BUS/MKTG (ENG111)

China is known to be one of the world’s largest multiethnic and multicultural country in the world today. This is a transformation that most scholars have taken time to analyze over the years. Various studies conducted by various scholars indicate that an outsider can view the Chinese society as a homogenous society but in the real sense, it is a country with a very diverse population. Its population is made up of various ethnic groups and cultures. The contemporary China has about 56 ethnic g...

Introduction While crafting their ad campaigns targeted directly at children, marketers understand that the key to success is kid's pester power. This came as a revelation a while back after watching a popular candy commercial with my baby sister who is barely five years old. I could not help but notice the timing of the ads that conveniently placed in intervals that interrupted cartoon hours. Every time the candy advert popped on screen, my baby sister would nag me to take her to the mall. E...

Sex is a basic need that all human beings require for a psychological, emotional, as well as physical wellbeing. People who are incarcerated lack access to this basic need. It is no surprise then that most of them engage in same sex relationships to fill the gap. The ethical question of such sexual relations is complex. Inmates who engage in a sexual relationship with mutual consent should not be judged. This same precept justifies homosexual relations out of prison. It would be wrong to apply t...

Introduction The topic of love has been discussed at lengths by sociologists and biologists over the years. Though the discussions vary significantly, there is agreement that people are naturally drawn to each other in a romantic bond, which is usually between members of the opposite sex. This research shows that there are a variety of factors that determine who we fall in love with. These factors can be broadly categorized into social, environmental and biological influences. From a social poi...

Different societies in the world have evolved with different languages and other elements of communication. According to Leavitt & Mueller communication is the process of exchanging information or imparting ideas and feelings. Communication is divided into two main categories: verbal and nonverbal communication. Verbal communication is the type that involves the use of sound through the mouth to communicate, while the non-verbal type involves the use of gestures, body language, atmospherics, fac...

As literary concepts, dramatis personae emerge in the works of Vladimir Propp in reference to the tendency of fairy tales to incorporate a broad range of character types. One such persona in Collodi’s tale is the protagonist Pinocchio around which the story revolves. The author creates a series of events that characterize the escapades of his central character around which the story revolves. He further develops numerous characters including helpers and villains that help his storytelling as t...

Through his two poems, The Unknown Citizen and Musee des Beaux Arts Wystan Hugh Auden explores the human condition through time, expressing ordinary aspects of people’s interactions on a daily basis. The mundane nature of the human existence is clearly presented in Auden’s work using different literary devices. Most of his poetry is means to evoke the fear and terror of human existence in times of great uncertainties. Perhaps in so doing Auden hoped to remind his audience of the true nature ...

Yasha Frank’s adaptation of Collodi’s Pinocchio extensively alters both the theme and the main character of the original story. While the character of Pinocchio in Collodi’s novel, The Story of a Puppet, is highly active and hard headed, in that he does not listen or follow the rules, the Pinocchio portrayed on Frank’s play, Pinocchio is very passive, docile, and does not present so much hard headedness as the original one. Seeing that these was in late 1930s, early 1940s, a period marre...

While developing his plot, Collodi seeks to engage the reader in his story by inflaming certain passions that help reinforce the moral of the story. When you tell a story to a broad audience, there are likely to be indifferent interpretations and perceptions of the underlying message. As a result, the response to the story depends on whether the reader in question is actual, intended, ideal, or resisting. The primary focus here is the perception of the ideal reader to the development of the stor...

The speech traces the U.S – Cuban political relationship to the period before the abolishment of slavery and the role of the American civil war in this relationship. The speaker notes that the civil war was not just about the future of the United States but of the world. Indeed the participants of that war viewed it as such. Hitherto, asserts the speaker, historians have misunderstood and, therefore, misrepresented the position of the American civil war in the history of the transatlantic and ...