Essays on Performing Arts Literature Reviews

As the paper "Character Analysis of Silas in Richard Wright's Long Black Song" outlines, the short story, Long Black Song, centers on the early American society when racial discrimination was prominent in society.... The whites discriminated the blacks making them feel inadequate and not worth interacting with....

This can be noted as a metaphor devises of literature where the author has connected and compared one's ability with another phenomenon.... 'Grandmother's Victory: An Insightful Analysis' paper investigates the story written by Maya Angelou as one of the most thought-provoking stories of all time....

The paper "Summary of Freedom Writers Film" states that the scenario is typical in various urban enclaves where individuals are divided into groups based on cultural background, gang, or race.... Members of each social group are aggressive toward outsiders and consistently upping the ante of violence....

It can be regarded as an admirable piece of literature meant for the children worldwide.... This paper is aimed at providing a detailed summary of a selected book from the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) at http://en.... hildrenslibrary.... rg.... The book has been selected keeping in mind its educational value....

The researcher used a quantitative as well as a literature analysis.... ethod The researcher used a quantitative as well as a literature analysis to study the problem.... In the paper 'Multi-Cultural Counselling' the author discusses the need for cross-cultural counseling....

This book review "The Poem in the Orchard" presents the poem 'In the Orchard' that conveyed the story behind the poem by using a male and female tone that each told a side of the story through their own eyes, and through the words, they spoke to each other.... ... ... ... The poem shows that the differences between the way the two characters perceived each other's action is clear through the repetitive questions and statements, especially on the girl's part....

The interactive nature that engages the reader creates an experience in learning identical to the three dimensional awareness practiced in visual arts.... Therefore, phonology deals with study of language that is focused on the sound aspect.... Mehmet Yavas has done an excellent job in assessing this element with regards to....

The arts, as well as the lifestyle in the movie, are elaborated using the clothing style.... This movie review "Tension Between Individual and the Community" focuses on Antz, an entertaining animated film that has excellent material for social studies.... However, across the entire movie, various social research themes emerge in the movie: culture, and bureaucracy....

The book succulently records Bonaparte's numerous media blitzes, reports to the government, aggressive use of arts, and the resulting capture of French public opinion that made his image more as a savior.... This essay discusses the book Napoleon: The Path to Power.... It analyses each facet of the political history of Napoleon's early life....

owever literature review indicates that engagement practices do not always raise the accountability of the corporate firms (O'Dwyer, 2005 as cited in Cooper and Owen, 2007).... The author concludes that corporate companies are vouching for their accountability by presenting environmental and social reports....

The institutions performing under the rules of international law simply prolong the rule of the western strategies.... The institutions performing under the rules of international law as well as development and aid systems simply prolong the rule of the western strategies all over the globe....

Assumptions are avoided when performing critical thinking thus eliminating room for errors.... The author of the paper will begin with the statement that the Kuwait Public transportation Company is the main transport service company in Kuwait penetrating most of the regions in the country....

This paper "The Films Planet of the Apes and 12 Monkeys in the Subject of Animal Ethics" focuses on the fact that science fiction is an amazing and spectacular genre, which started in 1902 when Georges Mélie's 3-minute epic Le Voyage Dans La Lune was out.... ... ... ... During the shot, the director cannot tell the animals to act in a certain way....

The paper 'Civil Obedience" by Henry David Thoreau, "Note of the Native Son' and 'The Dungeon Shook' by James Baldwin" compares the motives of the writers' oeuvres.... They both expose segregation, social injustice and push their nations to fight for their trampled rights, freedom and recognition....

Kurt Vonnegut, one of the most prolific authors of his time, has produced two of the most relevant and popular works in the field of literature.... Two of his works are the Slaughterhouse-five and Mother Night.... Both of the works discusses interesting themes while presenting different but equally effective characters. ...

In the paper 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' the author focuses on the masterpiece of children's nonsense fiction, which deals with some of the most remarkable themes.... The novel is also popular for its thematic concerns and it incorporates beautiful allusions to the novelist's friends and enemies....

Whereas most of the Holocaust literature comprises of heartbreaking accounts of Jewish extermination, Yolen goes a step further to include the painful stories of women and homosexuals as well, who suffered just as much as the Jews.... It is typical of every parent to concern themselves with what they consider 'appropriate reading' for their ward....

The paper 'The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams' analyzes an effective literary tool in a profound understanding of the themes and character analysis of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.... A psychoanalytic reading of the text has a major role in the interpretation of the work by Williams....

