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24 Jul 2015
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Dada versus Futurism, A Comparison of Tone and Purpose

Book review - 2 pages - Literature

Accompanying great movements are differing points of view. The variances allow the rare chance for comparison among two essentially different movements. Tristan Tzara and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti provide the perfect example of the opportunity for comparison with their respective manifestos....

10 Jun 2015
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A Battle amongst our Own

Case study - 8 pages - Literature

Every day, in the United States, new members of the military are introduced to vigorous training that's designed to prepare them physically and mentally for their awaiting battles. One thing that these military training academies have failed to prepare service members for in the past, continues...

10 Jun 2015
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Urban development of the Hellenistic city, period of the Athenian domination and the imperial city

Case study - 5 pages - Literature

In 167 BC, the Roman Senate decided the new status of Delos, which becomes free port, and the pound to the Athenians that cover their domination as they reconvoitaient. At that time, the Athenians settlers soon settled on the island. The population growth is such that the urban area expands in...

10 Jun 2015
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Protogeometric Epoque era and Geometric era(tenth century - eighth century BC)

Case study - 3 pages - Literature

In the Geometric period, the city developed considerably, new neighborhoods are created, such as the future of the theater district, for example, probably to meet the needs of a growing population again, also in the north, a new neighborhood is built beyond the sacred lake and bordering the...

13 May 2015
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Hemingway Explained

Case study - 2 pages - Literature

A Clean, Well-lighted Place is part of the short stories written by Hemingway. The story is about three men who are in their stages of their lives; one young waiter, one old waiter and a customer who is old. The old man, customer, is living in a state of despair and has attempted to commit...

13 May 2015
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The last supper

Case study - 3 pages - Literature

In the renaissance, there was a big influence of region on arts as with all aspects of life at the time. The best artists in the renaissance, such as Da Vinci and Michelangelo, worked on pieces that had a bearing on religion. The last supper, a meal divided up by Jesus and his disciples, was a...

24 Apr 2015
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Women on the Edge of Time: A Literary Analysis

Book review - 2 pages - Literature

Women on the Edge of Time can be referred as a feminist utopia though it presents the reader with the literary choice to question the society capabilities of embracing utopia. After a thorough analysis, the individual reader realizes the role of the human race in changing the future of the...

14 Apr 2015
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Political influence of different racial politicians in the United States of America

Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy

Politics is a very intriguing part of the society. It is hard for one to satisfy all political needs while satisfying what the society wants. This has brought about the increase in racial people in the politics of the United States. The influence of these racial politicians cannot be ignored in...

14 Apr 2015
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Report on wheels magazine

Case study - 5 pages - Philosophy

Bauer media Group Company in Australia publishes Wheels automotive magazine monthly. The magazine is widely read by Australia car enthusiast's (Bulmer 2008) .The main competitors for the magazine are Motor magazine and 4x4 magazine companies. Though both magazines are published by the same...

14 Apr 2015
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Racism book review - Brym & Lie, 2013

Book review - 2 pages - Literature

The society dictates social interactions among its members. For example, some cultures eat snakes while this is totally unacceptable in other cultures. Other aspects of cultural interaction include nature of interactions between two people from different races (Brym & Lie, 2013). For example,...

13 Apr 2015
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Book Review - Onward: Starbucks fought for life devoid of losing its soul

Book review - 4 pages - Literature

Brand management is a very effective tool of creating sustenance in business (Scarborough et al., 2009). Dominant brands are one of the main reasons why there are monopolies in so many sectors. The popularity of brands is also an explanation to the rise of corporations that control the biggest...

10 Apr 2015
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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...

08 Apr 2015
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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,...

08 Apr 2015
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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...

07 Apr 2015
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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,...

30 Mar 2015
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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...

26 Mar 2015
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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...

24 Mar 2015
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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...

23 Mar 2015
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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...

13 Mar 2015
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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...

12 Mar 2015
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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...

12 Mar 2015
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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...

12 Mar 2015
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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...

10 Mar 2015
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Language and Literacy - Malcolm X, GloriaAnzaldĂșa, and Barbara Mellix

Case study - 2 pages - Literature

Malcolm X, GloriaAnzaldĂșa, 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...

09 Mar 2015
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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...

09 Mar 2015
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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,...

09 Mar 2015
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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,...

27 Feb 2015
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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....

19 Feb 2015
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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...

18 Feb 2015
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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...