Novel Term Papers Samples For Students

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Wide Sargasso Sea was written in 1966 novel by Dominica born renowned writer Jean Rhys. This post-colonial parallel novel has put the author in the limelight being her most successful novel. This novel is a premonition of charlottes Bronte’s novel of Jane Eyre 1847 novel. This is a revelation of a relationship that casts a patriarchal society in which she is neither a black nor a white European with her European white boyfriend. This is a sour and unhappy marriage, which makes her appear demonic or devilish woman. The novel shortly tries to analyze the main themes of racial inequality and harshness of displacement and ...

Camus’ “The Stranger” is brilliantly as it crafts Camus’s absurdist view of the world. The novel came out in 1942, and tells the story of Meursault’s , an emotionally detached, but amoral young man. Meursault does not believe in God. Camus shows the main character’s callous nature as he does not cry at his mother’s funeral and he kills a man he hardly knows. Due to his crime, the society sees Meursault as a threat to the society, and as such, he faced death. Nevertheless, he comes to understand the simple coldness of the world. He eventually finds ...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise, tells the tale of a young Midwestern university student who falls in and out of love, while eschewing his education for a life in the military. Fitzgerald’s book, a semi-autobiographical tale written around the time of the pursuit of his first love Zelda, combines varying literary styles with a powerful narrative voice to show the idleness and greed of American youth in the 1910s. In the world of This Side of Paradise, the youth of the nation is confused, lost and torn between love, obligation and opportunity, not really knowing where they ...

Introduction

The goal of the English lessons administered to the students is to understand the use of language in explaining science concepts such as exploration, as covered in the novel, ‘A journey to the centre of the earth’. Further, the application of different writing styles are evaluated and their effectiveness in communicating science narratives considered.

Lesson plan for the novel review, ‘Journey to the center of the earth’

Lesson plan for Monday
I. Goals for Monday

Goals during our review of the novel will include

- Prepare to read the novel through by disbursing copies.
- Draw on prior knowledge and experiences by considering what they know and need to know about exploration and adventure.
- Ask questions on ...

The book The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat may be comprised of several short stories but it is integrated in such a way that it conveys one story at the end of it all. The author uses several characters to bring forth his central themes in a very artistic way. It is for this reason that the roles of both men and women are used independently to develop the main character who is the Dew Breaker himself. One such character is Ka, who is the daughter of the protagonist. She helps bring out the other side of the protagonist which he ...

“Waiting for the barbarians” by J. M. Coetzee

Introduction

John Maxwell Coetzee’s “Waiting for the barbarians” chronicles the sufferings and mysteries that occurred in a small colonial town. The town existed as the territorial boundary of the empire in which the narrator was a resident. An unknown magistrate narrates the story in the first person position by explaining the terrific events that took place in their town. The magistrate was a loyal servant of the Empire and his attempts were to ignore an unavoidable conflict with the “barbarians.” This implies that the novel was inspired by the brutal apartheid system in Cotetzees’ ...

One question that the world will perhaps never stop asking is “what is the meaning of our life?” Every philosopher in one way or another centers their career around answering this question. Is not literature and art just an attempt at either answering this question or of making the case for one possible answer? One common theme is that the answer is not a static turn of phrase, but one that is found through a journey that endeavors to understand. This essay analyzes how that question becomes answered through the journey’s of protagonists in four contemporary novels: Pauhlo Coelho’s “ ...

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Indian society has several different facets and aspects and The God of Small Things is a novel with these aspects intertwined together. Although there are subtle references to the caste system and colonial imperialism, the novel is a remarkable tour de force in that it describes what Indians went through as they came to grips with ever changing social and economical realities.
The novel actually shifts around in time and takes place in a town called Aymanam in what is now Kerala state. The setting shifts back from 1969 to 1993 where twins are reunited after a long absence from seeing each ...

Stephen King is a familiar name to almost anyone in American society. Even people who do not read many books at all, much less serious literature, know Stephen King to be the author of numerous horror novels and stories. According to the author information on his website (Author), King was born in Maine in 1947. His parents separated when he was young, and subsequently his mother raised him and his older brother, at times living with her parents to care for them in their declining years.
As noted on his website, after graduating from high school, King attended the ...

