"Metafiction is a term given to fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artifact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality." --Patricia Waugh‚ Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction.New York: Methuen‚ 1984. In many respects‚ Tim O ’Brien ’s The Things They Carried concerns the relationship between fiction and the narrator. In this novel‚ O ’Brien himself is the main character--he
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Cited: Anton‚ Frank R. (1980). Worker Participation; Prescription for Industrial Change. Calgary: Detselig Enterprises Limited. Bovee‚ Courtland L and John V. Thill‚ et al (2006). Business in Action: Canadian Edition. Toronto: Pearson Education Canada. Das‚ T.P. Hari and Keith Davis (et al) (1982). Canadian Personnel Management and Human Resources. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited. Grant‚ David and John Shields (2006). Identifying the Subject: Worker Identity as Discursively Constructed
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Lucas Wick Professor Michael Miller Argument and Persuasion in Humanities 12 March 2015 Working Girl’s Negative Outlook of Marxist Theory Working Girl‚ directed by Mike Nichol‚ recalls a rags-to-riches story in a modern society where the class divisions are precisely sharp. Set in the 1980s‚ the film provides a historical situation of inequitable distribution: this inequity sways all the characters’ behavior. Though Tess McGill and Jack Trainer spark up a romance‚ it is Tess’ acquisitiveness
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encoded messages that is deeply imbedded in a work of literature and by this‚ catch a glimpse into the mind of the author and understand the underlying themes present within its pages. This method of literary interpretation is commonly known as the Marxist Theory of Interpretation. Of all the books I have read in my lifetime‚ never has a novel or story in literary fiction has
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Michael A. Morales Professor Carol Froisy LITR 320 American Fiction June 10‚ 2012 A Marxist Critique of Desirée’s Baby The Antebellum south‚ or merely the word plantation‚ conjures images of white‚ columned manses shaded by ancient oaks bowed beneath the weight of Spanish moss and centuries. Somehow these monuments of Greek revivalist architecture sparkle in their ivory-coated siding‚ even while the trunks of their aged arboreal neighbors hide under layer upon soggy layer of dense‚ green lichen
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Hauerwas and Boyer had Different Views on the Emphasis of a Broad Education Eliezer G. Mwankenja Messiah College Hauerwas and Boyer had Different Views on the Emphasis of a Broad Education Hauerwas and Boyer did a great job in introducing Messiah college to its students. One of the main points in the two readings is the emphasis on the need for a broad education for Messiah College students. When emphasizing on a broad education Hauerwas (2010) focused on showing the importance of Christianity
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Basically education is the most important to all human beings. Every activities has a background foundation in education. It gives opportunities to each human being to achieve their fullest personal‚ spiritual‚ mental‚ social‚ and physical potentials. The capacity of being educated is what therefore differentiate human being from animals. Education also changes an individual and allows her to effect change in her environment. “The word education comes from the Latin educare‚ to draw out. In a broad
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a behavior that violates the standard of conduct or expectations of a group or society (Wickham 1991: 85). Though it may be sometimes positive‚ it is mostly considered in a negative view. The functionalist‚ interactionist and conflict perspectives seek to explain the concept of deviance. According to the functionalists‚ deviance is a common part of human existence with both negative and positive consequences for social stability and thus helps define the limits of proper behavior. Emile Durkheim (1895/1964)
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Demetrius Bankhead Soc 121 Reflection #2 3/21/13 When viewing an issue with society‚ one can view it through several different perspectives. You can look at an issue through the perspectives of a functionalist and a conflict theorist‚ the two major theories of Sociology. Sociology: The Essentials defines both of these perspectives. Functionalists “view society in terms of how it contributes to the stability of the whole.” Conflict theorists “emphasize the role of coercion and power‚ a person
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Times Many people over the years have tried to explain why there is crime in our society. Functionalists focus on the source of deviance in the nature of society rather than biological and psychological explanations. Every functionalist agrees that social control mechanisms e.g. the police are necessary to keep deviance in check and therefore protecting social order. A main contributor to the functionalist theory of crime is Durkheim. He believed that society is based on a value consensus and that
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