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El Salvador does not receive many tourist. It can be easily understood as to why. Within the last two decades, crime rates and homicides have increased drastically. Natural disasters occur frequently and death rates are at all-time high. Many tourist ask whether or not they should visit the country. The answer is no. the country is way too dangerous to visit. Visiting could be a life risking chance. El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America and is located between Guatemala and…

One of the biggest problems for gay people today is the question of whether or not gay adults “expose” children to that which they do not understand and whether expressing their status as LGBTQ to young people is appropriate. Nowhere in society is this issue more prevalent than in the education system. Teachers must ask themselves, “Is it safe and appropriate to come out to my students?” With many people in America believing that LGBTQ people are “pushing the gay agenda,” gay teachers often…

From the very beginning of Uncle Tom’s Cabin it is very clear who the author’s intended audience is: white Christian mothers. Throughout the novel the author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, weaves in her definition of strong female characters and her ideals about the perfect woman in the 19th century and there for influences the thoughts of her audience. Stowe was so clearly trying to portray women in an empowering way, but her definition of equality was skewed and instead limited her female characters…

He can’t even bring himself to leave his flat. Simon played this role brilliantly. His whole physique and the way he oozed of fear, but still able to add humor to the character was well played. Clair de Grunwald, played by Clare Higgins, was Jacks agent. Her character had a smooth finesse and level headed flow to herself. Instantly, you could tell that she doesn’t have many clients, however she knew what she was doing, especially when it came to Jack. At their meetings, she…

How Much Power does Propaganda Hold? Propaganda, in the English dictionary it is described as information that is impartial and used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis, or using loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational responses to the information presented. Many people wish to believe that propaganda is not effective because that would mean that the American people…

In Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy portrays Angel Clare and Alec D’Urberville as polar opposites of one another. These two foil characters are put in very similar situations, but they behave in very different manners. Alec simply wants to be with Tess because of physical desires, while Angel truly cares for Tess in the beginning of the story. Hardy juxtaposes these two characters and the way they act in order to show how different they are. During this time period, there would have been…

Abstract: Zhang Guruo lists few systematic theories on translation; however, he has unique insight into translation. From four aspects his views will be illustrated in this paper: on faithfulness; on idiomaticness; on notes; on readers. On faithfulness, Zhang’s view is that “the content is like the matter and substance while the form like the words and expression. ” He has been in pursuit of idiomaticness for all his life. From the perspective of translation, he advances translating idiomatic…

The monograph, Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America discusses the life and book work of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, slavery around the time of the Civil War, and religious viewpoints towards the Civil War. The author of this monograph, David S. Reynolds, is a notable professor of English and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the University of New York. Mightier than the Sword discusses how Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, “was widely seen as a…

Variations in the cross-sectional stock returns drive abnormal returns from momentum investments (Choi & Kim, 2014). The Capital Asset Pricing Model explains such variations (Alhenawi, 2015). In the method of constructing momentum portfolios, past stock performance and expected average returns were found positively correlated (Jegadeesh & Titman, 1993, 2001). The correlation between winner returns and loser returns resulted in momentum profits (Alphonse & Nguyen, 2013). This section is an…

Uncle Tom’s Cabin is not a textbook, an encyclopedia entry, or a peer-reviewed scholarly journal article. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel does not provide a factual and legally compelling argument for the eradication of slavery, but that is not what it sets out to do. Peer-reviewed articles, encyclopedia entries and textbooks are only compelling enough to make a reader shrug and tip their hat to the author for making a point, not for persuading hearts to change and act for justice. The purpose of…