Introduction

First published in 1818, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley has been one of the most renowned novels in the world of science fiction, Victor Frankenstein’s, the antagonist, is successfully able to use a dead body to create a creature. The creature has more capabilities compared to the contemporary human being. The so called “Frankenstein’s monster’ lacks the ability to interact with mankind. Mankind seems to reject its cooptation to society often viewing the creature as being the ‘other’ within the societal hierarchical framework. By spying on a poor family the monster realizes that it is not part of society and therefore ...

The W.A.S.T.E. delivery system plays a significant role to the theme of the novel and reveals the characters of the book. It is described as a machine that mixes up the characters especially on its meaning and how it operates “For a moment she'd wondered if the seal around her sockets were tight enough to allow the tears simply to go on and fill up the entire lens space and never dry” (Pynchon, 11). The theme that has come out clearly in the book is communication breakdown where the characters are unable to coordinate and realize what they want. Such communication breakdown ...

In Reading the Romance, Janice Radway elucidates on the role of romantic fiction in women’s life. Radway specifically focuses on the middle class women who lead a hectic life, maintaining their household, looking after children and most of all working on their marriage. Somewhere along the way, Radway describes, they feel so exhausted by everything that they require a tremendous boost to their spirit. They find that much needed spirit upholstering and a boost in the romantic novels.
In the introduction of her book, Radway has mentioned four letters of different women who appreciate a good romantic novel and how they “ ...

Bram Stoker’s most renowned epistolary novel Dracula deals with numerous themes portrayed through the utilization of various symbols. One of the most potent ones would definitely be the ubiquitous struggle between the forces of good and evil, or in other words, between the angelic messengers of God and their nemesis, a demon from Hell. The strength and power of Christian paraphernalia serve as symbols of earthly as well as divine good, such as crucifixes and prayers, while the soulless entity of the Count and his undead brides symbolize the curse of longevity at the cost of one’s soul. ...

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Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises represents a drunkenness-infused, dissipated, and tragedy-stricken collection of antiheroic characters, adequately deemed the Lost Generation. Their postwar plight for meaning in a desolate wasteland of existence is a futile one, painfully aware of the fact that no baptism would wash away their sins. The psychological structure of these characters is equally marred by their profuse alcoholism and debauchery, and their ultimate tragedy is that the all but subtle myth of the generation they belong to would keep them in a perpetual state of psychological hell.
The aftermath of the World War I challenged all the ...

What makes this book distinctly American Literature?

Several types of literatures exist in the contemporary world. This includes the different genres. However, most of the literature are classified or grouped together according to their origins and time. In this paper, we will analyze the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in a bid to categorize it as a distinctly American literature.
Before we get to analyze the book, it is paramount we understand the characteristics of American literature. Many writers added in to American literature between 1865 and 1914. Even though these writers came from various parts of the country and had dissimilar life styles, ...

The famous antiwar novel by Ernest Hemingway “A Farewell to Arms” was filmed several times ("A Farewell to Arms (1932)", n.d.). Frank Borzage released a classical film adaptation in 1932, which has been awarded with two Oscars. The book was imbued with hatred for the war, to all those who unleashed it, as well as an unquenchable thirst for life. The text of the novel is incredibly sincere and true due to the fact the writer himself has passed the World War I (Hemingway as his character served as a lieutenant in the Italian Red Cross corps). Military experience ...

Literature

Thesis: Symbolism and figures of speech in Orwell’s Animal Farm
i. Use of similes, metaphors and symbols in Animal Farm

A. A summary of Orwell’s Animal Farm

B. Setting of Animal Farm
C. Napoleon and Snowball
1. Figures of speech in Animal Farm

Introduction

Animal Farm by George Orwell is one of the best works of the author. Each character in Animal Farm stands for an important character of the Russian Revolution. Fascism, communism and animalism are displayed as illusions applied by the pigs, in order to satiate their greed for power. The book is a political allegory of the then Soviet Union’s ...

