Both Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea and T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock feature similar protagonists, in that both Santiago and Prufrock are middle-aged to elderly men past their prime, but they convey different themes of masculinity, and by extension, definitions of the modern...

Like any commonly used term, the meaning of the word human has been questioned with different people recounting their various experiences across generations on their first encounters with a different meaning of the term. This text aims to explore significant experiences by different authors, their contribution to the sense of...

Human conditions such as complacency, fatigue, and stress are crucial in aviation maintenance because these factors contribute or directly cause accidents in the aviation industry. Approximately 80% of aircraft maintenance errors result from human factors. When not detected in time, human conditions can cause worker injury, events, wasted time and...

Jessica Alexander's Chasing Chaos is a personal memoir of the author's time spent working as a humanitarian aid worker in Sub-Saharan Africa and in Haiti. It can be taken to be a strictly autobiographical narrative which tells the story of person's particular development, however it also contains several elements that...

National surveys are one way to understand the beliefs which undermine the equality of sexual minorities. In the US various surveys have noted that despite increased legal protection of gay, lesbian and transgendered persons, discrimination persists in more subtle forms. This is noted in national survey responses regarding the informal...