1,243 words

Ishmael Beah's transformation from child to soldier in Sierra Leone

In January of 2007, the New York Times ran an excerpt of Ishmael Beah's memoir of life as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. The excerpt is a shocking, heart-wrenching account of a boy's journey from carefree child to cold-blooded killer, and the difficult path to redemption that followed.

~7 min read

View paper →

4,071 words

Political reform and storytelling in Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah

Chinua Achebe's fifth novel, Anthills of the Savannah, was first published in 1987, some fifteen years after his fourth novel, A Man of the People. In Anthills of the Savannah, Achebe states his abhorrence of any theory of radical transformation of society.

~21 min read

View paper →

676 words

Gender interaction and bias in Grade 5 classroom action research

The thematic concern I am considering is gender issues among boys and girls in Grade 5. This is a stage of growth during which children become aware of each other as creatures that differ much more in terms of gender than they had believed up to this time.

~4 min read

View paper →

687 words

Storytelling as coping mechanism in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien's the Things They Carried, while presented as such, is not a true war story but a post-war story.

~4 min read

View paper →

2,500 words

Modernist technique and psychological fragmentation in Heart of Darkness

The purpose of the present paper is to discuss the modern features which can be found in Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness." The first part of the paper will explain what the modernist features are, what led to their creation and how they impacted literary writing.

~13 min read

View paper →

700 words

The scientific method through case studies and experimental design in psychology

Scientists are creative because without creative solutions they never finish experiments; they are inquisitive because they ask all the important questions (what, when, where, and why; they never stop trying to figure things out (they are persistent); they are explorative (they use the scientific…

~4 min read

View paper →

1,602 words

The role of the Holy Spirit in the Book of Acts

Book of Acts is the fifth book of the New Testament of the Bible, following the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. It is widely believed that the apostle Luke wrote this book.

~9 min read

View paper →

724 words

O'Brien's definition of true war stories versus We Were Soldiers

"As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil," (O'Brien, p.69).

~4 min read

View paper →

1,090 words

Alternative energy sources for California's power crisis

"The energy crisis in California, the coming global energy crisis," a slogan used by energycrisis.com (2001), illustrates the necessity for alternative energy sources in California and by extension the whole world.

~6 min read

View paper →

5,556 words

Marketing strategies for the MarketNet Facebook group

Social networks are revolutionizing how students, professors and how business communities globally interact with and serve one another (Bernoff, Li, 2008).

~28 min read

View paper →