“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” – Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe was a revolutionary genius with a descriptive warrior pen. He was ebulliently meticulous; a man of great wisdom and humility, with a rancor-free personality. But his literary approach and expression spearheaded […]
Caribbean: Talking to Giselle Rampaul of The Spaces Between Words
Written by Nicholas Laughlin Giselle Rampaul [1] is a literary scholar in the Literatures in English (LIE) [2] section at the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies [3] in Trinidad. Her research interests include the intersections between British and Caribbean literature, representations of childhood in Caribbean literature, and the work of the Trinidadian writer Samuel Selvon [4]. She is currently working […]
Leadership Theories of Henry Mitnzberg, by Phin Upham
Leadership theories in the press often focus on ad hoc discussion such as the charisma or intelligence of the CEO. Phin Upham takes a more rigorous approach and discusses an influential theory by Henry Mitzberg. Henry Mintzberg, in his article Patterns in Strategy Formation, develops a way of looking at strategy that takes serious consideration of not only […]
Bipolar Disorder-How to Reconize and Treat The Illness
Bipolar Disorder Nearly 6 million adults suffer from the disease of Bipolar Disorder in the US as of 2007. That is a HUGE number. It can be misdiagnosed as ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) in the early years. Often times, children are medicated for ADHD instead of Bipolar Disorder. When with a […]
Distract, Deflect, Spin: Health Care Deformers Pulling Out the Stops
As the witching hour approaches on the health care deform measures that are not at all being legislated at the will or desire of the majority of the American people in its current form (without any regulation over the health care industry and sector, but rather backdoor additional taxation on all Americans in one form […]
Theatricality of Sound in Hypertext Writing in Romanian Literature
New technologies influence writing, triggering a redefinition of the relationship between writer-text-reader-critic and giving birth to a new contemporary fictional model, characterized by fragment organization, character crisis, dramatization of the epic and the lyric text, narrative crisis, a mixture of various aspects of language, exploration of diverse enunciative spaces. The digital era has become […]