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Overview of the Process of Grouping Things, Places, and People

to the U.S. Constitution. Glorious Revolution: the period 1688-1689 in England, during which time James II was deposed and Willi...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien as Fact or Fiction

without ever becoming preachy. Tim OBrien wrote Things They Carried, and not so coincidentally, the texts narrator was also named...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Chapters 14 through 25 Summarized

there was little left of Abame. A difference of opinion develops between Uchendu and Okonkwo as to how the situation should have ...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Chapters 1 through 13 Summarized

disgrace. This chapter also describes some of the local customs and reveals an economy based on yam farming. It concludes with O...

Maxwell's There's No Such Thing As 'Business Ethics' There's Only One Rule Reviewed

As well see below, Maxwell is not highly in favor of so-called "ethical behavior," because he believes that ethics is very simply ...

Bossidy's Execution Getting Things Done

potential is never fulfilled. But dont most companies have some kind of a people process? According to this book, yes and no. The ...

Comparing Colonialism Themes in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

the traditional society to fall apart," observes G.D. Killam. "Okonkwo is unable to adopt to the changes that accompany colonialis...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and Objects

to. He also carried a strobe light to illuminate their oftentimes-dark path, and he also carried "the responsibility for his men"...

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...

A Look at Things That Hinder Quality Initiatives

comes to quality commitment, successful TQM implementation simply cant take place (Sebastianelli and Tamimi, 2003; see also Glover...

Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart'

change, most notably the changes that take place in relationship to a leading member of the old tradition, Okonkwo. Okonkwo is ...

Geoffrey Bellman's Getting Things Done When You are Not in Charge

In seven pages a case study is presented in an application of Bellman's ten steps in order to assess weaknesses, strengths, and ov...

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Themes of the Individual and Community

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Achebe's classic novel is considered in terms of the individual and community interrelationship a...

Jacob Cohen's 1990 Article 'Things I Have Learned (So Far)' Reviewed

In six pages this paper presents a review of this article and its questionable reliance upon the null hypothesis's statistical imp...

Tragically Flawed Heroes in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

This paper contrasts and compares the tragic flaws of Achebe and Sophocles' protagonists in 5 pages. There are no other sources l...

The Themes of Change and Aggression in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In a paper that contains 5 pages the ways in which these themes manifest themselves in the characterizations of Okonkwo, Nwoye, an...

Cervantes' Don Quixote, Proust's Remembrance of Things Past and Modernism

In 3 pages this paper examines modernism in terms of definition and how it applies to these works of world literature. There is 1...

Values Reevaluation in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In seven pages the ways in which Okonkwo is unable to comprehend the changes to his life in terms of the transformation of his vil...

Things to Consider if Implementing Performance Management

* Goal setting is a component of a performance management system. With strategic goals and organizational performance requirements...

Winning is the 'Only Thing' in Sports Mentality and Ethical Alternatives

In nine pages the concept of winning as it pertains to sports is examined in a discussion of goal accomplishment. Seven sources a...

Igbo Culture, the British, and Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

of hot yam which its mother puts in its palm" (Achebe 47). In other words, Achebe portrayal of African culture has more nuance t...

A Book Review of Anna Quindlen's 'One True Thing'

This review consists of 5 pages and describes how this journalist used to living in the fast lane took a detour to care for her te...

Character Development in The Things They Carried

or another. In the case of the Vietnam War, and OBriens book, the consequence of war was, in many cases, age. As we shall see, the...

Raymond Carver's 'Where I'm Calling From,' 'Cathedral, 'A Small Good Thing' and the Theme of Communication

inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...

Things Fall Apart and the Death of a Hero

Okonkwo was like that, and the fact that his contemporaries in the village considered some of his traits excessive is communicated...

A Small Good Thing

This 8 page essay reviews to Raymond Carver's style in this work in relationship to his style in other works. 4 sources are cited...

Getting Things Done and Power

In five pages this paper examines power from political, social, media and ideological perspective such as communism and Marxism. ...

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease

In six pages this paper examines the impact Westernization had on Africa as portrayed in these novels by Nigerian author Chinua Ac...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Challenges and Problems

In five pages this paper examines the problems and challenges associated with women's roles within the context of Achebe's novel. ...

Views of World War I

Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...