Conclusion: A trilogy is a set of three works that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three separate works of literature.... “The Dragon Heir” is the final installment in the trilogy by Cinda Williams Chima.... It is a perfectly structured tale that arrives at a convincing conclusion....

Brent Staples is a well-known writer who has penned several articles and short stories.... Among one of his most popular pieces of work is The Runaway Son.... This story is basically about forming perspectives in life depending on the environment one is brought up in.... ... ... ... It is a part of the volume titled Memoirs of Family....

In the essay 'The Significance of Choices in Frankenstein and Uncle Tom's Cabin' the author analyzes two characters from popular literature that might seem to have anything in common but actually share the characteristic of perseverance in times of distress.... ... ... ... The author states that both characters represent how individuals can respond differently to distressing situations and, ultimately, effect their future....

There is no clear identification of the person who discovered the element silver in the literature (Dhillon).... 9 October 2012.... Element Silver: The Moon on Earth Silver is one of those elements that have been known to the mankind since ancient times.... The discovery of silver dates back to the bronze age....

Aunt Martha wrote in her diary, “If ever I live and grow up, my one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science and conjecture.... 17 May 2012.... The Characterization of Aunt Martha Aunt Martha's gender is of a lot of significance for the enlightenment, moderation, and empowerment of all women in general and the black women in particular....

In this view, science fiction films portray the development of the male character as his passage literature 7 June Akira.... Among the most characteristic features of the ‘masculine' focus of science fiction is the “embodiment of male immaturities” in the concepts of physical....

The Norton Anthology of World literature: Beginnings to 1650.... Deucalion and Pyrrha kiss the flood-ruined shrine and pray at the flameless altar to avert the wrath of the gods. ... ... here can be no gainsaying that there are similarities and differences.... ... ... The striking similarity in all these accounts is seen in the mentioning of the cataclysmic event itself and the mentioning of the flood as an extirpator of evil and evil people and the extension of the human race....

The problem lies in the dearth of literature on bilingual learning in such groups.... The focus of the paper is an investigation into the merits of immersion programs for bilingualism education that adds to the primary language by full immersion into the second language to be learned....

Book of Daniel and the Apocryphal Daniel literature.... From the paper "Synopsis of the Book of Daniel" it is clear that the remaining chapters of the Book are mostly visions Daniel is said to have received, and they take place from the time of the reign of Belshazzar, Nebuchadnezzar's successor, through to the reign of Cyrius....

It is an influential piece in the literature of African American published in 1903.... The paper contains the analysis of "The Souls of Black Folk" by Burghardt Du Bois in which the author provides an assessment of race progress, obstacles of that progress as well as the promises for future progress as America entered the twentieth century....

The psychological genuineness present in every great literature can be seen in this too.... The tension between the public and the private self is depicted in this novel.... The novel is set in the inconsiderate puritan community of seventeenth century Boston.... Nathaniel Hawthorne has....

The article seeks to fulfill the lacuna in literature.... The article seeks to fulfill the lacuna in literature not as a way of displacing other forms of analysis but complementing them.... The research analysis that led to the writing of this article was stimulated by reflections on the global financial crisis of 2008 and the exposure of earlier financial and other scandals and crises in corporate capitalism....

The focus of this paper "The Raven by Robert DiYanni" is on a love story that, however, does not seem to be a happy story of love.... A narrator is a man who lost his love named 'Lenore', whom we see to be the man's main preoccupation in the poem.... ... ... ... The narrator is seen initially in the story as someone who is studying as if trying to forget unpleasant thoughts by burying his head in books and tales of forgotten times....

In the paper 'Oleanna by David Mamet' the author analyzes the play, which describes a powerful and bright character of a university professor, John.... John is a tragic character whose destiny and professional career is ruined by his student, Carol.... John's honesty is admirably displayed.... ... ...

In the paper 'Market for Lemons by Akerlof' the author discusses the book, which demonstrates the possibility of market failure in the most extreme sense imaginable.... The purpose of this paper is to explain this claim and discuss its significance for transaction cost economics as a whole.... ... ...

The Characteristics of the Man in Jack London's “To Build a Fire”One of the most celebrated short stories in American literature, “To Build a Fire” by Jack London (1876–1916) has been the product of the author's thriving experiences in the sub-polar area of Alaska.... This research is being carried out to evaluate and present the characteristics of the man in 'To Build a Fire' written by Jack London....

