... claim he had to continue being seen as a man working in the men's world of business. In Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow, and Oleanna, Mamet retains a central theme: if men did not have to deal with women, business could operate unhindered. First, though, one must consider Mamet's ... to the studio chief's office. The men's business remains intact and on track, despite the female assault. However, the male protagonist in Oleanna would not be so lucky. Unlike Bobby Gould in Speed-the-Plow or James Lingk in Glengarry Glen Ross, John the professor had no ... she cannot understand. Joh...

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... experiences tell us is most probable (Wade, 1982). The perception of ambiguities is never certain, and probably always has some errors (Coren, & Girgus, 1978). The most well known illusion of ambiguity is the Necker cube (Gregory, 1987, p339-400). The effect works because the drawing of the cube (an orthographic projection) carefully eliminates all depth cues. In attempting to fit the ... different ways, and individuals resolve it differently at different times (Robinson, 1972). This Necker cube illusion is one of several in this collection in which there is an ambiguity to be resolved ...

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... and closure whereas existential motives are cognitive preferences to manage threatening circumstances. Jost et al. observed significant positive correlation between epistemic motives such as dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity and manifested conservatism (354). Conversely, Jost et al. notice significant negative correlation between epistemic uncertainty tolerance and conservatism (358). In assessing these trends they find ... influence information processing that eventually leads to conservative inclination. The aforementioned correlations are in and of themselves related simply beca...

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... . David Yezzi details Emily's early life, "The joy that Dickinson took in faith at that early age gave way in young adulthood to doubt, which her poems later absorbed as ambiguity and contradiction. In 1847-48, Dickinson underwent a year of religious instruction at the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, but returned to Amherst after suffering an illness that gave the family cause ... . All our beliefs can be cut through by certainty's messenger. Who is the messenger? Faith perhaps, or doubt, the poem can be read either way. The ambiguity of the poem reflects Emily's on personal ambiguity on t...

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... . Under this article a case from the House of Lords can be referred to the ECJ for a ruling on the interpretation of E.U law, where ambiguity has arisen between the English law and E.U law. Paragraph 3 states that if a point raises ambiguity in the final court of appeal there is a duty to refer the point in question to the ECJ. The opinion of the ECJ ... will be considered by the English judges and the English judges will need to resolve the ambiguity by modifying their traditional approaches by "gap filling" or giving priority to E.U law. This is shown where an Article 234 (177) referen...

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... to die for one's country. Randall Jarrell's "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" compares decrease in war to an abortion by using ambiguity. However, in "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien, the ambiguity is displayed with irony to demonstrate that death is one of life's most challenging obstacles. Each work presents the death of a man for his ... picture to portray the cruelty and the coldness of war, when he states that "when I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose" (551).From the ambiguity of this line we can understand at least two meanings at once. First it can be ...

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... are not distinct, and is up to the viewer's interpretation. Typically for the time, the Hollywood structure has an obvious exposition, development and resolution, with resolving cause and effect throughout. Ambiguity was uncommon for the time and is still uncommon today, however it was ground-breaking for a Hollywood film to implement experimental elements into major production. Thus, at the time reception ... effects it has are unpredictable, however it is eventually implied that it is the cause of development of human evolution and technological advancement. Similarly in The Shining, ...

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... importance of the chorus diminished and often involved stock characters. It is used to relate to portray the average citizen. "New Comedy accurately reflects the disillusioned spirit and moral ambiguity of the bourgeois class of this period" (Encyclopedia Britannica). The new comedic play, "Dyskolos," is in essence about a young gentlemen's quest to marry a girl in which he has fallen ... of the play shows many different dimensions of Menander's influence as a playwright, the use of stock characters in New Comedy and how these characters represent the disillusioned spirit and moral ambi...

