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Hard Core Logo - A Canadian Oral Narrative, 2005.
An analysis of the poem and novel "Hard Core Logo" by Michael Turner.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 64.95
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The paper discusses whether Michael Turner's poem and novel the "Hard Core Logo" is a classic narrative. This documents a once-popular punk band, Hard Core Logo. The paper looks at the various ways that Turner portrays the life of the band to determine if this is an example of modern oral narrative.
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"The art of the oral narrative is often associated with musicians, poets, and the folk traditions that inspire them. Following the trials and tribulations of a popular music band would be an interesting for modern society to look back at itself. The poem and novel, Hard Core Logo, by Michael Turner, describes the life of a punk rock band using a mix of poetry, prose, and photographs. Many would use this as an example of a modern oral narrative, as its structure, cultural aspects and reflections on society have all the aspects of a modern folk tale, what has been termed an "oral narrative." The book is not only the.."
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Oralism vs. American Sign Language, 2007.
This paper argues in favor of the deaf or hard of hearing using American Sign Language or their native language over oralism or other methods of communication.
1,302 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 6 sources, APA, AU$ 63.95
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This paper explores the tradition of oralism vs. American Sign Language (ASL) in the West. Specifically the researcher proposes that deaf and hard of hearing students should be afforded opportunities to learn using their native language or American Sign Language. Forcing students to adopt other methods of learning including oralism or Signing Exact English (SEE) may promote frustration and inhibits learning in the classroom. This paper reviews the potential merits and demerits of each tradition, highlighting the significance of providing students with resources to use ASL in the classroom.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Personal Philosophy
The Essential Nature of Human Beings
Basic Meaning or Purpose of Life
Determination of Morality
Constancy of Life: Unchanging or Always Changing?
Philosophy of Education
My Perception of an Educational Philosophy
Why do you need a Philosophy?
What has been the Basis or Source of your Educational Philosophy?
How has your Philosophy Changed or Evolved over Time?
My formal Ideological and Philosophical Orientation
The Purpose of Education, Teaching and Schooling
Are Students Intrinsically Motivated to Learn?
Should Schools Address Human Differences such as Multiple Intelligence, Learning Styles etc. ?
Topics
Knowledge and Content
Knowledge with Knowing
My Conceptual Framework for Improving my Practice
Theoretical Framework for Improving Practice
Skills Competencies Necessary
Educational Skills Required
Communication Skills and Content
Nonverbal Communication Skills
Verbal Communication
Influence of Interpersonal Relationships
Importance of Self-Identity
Peer Relations
Influence of Support Networks
Knowledge and Learning
Direct vs. Indirect Learning
Direct vs. Indirect Communication
Conclusion
Reference
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"Many consider American Sign Language (ASL) the standard language beneficial for hard of hearing and deaf citizens. However, oralism shares a rich history much the same as ASL, and many often argue the potential merits and demerits of using one vs. another in an educational and communicational context. Wilcox & Peyton (1999) recognize that ASL is a fully developed language with unique grammar requirements distinguished from the English language (Coltrane, 2006). Oralism contrarily, involves lip reading to understand speech instead of using ASL to communicate with one another (Coltrane, 2006). This study will help review the merits and demerits of each, questioning whether one vs. the other is more beneficial for promoting communication and sharing among the deaf or hard of hearing community, or whether a combination of both may result in less frustrating choices among the hard of hearing and deaf community. "
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Oral Reports, 2001.
An analysis of oral reports with respect to Robert Harris's article: ?Ideas for Enhancing Oral Reports".
1,055 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 54.95
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This paper analyses the presentation of oral reports in respect to Robert Harris' article: ?Ideas for Enhancing Oral Reports". Harris offers general advice that is applicable to all individuals who might be faced with giving an oral report. The paper details tips for ways to make oral reports a success. The author concludes that oral presentations can contribute to the education of both the giver and the speaker if both members of the ?dialogue? between audience and the giver of the presentation are attentive and make use of media beyond that of the simple spoken word.
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"One of the most dreaded tasks a teacher can assign for some students is to give an oral report. The idea of getting up in front of people and speaking to them paralyzes them with fear. This can be true even if they are relatively extroverted and relaxed people in more informal social situations. To watch a person give a bad oral report can be almost painful as giving one. If one is in the audience, one is tempted to look away, to stare at one?s desk, rather than listening to information that is rambling, incoherent, and poorly presented. How does someone avoid giving such a poor report? In his article, ?Ideas for Enhancing Oral Reports,? located at the Virtual Salt Website on the World Wide Web, Robert Harris offers advice for those faced with such a task."