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Love, Status, Money and Marriage in Sense and Sensibility
Sense and sensibility, by Jane Austen, was first published in the year 1811, but it was originally written in the year 1795 and was titled as “Elinor and Marianne”. Austen was born on 1775 and even as a teen ager she penned many literary works and some of her famous works include ‘Pride and prejudice’, ‘Emma’ and ‘Mansfield Park’. Her writing style is very incisive, her thoughts are elegantly expressed and her works were greatly admired, with Prince Regent being one of her avid fan. This novel is considered to ...

Introduction

Ernest Hemingway is one of the most popular writers of all times. He works continue to special values to the readers and to scholars alike. Hemmingway was born on the 21st July 1899 in Illinois. He was the second child of six children (Rivers 2013). Oddly, Ernest’s mother preferred to dress him in a manner that was similar to his sisters (Rivers 2013), but this did not impact his life as an adult. As a young man, he was one of those honorable men who served his country in World War 1. Later Hemmingway worked as a journalist ...

Throughout the second half the 1800’s England was the most powerful country on Earth, undergoing rapid industrialization and experiencing tremendous social change. At the time, the “women’s question” was a societal conversation about the nature, identity and role of woman in society (Norton Anthology). With a growing middle class, and increased literacy rates, novels and periodicals became a popular medium which was often used to investigate and debate the "women's question" since “the fate meted to characters could reflect opinions of their behavior”(Waller). During the Victorian era, a woman’s fate and lifestyle were largely determined by their perceived social, ...

Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution being one of the most recognized events in the world history had been opinionated and criticized throughout many writing pieces. Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is a metaphoric and detailed novel published in 1956, reflecting the Russian revolution of the 1917. George Orwell the son of a British civil servant, born as Eric Arthur Blair, gained popularity and a boost of financial holdings after publishing the novel; Animal Farm. The novel is an anti-Soviet satire that takes place in a farm where the idea of animalism has been presented to the animals by a pig named Old Major. He dies ...

Liberty. Among the most widely putative theories of liberty is that there must be a single predominant formula under which all the comprehensible locutions about personal freedom and liberation. The pervasiveness of this notion largely influences Gerald MacCallum’s classic article, “Negative and Positive Freedom”. The author provides that the need for freedom of an individual is realized once an element of constraint is determined. These elements of constraints prevent individuals from becoming or becoming something. Liberation is a triadic relation between individuals, constraints, and ends. To ensure full liberty, the constraints to the “ends” should be completely inexistent. These insights ...

In the text Time Out of Joint by Philip Kindred Dick there is inconvenient truth. The text is a Science Fiction written by a novelist who has written numerous outstanding and influential novels. Dick’s stories habitually dealt-with realism as delusion, Gnosticism, mad people, drugged-up individuals, individuals who seem mad but are in actual fact drugged-up, individuals who appear drugged-up who are actually mad, government schemes, malevolence corporations, eldritch abomination and simulacra. In Dick’s works there are twisted endings and revelations that splinters the world of a reader.

In the text Time Out of Joint, he uses a theme where he compares ...

Though the settings differ substantially, the theme of love is clear both in “The Greatest Thing since Sliced Bread” and “The Gift of Magi,” through the author’s use of character, style and point of view.
The book "The greatest thing since sliced bread" by Don Robertson and Gift of Magi are used to expound themes of love even though the two have different settings. The authors have employed the use of characters, point of view and style to bring out the theme of love. Gift of magi is a book concerning a couple and has inspired many readers ...

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European colonial influences on African culture in Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” and Achebe’s “Civil Peace
Imperial powers employ different methods to control the nations ruled by them. Apart from force, they also use various ideological means as an indirect mode of attaining control over the colonized nation. Sometimes more than military prowess, ideological instruments makes the people of the colonies accept the power of the ruling imperialist nation, and make them receptive to the domination inflicted on them. Some of the ideological instruments include religion, literature, and education, and these instruments were used to ...

Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell To Arms.1995.
Scenes depicting the horrors faced in the Great War are evident in Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms.” The book contains five sections and provides a systematic narration of the life of one Mr. Frederick Henry. Serving as an ambulance driver with the Italian army during the First World War, the narrative shows Henry's quest to balance a love life and the ongoing war. Frederick Henry’s occupation as an ambulance driver exposes his character to many violent events that later lead to trauma. With Barkley, Henry attempts to find happiness and love ...

