Decolonizing the Language Garden: Narratives of Exploration and Acquisition in Jamaica Kincaid's Garden Writing
Case study - 12 pages - Literature
While acknowledging their problematic nature, postcolonial writer Jamaica Kincaid maintains a predilection for explorer narratives. Between her two most exploratory and garden-related works, My Garden (Book): and Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas, she refers to at least ten such narratives,...
Are You Randy? Double Entendres as Fictional Names
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
From the Bond girls called Pussy Galore and Xenia Onatopp, to Master Bates of Dickens' Oliver Twist, there is no lack of double entendres in modern or classic fiction, and analysis shows that they fall into two distinct categories: overtly erotic and didactic. How and why each author, playwright,...
Classification of social practices semiotics
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
To Mukarovsky, which basically sets the literary text of any other text is what he called the aesthetic function. He said something like this: Every object or action, including the language, you can assign a practical function - utilitarian for instruments, communicative for language, and so on....
International Relation - Winston Churchill Speech, Roosevelt, and the Global History
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
“The Sinews of Peace”, was the heading of a speech given by Winston Churchill. In the audience there was the noticeable presence of President McClure. It was one of his supreme speeches, Iron Curtain, given by him as a British prime minister (Reynolds, 2006, pp. 250-252). The setting...
Response Essay to Middlemarch by George Eliot
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
The novel Middlemarch by George Eliot is primarily a Victorian novel but incorporates features of modern novels. Eliot, in his works, portrays the hatred for women novelists. In those eras, women were confined to writing the stereotypical fantasies of the conventional romance fiction. The main...
"The spiritual in art" of Wassily Kandinsky
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
Wassily Kandinsky is, for many, the inventor of abstract art, that is, the man who abolished the object. The elimination of the figurative was for him a combat several years and does not unfold in the area of the formal or aesthetic, but concretely. The larger exterior differences do not exclude...
Intelligent decision support system for E-learning- with novel algorithm
Case study - 7 pages - Literature
More and more digital learning resources are available online through various learning management systems; this has made it a challenging task for learning institutions to choose the appropriate learning management system that will enable its achieve its goals as well the learning goals of its...
Eva Maria Duarte
Case study - 5 pages - Literature
Eva Duarte was born on May 7, 1919, and was the daughter of Juan Duarte and Juana Ibarguren, she was the fifth daughter of an adulterous affair, when he was born, the wife of his father was still alive, was the youngest daughter after four brothers: Elisa, Blanca, Juan and Ermelinda. His mother...
Eva Peron in Europa
Case study - 5 pages - Literature
In the first term of Peron, we see that Argentina had good relations with Europe, being the largest exporter of wheat and meat, because after the war European countries were devastated. The United States also maintained good trade ties, and even Spain, even fascist, was dependent on Argentina and...
Argentina and Eva Perón
Case study - 7 pages - Literature
By analyzing populism in Latin America, we always come across charismatic presidents who conquered their constituents mainly by the ability to attract them with their acts demagogic and give them the idea that all they were making had been given and not a right to truth. The history of Argentina...
The two faces of Churchill: Case study
Case study - 6 pages - Literature
As history is not static, their understanding changes constantly varying according to the historian vision, which, unfortunately, can not be completely impartial. This happens in history, when the same fact is considered differently. And the importance of Winston Spencer Churchill - British...
Neoclassical and Romantic styles -Visual Arts and Film Studies
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
Art has been for so long; almost as long as the world's existence. Neoclassical and Romantic styles of art and types of paintings are popular in the world of art. Both styles were influenced by the Romans and Greeks. The mid 1700's marked the beginning of the neoclassical art. Shortly afterwards,...
A Trip to the Moon Screen Culture Review
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
The film A trip to the moon printed and heading by Georges Melies in 1902 was the first science fiction film that used animation and special effects. The scheme of the motion picture was based on the thoughts of two novelists, Jules Verne's,writer of ‘From the earth to the moon,' and H.G...
Revival of storytelling through animation: White Neige the beginning of an obsession, a reflection of Death
Case study - 8 pages - Literature
Walt Disney was trying to implement the best possible on-screen the fatal outcome of tales which was inspired. Therefore, in its quest for perfection, and obsession to adapt the best possible story, he was inspired by various films, authors, see s character. He looked strong character for one of...
Modern Times: Controversy between Sartre and Strauss
Case study - 5 pages - Literature
Evidence of the importance of the link that united Lévi-Strauss in the Journal of Sartre, number 628 of October 2004 was especially dedicated to Levi-Strauss. The pen of Boris Wiseman, the newspaper devoted an entire section to the link between Strauss and maintained the journal under the title...
