Review

In “The Game of My Life” by Jeff Obafemi Carr, Carr uses the last three methods of successful narrative writing: center on conflict; use of dialogue; and know your purpose to effectively present his narrative. He takes the reader on his journey of childhood disappointment and trial to a pivotal moment for him and his […]

Because of the opposing cultures and ideas that collide in the mind of Richard Rodriguez, his arguments tend to break boundaries of traditional philosophical writing. As a Catholic, a homosexual, a Mexican immigrant, and an intellectual, the meaning of family values can differ significantly from one aspect of his life to the next. By gathering […]

In The Chrysalids by John Wyndam, Waknuk is a community throughly brainwashed by tribulation that causes the citizens to believe “normality” is the main focus in life. Consequently, Waknuk became a hostile environment totally intolerant of differences, which causes judgment, discrimination, and alienation to occur in everyday life. This quality of life is clearly evident […]

Awarded the Booker Prize in 1981, Midnight’s Children is Salman Rushdie’s most highly regarded work of fiction. Rushdie was born on June 19, 1947, and his birth occurred simultaneously with a particularly meaningful moment in Indian history. After almost one hundred years of colonial rule, the British occupation of India was coming to an end. […]

Garreau provides unique insight into the possible outcome of our future. In his book “Radical Evolution” he discusses four scenarios; Singularity, Heaven, Hell, and Prevail. Each of these scenarios are highly opinionative and each person can decide for their selves which scenario will most likely occur. Garreau, without a doubt, is a pioneer in the […]

To keep Your Customers, Keep it Simple – by Patrick Spenner and Karen Freeman The above mentioned article reviews about the key finding of a marketing research done by Corporate Executive Board regarding the relation between consumer behaviors, brand loyalty and marketers. From the research, they found that in the effort of creating loyal customers, […]

In the article, “Puritans and Sex” by Edmund S. Morgan, the author explains that contrary to popular belief, the Puritans openly acknowledged their natural human urge for sex and, while looking down upon sinful acts such as adultery and rape, regarded them only as “pardonable human weaknesses” (Morgan) that called only for prevention and very […]

The Analysis for “Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Help the Poor” In the article “Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor”, the author Garrett Hardin raised the question that whether the rich countries should help people suffer from poverty. He claimed that the supporting strategies for the developing countries, including the World Food Bank […]

Having grown up during the Great Depression of 1930s, Toni Morrison witnessed the struggles of her parents in bringing their four children up, and the dismal days of penury and strife left a deeper impact on Morrison’s mind to compel her in creating a novel on oppression and slavery. Her novel Beloved won the Pulitzer […]

Justice is the pursuit of righteousness and moral good standing within an individual or a group. Shakespeare, however, gives new perspective to this idea of justice in his work, The Tempest. Shakespeare critiques justice and portrays it in way in which justice is defined as the rule of the majority, and governed by the person […]

Emily Bronte also convey’s aspects of the class system within Victorian society through the use of imagery. Bronte depicts two English households which both resemble slightly different classes but for which could not be further apart. The heights is described as “narrow windows being deeply set in the wall” and then Thrushcross Grange as “the […]

Sunni Swarbrick Course Title: Bus 212 Executive Leadership, Fall 2012 Article Title: Discovering Your Authentic Leadership Author(s): Bill George, Peter Sims, Andrew N. McLean, and Diana Mayer Journal: Harvard Business Review Publication Date: February 1, 2007 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Through Discovering Your Authentic Leadership, readers will learn that you do not have to be born with […]

Sofia Coppola’s ‘Lost in Translation’ surrounds the experiences of Bob Harris and Charlotte, American tourists in Tokyo. Transcending the expectations of its romantic comedy genre, it delves into something much deeper; the overwhelming impact of globalisation on both the local and individuals. Bob Harris is a Hollywood actor whose faltering career has led him to […]

In Sophocles’ Antigone, the character Antigone displays rebellion and strong morals. However, she opts to defy Creon’s government laws, which he considers fair. This choice creates complications for both herself and those around her in her quest for justice. In contemporary society, the notion of justice portrayed in this tale may be viewed as injustice […]

In Schlosser’s first chapter “Reefer Madness,” he gathers plausible historical facts and counter-arguments to argue that the punishments for marijuana use are extraneous and unreasonable. He suggests that if the United States government decriminalizes marijuana for personal use, it would save the time and money that could be spent on more serious endeavors, and by […]

Raja Rao’s first novel Kanthapura (1938) is the story of a village in south India named Kanthapura. The novel is narrated in the form of a ‘sthalapurana’ by an old woman of the village, Achakka. Kanthapura is a traditional caste ridden Indian village which is away from all modern ways of living. Dominant castes like […]

John Wilson in the beginning is an honest man trying to make a better life for his family back home in Scotland. My opinion of John Wilson started out as him use being a nicenguyntrying to help everyone out. John starts life out in Canada pretty rough, he can’t find good work and the climate […]

In order to complete the task, you must watch either the Seoul Success or Disney Imagination video and answer the accompanying questions. The chapters provided contain significant concepts related to videos, with each video’s viewing time specified in parentheses. What makes Samsung’s approach so successful? To stay ahead of its competitors in the global market, […]

“The nail that sticks out gets hammered down” is a quote that reinforces the importance of ‘fitting-in’. In Japan, the nail that sticks out can be hammered down for any reason – better grades, worse grades, making a mistake in a team activity. In a country where an unspoken rule of conformity is combined with […]

Review of Virginia Woolf’s shakespeare’s sister By Gabriel Gyamfi University of Cape Coast Department of English INTRODUCTION Virginia Woolf’s ‘Shakespeare’ Sister’ is the third chapter from her literary essay A Room of One’s Own. In this chapter, which is the essay on Shakespeare’s Sister, she considers the question of why no women writers are represented […]

The planet Krypton is in danger of destruction due to its unstable core. The ruling council is also threatened by rebel General Zod and his followers. To save their race, scientist Jor-El and his wife Lara send their naturally conceived newborn son Kal-El to Earth on a spacecraft, adding the genetic codex to his cells. […]

Horace Miner in the article, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema depicts a society that is growing naturally, but which has transformed itself into a ritual tribe. In this article, the tribe, Nacirema, is a tribe that has transformed itself naturally and which has incorporated a lot of beliefs and religious tendency for good living. More […]