Far From the Madding Crowd - Hardy: how does Hardy explore fate in his novel ?
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." said Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Far From the Madding Crowd, fate steps in as soon as the book begins. We will see in details how Hardy explores fate in his novel, first by the names he chose for his characters, then by how...
"Them": how does the first chapter introduce us to the characters of the novel and how does it reflect Oates's style?
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
The following is an extract from J.C Oates's novel "Them". It was published in 1969 and won the "National Book award fiction" in 1970. Even though Oates states in the foreword to the book that the story is based on a real family the novel is fictional. Most of it takes place in...
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...
To what extent can "The Road and The Handmaid's Tale" be described as political novels
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
This paper seeks to explore the extent to which The Road and The Handmaid's Tale are political novels and to justify their categorization as dystopia. The books are viewed in terms of literary quality, narrative effect and political insight. In The Road, the dreadful woman and the element...
Existentialism, as Developed Through the Parisian Society in Perfume. How does Patrick Süskind use the society of Paris to develop the existential ideas in his novel "Perfume"?
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
The novel Perfume by Patrick Süskind, chronicles the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, the anti-hero, whose heightened sense of smell allows him to create the Ultimate Perfume through the murder of virgin women. The quest to create this ultimate scent is what gives meaning to his life....
The success of the novel and the movie "Memoirs of a Geisha"
Case study - 3 pages - Film studies
When it was first published in 1997, the novel “Memoirs of a Geisha” written by Arthur Golden has already met a huge success: it ranked during a whole year in the New York Times top 10 best-sellers list. In 2005, the big screen adaptation of the book, produced by Steven...
Ivan Turgenev's novel - Fathers and Sons
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
The rise of the Russian intelligentsia is accurately depicted through the characters of Ivan Turgenev's novel, Fathers and Sons. The story Fathers and Sons takes place in 1859, two years before the emancipation of the serfs. The novel takes a look at a pair of families, one of...
Compare the ways in which the writers present the relationship between the colonial authority and the oppressed in the novels 'The Siege of Krishnapur' and 'True History of the Kelly Gang'
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
In their novels, both Carey and Farrell present the Colonial Authority as multi-faceted organizations. In Farrell's ‘The Siege of Krishnapur' the foremost voices of the Colonial Authority are the Collector, initially representative of the British Empire's quest for progress, and...
Selecting informative features - a novel approach for the classification of large dataset
Dissertation - 5 pages - Computer science
Feature subset selection plays an essential role in all data mining applications. It speeds up a data mining algorithm and improves mining performance. This paper proposes a novel approach of feature subset selection for classification problem. This approach aims to find common features...
What is a novel ? A fiction ? Literature?
Text analysis - 2 pages - Literature
For several centuries, the predominant idea, except little exclusions like works by Diderot or Cervantes, was that the main function of novels was simply to tell a story. Reflections about writing itself were essentially reserved to poetry. Novels extol primacy to imagination and...
Ways of Rendering Student Slang in Salinger Novel "The Catcher in the Rye" - published: 29/09/2010
Thesis - 48 pages - Literature
Slang, as the most mentioned representative word form of the informal vocabulary, occupies a prominent role in contemporary society. It has become the second language of any democratic country. Everybody uses it even if one pretends that he has never used it. It is a veritable issue and it will...
A novel multi-population genetic algorithm for human resource allocation
Dissertation - 8 pages - Computer science
The Human Resource Allocation Problem is an interesting and important problem that occurs in several walks of life. The problem involves multi-objective optimization in a huge search space and hence genetic algorithms prove to be effective in solving such problems. Among the several types of...
Biodiesel-novel energy source with minimum CO2 emission
Dissertation - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Rapid growth in population coupled with industrial and technological developments is leading towards the depletion of limited fossil fuel resources of the world. Imperative concerns related to energy and climate change due to CO2 emission requires the large scale substitution of petroleum based...
Terror and Horror in the Fantastic Novels: Walpole's The Castle Of Otranto, Shelley's Frankenstein and Stoker's Dracula - publié le 12/01/2009
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
The concepts of terror and horror are key factors in the Fantastic and Gothic novel. This literary genre appeared with Walpole's The Castle of Otranto in 1765 and then flourished until 1830; it mainly developed during the historical period of the Enlightenment and can be seen as an...
A critique of the Dystopian novel
Dissertation - 17 pages - Literature
The Dystopian novel is a strange subspecies in literature. While it shares many aspects with the traditional science fiction novel, it is rarely categorized with science fiction. Whereas it might satirize the Utopian socialist fantasy of the perfect society, the satire is usually...
