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    ‘The Nation State is dead‚ long live the TNC’. Critically assess the changing relationships between TNC’s and nation states. Introduction The inevitable growth of globalisation over the past few decades has gradually created the occurrence we now know as the “Trans-national Corporation (TNCs)”. This essay will aim to the highlight and explain the situation in which nation states are continually being reformed by these TNCs. Globalisation & the Role of Technology Globalisation is the process

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    In stories‚ songs‚ and movies people change their life and see what they were doing was wrong. The song we listen to was called “The Ledge” and the story we read was called‚ “Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket”. In the song and story people have changed they’re life in a various amount of ways. There were instances were the events in the story became similar and different. As in the old time I thought In “Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket”‚ the main character Tom Benecke‚ poured hours of work on

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    Crush Have you ever had a crush‚ and if so how did it affect you? “Araby” by James Joyce is a story that is narrated by an unnamed boy and his struggles with love or the idea of it. The narrator falls into an infatuation with Mangan’s sister and because of his feelings he is having trouble in day-to-day life but after a fair share of missteps he realizes that his feelings and actions are all for nothing. The narrator falls into an infatuation with Mangan’s sister. Day after day‚ the narrator watches

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    The most remarkable imagery in Joyce’s’ "Araby" is the imagery of dark and light. The whole story reads like a chiaroscuro‚ a play of light and darkness. Joyce uses the darkness to describe the reality which the boy lives in and the light to describe the boy’s imagination - his love for Mangan’s sister. The story starts with the description of the dark surroundings of the boy: his neighborhood and his home. Joyce uses these dark and gloomy references to create the dark mood and atmosphere. Later

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    David Leong Professor Gibson ENGB 310-002 15 October 2014 The Comparisons and Contrasts between Araby and The Horse Dealer’s Daughter in The Uses of Perspective and Symbolism In James Joyce’s Araby and D.H. Lawrence’s The Horse Dealer’s Daughter‚ a lot of psychological states are embodied by the means of using “symbolism.” Symbolism‚ which “enriches the narrative by pulling its message to the level of our unconsciousness and open to different ineffable associations‚” (Lu 6) plays an important role

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    traits. Rosencrantz is decidedly the more easy going of the two‚ happy to continue flipping coins with little concern about the possible implications of their pattern of landing heads up. Rosencrantz spends a great deal of the play confused by both what is happening around him and Guildenstern’s reactions to their situation‚ but he rarely engages in the overt despair that is characteristic of Guildenstern. Rosencrantz is pragmatic and seeks simple and efficient solutions to the pair’s problems rather

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    to leave and her desires to stay shows only at the end when she is frozen with paralysis and the story ends on this‚ "She set her white face to him‚ passive‚ like a helpless animal. Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition." ’Araby’ is a story about a boy whose life revolves around Mangans sister. To develop the plot of the story‚ Joyce uses some of the boy’s background information‚ the setting‚ and why the boy is in love with the girl to help the story unfold. Things start to

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    Each of thestories consists of a portrait in which Dublin contributes in some wayto the dehumanizing experience of modem life. The boy in the story"Araby" is intensely subject to the city’s dark‚ hopeless conformity‚and his tragic yearning toward the exotic in the face of drab‚ uglyreality forms the center of the story. On its simplest level‚ "Araby" is a story about a boy’s first love.On a deeper level‚ however‚ it is a story about the world in which helives-a world inimical to ideals and dreams

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    The short stories "Araby" by James Joyce and "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne are both stories about change; however both characters change in very different ways. Organized religion imposes a rebut of prescribed behavior on natural curiosity and growth and in turn causes one to seek it out on there own. In "Araby" an unnamed young boy of about twelve or thirteen depicts his personal coming of age. Due to strong religious obligations‚ sexuality was greatly repressed during the time of

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    The Dead by James Joyce is one of the fifteen stories in the series Dubliners. Through Joyce’s’ use of literally techniques‚ symbolism‚ themes‚ and an epiphany‚ the story has a much deeper meaning. By using these techniques and looking at the story closer you can find how Joyce was trying to provoke a deeper meaning in relation to the dead and living and the main character‚ Gabriel‚ searching for meaning or reason to his life. Paradoxically the story shows that the dead can still be living‚ through

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