Criticism College Essays Samples For Students

The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn is a masterpiece of the American literature. Twain discusses the events in a captivated way and by this; he wins the hearts of human across the globe. The book Huck Finn by Mark Twain bases its story on the aspects of racism, companionship and social criticism as it explains the relationship and way of life of Huck and Jim, the slave. At the beginning of the book, Huck and Jim have a constrained relationship but later on, conditions bond them to great friends. Huck racially discriminates Jim based on color, but it takes long before he accepts ...

PART 1: Reflection on Writing Process and Commitment  One of the most important things I have learned from doing peer review on other classmates' essays and the feedback process is the importance of constructive criticism. I have not had many instances of non-constructive feedback in this class, to be fair, but I have also learned how to give it. I sometimes tend to find myself getting slightly aggravated at the occasional spelling or grammar error, but for the most part I have learned to temper my own high-strung nature and provide criticism that addresses the issue without placing a value ...

"Despite the usual connotations of the word “criticism,” literary criticism is called criticism not because it is negative or corrective but rather because those who write criticism ask searching, analytical, "critical" questions about the works they read. Literary criticism is both the process of interpreting and commenting on literature and the result of that process."

This passage from the textbook gave me a new way to think about the word “criticism.” I always thought of criticism as a way to talk about what is wrong with something, but the textbook says it is not limited to negative remarks. It is a process ...

The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a fictional novel with the sturdiest statements on imperialism. Though it has other significant themes, the emphasis focusing on imperialism can be easily noticed by the readers. Conrad wrote a letter to William Blackwood, his publisher, stressing how imperialism affected Africans. The narrative is clear and it sheds light on the criminality of incompetence and the high degree of selfishness in Africa civilization claiming its justification. Conrad declares his thoughts in a way that appears simple but in the reality, it is not. The aim of this paper is to discuss Conrad's criticism of ...

Introduction

Communication is a way in which people try to share the meaning through the transmission of symbolic messages. Communication gives us the opportunity to influence others and ourselves, affect the behaviour of others and share experiences with others. Despite the fact that communication brings people together and help them to connect, it can also draw people apart due to the communication barriers. They include; role expectations, gender bias, emotion and attitude. A person who practices good communication skills should be emotive, that is, have a high sociability and high dominance. To be able to achieve high dominance and high sociability, one ...

Introduction

As a writer, I have strategic plans in advancing my writing skills, as well as my professional qualifications. Proficient writers earned their success through consistency and hard work; despite all the challenges that they might have faced, they came forth as victors. My writing career means a lot to me and the people around me. This is my career path that I choose to live for, thus; I need to give all the attention needed.
Firstly, I intend to extend my writing of articles to writing journals and being a columnist in the daily newspaper. Famous writers are not only known ...

Crime and mankind have been in existence for as long as one can remember. This has prompted institutions and people to come up with measures to try and combat crime. Many approaches have been developed, and ideas harbored but all seem to suffer shortcomings. Different countries have different approaches to dealing with crime. For instance, in the United States three strikes law and other approaches (get tough) have been in use. Three strikes law was first introduced in 1994 by the state of California. This is after the kidnapping of a twelve year old that resulted to her death. Thereafter, ...

Annotated Bibliography

Bohn, William E. “The Development of John Dryden’s Literary Criticism.” PMLA 22.1
(1907): 56-139.
In Bohn’s article, the author discusses Dryden’s critical essays, particularly in terms of his use of satire. Here, Bohn notes the way in which Dryden used a satire as its own form of criticism; “satire is itself but a sort of criticism; it has always been the form assumed by the highly trained, versifying prose-understanding” (118). Dryden was never one to give literary judgments one at a time, but rather to convey his ideas in a more abstract way, which is where his ...

“Eye in the sky” is an acclaimed movie that was released in the year 2007 across the Hong Kong. The movie was directed by Yau Nai Hoi and portrays the rampant crime in the society of Hong Kong. This paper intends to discuss the movie, “Eye in the sky” and focuses on intriguing aspects of the movie.
The reason, behind choosing this aspect, is the crime and its effect on the society. Artists like Simon Yam, Kate Tsui and Tony Leung Ka Fai, have played their roles with sincerity. This movie presents a darker picture of the Hong Kong ...

