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Moral Reasoning Police Officer
1,061 wordsThe three stories I chose to write my paper on; are from pages 110 through 138 in Maynard-Moody and Mushenos Cops, Teachers, Counselors book. They focus on the street level workers using their discretion to make decisions in their jobs. The stories are titled, Im Disabled but want to be an EMT, Cut the Power, and Ignoring Orders. In this paper I will argue that street level workers use their discretion in ways that is not consistent with established rules while identifying different constraints ...
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Police Officer Street Level
1,048 words... ury as a welder. The second constraint on the counselor was the fact that an EMT has to be in excellent health to be able to pick up and carry large people from stressful situations which could further hurt the client. Another constraint on the counselor is the fact that the client was worked up and excited about possibly getting the chance to become an EMT. The constraints work on the counselor in this situation by making the counselor use good judgment in the situation. If the counselor ag...
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Rises Must Converge Good Country People
1,549 wordsIn writing many authors have different techniques or styles in which they use in order to reveal their themes. These vehicles are what give fiction its ability to relate to people and life in general. By using setting, irony, and characterization in her short fiction Flannery OConnor reveals a theme of a both cynical and sinister universe in which death is imminent and impartial. She specializes in using artistic representation of human character or motives to accentuate this morbid theme. In he...
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Tale Of Two Cities Cry The Beloved Country
1,799 wordsOne of the most valuable aspects of a book, or any literature, is the insight offered about the views of the author and the surrounding society and times. The way in which certain ideas are presented in different stories can be very telling about the attitude of the author, or maybe in describing a message he is trying to convey. This is perhaps the most important thing to walk away with after having experienced a piece of literature. It is sometimes difficult to find the underlying theme of a s...
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Jorge Luis Borges Arthur Conan Doyle
693 wordsDetective Literature I. In the short story The thief, the narrator is a young student who is under suspicion of stealing from his companions. In The Meeting, the narrator, Uriarte, starts a story off by being taken by his cousin to a country estate for a fiesta. Finally, in The adventure of the speckled band, is narrated by Dr. Watson, Mr. Holmes companion. II. All of the three stories posses a certain similar characteristic: all three of the stories are narrated by strong characters that carry ...
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People Of The Town La Paz
995 wordsJohn SteinbeckJohnsteinbeck? John Steinbeck? John Steinbeck is one of many American literature writers, but he is one of a kind in his work. Steinbeck went through many troubles to get his work where it is now. What would you do if publishers rejected your whole short story collection? Many people would quit right there, but now john Steinbeck. He moved past that and wrote many successful collections and books. John Steinbeck was born February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. When he started out...
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Man Versus Man Build A Fire
508 wordsIn the three Conflicts Conflicts In the three stories To Build a Fire, The Use of Force, and A and P there are some different conflicts. A conflict is struggle between two or more objects. In these stories the three different conflicts are man versus nature, man versus man, and man versus self. The three stories that contain these conflicts are To Build a Fire by Jack London, The Use of Force by Williams Carlos Williams, and A and P by John Updike. The first story to talk about is To Build a Fir...
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Mangan Sister First Three Stories
3,760 wordsDiscuss Joyce? s Treatment Of The Theme Of Discuss Joyce? s Treatment Of The Theme Of Paralysis In The Stories On Childhood In His Novel Dublin Dubliners Discuss Joyce? s treatment of the theme of paralysis in the stories on childhood in his novel Dubliners. ? My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis. ? ? In Dubliners James Joyce has written fifteen short stories, all of which di...
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Point Of View Beauty Queen
1,173 wordsDiscuss The Techniques Used By The Authors Discuss The Techniques Used By The Authors To Reveal Attitudes To Women In The Three Stories The three stories Tony Kytes: The Arch Deceiver, Tickets Please and Seeing A Beauty Queen Home are each set where the author had lived for a period of time, but contrast greatly, for instance, Tony Kytes: The Arch Deceiver is set in rural Wessex (Dorset), in the late 19 th century. It displays attitudes to women in a very traditional way, whereas in Tickets Plea...
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Mangan Sister Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
1,586 wordsKristina Lee A collection of short stories published in 1907, Dubliners, by James Joyce, revolves around the everyday lives of ordinary citizens in Dublin, Ireland (Friedrich 166). According to Joyce himself, his intention was to? write a chapter of the moral history of [his] country and [he] chose Dublin for the scene because the city seemed to [b]e the centre of paralysis? (Friedrich 166). True to his goal, each of the fifteen stories are tales of disappointment, darkness, captivity, frustrati...
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Mangan Sister Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
1,384 wordsKristina Lee A collection of short stories published in 1907, Dubliners, by James Joyce, revolves around the everyday lives of ordinary citizens in Dublin, Ireland (Friedrich 166). According to Joyce himself, his intention was to? write a chapter of the moral history of [his] country and [he] chose Dublin for the scene because the city seemed to [b]e the centre of paralysis? (Friedrich 166). True to his goal, each of the fifteen stories are tales of disappointment, darkness, captivity, frustrati...
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First Three Stories Point Of View
2,039 wordsDubliners (1914) by James Joyce Introduction Joyce said that in Dubliners his intention was to write a chapter in the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because the city seemed to me the centre of paralysis. The 15 stories which make up the collection are studies on the decay and banality of lower middle-class urban life and the paralysis to which Joyce refers is both intellectual and moral. The characters who appear in the stories lead un eventual and frustrated lives,...
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Mangan Sister First Three Stories
1,512 wordsA collection of short stories published in 1907, Dubliners, by James Joyce, revolves around the everyday lives of ordinary citizens in Dublin, Ireland (Friedrich 166). According to Joyce himself, his intention was to? write a chapter of the moral history of [his] country and [he] chose Dublin for the scene because the city seemed to [b]e the centre of paralysis? (Friedrich 166). True to his goal, each of the fifteen stories are tales of disappointment, darkness, captivity, frustration, and flaw....
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Metamorphosis Gregor Hunger Artist
519 wordsExistentialism is an effort to describe rational behaviors and thoughts in an irrational universe. Three stories that show this relationship to existentialism are The Metamorphosis, The Hunger Artist, and The Trial. Each of these three stories can be categorized as existentialism. Some of the primary features of these writings and existentialism are that the main character is emotionless, while everyone else in the stories acts as though they were normal to the reader. These stories also share a...
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Good Country People Bible Salesman
873 wordsIn Flannery Oconnor The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Good Country People, and A Good Man Is Hard To Find, she explores the consequences of the combination of hypocrisy, gullibility in social contacts, and the role of being raised at mothers knee. Reared a strict Roman Catholic and writing in the Bible Belt South OConnor encountered those character flaws first hand. The repetitive hypocrisy displayed in these three short stories is portrayed by only the men suggesting that OConnor has certain i...
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Sonny Blues Bright Future
887 wordsStudent Poe Yury Airapetian Student ID: 9833967 English 103: Themes in Literature Poverty in Everyday Use, Sonny's Blues and The Cathedral Comparing Everyday Use, Sonny's Blues and The Cathedral, one can conclude that they share a common meaning. Although all three stories consider poverty as their theme, each chooses to elaborate it in a different manner. In fact, Everyday Use emphasizes on the state of extreme poverty in which certain people live. On the other hand, Sonny's Blues contributes t...
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