I The McDonnell-Douglas MD-11, intended successor to its earlier DC-10 and the third widebody tri-jet after the DC-10 itself and the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, traces its origins to the General Electric and Pratt and Whitney engine competition to provide a suitable powerplant for the Lockheed C-5A Galaxy military transport, resulting in the first high bypass […]
Critical Analysis of Wordsworth’s Poem Fidelity
The tropes used in the poem Fidelity are: ‘There sometimes a leaping fish send through the tarn a lonely cheer’. Wordsworth is personifying the language of poetry. Again he goes: ‘the crags represent the raven’s croak in symphony austere is also an example of personification. Sun beams and the sounding blast is an example of […]
August Wilson – The Most Compulsive and Strident Voice From the Black American Theatre
August Frederick Kittel Wilson, a prolific American writer whose plays, like Eugene O’Neill’s, Arthur Miller’s and Tennessee Williams’ are produced throughout the U.S. regularly soon became the most important voice in the American theater after Lorraine Hansberry, a position that he maintained until his death in 2005 with a string of acclaimed plays starting from Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom […]
Mass Media Literacy Reflections for Language Instructions
“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.” Galileo Galilei Mass media forms thrive today. As development show itself scientifically, students experience various media forms through technologies. These flourishing materials shouldn’t be ignored; it is the role of ESL teachers to keep abreast with the present day coinciding […]
Intellectual Leopold Bloom Versus Intellectual Stephen Dedalus
Did Bloom discover common factors of similarity between their respective like and unlike reactions to experience? Both were sensitive to artistic impressions musical in preference to plastic or pictorial. Both preferred a continental to an insular manner of life, a cisatlantic to a transatlantic place of residence. Both indurated by early domestic training and an […]
The False Belief – Literary Analysis on ‘May Day Eve’
“May Day Eve”, written by Nick Joaquin, is all about two individual lovers who believed that by looking in the mirror, then chanting an incantation, you will see the person who you’ll be married to if it goes well. If not, you will see the ‘devil’ or the ‘witch’. This short story was written in […]
Teaching Styles: Guide on the Side or Sage on the Stage?
In the early 90’s California teachers were getting released in record numbers. There was a huge budget crisis, districts were raising class sizes and eliminating classrooms, which meant many of us had to go. I was a second year teacher, untenured. I received my goodbye notice in March then set out scrambling to find another […]
How to Optimize Performance in an Exam? – 15 Rules for Success in Academic Examinations
Rule 1: Attend all your lessons! This may sound obvious, but attending all your lessons is the key to enhancing your knowledge and skills, whilst being the most effectual method for a comprehensive understanding and memorization of any topic. The memorization of a topic taught in a lesson proves to be more achievable because it […]
Talcott Parsons
Talcott Parsons, (born Dec. thirteen, 1902, Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S. – died May eight, 1979, Munich, West Germany), American sociologist as well as scholar whose concept of social activity influenced the intellectual bases of many disciplines of contemporary sociology. His job is actually concerned with a common theoretical method for the evaluation of modern society […]
Good Writing Bad Writing And Market Forces
What is it that drives some novels to the top of the commercial sales charts while other books wallow in poor sales rankings? What makes a blockbuster? Great writing? Maybe not. A while back I published a blog, Bringing the Curtain Down, in which I speculated on when and why the author of a thriller […]