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Successful Intercultural Communication In Global Teams

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Successful Intercultural Communication In Global Teams
Communication refers to the mode used for exchange of information, in between two intermediaries. At present days, the core of communication process arouse from a though and progress with encoding and decoding of message between sender and receiver. Technology has greatly aided to support the efficacy of communication process with the provision of internet, television, fax and other such technologies. However, even with such rich communication technologies there are certain barriers of communication that makes it difficult to determine the essence of communication, positively. These barriers of communication in ...

Abstract

The advent of war is usually occasioned by the development of conflict of interest between warring factions; however, the result of the war is usually a resolution that comes from the defeat of one faction or a peaceful agreement between the warring parties. This paper reviews literature that provides information as to reasons behind the duration that wars take. In respect to this, the focus of the literature review is to analyze literatures advanced on the topic of duration of wars. The intention of the literature review is to investigate reasons behind why some wars take a short duration to resolve while ...

Group dynamics is arguably one among the toughest topics because according to psychologists, groups cannot be studied through a unilateral approach. Human beings are quite different in terms of reasoning and opinion. This way, they tend to perceive things differently. This is the explanation behind the fact that mob psychology and group decision making are tougher and time consuming as compared to individual psychology and decision making. In a group – be it at the work place or in the school setting – making decisions is difficult for the simple reason that establishing a consensus in group is a difficult idea (Levi, 2011). There will ...

A transformational leader is a person influences practice and motivates individuals to perform to their best in delivery of required services that aim to achieve organizational goals and objectives. In the hospital set up, clinical leaders inspire their staff to work towards a common vision, challenge the way things are done in the clinical practice and influence as well as motivate others to practice evidence based nursing. Translating evidence into practice as a nursing leader is a rewarding endeavor to both the leader and the staff.
My vision as a leader is to adopt a leadership style that will enhance continuous professional development that ...

Introduction

People should consider understanding the extent to which culture affects leadership. This is important because culture affects leadership differently. Americans, Europeans, Germans and Russians for example give great attention on matters regarding leadership. On the contrary, countries such as Netherlands and the Scandinavian view leadership matters differently. For example, it is common that Americans value two types of leaders, one who can award autonomy and envoy responsibility to subordinates as well as a leader who is bold, forceful and confident. This is different from people in Dutch as they put much focus on egalitarianism and they dislike leadership on claims ...

Leadership plays an essential role in individuals lives, which is shaped by different aspects and factors in an individual live. Effective leadership is essential not only for organization purposes but also for an individual live growth and development. The success of an individual in personal life as well as in the working or business environment is largely influenced by decisions made by such individuals. There are various approaches and theories used by different leaders in the global economies. However, the preferred style of leadership is the win-win innovation and creativity approach to leadership (Durr 2013). This approach to leadership ...

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Toxic Leadership 4
Introduction 4
Research Purpose and Questions 5
Research purpose 5
Research questions 6
Literature Review 7
Characteristic and behavior of toxic leaders 8
Effects of toxic leadership 9
Can toxic leaders change? 10
Findings 10
Conclusions 11

References 13

Abstract
Toxic leadership in the society has been influential in setting bad precedent for organizations and groups of people. Toxic leaders are led by personal vendetta which seeks to enrich themselves at the expense of their followers. This has led to conflicts among employees as the behavior of ...

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Throughout the known history of organizational development, the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of leadership has always been included in some of the most important discussions. There is an abundance of literature relating leadership to organizational outcomes and performance. The consensus, according to this literature, supports the notion that leadership is one of the most important indicators of organizational success. In this paper, the author conducts a review of related literature exploring the use of the Big Five Personality Traits Paradigm and Leadership Style theories when it comes to examining the differences (if any) between military and restaurant business leadership. ...

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Contemporary business environment demands from organizations more flexibility and higher responsiveness to the external pressures. Management capabilities cannot address these challenges. In the crisis situations, when there is a need to make fast and difficult decisions in difficult situations, companies have to rely on effective leadership to drive organizational development. The history illustrates various examples of the organizations, which are over managed and under led and it is a challenge and the task of the modern corporations to develop an internal framework for development of the leadership capabilities, which can take the organization to success through crisis.
One of the ...