Despite the fact that the United States history has serious experience gained from the American Civil War till the famous speech of Martin Luther King, our society is still harmed by presence of destructive ideas of social inequality and division not by the social position or character, but by ethnicity and therefore skin color. This problem is one of the most painful for the contemporary American nation as it is the boundary on the way to social progress and development. It divides our society and creates imaginary warfare and the set of senseless conflicts.

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A society is a combination of different components that make up the society. Among these components is marriage as well as families. Power is among the pillars of any society and whoever is in power decides how the society will be. This is always a tricky position that requires one who is careful so that the people of such a society are kept at peace and that all the intended functions of the society continue as planned. The issue of gender equality however varies with different societies. There are societies that have women in higher positions while there are others that do ...

Educational Affiliation

Reading is essential in the acquisition of knowledge. Books are the source of power and many great leaders including Alexander the Great had been fond of reading during his lifetime. Dr. Seuss, a famous writer of children’s story books, once said in one of his books published in 1978 entitled, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut that:
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you will go” (as cited from Dickinson et al. 2012).
Going back to its neurological background, Love and Webb (1986) claimed ...

Emile Durkheim is acknowledged as the first French scholar who influenced the development of the discipline of sociology in the mid-19th and late 20th centuries. As a proficient and an adversely talented academician, Durkheim was influenced by the great work of Max Weber, Auguste Comte and Karl Max who are accredited as the principal founders of the discipline of modern sociology. Throughout his career as an academician, Durkheim published numerous literature materials and made significant contributions in the development of modern sociology. As an author, Durkheim is widely recognized for publishing several literature materials including the Division of Social Labor, ...

ABSTRACT

Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games tells the tale of young tribute Katniss Everdeen, who is forced into a state-sanctioned spectator sport where she must kill her fellow teenagers for the entertainment of the authoritarian Capitol. In The Hunger Games, the character of Katniss Everdeen distinguishes herself from other female protagonists in children's fiction in many ways. These differences will be discussed at length, mostly through the lens of the treatment of romantic relationships with regards to the protagonist in children's fiction. Through analysis of the primary text and the surrounding scholarly literature, The Hunger Games is shown to be an ...

Boris Pasternak’s classic novel accords with the tradition of great Russian literature in its reflection and interpretation of the period in which it was written, despite the fact that Dr. Zhivago was not published until 1956. Pasternak’s tale unfolds amid massive social and political upheaval, in which alliances and loyalties shifted along with the tides of revolutionary change. Yuri Zhivago, the story’s protagonist, is a sensitive, starry-eyed idealist caught up in the violence and treachery of the times. His powerlessness leaves him profoundly vulnerable to the whims of fortune and challenged to maintain his individuality. Ultimately, Dr. ...

Selling the Wheel.

Selling the Wheel: Choosing the Best Way to Sell for you, your Company, and your Customers is a business novel written by Jeff Cox, Howard Stevens, and Zapp as a co-author. It was published in 2001 by Simon & Schuster and has 256 pages with content that has been an inspiration to many readers (Cox, 2001). This business novel is so far the best business novel I have read since the authors have done decades of research and settled on the best and right way of selling successfully (Cox, 2000). In addition, it is simple, interesting, easy to elaborate and ...

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‘The Tale of Genji’ is recognized by scholars and historians as the first novel in world literature and one of the greatest novels in Japanese literature. Authored by the Japanese novelist, Murasaki Shikibu sometime in 10th century Japan, ‘The Tale of Genji’ provides a glimpse of the Japanese court life during the Heian period. The novel tells about the fictitious Japanese prince, Genji, whose romantic adventures and fondness for women characterizes the courtship and polygamous relationships of royalties in the Heian period. One of the most interesting, yet controversial relationship that Genji has in his many romantic ...

