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Encounter Over Hainan, 2002.
A look at the applications of Sun Tzu's "Art of War".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper analyzes how lessons from Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" applied to the confrontation between the United States and China over the EP-3E incident, and to the subsequent negotiations.
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Literature: The Chance Encounter, 2007.
This paper compares the use of the chance encounter as a literary device in John Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums" and Tayama Katai's "The Girl Watcher".
1,425 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 0 sources, $ 47.95
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This paper explains that, although John Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums" and Tayama Katai's "The Girl Watcher" are written by authors from two different cultures, they share a literary device called the chance encounter. The author points out that the chance encounter enables the protagonists to reflect on their unfulfilled desires, allowing them a medium to channel their frustrations and to develop a greater awareness of their self-hoods. The paper relates that, in both stories, the chance encounter comes as a break from the routine nature of the protagonists' everyday lives, leading them to reflect on their unfulfilled desires. The author suggests that both characters not only feel unfulfilled in their roles in society, one as a housewife and the other a male magazine proof-reader, but also in their sexual relationships.
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"In Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums", the protagonist Eliza reaches a point in her life whereby she is left feeling unfulfilled, particularly in her relationship with her husband. The chance encounter she has, with a traveling male stranger, leads her to imagine an alternative life as she contemplates acting upon her desires. At the start of the text, we get the feeling that Eliza feels lonely and isolated in her country town. The author uses descriptive language to convey Eliza's sense of isolation in the Salina's Valley,..."
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The Key Role of Encounter in Restorative Justice, 2008.
A discussion of the important function of personal encounter in restorative justice.
2,590 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 78.95
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The paper argues that a person to person encounter in a relatively informal, extrajudicial setting is a key aspect of the restorative justice process and paradigm. The paper explains that a personal encounter encourages progress to be made in restoring harms, because it allows people to meet as suffering human beings. The paper discusses the moving personal encounter between King Priam of Troy and Achilles the Athenian, as recorded in Homer's "Iliad" and also makes a reference to Aboriginal healing circles.
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"Van Ness and Strong (2006: p. 61) begin their chapter on encounters with an account of the moving personal encounter between King Priam of Troy and Achilles the Athenian, as recorded in Homer's Iliad. Hector, son of Priam, had killed Patroclus, much-beloved friend of Achilles. To make matters worse, he had done this while Achilles, in a fit of pique directed at Agamemnon, was refusing to fight on the side of the Athenians. As Achilles was not fighting, Patroclus had borrowed Achilles' armour. This had the unfortunate result that Patroclus had been mistaken by Hector for Achilles, and Hector had therefore killed him (somewhat to his own surprise, for Achilles was widely feared as a warrior)."
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Service Encounter Communication, 2002.
This paper defines the concept of an encounter and applies it to the consumer world. It uses specific sources to look at many aspects of customer service.
1,216 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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What does a customer want from an encounter? This paper uses sources to answer this question, giving strategies used by people in customer service roles to create a positive encounter. The paper looks closely at research that has been written with the express purpose of informing and teaching.
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"Good encounters are inexpensive in time as well as cost. Standardization of procedures and services in these instances provide more than the savings associated with efficiency, they also provide a level of security to the customer when they are quickly and effectively transacted. Poor process efficiency makes delays, glitches, problems and mistakes even more aggravating for the customer to deal with in encounters, as their reasonable expectation was to participate in what by definition should be a timely, effortless transaction."
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"A Late Encounter with the Enemy" by Flannery O'Connor, 2002.
An analysis of this short story that delves into questions of truth and illusion and how people prefer to live by illusion when the truth is too prosaic.
4,485 words (approx. 17.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 117.95
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This paper examines this short story and delves into questions of history, the meaning of history, the meaning of time, the way human beings shape their lives from whatever material they can find or assume, the way society at large reacts to certain events and the void that often exists at the center of a family. The story revolves around a grandfather and his granddaughter who both need some glorious past to justify their existence. The paper describes the two characters as well as the other characters that appear in the book. The paper analyzes the themes found in the story.