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1.0. Introduction
The researcher followed a survey which was given out to the employees within magic care solutions care home. The researcher seeks to find out if the management within magic care is very effective. It was done through an analysis method which comprises of qualitative and quantitative. The analysis was built on primary data which was carried out through doing a questionnaire on effective leadership within magic care homes. The questionnaires were given out to staff within the care home. The results of the respondents was converted to qualitative data
Leadership styles can be different with all different ...

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This paper, is aimed at reviewing literature on the topic of soft skills and emotional intelligence employed by the project leaders in order to improve the outcome of the people working under them. The paper starts with an introduction about the topic while highlighting few soft skills that are exhibited at the workplace environment. The paper then proceeds to reviewing literature available on the topic of soft skills in project leaders. Few books, articles and researches have been selected for inclusion in the literature review. A brief review of each source is mentioned in the literature review section of ...

Introduction

Since the dawn of human civilization annihilation of millions of people has been occurring. After the two World Wars, this annihilation took place through many civil wars fought within the nations all over the world. The Genocide or the mass killing of a particular ethnic group has been a common phenomenon in civil wars. In 1990s, the Kashmiri Hindus were expelled by Muslim terrorists through severe massacre. The question is whether mass massacre is the answer to any problem. There is a universal agreement that genocide is immoral and unethical (Jones, 1999). Still even after the horrified consequences of ...

Recent studies have established that people do not mind their eating habits. They do not know the dangers either associated with poor eating habits, or are just ignorant to the fact that healthy eating is paramount to healthy societies. However, poor eating habits should not be confused for malnutrition (Krahn and Lengyel, et al. 2011). The major problem associated with poor eating habits is obesity, which exposes people to diseases such as hypertension, coronary artery diseases and diabetes. These are very threatening diseases that have very simple origin-poor eating habits-but also have simple solutions - proper dietary measures.

After ...

ENGL 2650-201

Marcus Garvey
First of all, Marcus Garvey convinced his followers the primary need of black people was the formation of their own nation. He called it “Back to Africa” movement. Garvey encouraged the descendants of black slaves to return to their historic motherland (Sewell, “The architect of a world of free minds”). The starting point of Garvey`s reflections was the conviction in the futility of attempts to integrate black people into white society. The black diaspora did not have any possibility to fully participate in the social and political life of the West. Such a situation was generated ...

Below is a discussion between three characters from the play Antigone by Sophocles as they are hosted in a talk show. The discussion below follows after the death of Etocles and Polynices.
Host: good evening everyone and thank you for coming out tonight. The topic of our discussion tonight is about the value of family and religious beliefs and values as opposed to following the law to the letter. There exists a thin line between the two concerning which we go for first while making a decision for an action. Ladies and gentlemen tonight , please welcome the three main characters in the ...

Introduction4

Employee engagement .4
Importance of employee engagement.6
Leadership ...9

Leadership types9

Participative (Democratic) leadership type9
Transformational and Transactional leadership types10
Authoritarian (Dictatorial) leadership type..11

Situational leadership type, Organic leadership type 12

The relationship between employee engagement and leadership13
Summary15
References..16
Literature Review
Introduction
Organizational leadership effectiveness is one of the most significant aspects of the fast growing organizations experiencing competitiveness regarding employee engagement. In the governmental sector, leadership remains the major determinant of employee engagement (Catteeuw, Flynn & Vonderhorst, 2007). One of the most common leadership styles used in governmental sector is the traditional leadership, which enforces the effective concepts of authority and power (Germano, 2010). Nonetheless, the leadership ...

Literature Review

Research Questions
Discuss the effectiveness of narcissistic leaderships? Can it deliver positive results to the business in long term?
Discuss the paradox of dark side of leadership? What is the best way to analyze the dark side of leadership?
Charismatic leadership is well-known and propagated by several authors as an effective means for motivating employees and delivering results. In their article, Shamir and Howell have provided evidence to the fact that charismatic leadership emerges as an effective tool in several situations and organizations having an unstable business environment does not allow charismatic leaders to prosper (1999 p. 278). Kodish ( ...

