When we think of true friendship‚ we think of the classics from Lucy and Ethel to Laurel and Hardy to even the beloved cartoon characters of Spongebob and Patrick. All these famous pairs are viewed as the epitome of what real friendship is about being there for one another through thick and thin and everything else in between. In A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving‚ another great pair of friends is dawned upon us - Owen Meany and Johnny Wheelwright. These two remarkable characters demonstrate
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Hester Prynne’s Road from Shame to Love and Pride in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850 and is Hawthorne’s most famous novel. The majority of his work has America’s Puritan past as its subject‚ but The Scarlet Letter uses this material to greatest points. Hester Prynne is the writer’s best known and the most talked about protagonist. Hester “was tall‚ with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale” (Hawthorne‚ 81)‚ she had long‚ abundant and
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A Psychosocial Approach to Shame‚ Embarrassment & Melancholia amongst Unemployed Young Men and their Fathers Luis Jimenez & Valerie Walkerdine School of Social Sciences Cardiff University Abstract: This paper uses a psychosocial approach to explore young unemployed men’s resistance to work they describe as ‘embarrassing’ and ‘feminine‚ in the context of the closure of a steelworks in a town in the South Wales valleys. In doing this‚ it also responds to Kenway’s et al study
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Onora O’Neill’s criticism of understanding informed consent as being about respecting autonomy? Onara O’Neill argues that interpreting informed consent as being about respecting autonomy can lead individuals into misunderstanding its meaning. Generally‚ autonomy is perceived as an individual’s independence; their freedom from external influence or control. However‚ it is O’Neill’s belief that this form of autonomy is not directly translated into the medical setting. Those in medicine explain informed
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Brief Study of the Attitude of the Chinese State toward NGOs: A Relationship of Dependent Autonomy (The study briefly focuses on the attitude of the regulative state which is providing the non-state actors some sort of dependent autonomy for its own existence. The following parts of the same discussion will be published elsewhere.) Asoke Kumar Mehera (aust35@gmail.com) (Ex-Teacher of La Mart College of Technology‚ Sydney) The principal focus of this brief article is to explore the Chinese state-centric
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to reach a "life or death" decision with collective states of minds hindered by "personal prejudice". At the conception of the play‚ rose explores the idea that doubt is a harder state of mind than certainty by portraying doubt‚ in the guilt of the boy‚ as a minority view within the courtroom. However‚ as the play progresses a seed of doubt is planted and the importance of self prejudice hindering the verdict is removed‚ making it harder for the jurors to hold their certainty in their guilty verdict
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What is the role of shame and fear in the lives of the soldiers? Does it drive them to acts of heroism or stupidity? Or both? What is the relationship between shame and courage? Plan -Soldiers fear being ashamed‚ it gives them courage -Fine line between heroic and stupid - The week he spent with Elroy Beerdal‚ fear of shame‚ courage The roles of shame and fear play a large part in the soldier’s lives. If it wasn’t for the fact that the soldiers were so afraid of being ashamed they may have never
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Medea’s Transformation Medea is a play featuring a title character who is a very unusual woman. Brad Levett’s essay “Verbal Autonomy and Verbal Self-Restraint in Euripides’ Medea” exemplifies the thoughts of three authors after discussing how Medea relates to a Greek hero that was invulnerable in all of his body except for one minor spot and/or the play resembling a Greek tragedy that narrated the fate of a warrior after memorable battles. These scholars believed that Medea “comes into conflict
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The article “Shame is not a Four-Letter Word” discusses New York’s newest tactic in efforts to fight teenage pregnancy; shame. The advertisements depict small‚ crying‚ children with captions such as “I’m twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen”. City officials hope that this shame will encourage teens to practice “good behavior”‚ giving them a “nudge in the right direction”. The statistics the advertisements brandish ring true in studies conducted over the years
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“Doubt is the key to knowledge” (Persian Proverb). To what extent is this true in two areas of knowledge? As a Persian proverb once said to have progress in knowledge it is necessary to doubt. In other words‚ when we begin to doubt what we believed was true‚ we move forward to better knowledge making a further step to Absolute Truth. To what extent is doubt involved into the process of gaining knowledge? What is the function of doubt? To what extent is doubt either an engine or a brake to the progress
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