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Wood & Thompson (1980) presented some guidelines for improved staff development by identifying important factors pertinent to adult learning. They advocated moving away from the traditional evaluation models that identify weaknesses in personnel and using prescribed in-service sessions instead as the way to eliminate the weaknesses. Their alternative approach is one of job-related training that provides for choice and alternatives, training that results in practice of skills, and opportunities for

«Life is full of compensations» Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham is one of the best known English writers of the 20th century. William Somerset Maugham (1874-1966), a well-known English novelist, short-story writer, playwright and essayist, was the son of a British diplomat. He was born in 1874 in Paris and educated at King's School in Canterbury, studied painting in Paris, went to Heidelberg University in Germany and studied to be a doctor at St. Thomas Hospital in England. Although Somerset

Death Death speaks: There was a merchant in Baghdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the market-place I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture; now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there death will not find me

Have you ever been dreaming and it feel like you inside your dream.? Well, this an dream I will never forget. It was a perfect Friday and I had went over to my grandma’s house to spend the weekend with her. My grandma had said “We should have a girl’s night” just me and her. So we had got a lot of snacks from the store we had got some chips, popcorn, soda & juice and we had got some candy. My grandma had told me to find a scary movie to watch while she got the dinner and the snacks ready. I had got

1.1. Das Unheimlich: Introduction In the very first few sentences of The Uncanny (1919), Freud demarcates the uncanny as that which is usually pushed to the periphery of aesthetic investigations. Traditional aesthetic inquiries prefer to concern themselves with “what is beautiful, attractive and sublime-that is, with feelings of a positive nature-and with the circumstances and the objects that call them forth, rather than with the opposite feelings of repulsion and distress”. But Freud turns his

The truth of one’s character can be expressed through his or her own thoughts, actions, and words. Respectively, one’s downfall is embodied by his or her own character. In William Shakespeare’s King Lear, Lear’s character is depicted as one who descends into madness as a result of his irrational actions early in the play. Similarly, Holden Caulfield, from J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, enters the coming-of-age process; however, his behaviour illustrates his ongoing cynicism and depression

The demand that this question has put before me is to analyze psychological complexities of Herbert, protagonist of the story “The Kite” written by W. Somerset Maugham. In order to focus on this element, my argument will dilate upon events and factors that shaped what Lacan had called “I-ness”. This story revolves around a family consisting of husband, wife and a son Herbert. Mrs. Sunbury, Herbert’s mother, had always controlled her son and when he fell in love with Betty, she played very thriftily

Modoc is a story about a little boy named Bram who was born on a farm in Germany. His dad Josef is a third generation elephant trainer. Bram’s family trains the circus elephants in a very unique way. Unlike most pet trainers who threat and intimidate their pets instead they treat the elephant and any other animal with love and respect. Just like everyone else should treat his or her pet. Josef’s love for elephant’s was unconditional and nothing could compare. He wanted a son and a daughter who would

Analysis of the story “The Escape” by W.S. Maugham William Somerset Maugham is one of the best known English writers of the 20th century. He was not only a novelist, but also a one of the most successful dramatist and short-story writers. Maugham wants the readers to draw their own conclusion about the characters and events described in his novels. His reputation as a novelist is based on the following prominent books: “Of Human Bondage”; “The Moon and Sixpence”; and “The Razor's Edge”. Though

hard to imagine life without it. However, this is exactly what Derek Thompson does in the article, "A World Without Work." In this piece, Thompson explores what might happen if human work is replaced by technology. This essay challenges modern society 's view that the sole purpose of work is to earn money and boost self esteem, instead asserting that it also plays an important role in holding together a community. Therefore, Thompson argues, the removal of it would have many negative impacts on American