Race refers to the similarities by a particular group of people in the sense that they may be people who share the same language, similar customs, have the same skin color or possess other similar physical features. However, different races have faced criticisms for various reasons such as their religious affiliation as well as their cultures. As such, this paper seeks to focus on the major criticisms that have been experienced by all the races.
Secondly, the physical environment has an influence on all races. One’s racial affiliation affects their way of doing things. Factors that stem from ...

Throughout history, religion was always the most powerful source of common values in the building of society. It promotes the unity of the humanity, strengthens peace love and friendship amongst people. Besides, the religion has become one more branch of the government and sometimes it is sought to be unfair and disingenuous.
The great role is being played by the democracy. You should not be mocked or penalized because of your beliefs and your religious choice. Every democratic constitution protects the right of religion. However, many believers can face disapproval and neglect because of their choice. Actually it ...

Archetypes are one of the main components of every literary piece. Understanding the function of archetypes and their contributions to literature is important in order to fully understand and analyze a piece of literature. Tracing the origin of archetypes will lead us to the discovery of its connection with one of the pillars of psychology: the Jungian Analysis.
The term archetype comes from the junction of words “arch,” which means chief or principal and the Latin word “typus,” which translates to the English words images and impression (Archetypal Criticism 1). The etymology of the word archetype suggests its superior ...

Ever wonder how to become a great writer? The answer is quite obvious, reflective writing that is the process wherein a writer can learn from previous works. While I agree with T.D. Jakes in Treetop Instincts about how one should be affected only by good criticism and not by negative criticism, but I would like to add that negative criticism should be viewed in a constructive manner. This is exactly what I have done through this course wherein by paying heed to my professor, Lawanda Dickens’ criticism (both good and bad) I have seen a stark improvement in my writing. I did not ...

Annotated Bibliography

Brewis, H. (June 4, 2014). The movie lied: Tactical realism and ‘The Return of the Living
Dead.’ Smug Film. Retrieved from http://smugfilm.com/the-movie-lied-tactical-realism-and-the-return-of-the-living-dead/.
This piece of online film criticism from Harry Brewis of Smug Film outlines the overall tenets of ‘tactical realism’ as a practice, and why it is harmful as a way to engage with films, particularly genre films. Brewis also defines tactical realism in a comprehensive way, and uses the film Return of the Living Dead as an example of how tactical realism arguments miss the greater symbolic points of the film.
This work appears in a major film ...

Theodore Gericault’s The Raft of Medusa is a canonical piece of art created in the early 19th century – in the wake of Romanticism in France. Romanticism was not a style, nor was it a manifestation of a singular idea. Instead, Romanticism was a movement, characterized by artists’ transfer of personality and mind onto their painting, including social criticism in the best way it could be presented in an art work.
French Romanticism closely followed the Neoclassical movement, which explains Gericault’s being strongly influenced by Michelangelo’s work (Durbin). Many critics also stated that the painting was influenced by the work of ...

I was talking to a friend who was complaining about his lack of accomplishments in his life, and he began to implicate me in his self-pity, implying that I was in just as bad of shape as myself. It triggered the thought of criticism. While I did not mention anything to my friend, I was very critical of him as a person, and especially as a friend. The thought triggered feelings of anger, and low self-worth. This reaction fits into the judgment/criticism/blaming response, which is an ineffective way to cope with stress.
Also, I was waiting in a very long line at ...

Value and judgment in contemporary art

The matters concerning value and judgment are among the recently intensified debates in criticism of art. The criticism of art suffered collective failures in nerve as the styles and names are booming and busting within the increasing rapidity. A discourse trafficking the value judgments is risking being co-opted into serving consumers. Conversely, it can even serve as outright as the consumer’s guide to the contemporary art market. In this market, critical discourse and commerce frequently seem to be comparative to each other. The value judgment and contemporary Art Criticism comprises the transcripts of the discussions, and the available ...

