J. M. Coetzee

J.K. Rowling is a world renowned writer with a great sense of Aristotelian appeals. She is the writer of the Harry Potter series and a graduate of the University of Exeter. In June of 2008, she was asked to write the commencement speech at Harvard University. She titled the speech, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination.” As the title explains, she decides to speak about the benefits of failure and her personal failures. As she talks about failure, she tells the…

Morris and the Anglin brothers started preparing for their escape months prior to their escape in June 1962. The intelligent men began their strategy with saw blades and sharpening spoons from the prison cafeteria to widen the air vents in their cells until the openings were large enough for them to shimmy through. The inescapable prison was starting to deteriorate and the three inmates used the crumbling walls of the building to their advantage. They covered their digging by crafting a…

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower is a book written by Stephen Chbosky about a young fifteen year old boy named Charlie who is beginning high school. It is originally set in 1991, but by the end of the book it is 1992. Initially, Charlie is nervous; he fears being alone because his friend and aunt passed away the year before. The story format is written like a letter because throughout his freshman year he writes to an unknown recipient who he looks up to. Charlie uses different names for people…

“The Elevator” was written by Robert Coover. In this story we meet the main character, from whom the story is blooming, his name is Martin. He is a shy and not really handsome boy. Also, he is an observer, who afraid take a threat. Further, he is always around the corner, seems to wait to jump, but rather than he is jumping into his imagination. Firstly, he is introduced to us, when he was in the elevator as he goes to the basement. He thought it would be a weird place. However, when he gets…

An inspector calls: a critical evaluation By Wiktor Wojdyla In this evaluation I will be looking at two contrasting characters in “An inspector calls” and how J.B. Priestly uses that to make us feel sympathetic for them. An inspector calls is a play written in 1945 by J.B. Priestly. It is set at the begging of the 20th century (1900-1915) and has themes surrounding responsibility, class, age and gender differences. There also different types of contrasting characters such as Eric and Sybil…

Sunbeam begins producing electric home appliances in 1910. This company take the strategic approach of acquisition of other companies. Sunbeam was also ranked by the Fortune Magazine as one of the largest corporation in America. It was doing good till Dunlap join Sunbeam. Around 1996, Albert Dunlap was hired as the CEO of Sunbeam. The company hire him with the vision to increase the value of Sunbeam because the profits were declining for several years. He have a reputation of giving high profits…

southern United States border General Patton was exposed to a real battle for the first time. He was assigned to lead cavalry troops in a battle against forces from Mexico. Th force commander, Pancho Villa. Patton served as aid to General Pershing (John J. Pershing) during this battle. Patton also tagged along in General Pershing unsuccessful 1916 battle with the enemy forces commend by Villa. World War One—The United States entered the war in 1917. Patton already had aided General Perishing so…

The Catcher in the Modernism In today’s fast-paced society, the definition of modern is constantly changing as genius minds invent and introduce brilliant ideas and innovations to the world. “Modern” pertains to something that relates to recent times, or the present, however, how recent can modern be? For example, modern literature sprouted at the start of World War I, and about a century later, many scholars claim that the Modernist movement has not yet ended. Contradictory to the population’s…

State typology has been identified as one of the conditions which make genocide more likely. Under the democratic peace theory, it is believed that democratic states are less likely to engage in internal and external wars. In fact, Rummel (1995, p. 25) opines that the best way to prevent such acts of mass killing are to encourage “democratic openness, political competition, leaders responsible to their people, and limited government”. It is argued that totalitarian and autocratic regimes have…

There are over seven billion people that are currently living on this planet, and out of those seven billion people about one billion are children that are living in poverty. Two of these one billion children happened to be named the same and live in the same neighborhood. Wes Moore was the name that belonged to both of these two children. Although they grew up in the same neighborhood for most of their childhood, they would grow up to live completely different lives. This is due to the…