Define collective bargaining (NBA lockout 2011) arguments from both sides (NBA owners and NBA players) what the latest deal means, when it will expire

Introduction

Business and sports operations are based on proper comprehension of the legal facets. An organizational investment into the comprehension and inculcation of the legal facets is critical towards ensuring that the prospects of litigation do not prevail. An individual or sports organization that maintains competency regarding the legal facets is bound to avoid the prospects of law suits that prevail as a result of non-comprehension of the legal facets of business operations. In regards to the ...

World literature Topic Literature always gives an opportunity for people to explore the cultural diversity in the society. Most literary works, as depicted in the works of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, V1:1801-1900, Candide, VII: 97-159, and Popol Vuh, V1: 1905-1920 bar plots that were obtained from different sources, showing the rich research embraced when coming up with the texts. In line with the distributed plays, acting versions, feedback, and adjustments can moreover shed light on decisions made in performing the plays. The listed texts, especially basing on their cultural perspectives that people always accentuate to, can regularly help a variety ...

Existentialism is a movement in both philosophy and literature that highlights the importance of individual freedom and choices. According to the philosophy of existentialism, some events or occurrences that happen with a person are irrational or absurd having no explanation for that. They believe that there are no universal guidelines to follow as well as there is no objective form of truth. Therefore, existentialism is based on one’s choices, decisions that are unique and unchangeable. The philosophers of existentialism argue that human choice is a subjective matter, because individuals are supposed to make choices without external influence of societal standards (ethical ...

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Quicksand by Nella Larsen is a book riddled with symbolism as well as ideologies. It delves deep into the ugly world of racial discrimination and racism. It also deals with identity and acceptance issues. It was very easy for either white people or black people to choose sides when it came to racism. Everyone knew what side to support. People of mixed races however did not have that luxury. They found themselves sitting on the fence and more often than not being rejected by both sides. This raised deep psychological issues in mixed race people as they struggled to find ...

Introduction

The thyroid gland is an essential gland found in various vertebrates, and has thyroid follicles (comprised of thyroid epithelia cells), which are supplied by a dense network of blood capillaries. The thyroid tissue’s main function is the biosynthesis and secretion of the thyroid hormone, which is an essential biological molecule existing in either of two forms, T3 and T4. The activity of the thyroid gland is controlled through the neuroendocrine system, which involves the hypothalamus and the secretory actions of the pituitary gland. TSH plays a key role in stimulating the thyroxin-binding globulin (TGB) and the uptake of blood iodine ...

Unlike many Novels, Uncle Tom Novel played a major role in worldview of slaves and slavery while others went un- advertised. A few of these reviews limited themselves to defending the south from what appeared as Stowe's unfair attacks triggering war and the end of slavery. It also played key role in shaping American’s literature as it had a big influence on several writers. The novel high lightened the plight of slaves, slavery and the laws set against those aided slave’s run-away, crusader of anti-slavery and advocacy of slave rights. The book draws Tom as a black slave whose is ...

The Battle of Gettysburg has a special place in the hearts of Americans. It was a real battle in the Civil War that for many reached mythical levels. In the South reenactments of the Civil War take place with an emphasis to historical fact both in uniforms and in military tactics. The Gettysburg battle and The Gettysburg Address by President Abraham Lincoln still bring up strong emotions for Americans to this day. On November 19, 1863President Lincoln noted at the Gettysburg’s National Union ceremony that the Union was created 100 years before and was “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the ...

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Genetic evolution refers to change(s) in inheritable traits occurring across succeeding generation of organisms. The change (evolution) is responsible for the diversity at all levels including the molecular level e.g. genetic variations, individual organisms in the same species (intra-species variations) and among species (interspecies variations). It is believed that all organisms emanated from common ancestry about 3.7 billion years ago and then evolved over time to the present biodiversity. Therefore all organisms have some shared traits at the morphological and molecular level with the species sharing a more recent ancestry having more similar traits. The process of evolution involves ...

Define and discuss the author’s comic critique of unrealized American ideals and inequitable American realities as regards class and race in Huckleberry Finn

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Huckleberry Finn is the archetypical American novel written by the enigmatic Mark Twain and which sheds considerable light on American society as a whole. It tells the story of the son of a town’s vagrant who leaves his son in rags and tatters and who is very much at the mercy of the elements throughout. The boy is a lovable young kid who does not have much going for him but who is essentially good and although ...