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Theory of Natural Rights
One theory that can apply to the above scenario is the natural rights theory. This particular theory by John Locke emphasizes on the total protection of basic human rights and the reliance of all laws on human rights (Finnis, 15). According to John Locke, there is a fundamental duty for everyone to avoid violation of others’ rights (Paul et al., 34).
There are six basic human rights that should be observed. These include security rights, due process rights, political rights, liberty rights, welfare rights and equality rights (Thiroux, 45).
The ...

Argo is a film that describes the rescue of a group of United States diplomats from a hostage situation in Iran. The film exclusively illustrates political crisis; however, a critique of the film reveals the political gaps that existed in the film. The film shows the great use of government power in the rescue mission but limits the use of some government arms in the rescue mission (Lapsley ‏ & Westlake 3). In the film, the Iranian activists hold a number of staff in the United States embassy hostage although some of them escape. However, the situation is expressly tough for the hostages. The director shows ...

Today I will bring the topic that is called the hot topic of the town, and that is whether the Pope Francis’ actions taken to help the poor and in regard to capitalism is worth accepting or not.
First of all I would like to put some light on the Pope’s life. Pope Francis’ is a Pope of a new era, with new and revolutionary ideas in mind. He is a man with a simple life, loving to be friendly with people, kind. These qualities are making him different from the previous Popes. Pope Francis’ requested the United Nations to come ...

The story “The sculptor Funeral’’ is about the funeral of Harvey Merrick who unlike the people of his town who are driven by greed chooses a different life and becomes a teacher in another town. Most of the people in his town view him as a failure. Many forms of critical approaches can be used to analyze this story. This paper has concentrated in two critical approaches in analyzing this work of literature the two are Marxist criticism and the reader response criticism.

Marxist criticism

The story “the sculptor’s funeral has demonstrated perfectly the Marxist criticism. The story is set to have taken ...

I write for various reasons that define me as an individual. I write as a way of expressing my mental attitude towards the things I see people do on a daily basis. I write to disapprove of the actions I do not like and to approve of the one I agree with. I write to express my feelings about nature appreciating every bit of it that makes me happy. I write to express my feelings on the things I am passionate about. I write to drive away boredom since it is fun to think as you put your thoughts in paper. ...

This paper seeks to take issue with Freud’s visitations to Hamlet, the vicissitudes of the Oedipal in Freudian analyses, the text and the meaning/s thereof, with a focalised interest in Freud’s essay ‘On Repression in Hamlet.’ It seeks to delineate the basic tenets ingrained in Freud’s essay, the critical readings in psychoanalytic literary criticism with reference to Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet’s visits to the ‘Oedipal’ shrine and the reverential treatment meted out as evinced by the essay and a close analysis of the text. The aim of the paper, therefore, is to initiate a critical dialogue with Freud’ ...

Filling In The Gaps: A critical dialogue with the lacunas in Suchismita Hazra’s article “Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest: A Critique of The Victorian Society”
This paper proposes to launch into an analysis of Suchismita Hazra’s article “Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest: A Critique of The Victorian Society” and investigate the inconsistency of the hermeneutics of her paper. The paper seeks to take issue with her exploration of Wilde’s intent and purport in exposing the double-standards inherent in Victorian society and prove how her analyses, despite extensive quoting from ...

Each person has some unique talents, which distinguishes him from the next person. Such talents are evident in the manner we approach social issues or reason. In any social environment, individual interests would be observable from the move or like or dislike that one would display in the course of interacting with the environment. In most instances, people tend to identify their unique capabilities at childhood stage. During this period, one can interact with the environment by demonstrating a trait in a given direction.
In my childhood, I was able to identify my oratory skills after engaging in numerous debates ...

This essay discusses the philosophy of Michel Foucault (1926-1984) the well known French philosopher and historian. Specifically, the essay considers his concept of the purpose of criticism, and offers an explanation of the biopower / biopolitics kritik argument. With regard to the latter, the essay discusses its strengths and weaknesses, and suggests an appropriate response.
According to Phillips (2002), Foucault did not want his criticism “mistaken for thought or the work of transformation,” but as an instrument to trigger the process of thought. In his view criticism helps to provoke the thought process by creating uncertainty and difficulties ...

