Elite Series Pro Kelley Jaye isn't afraid to get Jerky with Jerkbaits
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
Every bass angler has his niche, no matter if you are a recreational or a pro-angler, it's been seen often that one angler who's an expert in this, or an expert in that. There's the Denny Brauers of fishing, where their favorite lures are jigs, or the Kevin VanDams, where all they throw are...
Where it all begins and ends: How strike king designs, tests, and creates lures
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
“Lures are harder to design. Colors are not as important for triggering strikes,” said Strike King Lure designer Phil Marks. “Today's colors are mostly just variations of existing schemes. Colors have to be eye appealing. There have been many great fish catching colors that...
Catechism essay
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
"It is but natural that in opening this Universal Council we should like to look to the past and to listen to its voices whose echo we like to hear in the memories and the merits of the more recent and ancient Pontiffs, our predecessors," said Andrew Brown of the Guardian in Britain. Throughout...
The glory of shame
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight glorifies the affluence of King Arthur's court through elaborate detail and celebrates the virtues of the Pentangle that the knights swear to uphold. Then it challenges every mention of a virtue with an opposition: While everybody holds Sir Gawain to be the most...
The Delicate Hero
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
Judith takes the head of her enemy and delivers a speech to galvanize an army that saves her city from the invading Assyrians. She demonstrates apparent heroism through these accomplishments. However, the text in Sid Bradley's translation of “Judith” reveals that she does not achieve...
Escaping Fatalism, the Christian way
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
Alexander Pope's Essay on Man presents contradicting arguments: First he proposes that prevailing rules of fatalism govern the universe, then he advocates deliberate decision-making as Man's way of paving his own path toward salvation; He suggests the futility of Man's attempts to reason beyond...
Hamlet by William shake sphere
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
For eons, shake sphere has consolidated his place as the greatest poet, writer, and composer of all times. In the history of classical literature cannons, his works remain the most quoted, read, and recommended both in America and European schools .Among his plays, Hamlet also referred to as the...
The Franklin Tale by Chaucer
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
The Franklin account by Chaucer has been tautened by many as to illustrate several themes .In this tale, Chaucer adduces out the true values and culture of the medieval British society. Further, the concept of marriage is vividly illustrated. Critics postulate that, Chaucer's tale has a...
Extra credit
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
The New Self is a poem by Steve Gehrke and appears in the July/August 2012 addition of Poetry 100 Years. The New Self is a deeply introspective poem that begins with the author trying to decipher what exactly it is that causes him to dwell on his inner self. Throughout the opening stanzas, Gehrke...
Psychoanalytical reading of Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
Charlotte Perkins Gilman created the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” in order to present a world capable of transforming itself to satisfy the reality of the narrator. The story follows a woman's transgression into an alternate state of mind, relying on elements of writing such as...
Diane de Prima and Jack Kerouac's effect on the beat generation
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
The time in America following the confusion of World War II resulted in a great identity crisis for the thinkers of the country. Creators suddenly found them in a world resisting change for it felt it had experience enough in regards to the devastation of war. The country implemented strict...
Symbols in the Gospel of John
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
The New Testament begins with the first four gospel books, each proclaiming ideas unique to the time of their composition, as well as the audiences they wished to reach. The synoptic gospels consist of the first three gospels, making the Gospel of John very unique due to its exclusion from this...
Dialogue comparing the analytical lenses of new criticism and deconstructionism through Frankenstein
Case study - 5 pages - Literature
Torrents of rain fell from the black clouds above as if the sky gained sentience for the eerie day at hand. The children ran around in peculiar guises, feigning safety from the evils of the world by hiding behind their plastic masks. The roads grew too thick with water and began to steal the...
Discerning symbolic meanings in two pericopes from the Gospel of John
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
The Gospel of John was written after the synoptic gospels, and was intended to explain teachings of Jesus as well as ideals in a way unexpressed previously throughout the New Testament. John does this through inserting comparative meanings within the gospel, most of which serve to further prove...
Biblical criticism and the search for Jesus
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
The Bible is one of the most studied written works in the world today, due to its immense capability for interpretation. People often argue on whether certain works within it should be taken as literal or figurative, without considering the Bible's diverse origins. Once taken into account the...