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What is the thesis of your paper?
The movie Gettysburg did have elements of the Lost Cause myth but the movie did make progress in teaching about Civil War through the movie.

Step 2

HOOK: What is interesting about this thesis? ‘Hook’ your readers with an interesting fact or angle.
The Lost Cause myth has been the basis of a lot of movies, and the Union soldiers and leaders aren’t respected at all in the Lost Cause myth.

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Find a minimum of 7 sources (3 must be actual books) that relate to your thesis. (DON’T FORGET TO CONSIDER VISUAL ...

Snow/Unaccustomed Earth/Girls of Riyadh

1. Introduction

Tradition can be thought of as an annual family ritual like a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. Traditions can also apply to communities such as when the nation watches the lighting of the White House Christmas tree on television. Not everyone in one community or even one family always celebrates in exactly the same way and exactly the same time.

Another way to define tradition according to Oxford American Dictionary (728) is as “a long-established or inherited way of thinking or acting.” That definition applies more to what this essay will be discussing. Even better is the fourth definition ...

The Theme of Dystopian Society in the works of Orwell, Huxley, and Bradbury

Introduction
All the three books, 1984 that was published in 1948 and written by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World that was written in 1931, and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 are the examples of dystopian literature. Dystopian literature is the kind of fiction that offers a negative perspective on the society of the future and the problems which are likely to be faced by humankind as a result of their political, environmental and economic activities. While utopian fiction portrays the future being advanced and prosperous as a result of the improvement of technology that assists them ...

Executive Summary

This paper focuses on how the HP Inc. uses information technology to embrace sustainability in the form of Corporate Social Responsibility. The concept of sustainability is a matter that has gained traction in a variety of industries and sectors over the past two decades. Several nations have articulated policies that are centered on the sustainability, thus using it as a framework to base integrated strategies concerning the environment, the economy as well as the quality of life. The HP Inc. has employed various technologies to maintain an appealing face to its customers both in its domestic market and abroad. ...

Introduction

The process of learning in animals and humans come through a series of situations that come together to motivate, and ignite the brains and enable them to repeat specific actions in the face of certain circumstances. The basic logic presented by psychologists and biologists is that there is intrinsic motivation based on the brain which controls the nerves and models of an animal or human being. This implies that an external variable triggers an extrinsic motivation that gets the organism to ignite the internal or intrinsic motivation in order to undertake certain actions and internalize it in order to ...

Africa has traditionally been a continent of mixed fortunes, where real-life stories of hope and despair abound. African traditions, values and customs have been slowly influenced by colonization and eventual globalization that has turned the world into a global village. The novel, Things fall apart, is a reflection of the extent to which Africans were tied to their beliefs and customs, as a violation of those customs was regarded as being disrespectful to the gods. Resistance to the new values and beliefs as brought by the missionaries are resisted since the communities regard them as inclined on disrupting the ...

Voice over IP

Abstract
Organisations and business alike are embracing the use and application of various forms of information technology in their business processes and operations in equal measure. There is a myriad of benefits associated with the use and application of various forms of information technology in business operations and processes. Computer networking has facilitated the advancements currently witnessed in information technology (Jahanirad, AL-Nabhani and Rafidah 4954). While the use and application of information technology have its benefits, it presents various disadvantages as well. Voice over IP is one form of information technology that has been utilised by numerous businesses and ...

Based on the novel Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, the production of a film with the same name is world-famous. With its release date falling in 1939, the movie starred Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, Vivien Leigh, and Olivia de Havilland and went on to win multiple academy awards for its apparent ability to capture the Old South as it was before the coming of the American Civil War. Presently, the movie has become one of the classic romantic renditions of turbulent love affairs, with a particular emphasis on Rhett Butler and Scarlet O’Hara, who, as they ...

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Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin through the Eyes of Popular Culture and Religion

[Introduction]
Popular culture and religion have the same thing in common: symbols. Symbols are an inherited system of notions that express in representation forms a people’s “knowledge about and attitude towards life” (Geertz 89). Being symbols, their meanings are defined by people in accordance to their popular culture or religion. Consequently, these symbols can get shared between popular culture and religion; while their meanings change (enhanced or diminished) in accordance to the strength of cultural or religious influence upon them.
Meanwhile, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin or Life among ...

