by Liam O’Flaherty‚ the story takes place in Dublin‚ Ireland during the 1920’s where a Republican sniper is involved with a terrible accident. He suffers dramatic injury to the soul and heart when someone that he loves dearly is shot. The story’s theme is intensified through situational irony‚ which shows the pointlessness of armed conflict. <br> <br>Unexpected senseless occurrences happen when situational irony comes to effect. Like the time the Republican sniper unnecessarily lights up a smoke
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Pudge‚ Alaska breaks down crying‚ drives off campus and dies in a car wreck. Alaska’s friends must come to terms with their guilt and grief and accept that they will never know if the wreck was an accident or suicide. There are several themes in this novel. One theme is that there is more to life and more to any person than can be experienced or known. Pudge reads biographies and memorizes people’s last words to try to understand what kind of people they were. He looks for meaning in the facts and
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but I know I can be a lady to you‚ because you always treat me as a lady‚ and always will." This quotation from George Bernard Shaw’s play‚ PYGMALION‚ suggests that a person’s place in society is largely a matter of how he or she is treated by others. This also perfectly describes the effect of teachers’ behaviour and expectations on students‚ the pygmalion effect‚ which infers that students’ intellectual development is largely a response to what teachers expect and how those expectations are communicated
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Pygmalion in Management: Reaction Most managers have a common sense about the impact of expectation. They understand higher expectations motivate subordinates to perform better. But when it comes to applying the theory in daily life‚ only a few managers hold the magic power in hands and could change other people’s destinies. There must be something ordinary people cannot overcome. What is it? In the article Pygmalion in Management‚ J. Sterling Livingston (1969) was spearheading the point: to be
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Module A – Experience Through Language “Distinctive Voices” Analysis Table – Pygmalion (NOTES TO USE IN ESSAYS / EXTENDED RESPONSES) |Technique |Evidence (include Act/page number) |EFFECT in relation to “Distinctive Voices” | | | |Consider how “voice” and Shaw’s use
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contrast essay : Shaw and Ibsen excelled their views considering women in society. Both writers share the same theme of their characters’ transformation. The dramas have shown two women who are rebelliously different than other women of that time. While fighting for their freedom and for a better life they are breaking moral rules of their time. In Pygmalion‚ Shaw presents a person born in a low class who gets the opportunity to learn correct speech and manners in order to become
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Du � PAGE �1� Middle Class Morality in Pygmalion Pygmalion is a brilliant play written by Bernard Shaw that gives us an idea of the value in the Victorian era through the witty and rousing lines of his characters. The message Shaw tried to limn through his genius work is vividly drawn and is dearly ambiguous to anyone who is paying attention. In Pygmalion‚ Shaw focused his theme on the Victorian decorum of the contemporary society‚ which is named in many parts of Mr. Doolittle’s speech in the
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SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY The self-fulfilling prophecy is‚ in the beginning‚ a false definition of the situation evoking a new behaviour which makes the original false conception come ’true’. This specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning. A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true‚ by the very terms
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by living in a stylish house and buying luxuries items. This setting is very ironic since if there is a shortage of money‚ the family would save up instead of spending to keep them in style. Also this ironic setting introduces the conflict and the theme‚ and it is the massive spending eventually led the family into financial problems‚ and money is everything the mother worried about. As a result‚ this use of irony effectively established the setting and introduced to the
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Pygmalion in Management by J. Sterling Livingston Harvard Business Review Reprint 88509 Harvard Business Review Subscription Service P.O. Box 52623 Boulder‚ CO 80322-2623 Telephone: U.S. and Canada (800) 274-3214 Outside U.S. 44-85-846-8888 Fax: (617)496-8145 American Express‚ MasterCard‚ VISA accepted. Billing available. Harvard Business Review Operations Department Soldiers Field Boston‚ MA 02163 Telephone: (800) 545-7685 Fax: (617)496-8145 Inquire about HBR ’s custom service for quantity
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