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"Flannery O'Connor develops her story using a comic tone and building on a series of ironies around the distinction between reality and illusion in terms of the glories of the Old South and those in the present who need some glorious past to justify their existence. The story involves two major characters and several peripheral characters, but only the two major characters are developed in any significant degree."
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African Encounter, 2002.
Written in the first paper to show two different perspectives on the first contact with Africa.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper presents my personal impressions of the Age of Exploration, especially concerning the arrival of the Portuguese on the coast of West Africa in the early 15th century. I examine this topic from the perspective of an African that was first exposed to Europeans in this manner and then I examine this topic as if I were a Portuguese sailor that joined this first expedition.
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"Epic Encounters" USA & the Middle East, 2005.
A review of "Epic Encounters" by Melani McAlister.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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"This paper reviews the book "Epic Encounters" by Melani McAlister. According to this review, "Epic Encounters" is a book that examines the specific relationship that exists between America and the Middle East since World War II, what has shaped that relationship, and how that relationship is both reflected in and shaped by media reports that certainly affect the way Americans see the world and their place in it.
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"The events of September 11, 2001 brought the reality of international terrorism home to Americans and also created the need to know more about the subject, about the forces contributing to terrorism, and about ways to control terrorist groups and individuals. One aspect of this desire to know has been a need to understand the way of thinking common in the Middle East, but Americans first need to know more about the Middle East than they have in the past. Americans tend to see the world reflected through their own experience and to give little attention to details about other countries."
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Service Encounters, 2004.
An analysis of two service encounters.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper provides an analysis of two service encounters, an excellent one and a deplorable one. The paper uses concepts related to customer service management to explain the reasons why each one is categorized as either excellent or deplorable.
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"The worst service I encountered was my experience interacting with customer service at AOL. When broadband came out I contacted AOL and ordered their product raising my monthly rates ..."
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"Encountering God", 2004.
A review of the book, "Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras", by Diana L. Eck.
1,182 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper examines the book, "Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras", in which the author Diana L. Eck describes her spiritual journey from being a Methodist to the exploration, recognition, and realization of God that resulted in her own expansion and enlightenment of God. In particular, it looks at how the journey that is described in this book reflects acute knowledge relating to different religions of the world and how it gives insight of various religions and their beliefs and opens new dimensions of pluralism.
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"In Bozeman, Eck used to practice her life according to the Christian Methodist beliefs. Her social life in US depicted her Christian beliefs as a Methodist. However, early in her life, she moved to India, which she justifies as a means of understanding the Asians after the much-wronged Vietnam War that led many Americans to think about the Asians and the Asian culture. Eck was no different that those Americans, except that she decided to learn the difference personally. While in Banaras, India, she met many Hindus who worshipped many gods at a time. This was a new thing to Eck, polytheism is foreign to the Christian faith, however, these faiths does entail in them the element of power as well as the spiritual manifestation. These spiritual presence and the powers that it beholds made Eck rethink her won faith and belief regarding her religion Christianity."
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Indian/European Encounters, 2004.
This paper discusses the encounters between European colonizers and New World peoples.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 9 sources, $ 71.95
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This article provides a discussion of the encounters between European colonizers and New World peoples. In this paper the writer includes a look at the role of religion. The writer studies the European vision of the New World as a paradise of fortune and a desire for profits above all else.
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"When Columbus erroneously concluded that he had reached India after landing in the New World he set in motion a process of exploitation of the indigenous peoples of the so-called New World that persisted throughout the period of European colonization and the establishment of the United States after the Revolutionary War. That is not to say that such exploitation was terminated with the founding of the U.S. however, the specifically European as opposed to American encounter with the indigenous represented the first historical wave of the relationship and ... "
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Classroom Encounters, 2002.
An examination of Behavioral and Symbolic-Interactionist Techniques
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This paper explains two theories of classroom social interaction, behavioral and symbolic-interactionist, using examples from contemporary classrooms. It also explains the impact of changing pupil culture and school institutional structure on the creation of a stable social structure in the secondary-school classroom.
