...and “A Rose for Emily” composed by Richard Matheson, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and William Faulkner exercise their knowledge of gothic themes of entrapment and ambiguity to create a persuasive sense of exasperation and apprehension for the reader. Authors such as Richard Matheson, Washington Irving, and William Faulkner predominantly use the gothic theme entrapment in their writing. In fact, in “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner the central character Emily “no longer went out at all” (Faulkner 1066). This caused her to become extremely lonely in the later years of her life. This is due to the loss of her husband Colonel Sartoris. Faulkner states “A deputation waited upon her, knocked at the door through which no visitor had passed since she ceased giving china-painting lessons eight or ten years earlier.” (Faulkner 1068) in light of demonstrating the entrapment she created for herself as a means of dealing with her husband's death by...
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...Generation Change: Is Managing Role Ambiguity The Number One Challenge Facing Employers in the Silicon Age? Generation Change: Is Managing Role Ambiguity The Number One Challenge Facing Employers in the Silicon Age? Are you struggling to keep your workforce motivated and harmonious in the face of constant change? Is your team struggling to deal with the ambiguity created by a fast-evolving market place? You aren’t alone, and a solution may be closer to home for your workforce than perhaps they first thought. A recent study conducted by Dr. Ben Searle of Macquarie University in Sydney has found significant links between workplace role ambiguity and an employees’ reported level of anger, anxiety and threat perception. Dr. Searle’s study involved 602 participants across a range of companies and industries fulfilling duties all the way up to managing director. The participant group was asked to self-report on perceptions of role ambiguity, experienced levels of anger, anxiety and workplace threat appraisal. In this study, participants were asked questions as to whether they fully understood what was expected of them at work on a day-to-day basis regarding particular tasks, or a range of tasks. This data was then compared with responses to questions which probed whether they had felt anxious or angry at work. Threat appraisal was determined by whether the respondent felt it was more or less likely that their work day was going to be a negative experience for them...
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...} } MEMORANDUM OPINION GRANTING DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT The above case came before the Court on the defendant’s motion for summary judgment filed on August 1, 2006, in response to the debtor-plaintiff’s complaint alleging the creditor-defendant violated the automatic stay [i.e. 11 U.S.C. § 362(a)] by cashing the plaintiff’s check after she filed a petition for relief under Chapter 13 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. The defendant avers it did not violate the automatic stay because of the exception provided in 11 U.S.C. § 362(b)(11). The Court has jurisdiction over this matter pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 157 and 1334. The Court heard oral arguments on September 12, 2006 and directed the parties to file additional briefs dealing with whether the check at issue qualified as a negotiable instrument. For the reasons stated below, the 1 Case 06-40087-JJR Doc 31 Filed 10/26/06 Entered 10/26/06 08:56:27 Document Page 1 of 10 Desc Main Court finds the motion for summary judgment is due to be GRANTED. Background On April 15, 2006, the plaintiff received a “payday loan” for $500.00 from the defendant. In exchange for the $500.00 loan, the plaintiff gave the defendant a check for $587.50, which was intended to pay the principal of the loan plus interest and fees. The defendant agreed to hold the check until April 29, 2006. On May 9, 2006, the debtor-plaintiff filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy relief. For purposes of this summary...
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...enthusiasm, ambition, joy and zeal that emerge when entrepreneur are doing something that they feel is important and truly enjoy. This passion, it is an attitude that results in tenacity in the face of difficulty and a willingness to work hard. Entrepreneur does not give up easily. In fact, on most days they are confident of their ability to meet the challenges confronting them. Passion is one of the reasons that people start a business. ii) High Tolerance of Ambiguity Tolerance of ambiguity is means not getting upset when you don’t know the outcome of the situation. Ambiguity is a fact of life. A person with a high tolerance for ambiguity is one who finds ambiguous situations challenging, one who strives to overcome unstable and unpredictable situation in order to perform correctly. Entrepreneurs do not only work in uncertain environments, but they are also prepared to handle them. And in pursuit of their objectives undertake the unknown with patience. Entrepreneur who is more tolerant of ambiguity may view ambiguity as a challenge and the element of uncertainty could serve as a motivational catalyst. iii) Self-efficacy Entrepreneurial self-efficacy is the degree of confidence a person has in their skills to successfully play different roles and perform entrepreneurial tasks. People who have higher self-efficacy also feel more empowered to overcome perceived obstacles and anticipate positive results which...
