In Catch-22, the humour is interwoven throughout the majority of the novel and is mainly the instrument of satire. ... The humour in Captain Corelli's Mandolin is intertwined gently into the novel from the start as light-hearted comedy. ... This is more noticeable in Catch-22 because the satirical undertone is woven throughout the whole novel. ... This "duo" emphasises their incompetence on a satirical note, though maintaining their prestige and power throughout. ... The ludicrous nature of this dialogue arrangement is used throughout, and is therefore an integral part of the novel. ...

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In Daniel Defoe's novel, "Robinson Crusoe," the titular character struggles to remain moral in a society which places great significance on the attainment of power and wealth. ... He notes that he is lonesome on the island, separated from all of humanity; however, he has figured out ways to survive completely on his own. ... The Crusoe presented early in the novel can be seen here, as he continues to use all of the resources available to him and manage his supplies. ... Crusoe notes as a result of being in isolation, he no longer feels influenced by the evils of society or surrounded by t...

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The paper is an analytical assessment of the novel, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy to substantiate the research further. ... What is interesting to note is that a child naturally rebels when he is confronted in performing any task. ... The analysis of the data was done using a novel, read a couple of times, within a week. ... The major source this research is based on is a novel by Arundhati Roy, "The God of Small Things." ... On a similar note, Albert Camus regards rebellion as an expression of nostalgia strived by innocence and a plea to finding the true essence of humanity, in ...

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(Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' ... Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. ... Full Text: COPYRIGHT 1999 University of Oklahoma The title of Rohinton Mistry's second novel, A Fine Balance, suggests a worthwhile way to explore his fiction. ... He published...

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(Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' ... Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. ... Full Text: COPYRIGHT 1999 University of Oklahoma The title of Rohinton Mistry's second novel, A Fine Balance, suggests a worthwhile way to explore his fiction. ... He publis...

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"2 Her novels raise central matters within her society, often challenging their foundation and meaning through her portrayal of them. ... Through an examination of her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, and with reference to her later 1815 novel Emma, it is evident that Austen's attention to women's roles and social order broke conventional ideas of class hierarchy, the ideal woman and the heroine. ... In light of this, David Herbert's assertion that Austen studies "personal values, virtues and deficiencies within her 'set,'" but neglects to "questi...

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Four years later, Eco responded to readers of his novel in an eclectic text called Postscript to The Name of the Rose. ... Eco's Postscript is also a manifesto proclaiming the authority of serious historical fiction: the characters in a historical novel may not appear in encyclopedias, he notes, but everything they do could only occur in that time and place. ... Umberto Eco's best-selling novel--The Name of the Rose challenges its readers to map their landscapes cognitively and illustrate the emergence of the late-twentieth-century novel of complexity, that is, the novel of emergence...

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On the same notes, the marketing team must deal with the various regulations and standards that govern the field. ... As the various industries grows and expand a number of novel commodity options continue to be launched in the market. ... Existing novel products may help market players in gaining access to fresh markets that were unapproachable in the past. ... In precise, the firm evaluates the novel commodity from a fairness point of view. ... On the same note, financial analysis should adequately capture cases other than the most likely or the best scenario. ...

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Written by Jeanette Winterson in 1985, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a Bildungsroman novel. ... Normally the Bildungsroman is decisive; contrastingly Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit remains open and ambiguous as Jeanette wishes to be saved by 'a woman in another place' and this possibility leaves the novel in a state of limbo because the reader doesn't know if she finds it. ... The novel follows the development of Jeanette as she grows up and makes the decision that she is a lesbian and this causes uproar in the family home and in church as her highly religious mother regar...

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*NOTE: General widely accepted definitions will be used due to the controversial nature of the two topics amongst Political Scientist agreeing to just one permanent definition for each. ... Section IV: Empirical Research, data collected from interviews, books, journals, websites, and class-notes, will be compiled to answer the questions presented in the introduction. ... *NOTE: The preceding paragraph was based off of Prof. ...

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Santos also had to confirm the validity and the accuracy of the prisoners account by note taking and reading verbatim what was said back to the prisoner he was taking notes from and interviewing at that time. ... Throughout Santos' novel, he had his observations and notes that, as mentioned, were comprised via the viewpoints and takes of other inmates. ... While inmates focus on survival and fulfilling their sentences, the US FEDERAL BOP (Bureau of Prisons) Santos notes only seek to keep prisons working without interruption, to prevent breakouts and chaos from erupting in the prisons and ...

