Meagre set

There was novella: to begin with. A novel called A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens. This work is innovative, ingenious, and just plain brilliant. A Christmas Carol is set in the Victorian era, with three evident themes; childhood innocence, Scrooge’s transformation, and social justice. The Victorian era lasted from 1837 until 1901. In this time, children were viewed as angels close to Heaven, which was an extremely important belief of people in the Victorian era. During this time,…

The soft sounds of approaching footsteps outside my bedroom window intrigued me. Today, the familiar padding of cat’s paws took on a significant change I did not recognize. I knew that Scruffy, a scrawny alley-cat who eked out a meagre existence in our neighborhood, was late this day. Usually, this ageless creature made no other sounds as he neared my bedroom, but this morning he uttered several plaintive heart-rending cries and I wondered why. Scruffy is the name I knew him by, while my…

What is a story without imagery? Imagery gives the reader a feeling of being present and can exemplify the importance of the person, place, or thing be described. Like other literary text Edith Wharton’s work Ethan Frome shows examples of imagery. Some examples include the Frome saw-mill that the narrarator and Ethan Frome came across on their journey to Junction, the village while it is completely covered in snow, and a description of Ethans study that brings him peace. All of these places were…

‘Nothing’ is, like a person who is always there but ironically cannot offer him any help at all. The methylated spirits has also been personified to be ‘his white burning girl, his woman of fire’ which keeps him warm by ‘creep[ing] into his heart and set[ting] a candle there.’ The alcoholic drink is stated to be a woman which also illustrates an image of heat and fire. This implies that the methylated spirits keep him warm through the cold night, but also slowly kills him by burning him inside.…

small child, his family gambled everything in their desire to escape the crippling poverty in Vietnam on a barely seaworthy boat crowded with 40 others. “I look across the water and am mesmerised by the beauty of this magnificent setting. My parents set off on a boat trip many years ago to provide their children and grandchildren a better life. And here we are, thanks to them, enjoying this perfect day.” (pg 229).Anh and his family explore the…

It is human nature to ponder the idea of death. Throughout history, humans have relied on religion and tales of an afterlife and a greater being to satisfy their curiosity and questions such as what is death? Can one change their fate of how they pass? Is death larger than life? The battle between one’s fate and will is explored through the essay “The Death of The Moth” by Virginia Woolf. The soft flow of her words paint images of benign winds and a sharp breath on a mid-September day; her…

dialogue of the characters when given a chance to escape, was also changed. We could finally see desperation at its fullest, as well as fear of the unknown, which is the deeper meaning of the whole story. What is the place they call hell? Why is it set up in the manner, and are these people placed together for a specific purpose? In the novel, there are many different factors and aspects to unearth and learn and discover throughout the play/story. However, there seems to be a stress on the role…

Female character analysis on “Vivid” The entire world has gradually been grappling with the problem of gender imbalance and more so the unending problem of male chauvinism. Vivid is a unique book that focuses on a touching story of the genesis and nurturing of feminine resurgence in an area of masculine dominance. The plight of women in the early ages was in a quite compromising state with the masculine gender assuming all the influential and powerful positions within the society and hence…

First, certain intellectuals argue that the processes occurring in the current social environment produce a situation where individuals are free to create their own eating habits and choices from the vast selections of food products within supermarkets, restaurants, retailers, farmers markets, etc, (Beck & Beck-Gernsheim 2001). Therefore, in distinction to previous historical periods, individuals in society are faced with a widespread variety of edible products, allowing for a diversity of…

From the microeconomic view point, the objective of the firm is seen to be one of output maximization from a given set of inputs with minimum cost. In particular, this microeconomic notion presumes that under a free market framework firms should allocate input and output efficiently with the motive being profit maximization or cost minimization. Most empirical analyses examine the performance of a firm by looking at their levels of efficiency (Coelli, Rao, O’Donnell & Battese, 2005). Efficiency…