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UFO Encounters: Fact or Fiction?, 2001.
This paper explains both sides of the issue of UFOs and alien abduction.
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This paper questions the veracity of unidentified flying objects. The author discusses the origins of claims of contact with extraterrestrial life. Also covered are some of the 'evidences' offered to back up claims of the existence of UFOs.
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"The publicity of encounters with UFOs started in the late 1940?s. There had been reports before that time, but they had not received much exposure by the media. It all started in 1947. One day Kevin Arnold, who was flying his single engine plane, reported that he had seen objects flying around that could not be explained. He estimated their speed to be three times what was possible at that time. He described their motion was similar to that of a saucer skipping across water. The term flying saucer was born. The debate of the validity of these claims was also born (Randles 2)."
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Women in the Police Force and the Issues they Face, 1999.
Discusses the problems that many women encounter when entering this mainly male dominated industry.
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The paper focuses on the problems that women encounter while entering a male dominated industry. The author discusses experiences women encounter in the police force such as alienation, hostility and resentment.
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"Barefoot and pregnant was the motto echoed throughout the nation about women prior to 1910. In this year, Alice Stebbins Wells became the first sworn female officer. Unfortunately, even though women were accepted into the policing profession, their role was a very limited one. They were concentrated in aspects that dealt with other women, children, or clerical work. I suppose that allowing them to work solely in these areas was meant to reinforce their ?motherly? side. And why not? It wasn?t considered ?ladylike? to shoot a gun or deal with issues such as alcohol or violence. Women weren?t supposed to engage in fighting or tell men what to do. These thoughts are representative of the Madonna-whore duality, where a woman is either ?a mother/wife/virtuous paragon? or ?an evil/Eve/seductress? (Epstein 186 ). Women who make attempts to be officers of the law are considered to be those evil women who have deviated from the ?norm.? It wasn?t until 1972 that amendments were made to the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, allowing women a right to an equal opportunity in their quest for a law enforcement career."
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James Joyce, 2004.
A review of two of James Joyce's short stories, ?An Encounter? and ?Araby?.
974 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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This paper discusses the structured encounters with the discursive nature of experience in James Joyce?s short stories, ?Araby? and ?An Encounter?. The paper examines the similarities and the differences in these two stories, both in the storyline and in the experiences of the protagonist. The paper explains that, despite the wildness these short stories chronicle, both are highly structured. Even though both stories are intensely sensual and put the protagonist through a dizzying array of experiences, both stories begin with order, proceed into different forms of disorder in play and fair-like environments, and finally culminate into a final, resolving order that leaves the adolescent protagonists wiser than they were before.
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"These life-changing events take the form of seeing individuals, either new types of people, or everyday people in ?new lights? In ?An Encounter,? the protagonist experiences an encounter with an individual the protagonist would not otherwise know within the daily circle and modalities of that person?s life. ?Araby? is a fair--and a fair is a carnival of different sights, experiences, smells, and various encounters, the last of which is a pure woman seen in disreputable circumstances. While at ?Araby,? the young boy sees a woman he has idealized, and is shocked to see her in a more common and base fashion than he envisioned. Thus, ?Araby? indicates how moments essentially out of time and routine can be life-transforming, through seasonal, temporal events like a fair. Fairs are discursive spaces, in that one can wander through them. Likewise, the aimless playing in the street of ?encountering? someone becomes an education in character, rather than a purposeless, aimless wandering through stimulating yet disconnected experiences and meetings."
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"The Metamorphosis", 2002.
A discussion of the concept of encountering the other in Franz Kafka's short novel "The Metamorphosis".
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This paper examines and analyzes the short novel "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka and how it portrays encountering the other. The author considers who or what the other is, how the other is perceived and depicted, what aspects of the other are emphasized, what the nature of the encounter with the other is, and what results from the encounter.
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