Life Essays

‘Enduring Love’ encompasses the key message that the contrasting ideologies of science and emotion, cannot compliment each other, but in turn serve parallel meta-narratives, as expressed through the actions of Joe and Clarissa. McEwan directs the reader to believe in Joe’s rationality, where in Appendix One his assumptions are proved …

McEwan uses a large variety of literary techniques to create reader interest in Chapter Four of Enduring Love, through the use of form, language and structure. At the start of this chapter, McEwan uses time expansion over seemingly unimportant aspects of Joe’s morning while writing an article on the Hubble …

Although the histrionic, and complicated relationship shared between Joe and Jed is extremely compelling throughout ‘Enduring Love’, I find that there are other qualities in the novel that are of greater inducement. McEwan introduces many baleful subjects such as trauma, death, obsession, guilt, mental illness and the line between reality …

Chapter 12 gives us immense insight into the characters, especially Joe Rose. The chapter opens with Joe reflecting on his “sense of failure”. He reflects upon the fact that he no longer finds comfort in work nor what he did before. He states that “twenty years ago, I may have …

“The Stolen Child” is a poem written based on the traditional Irish folklore of faeries known as changelings who would steal children away in their sleep so that the faeries can take their place. Yeats wrote this poem in 1886 where the hysteria was at its peak in Ireland. This …

Tennyson and Owen have very different views of war. In “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, Tennyson shows an attitude which focuses on duty and the army working as a team. It also portrays ‘the 600’ as brave and valiant, and tells us that they were glorious and that we …

The war poetry of Wilfrid Owen and the novel Catch 22 by Joseph Heller contain many creditable and individual features that have helped cement their reputation as two of the most illustrious ‘anti-war’ writers of the 20th century. However, I feel in order for one to thoroughly acknowledge and appreciate …

Wolsey marked some of Henry’s most significant renaissance style achievements, including the prestige boosting Treaty of London. Notable for his origins as being of ‘low birth’, Wolsey quickly rose through the ranks to become one of Henry’s most favoured individuals- even to the extent of being viewed by some as …

The First World War was the most destructive ever known. Nearly a million British men were killed and it affected every town and village. The 18-40 male age group was dramatically diminished, which meant nearly a whole generation was wiped out. During the war people got increasing information about the …

Building an online knowledge network will have long-range impacts on the organization at several levels:  At the level of human resource management, it will impact job descriptions and incentive structures.  At the practice level, it will require new training, job evaluation, scheduling, and day-to-day task-management processes.  And at the cultural …