...avoid it. Thus creating a jolt in the persons’ thought process and no longer allows them to express what is called everyday “rational” thought. The Misfit is a wanted criminal who stumbles upon the family when they crash their car in the woods. He lives by a moral code that involves murder and remorselessness, but he also spends time wondering about Jesus. He doesn’t know for sure whether Jesus really raised the dead, has opted for “meanness” as a way of giving his life meaning. He doesn’t see himself as a terrible person. His two associates kill the entire family, and the Misfit shoots the grandmother himself. I understand that his ways and concept of life is unorthodox, but strains on a man’s life can do that . The Misfit seems an unlikely source to look to for spiritual or moral guidance, but he demonstrates a deep conviction that the other characters in the story lack. Unlike the grandmother, who simply assumes that she is morally superior to everyone else, the Misfit seriously questions the meaning of life and his role in it. He has carefully considered his actions...
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...they don’t realize is they’re headed straight for the Misfit. The title foreshadows the kind of person that is wound to show up in the story. “A person whose behavior or attitude sets them apart from others in an uncomfortably conspicuous way” is the meaning of misfit which is the exact person of the character of The Misfit. Cold hearted and indifferent, the Misfit is the exact opposite of a good man; he clearly has no moral values and isn’t looking for any guidance, but the grandmother thinking she is at a higher spiritual level than everyone else around her, attempts to reason with the murderer. You can’t reason with someone who has already lost their mind. The grandmother did buy herself a little more time than the rest of her family, but her calling the misfit a good man and trying to appeal to his “better side” only shows that even in her final moments she still tries to get her way. The Misfit is consistent with wanting to spread pain amongst people and he makes this evident during his conversation with the grandmother, “then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can – by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness," he said, and his voice had become almost a snarl.” He shot the grandmother 3 times after she reached out to him and had called him one of her children. “Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children!” The Misfit had just explained to the...
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...the con- gregation in “The War-Prayer” is not. Albert Bigelow Paine quotes Twain as writing on New Year’s Eve 1900-01: A GREETING FROM THE NINETEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY I bring you the stately nation named Christendom, returning, bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored, from pirate raids in Kiao-Chou, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phil- ippines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass. (Europe xxxiv) Here, only the adjective “stately” tells us that the intended tone is irony, before Twain starts hammering home his point; and it is precisely the behavior of Christendom in the Philippines that would lead, in 1904-5, to the barely disguised fury that makes “The War- Prayer”’s irony so unsubtle. Unsubtle is not the same as ineffective, of course, but insidi- ousness usually serves irony better. It was still Twain’s only appropriate rhetorical device, however, given that irony is inherently dualistic: it says or implies one thing, it means another; it has a stated (often false) meaning, and a silent (true)...
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...The biology of leadership The relation between leadership, psychopathy and hormones Master thesis Economics and Business 8th of August 2012 Name student: Ricardo Westendorp Student number: 294819rw Supervisor: Wouter van den Berg The biology of leadership PREFACE Around October, 2011, I started looking for a subject to graduate on, when a neuro-economical subject, involving the connection of leadership to psychopathy and hormones, crossed my path. I had to jump into it, because this subject matched the field I am interested in. Now, 8 months later, I present you my final work and I have enjoyed working on it. I have to be honest, this product would not have been able to be written if it wasn’t for the help of certain people. Therefore, I would like to use this section, to show my gratitude to some people, that helped me along the way. First of all, I thank the Erasmus School of Economics, for providing the financial support for this research. This research would definitely not have been possible, without the financial support of the ESE. Secondly, I would like to thank my supervisor, Wouter van den Berg, who has supported me, guided me and who has contributed intellectually. I would also like to thank Kashin Hau, who has made great contributions to the construction of the leadership questionnaire. Also, I would like to thank Sarstedt, who provided 500 saliva tubes. I am very thankful for the help of my parents. A great contribution has been made by my parents, Wim Westendorp...
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...She will not give up this attempt at being a lady no matter what happens to her or grand children. As she confronts the Misfit her self assurance and idea that she is a lady slowly disintegrates away as she becomes more humble that she will most likely die. The symbolism of these disintegration is when her brim actually falls off of her hat and it realization that she is not a lady by any means. The symbolism of the hat to her concept of doing anything by any means necessary to be a considered a lady by everyone including herself is quite obvious and a good example of things people do in their own lives. The grandmother applies the label “good” indiscriminately, blurring the definition of a “good man” until the label loses its meaning entirely. She first applies it to Red Sammy after he angrily complains of the general untrustworthiness of people. He asks her why he let two strangers charge their gasoline—he’s obviously...
