Abstract
The paper traces how Joyce tells the plight of the young boy in "Araby", raising the question: "How much can man influence his environment, and how much is the reverse?" In discussing the problems faced by the main characters in "The Boarding House", the reader is asked "Are people really in control of anything, or are we just slaves to our surroundings?" and "Can man make any substantial changes in his world, or is that merely an exercise in futility?"

From the Paper
"The young boy in "Araby" was faced with a challenge by some changes that were happening in his environment. The bazaar had come to his neighborhood, and he wanted to go to get something for his "girlfriend", who couldn't be there herself. The challenge, which was actually a two-fold decision that he had to make, was Joyce's way of illustrating an obvious point: "Every person is faced with an important choice at some time in one's life." "

Tags:narration, choices, character, ideas

Abstract
This paper analyzes and reviews the portrayal of the two main female characters in this short story taken from Joyce's famous collection of short stories, "Dubliners". The paper explains how Joyce has painted the female characters in this story, and in all the short stories in "Dubliners", as predators out to trap any man into marriage. The paper then compares this portrayal to Joyce's portrayal of the male characters in "The Gallant" and shows how Joyce's message is that, while men are only after one thing with women, namely sex, women also only want one thing, marriage or the man's money, and this is a more base and elemental need.

From the Paper
"Mrs. Mooney does not think of her girl gaining her own advancement through hard work. Polly seems to have no will or desires of her own, beyond fulfilling her mother's desires for her to get married Polly never objects to either male offers, but neither does she resist her mother's constant overseeing and controlling guardianship. Every emotion of Polly's is either calculated or dominated by her mother or both, as Polly "had been made awkward by her [Polly] not wishing to receive the news in too cavalier a fashion or to seem to have connived, and Polly had been made awkward not merely because allusions of that kind always made her awkward, but also because she did not wish it to be thought that in her wise innocence she had divined the intention behind her mother's tolerance". (2) The oxymoron "wise innocence" shows how much of Polly's appearance of innocence or desire is "put on" with the transparent (to the reader) intention of snaring men."

Tags:sexual, rapaciousness, lenehan, corley, mrs., mooney, jest, loveless, typist, board

Abstract
This paper is a presentation to a school board in support of Henrik Ibsen's play, "A Doll's House." The writer presents the report as an overview of the play and the opinion as to its merit, in order for students to see the play. Using excerpts from the book, the writer attempts to persuade the School Board to allow production of the play to continue. In order to support their argument, the writer refers to reviews of the play in order to give the board a better understanding of the message that is actually being conveyed in the play.

From the Paper
"While some people might view this as a play about abandonment, play is actually about self-esteem and self worth. For several decades, this we has worked to heal the wounds it perpetuated on the female gender since the nation's inception. Women are finally encouraged to be equal, and not base their self worth on the level of martyrdom they are willing to attain. For students who participate in the production of this play, as well as students who see its performance, there are several important lessons to be learned. The most important lesson is that people should never be treated as objects."

Tags:drama, play, production, viewpoints, censorship, self, worth, respect, nora, husband, marriage, women, equal, role, society, object, students, board, education, children, project

Abstract
In this article the writer discusses a unionized company that involves a range of blue, pink and white collar workers. The writer argues that instead of the usual .25 to 1% of payroll given for training, it is necessary to make a .75% increase. Members of the board of directors will understand this hope of the human mesources department when made aware of a few facts shaping the request. The writer notes that all the facts pertain to trends in Canadian industry and in the overall economy that have been in place for about one decade. The writer maintains that spending more on training means a win-win situation that can benefit the company for years to come. If it is possible to retain the workers needed for the future one can avoid the expense of looking for new help, later. The writer concludes that there will be new enthusiasm and curiosity as to what workers can improve or what they learn that they can do. All of these factors make it most desirable to devote some payroll funding now to in-house training.

Outline:
Introduction
Training in Canada
Labour Quality
In the Light of Other Investment
Last Remarks
References

From the Paper
"Only a fraction of employers give support for training. As we all know, many employers then complain when they cannot find the skilled labour they need when forced to search for new staff. Often, they must compete with various companies for the same skill sets. Also, they must do this during a crisis of business or need for high productivity. They end up spending far too much on the changed labour bill because they have not planned ahead. It is wiser to look at this kind of situation as a failure of forward planning, rather than as a blow received by a business. As board members will agree, private sector organizations often succeed by avoiding what might go wrong. Spending on training in the present makes sense, if one looks ahead and imagines a business failure, not due to a lack of orders, but due to inability to fill orders quickly. As business tends to 'move' very quickly in the economy of the day, a client is more apt to just go on to the next supplier that can produce what is needed by a given time."

Tags:staff, productivity, planning, skilled, workers

Abstract
The paper describes how the narrator in James Joyce's novel, "Araby", is forced to accept that his dreams of the girl were not realistic, how in "Eveline," Eveline's disappointment is because of a missed opportunity, and finally, how in "The Boarding house," disappointment is wrapped up with victimization and manipulation. The paper shows how Joyce uses three very different settings to emphasize that regardless of where we are or where we come from, relationships often lead to failure and disappointment.

From the Paper
"While we like to believe that hope will prevail, we must sometimes take a look at reality and realize that with relationships, disappointment and heartache are never far away. James Joyce establishes this notion in his short stories "Araby," "Eveline," and "The Boarding House." In Joyce's world, relationships lead to disappointment because they do not always have the "happily ever after" ending. To drive this idea home, each of these stories leave characters looking back at hope, standing too far away to touch it. People are lead astray by their unfounded hope and some are manipulated into situations that seem hopeless. Regardless of how these characters come into their circumstances, they are faced with disappointment and heartbreak, revealing Joyce's negative point of view in relation to love."

