Essays on Past

Khaled Hosseini’s allegorical novel, The Kite Runner tells the story of the rise and downfall of the relationship of the main characters, Amir and Hassan, and inadvertently the rise and downfall of Afghanistan. More importantly, is how the main characters are symbolical to important Afghani figures, and how the main themes of this novel are…

Writers such as Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Michael Moorcock, Karl Edward Wagner, and even J.R.R. Tolkien laid the groundwork for a modern literary genre that is often called Sword and Sorcery, but which might better be called “Heroic Fantasy.” These authors established the broad tropes of the genre for today’s times, but we must…

‘Half Past Two’ is a poem in which Fanthorpe describes how a young child is given a detention for an unspecified misdemeanor and is forgotten by his teacher. Fanthorpe draws on her experience as a teacher to describe the scene as seen through the child’s eyes. The Title of the poem tells me a lot…

Wives: A Glimpse of the Past and Present                 In her essay “I Want a Wife,” author Judy Brady satirizes the ordeals faced by married women in the hands of their partners and the perception of husbands towards marriage and their partners. To a certain degree, the theme of Brady’s essay still applies to the…

Multiple Choice Questions 1. In the context of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) the relevant measure of risk is A. unique risk. B. beta. C. standard deviation of returns. D. variance of returns. E. none of the above. Once, a portfolio is diversified, the only risk remaining is systematic risk, which is measured by…

A repetition drill The teacher get the students to repeat the form In response to a given stimulus, quite often a gesture or facial expression. Start the exercise and introduce the form using the ‘back – chaining method’. The phrase is modeled, starting at the end and working your way forward e. G. Yesterday /…

. Give one advantage of defining the Caribbean in geographical terms. 2. Outline one disadvantage of using a geographical basis of defining the Caribbean. -Using a geographical basis to define the Caribbean results in anomalies such as the fact that territories like Guyana, which is considered to be Caribbean, borders the Atlantic Ocean and is…