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Damn Yankees was originally staged as a spectacular George Abbot Broadway show before it was turned into a big screen musicale by Warner Bros. in 1956. The plot of the story revolves around that All American sport known as Baseball and how one man’s obsessive love for the game led him to make a disastrous, […]

The book A Beggar At Damascus Gate by Yasmin Zahran explores the theme of love surpassing cultural and ideological differences. It focuses on how beliefs and ideologies affect relationships, with the main characters being Ryya, a Palestinian woman, and Alex, a British man. An archaeologist discovered a personal journal in a small hotel in Jordan […]

“Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest) / Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles/ The rushing amorous contact high in space together… ” so begins Walt Whitman’s descriptive divulgings of The Dalliance of Eagles, a poem which relates and indulges on the details of the aptly mentioned […]

Salvador Dali’s famous artwork “The Persistence of Memory” (1931) is widely regarded as one of the most renowned surrealist paintings of its time. The painting showcases a landscape depicted in browns, yellows, and blues, with the notable presence of fading and melting timepieces that have become synonymous with the piece. Dali’s color scheme focuses on […]

Henry James’ Daisy Miller is characterized by the author’s most frequent theme in his earlier works: the expatriate American living overseas. Daisy Miller capitalizes on the Gilded Age, the period from 1865-1900, a time of great industrial growth and wealth with the result that many Americans travelled to Europe. (Cashman, 1993, xii)  It is the […]

“The Great Gatsby” by Scott Fitzgerald is one of the greatest works of the 20th century with a number of dynamic and round characters representing the key theme of the novel: the triumph of materialism and selfishness over true feelings. The character of Daisy Buchanan is chosen as she is true personification of the main […]

Located at Balajat Street inside the Kuwait Commercial Markets Complex of Salmiyyah, The Dairy Queen Restaurant in Kuwait City offers an upscale atmosphere that enhances the dining experience. Being conveniently situated within Kuwait City, it is easily accessible from any part of the city, making it a convenient option for individuals seeking a quick meal. […]

“The Horror of it All” by Julie Daggett is an excellent example of a speech developed specifically to entertain. The author successfully uses real anecdotes from her life to paint a funny picture that many of us can relate to. She uses the narrative flow of her speech not to persuade or inform, but rather […]

1. Both traditional behaviorism and Uri Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory view the environment as playing a vital role in development. However, each theory describes the influence of the environment quite differently. How do these theories apply to the video? Since the macrosystem embraces all of the cultural details or patterns, it is presumed that when […]

In Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Daddy”, Plath makes many connections between her stifling father and her own husband. Plath discusses her conflicts with her own father, which do not end with his death, but continue when she marries a man just like her father. Plath displays a sort of evolution of her feelings for her father, […]

The Color Vision and Art (2006) Exhibit compared the artistic styles of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) and Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564). Despite being considered the greatest painters of their time, they differed significantly in terms of color preferences and artistic techniques. Michelangelo’s artworks featured vibrant and contrasting colors, while da Vinci opted for more subdued and […]

The Da Vinci Code, released in 2006, is a captivating and enjoyable movie with an intriguing plot and murder mystery that will engross viewers. It has generated controversy due to its suggestion that Jesus was married and had a child, which has upset Christian organizations worldwide. Both the movie and book adaptations of Dan Brown’s […]

D. H. Lawrence’s The Horse Dealer’s Daughter is a haunting tale about the complex, almost mysterious, ways of love and human relationships. Like his fellow modernist writers, viz. James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Lawrence was also very fond of a symbolic way of expression and his short stories and novels are usually veritable powerhouses of […]

Child abuse is prevalent in the U. S. , about 2. 5 million children per year are victims of maltreatment. Because of this people are now very keen in observing and reporting signs of child abuse. Cao gio or the Vietnamese medical art of coin rubbing is seen as abusive by some physicians. The practice […]

Cao Dai, founded in Vietnam in 1926, brings together Confucianism, Catholicism and the Buddhist belief in karma and rebirth. Inherently, its belief and practices represent a conglomeration of these three. Cao Dai practice is basically divided in to two ways: exoterism and esoterism. Exoterism Basically, Cao Dai disciples has a duty towards himself, his family, […]

According to an article at www. evrything2. com, the Canton System was a system of trade between China and Britain. Canton is the westernized name for the city of Guangzhou which was the city through which all (legal) transactions were made. The British East India Company, which had a monopoly on trade from Britain, wanted […]

Lee and Marlene Canter are husband and wife who pioneered assertive discipline as a reactive strategy (Theories of Management, n. d. ). Lee Canter is the Developer of Assertive Discipline and Classroom Management for Academic Success. He attended at California State University then pursued his master’s degree at the University of Southern California. During his […]

The ancient world was not the world of railways, airplanes and radio; it greatly differed from nowadays. Today’s trip in few hours could take months and, even, years. The earliest collections of the Bible were incomplete and a tiresome work of scribes could not cover the needs of citizens. Moreover, the sacred scriptures had to […]

The activity of paddling is usually referred to as canoeing. Over the years, the activity has basically been used for recreation, transportation and sporting. In virtually all cases, the canoes are propelled by paddling using human power. They are usually propelled using either one or two blades. The canoer or canoeist has to kneel, thwart […]

The career, creative achievements and artistry of Julian “Cannonball” Adderley marked a new outstanding epoch in jazz music, which he and his vivid improvisations opened in the history of jazz. He was among the most significant musicians, alto saxophonists, educators and enthusiasts of jazz and soul-jazz cultures of the twentieth century. He had own unique […]

The documentary film Cannibal Tours (1988) captures the interaction between American and European tourists and the indigenous people along the Sepik River in Melanesia, particularly Papua New Guinea. The camera follows the tourists as they go to the different villages to be in awe of the handicrafts and haggle to buy these items. They also […]

Cannibal Holocaust – An Intriguing Film One film that sets itself apart form the rest of the horror and scary movies is the Cannibal Holocaust. The film was produced in 1979 and the quality is too inferior to the latest movies produced by Hollywood. Nevertheless, the movie itself is very thought-provoking. It is not recommended […]