Essays Tagged: "Clegg"

John Fowles The Collector. AP British Literature: Pick a novel of literary merit in which a character in the novel is decidedly evil but which the reader holds sympathy for.MLA style.

In John Fowles' novel The Collector (New York: Little, Brown and Company: 1963) Ferdinand Clegg, an amateur entomologist, kidnaps Miranda, a beautiful artist, and holds her in an underground ... sense of values and his undying adoration of Miranda, causes the reader to overlook the actions of Clegg and relate to him. The vicious way Miranda treats Clegg, who is of a lower social status, make ...

(4 pages) 102 0 3.0 May/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Explore the relationship between the various ways that decision making in organisations may be described and explained and the methodologies to support decision making.

thodologies.The REM assumes that decisions are made rationally by decision-makers in organisations. Clegg et al argues that 'individuals act as maximisers of utility or a similar measure of benefit'. ...

(7 pages) 773 0 4.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making

'Power is a central feature of all workplace interactions'. With reference to the work of Foucault, critically discuss this view.

h is functionally effective if it achieves goals formally defined through rational decision-making (Clegg and Hardy, 1999 p 1).This mainstream, dominant view of organizations and organizational activi ... radigm as it is premised on assumptions concerning the unitary and orderly nature of organizations (Clegg and Handy, 1999 p 1).Mainstream writers who, more often than not occupy the functionalist para ...

(15 pages) 553 4 4.4 Oct/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

A 3 A4 page essay describing, in detail the full novel of John R. Fowles "the Collector".

R. FowlesThe Collector is the story of the abduction and imprisonment of Miranda Grey by Frederick Clegg, told first from his point of view, and then from hers by means of a diary she has kept, with ... f view, and then from hers by means of a diary she has kept, with a return in the last few pages to Clegg's narration of her illness and death.Clegg's section begins with his recalling how he used to ...

(6 pages) 56 0 4.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: Art Essays

'Power is a central feature of all workplace interactions'. With reference to the work of Foucault, critically discuss this view.

h is functionally effective if it achieves goals formally defined through rational decision-making (Clegg and Hardy, 1999 p 1).This mainstream, dominant view of organizations and organizational activi ... radigm as it is premised on assumptions concerning the unitary and orderly nature of organizations (Clegg and Handy, 1999 p 1).Mainstream writers who, more often than not occupy the functionalist para ...

(13 pages) 237 0 2.6 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays

John Fowles - The Collector

Formulate a reading of Clegg and Miranda. Discuss the techniques and reading practices that have encouraged your response t ... Psychoanalytic readings are also used to form a reading of the two characters, that being Frederick Clegg and the other being Miranda Grey. Frederick is a strange 'collector' who no longer collects bu ... raclitian philosophies that allow readers to formulate a reading of Frederick and Miranda.Frederick Clegg, who prefers to be known as Ferdinand is constructed throughout the novel as someone who is di ...

(6 pages) 53 0 3.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Discuss the ways in which your engagement with the construction of a character or characters in "The Collector" has contributed to your understanding of the text.

nderstanding of the text. In The Collector by John Fowles, the reader's engagement with Miranda and Clegg helps them to understand Fowles idea of a class dominated society, in England during the 1960' ... upper middle-class, where Miranda is placed in the societal ladder, and lower working class such as Clegg. Miranda belongs to a class where she feels comfortable and trys not to be class predjucided. ...

(9 pages) 63 0 3.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Collector, A Library Report

ary and linguistic allusions of the references to Miranda, Caliban and Ferdinand. The derivation of Clegg's name is from "clef"�, which means key.Bagchee analyzes Foster's dual narrative techni ... as "revealing a somber and frightening view of life's hazards"� (167). The two narrations by Clegg and Miranda are surprisingly similar not only in their physical descriptions of incidents that ...

(4 pages) 2860 0 5.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Trade Unions Concept and Theories

active role in regard to employment relations (Bamber et al. 2004 p 12).Theory and ConceptsBain and Clegg (1974) as well as Clegg (1976) state that dissimilarity in the dimensions of collective bargai ... our. This might represent a theory of trade union behaviour regarding collective bargaining however Clegg does not consider it a complete theory of trade unionism, because theory does not clarify the ...

(5 pages) 53 0 4.0 May/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Human Resource Management

"A Good Manager Will Always Be a Good Leader" -Leadership & management, differences between.

to show the way by going with ... to serve as the means of reaching a place" (Hanks, 1986)�. Clegg et al. (2008)� describes it as a term that is "one of the most over-theorised, over-res ... here when we ask is leadership a science or an art? Can it be learned, or must one be born with it? Clegg describes the "trait theorists" as those who believe leadership to be a "question of unique tr ...

(11 pages) 110 0 0.0 Apr/2010

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management