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The Bridge of San Luis Rey Literature Book Report/Review

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Student’s Name Professor’s Name English Literature (Classic and Modern) December 13, 2011 REDO Interpretive Essay on The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder's novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey was published in 1927. It presents the ancient dilemma of whether the tragedy of the bridge is a result of fate, chance the divine interpretation.

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Morality and Race in A Streetcar Named Desire and a Raisin in the Sun Literature Assignment

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“A Raisin in the Sun,” tells the story of an African American family that strives to stay together despite clashes between personal ambitions and racial discrimination. On the other hand, “A Streetcar Named Desire” is based on a woman named Blanche Dubois and her constant battles with reality and her over-dominant brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski.

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The Book Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond Literature Literature review

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These technological advancements increase the military strength of the European countries and allowed them to capture nations with armies which had numerological superiority but were no match to the Europeans in terms of artillery and logistics. Another geographical factor which Diamond points out in his book to the advantage of Europeans.

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Satire in Voltaire's Candide vs. Swift's Gulliver's Travel Literature Term Paper

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In the novels “Candide” and “Gulliver’s Travels” both Voltaire and Jonathan Swift have distorted the reality that the readers’ are very familiar with in a way to make it ridiculous (sometimes disgusting) and simultaneously “funny, comical, something no reasonable person would engage in” (Johnston 3).

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Significance of Setting in The Dead by James Joyce Literature Essay

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In ‘The Dead’, James Joyce depicts the emotions and feelings of the character through the physical setting and the environment. Of all the things that could be thematic of ‘The Dead’ by James Joyce, perhaps one would be the impact of physical attributes in invoking the emotions of a person.

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Trope of Detritus in Cormac McCarthy's The Road Literature Essay

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Although the cause of the world’s end is not detailed in the novel, the result of the destruction of the world is both the beginning and end of things. However, McCarthy, through the bleak images in the novel, successfully delivers his message: destruction, aside from its physical value, has an emotional and spiritual significance, as well.

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The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis Literature Book Report/Review

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Screwtape suggests that since Wormwood has already provided worldly pleasures to the patient, there is need to delay as much as possible the pleasures so that the patient does not get to realize that such pleasures are unrelated to his or her faith.

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The Tale of Heike and The Iliad Literature Research Paper

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The Tale of Heike and The Iliad are some of the ancient epic stories of their respective cultures, which continue to be popular up to now, because of their characters and themes that modern society can relate to.

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Benjamin Franklin: A Self-Designed Man Literature Essay

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However, when writing his autobiography, Franklin never got to the most important parts of his life. There is little mention of his life as a Founding Father. Instead, what Franklin concentrated on was his early life and how he made his fortune. Franklin was the quintessential self-made man, but there is a lot missing from the text leaving readers wanting to know more.

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Country Good People Literature Coursework

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The short story illustrates the themes of moral and evil, how one encounters violence, and folly behind intellectual pretense. The story revolves around Joy who lost her leg in an accident. She undermines everyone in the region because she is highly educated. The author has reflected her life and history in the themes developed in the story.

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A Raisin in the Sun - Women in Courageous Light Literature Essay

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A lot of conflicts were integrated into the film, not only in the family but also individually. The main conflict, however, it’s in the family’s wish for a better life. An “American dream” as others may call it. Each family member has a different meaning for it but all the same, it is the central idea. Each woman in the play has been given a whole new life by the writer.

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Fate in God's or Human's Terms Literature Essay

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“The Epic of Gilgamesh,” “The Odyssey,” “Oedipus the King,” and “The Ramayana of Valmiki” have different definitions of fate. Some of these stories stress that fate comes from human will, while others emphasize that God has a plan, a plan that structures the essence of their fates.

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The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong Literature Essay

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Admittedly, King Yongjo was very happy when he got an heir who would continue his kingdom. With his short-sightedness and eagerness to see the Prince mature enough to take up the kingdom, he sent the three months old prince from the Chippok-hon Side royal residence to Chosung-jon Mansion.