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The Core-Satellite Model Revisited, 2008.
This paper discusses the core-satellite model, tracking error control, exchange traded funds and satellites possibilities.
4,533 words (approx. 18.1 pages), 9 sources, MLA, AU$ 172.95
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In this article, the writer first defines core-satellite management and then discusses the efficency of the core-satellite portfolio model. The writer looks at the increase in exchange traded funds (ETFs) that are mainly used in the core of the portfolio. Furthermore, the writer notes that the list of alternative investments constantly increases, creating new possibilities for satellites. The writer maintains that thanks to the research, some models are improved and some others created that facilitate the use of the core-satellite management, for example, new methods are developed to measure hedge fund return. The paper includes color graphs and charts.
Outline:
Introduction
The Core-Satellite Model
Why the Core-Satellite Management?
The Tracking Error
Other Advantages/Drawbacks
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
Overview of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
What are ETFs?
What Kinds of ETFs Exist?
What are the Advantages of ETFs Versus Open-Ended Funds?
What are the Ways to Use ETFs?
Hedge Funds
Conclusion
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"The goal of the tracking error constraints is to limit the bad tracking error. However, tight tracking error constraints can lead to a suboptimal management of the portfolio.
"First, as most active managers still have dominant passive exposure to their benchmark, a great part of their fees reward a passively managed portfolio.
"Secondly, the active manager cannot use freely their skills. When an actively managed portfolio must follow a benchmark with tight tracking error constraints, it severely restricts the amount invested in active strategy. This means renouncing to opportunities of return enhancement and risk reduction. In case of economic downturn the opportunity cost is even higher because active absolute return strategies usually out-perform the market.
"With the core-satellite, on the contrary, because of the higher tracking error allowed to the satellites, the managers don't have to give up the potential of higher returns generated by selected active management strategies."
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Oral History, 2004.
Shows how oral history has made important contributions to the ways in which historians understand and and interpret the past.
1,225 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 60.95
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Oral history is an account of the past conveyed through word of mouth. Oral history tells of cultures and individuals by presenting oral commentary of events, situations, and feelings of individuals. This paper examines the importance of oral history and how it has contributed to our understanding of events over time. The paper shows how the modern form of oral history originated with Allan Nevin in his 1938 book, "Gateway to History".
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"Oral history cannot completely compensate for the loss of first hand written accounts of events. However, according to James Hoopes, oral history at times can supply information that might have been lost otherwise because of a lack of a written record. (Hoopes, 11) Hoopes gives an example that in Latin America the people have an aversion to autobiographical narrative. It is believed to be egotistical and undignified, according to Hoopes, to talk about oneself. However, if the initiative comes from someone else, in the form of an interview, then it is perceived to be acceptable. The oral history process in Central and South America, according to Hoopes, has been instrumental in saving the personal accounting of the history of and actions of national leaders."
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An Examination of Oral History, 2004.
Offers a definition of oral history and discusses its origins.
1,164 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 59.95
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This paper explains what oral history is and describes the elements that help define oral history. The paper examines the origins of oral histories, cites examples of oral histories, and looks at their value as a means of relating the past to the present and preserving and recognizing historical events and persons.
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"According to Roger Arditti, the definition of oral history contains several important elements, one being that the individual and his social experience makes up a good portion of the content derived from "dictating" the past. Arditti also adds that oral history is "primarily concerned with gathering information about historical and social structures" while taking into consideration the subjectivity of the historian/researcher ("Skills Project"). Another definition for oral history, suggested by one of Arditti's contemporaries, concerns "an account of first-hand experience recalled retrospectively, communicated to an interviewer for historical purposes and preserved on a system of reproducible sound" ("Skills Project")."
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Intellectual Property in Oral and Literate Cultures, 2001.
Why intellectual property rights exist in literate cultures and do not exist in oral culture.
