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    Conflicts in Literature: To a God Unknown The foundation of the world has been constructed by numerous influences over time with one of the most popular being the Bible. Known as the world 's best-selling book, the Bible has influenced many sectors of society including religion, history, language and lifestyles. Despite the book’s evident influences on society throughout history, the studying and teaching of this spiritual book has significantly decreased generation by generation. John

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    Organisational conflict is an emerging lifestyle that is inevitable and a common sight attributable to the matrix structure adopted by many organisation as well as the present era of globalisation. Mary Parker Follett (1925) interprets conflict as a mere contradiction in interest and opinions between personnel inclusive of employees, employers and managers. However, Bisno (1988) and Coser (1968) elucidate conflict as “A process of social interaction involving a struggle over claims to resources,

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    literary elements that make up the story, such as conflict, setting, theme, etc. However, many similarities can be drawn between these literary elements. A similarity that all these stories have is that they all have external conflicts that lead to internal conflicts. In “The Dead Man’s Pockets,” the main character, Tom is on a ledge to get back a paper for his career. Obviously, this is an external conflict. But, this is creating an internal conflict because it shows he’s too devoted to his job. On

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    In these works, the authors use conflict, metaphors, and characterization to convey that old traditions are often pointless to carry on, especially if the tradition creates a feud between two people or families, because the feud is most likely also outdated and therefore not needed anymore. In “The Interlopers”, the author uses man vs. man conflict to convey this theme. In the beginning of the story, there was a feud between the Znaeym and the Von Gradwitz families that resulted in Ulrich Von Gradwitz

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    opposites prompt mental and physical experiences. Conflict from a literary perspective is an inherent representation of one’s incompatibility between objectives that is usually expressed through an active disagreement between two or more characters or forces. This is usually demonstrated through both internal or external means as it forms the essential element of the storyline. This poses an obligation from the author, to introduce and develop conflict in order to achieve stability or the story outcome

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    imbalances can impede an individual’s attempt to manage work-related conflict in many ways. It is noteworthy that imbalance in power arises from the differences that exist between the employers and employees. Therefore, power could be destructive as a result of its disparity. In any organization, the title of any individual reveals the power that person holds in the company. However, any individual who seeks to resolve conflicts at work-place will have to be influential just like his/her position

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    the most part, centers upon an African-American family, their dreams for the future and an insurance check coming in for death of the eldest man. Stirring into the mix later is the hugely oppressive,

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    Intercultural/International Communication 10 June 2012 Cultural conflict and popular culture are two experiences in life that assist in defining intercultural communication and how its influence affects our daily intercommunication. Cultural conflict is inevitable as we live out our daily lives in the identities we have selected for ourselves, the identities relating to our ethnicity and in those identities others have selected for us. These identities are bound to conflict with another individual’s identities which

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    Intercultural/International Communication 10 June 2012 Cultural conflict and popular culture are two experiences in life that assist in defining intercultural communication and how its influence affects our daily intercommunication. Cultural conflict is inevitable as we live out our daily lives in the identities we have selected for ourselves, the identities relating to our ethnicity and in those identities others have selected for us. These identities are bound to conflict with another individual’s identities which

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    of different ways to approach conflicts in life. As we all know encountering conflicts is part of our human nature. No matter what you will somehow come across a conflict. Sometime being involved in conflicts is out of our hands. The best we can do it deal with the conflict with a good manner. Just like how in our daily lives we experience happiness, laughter, and enjoy we also run into conflicts. So basically conflicts are part of our daily lives. Some of the conflicts people face daily are usually

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