Generally, geeks or nerds are the names that are given to the people who are into something, particularly, the ones who love to study and have success in their studies. In my opinion there is no shame in the fact that an individual likes to learn and does not mind to spend his time doing it, being preoccupied with books and other materials. Many great leaders, in various fields of life, for example corporate leaders, bankers, government officials, had worked very hard in order to succeed, in order to achieve what they had achieved and if those people were ...

Question One

Engaging the goals of ideological criticism, provided in To Each Its Own Meaning, and applying this method to the passage of Job 5:1-27 considers the historical, the source, form, tradition-historical, and redaction criticism. Considering the historical ideological criticism of this passage of Job therefore considers the children of Israel 5,000 years ago and the understanding of God the Father as presented in this text. Determining if this passage has an intrinsic ageless value or is it no longer relevant to the contemporary believer remains coherent to the individual. In this, discovering and making visible the dominant ideology(s) ...

Academic qualifications provide a mechanism through which a person’s abilities can be assessed to determine his capabilities in undertaking given tasks. Productivity of an individual can be well measured by emotional intelligence rather than academic qualifications .a combination of the two, provides the best results. Emotional intelligence is the ability of a person to identify, evaluate and control oneself emotions, of others or of groups.
The results of the EQ tests lied in a range of people that find difficulties in establishing good working relationships with their co-workers. There is a concern that people within this range (48%) experience difficulties in handling ...

Abstract

The concept of human rights has evolved over time and today, human rights are used as the yardstick upon which people measure a government’s treatment of its people. Human rights have been proffered as universal rights that occur to man by his being human. It may well be stated that human rights in modern day are synonymous to religion. They seek to define the moral code within which a government treats its people. Several theoretical approaches have been put forward in an endeavor to explain the basis of human rights. some of the theoretical approaches include the natural rights theory ...

Summary of the book by X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia ‘Literature an introduction to fiction poetry and drama’

This approach as covered in the book emphasizes on the current universal patterns applied in most works of literature. This approach combines insights from aspects of common humanity by borrowing from facets such as anthropology, psychology, history and comparative religion. Using the mythological criticism concept, scrutiny of the individual artist’s imagination is done by their use of myths and other identifying factors in relation to a certain epoch/ culture. The archetype is an enduring concept in mythological; criticisms of literally works. ...

In Candide, François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) humorously criticizes power, love, wealth philosophy, education, religion as well as optimism. Throughout this book, Candide does several things the wrong way, which the author uses to exaggeratedly elucidate the inhumanities of man in a humorous way. This paper seeks to discuss the role of humor as presented in Voltaire’s book, Candide, which is a humorous satire criticizing the aforementioned phenomena in the society in which he lived. The use of humor in this book assisted the author to reach his audience and reduced the amount of criticism for his book, considering that he ...

Alexis de Tocqueville, the author of the famous book “Democracy in America”, criticized the ability of the majority to oppress the minority by silent disapproval. However, it cannot be said that Tocqueville meant deprivation of freedom of thought under his claim. What he basically meant is that majority generated common values for the whole nation on a basis of representation in the political institutions and the minority, which values differ from majority’s, is under a pressure of public opinion. This does not mean that minority cannot have its values, but it means that minority will find it difficult to practice ...

Dear Sisters,

Thank you for opening this email, please put aside the text books stacked against your keyboards because what I want to say, while not easy for me and might make some of you feel bad, I hope this will be ultimately constructive.
Our sorority is thought of, in case you were not aware, as the sorority of socially awkward girls. The reason we have a week to socialize with Sigma Nu is to socialize with Sigma Nu. If the majority of sisters are just going to talk to each other during this week, then why even have it in ...

Understanding Emotive Theory: G.E. Moore’s Criticism
In G.E Moore’ “Objectivity of Moral Judgments”, he reasons that emotive theory is misleading in the understanding of right and wrong. The emotive theory of ethics bases on the argument that ethics premises on the argument if wrongness and rightness. However, Moore’s offers a strong and stringent criticism of this supposition. According to Moore, humans have conditioned themselves to say wring or wrong describes their feelings. It is dangerous to reason on emotive theory because feelings towards right and wrong are heavily influenced by individual sensibilities.
First, Moore reasons that if ...

