Essays on Performing Arts Literature Reviews

The paper 'Gender Differences and the Double Bind as Important Drivers of the Glass Ceiling in Leadership' is a well-turned example of human resources literature review.... Women on the other hand have found it hard to find their place as leaders and if they have, they have gone through major barriers and....

The paper 'Tax Expenditure Management ' is a great example of a finance & accounting literature review.... The Current comprehensive income tax treatment system for household savings entails the taxation of both incomes from savings earnings and incomes from labour (Mirrlees, 2008:287)....

This literature review "Fetishism and the Social Value of Objects" discusses sexual fetish objects are considered to be fetishes because they are objects, as opposed to being the part of a person.... Also, these objects are inanimate, and to be considered truly a fetish, must not be a body part....

The author of the "Titanic: Historical Accuracy" paper discerns the credibility of the movie from the historical claim that the title suggests.... The fame of the Titanic movie and the fame of the RMS Titanic in 1912 can almost visualize as equal hype in each era.... .... ... ... One of the primary accurate accounts that the movie faithfully acknowledged from the RMS Titanic was the date set that the movie took place....

In the paper 'On the Beach by Nevil Shute' the author analyses the novel which begins with the nuclear war that has ravaged the Northern Hemisphere.... From nuclear devastation, Australia has been spared.... Australia's most celebrated scientist declares that the country is at doomsday.... ... ... ...

The Cask of Amontillado is a short story published in 1846.... Set in a nameless city in an unspecified year it is based on the narrator who seeks to take revenge from a friend.... The plot is based on the murderer's perspective and is of a person being buried alive.... ... ... ... The story is set of a night the poet took revenge on Fortunato: a fellow nobleman....

In her book Fatima Mernissi's attempts to demystify the concept of the harem depicting the Arab Muslim women in the most personal and touching way.... "Anxiety eats at me whenever I cannot situate the geometric line organizing my powerlessness (Mernissi 3).... This is how the author describes the women, she explores the nature of women and their power in Morocco remembering her childhood....

Heart of Darkness is a famous novel by Joseph Conrad which narrates the story of Marlow, an Englishman, who makes a journey through the African jungle on a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa.... The novel is recognized as an important link between Victorian and modern literary values and ideals and the narrative strategy of the author has contributed to the success of the novel....

Name Professor History and Political Science Date The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano What Was the Most Important Difference between Equiano's Life and the Lives of most Slaves?... Robert Allison in his book, “The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano” provides a vivid account of the slave trade in the 18th century in the life of Equaino, right from the time it started at the time of its abolition....

Prompt: Billy and Valencia's eighteenth wedding anniversary party, why is this scene significant?... (170-181) There are two main reasons why the eighteenth wedding anniversary scene is so important and influential in Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Vonnegut, 170-181).... ... ... ... The first reason is because the reader is given a view of some important issues which Billy has been trying to hide from himself....

In the paper 'A Long Walk to Forever' the author analyzes Kurt Vonnegut's story, which portrays perception without imagination and restriction in his writings.... Most of his writings surpass rivers of innocence and mountains of ignorance as he tries to bring out the sympathy exhibited by society....

The paper "T.... S.... Eliot: The Waste Land" presents information, that Thomas Stern Eliot is one of the leading names in the modern movement between 1910 and 1930.... The modernists demolished all received definitions of what art is.... They all contrived to make it new.... ... ... ... Definitely, The Waste Land is a series of poems stacked together....

Each person has right to live and this is most crucial at the point where a woman carries two lives; both of which she must defend – the life of her own and that of her expecting child.... .... ... ... Response Essay: "Born in the USA" Introduction Each person has right to live and this is most crucial at the point where a woman carries two lives; both of which she must defend – the life of her own and that of her expecting child....

The plot of the play is about the post-mortem investigation of a suicide.... Inspector Goole is determined to shake the too comfortable upper middle social class family and address the issue of responsibility.... His line of firing brought out several skeletons in the Birling family closets.... ....

The paper "A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift" discusses that the speaker's effectiveness in transforming the most shocking idea into a sensible argument has much to do with the effectiveness of the thesis, as the speaker addresses the main complaints of brutality to his fellow citizens.... ... ...

This research will begin with the statement that the New Deal was an exceedingly private activity whose unrelated programs were coalesced by Rosevelt Franklin's personality alone.... Conkin attested that Roosevelt never really comprehended the complications of the economy of capitalism.... ... ... ...

The focus of this paper is on the Great Wall of America, hereinafter called the Wall, between the United States and Mexico is the antithesis to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol for liberty for the tired and the oppressed people, including immigrants.... ... ... ... Illegal immigration has negative effects on employment and social welfare, but it cannot be stopped through a physical barrier, no matter how long and high it is....

