http://www.projectsatwork.com/content/Articles/278698.cfm 3 More Fresh Retrospectives by Wayne Grant‚ May 15‚ 2013 | SHARE Are your project retrospectives getting a bit stale‚ diluting their effectiveness? Keeping retrospectives fresh for your team requires diligence on your part‚ but the rewards from continuous improvement are worth it. Here are three fun‚ simple retrospective techniques that can help get your teams re-engaged. Wayne Grant Scrum Master I am a Scrum Master with a strong background
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Odysseus: Lesson Learned In the Odyssey‚ Odysseus goes on a journey that lasts twenty years. He is faced with many challenges and must overcome these challenges if he is to get back home to his son and wife he has left behind. Along the way Odysseus learns about himself and learns many truths. When he returns home he is a wiser man because of what he has seen and also by what he has done himself. Odysseus is a very strong man but Odysseus learns that even the strongest men sometimes have
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Alison Dew Explore the role of the fool in King Lear. In Elizabethan times‚ the role of a fool‚ or court jester‚ was to professionally entertain others‚ specifically the king. In essence‚ fools were hired to make mistakes. Fools may have been mentally retarded youths kept for the court’s amusement‚ or more often they were singing‚ dancing stand up comedians. In William Shakespeare’s King Lear the fool plays many important roles. When Cordelia‚ Lear’s only well-intentioned
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continual character in the workings of Shakespeare. The Fool is usually a cunning peasant that uses his intellect to outdo people of a higher social status. This is particularly the case in the play King Lear. Lear’s jester‚ the Fool‚ is indeed a very strange character. He uses crazy talk and merry songs to give Lear important advice. Not only is he important in the development of the plot but he’s important in the development of Lear’s character and also has an important role in the development of the mood
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HAGE GEINGOB HIGH SCHOOL LITERATURE TASKS ASSIGNMENT: 1 NAME: Sainio Nekongo Grade: 11c Task 1. Research and provide examples of the following literary terms: 1. Simile- A simile is a direct comparison that always contains word as or like. Examples: He is as wealthy as Bill Gate. Her personality is like a bubble in a bottle of champagne. 2. Metaphor- A metaphor is a comparison without the use of as or like. It refers to a person or object (as) being (like) another. The comparison is Implied
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wisdom and life lessons that would be beneficial to them throughout their life journey. Coelho displayed that particular wisdom and lessons through a young shepherd boy named Santiago. Santiago ventured out on a quest to find his dream‚ the treasure. Along the way Coelho placed certain people in Santiago’s path to give him wisdom and life lessons to help him find the foreseeable treasure that occurred in his dream. Throughout Santiago voyage he gathered at least five valuable lessons to help him succeed
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In ’King Lear’‚ the Fool is a character of dramatic importance in the play. The Fool helps the reader‚ and in Shakespeare’s time would help the audience‚ to understand what lies beneath the surface of certain actions or verses. He equally strives to make Lear ’see’. The Fool may be a very intriguing character and very often a complicated one but his role is necessary in ’King Lear’. The Fool plays three major roles; one of these roles is that of an ’inner-conscience’ of Lear. The Fool provides basic
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Portrayal of Women in King Lear and Ran Women have a position‚ characteristics and a role in King Lear and in Ran. These films take place in a time period when geography influenced the portrayal of women. A significant portion of how women were portrayed to the audience in both films is based on the positions women held in the established hierarchy and how their new position in the hierarchy impacted the people around them. The characteristics of female characters display very clearly how women
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The primary purpose of Shakespeare’s “King Lear”is the tragedy and focus of the fall of a noble character due to a tragic flaw. Shakespeare’s main purpose was perhaps to emphasize on the idea that tragedies intend to show how our very own human nature can turn out to be our worst enemy. In “King Lear‚” the reader gets to see how Lear suffers from his tragic flaw‚ which includes of arrogance and misjudgements. Because of his tragic flaw‚ King Lear makes bad decisions. When he announces his plan in
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Explore the role and function of The Fool’ in King Lear’ The Fool in King Lear’ is a William Shakespeare creation. Shakespeare has the ability to reveal a human character with an exceptional use of language. He allows us to see more than just words on the paper; we’re given a multi dimensional insight into a character. Usually his characters aren’t as straight-forward as black or white‚ they are invariably more complex. Edmund for example‚ it’s easy to present him as the villain but Shakespeare
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