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'The Secret Sharer' and The Invented Leggatt, 2006.
A review of 'The Secret Sharer' by Joseph Conrad.
3,380 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 96.95
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This paper takes a look at the book, 'The Secret Sharer' by Joseph Conrad. The paper focuses specifically on the character 'Leggatt'. The paper argues that 'Leggatt' is an invented, imaginary person. According to the paper, Leggatt has been invented by the captain to justify the choices he made on that first journey as captain, when he chose to reject his young self and adopt a more mature and responsible self.
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"Another important point to consider is how the story is told, with this impacting on the story. The story is narrated by the captain, looking back on his time with the ship. This reflective approach emphasizes that it is the captain's experience that is important, more so than the events themselves. Having the captain reflect on the experience also emphasizes that it was a significant event in his life. However, this reflective approach does not mean that the events have to be true. After all, they are important to the captain for what they mean to him and what they represent. This supports the idea that the events described are fictional. They are effectively a myth that the captain has invented to understand himself and how he changed on that first journey. It has been noted though, that he did not change because of what happened on the trip. Instead, it was a normal trip where the captain took on his role, assumed responsibility, and accepted full authority. The story of Leggatt is the myth that the captain has invented to explain how he changed. It is his way of reconciling what he did with a created story that turns a personal experience into a set of events that represent the experience. In this way, the captain has made his coming of age experience a literal experience that others can also understand."
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"The Secret Sharer", 2000.
This paper free-associates the meaning behind the story, "The Secret Sharer." It discusses the evolving relationship of the Captain and Legatt, which include his realization of the affect his actions can have on the lives of others.
930 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 33.95
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This paper examines the story "The Secret Sharer," and presents the thesis that perhaps Leggatt and the Captain shared a portion of their identities. The paper covers the captains growth, from a young man, when he was first made captain, and some of the choices he made during these earlier years, through events that shaped and influenced his later years.
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"This story throughout showed a Captain?s growth and process through his right of passage, from being an inexperienced and uncertain young man to being an in-charge ship?s Captain. He learned not only how to be a captain, but also discovered who his inner self was. He learned to make moral decisions as well as decisions pertaining to the running of the ship without fear of what the shipmates would think. Although in his youth he had much more wisdom than the Captain of the Sephora who had the experience of thirty and seven years, but never became a confident man who believed in himself, because he acted as a coward and then lied about Leggatt who had witnessed his cowardice, in order to preserve his own reputation."
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?The Secret Sharer?, 2002.
A critical analysis of Joseph Conrad's formalist approach to writing in his novel, ?The Secret Sharer?.
1,760 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper examines the use of narration, tone and the symbolism in Joseph Conrad's novel, ?The Secret Sharer?. It states that the effectiveness of the novel lies in his method of story telling, while still emphasizing the meaning beyond the story itself.
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""The Secret Sharer "by Joseph Conrad is a story with universal themes relating to human nature and the journey to find oneself that every human takes at some stage in their life. Conrad offers readers a story in the form of a series of events while keeping the emphasis on the journey these events represent. In this way, Conrad makes the universal themes clear, the story an effectively told tale communicating a theme that has universal relevance."
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?The Secret Sharer?, 2002.
Discusses the theme of the journey within in Joseph Conrad's novel.
1,059 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 37.95
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At the helm of a nameless ship, a young man referred to only as Captain, over-comes the challenges of his first command when he meets face to face the darker side of self within a fugitive he secretly rescues from the dark night sea. The paper shows that in ?The Secret Sharer,? Joseph Conrad explores the insecurities of a young sea captain who feels not only a stranger to the ship and its crew, but to himself. The story takes place in the late 19th century aboard a merchant ship in the Gulf of Siam, a lonely and isolated area of the world, which Conrad uses to help accentuate the Captain?s own feelings of isolation and uncertainty. The paper explains that the major theme of Conrad?s story is the conflict between obeying societal laws and yielding to instinctual survival decisions, law verses outlaw. The Captain sees within the fugitive, Leggatt, a part of himself yet unexplored. The paper concludes that Leggatt becomes a catalyst for the Captain in his search for the courage to take command and responsibility of not only his ship, but life itself, thus, his rescue of Leggatt becomes the rescue of himself.
