Depolluting the river Thames
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
Let's travel to somewhere almost near by, I'm sure some of you have actually seen it with your own eyes. I'm talking about the river Thames, which is the longest river in England, with almost three hundred fifty kilometers long... As a result, you won't find it very surprising if...
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...
Assess the claim that Thatcherism decisively recast political and economic relationships in the 1980s
Essay - 11 pages - Political science
Thatcherism is a political thought applied by the 3 successive governments led by Margaret Thatcher, from 1979 to 1990. It quickly evolved as a doctrine. Thatcherism came at a time when the post-war consensus was collapsing, and aimed at checking the decline of the British economy, suffering...
The Clash between Politics and Music: Joe Strummer's Songs in Thatcher England - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 10 pages - Arts and art history
Today it only sounds like stating the obvious to say that the importance of popular music as a means of building one's identity has indubitably been shaping the so-called counter-culture of the second half of the twentieth century. Indeed, in this consumerist society, classical music has...
Racial stereotypes and their role in the concept of Manifest Destiny by Justin Herndon
Book review - 6 pages - Literature
The modern connotations of the concept of “Manifest Destiny” are generally of two diverging camps; One is a romanticized image of devout pilgrims, such as the Mormons, who left the crowded and sinful cities of the East for the freedom of the West, hoping to find a new promised land, or...
Mental Health and Deviancy - 'From Madness to Mental Illness and Back Again'
Case study - 37 pages - Medical studies
Over the last few centuries, our perception of mental illness has changed considerably, from the view that the ‘insane' were a deviant group who needed, for the sake of society, to be controlled and hidden, through the age of psychiatry, medical-ism and cure whereby medicine became an agent...
The Clash between Politics and Music: Joe Strummer's Songs in Thatcher England
Essay - 10 pages - Music and dance
Today it only sounds like stating the obvious to say that the importance of popular music as a means of building one's identity has indubitably been shaping the so-called counter-culture of the second half of the twentieth century. Indeed, in this consumerist society, classical music has...
Ways of Rendering Student Slang in Salinger Novel "The Catcher in the Rye"
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...
The concepts of ridicule and the ridiculous, oblivion, bereft, exemplar, Rasputin's revenge, dildo beach
Dissertation - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
A professor was recently ridiculed for the creativity with which he draws up assignments. These assignments allegedly have no resemblance to the essays that are “normally” published in most of today's literary magazines. I turned this idea of mirroring published material over in my...
History of the British economy
Course material - 2 pages - Modern history
After WW2, to give Britain the chance to rebuild itself economically and socially, the Labour government established the “Post-War consensus” based on the principles of the Beveridge Report from 1945 up to 1979, the two main political parties Labour and Conservative agreed to follow the...
Critical Analysis of "Goblin Market"
Essay - 7 pages - Literature
Sylvia Plath once said, “The blood jet is poetry, and there is no stopping it.” This was true for many poets, and especially true for Christina Rossetti. Rossetti had poetry in her blood, art in her veins. When she first wrote “Goblin Market” in 1859, some critics...
The tensions between Claude Chabrol's use of realism and his stylized artificial mise-en-scene
Dissertation - 11 pages - Film studies
Jacques Rivette defined mise-en-scene as 'a precise complex of people and decors, a network of relations, a moving architecture of relationships somehow suspended in space' (1954: 44). In the films of Claude Chabrol, the mise-en-scene seems to embrace this definition. On the one hand his...
The duality of the "New Woman"
Dissertation - 6 pages - Literature
F. Scott Fitzgerald's life is a tragic example of both sides of the American Dream—the joys of young love, wealth and success, and the tragedies associated with excess and failure. By 1925 he was known primarily as the historian of the Jazz Age (which he named) and chronicler in slick...
Politics and Power in Scotland and Wales from 1966 to 1999 ? The Devolution
Essay - 75 pages - Political science
Since 1997 and New Labour's landslide victory, there has been a flurry of legislation in the UK, eg with relation to the House of Lords, party funding and freedom of information, in an attempt to change and modernize the institutions of the country. What is known as devolution? Devolution...
The Purpose of Purpose: Aesthetics and the Unity of Context and Form in Third-World Literature
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
All literary texts are both political and aesthetic. Words in and of themselves are innately sensual, inseparable from the emotions they evoke in a reader. They are also political, pieces of language steeped in history and theory. However, writers often plan toward one extreme, selecting their...