Everything you have come in contact with has a degree of influence on you. It can affect you for the rest of your life whether negative or positive. A child’s mind has to be cultivated by the right people. The title of a book by Hillary Rodham Clinton “It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us” encompass this idea. Teachers play a large role in the development of children. As a teacher, your influence over your students, and ultimately the future, is infinite. Teaching is my dream career, because I enjoy learning from others, giving instruction, receiving feedback and constructive criticism, ...

Romanticism was always an important part of the musical revolution and this was made clear in the works of the great masters. One could take as a typical example, the music of Beethoven which Berlioz found entrancing and which he introduced several times into his own works. A great critic who analysed Beethoven’s music to the letter was ETA Hoffmann whose description of the Fifth Symphony as a transition from darkness to light was one of the most important pieces of writing in the 19th century.
Nothing is more romantic than the music of Hector Berlioz. One almost cannot ...

Romanticism was always an important part of the musical revolution and this was made clear in the works of the great masters. One could take as a typical example, the music of Beethoven which Berlioz found entrancing and which he introduced several times into his own works. A great critic who analysed Beethoven’s music to the letter was ETA Hoffmann whose description of the Fifth Symphony as a transition from darkness to light was one of the most important pieces of writing in the 19th century.
Nothing is more romantic than the music of Hector Berlioz. One almost cannot ...

Dian Fossey conservation efforts of the mountain gorillas is something a kin to legendary .She had formed a small force with an intent to help guard mountain gorillas against human beings. Dian threatened the hunters together with everyone who helped them in their poaching activities. However, not everyone was happy with her efforts. Some people condemned her very much for the way she treated hunters. For example, Rwandan officials were very much opposed to her efforts of controlling an area that she did not own. Still, some experts of animals heavily criticized Dian Fossey’s very strong emotional attachment to the gorillas. ...

The development of eco-criticism has been attributed to the increased diversification in the field of literature and cultural studies. Various artists have presented issues affecting the environment, as well as providing reflections of the real life. Eco-criticism has been developed in explaining the relation of human being with the nature. In addition, it provides an illustration of the role of language, art play and language in explaining the relation between the human being and the nature. Eco-criticism is based on explaining the relationship between human beings and the nature, and it attempts to explain how modernization and globalization have ...

- Introduction & Thesis Statement
This essay seeks to conduct a critic evaluation of the article Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics by Andrew Moravcsik. This article explains the reason as to why liberalist theory is the best theory to explain the relation of nation-states in the international system. Moravcsik is of the view that the state actors in the international system are more likely to cooperate than compete in the international system (Moravcsik 516). He argues that the international institution in the international system such as the United Nations exemplifies the need for cooperation among nation ...

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a new environment for creativity as expatriates in Europe, Williams lived a remarkably conventional life. A doctor for more than forty years serving the New Jersey town of Rutherford, he relied on his patients, the America around him, and his own ebullient imagination to create a distinctively American verse. Often domestic in focus and "remarkable for its empathy, sympathy, its muscular and emotional identification with its subjects," Williams's poetry is also characteristically honest: "There ...

Flannery O’Connor is a unique writer that succeeded to combine humor and horror in a manner that is unusual for a female writer. In her short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” O’Connor intrigued readers with unexpected events and ambiguous characters that are difficult to analyze. She brought up an important theme of good and bad, human grace, and justice. Her personages are bright being described with detachment and clarity. Her ability to apply grotesque is fantastic.
It is difficult to distinguish between the most and the least sympathetic characters in the story written by Flannery O’ ...

The examination is not by what one has done or to what extent it has been done. The extent to which the occurrence has been done does not matter what matters is whether the purpose of the examined factor has been accomplished and there is satisfaction in ones actions. Through constant checking of ones doings, correction of mistake and the unbiased criticism of behavior and inner vice there is self-evaluation. An examined life brings about reason and it reduces the chances of repeated mistakes and shortfalls. When life is evaluated solutions are brought to the table and problems are ...

