Academic literature on the topic 'Peaches (fictitious character)'

The reputation of Alexander and the judgement on his character have oscillated between two extremes down the ages. At times he was taken by ancient moralists as the prime example of one corrupted by power and ambition. At other times, especially in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he has been seen as the ideal leader of men in war and peace. These extremes of interpretation are possible because his brief and incomplete career contained a number of highly dramatic episodes of different kinds, which can be enhanced or explained away to produce either effect. The most extreme instance leading to an adverse judgment is the massacre of the Branchidae, and it is not surprising that Tarn, whose work on Alexander represented a peak of eulogy, argued strongly for the view that: the event was entirely fictitious. He has been followed by most writers since then, who usually do not try to account for this episode; in fact they simply omit it. This is strange, for the evidence that it occurred goes back to Callisthenes, the earliest to write on Alexander's campaigns, and an eye-witness of the happening, if it occurred.

During the Vietnam War and later periods, the three male characters in Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel, The Sympathizer, have a strong brotherhood that prioritizes each other's safety while pursuing different political ideologies of liberalism and communism. Their brotherhood has many implications for the friendly international relations established between the countries, such as Vietnam, the United States, and South Korea, to The Vietnam War as well as at the time, as it extends to fraternity and humanity. This paper examines the implications of the brotherhood in which the male characters in Nguyen's hottest work, The Sympathizer, want to live together, focusing on international relations mostly after The Vietnam War. To this end, this paper first diagnoses the necessity of interpretation in terms of international relations theory by critically analyzing the general research trend and previous studies that explained brotherhood of this work. Next, after rereading the text focusing on brotherly love, the researcher reveals the fictitious nature of the international situation and political ideology during and after The Vietnam War, and then illuminates the meaning of brotherly love in the novel, and applies it to the situation at the time in terms of international relations. Contrary to the existing approaches, this study is especially meaningful in revealing that the friendship between the protagonist, who plays the role of intermediary, and his two friends, can be a peace ethics applicable to current international relations. In addition, this paper emphasizes the consensus on the painful history due to the foreign intervention of Western countries such as the United States and France, Communist forces of China and Russia, and the Empire of Japan. Finally, a follow-up study is expected to examine the implications of the phrase in which the protagonist vowed to live in the plural at the end of the novel.

Purpose On 12th June 2015, a strike by contract workers was declared at Rampur terminal, All India Business in oil corporation (ABC) Ltd. The strike had disrupted the normal services of the terminal. Under such circumstances, Mr Ravi Sharma (Head human resources of the eastern region, ABC Ltd.) was unable to decide how to save the company from such a disorderly situation without any increased loss of production and manpower cost liabilities. Could Mr Ravi Sharma resolve the issue of strike through an approach of strategic rapprochement when the disruptions made by workers and local miscreants went out of control? Design/methodology/approach In-depth interview in the year 2019 was conducted with the protagonist Mr Ravi Sharma and the trade union members at the regional office of ABC Ltd., Kolkata and Rampur Terminal, respectively, to convert the narratives in the form of a fictitious case study. Four rounds of interviews were conducted by the author to complete the data collection procedure. The company™s-related information was sourced through a secondary database furnished by company™s officials. However, the data about the company, the key characters and other recognizable information have been disguised to preserve the confidentiality of information. Findings The strike was called by the contract workers at Rampur terminal for two primary reasons, namely, wage increase and giving preference to local people for employment whether regular or contract. Mr Ravi Sharma could pacify the unforeseen situation by adopting two-pronged strategies, namely, first, he could successfully gain the confidence of the union leader and secondly, set the environment for the conciliation proceeding so that agreement settled will not be failed to be implemented. Originality/value The case uses a system perspective of Industrial relation proposed by Dunlop (1958) to highlight the interplay between employer, government and trade unions influenced by politics and mafia that determine eventually the industrial peace in the organization.