Life Essays

The way power and domination are theorized has been irrevocably altered by Post-Structuralist and Post-Marxist insights. No longer is repression viewed purely in negative and material terms, but a far more complex array of ideological relationships are introduced. Under the triple-aegis of Gramsci, Althusser and Foucault, modern theories couple the …

“Compassion is what causes us to forgive. Not because someone deserves it, but because they need it” (Giles 1). In the plays Macbeth and The Tempest, Shakespeare poses the questions of humanity and clearly defines it along the lines of the story. Macbeth follows the story of a power-hungry couple …

Anna Fierling is a canteen woman who bears the name, “Mother Courage” and travels in her wagon along with her children serving the Swedish Army during the Thirty Years War, (1618-1648 ). Although she has been warned that war can never be all take and no give she intends to …

Shakespeare produced the comedy ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ in Seventeenth century England. The play is set in Messina, Sicily and follows the story of two young lovers-Hero and Claudio, and also the more complex relationship of Beatrice and Benedick. We can see that relationships are of central aspect to the …

The title Much Ado About Nothing perhaps superficially intimates a great amount of irrelevant, unnecessary fuss, however deeper consideration indicates it has a profound resonance. The major ‘Ado’ or complication within the plot springs from Claudio’s denunciation of Hero and moreover, the minor ‘Ado’ derives from the deception which unites …

Today the great man theory is out of favour as a singular explanation for why things happen. Historians look at other factors such as economic, societal, environmental, and technological which are just as or more significant to historical change. Many historians believe that a history which only follows around single …

There is a lot of debate about Khrushchev being a good leader. There is no doubt that Khrushchev was much less ruthless than Stalin, but was he a good leader? I will look further into this statement and then come to a conclusion if Khrushchev’s leadership was a failure. Khrushchev …

The meaning of equity is basically a system of law which stables out the need for certainty in rule- making in order to accomplish fairness for individual’s circumstance. Equity supports and decreases the strictness of the common law. The early common law method was very complex and costly. Legal procedures …

As ‘subjects of human activity as well as objects of human curiosity’ (Ritvo, 1987 p. 11), animals attract all sorts of people; the old and young, rich and poor, man or woman. In Britain, especially, there appears to be an important socio-historic reasoning for this. With the rapid urbanisation of …

In practice, many performance appraisal systems fail because they do not satisfy one or more of the following requirements; relevance, sensitivity, reliability, acceptability and practicality. Performance appraisals are done once or twice a year in most organizations, but research indicates that this is far too infrequent. It should happen upon …