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The short story “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor was published in 1955. It is considered one of the best literary examples of a short story and is commonly studied in English-speaking literature courses. However, as time progresses, the relevance of the story may become outdated, beginning a discussion on its presence in the Americana literary canon. “Good Country People” deserves continuous recognition in the canon due to its brilliant prose, stylistic approach to the genre, and deep analysis of the human and social condition. At first, it is apt to analyze the prose and stylistic approach utilized by O’Connor to drive forward the plot. One of the reasons the story is so successful and popular in literary circles is due to the author’s brilliant utilization of literary devices. Symbolism, allegory, irony, and imagery are perfectly balanced in the story, each with a purpose and meaning that allows readers to consider aspects beyond the story’s plot, but much greater philosophical ideologies of Christianity, nihilism, human wickedness, and others discussed below (Peiu 57). Thus, the narrative is so compelling that it helps the reader to respond and relate to the meaningful storytelling, perpetuating challenging moral self-analysis of whether one is as cynical or naïve as some of the characters. The story “Good Country People” unfolds on a two-dimensional plane, with little insight into the minds of the characters, telling the narrative of pervasive and gloomy isolation and meaninglessness. O’Connor is direct in dialogue and descriptions, taking advantage of clichés and stereotypes as the driving point of the plot. The story is highly descriptive, but it remains simple and conversational, allowing the reader to build their own perceptions while forcing them to consider the meaning of each character interaction. Such literary mastery is rare in short-story writing, and therefore the study of O’Connor’s work became prevalent and widely recognized for its elements and sophistication to relay a complex idea. Other classical short story writers in the American canon, such as Twain or O’Henry, and Poe, from whom O’Connor drew inspiration, possessed a similar level of brilliant storytelling through the use of literary elements and stylistic devices. One of the evident recognitions of an author in the canon is being established so by experts in the field. O’Connor has always been a controversial figure, starting in the post-war period and into recent years. Some saw her as a genius, while others saw a “certain narrowness of emphasis and predictability of technique” in her writing (Kelly). Nevertheless, her anthology of short stories, including the leading “
Stereotypes play a significant role in the world of propaganda and are defined as being a conception of groups of people or individuals. Stereotypes could also be complex or simple generalities as applied to groups or individuals based on their race, ethnicity, beliefs or appearance. Although the world appears to be always improving it is very difficult to remove entirely the use of stereotypes in the media. Propaganda as a force can impact everybody and results in change in attitude and behaviours. Media can influence the viewers tremendously in modifying their opinions on the basis of information received by them. It is known that the media is adept in misrepresenting stereotypes which is also accepted by people. Viewers watch shows regularly and do not understand the content that is biased while the media is able to attract the attention of the audience by way of drama, comedy and action. It is the effectiveness of such programmes that makes them highly popular. Stereotypes could be a normal or very simple image, opinion or conceptions formed on the basis of behaviours, appearances or attitudes as shared by all members of a class of people and are typically objects of social consent instead of individual opinions. David Carr, On Covers of Many Magazines, A Full Racial Palette Is Still Rare, November 18, 2002, The New York Times. This article is about the increasing practice of using and portraying minorities on the front covers of well accepted American journals and discusses on how this influences the magazine’s reputation and profitability. Magazines that target women normally portray white women on their covers and the ones that target teenagers focus on varied ethnicities. The article has addressed the changing pattern of fashion as compared to social recognition of the minorities. Carr has given his reasoning in this regard by quoting data from the New York Times and quotations from well known magazines. Media Awareness Network, (2009), Media Stereotyping – Introduction, Web. This webpage narrates why it is inevitable to indulge in stereotyping in advertisements. This is primarily because it has become a normal practice in giving without intention a false picture of perceptions pertaining to different groups. It explains why the problem creating and common use of stereotypes are being adopted as regular practices. The custom has crystallized because there is limited creativity in studios and news centres. Labels are made incorrectly without the representation of all classes of people. Mike Daley, The representation of ‘race’ in mass media, Web. Mike Daley is a teacher of Music at York University and this online essay gives details of the word race in its misconstrued forms which have evolved over several years. Daley has narrated five stereotypes of African American males which have been used in films. He has criticize