The author of the report "“Preludes” by T.... Eliot" casts light on the poem written by T.... Eliot.... According to the text, the poem in itself is divided into four parts, it is the created on the associative structure of metaphors that describe an ordinary urban life unsociable filled with hostility and meaninglessness....

The plot of the play centre on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her place in the Greek world threatened, and the retribution she takes against her.... ... ... The plays talks about a woman's revenge betrayed by her own husband. ... ... haracterization of Euripides in the Medea exhibits the inner emotions of vengeance, love and passion....

The Fed reserve, which is regarded as the World Bank, needed to focus on a sustained growth in the world by tightening monetary policy through issuing credit and subsequently raising interest rates.... Think about an organization, which purchases a pool of ten contracts, all.... ... ... That normally means one only out of ten will not pay back....

The paper 'Social Inclusion and Social Exclusion' highlights things that all the society.... It highlights the social rigidities and deviation from the norm.... It tells that deviation from social norms is not such a bad thing, to the extent that it is executed in a manner that obeys other people's feeling....

The paper "Interpersonal Relationships in the Movie The Hours" states that generally, the myriads of interpersonal relationships that people make add satisfaction to their lives, however, it is necessary for there to be an open line of communication as well.... ... ... ... Interpersonal relationships are the social connections, bonds, or associations that humans form with one another....

The paper "Mobile Phone Health" discusses that mobile health, by embracing technology in the health sector promotes efficient health contact, develops the quality of healthcare by enabling easy access to data also facilitating quick communication to remote areas in need of healthcare services.... ...

The paper "Analysis of the Generation to Generation Book" states that Generation to Generation is a bestselling work by Edwin Friedman.... The book addresses several issues that occur in the daily life of religious congregations while extending the concepts of family therapy.... ... ... ... Friedman's (1985) work is essential in explaining the dimensions of society that run based on the relationships between the individual and the family....

Fron the paper "Climate Change Caused by Global Warming" it is clear that the earth is warming at a very rapid rate.... Climate change can refer to the heating or cooling of the earth.... The underlying causes of climate change are a key element in the debate.... .... ... ... One of the consequences is the change that will be made in weather patterns....

The intention of the following report "Science, Technology and Ethics in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley" is to emphasize the oppressive forces of society operation in the novel titled "Frankenstein".... The writer claims that technology crosses all barriers of ethics to move to new heights.... ... ...

The paper "Women-Representatives In Revolutionary Russia" discusses the book of Elizabeth A.... Wood "The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia" as a paradox of identity.... It acts as a framework to understand the women and society in the Russian revolution.... ... ... ...

The paper "Labor Relations and Labor Unions' Effect on the American Companies" report politics is at the moment, the most noted hindrance to the functioning of labor unions.... This is because labor unions evolved from massively social movement groups to bureaucratic politically oriented organizations....

The paper 'Competing Vision of Health Care Administration among Stakeholders' emphasizes the role of accurate accountability on the hospital's operations, using existing data and research materials, providing quality medical care in the framework of the Spectrum Health Community program etc.... ....

The paper "The Letter From Birmingham Jail" states that letter has a powerful conclusion where he contends that the human personality and soul is damaged through segregation, which he has addressed throughout the letter.... His conclusion is that segregation makes the segregator feel falsely superior....

The paper "The Presence of Irony in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis" highlights that if one's character transforms into an insect, just like the case of Grete, such is tolerated – because of the covertness of the transformation, or simply because people have been living with bug-like characters....

Tally's Corner was one of the best sociological classic.... It was written by Elliot Liebow in 1960.... It was about the condition of Black American family, particularly about black man and about the effects on the family of welfare in connection to a social and economic underclass defined by race....

The book was written in 1946 and is Viktor Frankl's account on his quest to find reasons to live while he tried to survive in concentration camp.... The novel chronicles his entire experience in the concentration camp with his inmates and how he found psychotherapeutic ways to survival.... .... ... ...

In the paper 'The Nature of Man and Relationships' the author analyzes the story 'The Swimmer' by John Cheever.... It was written in a time of social revolution and counterculture, a time when sexual taboos have relaxed, and differences in cultures were finally recognized.... ... ... ... The author states that one can glimpse that at the time of its writing, people had social classes and roles to fulfill - those who belonged to the affluent class chose not to interact with people who are in the lower social classes....

This paper is a review of the book 'Our Mother's War'.... This book is a collection of events which reflect the turbulent moments in America where women not only let their husbands and sons go to meet death but themselves got involved in roles unthinkable.... ... ... ... The book 'Our Mother's War' shows how the roles of women dwelling in America got transformed due to the inception of the Second World War in 1942....

