Life Essays

Jonkonnu is more than just a celebration; it is a dance and a musical tradition as well. However, Jonkonnu dance traditions make it the island’s oldest style on record. It blends authentically Jamaican styles to become the dance performed at today’s celebrations. Typically, African groups would enact mime-style plays, while …

What are the core assumptions and key features of the biological and psychoanalytic perspectives in psychology? In what ways are they similar and how do they differ? When comparing the biological and psychoanalytic approach to psychology, you are able to see that they are different from one another. For example, …

In 1986, a psychologist Robert Sternberg proposed the triangular theory of love. This theory explains the topic of love in an interpersonal relationship. The three components of love according to the theory are intimacy, passion, and commitment. Different stages and types of love can be explained as different combinations of …

Today I interviewed my mother about her experience with September 11, 2001 (“9/11”). To me her experience wasn’t as exciting as if she were there, but pretty normal for someone who was having a typical day. On 9/11 my mom was driving down Perryville Road, passing Menard’s, to the doctor’s …

At the beginning of Chapter 11, Gene has come back from Vermont and wants to see Finny. He becomes part of a snowball fight that Finny organized. Later, Gene tells Finny and Brinker that Leper was Absent Without Leave. Brinker reacts by saying that “poor old Leper” couldn’t handle life …

What would you do if you had to make the decision to keep a baby or get an abortion? It is this decision the character in Joanne Fedler’s short story “A simple Exchange of Niceties” is so sure about that she have not included other than a boyfriend that did …

‘Till human voices wake us, and we drown.1 The last line of T.S. Eliot’s “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” relays in a few words the demise of what little flicker of resolve a downcast soul has mustered. It delivers the perfect, sullen coup de grace to Prufrock’s futile attempts …

             “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” begins with an overtly ironic gesture— the titular provocation stymied by an opening quotation from Dante’s “Inferno.” This irony poses an immediate thematic tension between the ideal (a “love song”) and the “damned” (the ensuing lines from Dante). The irony also propels …

PART I. INTRODUCTION: I. BACKGROUND: 1. Definition of Video Resume: A video resume (VR) is a short video used for job applications. It is created by a candidate for employment or by a professional Videographer for the candidate, and submitted to a prospective employer like a CV (curriculum vitae). In …

Women in Indian Freedom Struggle have played a vital role with immense courage, confidence and patriotism. They were the iconic figures in Indian political arena. Role of Women in Independence Movement Women in Indian freedom struggle have significantly contributed almost at par with their male counterparts in fighting the British …