...up in the bluffs. As the sun goes down, they start to talk about their grandmother and her life. We hear about David’s quilt, we get to know her thoughts about their grandmother’s life and we start to notice the difference between them. 2. The narrator is no longer a teenager, but not a completely adult yet. David is her idol. She looks up to him, she feels protected and safe with him, and at some point she wants to be like him. He amazes her, scares her and challenges her. When she thinks about her grandmother, she believes that she had a full life. She understands the great meaning of hard work and she has a great respect towards her grandmother for all the work she did throughout her whole life. She, like David, is the black sheep of the family – hated by the dead grandfather. She doesn’t appear to be an ordinary girl. She has some half-vanished nail polish, but she doesn’t want anyone to think of her as a frilly, she wants to appear tougher than she is, maybe because she wants to impress David, maybe simply because she wishes she could be as free as him. She wants her hands to be more callused, not so soft. 3. At first, the narrator and David seem very similar. But then, as we dive deeper into the story, we begin to see the differences between them....
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...The outsider archetype has been in the media for quite some time. A difference that can vary in the archetype is how the outsider interacts with the rest of the characters. In Karen Russell's "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves," Mirabella's peers see her as an outsider and treat her poorly throughout the story even though Mirabella will help them if they get into trouble, just like Shinji Ikari in Hideaki Anno's "Neon Genesis Evangelion." Both outsider archetype characters don’t understand why their peers treat them differently and wish to be accepted. Even though they don’t conform to the perceived norm, they still want to help those around them. Being an outsider does not always have to be an exact copy and paste archetype....
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...Feeling like an outsider,isolated or an outcast makes people feel like they don't belong. Being isolated is an awful feeling that any person wants to feel. Also when feeling like an outsider can feel like the outcast. Like in the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton feeling “isolated or an outsider” a lot in this novel. Ponyboy is portrayed as an outsider for he doesn't fit in his gang,he doesn't like fighting he makes friend outside of his gang friends. Ponyboy is viewed that he doesn't fit in because he smarter than everyone else. Typically Greasers don't care about school and usually drop out like Ponyboy's brother Sodapop. Also Greasers do bad things in school and don't care about there'd reputation. Hinton writes, “I never could please...
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...Name: Isabela Schmalz Advisory: Uyaguari Insider and Outsider? I know all of you must be asking, how can someone be both an insider and outsider? In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton many of the characters are both insiders and outsiders throughout the book. The genre of this book is realistic fiction because it was similar to what happened to S.E Hinton in high school, but the characters and story are fake. This book’s setting is based on Hinton’s hometown Tulsa Oklahoma. In this novel there are two different gangs of people, Socs and Greasers. They both have a rivalry and fight all the time. The book is through the eyes of the main character Ponyboy, whose parents died and is being raised by his two older brothers. Some of the main characters...
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...be considered of the genre. Old School at first glance would not be considered typical of the school story but under further inspection its clear that it follows the same rules as any other in the genre. The three points that are considered the make or break of a school genre are as follows. There is an outsider character that does not play by the rules set by the school. There is an established authority structure and an unwritten code among students. The last point is there must be a conflict between said outsider and power structure, ending in either the school being changed by the outsider permanently or the school re-asserting its control, either way a balance of power is again found. Old School's outsider is the main character and unnamed narrator. The schools authority is strict and it has unannounced animosity towards Jewish people. The conflict between Outsider and the schools authority structure comes when the narrator believes he can cheat his way into winning a contest and plagiarizes, breaking one the the schools rules and defying the code of honor that the students follow when in contest with each other. The narrator in Old School is not the traditional outsider character, it is not his pears or the staff that labels him as such. It is himself, he puts the label on himself within his own mind. The narrator has a Jewish background on his fathers side; At his school there is an unspoken infamy for Jewish people. "Yet it seems to me that Jewish boys even the popular...
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...APRIL 2007 QUESTION 6 a) Why do you think that management should encourage their employees to form in-house union rather than national union? (7marks) There are several reasons why management should encourage their employees to form in-house union. The reasons are: i. Less influences by the outsiders When the union is in-house which means the union is just for the workers in the organization, there will be no outsiders form organization can join that union. So, there should be fewer influences by other people outside the organization. All the issue in the organization and trade union will be kept from outsiders. Employer itself doesn’t want the outsiders influence the union about what they should demand from employer such as all the benefits and wages. So, all the conflict will just settle between employer and employees. ii. Close relationship between employer and union If there is in-house union, the relationship between employer and employees of trade union become closer as the employer will make the employees feel valuable to the organization by giving them many benefits before they make a demand. So that the employees will not ask more and more because they will feel satisfied and appreciated. iii. More appreciate of workplace and workplace situation There will be easier for the employees to make a union in their own workplace. This is because the employees know about the situation, rules and environment...
