Developing a Tolerance for Ambiguity By Greg | Published: January 14‚ 2010 Celebrate your appreciation for ambiguity with a T-shirt like this from the Mental Floss store Early in my career at GE‚ one of the leadership values the company mentioned‚ but never really emphasized‚ was a “tolerance for ambiguity”. There was never any coaching on how to develop such a capability. Even now‚ I can’t really find a reference to it on the web (though current GE CEO Jeff Immelt recently emphasized the need
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This need to submit to Kafka’s ambiguity can best be seen in a scene in the same introductory chapter of the initial court session. After K. is informed by phone of his first hearing‚ Kafka explains‚ “Of course he was required to appear; they presumed it was not really necessary to point that out. He was given the number of the building in which he was to appear: it was a building on a street in a distant district K. had never been to before (Kafka‚ 36). Just as the phone call had introduced an ambiguous
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Ambiguity in Young Goodman Brown Summary: The story "Young Goodman Brown" is portrayed as a straight forward tale of a man on a venture. It is not overly difficult to comprehend or interpret‚ however it does have several great ambiguities. ________________________________________ "Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting? (387)" The story "Young Goodman Brown" is portrayed as a straight forward tale of a man on a venture. It is not overly
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Lexical Ambiguity “What you see is what you believe on the basis of what you have conditioned yourself to accept. Your negative will be someone’s positive.” – Pushkar Shinde I’m always told since time immemorial that I have to speak and express myself because I have something to say but being an English major brought me in a point of realization wherein I learned how hard it is to be entirely understood. As my professor had always told me‚ meanings are in people‚ not in words.
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Ambiguity in A Good Man is Hard to Find ’ In most short stories ambiguity is used to some extent. The level of ambiguity in each story varies‚ however the importance and value of that vagueness does not. Ambiguity often leads to elevating the thought put into reading the text‚ as well as numerous interpretations. In Flannery O ’Connor ’s short story‚ A Good Man is Hard to Find ’‚ the ambiguous theme causes both deeper thought and different opinions about the text. Through the characters
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Communication Ambiguity 学号 201101294 姓名 刘仕途 学院 国际贸易学院 专业 国际贸易 Communication Ambiguity As a practical communication tool‚ English and all the other languages have ambiguous situation causing misunderstanding. Kess‚ F. J. and Hoppe‚ A. R. said in their book Ambiguity in Psycholinguistics that “Upon careful consideration‚ one cannot but be amazed at the ubiquity of ambiguity in language.” Ambiguity often caused
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THE PROJECT OF ambiguity in translation PROFESSOR : DR jabbari STUDENT: SAEID JEDI In the name of the most compassionate Abstract This paper deals with translation ambiguity and target polysemy problems together. many Words have more than one translation across languages. Such translation ambiguous words are generally translated more slowly and less Accurately than their unambiguous counterparts. Additionally‚ there are multiple source of translation ambiguity including within language
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1.2.2 A major ambiguity in the play is Hamlet’s madness; Personally I believe Hamlet was not mad and that most of his actions were justifiable. The play took place in a very traumatic time in Hamlet’s life‚ being that his father who he respected greatly had recently been murdered and the betrayal of his mother. An example of Hamlets believed madness is his encounter with Ophelia that she believed to be madness driven by love; This encounter is not madness in my mind but rather just processing grief
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what it meant‚ “It’s about the God of the Old Testament‚ the God of the New‚ and Humanity‚ isn’t it?”. Pinter replied‚ “No Terry‚ it’s about a caretaker and two brothers”. With this quote Terence Rattigan succinctly highlights the absolute ambiguity of Harold Pinter’s ‘The Caretaker’; in this story of two brothers and an elderly derelict in close quarters‚ everything that is said and not said can be understood in all sorts of contradictory ways. Rattigan saw three characters as the holy trinity
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Addie Zebrowski Moral Ambiguity in Heart of Darkness In _Heart of Darkness_‚ by Joseph Conrad‚ the character Marlow‚ through his actions and experiences‚ shows himself to be morally ambiguous in that he goes on the European’s malevolent expedition to Africa yet he seems to despise the events he sees there and in that he performs both noble and ignoble deeds. These experiences and actions drive Conrad’s theme of European influence and colonialism corrupting‚ in this case‚ Africa. Marlow is a sailor
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