Everyday Literature Reviews Samples For Students

Alice Walker's Everyday Use

"Everyday Use" pieces together the story of two sisters who stand in opposition to their heritage. Maggie, the youngest, is shy and self-effacing but has grown roots that run deep into the family’s personal heritage, and thus knows the intimate history and significance of every heirloom in her home. Dee is modern, flashy, and self-assertive, and has sought to indentify herself with the grander tribe of her people. Dee has even changed her given name to an exotic African, for she did not want to be known by the name of her “oppressors.” Her mother takes Dee through a ...

Counter Measures to the Bullwhip Effect

Introduction
The bullwhip effect is the unexpected distortion of the supply chain. It refers to the “variability of order rates” (Disney and Lambrecht, 2008, p. 3). This supply chain hazard has its roots in Jay Forrester’s Industrial Dynamics Theory of the late 1950s (Goldsby and Martichenko, 2005). Forrester was the first person to introduce the concept and simulate a model in 1961. There are many solutions to counter the bullwhip effect.
The reason why there are many solutions to the bullwhip effect is because it is triggered by multiple causes. For instance, the most common cause is overreacting ...

The two novels both have a history when it comes to thrillers in their time. The Haunting of Hill House, a novel by Shirley Jackson is considered a classic among many novel lovers as it captures the imagination of the reader in all possible ways. The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson is a crime novel that has captured audiences around the world. This is with the imaginative and creative form of writing that it takes. Both these authors are legends in their own right, and form the basis for some of the thrillers that are present today. One of the most noticeable ...

Abstract

This peer review looks at Alex Pierce’s story, The Challenging Two Mile, which is a story about a young man who is running a two mile race at Virginia State Championships. This tale is a self-reflection and personal growth story that follows a chronological plot format, focusing on the character and his pain as the main imagery from the audience’s viewpoint. While the overall image of the two-mile race sets the backdrop, it is the internal and external body struggles that make this story so captivating. Fast-paced and well-written it is an honest, simple and down-to-earth learning ...

In everyday life, an average human being interacts with so many experiences, some of which significantly influence our response. In a college party for instance, several people are having conversations and loud music is playing: and yet each groups of people conversing can still make out what the other person is saying despite the noise. In morning traffic, it is typical to see a corporate employee communicating through a hands free device, taking coffee and driving at the same time. In college rooms, it is typical to find one student reading while the other plays music. How is all ...

Abstract

This study looks at the glass ceiling by examining three specific research questions. The questions look at the definition of the glass ceiling, its effects as well as how it can be broken. This part of the research contains a comprehensive literature review of some of the sources to be used. The literature review only includes sources from current peer-reviewed journal articles. The literature review reveals the fact that the glass ceiling is still in place in the current workplace and has various effects. The effects stem from factors such as unequal pay for the same job and lack ...

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Study Overview
Dissertation title: Managing Safety from the Top: The Influence of Senior Managers’ Characteristics
Purpose: Thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen
The description of senior managers by literature manager is that they are crucially influencing the safety of organization. Yet it has not been completely understood, their influence is contributed by. Thus, the thought was to investigating characteristics of senior managers with respect to their impact toward safety in management organizations in the air traffic. A safety literature review indicated that research in the area would gain from introduction of ...

Precisely, the influence of social media on the development of students' communication skills has turned into a problem studied by many modern researchers. From a historical perspective, the issue is new, as social media have evolved very quickly. Even 15 years ago, the general theory of interpersonal communication in the context of education did not yield to analysis, which would take into account the impact of social media on the development of students. However, today, millions of young people around the world feel the effect of the total virtualization of social processes, i.e. communication in particular. The use of ...

In the beginning of his first topic of discussion Inner Values in an Age of Science, he is expressing how you do not solely need to rely on the blessings of something there is also the action that is needed to be taken. Although he does still value blessings and prayers, they are just psychological benefits for everyone religious or not. He continues to compare prayer to modern science. Prayer does not come close to the success stories from modern medicine, for instance, he explains how you can pray for all kinds of things but medicine advances are what ...

One particular response to the recent shootings perpetrated by white officers on subaltern victims has brought into question whether or not police officers should be equipped with cameras in order to function as a "third eye" they would provide objective truth when it comes to certain contentious incidents. Drover & Ariel (2015) address the lack of studies done on body worn cameras by police officers. The article presents a study that documents a Police leaders’ implementation of a randomized controlled trial of the use of body work cameras. The main objectives are to identify the challenges to implementing a trial and identify how they were ...

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Introduction
Araby is one of the most fascinating works by James Joyce. It is about a young lad who narrates the story and who leads a blithe life in a Dublin surrounding. The boy falls in love with a friend’s sister and watches her steps every morning. Hen the boy and the girl finally spoke, she mentions about a foreign bazaar right in town. The speaker later became obsessed with the plan of buying the girl presents from the bazaar.
One major theme in the Araby is disappointment. The narrator is eventually faced with realism when he visits Araby and finds ...

Akmansoy, Vesile & Kartal, Sadik (2014). Chaos Theory and its Application to Education: Mehmet Akif Ersoy University Case. Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 14[2], 510–518.
This study surveyed thirty professors from different faculties at a university in Turkey on their opinions about wether certain aspects of chaos theory could be applied to education. It was a qualitative study, using a standardized set of open-ended questions posed in the same way and same order the the participants. In analyzing the data, two researchers independently coded the themes, and then compared results. Their percentage of agreement was sufficient for statistical validity. The ...