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...paper I will discuss some of the things I believe to be members stepping over the boundary that the family has seemed to build over the years. There is a character named George. George is spoken in a positive manner by the Fairchild family. It is because George, in my opinion, is the only family member to be “sane” for lack of a better word and appears to be the “hero” to the family. Everyone takes a liking to George but, George has separated himself from the family by moving away and he learns to decipher the family members from the whole family in its entirety. Geroge meets the love of his life a woman named Robbie Reid. To the family George has now stepped over that boundary and married Robbie. Robbie seems to pose a threat to their social position. Before she married George she was a clerk at the family store. To the family this seems to be very embarrassing to know that a member of your family is marrying someone who used to work under you. Robbie does not want to comply with the family traditions and she is seen as an unfit wife for George who is put up on a petal stool by the family. Dabney, another member of the Fairchild family, is able to understand why George has separated himself from the family and is concerned about the family’s dislike for her husband Troy. Dabney then begins to worry about the repercussions and consequences she will face for the betrayal to her family. The family is close knit and does not allow anyone they consider to be outsiders into...
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...Cowboys and Indians Summary: In the beginning the short story takes place at a funeral where the narrator’s grandmother, Ellen, is about to be buried. Afterwards the narrator goes to her grandmother’s house where she later meets her cousin, David, and decides to take a ride on his motorbike to find bar nearby to get a drink. David is adopted by the narrator’s uncle and has therefore made up a story about him being related to outlaws. After getting a drink they decide to go see the sunset, where they talk about their grandmother’s life, and suddenly David starts to think of his life and how he wants to get away from where he lives. They get hungry and find a nearby take out stand by the highway. At the stand they meet two native-American looking women. David says that the wind is picking up, and one of the women reply by that the wind brings devil spirits with it, and refers to David as a devil spirit. David doesn’t take their words kindly and both he and the narrator decide to go back, and from there they split up. The narrator: We don’t get a name of the narrator but when they get to the bar we find out that she is a female in the sentence: “I’m the only female in the place”. We don’t get her exact age either but to me it seems like she is in her post-teenage years around 17-19 years. The narrator got 2 different kinds of personalities. When she’s with David she´s comfortable, relaxed and stops thinking about all the bad things in her mind. She´s no insurgent at all...
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...The Outsider – Albert Camus Albert Camus presents ideas of identity and the human condition in his classic novel The Outsider, through his exploration of gender and cultural representations as well as an insight into absurdum and existentialism. These concepts of identity and the human condition reflect on the society in which the novella has been set, demonstrating how women, those of other cultures and those who are considered to be different are represented. The novella tells a recollection of events of a young man named Meursault, emotionally detached from a society where he refuses to conform to society’s conventions and in turn a refusal to ‘play the game’. The novella begins with the death of Meursault’s mother and ends with his own, his execution for the guiltless murder of an Arab man. Meursault’s refusal to play the game and willingness to live by his own set of rules is what has him condemned in the end. In the patriarchal society known to the characters of The Outsider by Albert Camus, gender ideologies are explored. In the novella, men are represented as the dominant, powerful gender while women are represented as weak and undermined. It is through the character of Meursault’s girlfriend Marie, that the idea of gender identity is revealed. When Meursault is arrested for the murder of the Arab man, Marie is called to court as a witness to the crime, as well as been questioned for her own character. At the court case, instead of Marie being asked for her recollection...
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... differ to your own and what do you have to be especially careful about? 4. Elaborate on which cultural variables will influence the communication process the most between employees from your home and host country. Explain how you plan to overcome them. 5. Which differences in non-‐verbal behavior do you have to be conscious of in your international venture? 6. Draw up an organizational chart showing the company and its overseas operations and describe why you have chosen this structure. Also explain the HQ – subsidiary control form you will implement. 7. Decide on the staffing policy you will use throughout the organization abroad and give your rationale for this policy 8. Identify...
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...Both Khaled Hosseini's novel ‘The Kite Runner’ and the short stories "Are You Different?" by Mia Francis and "Chinese Lessons" by Ivy Tseng in the anthology "Growing Up Asian In Australia" by various authors discuss the notion of being displaced. In the texts, the role of being an outsider extends from being excluded in one's own family to a large-scale elimination of the ethnic minorities. In both ‘The Kite Runner’ and ‘Growing Up Asian in Australia’, it is inferred that the idea of being the outsider causes individuals to experience pain, because the way that they perceive themselves and by the people around them as different leads them to feel voiceless, discriminated, and conflicted in a place where they should feel like they belong....
