...EN1020: First Assessment – Secondary Sources Guy Davidson, "'Almost a sense of property': Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, Modernism, and commodity culture", Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 53.4 (2011), 455-78. In Davidson’s critical text, a relationship between a sense of belonging and property and the manifestations of the ghosts is presented. The way in which the Governess acts can be explained now through the idea of needing to find a sense of belonging on a world and home that isn’t hers. As a servant the Governess cannot feel at peace in a house, especially a house that has no male authoritative figure. Therefore it could be seen that the ghosts is her subconscious creating a Master to obey, i.e. through Peter Quint, and...
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...1966. Death of a Naturalist included the poem “Digging”; it is the first poem of the collection. “Digging” is a free verse poem written in first person narrative. Digging contains eight stanzas containing two couplets. In Seamus Heaney’s poem “Digging” the narrator is comparing his digging to his ancestors. The theme is heritage; the narrator takes a look back at his heritage to examine his career choice. Heaney shows the theme using symbols. Using digging as a metaphor for writing, Heaney shows the connection of the narrator with his early life on the farm and the lives of his father and grandfather.In the first stanza, Heaney introduces the readers to the narrator’s pen, which the narrator is content to hold as he finds a sense of belonging and comfort. The pen is described as a weapon, “snug as a gun” (L2), this gives the impression that the pen fits naturally in his hands and symbolizes a form of protection from the criticisms about his choice of “being a writer” (Miller). The pen also symbolizes “fate” (“Pen”). Writing is his fate instead of farming like his ancestors. Even though the narrator chooses not to become a digger, he still finds a similarity between the two occupations. The narrator recognizes that his skill with a pen is compatible to his father’s skill with a spade, as he suggests his pen symbolizes a spade to which he can “dig with it” (L 31). The narrator is, in his form of digging, always searching for topics or good materials that can make his pieces unique...
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...Table of Contents 1.1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.2 POSITIVE INSTITUTIONAL- PERSONAL FACTORS 2 1.3 NEGATIVE INSTITUTIONAL-PERSONAL “CULTURE SHOCK” FACTORS 3 1.4 EFFECTS 4 REFERENCES 5 1.1 INTRODUCTION This essay explains the perspective of being a new post graduate master student in the University of Wolverhampton. Consequently it identifies positive institutional personal factors as well as negative –personal “culture shock” and lastly elucidates how they affect my engagement with my master’s programme and my capacity to become an independent learner. 1.2 POSITIVE INSTITUTIONAL- PERSONAL FACTORS Based on the finding from the research conducted from Khan (2010), some of factors having a positive impact on students include * Sense of belonging- it is the experience of personal involvement in a system or environment so that persons feel themselves to be an integral part of that system or environment (Hagerty et al. 1996). Sense of belonging can be developed through learning activities and maintaining classes as a cohort. Relationships with teaching staff can be developed through encouraging interaction, providing good quality teaching and making a positive initial impression. Kember et al (2010). * Institutional Concern and Student Perception - according to Khan (2010) during lectures we were encourage thinking rather than just listening to what the lecturer could say. We felt comfortable knowing that our contribution was necessary .The more students...
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...The Contact Zone [Pratt] The idea of the contact zone is intended in part to contrast with ideas of community that underlie much of the thinking about language, communication, and culture that gets done in academy (507). - Mary Louise Pratt Arts of the Contact Zone In her lecture turned essay, Arts of the Contact Zone, Mary Louise Pratt introduces many new terms to her readers, including contact zone and community. The term imagined community can also be applied to her essay, and many communities in general. On one hand, it is true that these former two terms can be considered complete opposites. Pratt herself states that “the idea of the contact zone is intended in part to contrast with ideas of community” (507). They are, nonetheless, also indubitably related. Insiders, for example, often times view their group as a community, homogenous in its views and goals. Conversely, many outsiders may view the group as a heterogeneous contact zone. This discussion also leads to a truly intriguing question: Can you, simultaneously, consider a group you belong to as both a community and a contact zone? Although there are surely many examples of groups that could be described as communities and/or contact zones, one very relatable instance to me, along with many others, is the high school experience as a whole. My father, who recently retired, was active duty in the United States Air Force for twenty-two years, including nearly my entire childhood. Due to this fact...
