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Published in 1938, Brighton Rock is a tense and dark murder thriller set against the murky backdrop of inter-war Brighton. From the pages of the novel emerges the larger-than-life f...

Fragmentation in The Great Gatsby Fragmentation and ModernismEarly in the twentieth century, developments in art, philosophy, psychology, drama, music and literature, which came to ...

Sisters in crime IntroductionWomen have persistently played a central role in writing that deals with crime. Since the Victorian era, female authors have produced some of the most c...

Creating the creature: on the anniversary of the writing of Frankenstein Picture the scene It is May 1816. An unmarried Mary Godwin, her lover Percy Shelley...

Writing an essay may not be the most pleasurable thing to do for most of us. Yet, there is a way to ensure it is not a torture. Before you delve into this article, I invite you to a...

IntroductionThe success of a business is directly linked to the performance of those who work for that business. Underachievement can be a result of workplace failures. Because hir...

Stress Response and LearningThe Stress response affects all of us. Evolutionary throughout the millions of years we have been around it has in fact been essential to our survival. Now...

Many people mistakenly believe that the ability to learn is a matter of intelligence. For them, learning is an immutable trait like eye color, simply luck of the genetic draw. People ...

Everything developmental psychologists have learned in the past 30 years points in one direction __ children are far, far smarter than we would ever have thought. Their brains are mor...

It's challenging to get children to read at the best of times, but in today's world of constant interruption from smartphones, Netflix, and game consoles we have a lot to compete with...