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...nbjytr fggvfghfghfhfv fu gfd His favourite questions start with “why.” Why should employees feel compelled to read their emails on Sunday evening, but can’t go to the movies on Monday afternoon? Why should they take work home, but can’t bring their kids to the office? Why should they have to sit for hours in traffic getting to the head office? Brazilian businessman Ricardo Semler loves to question everything. His guiding principle? If you want creative employees, don’t smother them with ridiculous rules. For 25 years, Semler has been putting into practise what increasing numbers of modern management gurus are now preaching. He heads a democratic company, Semco, where employees set their hours, determine their salaries and choose their bosses. Managers don’t have secretaries, reserved parking spaces or even desks. There is minimal bureaucracy. No IT or human-resources departments. No mission statement, no five-year plan. Meetings are voluntary and every employee has a say in everything. Once, when Semler organized a meeting to discuss developing a speedier dishwasher for the consumer market, no one showed up. And the idea was shelved. Semco was a traditionally managed engineering company when the young Ricardo Semler took over from his father. He was just 22 and had brought philosophical conflicts with his father to a climax: The son demanded that Semco steer away from its activities as a shipbuilding supplier and abandon autocratic management in favour of decentralization...
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...many secrets including witches, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and hybrids. It is a constant struggle for Elena to keep her family and friends alive with all of the violence vampires and werewolves bring to the town; along with the struggle to protect her family and friends Elena struggles to choose which Salvatore brother she wants to be with. The trending vampire craze is a big part of America’s culture today. From television to books to movies the once evil vampire is now a fantasy for most women. These vampire characters may be murderers, they may be deceitful, but through all of the blood and gore we still desire them. What does it say about our culture today that the ideal man for a woman is a violent, murderous, yet gorgeous vampire? As a form of popular art, the CW series The Vampire Diaries reflects American women’s interest in violence, blood, heroes, confused morals, attractive men, and a dramatic love triangle. We root for these characters even though they have killed innocent people; each villain reveals a sensitive side that we are forced to sympathize with. American women viewers want to see more than two guys fighting over a girl, they want to see two heroic yet villainous animals struggle to fight for the girl they love even if it means killing anyone who gets in the way. With The Vampire Diaries, the CW has created a series, which reveals what today’s women desire; the vampire is the new Prince Charming. In the article, “Blood Ties: The Vampire Lover In The Popular...
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...and Visual Representation Diane Zeeuw 09/2012 Cultural appropriation is a concept that seems to carry with it a negative connotation. I think this is understandable since the practice often involves the recognition of certain societal divides, which can be highly sensitive and political. This can make people uncomfortable, and in the context of the arts, it has been known to cause offense. This sensitivity has been used as a superficial counter against cultural appropriation, especially by those who feel their culture is the one being appropriated from. It is an easy argument to apply against artists who appropriate. It makes for a simple stance when an offended party stages a public outcry, helping them to gain traction and visibility in the landscape containing the politics of culture. The case for cultural appropriation in fine art, or at least the one against the censorship of it, takes more effort and time to present because it does not crux on the emotions of those attempting to make an ethical judgment call. It appears that the offense argument has been so convincing as the main reason not to engage in cultural appropriation because it simply feels as though it’s right. If we were to place ourselves in the offended party’s shoes, we might say, “Well, it’s possible we wouldn’t appreciate that sort of act either.” However, if someone wants to make an ethical case against cultural appropriation, the mere fact that it could cause some offense some of the time is simply not...
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...------------------------------------------------- Class Notes on The Happiest Refugee Chapter 1 Possibly the most prominent reason why the first chapter of Anh Do’s “The Happiest Refugee” reflects the ideas of an outsider is how war has changed Anh and his families lives. “The year is 1976 and the Vietnam war has just ended”, “When the war ended her two older brothers, high- ranking paratroopers who fought alongside American and Australian soldiers, were put into communist re-education camps” and “My grandfather was in the army, so Grandma was left to look after ten kids on her own in a little hut” explain how the war has torn Anh’s family apart and has deeply effected how his father and mother lived throughout their childhood. When Anh’s Father is forced to almost single-handedly take care of his brothers, it builds and changes his personality and makes him far more responsible. When Anh’s uncles are put into a re-education camp, Anh’s father shows the leadership qualities and courage that he built over his childhood to free them from slavery. Chapter 1. From the start of the chapter, we can see the traits of an outsider, namely being a non-evident sense of belonging. When the communist guards were harassing the young lady; she was an outsider as she was being ostracised and segregated from the rest of the group in a nasty and threatening way. This was evidenced in the text from the quote “ ‘Lift up your trousers’ the guard demands. The girl lifts her black cotton...
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