Claude Levi-Strauss: Modern times
Case study - 7 pages - Literature
Claude Lévi-Strauss was born in Brussels on 20 November 1908, to a Jewish family from Alsace in the vicinity of Strasbourg. However, he spent his child-hood and his life in Paris, his family having left Alsace at the 1871 German annexa-tion to remain French. The young Strauss operates in an...
The transmission in the work: Clint Eastwood
Case study - 7 pages - Literature
In the three films that we are studying, students mostly have common characteristics. The first is the opposition to the values of the natural family. Thao (Gran Torino) Maggie (Million Dollar Baby) and Whit (Honkytonk Man) belong to the new generation nt rejects the values of their family. Whit...
Sociology - Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Jane Addams
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
Sociology is terminology that was brought by a Philosopher from French by the name Augusta Comte (1798-1857). He is well recalled as father of sociology and he used the term first in his work “positive philosophy. Other proponent of sociology includes Karl Marx (1818-1883) who joined hands...
4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days: A look at Mise-en-Scene
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
The award winning film 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days chronicles the life of two Romanian university girls as they navigate the difficult communist life of 1987 Romania. In the film, the two friends embark on journey to perform an illegal abortion after one of the girls, Gabriela, becomes pregnant....
Analysis of Shakespeare sonnets: Reading for a difference
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
This is an essay that is interested in the analysis of Shakespeare Sonnets: Reading for a difference with regard to an article by Helen Veldar. Shakespeare sonnets are a form of writing poems that originated from Italy and its invention is credited to Giacomo da Lentini. The word sonnet actually...
Michael Curtiz: Case study
Case study - 7 pages - Literature
Being director in Hollywood in 1940, is a curious business, midway between the foreman and the artist. Led studios, artists who are appointed to this position must obey a number of injunctions while using their authority on teams assigned to them. They have a particularly drastic specifications...
English gothic literature
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
English gothic literature is dominated by the sub genres of horror, fiction, and romanticism. On evaluating whether a piece of literature is gothic or not, it requires one to evaluate the presence and meaning of some gothic literature elements. These elements include the presence of evil,...
Edgar Allan Poe - The Masque of the Red Death
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
The fictional country and its people are plagued by the Red Death, a disease that kills its victims fast and grimly. The prince, Prospero decided to lock the gates to his humongous palace to keep off the plague as it is spreading quickly across the land. After many months, he throws a masquerade...
What is the meaning of money to Francisco? To James Taggart?
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
As money is “the barometer of a society's virtue” (383), so is money the measure of a person's worth. This is the importance of money in the story of Atlas Shrugged, where the stakes are high and some of the characters larger than life. Amongst the characters are Francisco d'Anconia and...
Effect of Satire on Politicians - Literature Review and Analysis
Case study - 6 pages - Literature
According to Bigi et al, (2011) when Satire gets serious, it can have different effects on people, politicians, public speakers and even societies. The authors cover the main aspects of influencing the public through political satire. Alessandro Bigi, the main author of the study is a researcher...
A political satire in the 21st Century has a higher impact on the public opinion than a revealing newspaper article - Thesis Paper Research
Case study - 6 pages - Literature
In the below literature review we are going to examine the effect of satire on politicians. Our thesis is that “A political satire in the 21st Century has a higher impact on the public opinion than a revealing newspaper article, through creating humor and simplicity.” The thesis is...
Hay for the Horses ? Gary Snyder poetry analysis
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
The Hay for the Horses is a poem of disappointments. It uses a free verse form, to create an atmosphere as if we were standing right next to the person talking. There are different interpretations of the text, and although the poem was written in 1958, there are various aspects and motifs we can...
Understanding the Shakespearean Opus from authors Stefan, Giles, and Nicholas works
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
It is evident that Shakespeare intended to garner audience appeal while eliciting human emotions (Giles 14). In his most notable works, Shakespeare touches on all aspects of the human nature including love, hate, stigma, moral attributes of good versus evil, tragedy, greed and lust. Furthermore,...
Martin Luther King Jr
Case study - 6 pages - Literature
Over the years, successful personalities exhibit varying leadership secrets lying beyond the plain sight of the ordinary human eye. In view of that, leadership exists as a multiplicative form combining the unique qualities that identifies distinctly such figures from the crowd, in their actions...
Theme of loss and longing in poems-Postcard from Kashmir, by Agha Shahid Ali and "Elena" by Pat Mora
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
Loss and longing are two universal emotions that are predominantly active in our human souls especially when we find ourselves away from the places we naturally call home. While migration has significantly contributed to the richness and diversity of cultures, ethnicities and races, it has also...