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...despite the nature of his poetic name that could symbolize the fortune, had a misfortune to offend the tactical killer Montresor. The villain of the short story was brought to the readers eyes as a character that is planning the revenge very scrupulously and timely without the excess of emotions. One of the signs of his frightening insanity and meanness is the fact that “neither by word nor deed had he given Fortunato cause to doubt his good will. He...
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...document to illustrate how you can structure your paper so you stick with the prompt. Prompt #1 Critic Roland Barthes has said, “Literature is the question minus the answer.” Considering Barthes’ observation, write an essay in which you analyze a central question The Kite Runner raises and the extent to which it offers answers. Explain how the author’s treatment of this question affects your understanding of the work as a whole. Prompt #2 Describe how a minor character in your novel serves as a foil, or opposite, to the main character. Then describe how the relationship between the minor character and the major character illuminates the meaning of the work. Prompt #3 In great literature, no scene of violence exists for its own sake. Find a violent scene (or scenes) in The Kite Runner and explain how they illuminate the meaning of the novel. A Sample Outline Below is an example illustrating how prompt...
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...Justin Ong Professor Y. Cooper-Grigg English 102 29 May 2013 Death Is a Catalyst For Characters to Change This paper is based on Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, a short story. The theme for this research paper will be an analysis of the key characters in the story that are affected and changed by an encounter with death, with a near-death occurrence. The reason for this theme is to bring some significant insights into the literary work in a profound way. The grandmother and the Misfit are chosen to establish the theme in the paper. In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, death is a catalyst for characters to change; some characters are changed positively by their experience with death, while other characters are changed negatively. The Misfit shows why he became evil because his expectation of goodness in the society was put to death by the reality of injustice. In a polite tone, the Misfit explains to the grandmother, “I found out the crime don’t matter. You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car“ (O’Connor 194). This opinion comes from the Misfit serving his lengthy time in jail where he experienced harsh prejudices. The Misfit continues to explain to the grandmother calmly, then came a “piercing scream” from the wood background where the Misfit ordered the grandmother’s family to be killed. Suddenly, Misfit’s tone turned nasty, “Does it seem right to you, lady, that one is punished a heap and another ain’t punished at...
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...Universally, man struggles to reconcile his views and beliefs with his surrounding environment. Influenced for one reason or another by prominent figures (good or bad) and by the depth and abundance of stories that have been collected over vast periods of time, man is capable of deriving a method of being which provides him with the most suitable life. But keep in mind that just because man is capable of choosing the right way to live, he does not always choose the path of goodness. In “12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos”, Jordan Peterson discusses the yin/yang symbol and how the Taoists derived meaning from the border of these two. “To walk the border is to stay on the path of life, the divine way.” It’s common knowledge that young men usually carry with them an...
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...David Guy Professor Adams English 102 January 30, 2013 Free Speech Since the birth of this great nation, free speech has been among the key facets that hold it together. The founding fathers felt the need to restrict the government’s power by sharing that power with the people through the passing of the First Amendment. This amendment states that the government can pass no law limiting the freedom of speech or press (“Freedom of Speech”). After all, if it hadn’t been for religious persecution, the pilgrims would not have left England to found a new nation. As Americans, we can express our opposition of the government’s actions and goals without repercussion. One form of free speech, elections, allows us to cast a vote for the candidate we see best fit to have a roll in our government. The idea of free speech suggests an equal partnership between government and citizen rather than an oppressive relationship seen in Communist countries like China and Cuba. Countries like these have developed using Communist methods, and for the most part relinquishing free speech rights from their citizens. Free speech guarantees the absence of tyranny and provides the most beneficial relationship between government and citizen. In the early 1620s, the first pilgrims came to the New World seeking religious freedom, but they ironically did not implement that idea into their culture. They had been denied the right to free speech in England because they held different beliefs than the Church...
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...Regional Southern Fiction Regional southern fiction writers focused on the dialect, characters, customs, and setting of a specific region when they wrote their stories (Campbell 2010). Dialect and detailed descriptions of the region were integral to the story to make the characters authentic to the region and for readers to understand the region in which the characters lived. The descriptions of the land and the accents of the characters are what separated the south from the north. In Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” and Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” the reader learns about the journeys of two old ladies. While these journeys are both life journeys they are different in nature. The protagonist in “A Worn Path’s” story is about a journey of race and the obstacles in life that she has had to overcome and still has to face each day of her life, while the protagonist in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is about a spiritual journey that one must take in order to find favor with God and receive His grace and all of His goodness. Both of these stories transcend time and please because the themes in both of these while different can be seen in the world around us today. Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” is a journey about race and the obstacles the old lady has to overcome in order to help her grandson whom swallowed lye a few years back and occasionally gets sick so Phoenix Jackson has to travel through the woods into town to get him medicine. The time of year that this particular...
