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10 Mar 2015
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Language and Literacy - Malcolm X, GloriaAnzaldúa, and Barbara Mellix

Case study - 2 pages - Literature

Malcolm X, GloriaAnzaldúa, and Barbara Mellix in their writings express their understanding of the significance and power of language. They explain how language facilitates and strengthens an individual's identity and helps one view himself or herself in a new way. In her essay, Gloria describes...

09 Mar 2015
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Gothic Elements in Beloved

Case study - 5 pages - Literature

The book of Beloved depicts many aspects of African-American slavery such as violence; the tragedy of black people; the brutality of slavery, etc, and these are represented through many elements like scriptures from the bible, fantastic and gothic elements. Morrison's use of gothic elements...

09 Mar 2015
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Decolonizing the Language Garden: Narratives of Exploration and Acquisition in Jamaica Kincaid's Garden Writing

Case study - 12 pages - Literature

While acknowledging their problematic nature, postcolonial writer Jamaica Kincaid maintains a predilection for explorer narratives. Between her two most exploratory and garden-related works, My Garden (Book): and Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas, she refers to at least ten such narratives,...

09 Mar 2015
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Are You Randy? Double Entendres as Fictional Names

Case study - 2 pages - Literature

From the Bond girls called Pussy Galore and Xenia Onatopp, to Master Bates of Dickens' Oliver Twist, there is no lack of double entendres in modern or classic fiction, and analysis shows that they fall into two distinct categories: overtly erotic and didactic. How and why each author, playwright,...

27 Feb 2015
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Classification of social practices semiotics

Case study - 3 pages - Literature

To Mukarovsky, which basically sets the literary text of any other text is what he called the aesthetic function. He said something like this: Every object or action, including the language, you can assign a practical function - utilitarian for instruments, communicative for language, and so on....

19 Feb 2015
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International Relation - Winston Churchill Speech, Roosevelt, and the Global History

Case study - 4 pages - Literature

“The Sinews of Peace”, was the heading of a speech given by Winston Churchill. In the audience there was the noticeable presence of President McClure. It was one of his supreme speeches, Iron Curtain, given by him as a British prime minister (Reynolds, 2006, pp. 250-252). The setting...

18 Feb 2015
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Response Essay to Middlemarch by George Eliot

Case study - 2 pages - Literature

The novel Middlemarch by George Eliot is primarily a Victorian novel but incorporates features of modern novels. Eliot, in his works, portrays the hatred for women novelists. In those eras, women were confined to writing the stereotypical fantasies of the conventional romance fiction. The main...

15 Feb 2015
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"The spiritual in art" of Wassily Kandinsky

Case study - 4 pages - Literature

Wassily Kandinsky is, for many, the inventor of abstract art, that is, the man who abolished the object. The elimination of the figurative was for him a combat several years and does not unfold in the area of the formal or aesthetic, but concretely. The larger exterior differences do not exclude...

13 Feb 2015
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Intelligent decision support system for E-learning- with novel algorithm

Case study - 7 pages - Literature

More and more digital learning resources are available online through various learning management systems; this has made it a challenging task for learning institutions to choose the appropriate learning management system that will enable its achieve its goals as well the learning goals of its...

01 Feb 2015
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Eva Maria Duarte

Case study - 5 pages - Literature

Eva Duarte was born on May 7, 1919, and was the daughter of Juan Duarte and Juana Ibarguren, she was the fifth daughter of an adulterous affair, when he was born, the wife of his father was still alive, was the youngest daughter after four brothers: Elisa, Blanca, Juan and Ermelinda. His mother...

01 Feb 2015
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Eva Peron in Europa

Case study - 5 pages - Literature

In the first term of Peron, we see that Argentina had good relations with Europe, being the largest exporter of wheat and meat, because after the war European countries were devastated. The United States also maintained good trade ties, and even Spain, even fascist, was dependent on Argentina and...

01 Feb 2015
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Argentina and Eva Perón

Case study - 7 pages - Literature

By analyzing populism in Latin America, we always come across charismatic presidents who conquered their constituents mainly by the ability to attract them with their acts demagogic and give them the idea that all they were making had been given and not a right to truth. The history of Argentina...

30 Jan 2015
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The two faces of Churchill: Case study

Case study - 6 pages - Literature

As history is not static, their understanding changes constantly varying according to the historian vision, which, unfortunately, can not be completely impartial. This happens in history, when the same fact is considered differently. And the importance of Winston Spencer Churchill - British...

27 Jan 2015
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Neoclassical and Romantic styles -Visual Arts and Film Studies

Case study - 2 pages - Literature

Art has been for so long; almost as long as the world's existence. Neoclassical and Romantic styles of art and types of paintings are popular in the world of art. Both styles were influenced by the Romans and Greeks. The mid 1700's marked the beginning of the neoclassical art. Shortly afterwards,...

23 Jan 2015
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A Trip to the Moon Screen Culture Review

Case study - 2 pages - Literature

The film A trip to the moon printed and heading by Georges Melies in 1902 was the first science fiction film that used animation and special effects. The scheme of the motion picture was based on the thoughts of two novelists, Jules Verne's,writer of ‘From the earth to the moon,' and H.G...