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...reduced the bureaucratic governance that was embedded in the past management. The employees were now able to get involved in decision making, creativity, and innovation. Interaction with top management was also encouraged. Becker's policy however did not improve the performance of the organization, he spent a great deal of time solving employee problems, there was an increase in the number of complaints by customers and an increase in mistakes made by the employees. The performance of the organization therefore deteriorated. Symptoms & Causes of Deterioration of Performance: Symptoms & Causes of Deterioration of Performance Cultural factors Communication factors Staff performance: personality and organizational fit Job design and role ambiguity Espoused and enacted values Power hierarchy & decision making process Stress, absenteeism, high staff turnover and job satisfaction Major issues in the case: Major issues in the case Organizational change inadequately managed. The differences in the newly merged workforce with dissimilar profiles had not been addressed. Following this, Becker did not employ a communication strategy that supported the dissimilarity between management and employees and their different cultures. The unclear decision making process and power hierarchy. Lack of proper analysis of the chances of success of the strategy of empowerment. Lack of proper coordination within the management...
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...An Analysis on the Speech Contestants’ Arguments in English Celebration Week Octaviyani Raharja 1213009001 Abstract Nowadays, many universities hold speech contest to facilitate their students in improving their communicative skills. Widya Mandala Catholic University, through English Department, holds a speech contest during the English Celebration Week event. As speech contest in common, students are required to conduct a good speech that deals with the topic given. Unfortunately, there are still some mistakes found that deal with the argument components and verbal fallacies. In figuring out a good speech, the contestants’ speeches are recorded and transcribed to be analyzed whether they have met the quality of a good speech which are: (1) includes all of the main components of argument and (2) fallacies free. Since the speech contestants are still in the first semester, they have limited knowledge on argument components and verbal fallacies. Therefore, the contestants sometimes miss the argument components and make no verbal fallacies in their speech. |Keywords: Argument, Fallacy, Verbal Fallacy, Speech, ECW Speech Contest | Introduction There are four language skills and two language components that are needed in learning foreign language, especially English. Among the four language skills, speaking has big roles in both language teaching and learning activity since it requires both communicative...
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...WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND? MAXIMS IN TEXT MESSAGE CONVERSATIONS An Undergraduate Thesis Proposal Presented to the Faculty of St. Mary’s College of Bansalan, Inc., Bansalan, Davao del Sur In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor in Secondary Education Major in English Merry Grace O. Bajo Maristelle R. Agcaoili Kimberly Villarin Ernyl Ver Egod CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Introduction Grice's theory of conversational implicatures is considered as one of the basic and most interesting theories in the history of pragmatics (Levinson, 1983). It sets forward the mechanism that language users should follow in order to understand each other in so many instances when meanings and intentions are not explicitly conveyed (Terkourafi, 2007). Grice’s theory of Conversational Implicatures revolves around the maxims of quantity, quality, relation and manner and how they are violated or flouted. Paul Grice came up with these not as a set of prescriptive rules that people should follow in conversation, but as a means of describing and analyzing the way people convey meanings in real life interactions. The maxim of quantity refers to how much information is necessary in a particular conversation. In observance of this maxim according to Grice, “one should make his or her contribution as informative as required” and “one should not make his or her contribution more informative than is required” in a conversation. The maxim of quality on the other hand, pertains...