Introduction A successful organisation embodies more than just execution and observance of an array of models of management strategies. It requires developing mechanisms and instruments of business excellence that allow an enterprise to offer quality products and services, reduce operations costs and meet customer expectations. Contemporary economy which is characterised by globalisation and stiff competition calls for organisations to embrace quality management principles to enable them to realise sustainable growth (Patel, 2016). It underscores the reason modern version of the European Foundation of Quality Management (EFQM) model emphasises the significance of building business capabilities and managing with dexterity. It also advocates promoting ingenuity and innovation to guarantee that customers get value for their money. Dinu (2019, p. 5) posits, “The new model for quality management dubbed ISO 9000 standards champions process-based approach, incorporating the cycle of “Plan – Do- Check – Act” (PDCA) and risk-based thinking and focusing on organisational change and innovation to ensure sustainable performance”. There are efforts to create universal business management principles that integrate environment, quality, social responsibility and safety. Today, quality and environmental accreditation standards have proved to be critical to the realisation of business excellence both locally and internationally because they outline managerial best practices that organisations ought to adopt to improve their performance. This paper will discuss the contribution of accreditation standards to the success of local and multinational companies. Total Quality Management Rapid technological development, a demanding customer base, and global competition are some of the features that represent contemporary business environment. Nowadays, for companies to remain productive, they require adjusting their policies, systems, and structures. Kudtarkar (2015) identifies total quality management (TQM) as one of the strategies that modern enterprises use to achieve and sustain excellent performance. This technique constitutes constant procedures that bring together all stakeholders in an effort to improve business activities at all levels. As per Kudtarkar (2015), TQM assembles essential management practices, technical instruments, and existing development efforts under a closely
Introduction As far as adding to the scientific deliberation, the work of scholars gives non-specific systems to sustainable development. Such non-exclusive systems recommend that various procedures can be taken after as a major aspect of sustainable development, each of which view the idea of sustainability through various lenses, or a mix of lenses, for example, looking for general financial development and productivity; social equity, monetary opportunity, wage uniformity; and environment security (Barnes and Scornavacca 130). Nonetheless, what is missing is an exact investigation of how such techniques can be contextualized to particular nations and commercial ventures. It is because of such deliberations that effort for accomplishing sustainable improvement targets are distinguished and such recognizable proof can advise the content of arrangement and give the important pre-conditions to successful approach suggestion. This paper solves the research gap by considering the nation setting of a developing nation and the business connection of the development of land. The setting of developing nations is deserving of study because a number of such nations, as a major aspect of their arrangements for sustainable development, are looking for procedures that empower monetary development and advancement, whilst in the meantime guaranteeing the necessities of their social orders are met. Moreover, in such nations, the development of its land profoundly affects both the economy and society, for instance through the procedure of urbanization. One such nation confronted with such difficulties is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which is the centre of this paper. Background about real estate The real estate sector constitutes a fundamental component of a country’s overall competitiveness. According to Saied, Susilawati and Trigunarsyah, the real estate sector is broad and it involves different sectors such as the raw materials, financial systems, construction, and engineering industries (4). Alternatively, the real estate entails the stock of buildings and land (Saied, Susilawati and Trigunarsyah 4). The commercial real estate market is comprised of two main components that include the asset and space markets. Mouzughi, Bryde and Al-Shaer posit that the “space or usage market is related to the use of real property, which can be seen as the right to use space or the actual property as the land or built space” (1712). Conversely, the asset market focuses on the ownership of real estate objects si
How the evolution in technology has changed the banking industry and will influence banking in the future Technological evolution has immensely changed the banking industry for the last 20 years. At present, one cannot mention banking without technology, as the latter drives the whole system forward. When banks could not handle large volumes of information, they introduced computers (Panwa n.d.). Simultaneously, there was an increasing need to promptly convey the financial information to human resource management and even cut the cheque clearance system. Remarkably, the introduction of computers by the mid-1960s led to decentralization or redistribution of organizations’ duties. Banks use technology in designing new ways of satisfying their customers’ needs. For example, the introduction of Automated Teller Machines (ATM) led to a reduction in the cost of delivering services via other channels like directly at the banking halls. These machines are convenient, safe, and quick in delivering services. Therefore, RBS has improved their customers’ satisfaction in introducing the ATM machines that are; the customers can take their shortest time to access