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    The eight movement song cycle “From the Diary of Virginia Woolf” is a musical setting of excerpts from Virginia Woolf’s famed diary by American composer Dominick Argento. Each of the eight diary excerpts is presented chronologically as its own musical movement. The selected entires range from Woolf’s first entry (April 1919) to Woolf’s last entry (March 1941). The diary text is brought to life through Argento’s highly annotated musical setting. The score is written using a twelve-tone row which

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    Fifth Business is a stellar example of a novel that follows the heroic quest pattern, and is easily examined through an archetypal lens of a hero's quest. To begin, almost every heroic story begins with some background on the character, to help the audience understand and relate to them. I have noticed this in all the movies I've seen and books I've read, if the storyline is a typical one of "heroism". Although there is a greater example of the heroic arc later on in the story, Dunstable's participation

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    Fifth Business by Robertson Davies explores the theme of Psychology through several characters. Each character has a certain archetype which will affect how they think, showing different psychological effects. Specifically, the archetypes mentioned are the introverted, the confidant, the egotist, and the saint. These four archetypes correlate to being the side character, the secret keeper, the self-absorbed brat, or the painfully charitable woman respectively. Davies attempts to explore the relation

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    Director Luc Besson’s 1997 film “The Fifth Element” is an incredibly imaginative futuristic film depicting the cycle of good and evil and the human factor involved with the infinite battle. Besson carefully constructs this film to provide a human feeling to the film, providing emotional gateways and glimpses of a character’s intentions or purpose using frequent symbolism. In addition to symbolism the use of vibrant color and lighting, or the lack of, is carefully considered within each shot which

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    The Fifth Discipline Chapter 11 of Peter Senge's book, The Fifth Discipline, talks about the idea of Shared Vision, and how this concept has transformed organizations, and individuals working for them, into a cohesive unit of long-term innovative achievement. Having and transmitting a successful "shared vision" requires true "buy-in" on the part of the employees and the organization as a whole, and must foster genuine commitment and active enrollment in order to bring that organizational

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    The Fifth Child is the masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing. Lessing herself described it as a horror story, but we can also put it into the genre of social –psychological novels. She declared: '' I hated writing it. It was sweating blood. I was very glad when it was done. It was an upsetting thing to write - obviously, it goes very deep into me somewhere.'' It is a brilliant novel which deals not just with the social aspect of family life in England at the end of 19th century but with

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    Dunstan Ramsay is Fifth Business The novel Fifth Business by Robertson Davies is a fictional autobiography of the narrator, Dunstan Ramsay. Dunstan outlines his life experiences and pays special attention to saints and religion, both of which interest him. Although the story is about Dunstan, he seems to have a supporting role in the lives of others. In this book, Dunstan Ramsay is referred to as: Fifth Business because he is the one who knows the secret of the hero’s birth, or comes to the assistance

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    Omne Trium

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    two-dimensional box has four sides and four vertices, greatness comes in triumvirates. Triangles are the strongest shape. They have three sides and three vertices. The title of this essay has three words in it, meaning “everything that comes in threes is perfect, or, every set of three is complete.” Computers and technology, comfort, and mathematics all require me to think outside of the box. I enjoy comprehending on the exterior of the square because the task stretches my thought process. Not everything

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    Fifth Business: Search for Self Identity In Robertson Davies' novel Fifth Business, the author uses the events that occurred in Deptford as a Canadian Allusion to reveal character identity. Three characters in the novel from Deptford: Boy Staunton, Dunstan Ramsey and Paul Dempster, leave Deptford to embark on a new identity to rid of their horrid past. The three main characters of the novel, all of whom to some extent try to escape their small town background, change their identity to become

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    Technology. He is the author of the widely-acclaimed book The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990). He can be said to be responsible for the popularity of the concept of a ‘learning organization’ today. Peter Senge argues that not only we humans learn, but organizations also. However, learning itself may not be enough for the organization to survive in this ever-challenging era. In his book, The Fifth Discipline, Senge introduced five ‘disciplines’, namely systems

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