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The novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is a very interesting and very funny book. It is filled with crazy characters and strange events. All of these characters and events help the author to illustrate one very obvious theme. Theme of Catch-22 is that war and the military are full of lunacies, catches, and unfairness. One…

In the poem ‘Extenuating Circumstances’ by Antjie Krog the speaker describes a situation in which she is trying to write a poem. Krog incorporates the reoccurring theme of her family towards the end of the poem. The poet’s purpose in this poem is to express the difficulty of writing a poem. The poet conveys a…

When looking at the crime film it is important to understand the nature of the films genre. The genre is a way for the audience to distinguish types of films. These are categorised together because of standard protocols developed for a particular types or styles of film. These films usually follow similar guidelines in order…

Introduction: AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS disease is currently a sentence of slow but inevitable death. I have already lost one friend to AIDS and may soon lose others. My own sexual behavior, as well as that of many of my friends, has been profoundly altered by it. In…

“Dealers of Lightning” the legendary story of Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Written by Los Angeles Times corespondent, Michael Hiltzik. The Book brings together moments behind the research labs trailblazing technological achievements. Hiltzik also gives you vast amounts of insight and information about such people as Jack Goldman, Xerox chief scientists who convinced the…

Improving personal communications is very important to today in the fast moving world. The communication process is very important, it is estmated that 80 percent of messages get deport” For better results replace “You statements” with “I statements. ” Say I’m concerned. . . That will bring the person off of the defensive approch. Also…

I was born on May 8th, 1997, and for the first six years of my life, I was a normal, happy little girl. In 2002, my parents divorced and reunited, and then when I was eight, they divorced again. Their marriage is now over. I spent most every day of my childhood with my grandparents…

We have been looking at a poem, ‘Charlotte O’Neil’s Song’. It is written in the eyes of a servant girl who has been treated with no respect by her master. She has finally had enough of doing everything for them and is leaving, they can now do things for themselves. The first two verses say…

Literacy throughout history has been defined and redefined nearly as rapidly as new generations emerge. As we tread into the twenty first century, our generation moves to redefine literacy once again. However, unlike generations past, we are taking literacy and rapidly spanning it over new mediums that had been, until recently, unavailable. Advances in technology…

Music piracy according to Cummings (2013) is the act of copying and distributing of pieces of music copies from the recording artist, composer or the recording company that holds the copyright did not consent on it. Aksomitis (2007) indicated that music piracy also referred to as music theft is ongoing, real and an evolving challenge….