The Elements

depending on if all of the previous information has been gathered completely. The point of view…. There are intellectual standards that are used to determine the quality of reasoning. Good critical thinking requires using these in conjunction with the elements of thinking. According to Paul and Elder (1997 ,2006), the ultimate goal is for the standards of reasoning to become infused in all thinking so as to become the guide to better and better…

of time and preparation. There are many different production elements that the director needs to accommodate. In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, specifically act three scene one, the production elements need to influence how the audience will see Hamlets change in personality and also how Ophelia reacts to that change. The most important production elements for this scene would include; physical movement, tone, and staging. Those three elements will highlight Hamlet’s change from an obedient son to…

RA1611014010048 JUMPING GENES Transposable elements (TEs), also known as "jumping genes" or transposons, are sequences of DNA that move (or jump) from one location in the genome to another. A transposable element (TE or transposon) is a DNA sequence that can change its position within a genome, sometimes creating or reversing mutations and altering the cell's genetic identity and genome size. Transposition often results in duplication of the TE. The transposable elements make the biggest part…

Mike Nichols 1967 film ‘The Graduate’ is a comedy that illustrates a three-act film structure and includes the major structural elements. The film depicts a recent college graduate (Dustin Hoffman), whose feeling of a lack of purpose results in his life becoming dominated by his relationship with Mrs. Robinson and eventually, her daughter Elaine. Act I establishes the key characters; Benjamin, his parents and their friends, including, Mrs. Robinson. It feels as though Benjamin is on a different…

Gothic Elements Galore: “The Raven” Combination of the supernatural, overwrought emotion, and mystery or suspense, the perfect equation to a gothic piece of literature. In the poem, “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, a mysterious raven who rarely speaks tends to a mourning man grieving the death of his love, Lenore. The poem is filled with themes such as undying devotion, while the author uses rhyming, alliteration, and rhyming to emphasize the gloomy or dark mood. This poem takes place during a…

must have the elements of flatness, abstraction, intuitive logic, normalized magic. In each fairy tale, they must obtain at least one or more of these elements to captivate the reader to the story. For a story to have the element of flatness, the characters were developed in the story, which makes them silhouettes of the fairy tale. For instance, in “The Little Red Riding Hood”, it is told…

The Gothic Elements of Rebecca and Dracula Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, both possess many of the 9 characteristics that commonly identify a Gothic Novel. These characteristics all play a unique role in the plot and story of any piece of Gothic literature. While both books portray elements and qualities linked to those of a Gothic novel, Dracula displays these traits in a much more prominent way than Rebecca. One of the key characteristic of Gothic literature is the…

certain situations. Taking this class I feel helped me to get a better look on how to deal with other people, learning to react to certain situations, and not everything is in your control. I enjoyed the first couple of chapters more in Essential Elements for Effectiveness. Those chapters stood out more to me than some of the later chapters. The activities in the class, like the group project helped everyone to get to know one another. Since the project was fairly early on in the semester, we…

One of the most well recognized examples of Gothic literature is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The first example of a Gothic Literature elements appearing in Frankenstein are all of the different highly emotional situations. When William, Victor Frankenstein’s younger brother, dies towards the beginning of the novel at the hands of the Monster, his family is distraught. A quote from the novel explaining this in more detail is, “This noble war in the sky elevated my spirits; I clasped my hands,…

learn his lesson by reading to her for two hours a day for a couple of weeks. He learns a lot about the person and the story behind those words. Throughout the story Jem learns many lessons and this is represented through literary elements such as his tone. One literary element that helps shape the theme and Jem’s coming of age experience is his tone. In To Kill A Mockingbird it…