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Dante Alighieri The Inferno (from The Divine Comedy) Literature Essay

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The Hell described by Dante is based on different concepts including that of the Catholic Doctrine of that time but Dante has added some details which can be regarded exclusively as Dante’s own. The poem explains Hell as nine circles of suffering. Each circle of Hell represents a specific sin and the people who commit those sins are sent to those respective circles of Hell.

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The Poem My Last Duchess Literature Essay

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As the Duke takes the emissary through the palace, he halts to a stop and faces upfront the portrait of the deceased Duchess, inexorably a youthful and lovely lady. This picture of the late Duchess takes the Duke aback, who then starts to recall about the portrait meeting, subsequently about the Duchess herself.

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Comparison Between Modern and Epic Heroes Literature Essay

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Castle (quoted in Harker 1996, 53) defines “arete” as the ability to fully maximize physical and mental endowments. Hayward and Hambrick (1997, quoted in Lorenz 2011, 21) consider hubris as a state of extreme confidence engendered by internal disposition and external stimuli.

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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Literature Essay

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Though Achebe moans this disintegration, he has not glossed over the deficits, deficiencies and superstitions that the tribal culture holds at its heart. By assuming this neutral stance he puts forward the proposition that the African tribes are not as savage and brute as what any European stereotypical view about the African professes; rather the Africans have their own culture, cultural standards and values, justice system, society, etc unlike the Europeans’ stereotypical anticipation; that the western culture is not as whimsical as the Africans commonly assume it.

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The Stranger and The Great Gatsby Literature Essay

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The stranger according to Albert, revolve around an emotionally detached amoral young man who defies the societal norms thus deemed a threat to humanity (49). The two different characters from the two novels, Meursault and Gatsby, demonstrate a degree of contrasting oblivion to how they try to attain and sustain the lives they want in a totally contrasting manner.

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Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises Literature Essay

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They are wandering from place to place in Paris, always drinking heavily, without certain meaning and direction, truly representing a lost generation. Brett’s unwillingness towards a relationship constantly reminds Jake of his impotence, but he truly loves her no matter how badly she treats him.

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Understanding Depression in A Soldier's Home and A Sorrowful Woman Literature Essay

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In Hemingway's work, Krebs is still alive at the end of the story, and so there is still hope that he could possibly recover from his clinical depression. However, the unnamed wife in Godwin's story kills herself, and is, therefore, beyond help. We meet Krebs in the beginning on the battlefield.

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Sense and sensibility-differences in the novel and the film Literature Essay

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The novel was published under her pseudonym – A Lady as female writers were still not considered at par with male writers in terms of talent or worthiness. Sense and Sensibility is a romance novel and like other novels of Jane Austen has the touch of realism associated with it depicting the lives and times of the earlier half of the 19th Century of the English gentry.

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Connections: Art and Poetry Literature Essay

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Even as these mediums vary greatly in form, in many instances the themes they explore rest along the same spectrum of human existence. When examining such prominent forms of artistic expression, it’s clear that profound and powerful connections emerge. From an overarching critical perspective one notes that these three works of art emerged in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries.

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Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai Literature Essay

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Gyan and Sai are an Indian-Nepalese couple, and the author tells of their romance and how unrest, betrayals and violence culminates in their eventual separation. Other characters like the Cook, the judge, Lola, Noni, Father Booty and Bindu also have their equal share of troubles and various forms of unrest.

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Tertullian's Depiction of Women Literature Essay

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Women ought to dress in mourning clothes for the kind of disgrace the sin the first of their kind brought and the much hatred that followed humanity. Despite the depth of sin the first woman committed women cannot be condemned for eternity to wear mourning dress throughout.

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James Joyce The Dead Literature Essay

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Joyce represented many themes in his story; which reveal the potential behavior and life style; a person can acquire. The life of residents of Dublin not only revolved around class discrimination but it also showed different phases of life.

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Memory Functions in Toni Morrisons Beloved Literature Essay

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Beloved is a novel written by Toni Morrison and the storyline has to do with the aftermath of slavery. Slavery is the major theme along with many other themes like racism, romance, and oppression. This story involves humorous and touching episodes that, he uses to explore various themes in the novel.

