Readability

The Holocaust rightly dominates public consciousness in Europe where the Second World War wreaked havoc across the continent but also puzzlingly pervades modern American consciousness. Peter Novick, in The Holocaust in American Life, resolves to examine the reasons why and how the Holocaust is still extremely relevant in the modern age. Though he poses a number of intriguing questions throughout the monograph, Novick fails to completely answer the motivations lying behind this phenomena of…

‘Two Kinds’ is portrayal of difficulties in mother-daughter relationships in San Francisco’s China-town. The focus of the story is the often troublesome but unavoidable “interval between mothers who were born in China before the communist revolution and thus have been cut off from their native culture for decades, and their American-born daughters who must find a way to work through the twin burdens of their Chinese ancestry and American expectations for success”. While the protagonist and…

John Schwartz’s book, “Oddly Normal” illustrates how his third child showed signs that he was gay at a very young age. The content of the book that made it readable was not because his son was gay or the criticism that him and his wife received as parents, but the style and tactic that he wrote with made it readable for us. In Schwartz’s book, he uses many of the characteristics that John Trimble the author of the “Writing with Style” shows that are what makes a book readable. John Schwartz…

Apart from these most used keyboards, there are few others which serve limited purpose. Google handwriting input, keyboard allows user to input text by detecting their handwriting and converting it. It gives an open area for scribbling using a stylus or just a finger. But it’s not convenient to use this keyboard as our primary keyboard because the process is slow and there might be changes where it detection is incorrect. Another kind of keyboard by Swype works around the concept of involving…

Literary Elements in Twelfth night While writing, the writers have to have the skill to mesmerize their readers and to convey the message powerfully and effectively. To keep the attention of the readers intact, the authors use special technique and skill. This technique lies in their skilful use of the literary components. In the composition of literary work, the common components are plot, setting, characters, theme, mood, tone, structure, language, metaphor, allusion, symbolism etc. These…

Imagine hypothetical situation: two people are supposed to describe the color green. One of them speaks about the color of moss. The other about apples. What determines what’s going to be the first, intuitive response? Social background. No mater the effort, every human is bound by the way of thinking of his native society. The liberal education, although aspiring to the noble goals of wisdom and equality, is a victim to its social background as well. Therefore, the social bias, present in the…

those cliche brainstorming scenes you’d see in a movie. At the end of it all, I finally had a solid concept laid out. For my idea, It was going to have a bold sans-serif font to capture your attienton that’s paired with a tiny serif font for easy readability. The structure for the body of text was gonna be an easy-to-follow layout with a sharp color…

Marc Brosseau, a cultural geographer, proposes a critical and comprehensive contour of what he calls “Geography’s Literature” through which literature intersects with “the broader intellectual agenda” of geography (Brosseau 1994: 335). In this article, Brosseau not only documents the intersection between geography and literature since the 1970s but also argues that literature can be a new object for geography. He scathingly criticises the geographers who are looking for real facts and simple…

Dude, You’re a Fag by C.J. Pascoe dives into an often ignored aspect of teenage development and sexuality. Experts, bloggers and anyone with a Facebook account write about the pressures on teenage girls to be sexual and fit certain roles in society, the feelings and roles of young men are often overlooked or considered self induced. As someone interested in sex education and working with high school students, I personally feel that the needs and feelings of teenage boys must be addressed more…

Suicide is a subjective and complex phenomenon with a low base rate. Data on suicide is usually collected from healthcare organizations, large-scale studies, or self reporting Crosby et al. (2011); Horowitz and Ballard (2009). These sources are often limited by sociocultural barriers, such as stigma and shame Crosby et al. (2011). Many researchers focus on research related to associating risk factors and suicidaility without considering theoretical models Nock et al. (2008). The know risk…