The main character, Charlie Gordon, was at first, a thirty-seven year old man with an IQ of sixty-eight. ... This character enabled the readers to differentiate between the minorities in society who does accept people with distinctions, and the majority who do not. ... Nemur an inferiority complex- (May 15-p145) and his inability to communicate, "no matter what I try to discuss with her, I am unable to communicate- (May 18-p145), revealed Charlie's lateral mind that excelled anyone's around him. This fast course of change in the character strengthened the effectiveness of the issue...

• Word Count: 2011
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Myth is an extremely complex cultural phenomenon that portrays the symbolic language and fundamental elements and hypothesis of a culture. ... The evil character Scar bears much resemblance to Creon, Jocasta's brother who became ruler by default and brought destruction to Thebas. ... The character of Oedipus is one to be both feared and revered, as the subject matter is both simultaneously fascinating and atrocious. ... The comic book character Superman is also an iconic cultural symbol, representing a heroic figure that has become the personification of strength. ... Most cinematic ...

• Word Count: 1933
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many of his plays are so remarkable, not necessarily because of the complex issues they raise, but rather the ideals they "challenge-. ... Not only does Othello hold a position of significant social status and is widely respected by senior characters, but he knows his own worth. ... By the time he refers to Desdemona as the "devil- (IV,i) and then hits her, the respect held for him by the audience and other characters, who become "deceived in him- (IV,i), falls. ... Othello's wife Desdemona is also a character who initially contradicts the dominant Jacobean attitudes towards women and ...

• Word Count: 1558
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In both Jane Eyre and Great Expectations, the central character is an orphan, who helps articulate various social and moral conflicts in society. ... Pip achieves this realization when he is finally able to understand that, despite the esteem in which he holds Estella, one's social status is in no way connected to one's real character. ... As Jane meets with new experiences, solves complex problems and emotional tangles, and takes on new challenges, she gradually acquires a knowledge of herself and her capacities, and a secure sense of who she is. ... In both Jane Eyre and Great Ex...

• Word Count: 1152
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Television has also been responsible for strengthening our cross-cultural misconceptions through use of fictional characters portraying stereotypes to illustrate coming from a different culture. ... To claim that stereotypes of ethnic groups are the norm in the media implies that complex differences are ignored. ... Even the tendency of daytime talk to privilege simple, individual solutions to complex social problems like racism, poverty, and sexual violence is by no means the special province of talk-shows or Reality TV more generally, but a characteristic of virtually all mainstream media...

• Word Count: 1636
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ideology is a complex term and is commonly referred to as a system of values, attitudes and belief characteristics which a class, a group, or an individual deems important. ... As the female recovers, we are shown what appears to be an impending kiss between the two central characters. ...

• Word Count: 691
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Shakespeare's Othello centres on the complex idea of jealousy as a means of exploring the emotion which is prevalent in all societies. ... The manipulation of certain characters in Othello allows the exploration of Iago's duplicity. ...

• Word Count: 878
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The outcome of the characters and events which occur during the novel tell us much about the values informing the novel. ... Many people were marginalised because of their gender, class or race, and in Eva Luna these issues are defied through different events and characters, Eva Luna in particular. ... Society's values of that time regarding sex are challenged by Allende through Eva's character. ... Due to Allende's own experiences she represents gender, class and race as a complex web of power relationships, most of which she challenges. ...

• Word Count: 1714
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Cultural identity is in itself a complex phenomenon, subject to the many changes, which take place in any particular society. ... The main character, Clare Savage, struggles with her identity throughout the book. ... In Cliff's novel Abeng, the main character Clare suffers this phenomenon. ... Powell's character. ...

• Word Count: 1717
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Therefore, the conceptions within literary and fundamental Marxism can easily be directed towards inequality and the complex economic relations within families. ... The characters are determined by their financial position and judged accordingly. ... May Sinclair seems critical of the class structures that invade the personal relations between her characters. ... Patriarchal authority and expression is extremely relevant to the characters, as Harriett's mother within the text does not have a forename. ...

• Word Count: 1734
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Recently, all social and environmental problems or issues have become important and crucial aspects for every business enterprise. Companies have a big influence and impact in the community and the economy of a country for it affects all areas of life within a society, therefore both profit and societal well-being must have an equal value for every enterprise. As it was said by Sigmar Gabriel the German Federal Minister for the Environment, how companies act has a big influence not just on the prospects of the individual but also on the ability of a society as a whole to realize its potential ...

• Word Count: 2852
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The classic definition of culture was provided by the 19th-century English anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor in the first paragraph of his Primitive Culture (1871): Culture . . . is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. ... The mother-in-law taboo is a complex of concepts, attitudes, and acts. ... Analyzing "the complex whole" into component parts or categories facilitates an understanding of human culture. ...

• Word Count: 4734
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The concept that physical characteristics are related to social behaviour have been traced back to the Greek physician Hippocrates, who designed a group of typologies and physiques and tried to correlate them with character traits. ... As Eysenck and Gudjonsson (1989) stated: "What is inherited are certain peculiarities of the brain and nervous system that interact with certain environmental factors and thereby increase the likelihood that a person will act in a particular antisocial manner in a given situation" Eysenck believed that he could measure the three character traits using a p...

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Nonetheless, the two distinct social factors are features of agency and structure in a complex society in which they create causally interlinked configurations. ... It shows Chaplin's empathy toward the working class as he assumes the character of the Tramp - an underdog who remains hopeful and cheery, despite clashing with society and powerful institutions. ...

• Word Count: 1593
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

REFERENCES: Sennet, R (1998) The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism. ... Globalisation: The exponential growth of human interconnectedness that is globalisation, in my view, can be separated into three distinct waves and the totality of the three waves has made the world what it is today; a complex mixture of nations bound by global structures and frameworks, slowly combining together as a whole. ...

• Word Count: 1928
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Since humans are complex human beings, not everything that we feel or think can be transmitted to the people which we interact with. ... John Green is the author of a popular novel The Fault in Our Stars, in which it is perceived that one of the main characters has terminal cancer. ...

• Word Count: 1466
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Deviance, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder. There is nothing inherently deviant in any human act, something is deviant only because some people have been successful in labelling it so. J. L Simmons The definition of the situation implies that if you define a situation as real, it is real ...

• Word Count: 3151
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The Japanese economic miracle is complex and can only be explained by looking to political, cultural, and economic reasons. ... Obsessed with national character, the Japanese are proud and ambitious; constantly measuring themselves against the world's best and biggest. ...

• Word Count: 2410
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The issue of Identity is a complex one. Identity consists of innumerable defining characters that make up the whole of who we are in any given moment. These fragments of self-include our sexuality, gender and sense of belonging to a particular culture, nation, religion or family. It also includes ou...

• Word Count: 1932
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The screenplay avoids platitudes and easy answers, and treats the characters as individuals, rather than symbols or idealized stereotypes. ... Foley's discussion is by far the most complicated of the three, in two ways: 1) his brings in much more social theory, and 2) the situation that he writes about is quite complex. ...

• Word Count: 2799
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Social welfare is an encompassing and imprecise term, but most often it is defined in terms of organized activities or some other factor that suggests procedure and programs to answer to identified social problems or to ameliorate the well-being of those at risk. To define social welfare in terms of programs or problems alone, however, is to miss a larger and more enduring element. Chatterjee (1985) observed that social welfare is concerned with the right order of relationships in society; that is, it is some ideal of the way in which some society works and fits together to form a suitable pl...

• Word Count: 3108
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate