in an uneasy way, like the uneasiness of juxtaposition between the common image presented alongside its unusual interpretation since ambulances are usually seen as symbols of care and rescue, rather than death.

1. Title: What image, sound, or theme does the title convey? ‘Ambulances’ is a short, commonly used word which lures the reader into feeling like the poem could be quite simple and inoffensive. 2. Dramatic Situation: Who is the Speaker, the “ ...

As a life-long reader, it is extremely difficult to pinpoint any particular reason why people shouldn’t be reading – literature opens up a world of wonder, information and entertainment for anyone willing to simply pick up a book and read it. For centuries, literature has been held in equally high esteem by both the mass public and the most-highbrow academic circles. Literature is generally considered to be one of the canonical arts with books being held up as strong examples of intelligence and wit and, indeed, reading is frequently thought of as being an activity widely associated with people of a higher socioeconomic status ...

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Children who are victims of sexual abuse will often face secondary trauma regarding their crisis of discovery. Their respective attempts of reconciling their private experiences with the realities of the outer world are downplayed by non-belief, rejection, and blame they might end up experiencing from adults. The normal behavior of the children regarding their respective coping due to the experiences is contradicted by the entrenched expectations and beliefs often held by adults. As a result, the child is overly stigmatized backed by various claims and charges directed to them by adults. The issues of lying, manipulation, or imagination as ...

The book “Things fall apart” speaks of the collapse or the disintegration of the Igbo culture. The setting is in Nigeria, in the 1890’s. It shows the tense interaction between the Igbo and the Christians and the clash of both cultures. As the Christians preach and try to win converts, they encounter a high degree of resistance as the people cling to their many gods, magic and definitions of taboo behavior.

The Europeans arrival in Okwonko’s village creates havoc. First of all the Christians believe in one God. He is three in one as He exists in the ...

The purpose of this book was to explain how the Suicides among gay teens have become very common in males, with United States of America being at the receiving end. The author Chuck Stewart who is also a lecturer in Ohio explains how there are many causes that lead to these suicides. Stigma is one of the major causes of high number of suicides because the victims are victimized through various ways whereby the internet turns out to be the major tool of victimization. In 2006, World Health Organization released a report which indicated that over a million people commit suicide every ...

In the late 1960s, around the year 1968 and 1969, university students ganged up into coalitions that consequently came to bear the name Third World Liberation Front (TWLF). These coalitions were made of the African American, Asian American, Chicano and the Native American students who were enrolled in the several universities and colleges in America. These universities and colleges included San Francisco State College and University of California, which is found in Berkeley. The TWLF coalitions organized and led national student strikes, pushing for the establishment of Third World Colleges. Majority of these students were culprits of racism. In ...

Out Stealing Horses is the story of how an elderly man reconciles with his past and becomes the father that he should be. His past has influenced his relationships making his marriages and fatherhood experiences unfulfilling. At the end of the story, two events occur that cause Trond to reckon with his past and become a different man from his father. Secondly, it causes him to stop living in the shadow of his father. After the death of his wife and sister, Trond, who is sixty seven years old, decides he prefers solitude and quietness. In fact he feels that ...

Othello by William Shakespeare is a classic example of a Good vs. Evil story. Iago is the quintessential Evil where as Desdemona takes on the mantle of Good, pure and innocent. Caught in the battle between the two is Othello, who personifies the essence of a flawed human nature. It is up to the human to decide which side to take in the battle. Othello falls for the schemes of Iago and doubts Desdemona without just reason or cause. Hence, he is more responsible for killing Desdemona. Othello goes from a self-assured man who is successful and has the love of his wife ...

This paper is addressing the concept of psychotherapeutic intervention which according to the authors, is broader than just psychotherapy as some people sometimes confuse psychotherapeutic intervention for. The first writer argues that psychotherapeutic intervention is a very old concept in the United States of America and that the claims of someone in particular (Freud) having invented the idea of psychotherapeutic intervention is malice and cannot be ascertained. The first writer broadly looks at how the ethnocentric views and politics have tampered with the conception and application of the idea of psychotherapeutic intervention.

“A corollary of the view that European doctors ...

Chaucer was writing at a time when English life and society were dominated by the Church, and it is no surprise that many of the pilgrims described in The General Prologue were employed by the Church in some capacity or that Chaucer defines them and reacts to them according to their religious beliefs and practices. The description of the pilgrims starts with the Knight – the person with the highest social status. The knight is one of Chaucer’s most admired pilgrims – but not because of this social status. The reader is expected to admire the knight because of his ...

MENDING WALL

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,

That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,

And spills the upper boulders in the sun;

And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.

The work of hunters is another thing:

I have come after them and made repair

Where they have left not one stone on a stone,

But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,

To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,

No one has seen them made or heard them made,

But at spring mending-time we find them there.

I let my neighbour know beyond the hill;

...

Boy at the Window by Richard Wilbur is an emotive poem which plays on childish emotions that we all feel memories of from our own childhood. In doing this, Wilbur is able to engage his reader by invoking past emotions and memories. This is compounded by the poet’s ability to write in a conversational manner which flows and allows the reader the chance to comprehend the words, whilst accessing their own interpretations of them. The poem’s layout is deliberately conventional because the poet intends to play on the readers’ memory and emotion, rather than creating mental images per ...

Abstract I am going to write about my response to ‘Sonnet 130’. I chose this sonnet because it made me laugh at Shakespeare’s stated attitude to his lover, because it is so unexpected when you first read the poem, but the the sonnet is read you come to understand that Shakespeare is also making a serious point baout love and the stereotypical images of feminine beauty that were dominant in his day. Those stereotypical images have their parallel in our society too, because through the media images of what women should look like ideally are carefully used to ...

In the modern world, it is clear that each and every person has to reflect on his or her own actions and compare them with what one observes from others, be it in the real world or in the world of films and fiction. The story of Amelie, within the movie with the same title, is among the movies that really teach us a lot, and from which I find a feeling of real humanity displayed in a rather comical manner.

The story revolves around the life of Amelie Poulain - a young lady who grew up in isolation from the outside world ...

Aggression is hostile behavior aimed at causing physical or psychological harm. Aggression can be indirect or direct, verbal or physical and active or passive. There are several social factors that cause aggression. These factors include media violence, Stereotype and social identity, threat Collective narcissism, Status, competition and mating motives personal characteristics, cultural factors direct provocation and frustration among others.

When an individual watches media, observational learning takes place. This brings the indication that excessive exposure to media violence increases probability of any individual to behave aggressively. (Barbara etal, 2010). Metaanalysis and reviews have indicated that this effect is ...

The cold and uncaring blue gets a reddish tinge to express inbuilt emotion and slowly moves toward the bright and ferocious red mixed with bright yellow to create the orange symbolizing energy but confusion. There are lots of emotions embedded in the picture but are not vivid and the coldness is spread everywhere which has created distance between people. The image colourpsychology-red moves on to depict hidden blue and yellow together to make it green and display that section which is still calm and composed however there are other sections that have the darker side and are powerful demonstrations of ...

Development Reading Course is a study area at college level that is designed to improve the reading skills of students, to the standard required by the college, for course work (Valeri-Gold & Deming, 2008). It is designed to assist students achieve academic success by improving their skills in three high education level course work (Smittle, 1995). Students in colleges’ nation wide must demonstrate or show case, college readiness skills in three areas; Development Reading I, Development Reading II and composition and Basic Writing. The institution of higher learning measures the ability of a student, by their performance in the placement tests in ...