Reviews

Why Do You Think Kurt Vonnegut Included Himself as a Minor Character in the Novel Slaughterhouse-Five?

In the interview in The Daily Show to Jon Kurt Vonnegut announced “We`re terrible animals. I think that the Earth’s immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should”(Organization). From Vonnegut`s point of view, the war is the greatest form of absurdity, and I think with these words Kurt Vonnegut shown his attitude to people who started The World War II, who supported an idea of it. His novel is full of absurdity, the unreality of events, time traveling, and aliens from Tralfamador. Among all these absurd events there is one period of time that is real, it is war period of time. In this autobiographical period of time, we can notice our author as a minor character.

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How did James Fenimore Cooper sentimentalize Native Americans in his book?

Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans (1862) was a revolutionary book during its time for the level of sympathy and respect it created towards the Native Americans. Two of the most prominent ways it achieves this is through its portrayal of the Americas as a tabula rasa and Uncas symbolic role within the text.

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A Review of the Live Jazz Performance by the Robert Glasper Trio in Paris

This is a review of a live jazz performance by the Robert Glasper Trio, with Bilal Oliver as a featured vocalist. The group is additionally composed of the following members: Robert Glasper on piano, Derrick Hodge on the double bass, and Chris Dave on the drums. The trio performed in 2010 at the Festival Jazz a la Villette in Paris, France. The length of the performance was about one hundred minutes long, and the following musical pieces were performed, which were all composed by the trio that is playing: “G & B,” a second track which is listed as “Unknown,” “Little B’s Poem,” “Body & Soul,” “Yes I’m Country,” “Butterfly,” “All Matter,” and finally an encore song titled “Reminisce.” The featured vocalist Bilal Oliver performs on about half of the band’s repertoire – “Little B’s Poem,”  “Body & Soul,” “All Matter,” and “Reminisce.”

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Harbutt, F. J. (2010). Yalta 1945: Europe and America at the Crossroads. New York: Cambridge University Press.

On February 4, through to February 11, 1945, the three big allied leaders came together and held a conference, commonly referred to as The Yalta Conference, in Crimea in Russia during World War II. These three big leaders were Franklin D. Roosevelt, the U.S. President at the time, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and British Premier Winston Churchill. They discussed the fate of Europe, its re-organization after the World War II. The conference’s main aim was to come up with ways of re-establishing the nations that had been destroyed and conquered by Germany. Important resolutions concerning the impending direction of the wartime and the post-war world were reached. When these leaders came to the conference they knew well beforehand that a victory in Europe for the Allied Nations was inevitable; however, they were much less convinced of the ending of the Pacific war. Great Britain and the United States recognized that defeating the might of the Japanese would take more protracted fight; thus they hoped to seek the participation of the Soviet Union, something that they saw as a strategic advantage in the Pacific theatre. (more…)

Abstract

Companies derive their wealth from human capital. This means that the human resource function is important for increasing the effectiveness of a company. One of the major functions of human resource management is motivating employees. Employees need to be motivated so as to increase their productivity. Without proper motivation structures and systems, employees will not be motivated to work towards achieving an organization’s goals. Managers need to understand the various factors that employees look for in organization to motivate them. This enables managers to formulate strategies and implement them so as to motivate employees. (more…)