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The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato

Diagnosis of the Faults made in the Process of Formulating Strategic Decisions In the outline of the book, Mazzucato appreciates the key role played by the public sector in the society.
  • Subjects: Dramatical Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2246

O’Connor’s Big Point in “Good Country People”

In narrating this discussion, O'Connor sticks to the Universalist point of view to the first point of view, and from time to time sums up her general view of the points made by the two [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 569

Is the Television Series, Friday Night Lights Literary?

In addition, Julie Taylor, the teenage daughter of the coach is also a central character in the series. It is the events of the play, which tight the play together because they happen to the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1108

Comparison of East Asian Literature

As Fong notes, one of the areas to detect such similarities would be the guiding theme in the works, the type of the language used, and some of the historical references made.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 14
  • Words: 3650

Bound for Glory as Autobiography: A Long Way Home

Quite on the contrary, the story is narrated in a manner that seems well put together, the characters surrounding the lead are very memorable and the tone of the narration creates a unique atmosphere of [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 851

Human Soul in the Story “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad

The atmosphere that is created, very much adds to the general theme and the relationship between the characters and the surrounding environment."Heart of Darkness" is a story where the setting plays a great role in [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 848

“Henry’s Freedom Box” Review

Children's books are often written to address the issues of the bigger society, in the hope that they will learn what not to do and how to live full and successful lives."Henry's Freedom Box" is [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 560

Comic Elements in The Lieutenant of Inishmore

In spite of the fact the play is full of violence and blood, this work makes the audience laugh because of exaggerated absurdity of the demonstrated actions where brutality and impulsivity are presented at their [...]
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 831

Lessons of Wisdom From Seniors to Youth

In this respect, the author's close affiliation with her grandparents came as a particularly valuable asset, because by listening to their life-stories, Hooks grew to realize the fact that, allegorically speaking, one's endowment with the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1143

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

The purpose for the referral is the feelings of despair and guilt from which the woman suffers. In spite of the problems within the family with the mother and brother, Maggie hoped she could improve [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 893

Book Review: Classical realism and neo-realism

Realism points out that power is based on characteristics that can be tangible or intangible, and can emanate from the use of the armed forces, level of income, and the size of a state.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 567

History of the Peloponnesian War

This article focuses on the role played by inequality and morality in international politics based on Thucydides' depictions of the Athenians.
  • Subjects: Dramatical Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 625

Sasenarine Persaud, “Canada Geese and Apple Chutney”

The reason is that the stories are accessible and parallel to the lives of immigrants around the globe. The use of dialogue and reflection shows that the author completed the story in a hurry to [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 835

Derewianka and Tompkins Teachings of Grammar

In conclusion, it is noteworthy that both teachings insist on a gradual process of learning and the use of meta-language in building a robust foundation of English.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 506

Lady Anne Clifford’s Life and Family

It was her mother who strengthened her resolve to fight the injustice that her father had accorded to her. She also spoke candidly to her daughter by telling her the realities of the situation, and [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1414

In Pursuit of Excellence

This is one of the main points that can be made. This is one of the main issues that can be distinguished.
  • Subjects: Dramatical Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1103

Monstrous and Human Relationship in “The Odyssey”

In each stage of the adventure readers are introduced to an ever increasing similarity between what is monstrous and what is man to the point that the line between the two blurs resulting in actions [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 578

The Brazen Desire to Succeed

Set in the post World War II, Greene's characters in 'The Destructors' represent the divide between the various generations, the old and the new.
  • Subjects: Historical Fiction Comparison
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1235

Tennessee Williams: Characters in “The Glass Menagerie”

The first role is that of a character having memoirs that the play writes about. It is these double roles which underpin the tension in the play pulling between dramatic realism shown in the play [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 887

A critique of Philip Crosby’s book Quality is Free

With his arguments, the author has created a new topic of debate with a notion that quality is deeply rooted in the hands of managers in a business setting. First, he assumes that quality is [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1169

Gluttony in the Merchant of Four Seasons

According to Francine Prose, gluttony often disguises itself in different forms, like the need to get a little more, the desire to have something more delicious, or the temptation to have a snack between the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1931

The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The authors use the character of the grand inquisitor to depict a savior of mankind. The power bestowed upon the grand inquisitor by the authors brings the mysteries of the roman church into limelight.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 564

Gibran Khalil Gibran-Lebanon Writer and Artist

Gibran's mother settled in Boston together with a young Gibran, his two younger sisters, and his half brother. Holland was a member of the European avant-garde-movement and he acted as a tutor and mentor to [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 857

