Critique‚ 52:74–100‚ 2011 Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group‚ LLC ISSN: 0011-1619 print/1939-9138 online DOI: 10.1080/00111610903380154 Briony’s Being-For: Metafictional Narrative Ethics in Ian McEwan’s Atonement DAVID K. O’H ARA ABSTRACT: This essay attempts to identify an unusual brand of self-conscious narrative by focusing on Ian McEwan’s novel‚ Atonement (1992). What makes this minority metafictional style especially unique is not only its presence in the work of one of the late twentieth
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Founding Fathers of our Nation had in mind when writing the Constitution of the United States. They wanted the nation to be moral. They wanted the laws to be just. But they did not want to give any one church a national legal advantage over the others (Bauman‚ n.d.). Therefore the association of morals with the church alone is seriously flawed and needs to be redirected back into the home from which it should be instilled since it is pertaining to‚ or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct
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References: Bauman‚ (1989): Modernity and The Holocaust. Ithaca‚ N.Y.: Cornell University Press 1989 Coser‚ L Haralambos M‚ Holborn M (2004)‚ Sociology: Themes and Perspectives Collins Educational; Sixth edition edition Kaku‚ R‚ Harvard Business Review; Jul/Aug97‚ Vol
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enough activity to gain health benefits (Armstrong‚ Bauman & Davies‚ 2000). To further highlight this phenomenon‚ the AIHW study also found gardening to be amongst the most popular physical activities found‚ mainly amongst the senior population (Armstrong‚ Bauman & Davies‚ 2000). Researchers have reported alarmingly that 47 percent of female and 32 percent of male university going students in Australia are sufficiently inactive (Leslie‚ Owen‚ Bauman‚ Sallis‚ & Lo‚ 1999). Leslie et al. (1999) further
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This study will focus on the self-reported memories of college freshman relating to the factors that impeded their decision of whether or not to report instances of bullying that occurred while they were in high school. There were several variables for the researcher to consider in this study. First‚ although the most common recommendation to help stop bullying is for students to report instances of bullying to an adult (Luxenberg‚ Limber‚ & Olweus‚ 2015; Olweus‚ 1993)‚ students are still not reporting
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References: Bauman‚ Z. (2001) The individualised society‚ Polity. Clarke‚ J. & Newman‚ J. (1997) The managerial state‚ Sage. Clarke‚ J. (2004) Changing welfare‚ changing states‚ Sage. Elliott‚ L. & Atkinson‚ D. (2008) Gods that failed: how blind faith in markets has
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life (Strain‚ 2000). In contemporary society individuals need to be able to re-create themselves (Bagnall‚ 2001) in order to cope with change (Fryer‚ 1997) so as to arrive at a place where they either feel at home or accept that they are different (Bauman‚ 2004). Since the advent of the Internet and the closing of world borders due to globalisation‚ any community in any part of the world is able to broadcast any form of message or ideas thus causing a fragmentation of societies everywhere (Putnam‚
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Consumers are increasingly aware of “functional food” components that can have positive effects on health maintenance and disease prevention (Lock and Bauman‚ 2004). Both poultry and rabbit meat are foods with high significance for human nutrition and health and their value can be further enhanced by appropriate feeding strategy. Regarding nutritional aspects‚ poultry and rabbit meat well fit the modern consumer demand for a low-fat meat with a high unsaturation degree of fatty acids and low Na and
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Windigo Culture Bound Syndrome (CBS) is defined by the DSM-IV as recurrent‚ locally specific patterns of deviant behavior and troubling experience that may or may not be linked to a particular DSM-IV diagnostic category. Such patterns of behavior are indigenously considered to be an "illness" or at least an affliction‚ and most have names specific to the region or culture in which they originate. Many CBSs are not literally syndromes; they are more like ways of explaining any of a wide array
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De Beauvoir‚ El Saadawi‚ Watson Religion as a conservative force 7. Weber and religion Historical study - Calvinism‚ Lutheranism Modern view - rationalisation Religion as a past initiator of change 8. Postmodernism and religion Lyon‚ Bauman 9. Religious fundamentalism Definitions‚ examples‚ links to secularisation 10. Religious participation By social group (age‚ ethnicity‚ gender and social class) 11. Religious organisations Church‚ cult‚ sect‚ denomination Troeltsch
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