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    Zora Neale Hurston

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    Idiom of Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston‚ scholar‚ novelists‚ folklorist‚ and anthropologist‚ was a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Her writing career elaborated the rich black vernacular from her southern upbringing and also of her anthropology training from the prestigious Barnard College (Slawson 209). Hurston grew up in Eatonville‚ Florida. It was one of the first all-black towns to be formed after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863‚ and is thought to heavily influence and inspire

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    Linguistic discourse analysis 1.1Defining discourse Discourse is the creation and organization of the segments of a language above as well as below the sentence. It is segments of language which may be bigger or smaller than a single sentence but the adduced meaning is always beyond the sentence. The term discourse applies to both spoken and written language‚ in fact to any sample of language used for any purpose. Any series of speech events or any combination of sentences in written form wherein

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    Women writers use their personal lives as stimulus when writing works of fiction. As seen in the classic author Charlotte Brontë and her novel Jane Eyre (1847) and also for the contemporary author Kathy Reichs. While Jane Eyre is a novel telling the life story of its title character‚ it is mostly based upon aspects of Brontë’s life. Kathy Reich’s uses her life and personally traits to develop the main character and her life in her novels as well. There are a few reasons why women use this technique

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    therapy asserts‚ “narratives are a reflection of the dominant culture and therefore must be challenged to ensure that they are sensitive to diversity issues‚ such as gender‚ sexual orientation‚ and culture” (Nystul‚ 2011). Through the process of storytelling‚ narrative therapy seeks to redesign the dysfunctional narratives of the dominant society and create more functional stories. People often experience difficulties when their personal lives do not coincide with societal norms. Narrative therapy

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    the most prominent works in epic fantasy in recent times. Steven Erikson was born in Ontario but spent most of his childhood in Winnipeg before he moves to the UK with his family and finally resettled back in Winnipeg. He studies archaeology and anthropology in college and graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop. His very first work in

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    Narrative Theory

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    (1996). Narrating the self. Annual Review of Anthropology‚ 25. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/2155816 Espinoza‚ L. (1997). Legal narratives‚ therapeutic narratives: the invisibility and omnipresence of race and gender Furlong‚ M. (2008). The Multiple Relationships Between the Discipline of Social Work and the Contributions of Michael White Mattingly‚ C. (1998). In search of the good: narrative reasoning in clinical practice. Medical Anthropology Quarterly‚ New Series‚ 12(3) Mills‚ L. (1999)

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    Knowledge Management

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    PRIST UNIVERSITY PRIST SCHOOL OF BUSINESS PRE-SEMESTER EXAMINATIIONS II MBA KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT Max.Marks.100 PART – A Answer all the questions (10x2=20) 1. Define Knowledge Management. Knowledge management (KM) comprises a range of strategies and practices used in an organization to identify‚ create‚ represent‚ distribute‚ and enable adoption of insights and experiences 2. List various team members in knowledge management system. a. Knowledge manager

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    Where Music Truly Began The Renaissance Fair is in town this week. It’s a large fun carnival type event where every person can go and play games while they learn about the European Renaissance that happened several 100’s of years ago. But what ever happened with the other Renaissances? Most of them were used to lay down several basic foundations for our society and then drifted off out of our memory. One such Renaissance was the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance created and influenced

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    Price (1993)‚ ‘River Magic: Extraordinary Experience and the Extended Service Encounter’ Journal of Consumer Research‚ Vol. 20‚ June‚ pp. 24-45. Aunger‚ R. (1995)‚ “On Ethnography: Storytelling or Science?” Current Anthropology Vol. 36‚ No. 1‚ 97-130. Banton‚ M. (1996)‚ “The Cultural Determinants of Xenophobia” Anthropology Today Vol. 12‚ No. 12‚ April‚ 8-12. Bowers‚ J. (1996)‚ “Hanging Around and Making Use of it: Ethnography‚” in Psychological Research: Innovative Methods and Strategies‚ Haworth‚

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    The Web 2.0 Technologies

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    fireplace in family’s living room shares its centralizing power with the television‚ around which we gather with our laptops and cell phones by our sides. Our time spent together is increasingly mediated by new technologies‚ enabling new forms of storytelling‚ altering our processes of individual and collective identity formation‚ and extending the possibilities for creating and maintaining social relationships. What follows is an ethnographic exploration of online social networking‚ a controversial

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