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... , "so last night she got a lot of them out and brought them in last night and put them in my bed to keep warm" (Twain 33) 6. "Avoid ambiguity" (Morreall 79), an example of this would be Adam trying to get away from Eve on numerous occasions in the book. 7. "Be brief," (Morreall 79) all of ... as frequently as Eve. Adam's character tends to violate guideline four, do not say for which you lack adequate evidence, guideline five avoid obscurity of expression, and guideline six, avoiding ambiguity. Another reason that Mark Twain's "The Diaries of Adam and Eve" is humorous is because of the i...

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... first two beats and a V7 in the third beat. The next bar is a I6 followed by a bar with a harmonic change each beat: ii6, I64, and V7. Already there is tonal ambiguity. Twice a ii chord has returned to I instead of continuing to a V chord or a substitute. And at the end of the 6th bar of the development a V7 has been set up. The ... ) implies that the previous motion has been a kind of arpeggiation of V, the dominant of i or I (which have both been absent for a while). This figure is deliberately obscure and creates more ambiguity to make what comes later more effective. Measure 16 is cl...

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... seems dying. (lines 35-39) suggest that the soldiers believe that only by fighting and winning the war will innocent and goodness be restored to the world. However, the ironic ambiguity of last line, 'for love of God is dying, is Owen's way of questioning the nature of that love of God', which is supposed to inspire their civilization and justify ... the war' (Breen 184). The aforementioned lines are also Modernistic in content because of the ambiguity in the final line in the stanza. which proposes several theories that remain unanswered. The reader wonders if Owen is stating that that...

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... this argument ended in secession, disunion, and eventually war. The flaw of the Constitution existed not in its clear and over-comprehensive guidelines for the Union, but rather in its ambiguity over the rarely discussed topic of slavery. In fact, it was so infrequently discussed because in 1839, Congress had passed a "gag rule" that prohibited any debate about, reading of, printing ... of, or reference to slavery. There was such a state of ambiguity on the subject that each side, North and South, found the Constitution as both a helpful tool and hindering detriment to their case. The i...

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... when coupled with Stoker's use of realism not only acts as a thought-provoking device, but endows his story with a depth rarely found in gothic novels. Stoker's desire to create an ambiguity between reality and fiction is exploited throughout the novel. This idea is initially established through the presence of an unusual epigraph. An epigraph is traditionally used as an insight into ... authentic testimonies is here evident. The epigraph appears to be an assertion of the exactitude of the documents presented and is representative of the entire book. An echo of its ambiguity may be foun...

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... ", does not seem to be convinced of the existence of such ghosts. This functions as an undermining element for the further story. Then follow the technique of postponing and of ambiguity: "he had broken a thickness of ice, the formation of many a winter; had had his reasons for a long silence. The others resented postponement, but it was just his scruples that charmed ... becomes unworthy of our trust by the way she describes the setting in the first chapter. The frequency of the verbs "I remember", "I think", "I suppose", "I believe" brings forward the technique of ambiguity: the senten...

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True to its roots as a Gothic novel, the atmosphere of The House of the Seven Gables broods with ambiguity and fear, with this uncertainty culminating in moments of heightened suspense. In these moments, author Nathaniel Hawthorne breeds tension with a terse syntactical style, igniting imagination with suggestive language, and frustrating ... all observable evidence as obscured, Hawthorne forces us to face a deep-seated desire for clarity in the world. Without this clarity, we, like Phoebe, become fearful-however, the pervasiveness of ambiguity challenges us to consider how indistinct our wo...

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... oppositions and she uses a lot of literary issues in order to show the deconstruction of boundaries, such as fairy tales, romances, among others. We find that Winterson plays with the ambiguity of desire, sex and gender as a parallel of male and female. The author claims gender being cultural, not natural and she divides the issue of the body into two: sex ... trait of him or her, and also we cannot enter the issue of cliches of gender identity. The author refuses to categorise this narrative voice in a specific gender. Through this ambiguity, she forces to establish the position of the...