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...bureaucratic governance that was embedded in the past management. The employees were now able to get involved in decision making, creativity, and innovation. Interaction with top management was also encouraged. Becker's policy however did not improve the performance of the organisation, he spent a great deal of time solving employee problems, there was an increase in the number of complaints by customers and an increase in mistakes made by the employees. The performance of the organisation therefore deteriorated. Symptoms & Causes of Deterioration of Performance: Symptoms & Causes of Deterioration of Performance, Cultural factors, Communication factors, Staff performance: 1. Personality and organisational fit 2. Job design and role ambiguity 3. Espoused and enacted values Power hierarchy & decision making process 4. Stress 5. absenteeism, 6. high staff turnover and 7. Job satisfaction Major issues in the case: Major issues in the case Organisational change inadequately managed. • Following this, Becker did not employ a communication strategy that supported the dissimilarity between management and employees and their different cultures. • Unclear decision making process and power hierarchy within organisation. • Lack of proper analysis of the chances of success of the strategy of empowerment. • Lack of proper coordination within the management team when trying to...
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...For all things listed as a study make sure you know the IV, DV, results and any theory that might be associated. Verbal Knowledge Lecture 16/ chapter 9/ Meyer What is a concept, categorization, and why do we categorize? What is the definitional approach? The prototype approach? The exemplar Approach? What do we wactually use? Rosch’s study of family resemblance. What is the typicality effect? Rosch’s study of it with priming colors. What are the types of categories according to Rosch? What is the evidence that Basic level categories are special? How can experience change this? What is the hierarchical model of Collins and Quillian? What are the flaws? What is spreading activation? What is Collins and Loftus’ Semantic model? What are the flaws? What is the connectionist approach? How does it simulate actual learning? How are categories represented in the brain? Freedman’s cat-dog study. Lexical Decisions: Meyer: Know the hypothesis in addition to the usual. Understand how the word types can be broken into different IVs. Mental Imagery Lecture 17/ chapter 10/ Shepard and Meltzer What is mental Imagery? Visual Imagery Study of paired associate learning (dog flower) Paivio’s study of nouns that can evoke an image What are the spatial and propositional representation of visual imagery? Kossyln’s studies (2) of visual imagery, know the criticism that lead to the second study (the island study). What is mental scanning? ...
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...Tyrek Daniel Professor Genell Anderson History & Theory of Architecture II 2 April 2015 Book Review of Complexity and Contradictions in Architecture Robert Charles Venturi is an American architect, originator principal of the architecture firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. He is also considered one of the foremost architectural dignitaries in the twentieth century dealing with post-modern architecture. Venturi worked in the field of architecture with a partner, which is wife, Denise Scott Brown. They worked together to shape the approach that architects, planners, and students encounter and sense architecture and the American assembled environment. Venturi attended school at the Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania. He advanced summa cum laude from Princeton University as a member elect of Phi Beta Kappa and acquired the D’Amato Prize in architecture. He obtained his Master of Fine Arts from Princeton also. The years he spent being educated at Princeton was a dynamic factor in his development of a tactic to architectural theory and design. Contrasting to aesthetics terms, he extracted this tactic from architectural history in logic. He briefly worked under Eero Saarinen in Michigan, and later for Louis Kahn in Philadelphia. He was granted the Rome Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, which he was able to tour and study in Europe for two years. Venturi also held teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania, allocating for Kahn. He advanced...
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...dimension describing people who are outgoing, talkative, sociable, and assertive. 3. Myers Briggs type indicator- an instrument designed to measure the elements of Jungian personality theory, particularly preferences regarding perceiving and judging information. 4. Personality- The relatively enduring pattern of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that characterize a person, along with the psychological processes behind those characteristics. 5. Power distance- a cross-cultural value describing the degree to which people in a culture accept unequal distribution of power in a society. 6. Uncertainty avoidance- A cross cultural value describing the degree to which people in a culture tolerate ambiguity (low uncertainty avoidance) or feel threatened by ambiguity and uncertainty (high uncertainty avoidance) 1. Collectivism is important in a work environment because it motivates groups to continue working at a productive pace. If you see someone working hard it will most likely motivate you to work as hard. 2. Extraversion is important, especially when trying to sell a product or service. People are more open to new things if a person that has an outgoing personality presents them. 3. I recommend this test to students who are entering college because it gives them a sense of where they would fit in. 4. Analyzing personalities are one of the first things companies look at when hiring. They do this to make sure the potential worker is able to mesh...