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...approaches; (a) Critical theory (b) Functionalism (c) Symbolic interactionism TABLE OF CONTENT 1. INTRODUCTION 2. CRITICAL THEORY APPROACH 3. FUNCTIONALISM APPROACH 4. SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM APPROACH 5. CONCLUSION SOURCES CONSULTED INTRODUCTION Community development has a wealth of definitions depending on context and history. A familiar and often cited definition of community development is that of United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (1956) in which it state that in community development the effort of the people are united with those of government authorities to improve the economic, social and cultural conditions of communities and integrate these communities into the life of the nations to enable them to contribute fully to national progress (Maistry 2001). According to Maistry (2001) the objective of community development is to build healthy functioning communities. This is achieved through interventions for community well-being and driven by the community themselves and to the extent that is required, external support through the provision of resources and services in ways that sense the holistic developmental needs of a community. For the purpose of the essay will outline the purpose of community development according to the following approaches; Critical theory; Functionalism and Symbolic interactionism. Will then after discuss which approach is most useful for community development. The essay will conclude with...
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...To begin with,organisational behaviour illustrates the performance of members in the organizations and helps to understand the external environments in order to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the organisations, as well as achieve their own mission(Aswathappa,2009).This essay aims to evaluate the statement that understanding organisational behaviour is important to organisation success. First and foremost, organizational behaviour helps enterprises to utilize the limited resources in their commercial activities such as machinery and land. It also helps employees to develop their skills and potential capacity. For instances, Taylor advocated that division of labour should be used by organisations as it can minimise the costs of production and strengthen the control of labour manually and mentally (Nair,2010). Employees can concentrate on specific task and utilize their strength effectively. Accordingly, it can avoid the overlapping of valuable resource and increase the productivity which is essential to the organisational success. Besides, Fordism indicated that the allocation of work task should be according to the ability of the workers(Brooks,2009).For example, untrained employees should do the simply equipped work. Conversely, skilful and reliable employees should be responsible for the complex task such as marketing and finance. It is feasible to improve the quality of production as they are given appropriate task. On the other hand, the theory of Henri Fayol...
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...Diasporic Cross-Currents in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost and Anita Rau Badami’s The Hero’s Walk HEIKE HÄRTING N HIS REVIEW of Anil’s Ghost, Todd Hoffmann describes Michael Ondaatje’s novel as a “mystery of identity” (449). Similarly, Aritha van Herk identifies “fear, unpredictability, secrecy, [and] loss” (44) as the central features of the novel and its female protagonist. Anil’s Ghost, van Herk argues, presents its readers with a “motiveless world” of terror in which “no identity is reliable, no theory waterproof” (45). Ondaatje’s novel tells the story of Anil Tessera, a Sri Lankan expatriate and forensic anthropologist working for a UN-affiliated human rights organization. Haunted by a strong sense of personal and cultural dislocation, Anil takes up an assignment in Sri Lanka, where she teams up with a local archeologist, Sarath Diyasena, to uncover evidence of the Sri Lankan government’s violations of human rights during the country’s period of acute civil war. Yet, by the end of the novel, Anil has lost the evidence that could have indicted the government and is forced to leave the country, carrying with her a feeling of guilt for her unwitting complicity in Sarath’s death. On one hand, Anil certainly embodies an ethical (albeit rather schematic) critique of the failure of global justice. On the other, her character stages diaspora, in Vijay Mishra terms, as the “normative” and “ exemplary … condition of late modernity” (“Diasporic” 441) — a condition usually associated...
