The book, 'The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our Brains.'
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
The book, ‘The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our Brains' by Nicholas Carr's taps into the anxiety of identifying what the internet is doing to us. The book instigates by Carr sharing his feeling just like other people claiming that he can no longer think as he did before evidenced...
'The Monk and the Riddle' by Randy Komisar
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
The book, ‘The Monk and the Riddle' by Randy Komisar draws insights about entrepreneurs from the writer's experience. Komisar presents advice and certain must dos' for anyone wishing to develop a successful business venture. His story is developed with interesting characters who must find...
Use of Voice in "More Rivers to cross"
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
Many Rivers to Cross is a speech that June Jordan makes at a conference known as ‘women and work.' In it is part of her autobiography which she gives to show how many rivers she has to cross in her life. She starts the essay with her mother's suicide at a time when she was struggling...
Harold Kushner, God and Evil
Case study - 6 pages - Literature
Many religious authors have asked the question Kushner (2002) does in his book: “Why do the Righteous Suffer?” The easy answer provided by the author in the first chapter is that “God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck. Some are caused by bad people, and...
The Truth About Keats' Grecian Urn
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
In Sidney's A Defense on Poesy, poetry is “an art of imitation.” Granted, Sidney's definition does imply poetry serving as a mirror to a reality, and to imitate is to replicate something in closest form, in mimesis. To simply strike the possibility of poetry stemming from any sort of...
Modernism Alone Can Sustain Man's Interest in Literature
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
Literature is an indispensable ingredient of man's education. In other words man cannot totally avoid literature so it cannot make its way into his education. Yet not many are ready to taste the nectar pouring from literary masterpieces. As a matter of fact most literary pieces appear as...
The Problem of Evil
Case study - 5 pages - Literature
The presence of evil, pain and suffering in the world poses a philosophical threat to the existence of God and is the most persistent argument raised against one's belief. This problem of evil is not that there is evil in the world or the fact that there is no balance between the good and the...
Poetry Explication Analysis
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
The author of the poem is Edna St. Vincent Millay born in Maine a small town in the United States. The Sonnet is titled “What lips my lips have kissed”. The poem narrates of various loves reaching an end and the emotional defeat associated to the loss. The poem is a sonnet as it...
Nude Study of Thomas E. Mckeller" by John Singer Sargent
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
John Singer Sargent was born in January 12, 1856 and was the most successful painter of his era. Sargent was born to American parents in Florence, Italy. Her mother was an amateur artist while his father practiced illustration of medicines. It was through her mother's encouragements and support...
Symbols and the Speaker in "My Last Duchess"
Essay - 10 pages - Literature
In a poem there is more than meets the eye. Robert Browning's “My Last Duchess” belongs to the genre of the dramatic monologue from the Victorian period. In this study I will analyze the poem centering on the symbols and the speaker, what is their role and how do they contribute to its...
Aging and Society
Essay - 4 pages - Philosophy
Over the past few years, the increasing cases of neglect among the aging population have raised concern among the general public and especially in the United States. The rising number of old people is mounting a lot of pressure on social services as well as the working population. This pressure...
Same Sex laws in USA
Essay - 4 pages - Philosophy
Bowers v. Hardwick and Lawrence v. Texas are two landmark decisions of the Supreme Court of United State - made 17 years apart - that demonstrate the sea change in the attitude and outlook of the American judicial system and indeed the American life in general, towards homosexuality. In the...
Kamikaze Girls from the class perspective
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
The film Kamikaze Girls can be said that it is the story is about the friendship of the two female protagonists and demonstrating the youth subcultures in Japan. However, we can also try to look at this film in relation to the concept of class. Class, as concluded by Bennett, Grossberg and Morris...
Social Work: Ethics and Values
Case study - 4 pages - Philosophy
Codes of ethics are regulations used to guide behaviors of professionals in an organization, which are written or documented. Counseling profession involves dealing with some crucial information that needs to be confidential. There exist principles and standards of ethics that are applicable in...
Effects of immigration on post civil war architecture in America
Case study - 2 pages - Philosophy
In the early 19th century, American architecture was a mixture of cribbed styles and European architecture. It is only until the end of the century that America began embracing the idea of having their own unique architectural style. It is then that American architecture started new trends and...