World has witnessed a number of disasters that devastated places and people in a substantial manner. Disasters are unpredictable and neither any individual nor any country is invulnerable to the devastating impacts of disasters but the devastating impacts of these disasters can be reduced by the mechanisms that have been developed by the humans. The mechanism, that reduces or manages the devastating impacts of disasters, is known as emergency management. This paper intends to discuss the federal legislation and provisions that deal with emergency management and several other related aspects of the subject matter.
Emergency management has been defined as “a ...

Introduction

Capitalism and socialism are divergent economic thoughts. The two differing philosophies have had an extensive analysis and are applied in different parts of the world. Some countries have however sought to mix these two varying ideas. These two theories majorly differ in their ideas with reference to ownership and control of resources in an economy.

Compare and contrast capitalism and socialism and discuss their shortcomings as criticized

Capitalism is an economic structure where individuals posses economic resources and production. In this system, every individual has a duty of protecting their personal interests in the available market system. Additionally, the latent success of every person is recognized and highly valued. Individuals in a capitalist ...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, is a book that was written by Equiano himself and it tells of his biography and his life after being kidnapped together with his sister. Equiano was a famous African who participated in the British movement to abolish slave trade where slaves were taken from Africa to go and work for Americans. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is a story that recounts a story of a child born in West Africa and was kidnapped into slavery at a very tender age of 11 years. This narrative explains ...

There are three corporate governance mechanisms namely; the board of directors, Ownership concentration, and the executive compensation (Dierdorff et al 972).

Ownership Concentration
Ownership concentration gets its basis on the number of shareholders in a company and the amount of shares owned. A noteworthy percentage of shareholders ownership influences the decisions made by the top executives. A concentrated ownership offers a dynamic and effectual monitoring of the top executives unlike the diffuse ownership, which is weak in examining and controlling the decisions made by the top management (Dierdorff et al 972). In the United States, institutional owners for example CalPERS have used their powers to oust incompetent CEOs.

Board of Directors

Board of directors is elected by the shareholders and comprises of both insiders ...

Classic English Literature

Shirley Hardie Jackson, a remarkable and popular American author of the 20th century, was born on December 14th, 1916. Shirley Jackson was the daughter of two professionals Leslie Hardie Jackson and Geraldine Bugbee Jackson. From a very young age she had interest in writing and wrote poems and journals, where her journal writing mostly revealed her interest in superstitions and the supernatural. A statement written in a journal in the 1933 New Year’s resolution stated, “seek out the good in others rather than explore for the evil” exposes her interests. At the age of fourteen, she and her family moved to ...

Over the past years, universities have progressively created ways to engage undergraduates in research. Research has been steadily growing as a typical component of the graduate and undergraduate curriculum. As a result, universities have slowly begun realizing the advantage of students gaining experiences in research as they venture abroad. Today, many institutions are giving their students the opportunity to study abroad (Wendy, 26).

A student’s experience of studying abroad is more prominent from the traditional college experience since it constitutes a more intense and higher level of experiential learning. Simply doing some internet research and flipping through a book is not sufficient ...

Cultural criticism is an act practiced by the cultural critics who have literally taken to themselves the work of taking information from one individual to another, give judgments of how a particular behavior impacts a culture and give suggestions on what they think is a more favorable state of the affairs. Some people have gone further and dismissed social criticism as an unworthy course because they think everyone is free to choose what they want to do with themselves or what they have to say as freedom of speech and expression is in most of a counties constitution.
There is need to ...

National Security Agency is one of the important agencies of US government. It is a unit under the US department of defense tasked with the responsibility of collecting and analyzing various forms of foreign communication, as well as signals of intelligence, to detect potential threats to the country’s security. It is also tasked with the responsibility of protecting United States’ information and communication systems (Bamford 4).
The mission of NSA have been widely cited as eavesdropping radio broadcasts, telephone conversations, internet communication , among other forms of technological communication. Its mission to secure communication pertains to the diplomatic and ...

