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The journey of growth in the past and present can be likened to that of a child, stumbling and evolving in order to rise. Philippine literature originated from fables and legends crafted by ancient Filipinos before the Spanish colonization. It is common knowledge that early Philippine literature, predating the Spanish conquest, is unfamiliar to Filipinos […]

R. M. Ballantyne wrote The Coral Island in 1857 during the Victorian Era and the peak of the British Empire which was a time in history where there were clear gender divisions. Men were expected to defend, protect and to be strong and women were submissive, dependent and protected by men. Evidence of this was […]

Engineers and scientists use scientific knowledge to design and build machines that make our lives easier. The machines they build today started off with the basics, which are known as Simple Machines. Simple Machines are defined as the simplest mechanisms that use mechanical advantage to multiply force. These machines have either few or no moving […]

In the novel, Purple Hibiscus, Adichie clearly portrays the conflicting oppression of Kambili’s patriarchal household – where she is ordered to follow a strict ‘schedule’ – to the realisation of an almost ‘holiday’ like freedom she is exposed to when visiting Aunty Ifeoma and her family. In this extract, the author also intentionally expresses the […]

The relevance of “being different” depends on the relationship between the values and context within a society. This concept is shown through the comparative study of the 1600’s play “Othello”, by William Shakespeare, and the 1967 feature film “Guess who’s coming to dinner”, by Stanley Kramer. Both these texts have similar issues of difference in […]

Identify the aural setting in Ailey’s revelations 1960. How does the music help to communicate the themes found in the work and enhance movement content? Alvin Ailey uses traditional gospel and spirituals as his accompaniment. The music is reflective of the themes within Revelations in that they are working songs of oppressed African Americans, sad […]

Texts which represent imagined societies vary considerable, depending on their contexts and the values underlying them. Compare the representations of Utopia and The Handmaidens Tale, exploring how different contexts and different values create different meanings. Thomas More’s acclaimed satirical novel, Utopia exhibits a fictional society, ‘Utopia’ on which social and philosophical concepts of 16th century […]

Good afternoon teachers and year 12 students, today I will be discussing how a sense of belonging and not belonging is portrayed in Rainbow’s End along with my related text Stolen From Myself. The concept of belonging is conveyed through the representations of personal, cultural, historical and social contexts in both texts. Rainbow’s End is […]

Emily Miller is a 21 year old Graphic and Media Design student in London College of Communication. She lives at home with her parents in London because although she works part-time as a waitress in a restaurant she can’t afford to live on her own. Her family would be considered middle class. Her father is […]

Out of curiosity, can you please put your hand up if you think “Women should still inhabit the domestic sphere, or as you adolescent males put it “staying in the kitchen and making sandwiches? ” Good morning Year 12, I am Professor Belen from the University of Sydney. I understand you have been studying gender […]

‘Cry’ is a dance choreographed by a very talented and well-recognised choreographer named Alvin Ailey. This was created in 1971. Ailey has created many incredible works but I must say that ‘Cry’ was one of his most outstanding works of art. The dance’s intent is to portray the struggle & strength of the African American […]

The contemporary designer whose design philosophy best reflects Evan’s analysis of McQueen’s representations on the theme of ‘Victimisation’ is the label Victor & Rolf. Victor & Rolf’s design philosophy is ‘originality and traditions, glamour, avant-garde, conceptual- couture’ (FashionTraveler. com, 2011:1). The Victor & Rolf collection I have chosen from is Autumn/Winter 2008/2009 in order to […]

Porter’s 5 forces model allows to analyse the factors outside the Cruise industry that influence the nature of Carnival competition within it, the forces inside the Cruise industry that influence the way in which Carnival compete, and so the company’s likely profitability. With an understanding of where power lies, Carnival can take advantages of a […]

The Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) suggests that the public sector should switch from cash accounting to accrual accounting to maximize its benefits. Malaysia aims to fully adopt accrual accounting by 2016. Cash accounting documents financial transactions in an organization’s statements based on their immediate cash impact during a particular period, including money received and […]

Thousand of organizations in the global village have decided they could save money and increase their flexibility by converting many jobs into temporary of part-time positions, giving rise to what is commonly referred to as the contingent workforce. Today, temporary workers can be found in secretarial, nursing, accounting, assembly-line, legal, dentistry, computer programming, engineering, marketing, […]

Niccolo Ammaniti demonstrates in his popular novel, ‘I’m Not Scared’, the role fear plays in people’s lives and their respective decisions. He discusses how fear is able to manipulate key character’s moral instincts and distort their interpretations of what is right. Fear is shown to be an extremely powerful underlying contributor to many of the […]

Peter Skrzynecki’s ‘Migrant Hostel’, Parkes 1949 – 1951, illustrates how in the initial stages of belonging, people feel insecure, experience doubt and fear and search for friendships to establish a sense of security. The poem is in 4 stanzas and each stanza is more than 6 lines long. Each stanza is one sentence and several […]

This might seem as being an unusual way of beginning an essay; but the best part about this is people are not perceiving it to be unusual at all. People here refer to 1,170,938,000 Indians, with few exceptions of children and the ones totally oblivious of English language. None the less, the numbers speak for […]

Some stories are meant for entertainment, others to educate but Kath Walker’s, We Look After Our Own is written to draw change and develop an understanding of a darker side of life in Australia. Written in a time when change was dawing and aborignal rights was touchy subject, Kath Walker gave an insight into the […]

Operating leverage describes the relationship between fixed assets and variable costs and impacts the extent to which a change in sales will impact the operating income. A company is said to have a high operating leverage if its fixed costs are high in relation to their variable costs. A high operating leverage can be both […]

Open relationships typically involve two individuals who have a relationship with each other. However, both of the individuals in the relationship are likewise open to engage into other relationships with other individuals. The relationship also comes in different forms, from romantic relationships to business relationships. For example, an open romantic relationship between a male and […]

In his essay “Open Education: Open to What? ” Kieran Egan compares open education with traditional schooling and by critically evaluating both forms of education places particular emphasis on the ineffectiveness of the former. On the whole, I agree with Egan’s perspective of open education and share his criticism of it. The main reason why […]