P. T. Barnum

The clouds broke, and light began to shine through the large, curtainless, loft-style windows flanking a four-hundred-square-foot apartment containing only a bed, a faded purple sofa, a birch-coloured dinner table, and a single chair. Hand-me-downs would be the explanation to friends regarding the eclectic range of furniture. The truth was that they were obtained for free through a series of favours to strangers. I sat down and opened a laptop bought off of Craigslist. The operating system was…

significant difference in sales performance between males and females. Before we get to the T-value, Levene’s test for equality of variance must conducted. In SPSS, if Levene test produces a significant figure greater than 0.05, then homogeneity of variance is hold, and the top-row corresponding T value is selected. In both weeks homogeneity of variance is hold. In week 1, the T-value (df=95) is 1.848. This generates a p-value of 0.068, which exceeds Fisher’s threshold and therefore…

Looking in the mirror is a figurative expression that we interpret as to look deeply inside ourselves and discover who we truly are. When we look deep inside ourselves we are most of the time deeply disappointed with what we find. Sometimes the journey to finding ourselves is long and troublesome one; we steer ourselves in the wrong direction by believing in the perception of what we believe to be the right answer to our problems. Through five short stories will we learn that, “only through pain…

| |.875 | The one-way ANOVA showed no significant difference between practice time (< 15 hours, 15 – 25 hours, > 25 hours) and the time to complete a 100-yard freestyle, F (2, 33) = 0.160, p = 0.853. Because of this, the post-hoc test was not needed. We fail to reject the null. The practice time is not associated with time to complete 100-yard free-style in this sample. 7. When would you use a factorial ANOVA rather than a simple…

There were many African American influencer as time passed by, one who stands out the most is, Booker T. Washington. He was the founder of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in 1881, now called Tuskegee University in Alabama. Booker T. Washington was known for his intelligences. He has influencer many African Americans and wanted to protect his people from the abused they suffered. He led many important movements that helped African Americans gain rights and be equal. His way of taking…

Prufrock” takes this fear to a whole new level. When reading the title of the poem, the reader would more than likely think that it was going to be a beautiful love song. Although, as the poem goes on its obvious that it is the exact opposite of that. T. S. Elliot takes what is a promise of a love song and turns it into more of a persistent reminder of how Prufrocks life is lonely and unfulfilling. Throughout the poem, Elliot uses irony in as many aspects as he could. The title is probably the…

T.S. Eliot’s works have often been thought of as hopeless and dreary because the topics in his works reflect the problems with society and humanity as a whole. They reflect an obsession with loss and isolation, and how it affects people. His modernist way of writing forces readers to think about his works in a multitude of ways. “The Waste Land” is a poem that is considered to be one of the best poems to come out in the twentieth century because of its ideas and the controversy surrounding the…

Defamiliarization in Mohsen Namjoo: A Marcusian Study of “Reza Khan” Estrangement: a short overview Mikics defines defamiliarization (estrangement) and as an example he cites Fredric Jameson, which is his accounts of Studying Gulliver’s Travels. It states: Defamiliarization in Russian, ostranenie: a term from the Russian formalist school of criticism, active in the early twentieth century. […] According to the Russian formalists, literary art devotes itself to the making strange (the…

In life there is suffering. There has always been suffering and there will always be suffering; it is part of what makes us human. This is something that has been known for much longer than any of us have even been a part of the human experience. It is something that both Dante Alighieri and William Shakespeare took note of hundreds of years ago and something that both of them thought was a topic important enough to explore through their respective writings Dante’s Inferno and King Lear. With…

Portillo, Lee). These symptoms could interfere with their daily activities and self care. There fatigue does not go away with a good rest of sleep. It is a constant battle of exhaustion for them. Some researchers found that people who have a lower CD4 and T-cell count are at a higher increase for fatigue (Lederal, Gay, Aouizerat, Portillo, Lee). Because these people have chronic fatigue, they could have disturbed sleeping patterns and that could lead to an increase in depression and anxiety…