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Alexie's first novel, Reservation Blues, was published in 1995 and is no exception to this. ... Within this novel Alexie manages to merge together the mythical and romanticized view of Native Americans (although Alexie "has been at pains to deflate just such romantic myths, whether steward of the earth, stoical warrior, shaman or savage") with a more realistic, and perhaps somewhat depressing, account of Native Americans regarding matters such as racism, religion, the commodification of Native American culture and life on the reservations including alcoholism and health service...

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At the peak of the 19th century there was a "revolutionary" shift and rise in the popularity of writers rejecting the concept of romanticism in their novellas and novels. ... Gustave Flaubert as a modernist literary legend was a master at the precision of detail in his novel and this emphasized the modern perspective in his work. Flaubert's technique of cinematographic description was amplified through the form in his novels in alternating the point of view in the narrative throughout his work. Both of these distinguishing factors in writing form are found in his novel Madame...

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Throughout his novel, Said identifies several dangerous assumptions made by the West about the Orient that had the chance, given the influence of the West over the past 2000 years, to materialize and contribute to the manifestation of complex issues within the Orient. ... Loti, while articulate in his descriptive details, could be described as conflicted, as he presented many contradictory claims throughout his novel. ...

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Taken from the novel, Briefing for a Descent Into Hell, the quote, " in pulsing dark, crouched, I holding on, clutching tight, rocking, somewhere behind the gate, and a dark red clotting light and pressure and pain and then OUT into a flat white light where shapes move and things flash and glitter." (135) is a description of the miracle of birth. ... Throughout the novel, Lessing frequently calls to question who or what forms an individual's personality, and where characteristics and traits are established and acquired to form who a person is. ... This particular section of the novel,...

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In an effort to limit the unencumbered rambling, I am going to focus on Twain's response to the racial issues at the heart of his American historical context, primarily through an interpretation of the novel (if it may be characterized as such) Pudd'nhead Wilson with reference to other works by Twain we have discussed in this course and multiple critical essays which have been pored over, albeit with less than completely gratifying results. ... Gerber in "Pudd'nhead Wilson as Fabulation,"" Mark Twain was not really a novelist - he was more of a "new journalist,"" who spun yarn...

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(Bloom 209) However, Trodd notes that "Long before this, Hemingway's limited vocabulary, few adjectives, and concrete descriptions of specific objects all countered with minimalism the problem of "used up words." ...

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1. Introduction As the title of this chapter suggests, the discussion here will approach our experimental findings from three different perspectives. First we consider the implications of our work for L2 instruction and materials design. Then we discuss problems in the research and how they can be a...

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Title: An Investigation into Sexist Language. Name: Andrew Verrijdt One of the most important political and social movements of the twentieth century has been the drive towards achieving complete equality for all people regardless of race, colour, class, gender identity, mental state or physical impairment. One area that has remained resistant to change is language. While it is has been widely accepted that some aspects of language are clearly sexist, for example the use of "he" as a genderless pronoun (Cameron 1998, Wardaugh 1992, Pauwels 1998), there is still argument as to whether or n...

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For example, in "Criticism and Fiction" (1891), William Dean Howells, a advocate of nineteenth-century American realism, warns readers to avoid sentimental or sensational novels, which he claims "hurt" by presenting "idle lies about human nature and the social fabric." ...

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As one of the driving forces of the young Romantic movement, Robert Schumann influenced the development of a new style. And although he did not seem to be destined to become a composer, music soon became very important to him, displaying multiple talents in performance and composition. ROBERT SC...

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In order to clarify our perspective on the problem, it is also important to note that violence against women is to be considered as being essentially related to the more general problems of women's oppression. ... It is relevant to note that most of the family planning clinics and hospitals show higher records of tubectomy by women, compared to that of vasectomy by men. ...

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As one of the driving forces of the young Romantic movement, Robert Schumann influenced the development of a new style. And although he did not seem to be destined to become a composer, music soon became very important to him, displaying multiple talents in performance and composition. ROBERT SC...

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This exploration is engaged around slight film solar cells in light of natural materials and other novel semiconductors, which could be utilized to make generally economical, adaptable, and lightweight solar modules, yet have so far likewise turned out to be less productive than crystalline silicon cells. ...

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Introduction Managers of multinational organisations need to be able to manage businesses internationally. One needs to possess knowledge and skills beyond those of usual business expertise to be in a position to manage at the international level. For instance, managers in multinational firms are re...

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