The writer probes on the effects of bureaucracy in the life of a clerk, Don Ramon Villaamil, in Benito Perez Galdos’ Miau which was written and published in 1888. It is anchored on the sociological theories of Max Weber’s concept and functions of bureaucracy (Gerth and Mills, 1961) and its disintegrating effect on the main […]
Poetic Echoes – What They Are and How to Use Them
“Hello.” ‘ello “Orange soda, sis boom-ba.” oom-ba Remember how much fun hearing your voice bounce around a big room and then come back to you was when you were a kid? Whether those are faded memories, or whether you still do it when no one is around-let me show you how to inject that fun […]
Writing Captivating Leads
The most important paragraph in any article is the first. If the reader is not attracted by what is in it, he is not likely to continue reading. The first paragraph has to “grab him by the scuff of the neck” and hold him until he is well into the article, and to do this […]
The Art of Fine Cover Letter Writing
The saying ‘the first impression is the always the last one’ fits aptly here. Your cover letter has to be really good since it will have a lasting impression on your prospective employer or the hiring agent. The look of the cover letter is very important since the hiring agent would then base his decision […]
The McDonnell Douglas MD-11
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 […]