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...‘Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.’ — William Butler Yeats Reflected by an early childhood educator, it is evident the response or idea everyone has when you mention to them that you are an early childhood educator; ‘Oh, you get to play with children all day’ or, in a particular tone, ‘You must love kids’. Very limited is the understanding to how important the role of an educator is, more importantly how critical the role of an educator is in the development of a young child. Onlookers will see an educator involved in play with children but will never truly comprehend the purposeful planning that has been implemented nor the intentional teaching employed to inhibit learning. Similar is the thought process and understanding of most parents. The educators have to promote intentional teaching practices and help parents recognize its true purpose and value in supporting children’s learning and development. This essay aims to explain intentional teaching and its relation to early childhood education and care. This essay will also focus on removing or denunciating any confusion amongst educators questioning the need for intentional teaching or that the practice is a formal instruction in a play-based curriculum. Intentional teaching- Definition and its placement in ECE: ‘Intentional teaching: involves educators being deliberate, purposeful and thoughtful in their decisions and actions. Intentional teaching is the opposite of teaching by rote or continuing...
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...Spencer Holcomb Professor Gary Enns ENGL 101 (32106) Essay 4: Analysis 29 April 2014 What is Normal? It can be so easy for us as humans to point out how different each of us are from one another. But, do we ever stop and acknowledge how much we are actually alike? Has it ever crossed your mind as to how similar you are to other human beings? Although two humans may seem so different due to their background, race, gender, culture, etc…, each desires similar wants and needs. As identified in Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, every human has similar needs and some take precedence over others. Shown in the novel Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, the character known as “The Monster,” symbolizes someone who is “different” and how others react to this character as well as what this character wants and needs are. However, if we look closely and take into account the needs that motivate all human beings, we can see that the monster may not be so different after all. To begin, lets take a deeper look into the characters of the novel Frankenstein. It seems that throughout the entire story, Shelly is showing how different the monster is from Victor and the rest of society. She is using the monster as a symbol of someone who is not normally accepted into everyday society. As stated by Stephen T. Asma in the article, “Monsters and the Moral Imagination,” “our liberal culture, we dramatize the rage of the monstrous creature and Frankenstein’s is a good example—then scold ourselves...
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...Name Instructor Subject Date Critical Essay Annotation Assignment Halperin, David. “Man’s Fate in the Aeneid.” The Virgin Quarterly Review 53. 1 (1977). Web. March 5, 2015. This article examines the way the Aeneid portrays the powerlessness of human beings in their confrontations with the forces of nature and fate. It suggests that human destiny is preordained, and there is nothing that one can do to change their circumstances or destiny. Thesis The author advances the thesis that the Aeneid captures the condition of human existence, as it portrays human beings to be powerless before higher forces (nature, fate and the gods). It is a moral lesson for individuals to accept their station and obligations in life. The author employs textual evidence to show how the main character (Aeneas) was acting on the orders of a higher power. He tells Dido, his lover, that “it was not my idea” to leave Carthage and set on a mission to found a new city (4.361). This statement emphasizes the idea that human beings are puppets in the hands of the gods/nature, which dictate the circumstances under which they live. This article is useful in understanding the Aeneid as it emphasizes the importance of the make-believe element of literary works. As an epic poem, the Aeneid employs the elements of superstition, which helps to create fantasy in literary works. In this regard, the article helps readers to appreciate literature as a representation of possible...
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...Identify and explore a contemporary debate about community development. It is evident that existing literature highlight the complex nature of the concept of ‘community development work’. It is also true to say that there are constant changes in the political setting, and the disparity between theory and practice for community development work. To begin, this essay will attempt to define the key concepts of ‘community’ and ‘community development’ in order to understand the process. It will then explore the role of community development programs in aiding local communities to exercise control over the issues that affect their lives, in this case, the refugee women community in UK. Finally, it will also discuss about the role of critical practice in tackling the issues of social justice, such as social exclusion, poverty and inequalities. Community development is a very complex field and before attempting to define it, it is imperative to explain the meaning of ‘community’, which is in itself a contested term (Shaw, 2007). Different perspectives have been presented to define the term, for example Smith (2001) argues that ‘…some [definitions] focused on geographical area; some on a group of people living in a particular place and others which looked to community as an area of common life’. Again, according to Stacey, ninety four definitions of ‘community’ were given (Stacey, 1969 cited in Craig et al., 2008, p.14). Consequently, it becomes problematic to give a precise meaning...