Introduction to MRSA

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterial strain of S. aureus that that has developed a resistance to certain types of antibiotics, including methicillin, penicillin, oxacillin, and amoxicillin (Farley 2008). The types of infections differ according to whether the MRSA infection was acquired in the hospital setting (HA-MRSA) or whether it was a community acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) infection. The most severe MRSA infections are those acquired in health care facilities and include infections of the bloodstream or surgical wounds, and pneumonia. MRSA bacteremia is often fatal, thus timely and aggressive intervention is critical in patients at high risk of death; for example, ...

Ethics is the subject of particular importance for business organisation as well as for the whole social community. In modern era, in order to survive in challenging conditions of market economy, enterprise should implement ethics into all aspects of its functioning. The hypothesis which will be discussed within the research is that successful implementation of the ethics into the functioning of business organisation contributes significantly to the enhancement of the organisation’s performance. Numerous of researchers have presented studies devoted to the determining the importance of ethics to business organisations. In terms of this paper a set of different ...

Introduction

The “Letter to Ren An,” presents a piece of literature that indicates Si-ma Qian`s search for character and his desire to uphold purity. The work clearly shows his wish that he be judged by purity in all his undertakings. The “Biographies of the Assassins” and “the prince of Wei” are educative works used by Sima Qian to demonstrate his attitude. He writes history in a unique way and presents a discussion into one of the greatest records that archives the Chinese way of life. From the two biographies, it is evident that Sima Qian believes that man has an opportunity to ...

Question 1

Several epic characteristics are there in Homer's "The Odyssey" which unmistakably defines the poem as epic. The poem is epic since it is lengthy, elevated in style and has heroic figures present that experience many problems during the course of history. Homer shows out these personalities clearly in the brave figure of Odysseus, a guy struggling to come back to his domicile in Ithaca after achieving victory in the Trojan fight. Odysseus is the chief personality of the sonnet and is distinctive of an ambitious brave man. He is a war champion, deeply admired, he is even known as "Odysseus, master ...

The question of leadership has been a philosophical, ethical, social and sociological conundrum for centuries. It has been tackled by various writers for more than a thousand years over a thousand cultures. Two such great writers were Dante and Machiavelli. While Machiavelli sort to define a good leader, Dante sort to place them in their transcended ecumenical hierarchy. This paper seeks to see where Machiavelli’s ideal prince in his work would, “the Prince” fit In Dante’s famous work “the comedy of errors.”
The two works are in themselves religious in a non-religious sort of way. While Machiavelli was inspired by the ...

Institutional of Affiliation

Chun-Ping Changa and Chien-Chiang Lee research to identify whether presidential approval varies with the economic performance of a country have found out that people approve more of regimes as their economic performance is. This nonlinear relationship identifies that presidents whom the economy performs best when they are in power will receive more approval than those who the economy goes downhill. Due to the recent unemployment rates and recession and raising debts of Americans President Barack Obama popularity had been going downhill, the little unpredictability of the economy results to quick reaction from Americans than any other incident. Voters have ...

Introduction

Leadership skills are critical in situations where a firm intends to conduct a succession of its leadership on a periodic basis. Leadership competencies are necessary skills in ensuring a smooth flow in leadership succession and in the development of the potential of the employees who will help an organization attain its vision (Delbridge, et al. 2007, p. 42). The current trend is characterized by seasoned managers and leaders who are retiring from their business ventures thereby creating a gap that needs to be filled through practical leadership training and mentorship. The aim of this paper is to examine the ...

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Organizations from around the world are working on improving the qualities and capabilities of leaders and managers, and developing new leaders. Moreover, a large number of executives and officials consider leadership development as an important priority not only in the present world but also in the future. Nearly, two-thirds of 500 executives showed leadership development as their top most concern (Gurdjian, Halbeisen, & Lane, 2014). This is due to the fact that organizations can’t flourish with average leaders. Whereas, an exceptional leader can deal effectively with employee commitment, productivity, customer satisfaction, and profitability and these things ...

