Review

The following text contains review questions. This explanation addresses the different types of child abuse, including Shaken Baby Syndrome. The forms encompass physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and Shaken Baby Syndrome. Physical abuse refers to a parent’s violent actions towards their child. Emotional abuse occurs when the victim feels worthless and rejected. Sexual […]

In “A&P” by John Updike it is shown that conformism is a major part of society in that time. In the story everything is like a well-oiled machine, but when three girls’ walks into the “A&P” store all of this changes for Sammy. A theme that is predominant in the short story by Updike is […]

The book “Dependent Rational Animals” by Alasdair MacIntyre, is clearly conceived by MacIntyre as in part an auto-critique. Whilst continuing to stick to the most important part of his project, he recognized two aspects in which he has been in error. Firstly, he admits that his negative response in “After Virtue” of Aristotle’s ‘metaphysical biology’ […]

Girl before a Mirror, an oil on canvas painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, shows two sides of a girl; one which is illustrated with a dark tone and one with a vibrant colorful tone. This painting is bright; colors are at full intensity and are arranged next to their complements, producing a visual relationship […]

Undoubtedly, Volker Schlondorff’s (1985) film “Death of a Salesman” is not only a stinging critique on the concept of success in American society but is also a sad reminder of how some people will conveniently shed off their moral and ethical principles in the desperate attempt to fulfill their dreams and ambitions. Adapted from Arthur […]

“Shooting an Elephant” is an autobiographically influenced short story written by George Orwell and published in 1936. It deals with the inner conflict of an imperial police officer in Burma who feels pressured by the Burmese and forced to kill an outraged elephant in order to prove himself and his status as an imperial police […]

When one is accustomed to the ideas within the dominant fantasy they live within, it is rather difficult to see things in a different point of view. The most effective way to change one’s perspective of the dominant fantasy is to have them not only think outside the box but being able to experience ideas […]

Virginia Woolf’s essay on Mary Wollstonecraft in the Common Reader is essentially, an active continuation of the experimental method on which Mary Wollstonecraft based her life. “The high-handed and hot-blooded manner in which she cut her way through life” is in essence what Woolf is trying to replicate in this essay, in particular through her […]

Henry Mintzberg, in, ‘The Managers Job: Folklore and Fact,” argues that the classic view of what a managers job entails is seriously flawed. Mintzberg examines the reality of a managers work and convincingly backs up his conclusions with a breadth of research into the tasks undertaken by a variety of managers. His argument is a […]

The rise of industrialization during the twentieth century has been a time of immense transformation in almost every facet of human life, especially in the West. Thus, family and marriage life has been affected dramatically as well. In her article “African American Marriage in the 29th Century,” Elaine P. Pinterhughes provides the underlying issues through […]