Choose a gene that has been implicated in a human developmental disorder

FOXP2 is a gene that codes for a member of the transcription factors’ forkhead /winged-helix family, FOX. It is situated from base pair 114,086,309 to base pair 114,693,771 on the chromosome 7’s long (q) arm at position 31. The gene has 42 distinct introns, which include 41gt-ag and 1 other. The first FOXP2 report depicted 19 exons, of which two, namely 3a and 3b, are variably spliced into transcripts that cover about 300 kb on the chromosome 7q31 (Lai, Fisher and Hurst).

Several alternative transcripts, as well as protein isoforms, have been predicted on the ...

The novel The Round House is a political fictional novel that begins on the spring of 1988 in a reservation camp in North Dakota. A woman, Geraldine, has just been attacked and raped. She slips into silence and hence, the details of her experience remains within her, not even the police, her husband Bazil and Son Joe. The incident changes Joe’s world completely to such an extent that he becomes frustrated, and his closely knit family is torn in the middle. This is worsened by the fact that his mother cannot leave her room completely. His father goes on to ...

There exists about 300,000 plant species on earth, and every individual plant hosts one or more endophytes. However, it is just a few of these plants that have been researched relative to their endophytic biology. Hence, the chance for isolation of new, as well as, interesting endophytic bacteria in plants are important. Endophytic bacteria can be referred to as bacteria that can be isolated from tissues of a surface-disinfected plant or bacteria extracted from inside of a plant, which cause no visible negative effects to the plant. Almost every plant is populated by varied bacteria referred to as endophytes. Majority of ...

Japanese writing uses both Kanji and Kana. Kana includes both Hiragana and Katakana alphabets. A long time ago, there was no alphabet in Japan, so the characters for writing were borrowed from neighboring China. As ancient China was then ruled by the Han (Kan) Dynasty, all the characters were called Kanji and the Chinese writing is called Kanbun. Because kanji has many strokes, it takes a very long time to write and to memorize. Thus, the Japanese invented the Hiragana and Katakana. Women used the Hiragana alphabet in creating their letters and diaries. An example of the literature written in ...

Wonderful Norwegian artist Edvard Munch did not left behind any disciples, his art is too personal, subjective for a school to arise. It is difficult to determine the stylistic evolution of the artist. It is difficult to attribute him to any particular art direction. With equal force in his work there appeared features of symbolism, expressionism and realism. It seems that it makes no sense to look for exact definitions, signs of a particular style. All the phenomena of life, the artist transmitted through himself, perceiving them very individually. These phenomena, existing in images and ideas in his imagination, found their ...

When it comes to representation through the mise en scene in film, there are a lot of different ways to show the tensions at work between past and present within the horror genre. In fact, it is these tensions that have stood at the core of the horror genre since its very beginning. In the first major work of horror, Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, it is the tension between the time before the creation of the monster and the time after, when Dr. Frankenstein encounters so many vivid reasons to wish that he had never stitched those body parts ...

The Secret life by Walter Mitty is a humor short story by James Thurber concerning the people`s state of mind and the social reality facing them in life. By using an American context, Thurber shows how ordinary citizen`s especially during the Great Depression escaped realities by turning to Hollywood movies, and inflated imagination to escape the harsh realities that the world had to offer during these hard times. These period was characterized by a not-so-easy life where poverty, high prices of commodities and standards of living pushed the average middle-class Americans to the edge of their lives (Kaufman, p93). ...

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Boy A is a fictional story concerning Eric. He was a pre-adolescent who had a wrong kind and violent and streak friend by the name Phillip. They collaborated in killing a girl of their age. They were thus put into trial as Boy A and Boy B. The prosecutor placed an argument that the two Boy A and Boy B were essentially evil and thus deserving maximum legal sentence. It was too unfortunate that Phillip passed away while in prison; Eric now at 24 years old was released from prison into unrecognizable adult world. He is give a new home, name, and job and ...