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Notion of Marriage in The Stronger and Trifles Literature Essay

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It means reputed ‘good husbands,’ the patriarchal oppression, characteristic coldness, the underappreciated woman’s work, forgiveness/unforgiveness, the establishment of discord and disorder, and the testing of the strength of character. Set in a society that held marriage in high regard, one obtains an in-depth look at the spouses who conflict with one another.

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The boy with his hair cut short by Muriel Rukeyser and The Girl by Jamaica Kincaid Literature Essay

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According to the research findings the boy in the poem “The boy with his hair cut short” represents male domination and the limitations on individual liberty in a mechanized society. At the same time, the girl in the work “The Girl” represents the suppressed class in a male dominated society.

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Comparative Analysis of Mark Danielewski, Charles Dickens and Kafka Literature Essay

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We enjoy listening to stories from various narrators for each narrator would have his or her own style of telling it. The question of whether we listen to the narrating style of the story in itself is yet to receive an appropriate and accurate answer. We are going to analyse the narrative style of three writers, namely, Mark Danielewski, Charles Dickens and Kafka in this essay.

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Comparison of the Poet Sylvia Plath with Emily Bronte Literature Essay

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According to the research findings, the writers namely Sylvia Plath and Emily Bronte though born in two different periods had shown the feminine self in different perspective. Both of them had the similar experience of being separated in their earlier life. Both had died at their 30’s and the element of ‘father stimulation’ was very deep in them.

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Thoreaus Conscience about Economic Progress Literature Essay

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There is a relationship between the inner and outer lives, as it were. This is what is meant when one “talks the talk and walks the walk,” which means that the individual’s actions are consistent with the person’s words. The self-expression of the individual could be said to be the words of the individual, and the words of the individual do not always correspond with the person’s conscience or heart.

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Medieval versus Modern Literature Essay

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As the years go by, a lot of changes occur to the general way that drama is set and acted. The role of drama in society also changes. Any comparison between medieval plays and modern plays leads to the realization of significant changes in the field of drama over time. There are lots of cultural differences that exist between medieval and early modern drama and this is our main concern in this essay.

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The Lack of Love in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Literature Essay

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Nevertheless, the example of Prufrock is not only that of a man who simply lacks love and who shows it in his negative attitude towards things – Prufrock’s story is also that of a man who needs care and sympathy. The main character, Prufrock, experiences loneliness in various instances in his life and this is most likely attributed to the lack of love for himself.

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Isolation Amidst Decadence In Prufrock Literature Research Paper

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Through this poem, Eliot criticizes the materialist and superficial culture that Prufrock belongs to. This kind of culture creates Prufrock's anxious and diffident character. This essay analyzes the theme of isolation in “Prufrock.” It argues that Eliot uses repetition, irony, setting, and allusion to depict the theme of human isolation in a materialistic and indulgent society.

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Dynamic Chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Literature Book Report/Review

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By the end of the poem, Gawain has become a dynamic character and learns that chivalrous knights are human and susceptible to the weakness that entails. Throughout the poem, King Arthur and his knights are portrayed as courteous and civilized. Their speech is clean and polite.

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The Flaws in the Concept of Knighthood Literature Research Paper

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A Knight was supposed to be brave and fearless during any fight and was to show all the knightly qualities. He was supposed to guard the Castle and to ensure that the king was safe in medieval warfare. There were very many virtues of the medieval code of chivalry. These virtues included truth, faith, charity, justice, hope, prudence, and diligence.

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The Character of Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost Literature Research Paper

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Some critics have for the most part described Satan as a “classical villain” as opposed to a “classical hero” (Calloway, 2005, p. 82). However, Calloway (2005) takes the position that Milton’s Satan is indeed a classical hero and would be widely accepted as a hero had he “acted wholly on his own volition, with no deference to a higher authority” (p. 82).