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...side by using “lady” while forgetting that there are other family members with her. The use of that statement as a question in order to make the misfit feel sorry for her and change his mind. O’Connor does present some kindness and forgiveness towards life when he states “It’s no real pleasure in life” as he claimed in the middle of the storyline that life is not fair and life’s pleasure needs to be carried out through meanness due to the lack of balance. The words that O’Connor uses are both conventional and deep, they express how the characters transform from reality to something that would not even imagine. Diction also helps the reader know how each characters react differently in each situation. By ending with “It’s no pleasure in life” gives a sense of foreshadowing and thin fragility is crucial to the atmosphere of “A good man is hard to find”, as it helps purify the character’s deeper consciousness regarding his dark actions. Symbolism is majorly used throughout the story to support the reader enjoy a little adventure while analyzing the deeper meaning of hints. O’Connor used the sky as a hidden symbolism to match the bigger theme of a calm, variations in the state of mind. The symbolism behind sky is usually relating a thought process or a state of mind. O’Connor starts the family’s journey by presenting many clouds that cover the clear, blue sky that references to the blindness behind the thought process and obstacle that encounters the information. Each character in...
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...Is A Good Man That Hard To Find? I feel that O'Connor's story fits well with her statement about the South being "Christ-haunted." In fact, I feel that the Misfit, whom at first appeared to me to be a ruthless, sadistic murderer, actually ended up being even more of a 'good person' than any of the members of Bailey's family. I will analyze certain statements made in the story to make my point feasible. “The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.” First off, it is pretty obvious to me that the "silver-white sunlight" is supposed to be imagery the reader associates with Heaven. Beyond that, I feel there are two possible meanings to it as a whole, depending on how you interpret the meaning of the word "meanest": either they are being portrayed as cruel, or they are being portrayed as average. In the first case, the trees could almost be approximated with the Misfit in the role of Jesus. In the second case, the trees could be representative of Bailey's family. “They passed a large cotton field with five or six graves fenced in the middle of it, like a small island.” It just so happens that the Bailey family has six members: Bailey, his wife, his mother, and his three children. I feel this is an allusion to the fact that they're going to die later on. The bit about the island may also be significant. In the end, they seemed to be stranded, trapped, and surrounded on all sides by the Misfit and his men, just like an island is surrounded by water...
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...Anthropology As It Relates To Racism Jeffery Bridgewater ANT 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Instructor: Matthew Harms August 20, 2015 The history of anthropology and racism is knotted and complex. Thoughts of human nature and life anthropology need to include replications on anthropology and racism today. The essential to answering the question of what is Anthropology is the real mystery? In this essay we will discover how anthropology and racism are intertwined and affect our lives. Racism today takes the form of financial and political differences, arranged along the collective group of race. These two things are both facts and still very much present. Before saying anything about the human evolution and biology, it would be necessary to understand ideas of the race shape scientific investigation. The human evolution to categorizing hominin species to discussions about Neanderthal and denisovan breeding and potentially entering the race of ideas, configurations of anthropology and racism today. I like to give you a little insight to how we will look into races the black race is a race that has been abused in time past. They tend to be violent especially to themselves. They are group of that have some that think only of themselves or do anything to move up the latter. The things that is so amazing about this group of people is how they will come together when one of there on has been wronged be another race but they turn around and do it to themselves....
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...Once a leader starts to indulge in their own desires they begin to lose their leadership identity and eventually the respect and trust of their followers. If a leader cannot be trusted, they cannot lead; for the public will not be guided by someone they have no trust in. Gilgamesh is recognized as a leader by his followers although; he does not encompass the complete meaning of this identity. Gilgamesh has a synthesis of favorable and detrimental qualities. Gilgamesh is admired for his physical perfection and strength, but is also feared for his arrogance and violence. Gilgamesh, is a very terrifying leader, the epitome of an ineffective leader. He harasses his subjects and oppresses them under his tyranny; with, “The city in his possession, he struts through it, arrogant, his head raised high,...he is king, he does whatever he wants,...no one dares to oppose him” (72). This suggests that not only is the violence extreme, but that it is also unwarranted. Although Gilgamesh created an impressive and mighty city, his unmanageable, arrogant and violent qualities led his subjects to fear him. Following the journeys...
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