Mid-Term Paper C&G are Dead Imagine a situation where there is a boat full of “good” citizens‚ and a boat full of “bad” citizens and each boat has a bomb with a detonator in the hands of the other boat. Defining “good” or “bad” is challenging enough‚ and while analyzing both Kant and Mill one will see that the complexity of the issue cannot be adequately solved by either argument for what one “ought” to do. In the first case‚ which will be that they are both on the same ship‚ full of “good” citizens
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The importance of change “The Boat” by Alistair Macleod demonstrates the importance of embracing change in today’s ever changing society. In this short story‚ Alistair MacLeod highlights how one’s family is willing to leave one of their own behind in an effort to embrace change. In “The Boat”‚ Macleod describes how one’s actions and opinions can cause one to feel quite alienated within their own home due to conflicting ideal’s. Not only does Macleod portray the importance of adapting to change‚
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disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats.” (Stephen Crane‚ The Open Boat). Stephen Crane’s‚ “The Open Boat‚” illustrates a fictional story concerning a shipwreck at sea‚ while simultaneously emphasizes various elements of naturalism. These elements consist of constant determinism‚ the absence of God’s presence‚ and the
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to go back across the already charred and blackened bridges of his past. The author develops the idea that when roles are pressed upon individuals‚ the result may be decisions that are not necessarily desirable to them. In Alistair MacLeod ’s "The Boat‚" the father sacrifices himself in order to give his son the opportunity to choose
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Conflict in “The Boat” In our daily life‚ we always try to avoid conflict with others in order to make a good relationship to benefit each other. However‚ in a story‚ it needs to do opposite thing since conflict is the engine to start and drive the story progress. In “The Boat” by Alistair Macleod‚ the conflict between the mother and father effectively reflects the clear theme that people’s feeling is complicated exposing the impact of change that resulted from the conflict between tradition
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upwards. You have formed the well known paper hat. (if you’re finding the origami too challenging with a group of kids‚ you can always just stop here and wear your hats as sailor hats!!) | | If you’re feeling brave enough to continue on to make a boat: * Turn the hat 90 degrees and open it so you’re looking inside the part you would wear on your head. The thumbs must be inside. | | * Lay the upper and the lower parts on each other so it looks like a diamond (see the image to the right)
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“A STUDY ON PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL OF EMPLOYEES AT TRUE SAI WORKS NETHIMEDU‚ SALEM Project report submitted to government arts college (Autonomous) salem-7 in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of the degree of BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Submitted by DINESHBABU.M (Reg. No. 09 UBN58007 ) Under the guidance of Mr. ELAVARASAN‚ M.B.A.‚ Assistant Professor
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Guannan Wang 9/19/12 The Open Boat by Stephen Crane Stephen Crane’s Open Boat is based on his own experience when he was shipwrecked off the coast of Florida. The story is famous for its philosophical theme of existentialism‚ powerfully evoked in the line” If I am going to drowned (repeated thrice)‚ why in the name of the seven mad gods‚ who rule the sea‚ was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees?” (Crane). This opens up an existential view of man’s place in the universe.
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happens in our life‚ we must follow these ethics. When we follow these rules for a while‚ it begins to turn into a theme. These rules begin to define what we do and more importantly‚ who we are. This concept is shown clearly by Alistair MacLeod in “The Boat”. The family‚ especially the mother and father‚ clearly shows the themes of love versus hate‚ dedication‚ and tradition. Love versus hate is a strong theme shown by the family. The mother loves that she has a husband who is a fisherman‚ but the father
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Show how Alistair Macleod demonstrates relationships between landscape and memory in “The Boat” Alistair Macleod portrayed various details that developed key ideas to lead from landscape to memory in 1st person. To evoke his memories‚ he described these events using his five senses. After all‚ the whole story is a reminiscence of the narrator’s childhood. The vocabularies that Macleod uses are somewhat mystifying. Words such as “I imagine… or they were only shadows and echoes” were used to
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