The purpose of this thesis is to explore the relations between F. Scott Fitzgerald and his novel The Great Gatsby, with emphasis on 1920s¡¦ American society as portrayed in this novel. Since the novel is one of the greatest literary documents of this period, it is necessary to discuss the novel in relation to the historical background. Therefore, in this thesis, I focus on the main themes of the novel with a view to better understanding its contexts. This thesis falls into five parts. In the introduction, I points out why the novel seems to be an autobiographical one and give an outline of the whole thesis. In the first chapter, I explore the novel in association with the author¡¦s real life. In the second chapter, I examine the author¡¦s narrative strategies, including characterization, imagery, and symbolism. In the third chapter, I discuss the value systems with reference to the social and economic situation of the 1920s as presented in the novel. In the fourth chapter, I aim to delineate the development of the American Dream in the novel¡Xthe initial pursuit and the later corruption. Furthermore, taking Gatsby as an example, I conclude the chapter by arguing that it is the continuous progress that matters, instead of the success, whether it be material, or spiritual.

Creating a sense of identity is constructed through communicative processes allowing us to participate in interpersonal relationships, and understand who we are. "Much of our emotional life is bound up with the way we narrate experiences..." (Kerby, 1991, p. 48). Because experiences are told from our own perspective, what we tell is significant. It reflects our feelings regarding a situation, and in the telling of the story, we reinterpret the way we understand our life and how we know ourselves. The purpose of this study is to examine the content and structure of the narratives contained within a diary, in order to learn how an individual interprets emotional experiences and constructs identities. It is a unique opportunity to explore how individuals can cope with ambiguity and uncertainty by constructing multiple identities to functionally enact within a variety of environments.

In the long run, people are confused between professionalism and specialized knowledge. Researcher discovered that specialized knowledge is not sufficient in conquering all the challenges in the real working field, professionalism is the key competency that we should have. But, what is professionalism? And how we can cultivate the ability? The study is to discuss the abilities what we should equip, the factors of professionalism, process of cultivation, under the¡ydynamic¡Bcomplex¡zindustry environment. Researcher also discovered the differences between professionalism and specialized knowledge and the dynamic process structure of ability cultivation. The dynamic learning structure is as follows¡G I. Career attitude A. Hard-working spirit B. Entrepreneurship of challenging courage C. Desire of learning II. Working sills A. Knowledge B. Imitation or experience copying C. Logical thinking D. Sense of conceptual issues

With a number of major economic and social turnarounds already occurred in mankind¡¦s history, we are currently also at such an era. From the onset of the 90s, the rapid high-tech development and the global economic integration have fueled the world economy and the society to undergo rapid transformation, a shift that also fosters new research perspectives and viewpoint. Under the globalization, digitalization and diversification trend, with the present startup ventures having to confront the rapid changes in the external environment, a majority of the past startup venture studies and analyses that tend to fall under a still-mode, one-sided and single perspective approach, and a logical validation theory-based research methodology, has fallen short of manifesting the actual interactive process of the startup act. To compensate the deficiency of the past startup studies, the study attempts to truthfully present, in the duo capacity as a startup operator and a research, the process of a startup venture. With a startup entrepreneur regards the startup venture as an action-based startup process, while a research regards the startup as a research process, the searcher has, through nearly two years of research on entrepreneurship, developed eight story narrations through the author¡¦s self reflection and the constant self dialog as a startup entrepreneur. By putting the eight story narrations through the Narrative Inquiry to interpret the reconstruction process, the study discovers that successful startup ventures have not come from a perfected startup opportunity or a startup plan, but rather through the startup management process in how a startup initiator locate the resources, utilize the resources and group the resources. Of the research findings derived from the ¡§Bricolage¡¨ , the study will also offer an in-depth observation and emulate how startup entrepreneurs are able to constantly interact with the resources around them to promote the emergence of new organizations, new markets and new products.

