Tennessee Williams Type of work - Play Genre - Tragedy Language - English Time and place written - Late 1940s, New Orleans Setting (place) - New Orleans, Louisiana Protagonist - Blanche DuBois Major conflict - Blanche DuBois, an aging Southern debutante, arrives at her sisters...
Type of Work - Play Genre - Romance Language - Elizabethan English Time and place written - 16101611; England Tone - Dreamy, mysterious, magical Setting (time) - The Renaissance Setting (place) - An island in the Mediterranean sea, probably off the coast of Italy...
Type of work - Novel Genre - Modernist novel Language - English Narrator - The story is told in four chapters by four different narrators: Benjy, the youngest Compson son; Quentin, the oldest son; Jason, the middle son; and Faulkner himself, acting as an omniscient, third-person...
Mark Twain (pseudonym for Samuel Clemens Type of Work - Novel Genre - Picaresque novel (episodic, colorful story often in the form of a quest or journey); satire of popular adventure and romance novels; bildungsroman (novel of education or moral development) Language - English;...
Management is the process of getting activities completed efficiently and effectively with and through other people and that is the reason why management is just as important as leadership. Management is like investment. Managers have resources to invest – their own time and talent as...
There is a big influence of technique on our daily life. Electronic devices, multimedia and computers are things we have to deal with everyday. Especially the Internet is becoming more and more important for nearly everybody as it is one of the newest and most forward-looking media and...
Understanding the Basics Let's say you want to take a picture and e-mail it to a friend. To do this, you need the image to be represented in the language that computers recognize -- bits and bytes. Essentially, a digital image is just a long string of 1s and 0s that represent all the...
Since the beginning of the world, people tried to figure out the meaning of life, the reasons for which they were born, and the complexity of their existence. A part of this vast topic constitutes the “making” of a person. I hardly ever asked myself the question from this paper’s title,...
Before the Prison The name Alcatraz is derived from the Spanish "Alcatraces." In 1775, the Spanish explorer Juan Manuel de Ayala was the first to sail into what is now known as San Francisco Bay - his expedition mapped the bay and named one of the three islands Alcatraces. Over time,...
Studies of the role of tourism in the international economy are now beginning to appear in published sources, although “scientific” approaches to the study of tourism in individual countries date back to perhaps the beginning of the century. These early works were largely concerned...
Themes The Claim of the Past Upon Present Identity Both characters and places in The Mill on the Floss are presented as the current products of multi-generational gestation. The very architecture of St. Ogg's bears its hundreds of years of history within it. Similarly, Maggie and Tom...
Chapter Introduction porting events and changes are influenced by the economic, social and political situations in place at the time. In sociology there are a number of approaches to the study of sport. Functionalism, Marxism, Social action and Interactionism. Each has a different...
A short essay about the origins of the C programming language and why it became so popular so quickly. The C programming language and its direct descendants are by far the most popular programming languages used in the world today. Most competent programmers know how to use C, and...
The use of nicknames on the internet We have often used the internet not only to get the information we wanted but also for communication purposes. Chatting on Mirc and sending messages or mails has replaced the old fashioned letters and phone calls. So, in order not to reveal their...
Children and Violence Not all children enjoy the "carefree" days of childhood. Unfortunately, when things start to go wrong, people often despair of being able to repair the damage. This is a time of high concern about violent behavior by young people. As a nation, we are in a period...