A masterpiece by William Faulkner called “As I Lay Dying” was published in 1930, and soon became very popular with the public due to its innovative and original style. The novel consists of 59 sections which are in the form of monologues, and 15 different people narrate the story from their viewpoint. In the novel the author depicts the Bundren family as they go through an unfortunate period of their life – illness and death of Addie Bundren, who is the wife of Anse Bundren and the mother to Cash, Darl, Jewel, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman.  Thus, all the characters take part in narrating the story, and that’s why the…

The emergence and development of gender roles have always intrigued psychologists interested in these psychological constructs that actively shape the reality of human life. The vital importance of gender roles to human social experience is the reason why most theories of development offer at least a partial explanation for their evolution. Of such theories, Sigmund Freud’s theory of gender identity development seems to offer the best explanation of gender roles, providing a coherent system of beliefs and assumptions about the process. The development of the boy parallels the plot in Sophocles’ famous play, Oedipus Rex, where the man unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother. This development was described…

Introduction Estimating a person involves not only looking on the way he/she is dressed, person’s color of hair and eyes, height and figure, but it also includes understanding of person’s internal world, his/her features of character. Every person has a unique character due to the presence of different features, constituting a character. Character is something we are born with; however, it is possible to influence its development. Such influence on one’s character is exerted when a child is being brought up by the parents, when a child goes to kindergarten and school, and communicates with other people. Some features of character are innate, inherited from parents, thus, it is very…

1. On the whole, the group seemed relatively well-informed. They did not mistake putting on certain kinds of attire or hitchhiking to agreement to have sex. They were also aware that the law treats women and men in the same way when it comes to sexual assaults. Truthfulness of rape reports was not cast in doubt, neither was the agreement to petting equated to the agreement to have sex. 2. Despite this overall optimistic picture, a few items were still missed by the participants of the survey. For example, the respondents demonstrated being poorly informed about legal aspects of rape as a crime, expressing belief that “bad sexual reputation can…

Introduction Most of the research on the Roman wall painting in the period of 1st century B.C. to 1st century of A.D. are followed on the bases of the researches conducted mainly in the 18th century. The samples Roman art were saved thanks to the eruption of Vesuvius Mountain that, as the result, covered the entire town of Pompeii and several cities in the aria with volcanic ash and lava. As the result the most famous examples of the Roman wall painting were found there and for this reason it is often referred to as the Pompeian wall painting. At the same time one should remember that despite the fact…

The role of the leader is often crucial in achieving the objectives of the project. Although projects can fail for external reasons unrelated to the capabilities of their leaders, a large number of projects are leader-sensitive and depend on the personal qualities of the project manager. Leadership skills will help the manager to accomplish the assignments, achieve goals and manage the workforce. The most important skills, in general, are those that relate to the ability to manage team members involved in the project. The project manager needs to keep control of the four basic elements of the project: people, time, money, and scope (Reh 2006). To ensure that people, the…

“Manifest Destiny” was a catchphrase of the 19th century that captured the destination of the United States of America to bring progress and development to the rest of the world. At the time when Americans were inspired by the successful advancement of their own country, many felt compelled to spread their knowledge and achievements further on. For politicians, this catchphrase became a reason to justify expansion and wars to increase the size of the US territory. The phrase itself was first used by John O’Sullivan, editor of Democratic Review, in 1845. It was used to “describe this vision of a United States stretching from Atlantic to Pacific” (Gruesz). It is…

Introduction To start speaking about the biological influences in the human organism, I should analyze the concept of adaptation. Adaptation (from Latin – adaptation – accommodation) means adapting of a living being to different factors of the surrounding world, for example: climatic and temperature factors (acclimatization), height (hypoxia), zero gravity, the influence of different infectious agents (immunity). Adaptation plays an important role in functioning of any organism, making it possible not only to endure the significant and sharp changes of the environment, but to reconstruct rapidly and actively the physiological functions and behavior according to these changes. Analyzing of the experiments I have conducted three different experiments, recorded the reactions…

The issue of managing human resources is probably one of the most complex ones, and the subject of people’s behavior in the workplace attracts researchers more and more. Among numerous tools invented for managing individuals’ job performance so-called Performance Appraisal plays one of the major roles. The purposes of performance appraisal may vary in every particular company, but the common goal in every case is evaluation of level of employee’s performance at work considering their goals, results, plans, and motivation. In the present paper we will try to analyze the results of performance appraisal survey taken place within employees of the same organization. In this case the organization carried out…

The primary purpose of language is known to everybody. It is a medium used in communication so that people can share ideas with each other. This statement has special meaning for someone engaged in teaching English as a second language since teaching students to interact in this language necessarily involves providing them with means of communication so that they could adequately position themselves in a situation where they apply language skills to the evaluation of current situation and conveying their ideas to the speaker of a different language. In order to be able to speak a foreign language properly, the speaker should learn basic units of communication and acquire the…