Essays on Splendid

Final Reflective Portfolio

This paper is a reflection of the skills I have gained in this class. It focuses on four texts and analyses them as indicators of my development as a reader and creator of literary and cultural texts. Three of the analyzed texts were created for this class while the fourth was written for a math class.

Part 1: Texts

The Ultimate Book of Martial Arts Fay Goodman's book entitled The Ultimate Book of Martial Arts is already an entertaining read by itself. However, different parts of the book contain paratextual elements that give it a new meaning and make it a more ...

Companies thriving in the contemporary world need to create a standardized communication system to ensure efficient and suave communication flow among individuals, departments, managers and other contacts in the business. Every organization irrespective of its functions should ensure good information dissemination for both internal and external users. Internal users of the information may include employees, executives, and other stakeholders. External users, on the other hand, may comprise of suppliers, consumers of the company’s services rendered and prospective clients. A reliable communication system will enable all publics inside and outside the corporation to be on the same page. Further, ...

In this paper, we would like to dwell on some issues concerning knowledge, religion, and women rights. Things that would appear impossible to link are actually strongly connected. As an object for our discussion, we took a book ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ written by Khaled Hosseini. One of the main topics of the book is an unfair and abusing treatment of Muslim women and their luck of knowledge to deal with it. What is knowledge itself? Due to the Oxford dictionary, it is a fact, information, or skill that a person receives through experience. This definition could be used ...