Critical critique of a paper on community development in social work
Case study - 2 pages - Philosophy
In this article, the author, Rebecca Filliponi explains the similarities and differences in community work and social work, and how they affect the community by examining how they both integrate by using research tools, case studies and interviews. The author suggests that by doing this, a...
Existentialism, as Developed Through the Parisian Society in Perfume. How does Patrick Süskind use the society of Paris to develop the existential ideas in his novel "Perfume"?
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
The novel Perfume by Patrick Süskind, chronicles the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, the anti-hero, whose heightened sense of smell allows him to create the Ultimate Perfume through the murder of virgin women. The quest to create this ultimate scent is what gives meaning to his life. However in...
The Role of Moira in "The Handmaids Tale"
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
In the novel “The Handmaids Tale” by Margaret Atwood, the character of Moira rarely appears in the main storyline, but rather, her character is brought out through the many flashbacks of the protagonist, Offred. She is shown to us to be a rebellious, intelligent and perseverant person...
'To succeed in creating a convincing character, the write needs to give the audience a sense that characters have inner thoughts and feelings'. To what extent, and in what ways, does this statement apply to 'The Handmaids Tale' and 'The House of
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
Both ‘The Handmaid's Tale' by Margret Atwood and ‘The House of Bernada Alba' by Frederico Garcia Lorca are stories that focus on the development of character, rather than the development of action. In order to make these characters convincing, the author could express the characters...
Madonna and child
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
Giovanni Bellini was an acclaimed and distinguished artist of 15th Century Europe. Of Italian descent, and more specifically from Venice, Giovanni Bellini was a prominent and celebrated artist during an era of history where visual arts took center stage, the Renaissance Era. He was best known...
Servant leadership
Case study - 8 pages - Philosophy
Servant leadership is a form of administration which encompasses a set of accepted leadership practices and philosophies in a given country. This form of leadership is different from the traditional one since leaders' shares powers with their subjects, respects their needs and helps them in life...
Civil Union and Same Sex Marriages
Case study - 2 pages - Philosophy
Civil union is a form of marriage whereby people of the same sex vow to stay together. Sex marriage is a relationship between people of the same sex as seen in gays and lesbian communities. The first civil unions came to lime light in Vermont State in the year 2000. This was followed by...
JFK Assassination
Case study - 2 pages - Philosophy
President JF Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 while driving in an open limo through the Dallas. The autopsy report conducted showed that he was hit by two bullets-one on his head and another on the neck. Harvey Oswald, the culprit who is believed to have assassinated Kennedy was later interdicted...
All is fair in Love and War
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
House of Cards is not a show about several different characters that simply live and work in a semi-connected world; it is about Frank Underwood, the House Majority Whip, and how everything and everyone exists to serve his ambitions. Everyone in the series is defined by their relationship to...
Sailing the wine -Dark Sea
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
In his book sailing the Dark wine sea, Thomas Cahill tries to give the reader an insight into Greek society and civilization through the lives and words of politicians, playwrights, poets, philosophers and artistes through an immaculate narrative. The book sailing the dark wine sea tells of some...
Good vs. Evil in both Macbeth and Lord of the Flies
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the once fearless and courteous Macbeth encounters three witches that foretell his future as the new King of Scotland. Intrigued by their prophecies and driven by the desire to become King over Scotland, the ambitious Macbeth along with his manipulative wife...
After Auschwitz poetry analysis
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
After Auschwitz is a poem that was written by Anne Sexton on January 1973. This poem was then included in a volume entitled "The Awful Rowing Towards God". It was publish in 1975, a year after her death. After Auschwitz tells about the anger of the poet about what happened during Nazi's regime....
An analysis on the poem "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath
Case study - 6 pages - Literature
Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response. That imaginative awareness can be in a lot of form of human emotional situation. By reading a poem we can get those various kinds of emotional. A...
Poem analysis: A Mate Can Do No Wrong by Henry Lawson
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
The friendship was learnt in their way of working. They learnt to believe each other in their togetherness. They had been to many places like Hungerford, Bourke and Billabong together. They give their whole belief to their friends. So, no matter what their friends said, they would believe it....
An Analysis on the poem "How Old is my heart, how old?" by Christopher John Brennan
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
This poem basically is about a life and death. It is an old man who reflects and does introspection of his life when he was young. It seems that he regrets of what he had done in his youth. He wonders whether he had lived his life properly or not. Moreover, it seems that he was not satisfied with...
