Essays on Perspective

This book has been written by Emmanuel Akyeampong who is a professor of history at Harvard University. He has written on social history and on the history of disease and the environment in West Africa. His more recent work has looked at trade and political...

El Lissitzky, a Russian born avant-garde designer, painter, and artist, led the avant-garde’s movement from art to construction through his Prouns. Lissitzky started making his Prouns in 1919 which infused flat geometric forms of Suprematism with a sense of virtual architectural space. Lissitzky uses axonometric...

The root of the great error of our day is, that woman is to be made independent and self supporting… —Rev. John Todd 1867 View of Women’s Rights The rights of women, as described by Rev. John Todd, are placed in a proverbial box that...

What would you do if a loved one nonchalantly informed you that later on in the night he or she planned to take his or her own life? This is the news Thelma Cates is faced with after returning home to her daughter Jessie, in...

Perspective and optimism together are an invaluable weapon to combat the negative in life. They get us out of bed in the morning and seep into even the most routine activities of the day. They brighten our interactions with others, deepen our appreciation for family...

“Several things have driven Taiwan’s innovation success, including: targeted public R&D funding, successful integration into global supply chains, and the development of a knowledge-based economy”. This is the description of Taiwan. However, I couldn’t find my country in that website. It’s hard for me to...

In 21st century, for any company, firm, organization or institution a virtual presence away from its physical location is imperative for economic survival. To assist this purpose, these entities have developed webpages that they run on the World Wide Web, also commonly known as the...

Seen by most as just splotches on a paper, art has showed beyond doubt that its use is as magnificent as its grandeur. Art is used in many different ways all around the globe and now appears in various forms because of it. Art can...

Introduction Forward-looking disclosures (FLD) have been getting an increasing volume of care in current information related studies all over the world. The frequency of FLD disclosed by organizations is one of the measures of rising capital market effectiveness by reducing information asymmetry. The existing role...

Introduction Superconductivity is a phenomenon where a conductor, once cooled below a certain temperature, loses all electrical resistance and ejects any magnetic fields within itself. When this state of superconductivity is achieved, the conductor will be able to transfer electrical energy without a loss in...

As stated by Mooney, et al, (2017), the concept of whether people focus on the past, present or future, and how it forms their behavior is referred to as Time Perspective. Zimbardo and Boyd (1999), described Time perspective (TP) as a fundamental dimension in the...