“The Remains of the Day” -post-colonial novel- Postcolonialism‚ discussed from a literary approach‚ deals with the literature produced in countries that were colonies and by the colonized peoples responding to the colonial legacy by what the British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie called “writing back”‚ and thus confronting colonial cultural attitudes through literature. However‚ it may also refer to the literature written in other countries‚ which takes as its subject-matter the
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day gives an eloquent treatment of the issue of how a stoic English butler’s unemotional reaction to the emotional world around him is damaging and painful‚ and how he resolves to make the best of the “remains of the day”—the remainder of his life. Ishiguro explores some of the differences between the old English Victorian culture—that of the stiff upper lip‚ no show of emotion‚ and repression of personal opinion—and the no-holds-barred
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"Neutral Tones" by Thomas Hardy is very neutral in tone; its melancholic note is created by a narrator reflecting on the termination of a relationship. Throughout‚ a soothing yet depressing language illustrates this duality. Hardy uses a variety of techniques to highlight sadness and emotions in the narrator. In the first stanza the scene and atmosphere is set‚ "we stood by a pond that winter day".No harsh sounds are present and the sentence epitomises the tranquillity yet disheartening nature of
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Helping to Reduce Intergroup Conflict Daniele M. Wilson Upper Iowa University Social Psychology – PSY 310 Dr. Giselle L. Gourrier‚ Instructor Helping to Reduce Intergroup Conflict Conflict usually happens within a group. Even with a group‚ an Individual will see the world differently and have their own idea of how things should be done. Those different point of views often can often escalate into conflict. Intergroup conflict is simply a disagreement within the group of two or more
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People change when they experience conflict Tomorrow When The War Begin is the novel by John Marsden is about 7 young adult who went to camping and they returned their country(Australia) had been invocated it was at war. Most people change when they experience conflict.The characters from hell experience conflict such as being shot at escaping from soldier‚ being bombed and being injured they also experience conflict because their parent are held hostage in the show grand. Homer change dramatically
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When it comes to the composition of my own personal network‚ it’s difficult to put an exact number of people who are included. I would have to include all my sisters’ friends‚ my coworkers‚ my sporting teammates‚ etc. If we were to include all my family‚ friends and the acquaintances encountered throughout my life‚ I would estimate it to be around 5‚000 people. However‚ currently I believe that there are approximately 500 people whom I would include in my personal network. I would categorize about
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Stevens‚ an aging butler and the main character in Kazoo Ishiguro’s award winning novel The remains of the Day (1989)‚ sets off on a motoring trip through the south of England. The story about to unfold takes place during six days‚ but consists mainly of flashbacks on events taken place earlier in Stevens’s life. Consequently‚ the history is of greatest importance in this novel. The setting is the English countryside in the summer of 1956 and the British society is at a turning point between old
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Running head: The Impossibility of a Neutral Curriculum The Impossibility of a Neutral Curriculum The Impossibility of a Neutral Curriculum In an era of “keeping it real‚” there is an abundance of artificiality. A vast portion of the population prefers artificial intelligence‚ artificial sweeteners‚ artificial insemination‚ and artificial Christmas trees. However‚ I have yet to see a demand for artificial curriculum. Van Brummelen (2002) presents four
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Should Toys Be More Gender-Neutral? This topic is one that does hit me close to home because I have a ten year old sister and a few other cousins younger than her. Though I did not really think about this topic much until now. It is the twenty-first century after all‚ shouldn’t gender-neutral toys be a thing? With this I researched this topic more with this help of my sister to learn more about. Though sadly I do believe that toys should be more gender-neutral even though they currently aren’t.
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Compare and Contrast ‘Neutral Tones’ by Thomas Hardy and ‘Absence’ by Elizabeth Jennings. In both poems Thomas Hardy and Elizabeth Jennings they have lost a person they were close to. There are some similarities in their feeling but there responses are different. Neither poets can forget the experience and are reminiscing on the situation. They are both going back to the place where they were with the people they loved. However in ‘Absence’ she has actually gone to the place they were together
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