Ambiguity

to make multiple decisions or judgements under tensions and competing needs. The components of democracy and professionalism will help an individual maintain their authentic and sincere sense of being whole and intact during times of stress and ambiguity. Integrity of office or department is essential to maintaining the public…

An honor code “provides students a clear explanation of the importance of behaving with the integrity and the expectation that our resulting actions will increase trust and respect” (B). The strength of an honor code is too often decided by the severity of its punishments instead of by the caliber of its success. When judged by the standard of severity, Bothell’s honor code could be considered a raging success, but when judged by the caliber of success, to say that the code falls short would be…

The House of Mirth and The Good Soldier have different techniques that engage the reader in the story. Both novels discuss topics such as adultery and manipulation which were highly touchy subjects in their time period. These “scandalize” themes in these two novels holds the reader's attention but, the writing techniques the two authors use make the novel more interesting. The House of Mirth uses a more traditional way of writing while the The Good Soldier uses unordarthox writing style. The…

relating to others, so when two cultures intend to create that strong relationship needed for community engagement, what may seem effective for one culture may be ineffective for the other (Devito 2009). An example of this is when High-Ambiguity-Culture-Tolerant and Low-Ambiguity-Tolerant Cultures meet, as those who may be from a high will embrace unknown situations and encourage those with different perspectives, while those from a low are opposite and do much to avoid and un-certain situation…

demonstrable breakdown of politics, in relation to corruption and ethical behaviour. Scandals and corruption are the fundamental backbone of politics as political ethics and scandals are the forefront of the Canadian political system. As the systematic ambiguity can be felt on a global scale, as scandal and politics go hand in hand. The Watergate Scandal of the 1970s is labelled to be one of America’s biggest political scandals. As the scandal…

If a man represents himself as something that deviates the slightest from his true self, is that not in itself an act of manipulation? Today’s speech in regards to Module C will discuss how all representations of people and politics are undoubtedly acts of manipulation as true political agendas must be hidden behind a misleading facade. Language plays a particularly powerful role in portraying these political representations. However ambiguous the political motive may be, control is the…

existed as a prominent factor of hope and unity. Jim Cullen, in his renowned novel, The American Dream discusses such ideas. His novel includes two primary ideologies--the idea that the Dream is unique to each individual and the truth that despite its ambiguity it is still…

Following World War I, the most popular literary genre across the world was post-war (Steere). Many authors of this time focused on the sadness, horror, or other emotions that came with war, though some left ambiguity as to exactly how they felt. Four of the authors during this time, having different locations in various wars, were Anna Akhmatova, Randall Jarrell, Marco Vesovic, and W. B. Yeats. Akhmatova, a Russian, and Yeats, an Irishman, each encountered the turmoil caused by World War 1.…

Young Goodman Brown is a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is filled with symbolism, allegory, and many different themes. In the story, a man, Goodman Brown is going to go on a journey into the night. His wife faith does not want him to, but he must. He goes into the forest and meets a strange man with a staff that resembles a snake. The stranger attempts to persuade Brown to go along with him, He is reluctant. The man then says he knew his father and grandfather and helped them in their wicked…

sharecropping because the amendment guaranteed citizenship and constitutional protection for any birthright citizenship. Nevertheless, while the Fourteenth Amendment helped equalize the legislative protection of freed African slaves, controversy and ambiguity over the meaning of the amendment continued to manifest itself as immigrants continued to fight for their birthright…