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This study looks at the glass ceiling by examining three specific research questions. The questions look at the definition of the glass ceiling, its effects as well as how it can be broken. This part of the research contains a comprehensive literature review of some of the sources to be used. The literature review only includes sources from current peer-reviewed journal articles. The literature review reveals the fact that the glass ceiling is still in place in the current workplace and has various effects. The effects stem from factors such as unequal pay for the same job and lack ...

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This is a literature review on various research articles on the glass ceiling phenomena. The purpose of this literature review is to understand the glass ceiling phenomena, by looking at the various ways in which the glass ceiling phenomena presents itself. This literature review also intends to come up with various strategies which can be used to break through the glass ceiling. The glass ceiling phenomena has not yet been defined clearly by any of the researchers, but most articles agree that the phenomena discriminates women from career development. Means in which the glass ceiling effect manifests itself include ...

The struggle for political power now - it is not a struggle of the party organizations or competition programs of their actions. It is a struggle of images, political images that create the rating, and image-makers, the press secretaries and the "stars" of show business, recruited at a time of political campaigns. The real personality and activity policies are needed only as an "information events", that is, serve as a kind of alibi for those who form the image. Replacing the actual political positions and actions, they ensure the success of the candidates, whose image, not a program or action, visualize and embody the ...

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I think that Aeneas, the protagonist in Virgil’s Aeneid, would be a modern-day hero because . . .
I am going to look at the scene where Aeneas kills the deer (Book I, Lines)
I am going to look at the scene where Aeneas wants to die in the battle of Troy because he wants to avenge his wife’s death. (Book II, Lines)
I am going to look at the scene where Aeneas kills Turnus. (Book XII, Line)

Aeneas as Hero

A hero is one who is courageous in the face of great danger or harm. A hero is one who ...

Alexander the great is treated as one of the world’s most experienced war geniuses. He fought several battles in his lifetime which exhibited a great deal of expertise, ingenuity and tactical understanding in war (Ruth, 4).
In this paper, I will explore in detail two of his most remembered wars: his conquest over the Persian Empire which had posed a threat to his kingdom and the famous war with the Indian king, the wars that were his first and last big wars with a lot of expertise. The paper also analyses the source of expertise for this war lord who ...

Literature Review

Literature Review

Introduction

The aspect of good leadership is an essential integral in the sustenance of progress in international organizations as depicted to be at the core of this literature. This topic is important in various aspects in relation to organizational leadership and strategies for international business operations. First, the structures that support effectiveness in leadership are enormously varied across the global agencies and therefore this research paper gives the highlights on some of the best leadership practices to enable an undertaking of business operations within the different environment worldwide. Secondly, international strategy unveils the concern that managers throughout the ...

Education is the key component of human life that is associated with the implementation process of sharing and gaining new knowledge. The value of education in human life is growing, and so it cannot be limited only to the period of studying in the education institutions. This process is accompanied by searching for new forms and methods that promote the correct formation of the world view and build proficient and competitive society. Nowadays education is a complicated and diverse social phenomenon, the scope of sharing and assimilating knowledge and social experience.
Education integrates various types of activities into a ...

2.1 Effective Change Management 12
2.2 Structural 13
2.3 People-Centered 14
2.4 Process-Oriented 15
2.5 Strategy-Oriented 15
2.6 Summary 16

References 18

Introduction
What is change management and how does it relate to operational efficiency? When change is introduced to an organization, management itself on various levels normally decides on altering how operations and related work is practiced. The main categories of change management are organizational structure, job descriptions, operational systems, and processes. Change management varies from project management, where the former is defined as a process associated with the tools and techniques to regulate any ...

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The book analysis of 'Germinal' by Emile Zola
The book analysis of 'Germinal' by Emile Zola
The book of Zola portrays the women of the nineteenth century with the relevant perception of myths with concepts of the role and contribution of female in the society. According to the depiction, the women of the presented era display the same structure and features in terms of personalities and contribution and social life, irrespective of class difference. The specifications can be visibily categorised into three segments, the first is the motherly conduct or the maternal role, the second is the ...

Faustino Sarmiento was born in the early 1811 to become one of the greatest Argentine Latin America writers. Sarmiento was a political leader as well as a renowned writer of the late 18th century. Ideally, he burned the line cutting between writing and politics to create a blend of two forces and humanitarian values. Apart from major literary contributions, Sarmiento was also the seventh president of Argentina (Buckley, 24). He had a variety of achievements in the education areas, as well as modernization angles. These, he was able to achieve through his intellect and activist nature tied into a prolific writer. One of the ...

