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'dandelions' by Deborah Austin

reader that the barrage has lasted all day yesterday and today with "deafening sight." This figurative language mixes sensory in...

Law, Austin, and Hart

Austin has built this particular theory into what he calls "positivism," which is defined as what the law is, or, in more legal te...

The Therapeutic Relationship in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

sympathetic toward Deborah in terms of her feelings of being treated badly by the community. Deborah is taunted for being Jewish a...

Tannen: “Sex, Lies and Conversation”

cover many different subjects in the course of one conversation. I have found just the opposite to be true. I can remember sitting...

Jurisprudence - Criticism of Austin’s Command Theory

deemed to be sovereign (Strauss, 1996). The law is then issued by that sovereign and will have the power of threat and force, wit...

Three Scenarios Of Business Infrastructure

as a means by which to assert the formal aspect. Austin (2000) indicates how the basis of an informal group stature, as in a non-...

Terrorism Preparedness, Travis County, Texas

Balcones Escarpment, with the land to the west being more arid than the country to the east; the vegetation varies accordingly, ra...

Legal Positivism and the Philosophical Contribution of Hart

the idea that there are reasons for implementing law beyond the idea of just maintaining law and order. Other supporters of positi...

1985 Minnesota Hormel Plant Strike

And what was Hormels perspective toward negotiations and why was the company so insistent on mistreating its workers? Ther...

Hormel Company and the Lessons Learned from the Mid 1980s' Strike

In five pages this paper discusses the Austin, Minnesota Hormel strike and how the union activity was defeated in a consideration ...

Major Philosophies and Discourse Analysis

In nine pages discourse analysis in terms of speech act theory 'performative utterance' is examined with the major philosophies of...

Theories on the Legal Relevance of International Law

1979). As the world has developed from a separated and isolated set of civilisations and societies into what is now referred to as...

Austin H. MacCormack and Thomast Mott Osborne

hesitate to say what he believed and never compromised" (Thomas Mott Osbornes Within Prison Walls). In 1913, Osborne "was appoi...

Language Acquisition Issues

In seven pages theories of Hymes and Austin are among the considerations in this discussion of ESL or language acquisition with co...

Austin, Texas and Fresh Water

In five pages the problems with fresh water as a result of pollution in Austin, Texas are discussed in terms of the situation itse...

Views on Slavery and its Justification or Lack of

In 5 pages various perspectives of slavery are examined in this comparative analysis of Twenty Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a...

Ordinary Language by John Austin and Ludwig Wittgenstein

developed in everyday exchanges can illuminate and even transform many of the problems with which philosophers have grappled. It i...

Ladies & Gentlemen of the Jury, I Present…the Nursing Documentation

was breached," the third is to prove that there was an injury incurred by the patient and the fourth must prove that this "injury ...

Healey-Ogden and Austin (2011)/An Article Critique

the telephone. While the authors do not explicitly address the issue of bias, they do discuss it indirectly, in that they state ...

Institutions of Higher Learning and the Supreme Court

or activity receiving federal financial assistance" (Kaplin & Lee, 2007). In particular, the case examines how this relates to gen...

Age Discrimination: EEOC v Sidley & Austin

the most powerful and largest companies in the nation. With this brief information at hand, The following paper fist exami...

Case Study Kendra and Austin

This case involves a mother and her teenage son and the abuse suffered by the mother. Her drunken husband violently abused her dai...

Men and Women, Differences in Communication

This essay pertains to Deborah Tannen's observations about the differences between the communications behaviors of men and women. ...

Four Poems on Grief

focuses on four poems that all deal with grief. In "Stairway to Heaven" by Joaquin G. Rubio; "Dont Forget About Me!" by Jenny Gord...

Deborah Tannen's Gender in the Classroom

think or "tell" people what to do where women are more likely to suggest something. Tannen does recognize, however, that in our...

Tannen on Discourse

Lakoff looks at Luntz Republican discourse and describes Luntz as the "premier conservative linguist who helps the Republicans fra...

Tannen Article Critique: “Sex Lies and Conversation”

one subject, while men cover many different subjects in the course of one conversation. I have found just the opposite to be true....

Deborah Tannen, "Fighting for Our Lives"

necessary and desirable. In making this point, Tannen refers to her experience with the media in regards to her previous books as ...

“American Women in Flight Since 1940”: Insight into a Woman’s Place in Our Society

Much has been written about how womens societal roles have changed over the history of our country. One of the more interesting i...

Discussing Umberto Eco's Contention that Sign Systems Comprise Social Life

In this overview of two pages the universality of facial expressions are discussed with supporting reviews by Deborah Blum, Paul E...