some of the banking services (Watkins 1998). Also, the bank can simultaneously meet the customers’ financial services. On the other hand, RBS reduced its cost of service delivery; for instance, the bank could minimize the constant historical traffic of customers at their branches ( The RBS: Here for you 2012). The success in the ATMs usage has encouraged banks to include other technological advancements to help in services delivery, therefore, leading to cost reduction, massive production, and customers’ satisfaction. These other services include mobile banking, telebanking, Internet banking, and call centres. At the call centres, there is a lot of information about banks that customers can access 24/7 through their mobile and telephones. Specifically, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has introduced several ways by which their customers can bank money efficiently. For instance, in digital banking, customers can manage their money at any place and time of their choice. In mobile banking, customers can access bank services through their Androids, iPads, Blackberry, or iPhones. According to RBS Personal Banking (n.d.), digital banking is accessible 24/7/365, safe and saves time. Moreover, for telebanking at RBS, there is no monthly levy, customers can pay regular bills and have their personal accounts managed at one place. This has helped them ensure high security to their clients and reach close to all their clients at ago. Additionally, the RBS Group has developed mechanisms of making and receiving international payments. This method enables people in foreign lands to help their families and even buy properties. The royal budget is a method of sending small amounts of money, which do not require any agency. Technology has revolutionized the banking sector and the RBS Group in particular. Recently, there
The article presents a two sided argument about the Middle East and Asia. The article picks up the argument by suggesting a preferable name for the region to be West Asia (Friedman, 2006). The suggestion bases its premises for the conclusion made that the term Middle East disguises or even compromises the growth of ties between the regions claiming that the term too old and less precise. The article also expresses the validity of the criteria employed in the location of the place of publication for one of their famous article commonly referred to as the “The National Newspaper.” The criteria of relying on the mere decision of an individual (American naval strategist) was not satisfactory since it had no basis in any of the region’s business especially with reference to the GCC countries (Owen & Pamuk, 2008). Additional shortcomings associated with the name, “Middle East” are discussed within the article with the relevant details. Some of the further discussions highlighting reasons why the name is less popular include the fact that the name entirely fails to capture the region’s major commercial bases. This follows yet another failure of the name to put forth the relevant emphasis on the cultural geography of the historic intermingling with countries such as India, Iran and China during the early years of Islamic growth and expansion (Friedman, 2006). With regards to this situation therefore, the article gives a recommendation that the states would be better considered part of West Asia as it may technically appear. The recommendation is supported by the fact that it may prove most useful in the future trading activities between East Asia and South Asia. From a report by an Economist Intelligence Unit, Asia is predicted to be largest trading partner among the GCC countries by the year 2017 just as earlier elaborated by Nisan (2002) . The article further discusses a calling by the Western commentators in which the 21 st century has been referred to as “The Asian Century” (Friedman, 2006). The article supports the assertion about the 21 st century stating that rising trends and the growth of China and India as well as the Asian tigers such as Singapore and South Korea are to provide a fertile ground for economic prosperity. The article additionally supports the union of the states in the trading activities as a means to fuel their economic progress stating categorically that GCC countries will provide a major source of oil to Asia than any other place in the world (Owen & Pamuk, 2008). The union also promotes a major academic exchange programs with the new arrival of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in the Saudi Arabia. The article wraps up its major arguments provided by supporting the growth of stronger and closer ties between West Asia and East Asia. The article enlightens a fact that the growth of the two states depends on their ties and exchanges. Based on the argument and position of Khater (2011) on the naming of the Middle East, I therefore disagree with the facts and the arguments brought forward in this article. The basis of the disagr
As of the present, the Maya Hotel booking function is run at the front desk of the hotel. A client walks in and chooses his room, and the receptionist books the client to the same. While this method is practical for a small business, it has, over time, proved to be ineffective for Maya Hotel as the business has expanded over the years. This has led to clients, at times, being forced to queue as they wait to be served. Clients also take time choosing their desirable rooms, thus creating bottlenecks at the front desk. Websites present an economical and effective way in which to increase the productivity of a business. This is by increasing the consumer base of a business and/or increasing the efficiency with which the business can be run. Owing to the problems currently faced by the Mayan hotel, a website providing online booking services would alleviate this problem. The efficiency of the business will be greatly increased by the online booking functionality of the website, which will enable real-time booking by the clients hence doing away with the time consuming and labor-intensive manual method that is currently in place. Clients will also be able to take as much time as they wish in choosing their desirable rooms from the comfort of their computers at home. In addition to this, the website will serve the function of increasing the hotel’s customer base by tapping into the huge internet user base. Website Page List The website will have a number of pages so as to capture all the requirements of the hotel. These pages will be as follows:  1. A home page: this will be the first page that a visitor will open on visiting the Maya hotel website  2. Online booking page: This page will present the client with the option of booking a room in the hotel.  