Just How Are We Stupid? - Book review
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
Democracy is a structure of government in which all citizens of a nation determine public policies, laws and actions of the state in unity. All citizens are expected to be involved in all issues pertaining to the wellbeing of the country. This essay is a preview of the book just How Are we...
Maria Concepcion Related to Christian Values
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
Maria Conception as a narrative may make the person who reads to question her/his own intellect of morality. The narrative goes that Maria gets wedded to Juan Villegas; it is a Christian marriage and therefore happens at a church, in their native Mexico. This is a very rare happening,...
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society: psychoanalytical, character of Juliet Ashton
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society is a letter based novel written jointly by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrow. It tells the narrative of Juliet Ashton, a youthful English author and a collection of readers on Guernsey, a Channel Islands inhabited by German forces during war. Various...
An Analysis of George Stigler criticism of Adam Smith
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
In a fluent way of manifesting the criticisms economists have on Adam Smith, George Stigler classifies Adam's notion on wealth based on self interest. In a nutshell, self interest creates a provision for a substantial foundation on the notion that was developed on nations' wealth. To add to that,...
Case Study: The Guton Lock
Case study - 3 pages - Philosophy
There are three locks for lifting the ship and three other ones for lowering. Each of the six locks has two chambers. This is designed so to facilitate two way transits, thus, reducing traffic (McCartney 16). This therefore required the design of the wall to be done and constructed in a way the...
Critique of Romantic Love
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
To love someone includes idealizing the person and perceiving uniqueness of the person. In fact, the desire associated with romantic love is often a function of the perceived uniqueness of the loved person. For example, romantic love includes exclusive dating and copulation; these activities...
Charles Peirce's "The Doctrine of Necessity Examined"
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
Against absolute chance is inconceivable' is the third argument examined by Charles S. Peirce in “The Doctrine of Necessity Examined”. Necessitarianism or Determinism is a principle that refuses all simple possibility, and affirms that there is exactly a single way in which the world...
The centurion of Capernaum- Synopsis of the Four Gospels
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
The centurion of Capernaum is a story of a man who was highly regarded in Capernaum who went to Christ Jesus to request him to heal his servant who was sick and also of a leprous man who received healing. (Mathew 8:5-13, Mark 1: 40-45, Luke 5:12-16, 7:1-18). On the other hand, the story of...
Agape in 1 John 2:19-20 NRSV
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
The word ‘agape' is best used to describe sacrificial, selfless, unconditional love, which has all these four types of love best described in the Bible. The word has various forms of love found in the Greek community, some are found in the Bible. However, this word is used to describe the...
An illustration of the divine comedy revealing the romantic vision and clean eccentricity Blake - The Divine Comedy of Dante - William Blake (1824-1827
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
The Divine Comedy is a poem of Dante Alighieri written in triplets chained to hendecasyllables in vernacular Florentine . It is divided into three parts : Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, each with 33 chants. Dante began his writing in 1307 in Florence. Dante has the impression of having lost in...
Methodology Philosophy Essay
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
A philosophy essay is a properly philosophical exercise from the time when the thought is able, through a critical work on itself, by distancing, to examine his habits of thought. Public opinion, this is not what you give is what one asks. It only gives the for questioning. It is to move from a...
The Divine Comedy of Dante -William Blake (1824-1827)
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
William Blake is a multifaceted artist. As a poet, painter and engraver, he was born in 1757 and died in 1827, having been able to complete these illustrations of the Divine Comedy of Dante. During his lifetime, he was appreciated and supported by those brothers and a few patrons such Linell or...
Language and Literacy - Malcolm X, GloriaAnzaldúa, and Barbara Mellix
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
Malcolm X, GloriaAnzaldúa, and Barbara Mellix in their writings express their understanding of the significance and power of language. They explain how language facilitates and strengthens an individual's identity and helps one view himself or herself in a new way. In her essay, Gloria describes...
Gothic Elements in Beloved
Case study - 5 pages - Literature
The book of Beloved depicts many aspects of African-American slavery such as violence; the tragedy of black people; the brutality of slavery, etc, and these are represented through many elements like scriptures from the bible, fantastic and gothic elements. Morrison's use of gothic elements...
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...
What to expect from getting an Education?
Case study - 2 pages - Philosophy
In Scott Adams essay “How to get a real educate at college” led me to question if students have the skills needed to work in society. According to Arguments given by Scott Adams, Rebecca Mead, and Mark Schneider demonstrate how education is an institution where students graduate and...
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...