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...researches regarding on the topic. Most people fail to mention the fact that there are some memberships in fraternity who value a life-long experience that help their members develop social organization and study skills and also teach true, everlasting friendship. Fraternities can be organized for many purposes, including university education, working skills, ethics, religion, politics, charity, chivalry, other standards of personal conduct, asceticism service, performing arts, Is this essay helpful? Join OPPapers to read more and access more than 550,000 just like it! get better grades family command of territory and even crime. they were established to nurture pride, leadership, unity and commitment. But the main purpose of a fraternity vanished after the existence of the nowadays fraternities, especially found on college campuses. Results indicated that membership in a fraternity was associated with significantly lower scores on the reading comprehension, mathematics, and critical thinking. This is one of the disadvantages that a member may encounter after he decided to join a fraternity. But the two most common negative aspects of joining a fraternity are brutal hazing and abuse drinking. Hazing is the harassment of new members as a rite of passage, by giving them meaningless, difficult, dangerous or humiliating tasks to perform, exposing them...
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...[Title Here, up to 12 Words, on One to Two Lines] Annotated Biography Learning Team D University of Phoenix Differently Abled Stephen, F. G., & Depoy, E. (2000). Multiculturalism and disability: A critical perspective. Disability & Society, 15(2), 207. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/195768418?accountid=458 This article talks about persons with disabilities and how they relate to people in society. It refers to how differently abled people have a sense of belonging and wanting to have their own identity outside of the medical diagnosis. They do not want to be referred to or defined by the limits of the diagnosis of their condition. Defining persons with disabilities as a culture gives them their own kind of language, a community and identity. Disadvantages are putting limits on the culture and persons and also setting up discriminations against people with disabilities by people with disabilities. Shrivastava, S., Shrivastava, P., & Ramasamy, J. (2015). Exploring the scope of community-based rehabilitation in ensuring the holistic development of differently-abled people. African Health Sciences, 15(1), 278-280. doi:10.4314/ahs.v15i1.36 1. This article talks about how community based rehabilitation is going to improve rehab services for the disabled population. Also touches on how this population is a sensitive population and it takes careful planning and carrying out of services to be successful. Native American Verbos...
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...of a student body that are also culturally, socially and economically different. Acknowledging that these magnificent young people with exciting and formulating minds need lessons that will arouse their natural curiosity and provoke critical thinking skills, I will develop and implement an engaged pedagogy that honors them, recognizes their abilities, and challenges their constantly expanding dendrites. There is no greater honor than to help another individual come to a realization of their unique and natural talents—to facilitate another’s blossoming in this world and to bring them to an awareness of their place in this continuum. It will be my role and daily challenge to devise relevant and engaging lesson plans that will help create deep thinkers and problem solvers, so that when problems do arise, the students themselves can devise the solution. The goal is to create loving and caring individuals who will take risks, establish realistic goals and assume personal responsibility for the results of their behavior; where the only competition is with themselves, the individual, and not with each other, and where the process is about discovering ideas and not about covering material. This will be a learner centered classroom that produces critical thinkers, who are at the same time deeply engaged in the subject at hand, while also enjoying the process and learning experience. This classroom will be a happy place where students come to learn, participate, and have fun. In this...
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...When amongst adamant followers of social norms, unique individuals might face discrimination for standing out and breaking the status quo. It is fair to say that these individuals strive to reach a sense of belonging and gain an organic sense of community. The main character in Willa Cather’s short story, Paul’s Case, dreams of a place where his vibrant personality can thrive and he can freely blossom into a young man who does not live in fear of societal rejection, because the community he calls home, accepts him for who he is. In his critical, literary essay, “Willa Cather’s Lost Boy: ‘Paul’s Case’ and Bohemian Tramping,” Terrell Scott Herring argues that Paul does not seek to reinvent himself or become like the people he admires (e.g. the...
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