English learning issues in Canada: Suggestions for an easier command
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
In many countries, residents who do not have a perfect command of its official language(s) are a cause for concern for many people including themselves, parents, educators, and policymakers. A 2011 study found that a significant number of Canadian residents, representing fourteen percent of the...
Shakespeare and the Deus Ex Machina
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
Throughout the entirety of Shakespeare's work, people of all walks of life encounter conflict on nearly every available front. Be it the clash of cultures, as in Othello: The Moor of Venice; a conflict of beliefs and morals as in Measure for Measure or the family and existential conflicts found...
Adorno and Horkheimer, Arendt, and Marcuse
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
Throughout history, even the most abstract philosophers wrote the majority of their work about their daily life, surroundings, and society. As time, society and technology progressed, a similar progression became evident in the writing of modern philosophers. In the twentieth century, many of...
Feminism in Three Perspectives
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
Women have always been labeled the weaker sex. Evolutionists will say that men have adapted to be physically stronger, as it is their role to provide for his family and protect them. Religious scholars will tell you that wives must defer to their husbands, and were created as mere compliments...
The Silent Holocaust
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
Four generations previous to my own, Adolf Hitler was responsible for the death of 64 of the world's Jewish population, (The Number of Jews…”). The National Jewish Population Survey indicates that in another four generations, the Jewish population will decrease by another 85-98 (Will...
The use of figurative language in "Turtle" and "My son my executioner"
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
Although not unique to the medium, figurative language and poetry are nearly inseparable. In even the most simplistic poems, authors make heavy use of metaphors, symbols, personification, assonance, alliteration and much more to underscore the themes of their works. Two poems, written by the...
The Hindu philosophical thought
Case study - 10 pages - Literature
It has been told by Sri Madhvacharya (13th Century), one of the prominent philosophical leaders of India, that “Wondrous multitude is this world, extensively vivid is this world and by virtue of these, the creator is par-excellent, infinite and powerful”. This praise denotes the...
Analysis of Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
The film Rosemary's Baby plays on a common fear most people in society think about at some point: the existence of evil in the world. In fact, it would be safe to say that it is a story that if one were deeply spiritual could possibly think could come true; in the Bible there is detailed...
Benjamin Franklin's autobiography
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
One of the major themes of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is that of self improvement. Although there may be certain points during the story where the reader may get the impression Franklin was more into bragging about his lifetime accomplishments than encouraging readers to improve...
Analysis of Huckleberry Finn and The Scarlet Letter
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter not only both tell us about how people are constricted and controlled by the societies in which they live, but tell you that there is no escape from it. Through characters such as Hester, Dimmesdale, Huck, and Jim the authors of...
Wood Fences and Petals on a Wet Black Bough: A Rhetorical Comparison of Noel Perrin and Joan Didion
Case study - 8 pages - Literature
Noel Perrin and Joan Didion initially seem to have nothing in common. Perrin lives a rustic country life, while Didion embraces the social revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Perrin's “First Person Rural” is a graphic portrayal of a different section of the country that...
An Analysis of Be, Know, Do: Leadership the Army Way
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
The Army's approach to leadership development is powerful - and is thereby widely applicable to civilians and other organizations such as NGOs. Three words can summarize the philosophy that lies behind the Army's leader development. Be, Know, Do are “the key characteristics of an Army leader...
The decline of tragedy: modern tragedy and the failure to commit to action
Case study - 7 pages - Literature
In The World as Will and Representation, Arthur Schopenhauer introduces tragedy as the most important form of literary art. Tragic heroes fight against forces of great opposition but eventually have to surrender to their fates. Tragedy is a reflection on reality as the audience reaches a moment...
There will be time: Eliot's temporal theory from "Prufrock" to the Four Quartets
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
The poetry of T.S. Eliot contains a temporal theory that evolves and transforms from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to the Four Quartets (1943). His theory shows that “all time is unredeemable” (BN I, 5), however, the cause of its inability to be redeemed changes from the...
T.S. Eliot's four quartets and music
Case study - 26 pages - Literature
Eliot's line, “In my end is my beginning,” has pleasantly echoed through our ears this semester. It is a line that indicates the perpetual connection of the start and the finish of a journey. The journey that we embarked on in the beginning of January has been full of unfamiliar...
