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Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? by Louis Gerstner

Gerstner identified four immediate concerns: Should he break IBM "into many freestanding businesses?" (Duncan). How should he "cha...

David Pinter's The Dumb Waiter and Symbolism

1/3 that is white. Another symbol that involves Gus is the window. Gus is always asking questions and seeking something ne...

Contrasting Stranger Next Door by Arlene Stein's Culture of Fear by Barry Glassner

the issue of homosexual rights has been handled in the state as a whole and how she became interested in how "discussions of homos...

Cultural Dimension of International Business by Gary Ferraro

business. The topic of cultural competence is rather overwhelming as there are thousands of cultures throughout the world. Ferraro...

Philosophy of Education by Jean Jacques Rousseau

tangled when one relies on the system to teach. In fact, when examining contemporary life, one can see that a large compliant abou...

Sisters and Solidarity by Julie White

where women most commonly worked were often the hardest to organize."2 Those jobs included such things as domestic service and sal...

Characters of Simon Legree, St. Clare, and Shelby in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

that matter. At one point a little boy, named Jim Crow, comes in and he tosses raisins at him and tells him to pick them up. The b...

Articles from Liberal Perspectives

"veil of ignorance" so that they are unaware of such things as their social status, friends and family, health, politics, height, ...

Aphra Behn's 'Oroonoko'

untouched. She and Oroonoko consummate their marriage but the very next morning the kings servants come to the young couple and sa...

Okonkwo and the Minor Characters in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

it was meant to preserve" (Achebe 33). Ezeudus point is that customs do change and that the practice was consciously altered by th...

James Joyce's Portrayal of Alienation in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

through the trauma he suffers when he is forbidden to play with Eileen Vance because she is a Protestant. Stephens mother, who is ...

FDI Interests in China

the consumer price index increased 5.3 percent year-over-year, greatly increased over the annualized rate of 1.2 percent in 2003 f...

American Dream in Death of a Salesman

more and more about Willys life, than it is not some innate tragic flaw in his character which has led to his misfortune, but a co...

Presented Thesis in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

In five pages this paper analyzes the effective presentation of the author's stated thesis. Four other sources are cited in the b...

Standards Based Teaching Article Analysis

can make the curriculum work best for varied learners" (p. 8). In other words, Tomlinson presents differentiation as a challenge t...

Critique of The Lexus And The Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman

It is like a winner-take-all schema that has widened the gap in incomes (Oram, 1999; Dunn, 2000). * When countries are involved in...

'I Want to Know Why' by Sherwood Anderson and Symbolism

are pure creatures and seeing them run or even trot, or perhaps even exist, makes this young man incredibly happy and content. The...

Battle Royal in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

and is confused by his grandfathers sudden rejection of this template of behavior as "treachery." The grandfather says to live wit...

Psyche of Franz Kafka and His Relationship with His Father

In twelve pages this essay discusses Kafka's 'The Judgment,' 'Metamorphosis,' and 'The Hunger Artist' in terms of how the author's...

Symbolism in William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'

he is clearly the stable rational order, but by himself he is nothing in the face of the nature of mankind. The Lord of the Fli...

Wendell Pritchett's Brownsville, Brooklyn

contradictions. He describes Brownsville as a "vibrant community," abounding in communal and religious organization, giving it a "...

'The Judgement' by Franz Kafka

protagonist finds his fathers rejection of him to be too much to bear and continue living. Kafka begins "The Judgment" by pictu...

Seven Habits of Stephen Covey

Likewise, his conclusions are logical and naturally fit with the reality of his readers. For example, Covey (1989) indicates that ...

Comparative Analysis of Min Zhan Lu's From 'Silence to Words' and Amy Tan's 'Mother Tongue'

written. As the two essays continue they build in their complexity where language is concerned. Tan states, "a speech filled with...

Red Midnight by Mikaelsen

through most novels, there are changes within the characters. Here, the main character or protagonist, is Santiago. At first, he ...

Charles Taylor's The Ethics of Authenticity

concept of disenchantment is related to what Taylor argues as the "the primacy of instrumental reason" (5). Essentially, Taylor i...

Worldview of Washington Irving in 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'

But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...

Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez

the form of communication outside of the classroom. "An accident of geography sent me to a school where all my classmates were wh...

Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Images of Darkness and Light

with the world of tradition, the world of civilization. Huddled within the womb-like interior of the Congo, he retreats ever furth...

Managing with a Global Mindset by Jean Pierre Jeannet

experiences may not lead to a global mindset. By contrast, the executive who has a truly global mindset is able to see across mult...