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Management Book Review
Polly Toynbee is a journalist and writer with social democratic views in the United Kingdom, and has since 1998 been a columnist for The Guardian newspaper. Her columns commonly support New Labour, but she has also made keen criticisms of the Blair government. She wrote one of her most famous books Work: Life in Low-Pay Britain which succeeds to describe in details an experimental period of voluntarily living on the minimum wage. In her work Polly Toynbee uses a vibrant representation to portray the plight of the poor in her population. View details
House Made of Dawn by Scott Momaday
Authored by Scott Momaday the masterpiece has led to the breakthrough of Native American literature into the main stream. In June 1945, a young Tano Indian named Abel returns from World War II army service to his home village, Walatowa, in New Mexico's Canon de San Diego, only to discover that he has entered a hell between two cultures: his native indian and industrial american. Abel's problem grows out of a generation conflict within a tribal community in which the ancient traditions tend to lose their meanings for young Indians in their confrontation with the cultural tradition of modern America. The old generation of traditionalists tends to exert pressure on young tribal members in order to assure the perpetuation of the old ways. View details
Private Peaceful
Private Peaceful is a novel by Michael Morpurgo in which he has gone through the task of contrasting bravery with cowardice. The question of what is means to be a man and a soldier who is ready to demonstrate bravery and intelligence for the benefit of others arises. Even though it is a children's book, Private Peaceful possesses dramatic power and is a true description of the horror of war times. Private Peaceful is a humanizing recollection of the depravity that is overlooked by the British army to date. It has brought the plight of over three hundred British Army soldiers who were given the execution order for their alleged cowardice. The failure by the British government to grant posthumous pardons to these soldiers is also highlighted. Most of these young men had been uprooted from their lives and have been casted into the fore front of the brutal World War 1 forefront. Their journey from innocence to adulthood bares a sharp contrast from any illusion of the glory of war The simple literary style of this novel allow for it to be easily understood be a ten year old, despite the fact that it touches on some weighty issues such as cowardice, heroism, poverty, family, loyalty, modesty and innocence. The first person narrative has been effectively applied such that the reader has present day feel rather that a distant event look of a ninety year old event. The book evokes a real feeling of depression in its quest for realism View details
Macbeth
Macbeth was the Thane of Glamis, a general and a loyal soldier of King Duncan of Scotland. In the beginning of the play Macbeth is shown as courageous, superstitious, fearless, ambitious and devoted to his wife. To King Duncan he was the "worthiest cousin", to Banquo, "My noble partner", and to some others he was "Valour's minion". As the play progresses, Macbeth transforms from a loyal soldier to a cruel and treacherous tyrant and murderer. He changes from a man, who at the beginning of the play is regarded as a man noble and brave, a saviour and a man loyal to the king, to a man who kills driven by the prophecies of the witches and the ambition and evil machinations of his wife Lady Macbeth. Even though his conscience troubles him when he plans the murder of his King, he turns into the "fiend of Scotland.", violent and merciless. View details
Philip Larkin and Carol Anne Duffy
Language is a vital part of any written piece. In poems, both classical and modern, language does not only play as the main sender of the message to the readers. Moreover, the type of language used in written pieces of art stand as the main attraction that creates a fine impression upon the level of understanding and feel of the art that has been presented to them by the authors through their poems or other kinds of written art. View details
Parental perception
This is an original work by W. Sean Newsome. In this article he has reported his work on the perception of parents having kids suffering with autism about the stress they and their family members face during the period of transition and also about the kind of services they get from social workers serving such families during the period of transition. Its is a good piece of work in the sense that it has brought about relevant issues related to a very important subject - autism, and has presented the quantitative measures of relevant variables like the degree of stress the families with kids having autism suffer and also what they perceive about the kind of services they receive. This article will be critically analyzed in this paper for different its different aspects like research design, sampling, data collection, analysis and findings. The analysis is presented below. View details
Translation
Today importance of translation different texts from one language to another and its impact on globalization has extremly grown. To help layman understand language and to spell and pronounce correctly there were published lots of translation guide books. In Other Words written by Mona Baker is one such book. This book especially addresses the need for a systematic approach so that training in translation research can become easier. View details
Beatrice Joanne - The Changeling
From a psychoanalytical viewpoint, it remains a debatable question whether Beatrice Joanne did fit into the picket fence drawn by Aristotle. The interpretation of a characters bent of mind that play upon their acts remains a subjective issue right from the author to the last reader of the text. In Beatrices case, whereas the classic theory may indicate that she remains unfit to be called the Aristotelian tragic heroine. Another perspective ekes out a sympathy; not so much for her as for her ignorance, as she plays pawn to the clever devices of a loathful man. In this respect, the patriarchal setup could be held responsible for her eventual downfall, wherein all the strings are drawn by one man, and the fate of the women in close proximity to him remains, without their knowledge, at his mercy. View details
Theories of Paul Virilio
The aim of this paper to explore applying the theories of Paul Virilio to an example of contemporary film. Paul Virilio is one of the greatest French cultural theorists nowadays. Virilios arguments extend to the current Cinema and inadvertently on War on Terror. The significance of Virilio's theoretical work crops out from his central claim that, in a culture that is influenced by conflict, the military power is of crucial significance in debates . View details
Fictional Character
Pinocchio is fictional character, a wooden puppet that changes into a boy whose nose grows than he lies. The novel by Carlo Collodi represents growing up poor Italian boy. Pinocchio is a novel which is satire of the Italian society. There are a plethora of times when the novel and the actions of the hero may be judged from the perspectives of good and bad, of ends justifying the means or living life in bad faith. If there is any true representation of the novel and any correct evaluation of it, it qualifies as a work of art and hence defies the traditional constrictions of a singular discourse. View details