Essays on Literature

A Comparison between the Early African American Slaves Narratives and the Later One, Fredrick Douglass Abstract The main objective of this research is to investigate and compare how the lives of three African Americans in the eighteenth and the nineteenth century were impacted by religion and literacy. The three narratives analysed include...

This essay compares two texts, Rapture Ready…Or Not? by Terry James, and Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults, by Janja Lalich. The thesis of this paper is that these two texts are diametrically opposed to one another in their assumptions, observations, arguments, and conclusion. While Rapture ready assumes a...

In the 20th century, South Africa was under the rule of white minority who introduced the apartheid rule. This was a form of colonial rule that separated access of social amenities through a separate system based on race. Africans were not allowed to go to certain areas, use certain bus...

Terri Windling is an American writer, an artist as well as an editor of fantasy for both children and adults. She is generous with praise for her guidance in American fiction, and she is also an excellent judge. Terri has edited many writings such as ‘The dark passage of childhood,’...

It is impossible to accomplish any given task without the ability to monitor and control our emotions, thought, behavior and adapting to the current environment while resisting interference. This quality that helps to inhibit first response, reject impertinent stimulation and to concentrate on your task is called self-regulation. On the...

The article begins with a story of a Man and his son exploring a foothill. They discovered a godlike stone which the son has misunderstood as gold. It was priceless iron pyrite the man told his son. It is called the fool’s gold. The story tried to link with the...

Despite the existence of numerous meanings, outliers are understood as data points which are far outside the standard for a population or a variable. The outlier could be an observation or a reading that is too different from other readings to the extent that it raises suspicion in regards to...

This is in reference to the ways in which numbers, as well as variables, are categorized and defined. Every scale of measurement essentially has several unique properties that determine its appropriateness in regard to statistical analysis. There are four scales of measurement, namely interval, nominal, ratio and ordinal (Harrell, 2015).Statistical...

Link to Website: American Psychological Association http://apa.org/pubs/journals/abn/ Or http://psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES/journal/abn/127/1 The Review process The Journal of abnormal psychology is peer reviewed by an editorial board composed of scholars from various universities. The manuscripts submitted undergo scrutiny on three levels from associate editors, the main editor from the University of Minnesota and the Editorial reviewer’s...

Outliers are data point(s) that deviate so much from the others that suspicions of having been generated through a different mechanism from the rest are aroused, or an indication of an error having been committed while compiling the data (Cressie, 2015). Special cases of outliers are fringeliers, which are data...

Introduction Stress refers to situations that people face in their daily lives, but they exceed the ability of how people can cope with them. He states that stress can be caused by positive and negative factors and the two impacts the life of an individual when the stressors are not addressed....

Validity Validity is universally appreciated as the most important and critical feature of any testing program. It entails everything that makes a test useful and meaningful. There are three main types of validity tests which are content validity, criterion validity and construct validity. Before carrying out a particular test,...