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...

The African continent has a history of its own. The continent is characterised as the cradle of humankind owing to the discovery of some archaeological sites on the mainland. Fossils belonging to apes dating back to centuries are dominant at different African countries with the eastern African region dominating in...