Essays on Mariana

Response to Mariana Mireles

According to Kassin, Sara, Jennifer and Perillo, the terms ‘interrogation’ and ‘interviewing’ are usually used recklessly as though they were interchangeable and synonymous (39). As Mariana points out, interviews and interrogations differ in terms of their goals. While an interview is a formal conversation that aims at eliciting information from another person whereas interrogation involves a systematic questioning of a person suspected of having committed a crime. Interrogation aims at obtaining confessions of the person being interrogated. However, further to this, an interview involves an objective and neutral attitude on the part of the interviewer who cannot accuse the ...

Measure for Measure seems to be more of a philosophy of government rather than a mere play. Throughout the play, Shakespeare provides critical examination of the role of government to take part in the following; liberation and restraint to the people, law enforcement and punishment, marriage customs and legislations, exercise of power and authority among other functions.

Restraint and liberty

Escalus’s complementary comments that portrays the Duke as one gentleman exhibiting all temperance, basically means that the latter is modest. This is one of the biggest compliments that have been paid to the Duke in the entire play. The play offers ...

Already in 1937, the US government was dissatisfied with the actions of the Japanese in Manchuria, as well as with the policy of Germany and Italy. Being a major supplier of oil and steel to Japan, the United States warned the Japanese government about the possibility of termination of the supply in case the Japanese army will not leave China In order to exclude the possibility of military aggression by Japan, Roosevelt throws part of the American fleet in the Hawaiian Islands located on a military base - Pearl Harbor, which is now the headquarters of the US Pacific ...

BIOGRAPHY

Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez was a prolific Spanish Baroque painter who was born in 1599. The waning age of the Late Renaissance became the turning point for the rise of a new art movement so flamboyant and grotesque in its dramatic effects; it would be later known as the Baroque period. A native of Seville, he began painting at a tender age of 20 and one of his works was The Water Carrier of Seville, an evidence of his superb skill in painting intense and dramatic realism. The young genius had demonstrated his absolute talent and mastery ...