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…Shock in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is used to keep the reader from being complacent with the text, to avoid the comfort that reading a 'good story' allows, and is also used to heighten the message. There is the shock of abnormality and the alien nature…

…, not its usefulness. It is the aim of Act Utilitarianism to fulfil to the greatest extent the principle of utility. Act Utilitarianism focuses solely on the consequences of the action. The motives and the reasons why actions are carried out are trivial…

…. The social model which is what the modern HRM manager 'should' be using focuses more on the actual process of selection and the impact it has on the candidate, which is why it is deemed as a social process. This model is based on the assumptions that people…

…Identify the arguments and evidence used by sociologists to support the claim that human behaviour is determined largely by social factors. "A social fact is... capable of exerting over the individual an external constraint... whilst ...exsit[ing…

…the Sublime is and how to use it. He states that "the soul is raised by true sublimity, it gains a proud step upwards, it is filled with joy and exultation, as though itself had produced what it hears" (Longinus, 1965:111). He calls the sublime a "grand style…

…is that the author is creating a deluded main character in order to make the audience more aware of his reality. In both Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis this method is used in order to create an ironic world for their hero, where neither Oedipus nor…

…focus on the techniques employed by the author to execute this feat. Upon reading Metamorphosis, the first thing the reader notices is the dismal imagery used by Kafka; the dull, gloomy and humid environment serving to foreshadow the decay and deterioration…

…on the director of films as the 'author' placing their own meanings and intentions within a film which was to be interpreted. This essay will look at how much this idea of the 'auteur' is used in studying films and how opposing critics can read films in differing ways…

…throughout the novel gains us some insight into the historical and literary analysis of Angelou's popular novel. First, a major "cage" from Maya Angelou's youth was that she was black in a prejudice southern town. Maya has recounted in her book the times when…

…to the stimuli was believed to work on humans and further work shows us that such experiences effect us in the same way. Watson (and Rayner) used Pavlov's theory to improve his work with the dogs and relate it to human experiences, they took a young boy, Albert…