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This paper examines how Graham Greene's "The Quiet American" provides an account of the activities of a well-intentioned, but misguided and naive American government agent in Vietnam during the midst of the anti-French uprising there in the early 1950s. It discusses the book from an existentialist perspective to illustrate how U.S. foreign policy has been woefully inadequate over the years, being based on a fundamental lack of understanding about other cultures, and a disregard for how the world really works. A summary of the research is provided in the conclusion.

From the Paper
"According to Greene, Fowler's own background and experience with colonialism and its impact on the nations involved helped him to better understand the importance of recognizing and respecting how things worked in other countries, and how the indigenous people actually lived and what they wanted in life: "The morning Pyle arrived in the square by the Continental, I had seen enough of my American colleagues of the press, big, noisy, boyish and middle-aged, full of sour cracks against the French, who were, when all was said, fighting this war" (1992:20). Pyle is an ardent follower of an American political theorist, York Harding, author of The Advance of Red China and other such works about Asia (Freely, 2001). Fowler says that he was to learn later than Pyle's respect and admiration for Harding was to the virtual total exclusion of "novelists, poets, and dramatists unless they had what he called a contemporary theme, and even then it was better to read the straight stuff as you got it from York" (21)."

Tags:vietnam, foreign, policy

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This paper expounds upon the conversion of Graham Greene to Catholicism. Based on an analysis of his writings and correspondence and biographical writings, the paper reflects the view that while Greene converted for the love of a woman, in fact he needed some sort of belief that made him stabilize his rebellious and hyperactive personality.

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This paper discusses Graham Greene's novel "The Quiet American" and director Philip Noyce's 2001 movie of the same name. The paper analyzes the themes and concepts that are presented as well as the moral and ethical issues associated with early American involvement in Vietnam and the lessons to be learned from that involvement.

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"The involvement of the Western powers, primarily the French and the United States, in Vietnam was based on an imperial ideology that saw the West as superior and the East as inferior. As events unfolded it became clear that the ideology of the West did not apply in Vietnam. The tragic results of nation-building in the Third World by the West are examined in the Graham Greene novel,"The Quiet American" and in director Philip Noyce's movie of the same name. By viewing the Vietnamese as inferior it..."

Tags:Greene, Quiet, American, Novel, Film, Noyce, Vietnam

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"Graham Greene's novel "The Power and the Glory" is a humanistic study of the Catholic Church as represented by the priest/protagonist of the novel. It is likely that the leaders of the Church themselves looked at the "whisky priest" without a name and concluded that Greene was primarily writing a book about the weaknesses and corruption of the Church and its religious authority. In fact, however, Greene's humane portrayal of the priest as a man rather than as a saint is a ringing endorsement of the man's (and the Church's) role as bringer of God to the people.

Greene does not want to write simple propaganda for the Church. At the same time, it is clear from his loving portrayal of the flawed whisky priest that he has a real respect for the representatives of that Church and the good that they do in the ... "

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In this paper the author considers the differences in the writing styles of Malraux and Greene. The study focuses on some of the better known books of both authors and dissects the writing skills of each. The author concludes with his personal opinion as to why Malraux is a better author even though Greene is more popular.
Thesis Statement
The World Between the Great Wars
The Leon Trotsky Papers
Graham Greene and the Power and the Glory
Conclusions

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"The 1933 appearance of La Conditione Humaine wins for Malraux the coveted Goncourt Prize and establishes his reputation as an international author. The novel depicts a Communist uprising in Shanghai and the party's later annihilation in a massacre led by its former ally Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalists forces. Once again, Malraux has alienated revolutionary heroes - Chen, a young Chinese fighter, Kayo Gisors, an Eurasian organizer, Katow, a former student of medicine from Russia along with others - find a sense of dignity and solidarity in action and death."

Tags:contemporary, literary, paradox, author, novelist

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This paper analyzes several of the key points from the book "First Break All the Rules" by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman. The author provides insight as to the current and immediate future business environment in relation to this book's message and usefulness.

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The paper examines Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman's "First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently", which tells managers to place their employees in situations where they can be successful and thereby create a much more productive working environment. The paper highlights the superiority of this work over another popular management book called "The One Minute Manager", by Kenneth H. Blanchard and Spencer Johnson. The paper opines that "First, Break All the Rules" is an excellent source for any manager who wishes to discover how to get the most out of his or her employees.

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"The book First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently, by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, is a new look at the business world and it gives new managerial techniques that have not been used in past generations. Perhaps most importantly, this book tells managers to focus on their employees' strengths and attempt to get the most out of them, rather than placing them in situations where their weaknesses will be exploited. This is done in order to get the most out of every employee, which will make the work environment much more productive. This book is an excellent source for any manager who wishes to discover how to get the most out of his or her employees. This is especially important for small businesses, as they have far less room for error."

Tags:employees, strengths, productivity

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This paper explains that "First, Break all the Rules" by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman discusses the Gallup Organization's efforts to provide a "measuring stick" in identifying and determining the factors that influence and reasons that lead to not only employee retention but also increased employee efficiency and performance. The author points out that Buckingham and Coffman directly linked employee retention and efficiency with employee satisfaction, which leads to a larger management concept identified as "human capital". The paper stresses that the importance of human capital is parallel to the emergence and development of brand imaging so prevalent in contemporary business practices.

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"Applied in the context of today's information- and service-oriented industries, the manager becomes even more significant because it is s/he who handles tasks that inspires the employee to do his/her best in her work and become loyal to the company s/he works in. Handling human capital is trickier nowadays, since "a great deal of a company's value now lies 'between the ears of its employees'...this means that when someone leaves a company, he takes his value with him-more often than not, straight to the competition." It is the employees' ideas, talent, and expertise that have greater weight than the company's products and services."

Tags:power-games, human-capital, satisfaction, potential, efficiency

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This paper discusses "First, Break All the Rules" by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman and analyzes twelve questions that can indicate the strength of a workplace.

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"Graham Greene was a major British novelist for many decades and was noted for his inclusion of political subject matter and points of view in his works. He often wrote directly about trouble spots in the world--The Comedians was set in Papa Doc's Haiti, for instance, while A Burnt-Out Case is set in the Congo. His novel The Quiet American from 1955 is set in Vietnam, a country few Americans had even heard of in 1955 when the French were engaged in the sort of guerilla war America would face a few years later in the same country. In this novel, he offers an interesting picture of the politics of the region, of the role taken by foreign powers, and of the nature of warfare and revolution in that country. What he says in 1955 casts an interesting light not only on the role of the French in the 1950s but on what would face America in the 1960s."