Quality improvement plan is a guidance document that shows how any health department will achieve, deploy, and review quality services throughout the organization. It mainly focuses on how services and products delivery to the customers including the patients. This plan describes assertively activities and processes that ensure proper quality deliverables production is consistent. This is a quality improvement plan whose mission is to; ensure proper recruitment of members, team cohesiveness and managing conflict within members. The vision is to attain proper quality assurance that ensures good products and services in health facilities.
A team of many members is an excellent ...

My Father's Lunch My Leader’s Pool

Saturday afternoon, End of the month,
he'd sit at the kitchen table he’d float on the water,
in khakis and a workshirt. in a blue swimming short
White napkin, a beer, the serrated knife. Body guards, waitress, trainers.

Pieces of prosciutto or headcheese Amarula at his disposal or Ciroc

or kippered herring all in fancy and curved glasses
layered on slabs of black bread. brought to him by a beauty

Outside, the ripe hayfields Awaiting, the media guys

or the stacks of shutters
 or the angered citizens
or the forest needing to be cleared
 or the policy waiting to be argued
or the snow needing to be pushed aside or the opposition waiting to scold
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Introduction

Living in the modern world with well-developed technologies and complicated relations, it is important for people to mention all innovations and follow the principles, which may simplify their lives. Taking all of it into account, people, who deal with marketing, pay a lot of attention towards the abidance by corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies. They follow those policies at the time of building a brand image of any enterprise. There are some guidelines for proper structuring of the brand in order for it to develop correctly. This paper is to show the relation between CSR policies existing and their ...

Analysis of Strategic Options and Recommended Action

This report will analyze the strategic positioning of Comcast Corporation, an American based multinational company that offers television, cable TV and Internet services to its consumers, and come up with the best way of making the company as competitive and productive as possible. This paper will focus on the company’s internet service provision branch and analyze how well the company can do in the US market as well as on the global scale when compared to its rivals. The macroeconomic and microeconomic aspects of the company’s operation will be taken into consideration during this process of analysis.

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Leadership is very broad and captures different aspects. Therefore, the research question acts as a thread to delivering a formidable topic on leadership that will conclusively cover the intended objectives of the essay.

Research Question

What leadership qualities and critical to managerial success?
This is a central question that invokes different leadership qualities and styles that help in mainstreaming the success of an organization. Indeed, managerial success solely depends on the qualities that are entrenched within the organization.

Possible topics under the Primary Question

There are different topics that can be implored to tailor the central research question, and depending on the topic, the outcome will lead ...

In Prefatory Notes Freud speculates about the political systems of USSR, Italy, and German and concludes that abandoning of the religion, as it is in the Soviet Union, can lead to more freedom, including sexual one but this can be harmful to people because it leads to barbarism. On the other hand, Catholic Church in Italy does its best to protect culture along with other moral issues though it is the enemy of freedom of thought. Then the author speculates about contradictions between the Church and psychoanalysis that cannot exist together in peace. (Freud 89-92)
Section I. 1 Historical ...

What are the three main lessons that you learned from Creativity Inc.? Try for a thoughtful explanation that relates to your studies and your work experiences so far.
The work of Ed Catmull together with Amy Wallace titled Creativity Inc. (2014) encompasses new insights about the creativity in business. The book offers interesting and important lessons that can be useful for anyone studying or professionally engaged in the field of business management. First lesson taken away from the book is learning the importance of collaboration. Catmull mentioned that the primary characteristic of a creative and healthy organizational culture is ...

While Machiavelli wrote many different works, ranging from plays and biographies to histories, and was deeply involved in Florentine politics, he is certainly best known for his greatest work, The Prince. In fact, it is from this work and this author that we get the term "Machiavelli and," which describes a person or situation that is cunning, deceitful and (most of all) expedient. This essay will examine the relationship between the concepts expressed in The Prince and the character of Tony Soprano in television's The Sopranos. It will be demonstrated below that on some occasions Tony Soprano (as a ...

