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    Emotions in the Workplace

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    Fineman Et al (2010) defined emotions in the workplace as an external presentation of our personal experiences‚ meaning feelings are internal but emotions on the other side‚ can be intentionally influenced. Service organisations‚ even more than ordinary organisation‚ have to deal with a great deal of communication‚ with customers‚ suppliers and staff. For a long time ‚ communication was seen as mainly verbal but an undeniable amount relied in non-verbal and this is the product of emotions. To understand

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    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is a very accomplished book because of Austen’s clever and successful use of literary techniques. Literary techniques refer to the deliberate construction of language to further the story whether that be to develop character‚ plot‚ suspense or to create an enjoyable humorous novel. Jane Austen applies many literary techniques such as point of view‚ dialogue‚ letters and irony to tell the story of Pride and Prejudice. Pride and Prejudice is told in third person

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    How does Jonathan Swift convey ’the marginalised’ in ’A Modest Proposal’? The use of wit‚ sarcastic humour‚ irony‚ and ridicule to criticise and point out faults is used by the renowned author Jonathan Swift to once again‚ enthral the audience and readers with a proposal that is not so very modest. A Modest Proposal is considered by many to be one of the most well written and finest example of satire in world literature. His mere proposal for cannibalism as a method to bring justice and allow

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    Mr Miladinovic

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    Merry sport of minstrelsy Written by Tom Eaton and printed in the Mail & Guardian‚ on January 7th 2005. Newspaper The Mail & Guardian is a South African bi-weekly newspaper with a strong focus on politics‚ government‚ the environment and business. It consists mostly of hard news. The newspaper was started as an alternative newspaper by a group of journalists in 1985 after the closure of two newspapers‚ The Rand Daily Mail and Sunday Express. The paper originally known as the Weekly Mail relied

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    THE ROLE OF THE FOOL Characters are often able to notice their flaws when an outsider evaluates their actions. The Shakespearean tragedy King Lear exemplifies this situation. King Lear’s rash decisions towards his family are often followed by the Fool’s constant disapproval. In addition‚ the role of the Fool is to criticize the King’s follies because he is one of the few characters that are willing to stand up and tell him he is wrong. Furthermore‚ the Fool conveys words of wisdom to Lear through

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    with a soft sense of humour and optimism while addressing this “greatest concourse of women (joined by a few brave men!)”‚ and her attitude underlies her strength of character in dealing with such a “daunting” issue. The speaker Aung san Suu kyi uses direct language and personal pronouns along with powerful language whenever discussing women’s role in society ‘struggle for justice & peace’‚ ‘to contribute to the betterment of society.’ Similarly to Atwood‚ she uses humour analogy ‘Burmese proverb

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    Bill Bryson the author of the short story ‘A Walk in the Woods’ constructs the story in a certain way to try to get the reader to accept his attitudes and values about how dangerous and death defying Earl V. Shaffer and other’s are in attempting to travel the trail. He uses the techniques of emotive language‚ unusual language and use of first hand accounts in the short story ‘A Walk in the Woods‘ . The use of descriptive and humorous language‚ combined with conversational text has allowed Bryson

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    To What Degree Might Different Languages Shape In Their Speakers Different Concepts Of Themselves And The World? What Are The Implications Of Such Differences For Knowledge? The difference in languages can cause different perceptions of various cultures leading to distinctions or possible clashes. When I lived in France I faced some of the problems a language barrier can cause. The most common and at the same time most irritating problem of language is the inability to translate word for word

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    Essay Narayan

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    tourist/business man who is culturally misplaced. Humour through misunderstanding used by the writer in the dialogue entertains the reader. From the comfortable perspective of the ‘red-faced American’ the statue is a trophy he must have. Arrogance‚ expecting Muni to know English. Why did he not speak Tamil? From Muni’s humble world of struggle and poverty‚ this would never make sense. Language techniques used in the dialogue to enhance humour: punctuation‚ hyperbole or technical language of business

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    Term Paper Internal & External Possessors A Contrastive Analysis of Humorous Aspects in English and German Module: Sprachwissenschaftliche Methoden und Englischunterricht Course: English in Contrast Mondays‚ 2 to 4 p.m. Lecturer: Dr. George Smith submitted by Nadja Degen born 22 November 1988 major Englisch‚ MA of Ed. minor Latein‚ MA of Ed. Content 1. Introduction 2 2. Hypothesis 3 3. Internal & external possessor

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