Taiwan's semiconductor industry to foster the Government's Trillion, Twin Stars of the second focus of the development of high value-added industries, while Taiwan's semiconductor industry is that the strengths of high economic efficiency of the factory production management capabilities. This article attempts to study qualitative narrative approach to explore the internal semiconductor factory management factory guided practical side the core of the park will be the text in a large semiconductor factory production of new products in development issues in the two abnormal debug ( debug), the engineering units of the mutual interaction between the key issues discussed by the cases described in the story to explore the impact of the competitiveness of the semiconductor wafer manufacturing background causes of temporal and spatial dynamics of the paper try to explore new management theory with meaning to the new management. In this paper, the use of research methods repeated quenching of the chain and found three new management direction and way of thinking: (1) semiconductor factory in adaptive learning and inter-departmental communication is often to throw the issue of interoperability between the ball acts to the surface ball on the culture may appear to be due to cross-border barriers to the field of communication, in fact, the semiconductor industry this is a special kind of division of labor approach to the play of its mobile emergency power needs. (2) In practice, the real effective and valuable cross-border organization of adaptive learning often takes place in the "after the review of the object", new object collection by different departments of the adaptive learning and communication can smooth-going until the object was to clarify the boundaries. (3) in practice, whether novice or veteran engineers through the KM (knowledge benchmark) or OJB (on job training) will be ready a certain degree of "Sense of the object", but because the pressure of the workplace, emotional, responsibilities will Engineers do not have a conscious "Selected Sense", the deliberate lowering of objects Sense. In this paper, semiconductor plant by practical examples of projects dealing with abnormal events to re-find and explore the meaning of new management practices with a view to the future management of the semiconductor manufacturing plant competitiveness have contributed to analysis and improvement, and look forward to the future, Taiwan's semiconductor sustainable manufacturing plant, to maintain competitiveness and enhance the management of a new theoretical framework and practices.

Thesis (PhD(Prakt. Teol.)--University of Pretoria, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 534-559).

Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att synliggöra livsberättelsens och berättandets menings- och identitetsskapande kraft och funktion. Det är en metodologisk studie med strävan att fokusera på livsberättelse, både som fenomen och som social handling. För att göra detta har uppsatsen koncentrerats på min informants, Sveas, livshistoria. Narrativ metod, som legat till grund för studien, har varit av kvalitativ art i form av livsberättelseintervju i kombination med dialogisk-performance analysmodell med utgångspunkt i hermeneutiken. Som teoretisk referensram för arbetet ligger livsvärldbegreppet, social konstruktionism, livsberättelseperspektivet och minnets roll. En muntlig livsberättelse berättas alltid i enlighet med kulturella konventioner och i relation till olika diskurser och offentliga berättelser som dominerar det sociala och kulturella sammanhang som berättaren lever i.

This Master’s Report chronicles the process of inception, pre-production, production and post-production for Who Is Paloma Carter, a thesis film made as part of the MFA in Film Production at The University of Texas at Austin’s RTF Program, as well as the insights gained through these stages and the course of the entire program. / text

The violence, crime and hardships associated with Aboriginal gangs are an ever-growing concern on the Canadian Prairies. Saskatchewan has a large number of young individuals engaged in gang life who are struggling to find their way out. The current literature base on gangs emphasizes risk factors and gang prevention. In comparison, there is a dearth in the literature regarding desistance (leaving and abstaining) from gang life. Utilizing narrative inquiry, a qualitative methodology, a single unique participant was interviewed to examine the issue of how individuals are able to successfully desist from gang life. The key informant was both an Aboriginal spiritual advisor and expert on gangs in the Canadian Prairies. Through thematic narrative analysis, this study provides a narrative depiction of a life that is strongly connected to gangs and presents a number of themes related to desistance from gang life. Thematic narrative analysis of the interview revealed a series of themes including process elements, factors that facilitate desistance and factors that are barriers to desistance.

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