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"Symbolically, both are outcasts, Leggatt from society due to his crime, and the Captain from his command due to his self-doubt. The Captain feels such an affinity for Leggatt that he hides him in his cabin, sharing his food, his clothes, and even his bed. He also shares his secret feelings of doubt and inadequacy, thus, bonding on a psychological and spiritual level with Leggatt. They become simpatico, communicating more with eye contact and gestures than words, causing the Captain, the narrator of the story to express, ?What could I tell him that he did not already know? (Conrad 1997)? The Captain even deludes the skipper of the Sephora when he comes aboard looking for Leggatt, the Captain?s secret sharer, and it is then that the urgency to plan Leggatt?s escape befalls them."
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Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer", 2001.
An essay examining elements of plot, character development, symbolism and themes found in Conrad's short story.
1,605 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 52.95
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This essay discusses and analyzes Joseph Conrad?s short story The Secret Sharer. The author describes Conrad?s life as a sailor and its influence on the tale. The relationship between the two main characters, the unique plot, symbolism, issues of morality and justice, and general themes are also explored. A critical review of the story concludes the essay.
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"In a discussion and analysis of Joseph Conrad?s short story ?The Secret Sharer? (1910), it is important to begin with a look at the author?s life to better understand the foundation for the vivid details in this seaman?s tale and how Conrad?s personal experiences certainly influenced the language used and plot in this work. Joseph Conrad was of Polish origin and born in 1857, and he lived in Poland until he was seventeen years of age. In 1874 Conrad left Cracow for France to learn the fundamentals of seamanship and a second language. At the age of twenty Conrad moved to England with the intention of becoming an officer on British ships, and he spent the next twenty years working at sea. He soon mastered English as his third language and then became a British subject around 1886. Although a common sailor at first, Conrad advanced quickly through the ranks, became a ship?s captain at the relatively young age of thirty-one, and spent three years in the Far East on a series of voyages. By the age of forty Conrad was in declining physical health and retired from the sea forever, and he worked as a popular and successful English novelist until his death in 1924."
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The Symbolic Representation of the ?Other?, 2006.
This paper focuses on symbolic similarities in Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer," William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" and Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote."
1,455 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper analyzes the theme of the physical self and the metaphorical other which represents the conscious and unconscious selves of the protagonists in all three works of writing. This paper details how the Captain in "The Secret Sharer," Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice" and Quixote in "Don Quixote" have struggled to control these particular facets of their personalities. The writer of this paper examines how the three were either able to overcome this struggle or were eventually defeated. This paper clearly details the characteristic traits and events that led to the main characters' self realization. Shylock is primarily characterized as a man motivated by money and power, whose physical self is motivated by greed, while his metaphorical self was motivated by revenge. Don Quixote's character is similar to that of Shylock's. The writer contends and explains how in the same manner as Shylock, Don Quixote allowed his other self to emerge, thereby making him an insane individual, no longer able to distinguish between illusion and reality. The Captain is depicted as man who is not able to fully experience the kind of life that his metaphorical self desires, yet he nevertheless achieves it by helping the character of Leggatt achieve his freedom.
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"Conrad's psychological portrayal of the Captain became more explicit as the story neared its end. The Captain was not able to fully experience freedom and a carefree life, the kind of life that his metaphorical self desired, but he nevertheless achieved it by helping out Leggatt achieve his freedom. Moreover, wish-fulfillment was achieved when he let go of the symbolic white hat, which the Captain described as "marking the spot where the secret sharer of my cabin and of my thoughts, as though he were my second self...a free man, a proud swimmer striking out for a new destiny." His metaphorical self recognized, the Captain sought a better life by living his own life meaningfully, in his own way. Through this, he had achieved true self-actualization, for he was able to recognize the benefits and limits of both his physical and metaphorical selves."
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"Doubles" in Literature, 2002.
This paper discusses the use of "doubles" in Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" and "Heart of Darkness" and Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde".