Skyscrapers: An American urban art form
Essay - 5 pages - Architecture
It isn't often that we think of buildings as works of art. We have a word to describe the art of designing buildings and structures - architecture - but to most of us, buildings are things of purpose, not things to be admired. We pass in and out of them, conducting our business, and never give a...
The American West: A clash of social, cultural, and environmental forces
Dissertation - 9 pages - Modern history
The character of America was largely shaped by the American experience in the West from the early 1700s until the present day. Although the values of freedom and equality under the law had been established in the East during the colonial and revolutionary periods of American history, the clash of...
The happiest place on earth
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Disney World was never an illusion to me as a child; I could see right through it. “It's a theme park,” my mom would explain to me. What an interesting idea. It was tangibility's final step in the evolution of imagination. First there were the playgrounds I knew as a child, consisting...
A comprehensive review of creative commons
Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Journalism
Creative Commons (CC), represents a movement towards “balance, compromise, and moderation” within copyright. Described by its proponents as a ‘some rights reserved' copyright, CC introduces a number of licenses that allow creators to selectively use private rights to create public...
Essay analysis on sexuality, identity and homosexuals
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
In Halperin's “Is There a History of Sexuality”, he explains that sex as an act is a natural and universal phenomenon and thus has no history. On the other hand, he clarifies that there is a history of sexuality, although it is a fairly recent history and is socially constructed. By...
Defining the intimacy between the work of English poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Shakespeare
Course material - 7 pages - Literature
William Shakespeare is a world-renowned poet and playwright who has brought the narrative stories into a different level of genius he so cleverly crafted through the sublime musings he got from his views on the society, love, and the likes. On the other hand, Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a poet...
SOPA's effect on the online culture
Case study - 26 pages - Business strategy
Slashdot.org was founded in 1997 by Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda, and is now owned by Geeknet, Inc. Numerous editors and coders run the site. Users can submit a news story through the use of a web submission form, where it will be moderated and edited for proper grammar and spelling. Users...
Managerial finance, Tesco - publié le 12/06/2008
Case study - 25 pages - Finance
Tesco Plc. is the biggest retailer by sales in U.K (T.N. Sofres, 2012). Its market share has grown since 2010, 30.6 to 2012, 31.5, through 2011, 30.9 (Tesco, 2012). The company recorded revenues of £64,539 million during the financial year ended February 2012, an increase of 13.1 from 2010...
American art : An interface with the modern art
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
Throughout the history of art, different movements arise as a result of the social, political, economic, and emotional state of mind that both people and nations are experiencing at a given time. Modern art and postmodern art are no two exceptions to these circumstances and have come to be for...
Eros in fantasy - publié le 13/01/2009
Dissertation - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Our study of Eros in fantasy will be based on seven short stories (A. Bierce's The Death of Halpin Frayser, Ch. Dickens's The Signalman, Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil, P. Highsmith's The Snail-Watcher, H. P. Lovecraft's The Festival, R. Matheson's Born of Man...
Evolution of Proof in Criminal Law: Frankish Era to Ancien Régime
Essay - 2 pages - Law's history and philosophy
This document explores the transformation of modes of proof in criminal law from the Frankish era to the Ancien Régime, highlighting the shift from religious and irrational methods to a more rational and state-regulated system.
The Australian Strine
Essay - 19 pages - World geography
Having spent my eight-month-stay between Sydney and Brisbane, respectively State capitals of New South Wales and Queensland, sharing Australians' life, and having also travelled a bit to other cities and States of the East Coast, I feel I must share my affection for this vast, exciting...
The Australian Strine - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 17 pages - Philosophy
Having spent my eight-month-stay between Sydney and Brisbane, respectively State capitals of New South Wales and Queensland, sharing Australians' life, and having also travelled a bit to other cities and States of the East Coast, I feel I must share my affection for this vast, exciting...
Discuss the methods by which Britain became a great power - publié le 16/01/2009
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
The very notion of power and by extension the one of great power, have always been elaborate concepts to grasp. Should one study the strength of a nation from a historical perspective, then it appears that the notion of great power could only be defined comparatively. Indeed, it is only in its...
The media, an essential vehicle for social protest
Case study - 12 pages - Medias
Malcolm X, one of the main American black advocates for the rights of the Blacks in the United States, by articulating concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the early 1960s, claimed that “the media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent...
