moral ambiguity and to emphasize the struggles that are associated with marriage. Picoult portrays Sara as morally ambiguous by contrasting the positive and negative aspects of her within the relationships she has with each family member in order to expose the hardships facing mothers and wives. Family is a central aspect of this novel despite the plot focusing on the legal trial. Furthermore‚ Sara places her family on a high pedestal because she understands that family is the “emotional anchor”
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different types of pressures (Bunkholdt‚ 1997). Role stress can be defined as a state of tension and anxiety‚ whenever a person finds it difficult to perform an assigned role. There can be two different types of role stress; role conflict and role ambiguity. Role conflict is defined as when a person has been given demands from different directions and those demands are contradicting then the person will experience stress. This person will become dissatisfied and
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character‚ and protagonist in the novel‚ Okonkwo‚ is very morally dynamic showing some sensitivity to his family and friends‚ but in an attempting to rebel against his father‚ Okonkwo also exhibits the tendency to lash out violently. Okonkwo’s moral ambiguity is not simply inherent in his character‚ but is developed by the situation he was presented with in life. Okonkwo’s father
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The audience preoccupies itself in determining race‚ when in reality it proves only to mask the importance of this underlying sisterhood that cannot exist without its fellow feminine bloodlines. A powerful example of racial ambiguity‚ the character Maggie‚ which the two main characters saw as their mothers and never do agree on her racial identity‚ represents this idea of race as unfixed as the memory of her begins to fade in both of their minds. As well‚ Maggie served as the
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thereby steadily participated in the issues of existing. “More than Love and Death? (xiii)”. Jonhson means that Dickinson poems are about these topics‚ she persistently likes to express her ambiguity and questioning of these topics. Dickinson was obsessed with death and immortality topics. She had a talent for ambiguity and questioning life after death. It is not hard to understand why she had all these thoughts. When Dickinson was a kid‚ she attended a Seminar for girls‚ but on some point in her life
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Ambiguity‚ which is doubleness or inconclusiveness of meaning‚ is an important characteristic of Hawthorne’s style in The Scarlet Letter. Constantly used throughout the story‚ ambiguity continually keeps the readers attention. Examples of ambiguity are clearly seen throughout the book. When Hester Prynne is leaving the prison‚ Hawthorn briefly describes a rosebush In front of the prison. Hawthorne says‚ "…or whether‚ as there is fair authority for believing it had sprung up under the footsteps of
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Page 88#2 A time when I experienced role ambiguity‚ role strain‚ and role conflict was when I had begun working at my first job at Dave’s Soda and Pet Food City. During my first week of work I was still getting used to what my job was‚ the terms used by the other employees at the store‚ and where items were located inside of the store. This caused many instances of role ambiguity as I wasn’t always certain what it was I was supposed to do‚ such as when I was first told to face the store after closing
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DEGREE OF ROLE AMBIGUITY AND ROLE CLARITY AMONG THE EMPLOYEES OF MODI MOTORS GROUP IN PARTIAL FULFILLMNT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR MASTER IN MANAGEMENT STUDIES (MMS) 2011-2013 ROLL NO. C - 14 SUBMITTED TO DR. V.N. BEDEKAR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES‚ THANE Dr. V.N. Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Page 1 STATEMENT BY THE CANDIDATE I wish to state that the work embodied in this Project titled DEGREE OF ROLE AMBIGUITY AND ROLE CLARITY AMONG
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children: Miles and Flora (5). As the protagonist – the governess narrates the story in first-person; thus‚ the reliability of the story is arguably biased due to her comments and thoughts in the text. The author deliberately encloses elements of ambiguity within its’ gothic setting‚ which asserts mystery in the mind of the reader‚ hence relating the story to many dark
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what it meant‚ “It’s about the God of the Old Testament‚ the God of the New‚ and Humanity‚ isn’t it?”. Pinter replied‚ “No Terry‚ it’s about a caretaker and two brothers”. With this quote Terence Rattigan succinctly highlights the absolute ambiguity of Harold Pinter’s ‘The Caretaker’; in this story of two brothers and an elderly derelict in close quarters‚ everything that is said and not said can be understood in all sorts of contradictory ways. Rattigan saw three characters as the holy trinity
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