3. Services page: this page will highlight various other services that the hotel offers.  4. About us: This page will provide a detailed history of the hotel, its policies, and past achievements.  5. Contact us page: In this page, detailed contact information will be availed Website design When developing the website for Maya Hotel, a number of issues will be taken into consideration. The first issue to be taken into consideration when coming up with the website will be its design. This will be greatly determined by the audience that the website is created for. The audience of the Mayan Hotel will be its major customers who are mostly married couples of all ages seeking to enjoy time away from their busy lives. A serene backdrop to the web pages and a cool color scheme will, therefore, be most appropriate as it will communicate what the Maya Hotel is offering to its prospective clients; peace and tranquility. Since the homepage is the first page that will be viewed on visiting the site, it makes sense to ensure that this page is designed in a manner that is both attractive and informative. The Maya Hotel website will utilize various multimedia to ensure the creation of both informative and attractive web content. Video clips will be placed in the “about us” section of the website so as to afford prospective cli
Introduction The war between Israel and the Arab region in 1967 has come e to be known by many names. Sometimes, it is referred to as the ‘six days in June,’ while in other cases, it is simply ‘the war in June.’ Importantly, the 1967 War between Israel and the Arab neighbors was just a reflection of the Cold War tensions that posed a series of proxy wars in territories far away from the major antagonists, which were the USA and the USSR. A range of factors, including a lack of strategy, late response, and underestimations occasioned the defeat of the Arabs by the Israelis. False Military Intelligence Researchers have argued that states go to war for various reasons, one being nationalistic jingoism. Egypt fell for a false intelligence that Israel was mobilizing to attack. The mere fact that a false intelligence with serious implications for not only the Egyptian government and public but also the region as a whole could spark a war is a clear indication that there was a level of unpreparedness. Self overestimation Professor Hans J. Morgenthau argued that a nation seeking to go to war should first analyze its potential in the light of power actually or potentially available both to itself and to the opponent. The Arabs, led by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was the icon of the region, failed to analyze their ability to sanction Israel competently in a war. Their egos, supported with the public opinion in the streets of Cairo and other regional capitals, led to blind spots in the strategic military decisions they made at the time. A case under the study is Egypt’s mobilization of the artillery and the tanks toward Sinai without taking into account Israel’s air force might use that could have easily smitten them. Israel’s preemptive attack Sun Tzu averred that a good general was one who had his armies on the battlefield before his enemies. Even with the stakes high in the region, Egyptian forces had not substantially mobilized for war in two weeks. The Israeli bombings of military runways on June 5, 1967, caught Egyptians, who were the de facto leaders of the Arabs, by surprise. Indeed, by the time the Egyptians called for retreat most of their tanks were destroyed and the air force almost fully decimated. No joint action If the war in June were an Arab Israel war, as it has indeed been called, then it ought to have strategies that Egypt, Syria, and Jordan could use to attack simultaneously to destroy Israel’s potential for response. As such, even though the Arab leaders conferred on the developments in the region at the time, they failed to plan a pre-emptive att
Euphorbia plant is a succulent plant which is found in the Sahara desert in North Africa, it has several adaptive features which enable it to survive the dry climate of North Africa which is characterized by long dry spells. Their features are in that they can enable the plant to store and retain within its structure for long time. They have hollowed and spongy and thick stem which are evergreen to store water and act as the site for photosynthesis in the plant. The stem is also coated with wax prevent water loss from the plant (McLeod, 2005) The plant has fibrous roots which are close to the ground to enable quick absorption of water after the rain fall and absorb the dew from the plant. In the place of the leaves the plant has thorns which are used to protect the plant from its predators and help in conserving water for the plant as it does not lose water in any way. The Euphorbia plant does not reproduce from the flower but instead it develops from the areola or by cutting the parent plant and planting it in another place (McLeod, 2005).