The purpose of the proposed study is to look into the issues concerning communication that arise due to the increasing use of mobile phones in society. communication among children, specifically the role of mobile technology in threatening to change the future generation’s patterns of communication. The prevalent use of mobile phones among children presents positive but also negative influences on this population. The continuous development of technology is a potential threat on disrupting and changing communication patterns in our interconnected world.

Refined Literature Review

The information technology revolution and an extraordinary increase in knowledge have led to the development of a new era ...

A Twitter Literature Review

TWEET FOR MORE THAN JUST GOSSIP
Twitter is a widely recognized “microblogging” social networking site developed by Jack Dorsey and founded by him, Evan Williams and Biz Stone in 2006 through the startup company Obvious (Grossman, 2009). Use and interface is very simple with people answering the question “What are you doing?” in 140 characters or less. The site is arranged in such a way that the person can see what his/her friends (i.e. people followed by the person, termed as “following/s”) are also posting. Twitter also popularized the word and use of “hash tag”, which uses the number sign (#) ...

1. Benjamin is amused by the fact that the collector builds a lot of amusement through creating a link and a storyline by linking generations or history. This means that the collector aims at re-modeling or reflecting a certain object so as to provoke a memory among people such that there is a connection. Through provoking one’s memory or history, people form a bond or a link between things such that an image represents an idea or something of substance. Benjamin explains that there are three types of memories that can be evoked: intentional memory, voluntary memory and involuntary memory (Leslie 68). The collector is said ...

Literature review based on "Kathleen Stewart (2007) Ordinary Affects pp1-7 and pp15-21
In this work, Stewart appears to have assumed an affective turn through denoting the more recent step by citing the prevailing move from the discursive exploration of the daily figurative representation regarding affective intimacies and intensities, which accumulate in the everyday living moments (Stewart 2). This book avoids academic traditions of uncovered truths and demystification. Alternatively, it attempts to slow the quick jump to representational thinking and evaluation of critique. He finds something to say about ordinary affects through carrying out some of the texture and ...

Introduction

Growth and development is an umbrella term for everything that happens to an organism after a certain period of time that leads to maturity. Human growth and development are two terms that are usually misinterpreted and at times, interchanged. It would be important to know as early as now that these two terms do not carry the same meaning and are therefore not interchangeable. Growth refers to the process wherein part of an organism’s body increases in size, diameter, or length. One practical example of growth that typically occurs in humans is the increase in the size, diameter, and ...

1) The advantage (and disadvantage) of graphic storytelling is that it is both a wonderful and sometimes confusing way of telling the story. In the case of "Two Questions," the way the text swirls around the images is quite interesting, as we get a much more kinetic and immersive way of seeing the world of the story. However, one of the disadvantages is being somewhat confused at times, as it takes awhile to get used to the format of the graphics. For a time, you may miss important parts of the story if you do not know where one image begins and ...

Alice Walker’s short story, Everyday Use, is written from a central first-person point of view. A reader can tell this because the story is told from the “I” point of view, from Mama’s view. She is central in all that happens in the story. She is a participant and not just an observer.
The story is a good example of subjective narration, because the narrator, Mama, has a definite opinion about what she describes, the people involved, and is not attempting to be objective about her thoughts or the events that happen. She shares her inner thoughts and fantasies, like ...

Impact of Technology on Supporting First Grade Students’ Creative Thinking in Mathematics

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This research provides an in-depth examination of the impact of technology in supporting the acquisition of mathematical creative thinking skills among first-grade student. It examines how technology can be properly integrated with mathematics to promote math’s performance without declining creative thinking skills in mathematics among the elementary students.
Social constructivism theory as the method of learning in first-grade mathematics students is advocated; it defines the developmental stages of a child and relates to his or her learning and problem-solving ability. Its requirements can properly be integrated to Computer-aided learning processes.
The value and importance of ...

Through “Sonnet 43”, Elizabeth Barrett Browning introduces a love declaration that transcends through time and space, the world of living and the one beyond life. Love is the central theme of the sonnet, and an in loved person is the main character. The peom is written in the first person, so there can be interpreted that the author is the one that declares her love for somebody. She does not describe the person to whom she addresses the love poem, but she does describe her love for that person, by employing an enumeration, which represents the main part of the ...

What is the speaker’s situation in Snyder’s ‘The Late Snow and Lumber Strike of the Summer of Fifty-Four’? Where is he at the end of the poem and what does he resolve to do?

The speaker’s situation in Snyder’s poem is that he is out of work and drifting. His situation has been caused by the snow falling unexpectedly in the summer and a strike by lumber workers. The situation is so bad that “Whole towns shut down” (line 1). Out of work, the , there is little road traffic and the speaker relies on hitching ...

As a life-long reader, it is extremely difficult to pinpoint any particular reason why people shouldn’t be reading – literature opens up a world of wonder, information and entertainment for anyone willing to simply pick up a book and read it. For centuries, literature has been held in equally high esteem by both the mass public and the most-highbrow academic circles. Literature is generally considered to be one of the canonical arts with books being held up as strong examples of intelligence and wit and, indeed, reading is frequently thought of as being an activity widely associated with people of a higher socioeconomic status ...

Boy at the Window by Richard Wilbur is an emotive poem which plays on childish emotions that we all feel memories of from our own childhood. In doing this, Wilbur is able to engage his reader by invoking past emotions and memories. This is compounded by the poet’s ability to write in a conversational manner which flows and allows the reader the chance to comprehend the words, whilst accessing their own interpretations of them. The poem’s layout is deliberately conventional because the poet intends to play on the readers’ memory and emotion, rather than creating mental images per ...