Your manager has asked for your to make a decision on an important issue within 24 hours. the outcome of this decision will have a direct impact on how your associates do their jobs. the best thing for you to do is: meet with your manager and make the decision together. call a meeting with your associates and discuss the issue with them as a group. work with your manager to reach a decision and then meet with each associate to discuss the outcome. ask your manager to present the issue at the next associate meeting because it will have an impact on the entire group.

first of all the mood needs to be defined: it is obviously a mood of deceitful relief and serenity. why? because the cape horn is one of the most violent maritime regions of earth and although it has been left behind, it is a personification of ahab’s delirium and the fact that the end of the passage speaks about it about being “hidden” but “raving” immediately conveys the feeling the calm is not permanent but fleeting.

furthermore, the oxymoron “mild stun'sails” is the first instance of such feeling as the adjective “mild” is associated with “stunned” underscoring the fleeting nature of this “tranquil” moment. and the contrasts keep piling up, with the opposition between “dark den” and “blessed light and air” to end with the final conclusion that leaves the reader with the uneasy knowledge that this is just a reprieve.