Ambiguity

a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy. In Yukio Mishima’s The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea, the main protagonist, Ryuji Tsukazaki, proves to be a tragic hero as his internal confliction and the ambiguity of his character served as his fatal flaw which ultimately led him to his death. Ryuji believes that he is destined for glory, even though he does not know what it may be. He is conflicted between his pursuit of glory, which he believes…

was traced back to his home in which police found drugs, firearms, ammunition, and cash related to drug sales. Wurie failed to have the evidence against him suppressed because the police had a probable cause to suspect him. This provides another ambiguity in Dave’s case since the police had no probable cause to arrest him for the crime of importing illegal cheese. Probable cause means that there must be enough “reasonable trustworthy information… to warrant a man of reasonable caution in the…

In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, the narrator Chief Bromden causes trouble for readers to distinguish reality between fantasy due to his mental condition. However, his troubled state allows for a journey into the mind of a mental patient and a powerful voice that conveys profound insights about society, making him a competent narrator. As a patient in a psychiatric hospital, Chief has a different view of the world, which might define him as crazy. He sees the hospital as a…

The medieval era is one that holds a large variety of ambiguity for modern scholars. This can be seen as challenging when trying to determine specific concrete facts about the period especially in context to people’s lives during the period. This concept includes a large variety of ideas since the idea of life constitutes so many different aspects from how one acts to much more complex ideas such as what a person believes. This is the main focus of this particular paper, beliefs. The idea is…

There are many factors that cause relationships to form. Whether it be love, hate, envy or indignation they all draw people together either in helpful or detrimental ways. Feelings and emotions are the driving force of why humans connect. Some of the emotions or driving factors that may seem like opposites, actually are eerily similar. For example, love and hate are both very strong emotions or feelings one could have for another person, yet they have some of the same characteristics. When one…

change because he is not having full knowledge and training to do the things with new environment. The new change can also have an impact of job insecurity of an individual. Due to these reasons, the employee will not be able to work because of ambiguity. 2.6 Explain at least two methods to test for system readiness to change in terms of positive and negative…

The importance of successful volunteer management is seen firsthand in this case study of the nonprofit. A new nonprofit, the Saxeville Community Project, forms in the town of Saxeville, WI that attracts many to come work for the popular organization, but then as a new volunteer manager, Emily Roberts, is brought in and new changes are made to how the organization is run, the nonprofit begins to lose the high number of volunteers that it was originally attracting. This paper will examine what…

better understand the plot. Though this makes archetypes very helpful, they also keep characters from having dimension. The evil queen is only evil, and the damsel in distress is only pure and good. Neither characters can cross the line of moral ambiguity. This makes characters seem unrealistic, and unrelatable. In modern literature, it is often the practice to set up characters as a particular archetype, and put them in their expected story, but then to give them human qualities. In this way…

The Ellsberg paradox is a paradox in decision theory in which people's choices violate the postulates of subjective expected utility. It is generally taken to be evidence for ambiguity aversion. Ellsberg actually proposed an experiment of coloured balls in urns. Subjects are asked to draw a coloured ball in one of the two urns. Each urn contains balls of two colours, either yellow or black. One of urn is considers as a Risky…

The experiment consisted of numerous limitations and uncontrolled variables which impacted on the validity of the outcome. The lack of repetition was a major limitation in this experiment. The shortage of repetition forbids the elimination of outliers that may cause inaccuracy in the practical outcome. The lack of repetition in this experiment provided erroneous practical results where experimenters are mislead due to outliers, hence conclusions could not be accurately drawn. According to…