Mahmoud Darwish: Narratives of Exile and Diaspora in the Poetry

Darwish's poetry is a narration of the entire story concerning the Palestinian misfortunes while in the Lebanese Diaspora. In 1982, when Lebanon was invaded by the Israeli, the Palestinian refugees were enforced to abandon their [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 822

True West by Sam Shepar

In addition, he is cunning and nosy as he manages to cut-short the conversation between Austin and Saul in order to engage Saul in his story and golf discussion. Lee humbles himself and joins Austin [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 873

The Change of Gender Roles

This similarity is one of the most important to focus on the structure of the narrative. In both plays, the main actions of the characters are not directly described by the authors.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1266

Linguistics in Educational Programs

The demand by the California Indian Council to have the Bilingual Education Programs brought back in exchange for access to the oil reserves located in the Indian reservations land is in order and quite timely [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1474

The Accidental Bricoleurs’ by Rob Horning

Despite apparently democratizing style and empowering consumers, fast fashion in some ways, constitutes a dream sector for those eager to condemn contemporary capitalism, as the companies heighten some of their current contradictions almost systematically: the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 579

Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

Dylan is a white kid living in the midst of a black community in Brooklyn and just like the other children in the neighborhood he attends the public schools.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1283

“Breath, Eyes, Memory” by Edwidge Danticat

From the novel, a reader is able to see the difference in culture between Sophie and her mother. The bravery and struggles of the Haitian women are passed down to Sophie through the love they [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 918

Broca’s Area and Language Comprehension

This paper will therefore dwell upon the role of Broca's area in language comprehension as well as other critical human capabilities Paul Broca was the first person to establish that the posterior section of the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1651

Native American Multicultural Literature

When the old medicine man recognizes that he fails in his attempt to cure him, he attributes his failure to the coming of the white man.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2867

Effects of Transnational Organized Crime on Foreign Politics

In particular, he discusses the features of criminals, who engage in human trafficking, which is one of the types of transnational organized crimes. Review of Literature Shows that transnational organized crime is the new threat [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1934

The Social Life of Information

The authors point out that it is easier for employees to share information. The authors bring out the complex nature of information age, but emphasize that it is important for individuals to acquire basic technological [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 595

“After Bin Laden” by Abdel Bari Atwan

The overall argument of the book "After Bin Laden" is that the organization has greatly spread, internationally and that the death of Osama Bin Laden will not be the end of the fight.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1412

Arab American Literature Analysis: Diana Abu-Jaber

The effect of a mosaic society is that the cultures of the groups in that society tend to fade with practices that are more acceptable across the board remaining firm as the only ways the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 20
  • Words: 5549

Jurgis and His Family in “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair

To maintain income flow, Sinclair describes the inhuman and horrendous conditions of each member of the family have to endure."From the nature of disease affecting a laborer, it was easy for Jurgis to tell the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1326

Reflection on Wise Blood

The car is used symbolically to show the transitions Haze is going through in his life. This is symbolic because they are some of the main characters who help to advance the plot in the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 567

The Plum and the Golden Vase

The birthday of Ximen Qing is to start the following day to which he invites Pan Jinlian and Wu Song to a night the two will never forget.Int.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 976

Comparing an Enemy of the People and Glengarry Glen Ross

All the drama in this play revolves around Dr Stockman who does the right thing and speaks the truth in concern of the intolerances in the society."Glengarry Glen Ross" by David Mamet is written into [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2585

“The Crazy Horse and Custer” Book

The major subject of the book is to demonstrate the wounds of the impacts of war, and the cultural differences of Americans and Indians.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1423

Mahatma Gandhi: What One Should Know

Gandhi stated that he was sorry due to the Mob's ignorance and narrowness. Gandhi believed that it was not possible to change the convictions of a person by use of violence.
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 864

Dramatic Comedy: The Hairy Ape

This essay will be researching the relationship between the play and its genre by means of comparing the points of view of great thinkers of the past and their ideas about comedy and tragedy genres.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 603

The Value of Source Study of Hamlet by Shakespeare

In regards to the intended significance, Stopes, Belleforest, and Shakespeare report that Shakespeare designed the role of the ghost to appear to Hamlet relentlessly to enhance the melancholy motif of the play.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 15
  • Words: 4187

Phillis Wheatley’s Neoclassicism

The works of Tony Morrison and other writers of the middle passage provide solid examples of the aspects that are carried by languages in the continuum of literature and linguistics.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 850

The Poetry of Anne Bradstreet

In addition, the application of humility in her poetry serves as a justification of her career as a female writer, considering that women were not thought as capable of be successful in poetry. As such, [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1528

Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy

4 The political wrangles permeated the Empires, the Kingdoms, and the Italian States, when the French crown and the Roman Catholic political leaders disagreed on the location of the pope offices.
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2845

Willa Cather and Feminism

Ability to work and/or supervise oneself as a woman is also quietly depicted through the girl who is able to work in the absence of her father. Cather depicts most of the women in her [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 13
  • Words: 3061

Thomas Nashe’s View on Shakespearian Language

Thomas Nashe uses the example of the animal kingdom and the living order of the animals, to demonstrate how a failure in leadership has resulted to a disorganized form of living in the universe.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1457

Problem of Racial Slurs in Australia

In fact, the impact of the social factors on the evolution of the pejorative terms, which the residents of Australia use in order to insult the indigenous inhabitants of the state, is evident; the significance [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 13
  • Words: 3585

Evaluation of Novels ‘Every day’ and ‘I am Malala’

Characteristics of Young Adult Literature and Literary Genres in the Novel Some of the young adult characteristics, literature, and literary genres that the novel employs include the use of personal experiences and the tender age [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1772

“New World Babel” by Edward Gray

He traces the journey of their notion of these languages from as early as the pre-Enlightenment period to the modern period. This move was driven by the belief that the native languages represented the fundamental [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 867

Realism and the Unreal in “The Female American” by Winkfield

The novel also introduces several facts that are difficult to place in the eighteenth century society including the roles of female missionaries in the spread of Christianity and the heroine who alters the fate of [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1385

Summary of the Novella Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

The book is concerned with the life of the protagonist which is also his path to enlightenment. Siddhartha loves his father, he also learns about physical love and has a chance to understand what the [...]
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 496

Tough Choices: A Memoir

At a given point in her career, she dropped out to use the remaining part of her studies to set up her businesses.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 598

Church Going

The poem is an exposition of the erosion of the old beliefs of the religious institution delimited by the church. The narrator is contemptuous of the habit of visiting churches and derides the various instruments [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1396

Greek Tale: Greek Tale and the Trojan War

Apollo is the son of the mighty Zeus and Leto. The strained relationship between Apollo and his father was to continue until Zeus turned Apollo's son into a constellation of stars.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1121

The Harry Potter Series

Thus, in his article "Cryptozoology and the Paranormal in Harry Potter: Truth and Belief at the Borders of Consensus", Peter Dendle discusses the role of the paranormal in the books.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1110

The Effect of Shakespeare on the English Language Today

People developed interest of learning the language because of the need to understand the message that was in the plays. Adamson says that one of the most important contributions of Shakespeare in the development of [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 840

The Search for Order by Robert H. Wiebe

One of the critical issues that I learnt from the book is the disorder that prevailed after the abortion of the Reconstruction and the subsequent quest for restoring order in the American society.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 842

A Dystopian State: Astutopia

The education system reinforces the essence of the dungeons, and the aim is to instill fear within the children so they can adhere to laid down teachings and doctrines.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 908

Literacy Linguistic Usage

Finally, it is vital to apply the findings on the relationships between language and identity in the practical sphere of learning and teaching languages.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1038

Magical Realism: Garcia Marquez

Magical realism is explained as the desire of the author to show the ordinary life of people with the instances of unreal, fantastic events.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 554

Faust: modern myth about Faust and Mephistopheles

The moral of the story is whether it is good to get desired knowledge without God's support or not, whether it is good to go in contradiction to the God's will and rules.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1378

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

It should first be noted that Tipping the Velvet has the element of a picaresque novel which means that it describes the adventures of a character, who impersonates oneself as someone else and overcomes various [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1106

Nazi Regime in «Maus» by Art Spiegelman

The author describes the life of his father Vladek Spiegelman before the Nazi occupation of Poland, during the Second World War, and the later influence of the Holocaust experiences on his personality.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 841

Socio-economic Issues in The Time Machine

At the same time, in spite of the seeming dominance of the Eloi, their actual hierarchy gradually switched during the evolution process, as the Morlocks hunt for the Eloi at night and eat them.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 834

The Handmaid’s Tale vs. The Country Between Us

This essay will discuss two works that eloquently illustrate the dangers of totalitarianism, namely, the novel The Handmaid's Tale written by Margaret Atwood and the book of poetry The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forche.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2215

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone: Bynum Walker

In addition, Bynum's singing through the play provides a clear picture of his spiritual and cultural relationship with his African heritage.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 559

“Ragged Dick” by Horatio Alger

As the young Dick strives in his street life, he is swallowed into the life of common ragamuffins in New York.
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  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 648