minus the answer,’ leaves me wondering, what is the answer to killing your only family member? What is the answer to committing suicide and spending all the money you have before you die? What is the answer to being alone, with the choice of having a neighbor? Is there a general answer for each story, or is there just a universal answer for all pieces of literature? Why is one persons interpretations more correct then anyone else 's? The books themselves were interesting but rather dark, which I…
social problem is ageism the discrimination based on a person 's age, particularly seniors. Many elderlies suffer discrimination in some point of their old age. To understand a little more these aspects I had the privilege to interview my adorable neighbor. She has 75 years old. She’s a strong woman who usually doesn’t know how to express her feelings. She is most of the time in a negative mood, but she still has a smile in her face, which…
Impact of Culture on Leadership The major impact of diverse cultures on leadership is easily seen through the GLOBE findings of universally and non-universally desirable and undesirable attributes (House, Hanges, Javidan, Dorfman, Gupta, 2004, pp. 39-40). These results show that many cultures can appreciate the same leadership attributes such as inspiring and a visionary (House et al., 2004, p. xvii). While at the same time, cultures could vastly disagree about attributes such as ambitious where…
caused by cruel persons. Scout develops throughout the novel with the help of her father Atticus Finch. Atticus is a lawyer who defends different type of people. Atticus possesses many qualities such as intelligence, tolerance, and courage. One characteristic Atticus possesses is intelligence. Atticus demonstrates intelligence when he knew Scout was hearing Uncle Jack’s and his conversation. He let Scout listen to their conversation because he wanted Scout to get a better understanding on the…
Gran Torino made its way onto the big screen in 2009. The main character, Walt, is a racist man who is not in favor of his neighborhood being replaced with people of other races. Being a veteran of the Korean War it bothers him having a lot of Asians moving into his neighborhood. His views of the other race begin to slowly change as he develops an unlikely friendship with the teens next door. This friendship is what turned him from an old grumpy racist into the neighborhood hero. This movie was…
In William Faulkner’s The Unvanquished, Rosa Millard has a few defining moments in which she expresses her true values and characteristics. Her decision to confront Grumby is her most significant defining moment because Millard uncovers more hidden characteristics in this moment than her others. Rosa Millard's decision to scam Grumby reveals her stubbornness, misjudgment of character, and guilty conscience. Foremost, Millard reveals her stubbornness. As soon as Ab Snopes, Millard’s…
Because of its social and political aspects, Kalidar is a modern work that has some characteristics of Greek romance, in its Bakhtinian definition, such as the importance of chance, fate, and “sudden time.” Bakhtin uses two terms in order to explain the time in Greek romance, “suddenly” and “at just that moment” (Dialogic Imagination 95). From them, he concludes with the other concept, “adventuristic chance time” through which human life changes mostly based on chance (Ibid 94). Moreover, the…
Life is a constant battle, a battle in which one characteristic can be the cause of a victorious ending or an ongoing defeat. Sometimes in life, a person's trait can be their greatest help and hindrance. In “Born Worker” by Gary Soto, main character Jose is a victim of this situation. Jose is a low-class boy of Hispanic descent which causes people to stereotype him. Jose has a cousin Arnie who is a middle-class boy. Arnie receives all the luxuries in life and instead of accepting and…
respect and affection of his children, even as their lives become complicated and difficult. Atticus manages this by simply living a good and honest life. He instills the qualities he wants to see in his children through the best way possible: by offering himself as a role model. Atticus teaches his children how to be better people and they observe the same characteristics within him, causing respect and love to exist mutually within the family. An example of this is when Atticus teaches Scout…
however, leaders tend to share common characteristics. And these characteristics would form the leaders ways on how to make a foreign policy and decisions, in addition to how the leader process new information. Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and North Korea’s…