...Futility by Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) Analysis; Wilfred Owen was born on March 18, 1893. He was on the Continent teaching until he visited a hospital for the wounded and then decided, in September, 1915, to return to England and enlist. "I came out in order to help these boys - directly by leading them as well as an officer can; indirectly, by watching their sufferings that I may speak have they as well as a pleader can. I have done the first". His perspective on war was for the sympathy of the soldiers that lost life for their countries. He wasn’t against fighting for the country but just sympathizing for the lives lost in war. Owens’ personal say was that "My subject is war, and the pity of war. The poetry is in the pity.” A misery poem filled with repercussions was one of the published poems in the lifetime of Wilfred Owen. The poem was out on the 15th of June 1918 and was written in a lyrical sonnet format, even though it was not built like one. The words used in the poem forms a clouded and pained atmosphere, arousing a frustration and cluster of emotions. The poems of Wilfred Owen focus on the representation of war, futility being one of the poems that describe the effect of war on the people that experience it from first hand. The poet concerns with the soldier lying on the cold ground as his body is graced into the sun and the feather touch of the warm beams that could give life to a ‘sown seed’ could revive this soul, thus is considered worthless...
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...Literary Analysis In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a plane full of English boys was attacked and crashed onto an island when trying to evacuate a nuclear war. Now the boys must learn to survive and work together. Although they began as a civilized bunch, after conflicts between group leaders Ralph and Jack, savagery starts to emerge. Golding uses the conflict between the civilizations to show how the darkness of human nature can affect even little childrens. At the beginning of the novel, Ralph, described as “the boy with fair hair”, and Piggy a whiney, intellectual chubby boy, found a conch shell which was used to call the other boys who were lost on the island to the beach. Among the boys was a choir group led by a boy named Jack. Ralph was soon elected as leader seeing as being the one who called everyone together. Jack was in charge of the choir group to hunt for food. After countless failure of capturing a pig, Jack decided to paint his face with clay to be camouflaged from the pig. He lead the boys and finally killed his first of pig and came back to the group with the pig strapped to a stick and the boys chanting, “ Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood!”(69). We can see how excited the boys got from killing a measly pig. Jack describes his experience with Ralph explaining, “ There was lashings of blood...you should have seen it!”(69). Jacks thirst for more blood is an obvious sign of the development of savagery. Later on the boys came to...
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...young girls. It will explain the long-term effects that come with low self-esteem and low self-image. Finally it will highlight ways to help mitigate and prevent low self-esteem in young girls in our society. Intro 12 year old Lana wakes up one morning looks in the mirror and thinks “Ewe why are not pretty.” “I really hate the way my jeans look on me.” “I wish I was smart.” The thought process behind a young girls mind today is a scary one. “Today we define self-esteem as ‘positive or negative attitude toward one’s self’’ and can be viewed as a key indicator of a healthy psychological well-being.” (Daniel Clay, 2005). Self-esteem can be fragile and can be easy shattered. Body image is central to adolescent girls’ self- definition, because others have socialized them to believe that appearance is an important basis for self-evaluation and for evaluation. (Daniel Clay, 2005) Poor self-image is a growing issue among most young girls in today’s society. When you think of poor self-image, most people think immediately of looks, but the truth is poor self-image is also how someone views their mental capacity and physical ability. It is a disturbing trend that continues to deeply affect young teenage girls in the United States. So the questions are asked, “At what age do girls suffer the greatest decrease in self esteem? What are some factors that are the leading cause in the decrease of girl’s self-esteem? What are the long-term effects of low self esteem in...
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...Critical Analysis II: Pierre-Auguste Renoir and The Statutte of a Woman found at Willlendorf By: Art Appreciation ART 1113V1 June 9, 2012 Renoir was born on February 25, 1841 in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France. His parents were working class, and his dad was a tailor. He was the sixth child. As a boy, Pierre worked at a porcelain factory. He was a skilled artist by that age, because he showed his drawings around at work, and he was chosen to paint designs on the fine china at the Lévy Frères factory. His artistic talent was passed on to other places, and he ended up painting fans and religious wall hangings as well. He would visit the Louvre to go see and study the French master painters in hopes of becoming one of them one day. Two years later, he painted his most famous work, Bal du moulin de la Galette. It depicted a joyful event, with people dancing and socializing; a passing moment in time. The light bounces off the Parisian jubilee, giving the impression that this is a grand affair. Since some of the people are sliced in half on the edge of the canvas, it gives the illusion that this scene extends beyond canvas. A scene as joyous as this is usually categorized as a “joie de vie,” meaning joy of life. Before Pierre died, he went to Paris in 1919. He went to the Louvre Museum, and saw his paintings hanging with the masters. This is what he waited his entire life for, and it had finally happened. He returned home happy, and died on December 3, 1919 at the age of 78...
