How does John Harding use gothic techniques to create horror in Florence and Giles? Horror permeates much of Harding’s beguiling novel Florence and Giles (2010). In a retrospective first-person narrative foretold by young didactic protagonist Florence‚ Harding’s richly textured novel attempts to masterfully create horror through various gothic techniques. For example‚ Harding employs recurring weather motifs to compel his audience ’It was December now and we’d have had a lot of snow’ says Florence
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outside the norm of their gender. Mr. Harding‚ for example‚ has feminine tendencies and seems to be a closeted gay. His character is very weak and full of anxiety. One of the main characters of the novel is the stern Nurse Ratched. She is very masculine and it seems she knows how to beat a man down with her facial expressions and words. In the novel it is made very clear that acting outside of what is expected of your gender will render you powerless. Mr. Harding is one character‚ mentioned earlier
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Before his nomination‚ Warren G. Harding declared‚ "America’s present need is not heroics‚ but healing; not nostrums‚ but normalcy; not revolution‚ but restoration; not agitation‚ but adjustment; not surgery‚ but serenity; not the dramatic‚ but the dispassionate; not experiment‚ but equipoise; not submergence in internationality‚ but sustainment in triumphant nationality...." A Democratic leader‚ William Gibbs McAdoo‚ called Harding’s speeches "an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape
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so that training‚ lectures‚ presentations have become a totally interactive. He illustrated that effective learning can be achieved through reflection and continuous awareness of the need to build upon the experience. Other theorists (Honey and Mumford 1982) have also developed their learning styles on the Kolb concept. They illustrated ways of learning describing the cycle‚ which involve having an experience‚ reflecting on it‚ concluding from an experience and putting the theory into practise.
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In "Life in the Iron Mills" Rebecca Harding Davis reveals a growing industrial America in the nineteenth century‚ where an unbelievable level of poverty and limited opportunities of achieving success can cause individuals to take extreme risks to attain a descent lifestyle. Through the novella‚ Davis illustrates the distinct differences between upper and lower class lifestyles. Immigrant workers‚ Debora (lovingly called Deb) and Hugh‚ take the reader to a time when people were used as production
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All and all‚ Dow Jones Industrial Average was the most widely used barometer of the stock market’s health. The stocks were very big and important to the people. In September 1929‚ stock prices peaked and then fell drastically. Confidence of the people dropped‚ and investors quickly sold their stocks. On October 24‚ it got worse and fell even more‚ more investors unloaded their shares. On October 29‚ Black Tuesday arrived. The bottom fell out of the market and of the nations confidence. The
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in a comprehensive skill-based model of leadership that was advanced by Mumford and his colleagues (Mumford‚ Zaccaro‚ Harding‚ Jacobs‚ & Fleishman‚ 2000; Yammarino‚ 2000). In this chapter‚ our discussion of the skills approach is divided into two parts. First‚ we discuss the general ideas set forth by Katz regarding three basic administrative skills: technical‚ human‚ and conceptual. Second‚ we discuss the recent work of Mumford and colleagues that has resulted in a new skills-based model of organizational
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will be compared will be “Personality traits‚ management styles & conflict management in a military unit” by Salimi‚ Karaminia‚ and Esmaeili (2011) and “The leadership skills strataplex: Leadership skill requirements across organizational levels” by Mumford‚ Campion‚ and Morgeson (2007). A comparison of the research questions‚ sample population‚ and limitations will be discussed. Salimi and colleagues (2011) investigated personality traits with regard to management styles. They wanted to find out
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05-Antonakis.qxd 11/26/03 5:07 PM Page 101 CHAPTER 5 Leader Traits and Attributes Stephen J. Zaccaro Cary Kemp Paige Bader T he concept of leader traits and attributes is indeed an old one‚ predating the scientific study of leadership and reaching back into antiquity‚ across several early civilizations (Bass‚ 1990; Zaccaro‚ in press). For example‚ in Chinese literature from the 6th century B.C.‚ Lao-tzu described the qualities of effective leaders (Hieder‚ 1985). The wise leader
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Compare and contrast two theories of leadership. Do these theories offer practical guidance for managers? Practice in management There has been a long debate about the functions of leadership and management. Kotter (1990) argued the goal of leadership is to pursue the adaptive and constructive changes and the purpose of management is to acquire stability and consistency. In addition‚ he suggested that the process of leadership is to influence others and management is to maintain operations
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