Graphic novels
Dissertation - 4 pages - Literature
For this project I chose to focus on graphic novels that have a lead female character. I chose graphic novels because I feel that most teachers don't want to use them in their classrooms and I believe that most young adults would be interested in reading them in school as many of...
A novel antibiotic drug delivery mechanism
Dissertation - 4 pages - Medical studies
On the most basic level, protein engineering entails changing an existing protein sequence for a new purpose.1 Although a rather young field, the last decade has seen a giant leap in the understanding of protein structure and function. The advent of DNA shuffling in 1994, for example, has led to...
Is "To Kill a Mockingbird" (by Harper Lee) a novel about racism? - publié le 15/01/2009
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
Writing To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee has chosen to make a description of the Deep South during the Great Depression of the 30's through the eyes of a young girl, leaving us uncertain about the qualification of this novel. Indeed, reading the biography of the author, the reader...
The novel "Charlotte Temple" as an example of a popular novel
Essay - 5 pages - Literature
The novel Charlotte Temple is an example of what I believe to be a "popular novel". Charlotte Temple's appeal was born out of its solicitous plea to a generation of women who held a particular station in society. It warned them of dangers while morally evangelizing and...
Comparison of Pride and Prejudice: The novel and the Bollywood adaptation
Dissertation - 3 pages - Film studies
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”(Austen 2001: 3). This is the well-known first line of Pride and Prejudice, the acclaimed novel by Jane Austen published in 1813. This line establishes the...
Blindness: A Jose Saramago's novel
Dissertation - 5 pages - Literature
The blindness that suddenly and quickly takes hold of an entire population in Jose Saramago's novel, Blindness, is atypical in many ways. Most notably, those afflicted are not plunged into darkness; rather, all agree that they are floating in a sea of milky whiteness, unable to make out...
The Russian novel: the narrator's role in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Essay - 5 pages - Literature
“Death”(Part 5, chapter 20) is the only chapter of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina with a title. It is not the only death in the book; Anna's suicide at the end of the novel is arguably the story's most important death. Although the death of Nikolai Levin by no means drastically...
Walpole vs. Reeve: The gothic novel
Book review - 4 pages - Educational studies
In The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole sets the norm for Gothic novels to follow. He introduces such themes as the supernatural, the tragic heroine, usurpation, and a central location. Clara Reeve in her novel The Old English Baron redefines Walpole's definition of Gothic and...
Novel pressure-relief wheelchair: research paper
Tutorials/exercises - 30 pages - Biology
Pressure sores are painful and debilitating tissue wounds which commonly affect wheelchair users. Current treatment of pressure sores requires bed-rest for up to sixteen weeks, which is unacceptable for patients with active life-styles. The purpose of our project is to design a wheelchair that...
Roses are Red, Emily is Blue, Her Father Died and She Went Cuckoo: A Novel Project on William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily
Essay - 2 pages - Psychology
Over the years, society has come to accept that in most cases, people are the products of their environments. For example, if one is brought up in an irresponsible environment, it is likely they will be irresponsible when they are older. However, when people are brought up in extreme...
Fidelity and Infidelity (to Tolstoy's Novel) in Duvivier's and Zarkhi's Anna Kareninas
Tutorials/exercises - 15 pages - Literature
A viewer watching the 1948 and then the 1967 film versions of Anna Karenina (directed by Julien Duvivier and Aleksandr Zharkhi, respectively) for the first time might think that there is much in common between the two films. They look very similar, and this is due in large part to attempts, by...
A Systematic Method for Interpreting Novel Compounds
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Linguistics & languages
A novel word is one that is not found in the lexicon of the general population; in other words, it is a word that people have not heard or seen previously. A novel compound is a compound word formed out of two or more individual known words where the combination of these words has...
A Byzantine Novel Drosilla And Charikles
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
The theme I select to examine in A Byzantine Novel Drosilla And Charikles, is the power of love. Love in the time of Drosilla and Charikles was an entirely different concept. Especially from what we are accustomed to today. Loving someone fifty years ago, isn't even close to how we...
How does Steinbeck portray gender, in his novel : 'The grapes of wrath'
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
In the novel, Steinbeck skilfully creates a complex communal structure, through which the genders are portrayed. This community has a harsh and realistic nature. Many tragedies and disappointments threaten the family as they move through life, Tom kills a man and goes to prison, Rose of...
Is "Maurice" a hopelessly flawed text, or a thoughtful adaptation of the novel form to the subject matter and a strong intervention in debates of the time?
Essay - 9 pages - Literature
E.M Forster dedicated his novel “Maurice” to a “happier year”, affirming his intention of the novel's purpose as an insight into the future evolution of sexual desire and relationships, leading some to attach significance to the text as a protagonist of...