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...Chua / The Making of Jose Garcia Villa’s A Footnote to Youth 9 THE MAKING OF JOSE GARCIA VILLA’S FOOTNOTE TO YOUTH Jonathan Chua Ateneo de Manila University jchua@ateneo.edu This article recounts the story behind the publication of Villa’s stories and his book Footnote to Youth: Tales of the Philippines and Others (1933) in the United States. First, the conditions of the American literary marketplace are briefly described. Second, documents pertaining to the realization in print of Villa’s stories and his book are analyzed as sites of negotiations between colonial subject (Villa) and the colonial master (his American editors and publishers). Finally, an account of how Villa was made to circulate in the Philippines after the publication of his stories and his book in the United States is given. From these discussions the article hopes to show that Villa’s self-fashioning by publication was both subject to and critical of the colonial condition, alternately reinforcing it and challenging it. Abstract Philippine literature in English, book history, postcolonialism, exotic, author Keywords Jonathan Chua teaches at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of the Ateneo de Manila University. He is the editor of The Critical Villa: Essays in Literary Criticism by Jose Garcia Villa (2002). His edition of the collected short stories of Jose Garcia Villa is forthcoming from the Ateneo de Manila University Press. About the Author Kritika Kultura 21/22 (2013/2014):...
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...In the midst of a raging war, a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island. Two of the boys, Ralph and Piggy, discover a conch shell on the beach, and Piggy realizes it could be used as a horn to summon the other boys. Once assembled, the boys set about electing a leader and devising a way to be rescued. They choose Ralph as their leader, and Ralph appoints another boy, Jack, to be in charge of the boys who will hunt food for the entire group. Ralph, Jack, and another boy, Simon, set off on an expedition to explore the island. When they return, Ralph declares that they must light a signal fire to attract the attention of passing ships. The boys succeed in igniting some dead wood by focusing sunlight through the lenses of Piggy’s eyeglasses. However, the boys pay more attention to playing than to monitoring the fire, and the flames quickly engulf the forest. A large swath of dead wood burns out of control, and one of the youngest boys in the group disappears, presumably having burned to death. At first, the boys enjoy their life without grown-ups and spend much of their time splashing in the water and playing games. Ralph, however, complains that they should be maintaining the signal fire and building huts for shelter. The hunters fail in their attempt to catch a wild pig, but their leader, Jack, becomes increasingly preoccupied with the act of hunting. When a ship passes by on the horizon one day, Ralph and Piggy notice...
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...THE KUMEYAAY PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA by Your Name (boldface) ANTH 100: Non-Western Cultures and the Western Tradition Instructor: Dr. Steven R. James Nov. 10, 2014 INTRODUCTION In my quest to study the life of the ancient California inhabitants, I visited the San Diego Museum of Man which is an anthropological museum situated in Balboa Park, San Diego, California. The museum was established in the year 1915 as a result of the Panama-California Exposition where several exhibits were displayed with ‘The Story of Man through Ages’ being the first. At the culmination of the exposition, San Diego Museum Association sought to retain the available collection and start a permanent museum. As a result, the collection was named Museum of Man in 1942 and later in 1978 as the California Museum of Man. Besides housing the history of the Kumeyaay people, who are the subject of this research paper, the history of other Native Americans from the South of California can also be studied in this place. The museum has a population of over 100000 ethnographic items, 25000 images, and a large library of books and journals. MUSEUM EXHIBIT 1) Artifact Display On the second floor of the museum, a wide variety of the historic sources can be found. Among the displayed artifacts there are models of the early man, reconstructions of the bones of hominids, cave paintings, coffins of mummies from ancient Egypt, stone carvings, and remains of the Egyptian mummy known as Lemon Grove. The culture of the people...
