Graham Greene

lines between genres. This auto-tune ballad of an album paved the way for new artists to enter the music industry. Many credit this album as the influence behind Drake’s revolutionary sound that further blurred the lines between Rap and Pop music (Greene). An article titled “The Coldest Story Ever Told: The Influence of Kanye West’s 808s & Heartbreak” described the following when dissecting the impact auto-tune had on Kanyes music at the time. “Looking back, it’s easy to see how many…

The Quiet American is a novel that explores social and political relationships between Europe and America in Indochina War through connections among the three main characters: Fowler, Pyle, and Phuong. Graham Greene, an author of the book, uses the attitudes and personalities of Pyle and Fowler to create tension to symbolize the greater tension in the political conflicts over Vietnam at the time. Through Pyle and Fowler’s different political views but a common desire for Phuong, The Quiet…

The story of Swami and Friends revolves around a young boy named Swaminathan and his different activities with his friends. Life for Swami consists mainly of having escapade with his friends, avoiding the misery of homework, and coping as best as he can with the teachers and other adults he encounters. His greatest passion is the MCC—the Malgudi Cricket Club which he founds together with his friends, his greatest day is when the examination are over and school breaks- up- a time to celebrations…

Brideshead Revisited is a commercially well received novel written by Evelyn Waugh, and was loosely based on his experiences as a young man. The novel is a Künstlerroman, meaning "artist's novel" in English- a narrative about an artist's growth to maturity. Originally published in 1945, it has since been made into an eleven-part television series, numerous plays, and a film- which was released in 2008. The novel recalls the years post World War One but before World War Two; known by many as the…

The cold ache of hardship and sorrow chiseled at Peter’s bones as he relinquished a part of himself and moved on to New England, in pursuit of letting go of his tormented past. His deceased wife, Amanda Deveraux, had died just recently and Peter was still woebegone, struggling to cope with the loss of his wife. Though Peter wielded a deep passion for books and literature, every book that he encompassed seared a knife through his heart and shot it with a notorious remembrance of the past. He,…

Though there is a strong support in combining methodologies of both qualitative and quantitative in research, mixed-methods should be given more attention by researchers (Brannen, 2005). Therefore, this paper discusses the practical and theoretical problems in combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Theoretical Considerations The most important issue or problem that arises in the theoretical part of combining both qualitative and quantitative methods is the definition of combined…

Writing, Chore or Adventure? Writing is something that we all face in school; as well as on the job, but why make it as painful as we do? If you are like me you will want to consider how much you enjoy that thrilling suspense novel or action adventure, these are all example of works that the writer had to first learn and perfect their craft before they could ever approach the publishers; yet we enjoy and thrive on every word they write. Even though we are simply working on learning to write an…

thing that is the same is that fear will always be an unpleasant emotion. Fear is the outcome of being in a dangerous situation, and of being aware of a threat to your wellbeing. In the novels ‘The Outsiders’ by S. E Hinton and ‘Brighton Rock’ by Graham Greene, the characters each have their own distinct idea of fear, and this varies as the novel's progress. In ‘The Outsiders’, fear is depicted as a bad thing, and it's the feeling you get when everything goes wrong, but in ‘Brighton Rock’, fear…

The film was released in 1990 and filmed in South Dakota. The director and the producer was Kevin Costner and the main stars were; Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney Grant, and Floyd Red Crow Westerman. The story is set at the end of the Civil War period. It is a sympathetic view of the Native American life. During this period, many American people viewed the Indians as ignorant savages. This film is fictional, and is about a white man, a lieutenant in the union army who is…

Conflicts between Good and Evil Achebe weaves conflicts in his novel between man v/s man, and man v/s. society. The conflicts are manifested in Okonkwo’s inability to reconcile with the Change. Achebe gives a message through his novel that a man must change with time, and if that man does not act wisely and instead acts like a die-hard man like Okonkwo, he is hoisting with his own petard. Tradition Verses Change Achebe develops the theme of “traditional verses change through a powerful…