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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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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In William Shakespeare ’s play‚ Macbeth‚ the theme of ambiguity and equivocation stands our quite clearly. The Oxford definition of equivocation is: use of ambiguity to conceal the truth ’. Macbeth ’s voluntary misinterpretation of the ambiguity and equivocation of the witches relates to the play ’s theme. After the first of the witches ’ prophecies comes true‚ Macbeth begins to believe in their truth. However‚ he also believes that the prophecies must all lead to his enrichment and empowerment
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WILLIAMS SUMMARY CHAPTERS 5 AND 9 COHESION‚ COHERENCE AND CONCISION Joseph William’s book Style: Lesson’s in Clarity and Grace gives guidance to make sentences and paragraphs flow and read better (Williams p 65‚ p 123). In chapters 5 and 9‚ Williams shows how having cohesion‚ coherence and concision give the reader a smoother and inviting experience. Cohesion refers to how well a sentence ends as it relates to how the next sentence begins (Williams p 65). Williams says coherency refers to
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Impact of Role Ambiguity in the Organization Thubur Sun Swargowari Indian Institute of Management Raipur Abstract The purpose of this conceptual paper is to have brief analysis on the impact of Role ambiguity in the job performance and how it affects the organization as a whole. It also through light on how role
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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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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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