Inquiry and Absolutes: Karl Popper and the ‘Poverty’ of Pseudo-Science

Karl Popper was notable for his criticism of Marx and Freud in that he regarded neither as having developed “testable” theories, a fact which neither could be considered scientific, he argued. In Popper’s view, theories that cannot be used predictively degenerate into the realm of “pseudo-scientific dogma” (Thornton, 2009), and it is this claim that helped define Popper as a decided opponent of relativism in all branches of science. It was his contention that Marx and Freud had turned to ad hoc hypotheses that do not belong in objective science. In Popper’s view, psychoanalysis and Marxism (as a socio-economic predictor) ...

More often than not, good writing is based on the provision of evidence and facts about the topic of discussion. However, most authors fail in this sense in the manner in which they present their ideas. Critiquing of writings often brings out the weaknesses or the strengths in an argument and can lead to approval or disapproval of the same. The essay below is a critique of the kind, looking at how approvable the subject writing is.

Critique Essay

In his article titled “The Myth of the Millennials”, Koc (2008) sought to discuss whether there is really a millennial generation or not. In ...

Anne Williams, a professor at the University of Georgia, published a piece of literary criticism on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein called "'Mummy, possest': Sadisn and Sensibility in Shelley's Frankenstein." In it, her overall thesis is the connection between the mummy/zombie genre of horror (to which she attests that Frankenstein falls) and concepts of motherhood, birth and creation. In essence, her theory is a piece of feminist criticism that connects womanhood in its purest form with the Frankenstein monster and its creation. Williams theorizes that Frankenstein creates the creature as a means to reconnect with his mother, who is dead, while also repressing the reality ...

The article “When Picking a C.E.O. Is More Random Than Wise” by Steven Davidoff in the Dealbook of the New York Times from July, 24, 2012 discusses the process of choosing executives and suggests that it is hardly possible to identify specific objective criteria for selecting the best candidate. Hence, most of the appointment decisions depend on the subjective opinion of the boards. Davidoff provides the examples of Marissa Mayer, who was recently appointed a CEO of Yahoo, and James Rogers, who was dismissed from his position in Progress Energy in less than an hour.

The topic of executives selection remains ...

Two Views on African American Advancement

The extract written by Dubois is clearly intended as a reply and a riposte to Washington’s account of his Atlanta Exposition Address and the responses to it. Indeed, he systematically attacks Washington’s ideas and puts forward a radically different vision of how African Americans should be educated and how their political and social integration should proceed.
Overall I feel that Dubois is fair to Washington. He calls him “ a useful and earnest man” (Dubois, 774) and states that in the North of the United States the initial reaction to Washington’s Exposition Address was, in some African American circles, that ...

The idea of postmodernism in literature is one of the most predominant notions existing in criticism today; though its definitions are often loose and unmoored, there are many specific notions about its application to a great many aspects of modern society, from its books and its written works to culture itself. Fredric Jameson, in his essay "Postmodernism and Consumer Society," he denotes the ambiguity that permeates all manner of consumer culture and literature in today's age; pastiche and schizophrenia are touted as the means by which postmodernism translates to the modern day culture. N. Katherine Hayles, on the other hand, ...

Essay #1

Roland Barthes, in his groundbreaking book S/Z, introduced the idea that there is no such thing as a writer – or as a reader. Instead, everyone who comes into contact is considered a “scriptor,” whether or not it is the person who records the text, or the person who is reading it. The reason for this is that each person who interacts with a text has a set of baggage that affects the way that he or she perceives the levels of meaning. After reading his ideas, I was drawn to the school of “New Criticism.” While that might seem counterintuitive, given the fact that ...

Arguably, many Athenians mostly mistook Socrates for a sophist. Socrates was one of the keenest critic of sophists. Socrates was among the first great philosophers in Athens, together with Aristotle and Plato. As a philosopher, Socrates developed many philosophies and changed the thinking of people on various aspects of life. In fact, Socrates taught the youth and never charged them any money. On the other hand, Sophists were public speakers, orators, as well as hired mouths. Perhaps, they were gifted with qualities of speech. Their skills on various fields were high and, were known as Rhetoric. They were hated, respected and ...