The essay 'Crisis of Bi-racial Identity in Larsen's Quicksand and Passing' focuses on the novels, which reflect its milieu and reveal the personality of the author.... The milieu of the novels 'Quicksand' and 'Passing' is the Harlem of Renaissance days.... ... ... ... The author states that Nella Larsen's personality is blatantly present in both works....

The Romantics were greatly interested in the establishment of such an order and this was evident in their interest in the French Revolution and in what they perceived to be revolutionary characters from literature, like Prometheus and Satan.... Mary Shelley and her novel, Frankenstein (Shelley), occupy a position in literary history that is unique due to a variety of reasons....

Ontology is a common terminology in research literature and it is used to describe the study of ‘being'.... instructor Course 24 June 2012 Research Processes Research can be considered as a ‘scaffold learning' approach where students are given an opportunity to apply theoretical ideas learned in classroom in real world problems....

Today there is a paucity of scholarly research into the issue of UK school children meeting the current (2011) UK guidelines for physical activity (Department of Health, 2011: [online]) First of all, the research literature overview helps to identify a universally acceptable definition of ‘physical activity'....

This book is a great piece of literature that shows how we perceive other people in our lives.... Thisbook is a great piece of literature that shows how we perceive other people in our lives.... The author of the current paper highlights that Daniel Keyes' novel Flowers for Algernon follows the life of Charlie Gordon, a 32-year-old man who has an I....

"Analysis of Raymond Carver's Little Things" paper discusses the changes made by Carver in the story 'Mine' to give a masterpiece 'Little things'.... The revision brought some word amendments and necessary deletions in the story.... There is also a change in the paragraph structures.... ... ... ... Both the stories have a feel in them however the story's little things can be found to be more appealing and emotional to the readers....

At the same time, folk tales and myths, symbolic of the oral tradition of literature, provide ample importance to the problems faced by the elderly people.... At the same time, folk tales and myths, symbolic of the oral tradition of literature, provide ample importance to the problems faced by the elderly people....

y MA programme specialized in visual arts and film studies.... rom the programme, I refined my technical skills with equipment, materials, and techniques to the visual arts production.... Additionally, I refined written and oral skills as a mechanism to communicate and conceptualised visual research demonstrating my understanding of rhetorical and cultural issued in visual arts....

This paper contains the review of the Arbinger Institute "Leadership and Self-Deception".... It revises the book and highlights all main topics that were reviled in it.... Leadership and self-deception is an influential text that considers the nature of leadership in a variety of situational elements....

From the paper "Response to the Hamlet Play by William Shakespeare" it is clear that in Act 3 scene 1, Hamlet's is excited while the others are planning on how to spy on him.... Hamlet is excited that the play will be shown in enhanced scenes so as to start revenging against King Claudius.... .... ...

This paper under the headline 'Do the Right Thing Movie Collection " focuses o the fact that "Do the right thing" is a movie developed back in 1989.... The movie is American in its style of production and it reflects the real racism that takes place in the USA to date.... .... ... ... The movie features director Spike Lee, who also acts in the film....

The paper "The Free Consumption of Internet Files" highlights that It would be important to consider the fact that people spend a lot of money developing music in the hope that they will sell it to recoup their costs.... When such music is downloaded for free, the creators run into multiple losses....

ary Arnold, Movies; Mini-reviews, Newspaper Title: The Washington Times.... In the paper 'Classic Hollywood on Any Given Sunday' the author analyzes a film that is spread for the eyes, but not the mind.... Stone does a huge job of creating a dizzying way, eye-opening visuals, and tremendously loud sound, and he does all of this in 2 and a half hours....

From the paper "Diversity of APAs as the Main Notion of The Wedding Banquet Film" it is clear that The Wedding Banquet reveals a rather extraordinary and unusual topic of Asian and Pacific Islanders' life.... Wai Tung, being always an exemplary son of his parents, turns out to be a homosexual.... ...

This movie review "Life Is Beautiful By Roberto Benigni" tells a story that is partly based on events in his own life as a person.... The story is set in the period of the internment at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, which was actually a period of time occurring before he was born.... ... ...

Studying a specific social phenomenon or issue using the qualitative approach is an entirely different and unique process when compared against studies created from a quantitative approach and perspective.... In qualitative research, major concepts and indicators are not pre-determined and categorized, and sometimes, the main theoretical framework is not well-developed to fully illustrate the process and nature of the phenomenon or issue being studied....