Ambiguity

(http://www.orchestralibrary.com/reftables- /mahler2gloss.html#V) The combined effects create a profound emotional response among listeners, as Mahler intended. 7. AMBIGUITY One note harmony During one of his six lectures at Harvard, in his series of lectures for The Unanswered Question, Arnold Bernstein quoted two definitions for musical ambiguity: (1) to be “doubtful or uncertain”,…

DeVito (2016) stated: A culture with a high ambiguity-tolerant culture doesn’t feel threatened by unknown situations; uncertainty is a normal part of life, and people accept it as it comes. They minimize the importance of rules governing communication and relationships. People in these cultures readily tolerate individuals who don’t follow the same rules as the cultural majority and may encourage different approaches and perspectives. Cultures with low ambiguity-tolerant cultures avoid…

one’s tolerance for ambiguity, different personality styles and leadership styles, and how one handles conflict and dissonance. I will analyze how all of these dimensions are present in my team and how they affect the culture of my team. From this analysis, I will determine what is needed to make a team effective. I will also determine how I can develop the strengths that make a team effective and put them into action. Tolerance for ambiguity Someone’s tolerance for ambiguity is how well he…

In Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the Creature that Victor Frankenstein creates is morally ambiguous. The Creature plays a pivotal role by being a main focus throughout the novel. The Creature’s moral ambiguity is also significant to the outcomes of the novel. Throughout Frankenstein, the Creature plays a pivotal role by being a main focus and part of Victor’s life. The Creature plays the role of a deuteragonist and antagonist, making him a main character. The Creature plays the most pivotal…

While the biomedical explanatory model for OCD appears to represent an adequate outline of a disorderly state, cultural ambiguity nonetheless pervades, wherein  ritualised behaviour is not indicative of the disorder unless it exceeds cultural norms (American Psychiatric Association, 2003). The cultural ambiguity circumscribing obsessions and compulsions gives rise to viewing this psychiatric category as a construct of cultural knowledge and symptoms as viable expressions of a reflexive agency.…

Charles Brockden Brown’s gothic novel, Wieland, or The Transformation, divulges into the ambiguity through the first person narration of Clara, and her inability to decipher between reality and superstition. Throughout the haunting novel, Clara finds herself endlessly questioning the strange events that pierce her and her family’s lives, unable to trust her own skepticism and to find any definite answers. Scholar, Christine Hedlin, observes Clara’s narration in her essay entitled “Was There Not…

the line between good and evil in the story. Furthermore, Beowulf’s identity is more persistent in the novel because he had a stronger allegiance to the Geatish people, contrasting his weaker allegiance to them in the movie. Firstly, there is ambiguity in who the…

In the research article (Salvatore & Shelton, 2007) the effect on cognitive processing by encountering prejudice is being studied. The research that has been done before hand by the authors shows us that even though it is very unlikely that someone would experience obvious prejudice, but many people that belong to minority groups experience prejudice that is implied in different ways that occurs daily. As we know contemporary forms for prejudice are often ambiguous, people that are effected by…

The 40th chapter of Isaiah is difficult to interpret because of the ambiguity of the text. This chapter has caused numerous scholarly discussion leading to many different interpretations of the chapter. This paper will focus on verses one through eleven, answering questions regarding some of the difficulties of the text. A few questions that will be addressed are the following: Who is the speaker of the text? Is there multiple speakers in this passage? What is the main point of the message? Who…

freedom to develop a language of its own to delve the reader into a world of its own with unique events,names,and symbols that have a momentous impact on the plot.Nevertheless,when a literary work is being translated,it poses an immense dilemma of ambiguity or double meaning,such as preserving relevance,precision, and context.For example,one of the most thought-provoking cases of literary translation is Shakespeare,he is the most widely translated secular author with multiple editions in…