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...Marketing Analysis: Crayola LLC Company’s Corporate Name The corporate name is Crayola LLC. On January 1, 2007, the “Binney & Smith” name was retired and they started using the name Crayola LLC, since it was the company’s well-known brand. Crayola is a brand of artists’ supplies that is best known for its crayons. Crayola LLC claims the Crayola brand has a 99% name recognition in the U.S. household, which is why the name Crayola LLC is used in place of Binney & Smith. Crayola began as Binney & Smith in 1885 when Joseph Binney partnered with his son and nephew. Binney & Smith began producing dustless chalk and then later began producing crayons and color pencils. The company has experienced tremendous growth from this timeframe to become the largest art supply company in the world. The company is currently in the maturity phase of the product life cycle and successfully avoids the decline phase by continually introducing innovative products. Since most parents are concerned with the mess that is associated with arts and crafts, Crayola has moved from crayons to toys to address this concern. They reinvented themselves by creating toys that are relatively cheap and are mess-free. The toys also do not require adult supervision. Since Crayola is not a toy maker, this creates a whole new stage of development. Crayola’s Corporate Headquarters 1100 Church Lane Easton, PA 18044-0431 Phone: (610) 253-6271 Fax: (610) 250-5768 Parent Company Crayola...
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...Literary Analysis: Hamlet In the tragedy Hamlet, the prince of Denmark, Hamlet is this young man who experiences close relation death which was his father. He later finds out it was his uncle who murdered his father just to take heir to the throne. Hamlet constant brooding about death and humanity comes ahead. (Tennen) Hamlet is arguably the greatest dramatic character ever created from the moment we meet the crestfallen prince we are enraptured by his elegant intensity. (Mabillard) William Shakespeare hamlet follows the young prince Hamlet home to Denmark to attend his father’s funeral. (Stockton) In “Hamlet” the tragedy hamlet the prince holds a great internal conflict throughout the play. (Studymode) On a dark winter night a ghost walks the ramparts of Elsinore castle in Denmark. (Sparknotes)The first edition of hamlet was published in 1603 from a previous sketch composed several years earlier the second one following 1604. (Bates) Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy Bernado’s question betrays the mood of uncertainty that prevails throughout the play. (George) So speaks Shakespeare’s prince hamlet of the transient nature of all mankind throughout the play humanity and frailty is a common theme. (Mortensen) In Hamlet the tragedy, hamlet, the prince of Demark with holds a great internal conflict throughout the play. (Directessays) Hamlet is Shakespeare’s longest play and the play responsible for the immortal lines “to be or not to be that is the question” (Taylor) The story...
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...Final Word……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….................. 6 References………………………………………………................................................................................... 7 INTRODUCTION Throughout the ages, Mankind has always had a fascination with the concept of the tablet as a medium for storing, communicating and computing information; right down from the ancient clay tablets, that were used especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age, to the early tablet computers of the 1950s to 1990s with their associated special operating software that were really examples of pen computing technology commonly referred to as PDAs, right up to our modern day unimaginably powerful PC tablets (preceding the smart phone) that have come to dominate the fast paced technologically forward world we inhabit today. We will have peak into the universe of the modern PC tablet and the impact it’s had in the world today especially the modern business environment. In order to do this, we must separate the product from the concept to get an in-depth analysis of what lies underneath the “hood” of your modern computer tablet. First a basic comparison of the market’s 3 main operating systems and their respective tablets. | Ipad Air | Microsoft surface | Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 | FEATURES | | | | Operating System | iOS 7 | Windows 8.1 | Android 4.2 |...
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...explore the three perspectives of dreaming. The psychoanalytic perspective, the cognitive perspective and the biological perspective. The psychoanalytic perspective, as conveyed by celebrated neurologist and founding psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, is examined through his literary work The Interpretation of Dreams. This book serves as the basis of the psychoanalytic perspective which the other perspectives will be set against. The cognitive perspective will be viewed through the writing of David Foulkes in his book Dreaming: A Cognitive Psychoanalytic Analysis and the biological perspective will be discussed through the writings of Drs. Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley of Harvard University. Through these sources it will be shown how the perspectives relate to one another so that a basic understanding of them can exist in the scientific community. The recorded history of dreams dates back to 3100 B.C. through clay tablets describing the story of king Gilgamesh who reported his recurring dreams to his goddess-mother Ninsun, who made the first known dream interpretation (Seligman, 1948). Babylonians and other ancient cultures divided dreams into good ones that came from the gods and bad ones that came from demons (Oppenheim, 1966). Various other ancient cultures believed dreams to be spiritual and or demonic depending on the dream’s content. It was not until the Greek philosopher Aristotle, around 350 B.C, who interpreted dreams to have a physiological meaning...
