Application of Bernoulli’s Equation to Fluid Dynamics Bernoulli’s equation has been used widely in an engineering aspects, the conservation of energy is the most famous one. This paper will talk about the application of Bernoulli’s equation to fluid dynamics. Fluids flow can be in different forms, such as water in the ocean, blood within our body and etc. Thus, it is necessary to study the mechanism of fluids. In the year of 1738, Daniel Bernoulli published a book called Hydrodynamica, which…
In Things Fall Apart, the reader is introduced to a main by the name of Okonkwo. Okonkwo is hardworking and aggressive, traits that bring him fame and wealth at the beginning of the novel. This same fear also causes Okonkwo to be impatient and brash, however, leading to his eventual downfall when he can't adjust to the changes occurring in the clan. Though Okonkwo is a respected leader in the Umuofia tribe, he lives in fear of becoming his father, a man known for his laziness and cowardice.…
The purpose of this article is to analyze the short story “Civil Peace” by the Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, in the light of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The story happens in Nigeria, which has a long history of being colonized by English troops till 1960, when the Nigerians eventually gained their independence. Achebe uses English language as a postcolonial tool to defend his people. The story “Civil Peace” opens right after the Civil War and ends after so much blood shedding and brutality.…
The novel « Things Fall Apart » by Chinua Achebe is written in English. However, there are some Ibo expressions set in this novel to introduce the reader’s mind into a more authentic and unique African atmosphere. The author, Chinua Achebe, is the first to write a novel about colonialism in the perspective of a colonized tribe from within. Furthermore, he is the only African who has ever described the African culture before and after the settlement of the Christians. This essay will examine how…
In the television series Arrow, creators Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, and Marc Guggenheim write a story about a spoiled billionaire named Oliver Queen played by Stephen Amell, who went missing for five years only to return a different man. When Oliver Queen returns home, he becomes a vigilante hiding behind a hood and green suit, trying to fix all of the wrongs that his father had told him to fix in his hometown of Star City. It is not just Oliver, who is trying to save the city, but his…
Emotional Power played an impactful role in Things Fall Apart, as Okonkwo's issues with himself, first derived from his angst against becoming similar to his father. In the novel, it describes Okonkwo as not a cruel man but to consider that “his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and weakness” (Achebe 10). Since childhood, humiliation plagued him, therefore, he channeled his resentment towards succeeding. Particularly, the man to the far left of my graphic illustration…
Fear As a Theme Fear is a popular theme that is used in all forms of literature. In Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart he uses fear as a recurring theme. This theme appears throughout the book in several different situations and for several different reasons, which demonstrates that fear has more than one form and more than one cause. Fear is a very important aspect of Things Fall Apart and of life. Two instances in which Chinua Achebe develops fear as a theme are when he establishes…
The novel, “Things Fall Apart”, by Chinua Achebe, tells the tragic yet heroic story of the demise of a legendary man called Okonkwo. Okonkwo, the son of Unoka, whose reputation of discontentment preceded him, also condemned his father, seeing him as weak and soft. Ashamed of his father’s inability to demonstrate, what he believed to be the strength, wealth and overall dignity of a man, Okonkwo was determined and therefore destined to live a life furthest from the complacent nature of his father…
“He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart” ( Achebe, pg 176 ). From the start of trade and technological inventions, cultures have collided and clash with one another. In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo, a warrior who is highly respected in his society, struggles to keep up with the constant changes in his tribe and instead of going along with it, he responds by resisting it. Not wanting to be anything like his father, Okonkwo grows…
Kenneth Arrow Kenneth J. Arrow was born in New York city August 23, 1921. Growing up in the Great Depression he was very partial to the thought of socialism. This factor was a huge part in his life because it would keep his views toward left sensibility.He received his undergraduate at the City College of New York. He would graduate from there with a degree in Science in Social Sciences, but a major in mathematics. From here kenneth was able to really begin his journey into the…