The issue of global justice in the context of international environment is the central theme in Arnold’s article. According to him, global justice is seen to happen if the concerns of those who happen to be in the lower part of the pyramid are addressed (Arnold, 2013). Arnold argued that some models such as the deliberative democracy advanced by theorists of political aspect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) are not satisfactory. Furthermore, he believes Rawlsian theoretical failed to provide a clear obligations on how corporations execute the global justice. International business has been used to refer to both ...

The outsourcing in the textile and clothing industry is in a continuous movement and evolution, which was speed up by the rapid technological development, globalization or economic liberalization of various geographic areas.

The various shifts in the global sourcing in the textile and apparel industry have been hand in hand with the global social and economic shifts. Gereff (2002) notes that the history of sourcing was shaped in the fifties, when US and Western Europe countries where importing from Japan, which later imported from the Asian Tigers Hong King, Taiwan and ...

Introduction

The leadership is getting a lot of attention as the scholars are emphasizing on having teams scattered all across the organizations in order to reap benefits and fruits of collective wisdom at every organizational level. At the same time, the top managers have to select those team leaders who can work with the people without creating and experiencing difficulties and they may not create paining for others as well.
The personal attribute of extroversion plays a significant role in terms of jelling together the team, but the units have to have leaders with strong extrovert personalities so that they can build ...

Leadership refers to the ability of a designated person (with authority) to influence a functional group of an organization to work towards achieving the set objectives of the organization (without coercion). It is a process, which encompasses strategic thinking and requires a visionary person to create a vision and provide direction to the followers to implement in the quest of actualizing the vision. Leaders therefore, must have leadership motivation and be empathic coaches to support functional teams to achieve organizational goals (Stojkovic 192).
The trait theory of leadership presupposes that some people are born leaders. This implies that they have extra ordinary traits ...

The letter from Birmingham jail written by Martin Luther King is an expression of convictions of the just society against injustice. I agree with the thoughts of Martin Luther King on the matter of injustice and the state of Negro people in the United States. Martin Luther King is a leader who takes it upon himself to ensure prevalence of justice in the society. He clearly explains his role as a member of the society and a leader in the same. He explains that justice in any place is justice in every place. Through this statement, King implies that there is need ...

Introduction

In the current world, nursing workforce is comprised of staff and nursing leaders from a different generation groups. There are four nursing generation workforce with different attitudes, beliefs and work habits. As a result of differences in ideologies between the generations, nursing leaders have found it challenging to deal with the situation at hand. Nursing leaders should acknowledge the differences between generation workforces and view the weaknesses as potential strength. Disparities between the generation workforces need to be evaluated for the purpose of formulating a possible solution. Nursing leaders are expected to strengthen their skills in solving the differences between generations. It ...

Plato, as one of the most important philosophers and learners in human history, placed a great emphasis on the pursuit of knowledge and its effects on our worldview. When exploring Plato’s philosophical stance on learning and education, it is important to understand his use of the ‘allegory of the cave.’ In it, he describes the philosopher as someone who is able to free themselves from seeing just the ‘shadows’ of reality, and can now see the true shapes of it. This ties back to his ideal of an aristocracy in society, wherein those same philosophers would go back to ...

In the Book 10 Odysseus faced quite a number of exciting adventures, some of which brought him within an inch of death. The variety of challenging circumstances which the main character had to struggle in this part of the poem was sure to reveal a lot about the Odysseus’s personality. One may make some conclusions on the matter of Odysseus’s character after having come across the very first challenge to which the author has subjected Odysseus and his mates.
The circumstances were the following: the main character and his crew came to the island of Aeolus, who was ...

Shakespeare’s Protests against Institutional Racism in Elizabethan England

Othello is not the only play in the Shakespearean canon that features racism, and it certainly is not the only play that challenges social mores. Whether it’s the feisty Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing, turning social convention on its head, in the sense that women were supposed to be prim and proper in Elizabethan England, when she wows Benedick with her powerful desire to save Hero, or whether it’s the Jew Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, endowed with many of the physical characteristics associated with the worst stereotypes associated with members of his religion but ...