Writing-in-Role: Holden Caulfield (the Catcher in the Rye) Selma Thurmer was Pencey’s headmaster’s daughter and seemed to possess interesting personality attributes‚ so I’ve decided to write about the scene where Holden talks to her on a bus in the beginning chapter of the Catcher in the Rye. Inserting scene in page three‚ chapter one‚ first paragraph: I sat next to her once in the bus from Agerstown and we sort of struck up a conversation... Personally‚ I wasn’t really in the mood to talk
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of employee voice can lift well-being and productivity. Discuss. Employee voice is about the participation of employees by influencing decision making in the organisation. In the past‚ union voice has had the leading voice mechanism with supplementing from employers union voice with nominated non-union reps that often is sitting on joint consultative committees (Charlwood‚ 2006). The classic work of Freeman and Medoff (1984) regarding trade union showed that the definition of voice practices’ effects
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a personal experience. Check first person use with your instructor. ] a little boy I have been fascinated [The passive voice is a form of "be" (have been) and a participle (fascinated). Over-use of the passive voice can make paragraphs officious and tedious to read. Try to use the active voice most often; for example‚ passive voice = The paper was completed on time. Active voice = the student completed the paper on time--See Center for Writing Excellence > Tutorials & Guides > Grammar
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1. In what ways and to what ends do authors create a distinct narrative voice? In the novel ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’‚ Muriel Spark uses a chronological narrative structure‚ running from the 1930s to the 1950s to tell the story. Within this framework‚ she creates a distinct narrative voice in a number of ways. There is much debate over who the voice is. One might argue it is the consistent and overarching voice of an omniscient narrator who can relate to the plot as a whole‚ moving back and
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When I first saw the movie "Good Will Hunting" I was impressed as a social science major. The movie provides a real world example to explain many tough social science concepts. In addition to the movie’s delve into psychology‚ the underlying themes of the film have much to do with the area of communication studies. These ideas can be seen through the relationship of Will (Matt Damon) and his therapist Sean (Robin Williams) through the progression of their relationship during the movie. In "Good
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The beauty and the strength within the black female body is one that is quite unique. W.E.B DuBois stated in his book Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil‚ that “she [the black woman] had to fight like a tiger for the ownership and possession of her own person and… when she reached maturity‚ all the tender instincts of her womanhood were ruthlessly violated” (100). Initially‚ black female slaves have played two distinct role in providing economic benefits for slaveholders‚ through house work and
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The emotions portrayed in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet play an important part in the composition of the play. The two crucial emotions that are introduced in Act One and used throughout the play are the antonyms of love and hate. Contrast between these emotions are used in the first act‚ which supplies us with a more realistic situation. The complicated and conflicting relationships between the characters in the play are explored and portrayed by these emotions. In Act One Scene One‚ the strong
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society status are lower than men. They are less free and have a great deal of unfair treatment‚ like‚ build a marriage. I hope to read some books related to Chinese women in the past few years to know more issue about them. I choose to read "Personal voices: Chinese Women in the 1980’s" to do a book report and know something about Chinese’s women. The authors of the book are Emily Honig and Gail Hershatter. Emily Honing is Assistant Professor of History and of Women’s Studies at Yale University‚ and
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treated as an object of sensual satisfaction. Indian women poets reveal the mind boggling variety of theme as well as that poetry is capable of offering.Toru Dutt‚Sarojini Naidu‚Kamala Das‚Imtiaz Dharkar –these poets have often raised their voices against social and cultural conventions that blocks their freedom.They believe that women need to explore their collective consciousness and shared experience in order to transcend the fragmentation and isolation of their lives. Toru Dutt
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Multiplicity of voices in Indian English novels:A Postcolonial study A foundational text in the discussion of postcoloniality is Edward Said’s Orientalism. Said identifies how the western world “spoke” for and represented the Orient‚ while the Orient was kept silent to maintain and allow this position of power for the westerner. In Said’s Orientalism‚ he gives a brief history of these phenomena he identifies and describes. He says‚ [t]aking the late eighteenth
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