2,500 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 11 sources, MLA, AU$ 110.95
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This essay is an in-depth analysis of intellectual property law in an historical context. The specific history can be divided into two periods of cultural development, orality and literacy. The concept of intellectual property (individual ownership of creative work) was not present in oral cultures, but it is enshrined in law in literate cultures. This essay draws on the works of communications scholars like Walter Ong and Dan Lacy in order to establish these facts, and then proceeds to analyze them using one of Marshall McCluhan?s most famous insights, that ?the medium is the message.? What this essay shows is that the medium of information preservation in oral cultures is fundamentally different than that of literate cultures. One medium supports the concept of intellectual property, and one does not. In other words, the medium determines the morals of the time. What is considered theft in literate culture is just sharing in oral culture. This examination of intellectual property in historical context is especially relevant today, with the current legal disputes over intellectual property in the music industry.
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"At this moment in 2001, intellectual property is a hot topic. The right to own an idea is being debated in fields as disparate as medicine and the music industry. In historical context, however, intellectual property is a relatively new concept. The first modern copyright law only emerged in 1710 and the People?s Republic of China did not have a copyright system until 1991. In contrast, the first known cave painting dates to 31,000 BC. Humans have been creating for thousands of years, but those expressions were only defined as personal property quite recently. The exact moment of this definition is still debated by experts: some say it came with the first copyright law, some say it began with the printing press in 1436, and others say that it emerged with ?the artist with a markedly individual personality? in 6th century BC Greece (Ploman and Hamilton 5). Regardless of the specific point of division, copyright as we know it today was not present in ancient oral cultures (Bettig 11) and is not present in modern oral cultures like that of the Balinese (Ploman and Hamilton 4). Why the concept of intellectual property is evident in highly literate cultures and not in oral cultures can perhaps be best understood in terms of the social and political context of their respective historical periods. One explanation that emerges is that the chosen mediums of oral and literate cultures are qualitatively different and that each engenders a different set of social norms to guide intellectual production. What this paper seeks to do is to pursue this line of questioning by discerning what the medium was for each culture, analyzing the nature of each medium, and, finally, explaining how the medium determined whether or not the concept of intellectual property emerged."
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Oral History and Historiography, 2008.
A research study that provides insight as to the development of the oral history of the September 11, 2001 bombings.
3,100 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 11 sources, MLA, AU$ 131.95
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Academic perspectives on how we view oral history changed drastically after the advent of recording devices, the television, and movie cameras. It is much easier to reconstruct history accurately using pictures, rather than line drawings or descriptions. This research explores the hypothesis that oral history needs to be given greater historical credibility than it currently receives. The paper stresses the value of oral history as a key to getting the "big picture" surrounding an event. The literature review for this study examines journal articles that relate the events of September 11, 2001 from a number of political and social perspectives. The paper explains that its purpose is not to draw a consensus of the events, but rather to examine the effects of attitude and perspective on what will become the eventual "oral history" of this period in time.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Thesis
Literature Review
Analysis
Conclusion
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"The inclusion or omission of personal accounts into the historical record depends on the type of work that one wishes to produce. It is certainly easy to argue against their inclusion if one if looking for indisputable accuracy. However, this level of certainty of events is a fallacy from an academic perspective. Secondary historical accounts are often the "average" of the information that is available regarding a certain event. However, this does not necessarily make it accurate. History is influenced by many sociological, political and psychological forces surrounding it."
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Getting to the Core, 2002.
A case study of C.O.R.E. and its role in the black freedom struggle.
3,178 words (approx. 12.7 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 134.95
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This paper discusses the development of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded in 1942 by James Farmer to help aid the plight of the discriminated African-Americans. It examines how he was heavily influenced by Mahatma Gandhi?s ideas of non-violent protest and sought to model the fight for African-American civil rights on Gandhi?s peaceful campaigns in India. It evaluates how the divergences in CORE?s policies and its differences with other African-American groups did not help the smooth continuation of the Black Freedom Movement and how until the mid to late 1960s the Congress of Racial Equality worked closely with other organizations. Its intellectual stance and firm commitment to non-violence gave African-Americans the moral upper hand in their frequent confrontations with often violent ? and even at times murderous ? Whites. It analyzes how CORE and its brother organizations were able to articulate a coherent program regarding what needed to be done in the cause of Black Freedom but by giving into the violence of ignorant segregationists and letting the assassinations of Dr. King and others change the course of the movement, CORE and other civil rights groups produced the great divide between black and white that still exists today.