23 Jan 2015
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Revival of storytelling through animation: White Neige the beginning of an obsession, a reflection of Death

Case study - 8 pages - Literature

Walt Disney was trying to implement the best possible on-screen the fatal outcome of tales which was inspired. Therefore, in its quest for perfection, and obsession to adapt the best possible story, he was inspired by various films, authors, see s character. He looked strong character for one of...

19 Jan 2015
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Modern Times: Controversy between Sartre and Strauss

Case study - 5 pages - Literature

Evidence of the importance of the link that united Lévi-Strauss in the Journal of Sartre, number 628 of October 2004 was especially dedicated to Levi-Strauss. The pen of Boris Wiseman, the newspaper devoted an entire section to the link between Strauss and maintained the journal under the title...

19 Jan 2015
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Claude Levi-Strauss: Modern times

Case study - 7 pages - Literature

Claude Lévi-Strauss was born in Brussels on 20 November 1908, to a Jewish family from Alsace in the vicinity of Strasbourg. However, he spent his child-hood and his life in Paris, his family having left Alsace at the 1871 German annexa-tion to remain French. The young Strauss operates in an...

19 Jan 2015
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The transmission in the work: Clint Eastwood

Case study - 7 pages - Literature

In the three films that we are studying, students mostly have common characteristics. The first is the opposition to the values of the natural family. Thao (Gran Torino) Maggie (Million Dollar Baby) and Whit (Honkytonk Man) belong to the new generation nt rejects the values of their family. Whit...

19 Jan 2015
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Sociology - Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Jane Addams

Case study - 2 pages - Literature

Sociology is terminology that was brought by a Philosopher from French by the name Augusta Comte (1798-1857). He is well recalled as father of sociology and he used the term first in his work “positive philosophy. Other proponent of sociology includes Karl Marx (1818-1883) who joined hands...

16 Jan 2015
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4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days: A look at Mise-en-Scene

Case study - 4 pages - Literature

The award winning film 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days chronicles the life of two Romanian university girls as they navigate the difficult communist life of 1987 Romania. In the film, the two friends embark on journey to perform an illegal abortion after one of the girls, Gabriela, becomes pregnant....

16 Jan 2015
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Analysis of Shakespeare sonnets: Reading for a difference

Case study - 4 pages - Literature

This is an essay that is interested in the analysis of Shakespeare Sonnets: Reading for a difference with regard to an article by Helen Veldar. Shakespeare sonnets are a form of writing poems that originated from Italy and its invention is credited to Giacomo da Lentini. The word sonnet actually...

09 Jan 2015
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Michael Curtiz: Case study

Case study - 7 pages - Literature

Being director in Hollywood in 1940, is a curious business, midway between the foreman and the artist. Led studios, artists who are appointed to this position must obey a number of injunctions while using their authority on teams assigned to them. They have a particularly drastic specifications...

08 Jan 2015
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English gothic literature

Case study - 3 pages - Literature

English gothic literature is dominated by the sub genres of horror, fiction, and romanticism. On evaluating whether a piece of literature is gothic or not, it requires one to evaluate the presence and meaning of some gothic literature elements. These elements include the presence of evil,...

06 Jan 2015
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Edgar Allan Poe - The Masque of the Red Death

Case study - 2 pages - Literature

The fictional country and its people are plagued by the Red Death, a disease that kills its victims fast and grimly. The prince, Prospero decided to lock the gates to his humongous palace to keep off the plague as it is spreading quickly across the land. After many months, he throws a masquerade...

26 Nov 2014
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What is the meaning of money to Francisco? To James Taggart?

Case study - 3 pages - Literature

As money is “the barometer of a society's virtue” (383), so is money the measure of a person's worth. This is the importance of money in the story of Atlas Shrugged, where the stakes are high and some of the characters larger than life. Amongst the characters are Francisco d'Anconia and...

24 Nov 2014
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Effect of Satire on Politicians - Literature Review and Analysis

Case study - 6 pages - Literature

According to Bigi et al, (2011) when Satire gets serious, it can have different effects on people, politicians, public speakers and even societies. The authors cover the main aspects of influencing the public through political satire. Alessandro Bigi, the main author of the study is a researcher...

24 Nov 2014
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A political satire in the 21st Century has a higher impact on the public opinion than a revealing newspaper article - Thesis Paper Research

Case study - 6 pages - Literature

In the below literature review we are going to examine the effect of satire on politicians. Our thesis is that “A political satire in the 21st Century has a higher impact on the public opinion than a revealing newspaper article, through creating humor and simplicity.” The thesis is...

24 Nov 2014
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Hay for the Horses ? Gary Snyder poetry analysis

Case study - 3 pages - Literature

The Hay for the Horses is a poem of disappointments. It uses a free verse form, to create an atmosphere as if we were standing right next to the person talking. There are different interpretations of the text, and although the poem was written in 1958, there are various aspects and motifs we can...

10 Nov 2014
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Understanding the Shakespearean Opus from authors Stefan, Giles, and Nicholas works

Case study - 4 pages - Literature

It is evident that Shakespeare intended to garner audience appeal while eliciting human emotions (Giles 14). In his most notable works, Shakespeare touches on all aspects of the human nature including love, hate, stigma, moral attributes of good versus evil, tragedy, greed and lust. Furthermore,...