Paradoxes

above paragraphs mention that ambidexterity is essentially the ability of the organisation or business unit to pursue both exploration and exploitation. Many literatures throw light on the ways in which the contradictory tension between the two paradoxes is reconciled within a single business unit. There are four ways to reconcile these tensions as cited by J.J.P.jansen2. They are i) accepting the paradox by outsourcing or compromising (the organisation choose between the mix of opposites or…

truth and deception with the help of irony and paradoxes. In "Like the Sun," Sekhar says, "At other times he would have said, considering her feelings in the matter, 'I feel full up, that's all.' But today he said, 'It isn't good. I'm unable to swallow it.'" (Narayan 80) The truth is always supposed to be a good thing, but by him telling the truth to his wife, it ends up being a bad thing. This example…

This mixed genre will always follow a standard form. The science fiction will use its strange and unfamiliar characteristics to separate the audience from the topic. These characteristics could be things like aliens, robots, or multiple timeline paradoxes. The parody will then come in with a punchline and explain the situation in a blatant way. This could be a hilariously clueless President, a government futilely throwing ice cubes into the ocean to stop global warming, or a timeline in which…

Jefferson stood in awe while Abe explained with ease what had happened to him. Then the boy had a great idea. “Abe, now that you can talk, maybe you could help me read!” Jefferson exclaimed. And Abe did just that. Abe easily paraphrased the book on paradoxes to Jefferson, although he did tend to get distracted while he was reading and go off on a tangent about squirrels or other such things of greater interest to canines. The months that Abe read to Jefferson was the greatest time of his life.…

East of Eden, often quoted, discussed, and written about, serves as a cultural icon, and a landmark for American literature. The world Steinbeck builds is most often the center of discussion, with it’s realistic, depthful, characters that tell stories applicable to people from all walks of life from any generation. Often, however, Steinbeck’s underlying narrative seems to go unnoticed. What, at first glance, seems to be a novel full of characters that represent expectations of people in those…

Classifies the book A charming account of everyday life in Iran by the Iranian-American writer Hooman Majd, this book offers what average Iranians experience in their socio-political and cultural lives in Iran’s theocratic system of governance. Majd, who periodically travels to Iran, experienced the Iranian life, this time with his American wife and his son. Using at times a satirical language to communicate with his readers about the facts of life in Iran, Majd tells me that in comparison to…

In both “Half-Hanged Mary” and Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place, the overall tone grows confrontational, and each narrator challenges their oblivious onlookers. In “Half-Hanged Mary,” after the speaker understands the unfruitful results of relying on God, she becomes resentful and believes she is above Him. When she is brought down from the noose, she recalls all the women merely staring at her, and speaks with a sarcastic tone towards the bystanders. The mockery she depicts is the same dynamic…

deception, and honesty play a role in the management of chaos. The two stories show how the absence of truth makes life more manageable, yet at the same time, it is a horrible thing. In this essay, I will explain the elements of truth, irony and paradoxes in the stories. In “Like the Sun”, the author uses paradox when he states that the headmaster’s music was a “medley of sounds that assailed his eardrums”. This means that the music was awful, and hurting his ears. The sentence contradicts…

are deeply imprinted with racial, gender and cultural differences and haunted by the Jewish figure of Diaspora. The novels thus become a medium of performance, self-reflection and role experimentation through which the tensions of identity and the paradoxes, hybridizations and dialectics of being an Israeli are explored. Some writers like Ellie Wiesel deconstruct linguistic forms, displacing discourses of fear and anxiety about extermination and contemporary terror with the experience of the…

The Southwest Humanities course has read three books, in three different genres over the span of the semester; ranging from Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, being the nature writing, Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, the fiction, and Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway, which is a creative non-fiction. Each author made a specific contribution to the class themes and the Southwest Humanities. During the semester, the non-fiction books have brought the most to the table. Though the fiction…