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"After this tragic beginning, the Freedom Rides continued. However, each successive journey through the Deep South underscored the deep divisions still seething beneath the surface of American society. In an attempt to avoid further problems over the civil rights question, President John F. Kennedy had taken only minimal steps toward ensuring the rights of African Americans. While he paid lip service to the concept ? appointing Black judges and the like ? he left the enforcement of civil rights legislation up to the local authorities. This ?Federal Plan? was even more confusing and unworkable than it sounded. Not only was the decision on how, or even whether, to enforce Supreme Court decisions, and federal laws left up to the states and localities, but even on this level there was no clear agreement over policy. Officials in the same city, or even in the same department took opposite sides in the conflict."
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Value of Oral Tradition, 2005.
This paper discusses the value of oral tradition, making use of Alistair MacLeod's writings.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 103.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that for Alistair MacLeod, oral tradition helps in finding identity and finding meaning in lost roots. The writer points out that in King's stories, oral tradition creates a link with the next generation and is the main way to keep the Native culture alive. The writer notes that the kind of knowledge that comes from oral tradition is precious. Once it is gone it cannot be replaced. Further, the writer claims that oral tradition is more than history because it creates bonds with the past that keeps people human.
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"Oral tradition is simple but it is very rich because of the information it contains. Oral history is "a field as ancient and richly varied as humanity. Its living roots lie in the oral traditions of aboriginal peoples, which bear not only their histories, but also their ways of understanding the world and their place in it". Oral tradition gave more than knowledge about the world. It offered a way of living."
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Oral History, 2004.
This paper discusses a tool of historians called oral history, the narrative of individual human lives and experiences.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 72.95
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This paper explains that oral history is a record of individual human lives and experiences transmuted through the filtering prism of individual narrative and the human voice that is catalogued or arranged by oral historians to reveal more about the emotional and factual texture of a particular period of human life. The author points out that, rather than the analytical lens of history, the medium of oral history provides a discursive, meandering, but emotionally connective way of accessing how history was experienced during the time it was experienced, rather than simply how history affects our lives today in the eyes of philosophers, pundits, and professional historians. The paper adds that now history must be academically validated and objective, which has caused some historians to state that the idea of oral history is a contradiction in terms.
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"The multifaceted nature of presenting oral narratives as a history, with all of their contradictions, enables historical understanding as a whole to be much richer. By interviewing many individuals, a historian may work against possible biases within individual perspectives. By presenting different perspectives, the reader may now judge the events and the credibility of the different sources, while still gaining a sense of the emotional intensity of what it was like to ?be there.? Presenting a variety of narratives, as done in Dublin and Licht?s article on the miners, as well as in Central City Blues, also undercuts yet another criticism of oral history as a technique, that it is more an encapsulation of the rapport between the interviewer and the interviewee than a genuine rendering of how the individual was, at the point in time he or she was describing."
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Hard Woods, Soft Woods and Paper, 2002.
This paper discusses the microscopic-level differences between hard and soft wood and the relationship the two types have to the production of paper.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 75.95
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Under the microscope, distinctions between coniferous (soft) or non-coniferous (hard) woods can be seen. Soft woods are, as a rule, more simple in construction than hard woods. The writer discovers that this is the reason soft woods are preferable in making paper.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Analysis of Hard and Soft Woods
History of Paper
Modern Paper Production
Recycled Paper
Conclusion
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"Paper is the dry sheet form of an aqueous deposit of any vegetable fiber. It has been in common use for so long, we often take it for granted. We forget that our trees are being cut down at an alarming rate to produce virgin paper. However, recycling processes are trying to slow this trend. The making of paper has been refined to almost art form; indeed, some people create handmade papers as an art. While it can be made from a variety of vegetable fibers, such as hemp and cotton, trees have long been the main source for the fibers."
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Hard Candy, 2006.
This paper discusses a marketing research approach for the product Hard Candy, nail polish.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 38.95
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This document discusses the research and development (R&D) of a new product: Hard Candy. The writer explains that Hard Candy is a new and innovative nail polish that is easy to apply, peels off, and does not turn fingernails yellow. The research approach is based on a tripartite approach: 1) sampling, 2) researcher interviews, and 3) focus groups. The writer notes that such a comprehensive research strategy ensures that an accurate model of Hard Candy's initial viability and long-term sales potential can be determined before production begins.
