What is the Calm Waters Metaphor? by SREE RAMA RAO on MARCH 4‚ 2010 Until recently the calm waters metaphor dominated the thinking of practicing managers and academics. The prevailing model for handling change in calm waters is best illustrated in Kurt Lewin’s three step description of the change process. According to Lewin‚ successful change requires unfreezing the status quo‚ changing to a new sate‚ and freezing the new change to make it permanent. The status quo can be considered an equilibrium
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tells Torvald how she has always been a doll for him and her father. How she was only moved from one house to another‚ yet was never able to be herself‚ she was influenced and controlled by Torvald himself. In A Doll’s House‚ Henrik Ibsen uses the metaphor of a dollhouse in order to illustrate and emphasize the controlling of women during the late 1800s as well as the imperfections of a family. When Nora describes how she feels to Torvald‚ she says how Torvald has “only thought it pleasant to be in
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A Buffalo Common Metaphor Over the past few decades the High Plains have consistently been losing its population. So‚ in 1987 Doctors Frank and Deborah Popper introduced the idea of Buffalo Commons. They described this project as “A combination of literary metaphor‚ public-policy proposal‚ futurist prediction and ecological restoration project” (The Buffalo Commons: Its Antecedents). The essential focus of this project was to replace the ever decrease population by returning buffalo back to the
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In “We grow accustomed to the Dark‚” Emily Dickinson uses eloquent metaphors‚ obsidian imagery‚ and repetitious structure to explain how when you “learn to see” the bad events in your life can get a little better. After reading the whole poem‚ the eloquent metaphors used by Emily Dickinson can be better brought to light in order to help explain her point of view. Throughout this poem‚ she uses dark as a metaphor which explains why it is always capitalized. Once the importance is recognized‚ a reader
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Brooke Hodge English 1102 October 2‚ 2010 Metaphors in “I‚ Too” Throughout literature‚ metaphors are used to represent ideas and concepts that authors are trying to relay to the readers. This is extremely prevalent in “I‚ Too” by Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes lived and wrote during the time of segregation and Jim Crow Laws. During this time period‚ African Americans were not able to go to the same schools‚ use the same bathrooms or even drink out of the same water fountains as white Americans
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assumptions (Gannon‚ 2000). India has such a diverse culture‚ that it would be difficult to pick a cultural metaphor that is an absolute constant. A cultural metaphor that can span India’s culture‚ while still retaining the unique identity of individuals‚ can be found in the Kolam: a creation made by many women across India every morning. To understand why we chose the Kolam as our cultural metaphor‚ it is important to look at why Kolams are created on a daily basis‚ how they are created and fit into
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explained situations give the audience insight into her devotion as a fiction writer. Through the employment of metaphors‚ diction‚ and imagery the experiences described with Mrs. Calloway‚ her mother and herself explain the intensity of her memories and the value they have. In describing‚ Mrs. Calloway she reveals the intensity and value of her life experiences by employing metaphors to describe her as a "witch"(24) with a "dragon eye" (5). Choosing these words she portrays Mrs.Calloway as somewhat
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especially if it is coming from their family members. People should recognize how grateful they are to have a family in the first place‚ and they should appreciate what’s done for them‚ not how it’s done. Linda Pastan’s poem Marks contains irony‚ metaphors‚ and appropriate diction throughout the text to
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In chapter thirteen there is one specific passage that holds a lot of meaning. This passage uses personification with the sun and how it “[sent] up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark‚ he peeped up over the door sill of the world and made and went about his business all dressed in white.” This example of personification makes the sun seem like a person. The sun looks over the “door sill of the world” which is another way to say the sun was coming up and it got rid of the darkness
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from the ##. By examining the historically and scientifically based study‚ I will clarify and substantiate the idea that bubbles can be used as a metaphor to chart social structures and individual connections. The study includes the examination of the chemical composition of bubbles‚ the ascent and demise of a society and the use of a bubble as a metaphor for the individual. I use two major research strategies: (1) an analysis of the composition and a description of a bubble and (2) a close study of
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