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...Ford Motor Company In today’s society it is a very common theme for men, especially hardworking men, to want a truck. That being said, what better company is there for a truck or a durable vehicle to not only improve image but use as an aid in everyday working conditions than Ford? We think that Ford Motor Company is a very good company to investigate and research because of the solid foundation it stands on and the rich history and tradition of such an illustrious company. Ford has been at the forefront of the automobile industry for the majority of its existence. They have been a trailblazer as far as mass production, and advancements in just about every way imaginable. For these reasons and more we will be doing our dijuno project on the Ford Motor Company. We will be exploring the consumer-brand relationships, breakdown the ads (testimonials), how their product raises self-esteem, and the product as an extended self. The company mainly targets the working male who has the need for a big truck to do heavy lifting and towing. The company has the richest history of any car company in the U.S. and for that reason we will give a very in depth and concise overview of such. Ford also appeals to those who have the upmost pride and support of the U.S. Other things we will be evaluating and analyzing in our PowerPoint presentation will include the target market for different demographics, how it caters to the needs of the consumers, the strategies and tactics used to appeal to...
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...Nature vs. Nurture There is an issue that has been conferred upon by philosophers in the past and still so by scientists today. This issue is whether heredity or environment plays a greater role in the determining or shaping of an individual's behavior. It is known as the nature versus nurture debate. Numerous generations before us have deliberated on the reasons behind the development of human behavior. There have been many theories formulated to explain why humans behave the way they do. The surviving theories for behavior derive from physiological and sociological explanations. However, the two explanations have not always been compatible with each other. The famous nature vs. nurture debate over human behavior resulted from conflicting views between proponents of the physiological (nature) and sociological (nurture) explanations. Throughout history, research has swayed popularity back and forth between the theories. Yet, theorists have broken down the line separating nature and nurture. As of today, people utilize both explanations to explore human behavior. Way before our time, early philosophers endeavored to understand the human behavior. As early as 350 BC, such philosophers as Plato and Aristotle tried to understand behavior. The question of nature or nurture as the primary drive can be traced to these times. Plato believed behavior and knowledge was due to innate factors. Author Fiona Cowie states, "The claim that the character of our mental furniture is to...
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...4.plain package with a relatively high price, 5.plain package with an intermediate price, 6.plain package with a relatively low price. After the six between-subject experiments, we find that package design and price setting do have influence on customers’ preference to purchase, but not as strong as our perception. On the other hand, the packaging has significance influence on the customers’ overall impression towards the product. The aesthetic package with the highest price leaves the customer the best impression. Implications for future application for businesses are discussed in the final part. Key words: Package design, price setting, analysis of variance, purchase intention. Introduction “Man shows that he is affected by appearance, by something that causes him pleasure over and above the immediate utility of the object” (Clay, 1908). Designing aesthetic products to satisfy the consumers’ need is of growing importance in marketing. As core attributes of product, such as quality and functionality, become increasingly homogeneous (Reimann, Schilke, & Thomas, 2010), firms are shifting their efforts from concrete product characteristics towards less concrete ones such as package designing. This trend towards aesthetics in product differentiation may be based on the insight that aesthetic designs seem to trigger certain positive responses in consumers such as an...
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...A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF CHARACTER EVIDENCE IN NIGERIA BY MADUBUIKE CHIKEZIE OBINNA 05/61313 BEING A COMPULSORY RESEARCH PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF LAW, ABIA STATE UNIVERSITY, UTURU IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELOR OF LAW (LL.B) DEGREE OCTOBER, 2010. CERTIFICATION I, MADUBUIKE CHIKEZIE OBINNA of the Faculty of Law Abia State University hereby certify that this project work was carried out under the supervision of Barr. A.S AMARAMIRO. Supervisor’s Signature. | Date. | Student’s Signature. | Date. | DEDICATION This work is dedicated to The Almighty God who helped me study under Grace. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Good works are often the product of cross fertilization of ideas and sincere support of resource persons. Accordingly, I give my unalloyed thanks to my creator, God the Almighty, the spring of all knowledge, my Ebenezar. I am profoundly grateful to my efficient, diligent and understanding supervisor Barrister A.S Amaramiro whose love, guidance, critical remarks and suggestions were very insightful. I will forever remain sincerely grateful. Specially, I remain highly indebted to my parents Elder and Mrs. O.C Madubuike for their love, moral, spiritual and financial encouragement since I was born. They are my engine room. My gratitude also goes to my siblings: Oluchi, Emeka, chinonso, kelechukwu and ugochukwu. They cannot be thanked enough for their love and support...
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