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"Hard Candy is the working name of the subject product. Hard Candy is a new and innovative nail polish that is going to be marketed in a host of different colors and shades. Hard Candy is innovative and unique compared with traditional nail polish because it applies somewhat like a type of clay and peels off rather than requiring finger nail polish remover. Additionally, Hard Candy does not turn an individual's nails yellow from use and application. The target market for this product is almost exclusively female and particularly the 12-18 female demographic with females aged 19-25 being a secondary target. Market Research Approach The research undertaken for this product to determine its market viability and market potential must be based on a tripartite strategy of consumer sampling, researcher interviews, and focus groups."
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Hard and Soft Currencies, 2006.
A review of the characteristics and attributes of hard and soft currencies.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 38.95
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This document discusses the characteristics and attributes of hard and soft currencies. The paper identifies hard currencies as positive investment targets and are typically associated with stable economies and politically stable markets. The paper further discusses how soft currencies are most often associated with emerging markets and are typically avoided by investors because of their negative practices such as issuers often pegging such soft currencies to hard currencies which serves to destabilize world currency markets.
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"Hard and soft currencies as well as knowledge of them are vital in the global economy. How international currencies interact is a strategic consideration for corporate bodies with operations in more than one area, country, or region in matters such as hedging for risk or in repatriating revenues. A hard currency is typically referred to as the currency of a leading economy and one that is widely accepted in all markets as a common form of payment, such as the U.S. dollar, the Swiss franc or the British pound (Carrada-Bravo, 2003, p.17). Additionally, hard currencies, or currencies classified as hard in character are especially liquid on foreign exchange markets where they are actively traded. Another perspective of hard currencies is that they are normally associated with politically, economically, and socially stable countries (Laulajainen, 2003, p.44)."
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Core Curriculum Courses, 2004.
Proposal for a course as part of the core curriculum for all graduating undergraduate students.
1,741 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 82.95
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This paper summarizes the position made by Allan Bloom, author of "The Closing of the American Mind ", regarding the agenda of certain universities that construct a core curriculum. The paper points out that Bloom believes these core curricula, which focus on a certain canon of books and authors that have been quantified over time as ?great literature', are beneficial to young scholars. The paper also summarizes arguments made by proponents of multiculturalism in education, which contend that Bloom's position is xenophobic and narrow-minded. The paper then goes on to suggest a form of independent study that would meet the criteria suggested by proponents of a core curriculum, as well as the criteria suggested by proponents of a multicultural education.
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"Given the subjective nature of what is canonical and non-canonical, it is tempting to dispense with the need for a common core in education at all?why not leave it up to the student, to chose his or her own classes and course of study? Although some institutions have opted for this, even from a social and psychological point of view, some multicultural educators might suggest that this is the wrong approach. Don?t younger students need some guidance? After all, many of them are still attempting to find out what they are interested in. It is easy to simply be rid of a common core curriculum, or simply to include skills classes that teach writing or other exercises in methodology, without attempting to create the foundations for the education in any particular cannon?let the student create his or her own canon, or wait for society to reconstitute a more multicultural canon, one might say."
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?A Good Man is Hard to Find?, 2004.
An analysis of the characterization of Flannery O?Connor?s ?A Good Man is Hard to Find?.
2,034 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 94.95
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This paper examines how Flannery O?Connor?s ?A Good Man is Hard to Find?, set in the rural South, is character-driven. It looks at how she effectively uses her characters to symbolize truth and the human problem, which is universal. In particular, it shows how, through the characterization of the Grandmother, she gives her work vitality, allowing the work to take on a life of its own. It also explores how O?Connor uses the story, ?A Good Man is Hard to Find,? to further her message that society is headed in the wrong direction by using the grandmother?s characterization to get the message across and accomplish her goal.
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"O?Connor uses characterization to make the reader not only see and hear the grandmother, but to look into the grandmother?s empty life. By the middle of the story, readers feel pity for the grandmother. She talks and talks, yet says nothing at all. Family is all around her, yet she does not connect with them. She is lonely and really has no one. She mumbles through life, with no mention of dreams for tomorrow, only that things are terrible today. She has no real purpose in life and there are no signs of any spirituality. She only thinks longingly of times and places that are no longer a part of this world. In essence, the grandmother is shallow."
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