1,085 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper describes that in the use of "doubles", Joseph Conrad's ?The Secret Sharer? and Robert Louis Stevenson's ?Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde? are more nearly similar than either of those works are like Conrad's ?Heart of Darkness?. The author points out that in both ?Secret? and ?Jekyll?, the doubles reside in one man and the doubles are clearly delineated, one good and the other evil, but in ?Heart? both Kurtz and Marlow have doubles within them.The paper explains that the psychological issues of the uses of doubles in the three works are twofold: How is it that a man comes to be made aware of the evil within himself, and how does he respond when that confrontation takes place?
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"Conrad's The Secret Sharer is easily the most complex of the three stories, for it can be taken as the portrayal of both the double externalized and internalized. Clearly, in either case, Leggatt is meant to be the evil side of the young captain. The captain is kin to Marlow in that both set off on a journey, internally and externally, in relative innocence, and both end up far more aware of the evil in the world."
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Doubles in Literature, 2000.
A comparison of use of split-characters in Conrad's "Secret Sharer" and "Heart of Darkness" and Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 31.95
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"With respect to the use of "doubles," Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer and Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde share more similarities than either of those works share with Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
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"With respect to the use of "doubles," Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer and Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde share more similarities than either of those works share with Conrad's Heart of Darkness. In both Secret and Jekyll, the doubles clearly reside in one man and the doubles are clearly delineated--one good and the other evil. In Heart, on the other hand, one could make an argument that both Kurtz and Marlow have doubles within them, but in both Kurtz's and Marlow's cases those doubles are less delineated than in the main characters of Secret and Heart. Still, in both cases, the exploration of doubles finds that within each man there is a force for evil that does battle with the force for good. While the doubles advance the stories in all three cases, the more fascinating aspect of the issue is the psychological and what it shows in each story about the evil..."
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Three Short Stories, 2002.
This paper compares three short stories: ?The Kiss? by Anton Chekhov, ?How to Tell a True War Story? by Tim O?Brien and
?The Secret Sharer? by Joseph Conrad.
1,465 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 3 sources, $ 48.95
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The paper discusses that these three stories shed light on the subject and technique of contrast and irony in their own unique manner: ?The Kiss? by Anton Chekhov focuses on contrasting emotions, ?How to Tell a True War Story? by Tim O?Brien deals with duality of thoughts and ?The Secret Sharer? by Joseph Conrad draws our attention symbolically to contrasting sides of one person. The paper author believes that these stories help us understand that nothing in this world is static and thus emotions, people and thoughts can be highly unpredictable.
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"Similarly, in another short story titled, "How to Tell a True War Story", by Tim O?Brien, we come across another type of contradiction. This contradiction deals with conflicting thoughts that emerge in the head of a soldier who has witnessed the brutality of a war. The author wants us to know that even one static experience can generate a wide range of conflicting emotions and thoughts. The death of Curt Lemon on the battlefield is that one unchangeable experience which gives rise to many moving, evolving and changing emotions. These emotions are at times poignant while at others they reveal a different aspect of war and thus become slightly positive in nature. "
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Sight and Blindness, 2002.
A look at the concepts of sight and blindbess in "Oedipus the King" and "The Secret Sharer".
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper examines sight and blindness in "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles and "The Secret Sharer" by Joseph Conrad. These two texts both rely on sight and blindness as a central metaphor. The emphasis is not on eyesight but rather on insight or seeing one's true nature.
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?Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities?, 2005.
A look at how Alexandra Robbins spills secrets in her book "Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities".
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper reviews the book "Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities" and examines how Robbins takes the information she had acquired in a year about sororities, ties it up in a pretty package and allows the reader to make judgments on sorority life while keeping her opinion and thoughts extremely non-biased. It shows how Robbins is able to divulge in what she learns, reenact real situations through detailed dialogue and still leave the reader stimulated with enough curiosity by the end that they want to follow up on the characters.
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"Robbins' book is comprised of about 75 percent vignettes and 25 percent authorial voice. The vignettes Robbins uses are essential in understanding what the opinions of the main characters are and also gives a general idea of how the other sisters feel and are affected by situations. By using so much dialogue, Robbins put the reader in the room with the characters and gives them a chance to feel as though they are flies on the wall. The only time Robbins interjects into the scene is to explain something that a "normal" or non-Greek affiliated person would know or to explain to you exactly what is happening in the scene between the sisters."
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Contradictions in Realistic Fiction, 2002.