Tags:failure, manipulation, romance

Abstract
This paper analyzes Orson Welles' film, "Citizen Kane", and describes the plot of the story and the personality of the main character in the film. The paper specifically focuses on Mrs. Kane's boarding house scene and how it affected the childhood of Charlie Kane, the main character in the film. The paper then describes how this four-minute scene displays Welles' artistic talent in an exceptional manner.

From the Paper
"Orson Welles created a masterpiece in his film Citizen Kane and the four-minute scene of Mrs. Kane's Boarding House displays Welles' artistic talent in an exceptional manner while creating the image of Charles Kane as a happy, playful boy that becomes raged at everything about his new guardian, and leads to Kane being in a lifelong search of what he lost that day. Welles painted a canvas that showed how inspiring Charlie's mother was to Kane and that Charles was committed to being in control of his environment just as his mother was. The love and affection that was lost as boy from Kane's mother was sought after by the radiance that Charles demanded from his empire. Welles' depiction of Kane's childhood showed what Charles wanted to replace in his life as an adult by the wealth and empowerment gained. Through the uses of camera angles, character placement, sounds, and symbolism, Welles brought about the undiminished story of Charles Kane's life in this one scene. As Charlie's sled of security and love of his childhood lay alone, cold, and lifeless in the snow, he had much wealth and many people with him as his journey with Thatcher began. As Kane died an old man, he also was alone, cold and lifeless with great wealth and many people."

Tags:character, plot, guardian

Abstract
This paper uses examples from James Joyce's "The Boarding House" and "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" to argue that the poet rejected the idea of meaning produced by structures and instead pointed the way towards an infinite number of interpretations rooted in subjectivity. The writer explains the focus on meaning through empiricism that was prevalent in Joyce's time, and how Joyce, on the other hand, through his writing establishes that while the self indeed only marks the intersection of various social tensions, it exists as the ultimate and mutable source of meaning. The paper concludes that if Joyce is correct and there is no truth but the subjective, then the self is the ultimate guarantor of meaning and art the tool by which it is uncovered.

From the Paper
"Meaning and a sense of self are central to the human existence in order to place the self in context with the environment. According to Ferdinand de Saussure, we are trapped through language as integral parts of our environment or social system, within which we contextualize our selves. It follows that the structure of language produces reality, and timeless cultural structures create the individual, illusory sense of self; a self that remains stagnant because it cannot escape its place within its environment. Both the self and the possibility of change are therefore illusions, because meaning only stems from structures. This is the very idea at the heart of structuralism and similarly modernism which dominated Western thought during Joyce's time."

Tags:aporia, freeplay, signification, metaphor, transcendental, consciousness, nontruth, metaphysical, deconstruction, intertextuality

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This paper describes and outlines the functions of a public administration on a city wide level. Much like the White House a city wide board is charged with the operations of the city, setting policy for the city's residents and enforcing them. The author chose a city government to illustrate public policy because it would be a more detailed body to explain and understand.

Tags:governments, white, houses

Abstract
In 1974, Sir Roy Strong, the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum at the time, felt there were enough significant objects relating to the history of childhood within the Victoria and Albert Museum to devote an entirely separate museum to this subject. Since then, the V&A childhood collection has been housed at Bethnal Green and has developed and grown in status to become a collection of national and international significance. Using the documentation available in the Museum of Childhood archives, the author of this paper has produced a comprehensive report on the most popular and influential games displayed at the museum. The paper shows that games were not just a leisure activity arbitrarily serving as a means of passing time. Many times, they are used to teach morals, histories, and religions, and are always a reflection of the culture that surrounds them.

From the Paper
"Because of the gambling character inherent in many games played with a normal deck of cards, such as Poker or Bridge, children's card games were often specifically designed to look different by the addition of pictures or words. In Europe, card games have been documented since about 1370. Card games for children are often fast-moving, enjoyable and easy to learn. Most could be played with a standard deck as well, but often cards for children have an educational theme, with designs based on almost any subject, from fairy tales to maths."

Tags:Monopoly, Chad, Valley, Company, Jigsaw, puzzles

Abstract
This paper discussion how the collection of short stories entitled "Dubliner"s by James Joyce weaves together tales that chronicle awakenings or epiphanies that occur during the protagonist's exploration of his or her sexual life. Through an analysis of some of the stories such as "Araby" and "The Dead" and "The Boarding House", the paper attempts to show how Joyce portrays sexuality as a natural and integrated part of all of the other imperfect parts of these Dubliners' daily existences and life journeys.

From the Paper
"Over the course of the story, the boy learns that sexuality, commerce, and the street are all fused together, and that his sexual desire is not pure, nor is the object of his adoration. The boy experiences an epiphany at the Araby fair, a fair that Managan's sister expresses an intense desire to attend, although she cannot because she must attend a retreat with her convent school. Finally, the boy thinks he has a chance to play a gallant knight in shining armor to his pure 'chalice' of a young woman, and promises to bring her something from the fair. However, immediately, he learns that desire and commerce are fused: he must wait patiently for his uncle to give him a florin for the fair. When he arrives at Araby, he finds himself in a cheap, half-full marketplace where people with English accents are selling trinkets. "

Tags:Araby, The, Dead, Boarding, House