The paper "Analysis of the Ten Commandments" suggest that the ten Commandments, often referred to as 'Decalogue', is a list of ten vital instructions written down by God for the right and moral benefit of humanity, which acts as an impeccable testament for the society to follow and to lead life.... ...

The paper "Analysis of Tess of D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy" discusses that the defensive attributes in the text which the author instills can't be justified, though she is strong and faithful, yet she isn't as modest, moral and spiritual as the author had tried to portray.... ... ... ... Throughout the context of the story, there are instances which clearly contradict one another and make the character of Tess difficult to understand, yet quite intriguing and interesting....

This research begins with the statement that in 1951, the history specialist Oscar Handlin published an unordinary book, which was a volume of history without commentaries with not very many statistical data points.... The volume made liberal utilization of inventive and wonderful written work.... ...

The author of this review highlights that the book Paul Revere's Ride, by David Hackett Fischer, is about the role that Revere played in the time before the American Revolution in Boston.... Revere is perhaps best known for his midnight ride.... ... ... ... It also explores what was happening socially during this time and how that led to many of the events that occurred surrounding Revere to be distorted....

This literature review "Origins of Hominid Bipedalism" discusses two different hypotheses that attempt to explain the origins of hominid bipedalism are chimpanzee and human bipedalism.... The literature review analyses evolutionary trends in the genus Homo.... ... ...

This essay discusses Rafael Sabatini's "The Life of Cesare Borgia".... From an analysis of his writings, a revelation comes out that he mainly concentrated on factors that affected the welfare of people.... From this perspective, the writer was able to reveal several things, which went unnoticed....

Though race is now seen as one of the primary methods of identification and division, several hundred years ago the idea might not even.... ... ... In grappling with the development of racial identities, and their rise to prominence in the past few centuries, it is often highly desirous to find a place Some have argued that Brazil is such a place: according to Gilberto Freyre, Brazil is a place of racial democracy, that is, race is not a prominent feature in the landscape and does not cause a great deal of discrimination (Robb 23)....

American Beauty Introduction American Beauty is a drama film which has been released in 1999.... This film is written by Alan Ball, and it has been directed by Sam Mendes.... The major character of this film has been performed by Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham.... ... ... ... The rest of the actors include Annette Bening as Carolyn Burnham, Thora Birch as Jane Burnham, Mena Suvari as Angela Hayes, Chris Cooper as Frank Fitts and Was Bentley as Ricky Fitts....

In the insightful article from one of the pedantic scholars of contemporary time, Vartan P Messier many innovative and novel discourses pertaining to the adaptation of films from texts in the recent years evolve out.... .... ... ... American Psycho: A Reading Response Visual Poetics, Intertextuality, and the Transfiguration of Ideology: An “Eye” for an “I” in Mary Harron's Cinematic Adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho By Vartan P....

Rafael Sabatini remains one of the English and Italian novel writers who mainly concentrated in adventure and romance.... His good grasp for languages enabled him master five languages at the age of five.... .... ... ... Apart from the life of Cesare Borgia, Sabatini was also able to realize his success through writing other book....

Subject: History and Political Science Date: March 30, 2012 Topic: Critique of book "America's Constitution: A Biography" by Akhil Amar Introduction This is the book with a difference, on America's Constitution.... It introduces an inquisitive reader with the constitutional text and the various stages of struggles of the legislators and intellectuals, before they asserted, “We do,” to experience the enlightenment and spirit of the Constitution....

In the paper 'The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin' the author discusses the short story about a sick wife (she had a heart problem) who thinks that her husband is not alive after the train accident.... The sick wife, Louise Mallard, is immersed in her own thoughts of the newly found freedom.... ... ...

The paper "Core Concepts of Intercultural Communication to the Series 30 Days" highlights that with increased childhood shootings in schools, the Obama Government has had to come up with stricter measures to regulate gun possession amongst Americans.... ... ... ... A total of 6 million Americans are gun holders....

The author of the paper examines the books about the history of the United States of America.... The first is "Making America: a history of the United States" authored by Carol Berkin, and the second is titled "Coming of age in Mississippi" authored by Anne Moody.... .... ... ... 1919 marks the end of World War 1 with the signing of treaties....

The movement was that which was of religious reforms which mainly emphasized on righteous behavior and monotheism with conformity with revealed law of.... ... ... Those that were in the movement and were addressed by the author were the righteous Christians and Jews in the early years1.... This is due to the fact that in the early years, Christians and Jews were the ones that agreed to live righteously and live with obeying the revealed The book however addressed the Muslims after there was conviction that Muslims were of a separate religious community which was distinct from Jews and Christians....