A discussion of the sense of reality in ?The Kiss? by Anton Chekhov, ?How to Tell a True War Story? by Joseph Conran and ?The Secret Sharer? by Tim O'Brien.
1,439 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper reviews the above novels and looks at how truthful perceptions are hard won by the characters in each case. It examines how the protagonists in each story do not first perceive themselves or the world in a way that is commensurate with reality and how through the juxtaposition of reality and the character?s dreams, a sense of truth is created and a sense of a character?s final coming to terms with some self-knowledge is created at the narrative?s closure. It looks at how all three protagonists swim in a sea of contradictions between a truth that can never be expressed or known to the outer world and to the strife they feel within themselves. In all three short stories, the true depths of the character?s inner turmoil are never completely revealed to all. No one ever understands how much ?The Kiss? meant to the soldier, O?Brien?s soldiers never say quite what happened to their comrades during the Vietnam War and Leggatt leaves the tale a mysterious ?floppy? had on shallow water.
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"Tim O?Brien?s ?How to Tell a True War Story? also creates ironic juxtaposition between perceived reality and what is actually true. In this case, the juxtaposition is between the characters? real experience of war and the propaganda the characters were fed before they began to fight the war in Vietnam. As in Chekhov?s short story, this juxtaposition ultimately proves embittering to the protagonists. The narrator of O?Brien?s narrative states that ?in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe ?Oh.? True war stories do not generalize. They do not indulge in abstraction or analysis.? "
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Secret Settlements, 2002.
A discussion of secret settlements in court, what they involve and their pros and cons.
1,250 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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The paper examines how knowledge about public hazard is kept secret from the public through the use of secrecy agreements in the courts and how companies often know about deadly defects in their products, yet, they keep the information out of the public eye through secret settlements. This essay analyzes the concept of the secret settlement policy, where companies calculate what is called a cost-benefit-ratio. If the company believes it will be less expensive to settle a claim against it than to recall a product or clean up a hazardous area then the company decides to settle. It discusses the legal aspects of these settlements as well as there pros and cons though literature review and outlines the current laws.
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"There have been many pros and cons suggested as to why the legislature should or should not adopt these new secrecy bills (caoc.com). Opponents of this legislation state that there is no evidence that the current practice creates any significant problems in concealing information about dangerous products or conditions (caoc.com). Many feel that the new legislation is a threat to high tech firms because the new legislature forces companies to divulge trade secrets (caoc.com). They fear companies will no longer be able to protect trade secrets (caoc.com). However proponents for the new legislature argue that it is designed to restrict secret settlements, not to divulge trade secrets (caoc.com)."
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Organizational Re-invention, 2007.
A review of the important factors for organizations to consider when re-inventing and re-basing itself.
2,711 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 81.95
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This paper reviews what an organization needs to do in order to successfully re-invent itself. It also considers what factors an organization should consider when revising or replacing its dominant philosophy. The paper discusses re-basing and describes why it is never a good option for an organization when it is faced with a crisis situation. In the end, the paper maintains that small, incremental changes over time and anticipating problems well in advance can reduce the need for sweeping re-inventions by for-profit and non-profit organizations alike.
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Organizational Re-invention and Re-basing
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"In their case, these organizations may feel compelled by a crisis event to pull funds out of productive investments to be put towards resolving a serious financial "crunch" somewhere else. The result can be not only the ill-advised movement of capital but also discouragement and a decline in morale among employees whose projects and ambitions are now being thwarted by events largely beyond their control. Viewed from this vantage point, allowing tragic or catastrophic events to determine the manner in which an organization re-defines its operations and goals can cause problems in areas hitherto strong without actually resolving the original dilemma."
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Five Inventions, 2005.
A brief discussion of five major inventions prior to 500 B.C.E.
757 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper looks at five inventions prior to 500 CE, and explains how those inventions have altered the course of history. The inventions are the wheel, irrigation systems, written language, a numbering system and the abacus.
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"While many inventions of the ancient civilizations assisted in the development of culture, farming, science, and language throughout history, the inventions of the wheel, written language, number systems, irrigation, and the abacus are some of the most important. Not only did these ideas help to further the society in which they were invented, they are also responsible for much of what exists in the current societies. Without those original thinkers prior to 500 CE, our world today would be far different."
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