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Is Black Beautiful Literature Essay

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The efforts of Fanon, Senghor, and Cesaire in the Negritude Movement are to be commended as a positive and long-lasting step in this direction. They have made us feel that black can be beautiful too. Discussion Let us look at the search for black identity in Fritz Fanon’s ‘Black Skin, White Mask’, Leopold Senghor’s ‘Letter to a Poet’ and ‘Prayer to the Mask’ and Aime Cesaire’s ‘Notebook of a Return to the Native Land’.

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THE LAST HIPPIE Literature Essay

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A certain treatment cannot be quoted as universal, but rather depends on the norms and situations of the patients. The Last Hippie by Dr. Oliver Sacks is from his collection An Anthropologist on Mars, in which he has explained about patients facing different neurological problems.

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A Raising in the Sun - Old and New Movie Comparison Literature Essay

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Achieving dreams becomes even more difficult if the dreamer is a single African-American mother living in America during 1960s. The newer version of the movie is closer to the original play written by Hansberry. Almost every individual has one or more passionate dreams in his/her life.

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In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust Literature Essay

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Proust’s claim to fame stems from his novel In Search of Lost Time that spans around seven volumes and contains reflections from the author’s own life. Being a gargantuan work of literature, the novel spins itself around a number of themes that include memory, space, and time as well as a number of other themes.

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Culture and Imperialism in Two Visions in Heart of Darkness Literature Essay

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The researcher states that the story “Heart of Darkness” is about: ‘Europeans performing acts of imperial mastery and will in (or about) Africa’. By this time business interests predominated over adventurous and exploratory interests in empire building. The imperialist world that Conrad narrates is sealed within its own circularity; it does not allow for any alternative views.

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Kerouac, Rimbaud, Blake and Whitman: A Rejection of Pre-Modern Ideals Literature Essay

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Kerouac, Rimbaud, Whitman, and Blake all resist conventionality, making their writing new and interesting. They write about concepts that are in opposition to the dominant bourgeois ideals of their time, making them influential to counter cultural movements for the rest of the twentieth century and beyond.

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Much Ado About Nothing Literature Essay

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The play keeps true to the title as many of the characters participate mainly in the actions of just observing, listening and nothing. The play deals with the masculine feelings pertaining to women's chastity and the subjugation of women by the male dominated society.

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Analysis of The Stranger, Letters to a Young Contrarian and Walden Literature Research Paper

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Even though one of the major themes of Camus’s The Stranger is irrationality and the purposeless existence of the universe and a human being, the writer was a great moralist, because his attitude to life and morality of human deeds were never uninteresting to the writer. People engage in futile attempts to find the meaning of their life.

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William Faulkners That evening sun go down Literature Coursework

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William Faulkner’s “That evening sun go down,” is a short story that features Nancy, a Negro woman that does laundry and housework in Jefferson neighborhood.

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Analysis of John Keats To Autumn Literature Essay

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The poem means much more than just the description of the season. While some critics have considered it a static poem, there are others who disagree with that assessment. The poem discusses time and the seasonal nature of life. The poem can sometimes be thought of as symbolizing a life that has reached its peak and is drifting towards the sleep of winter.

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Spiritual Values in Anishinaabe Literature Literature Essay

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Also spelled Anishininabeg, Anishinaabeg or Anishinabe, Anishinaabe means “first or original people” and is used by the Ojibwa (also known as Chippewa) to speak of themselves, their language and culture. The Ojibwa are “a woodland people of northeastern North America” who settled around the Great Lakes region (Roy, “The Ojibwa”).

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Othello and the Merchant of Venice as the Best Plays of Shakespeare Literature Essay

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Othello and Shylock are important characters in the plays, Othello and the Merchant of Venice. Their marginal social status molds their character and lays a deep impact on their life. Shylock’s insecurity owing to his marginal social status brings about the loss of his wealth for him. On the other hand, in the case of Othello, it leads him to kill his wife and commit suicide himself.

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A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Organizations Literature Literature review

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The author of the report stresses that the parts of the book are bureaucracy and scientific management, human relations theory and people management, organization culture and self-management, and post-bureaucracy and change management. Additionally, here the issue, how business schools define and study organizations is examined.

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