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...Lawmakers are Missing the Mark The American people, in general have most of their pressing problems go largely unaddressed, whether it is perceived as such or is fact, the American people have lost faith in their lawmakers. These problems continue to go unaddressed for a multitude of reasons, including the ambiguity of the policy values, the decentralization of the U.S. Congress and federal bureaucratic agencies, the influence of special interest groups, as well as the lack of governmental participation by the public. These reasons alone are not the reason that problems go unaddressed, but compounded together makes it very difficult for lawmakers to make decisions regarding policy and for the general public to believe that lawmakers have the needs of their constituents in mind when creating policy. Lawmakers have difficulty when dealing with issues that are ambiguous in their policy values. Some of the issues presented to lawmakers have meanings that vary and can be perceived as not in the best interest of their constituents. One example of a recent issue in policy was the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, signed into law by President Obama on December 31, 2011. This is not a new act, just the annual updated act authorizing military spending for national security programs and military personnel. Following the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, President Bush expanded the act to include counter-terrorism efforts. This was highly supported...
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...University January 26, 2015 Our textbook defines conflict as any type of situation that creates unsuited attitudes, goals, behaviors, and/or emotions lead to a disagreement between two or more parties (Nelson & Quick, 2013, p.472). When dealing with work there happens to be two different types of conflicts that seem to cause strife in my environment; jurisdictional ambiguities and goal differences between different departments. Before I explain how these types of conflicts cause troubles in my everyday work life let me first explain what it is that I do for my employer on a daily basis. Not sure if you all remember from my Introduction posting, but I work for the leading cable provider in my area. I have a job title as a Router Analyst or recently changed to Capacity Management Specialist for about three years now. I am tasked with the residential and business fields budgeting, taking care of manpower issues to create and load available quota for installs and service calls, schedule training and time off for technicians without causing variations of forecasted install and service call projections, ensuring daily efficient routing for in house and vendor technicians, vendor relations, and many other tasks. Jurisdictional ambiguities in my line of work could simply mean that our vendors routing team thinks that our team is responsible for creating individual efficient routes for their technicians. This creates an issue with my team as it has been communicated that we are...
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...organizations are run and whether they will be successful or fail. The level of education and skill will vary according to the levels of management. The top levels of management usually include CEO's, Presidents, etc., and they usually hold advanced degrees or years of work experience. A bachelor's degree typically accompanies a Middle managers position, or they have advanced through their company to their current position. A particular skill usually allows a Front line manager to be focused on a few, if not one, particular task(s). Ethical standards should be included in all business dealings. Recent events have mandated ethical behavior in our workplace, and it has become unfortunate that the government has been asked to intervene and make ethics a top priority for all publicly held businesses. Ethics and good business practices should be upheld within all companies, along all lines of the company's dealings and its employees. This has led to an increase in corporate responsibility to society. Virtually every society makes some determination of morally correct behavior. In Islamic countries, a determination of what is right or moral is tied to religious strictures. Experience often has led societies to develop beliefs about what is of value for the common good. Most of an individual's ethical development occurs before entering an organization. The influence of family, church, community, and school will determine individual values. A company should be held accountable for any...
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...Words cannot fully explain our experience of this world, yet we try to do this expressly or inadvertently in our private reverie or shared moments with others. When presented with a work dealing with text, we become in varying degrees aware of our cognitive faculties. A work which is presented to us in a direct form where its meaning and interpretation are intentionally straightforward and meant to be immediately grasped, perhaps demands less cognitive skills from us to experience a satisfactory closure. However, and because words are “free-floating signifiers” (Simon Morley, 2001, p.33), with meanings which are malleable, a piece of work dealing with text that considers this as a fundamental element, evokes a larger inventory of our cognitive powers. From here, we traverse and delve into our reservoir of fictive ingenuity when we try to make even greater sense of this work. Thus, rendering us susceptible to suggestion, and the infinite possibilities of imagining the world and ourselves in different time and space. This concept of “open work” (1980, p.45) as observed by Umberto Eco is central in my proposal of study and it aims to investigate the state of immersion in fictive discourse with others, the world and ourselves. The proposal examines how an installation piece dealing with text, time and space when presented as an “open work”, is able to engage the audience’s fictive discourse, and intensify, in particularly this notion of immersion and presence. One of the key...
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