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... native blood, blurring the line between conquered and conqueror. Eventually, even some Filipinos themselves helped maintain the rule of the Spanish through roles in the military and local government. This ambiguity of identity and response to the Spanish for 300 years resulted in a slow evolution, with various changes in loyalty amongst Filipinos. It was only when common grievances against the Spanish ... of the nation has been aroused and a common misfortune, a common debasement has united all the inhabitants of the Islands." (435) By undoing the centuries of cultural fragmentation and...

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... to revealing essence by expressing necessary and sufficient conditions, it is necessary for the definition to be univocal, extensionally adequate, and epistemically serviceable. To be univocal, it must be unambiguous. Ambiguity is defined as a property of a linguistic string that is used with two of more meanings within ordinary discourse. An example of a univocal term is male because it is difficult to ... adequate (Cleland and Chyba, 2002). From conceptual analysis, we derive that life is inherently vague and without a connection to a scientific theory, there can be no adequate defini...

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... is a poem which examines the relationship that the narrator, a maid, shares with her employer whom she refers to as her mistress. This poem is particularly interesting due to it's effective ambiguity. The maid is living with an unhealthy obsession towards her mistress. This profound fixation develops a blurred line between love and hate for the mistress. The ambivalence in her own mind ... mistress, she might take joy in the fact that the pearls still contain her lingering body odor, a small part of her that stays close to the mistress every night. The ambiguity of Carol Ann Duffy's "Wa...

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... , which means Doubt is placed about about ten months following his death. America lost its first Catholic President, which caused its civilians to experience an overall state of doubt and ambiguity in their lives. America was also involved in the Vietnam War at this time, and combined with the loss of their president, there was a sense of uncertainty and loss of ... collected man who seemed nothing but innocent. By the end of the play, he was extremely anxious and nervous in the way he spoke, which definitely caused some confusion and ambiguity for the audience. For example, at the end o...

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... non-stereotyped domains, as indicated by performance on the unrelated handgrip task. In this study, two theories or concepts identified in class and the textbook are shown: attributional ambiguity and stereotype threat. Attributional ambiguity is the concept that stigmatized members of groups have difficulty interpreting feedback because they are unsure if it is caused by their behavior as an individual or as ... ...

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... power. If all children then do have a right to the power of mathematics (Wickett, 2000), then the teacher has a responsibility to give all students access. The mathematics register and lexical ambiguity At the beginning of mathematical learning is the language of mathematics - that set of words the mathematician uses to express mathematical concepts and activities: the mathematical register. A well-defined, universally ... a word will convey the same sense but with different perspectives (such as "home" which could be interchangeable with house to one person, but mean something differen...

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... inconclusive and equivocal, just like Marlow. Therefore, a reader's first expectations are rather inexpressible because one is put a half-state, where the clear literal meaning of "heart" is set against the ambiguity of the "darkness". The "darkness" in the novel works on both the characters and the readers, where it highlights the states of confusion and incomprehension of the mind. It seems ... revealed, when the narrator warns us that we are about to hear of one of Marlow's "inconclusive experiences". It is through Marlow's indecisiveness that the novel achieves its air of ambiguity,...

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... face to more pimples. Basically, these are the differences of the ads that the attributes are good or bad. Uncertainty Avoidance " The extend which people feel threatened by uncertainty and ambiguity and try to avoid these situation." Like the book stated that, life is unpredictable, and some people don't mind unpredictability or uncertainty while others hate uncertainty or ... ambiguity and try to cope with it by making rules and prescribing behavior. (pg.83) As an advertiser, their job are to create a new ads line and promote and promote non ... ...

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... , they weigh more variables, consider more options and outcomes, recall more points of view, and see more ways to proceed. They integrate, generalize, and synthesize11. And women, on average, tolerate ambiguity better than men. In short, women tend to think in webs of interrelated factors, not straight lines7. The Male Mind As a general rule, men tend to focus on one thing ... obviously pertinent, men are inclined to dispense with them. Then they progress in a straightforward, linear, causal path toward a specific goal: the solution. As a result, men are generally less tolerant of ambigu...

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