...Imagine the world we live in today versus a flawless fantasy world, what are the differences, what are the similarities? Many people have described the world we live in today as a dystopia because it is flawed and filled with imperfections. A fantasy world is what’s called a utopia because it’s a perfect world. The dystopic world versus a utopic world, what are the similarities? What are the differences? The legal definition of dystopia “an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one” (Webster). A dystopia is the world we currently live in because in certain parts of the world it can be very degrading and dark. Watching the news alone will give anybody a sense of despair because it’s filled with wars, people dying, and tragedy; whether it’s human induced or natural. The media is constantly buzzing with various scandals, such as corruption by people in high places. Violence has become normal and a part of everyday life, people are immune to violence and bad news. This is the real world definition of a dystopia because it does give you a sense of despair and watching the news will make you think that the world is bad and unpleasant. A utopia is the complete opposite of the dark world. It’s a place where everything is peaceful, there are no deaths, no wars, no corruption scandals, no clergy, rulers, king, or army(s). It is a completely peaceful and beautiful world; there is no need for weapons or violence...
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...Dreams versus Reality In Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” he claims that people should give up until the point that by giving further they would be suffering just as much if not more than those we are attempting to help. However, I will show how he fails to address the risks and moral dilemmas that the resulting transportation of those goods and services would cause. Peter Singer asserts that poverty, famine, disease are bad, and claims that we should give until that point that by giving further we would be suffering just as much if not more than those we would be attempting to help. In his article Peter makes defines this level of giving: “By "without sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance" I mean without causing...
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...Nullam Mauris is a secluded utopian community in Northern California that values “environmental sustainability” as the most fundamental social belief. The general core values of this utopian society are love, socially beneficence, diligence, and freedom while maintaining self-sustainability in an eco-friendly way. Regarding those core values, the community promises free education for residents. Education and society have a direct relationship since “raising sufficient number of efficient people for more prosperous society is the duty of education and educational institutions which have certain functions in the community” (Turkkahraman 38). Thus, categorized by kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, high school, and university/college,...
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...In the world of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, everyone is happy, society is stable and peaceful, and the world seems like a utopia. Every person enjoys life and faces no problems or deals with hardships. In reality, the civilization is stable, but only because everyone chooses not to deal with their problems and escapes multiple displeasures through different means. Happiness is prioritized over everything else and everyone chooses to remain happy instead of facing truth or other conflicts. The civilization in Brave New World thus, is more dystopian than utopian. The major detrimental effects of this society are its use of escapism as an everyday application, and how that it deteriorates the psychology of each person. The detrimental effects of this society apply to the real world....
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...Where Is Utopia in the Brain? DanieL s. Levine Introduction The designer of utopian societies, whether fictional or real, often confronts the limits of what is possible for members of our species. But how severe or flexible are those limits? The explosive growth of behavioral neurobiology and experimental psychology in the last decade has produced many results on the biological bases of social interactions. This growth suggests that we can now look to science for some partial answers to the question of limits. Until recently, the social sciences and the biological sciences have mainly developed separate and disconnected accounts of human behavior. In the “nature/nurture controversy,” for example, anthropology has tended to emphasize cultural influences on human nature whereas behavioral biology has tended to emphasize genetic influences. The journalist Matthew Ridley (Nature via Nurture) provides an accessible account of the intellectual history and rhetoric of these two fields. Yet an increasing number of scholars in both areas are now realizing that behavioral biology and anthropology are studying the same human phenomena from different viewpoints. This overlap means there should be an underlying reality that is consistent across the different disciplines regardless of any disagreements in terminology. The behavioral biologist Edward O. Wilson calls this type of interdisciplinary commonality consilience, a term coined earlier by the nineteenth-century philosopher William Whewell...
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...Art in Theory: Mid Term February 26, 2016 1. When Marcel Duchamp first displayed his readymade, he was adding upon earlier, pre-Modernist conceptions of a painting as thing. The major new idea Duchamp added to the art world was that everyday things (such as a shovel in this case) can become art by simply putting it a place where one would expect to find art, such as museums and galleries. This caused the art world to reconsider what they considered art, based on the location of the piece (MoMA learning). Duchamp purposely wanted to disrupt this validating context people had established a work’s identity as art as entirely a matter of convention. What Duchamp did, which was brilliant in its own right, was he simply assigned an exhibition value to what was typically a use value object such as shovel or a urinal. The de-contextualization of objects by scrambling their semantic association, as the shovel or the urinal became a non-functioning referent (as we spoke about in class) through his choice and its appropriation. What Duchamp wanted to get back to was that art should be made to express the idea, not to provoke aesthetically pleasing results. His goal was to run from the Modern approach of thought, then action, as he preferred instead a delay in the onlookers mind, before considering whether something is art or not. That though provoking characteristic...
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...（1） In 1945, just after World War II, the alliance between the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union ended. An intense rivalry between communist and non-communist nations led to the Cold War. It's called the Cold War because it never led to armed or "hot" conflict. At the end of World War II, at the Yalta Conference, Germany was divided into four occupied zones controlled by Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Berlin was also divided into four sections. Lack of a mutual agreement on German re-unification was a important background of the Cold War. And on March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill, gave his "iron curtain" speech while at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, which marked the start of the Cold War. The cold war did not end until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. During this period, the United States and the USSR confronted each other in politics, economy, ideology, and so on. And they nearly divided this world into two camps, socialist camp and capitalist camp, what made the conflict on ideology especially sharp. Every incident in the world could not happened without reasons, and the original cause may happened quite long ago. So there are long term causes and short causes of the Cold War. One of the short term causes is that the US President had a personal dislike of the Soviet leader Josef Stalin. At the Potsdam Conference starting in late July 1945, serious differences emerged over the future development of Germany and...
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...Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax (1971) is argued as one of the most important pieces of environmental children’s literature, with educators expressing the work, “as a powerful story for teaching and learning, as a story that can promote transformational ideas in educational practice,” (Henderson, 2004). This high praise begs the question: why is The Lorax so successful at reaching out to the child reader? This essay will indentify the use of certain literary characteristics that Seuss incorporated in The Lorax, which stemmed from successful environmental children’s literature from the late seventeenth century to the twentieth century. It will establish the success of each work due to the theme or agenda it had that reflected the social and environmental issues of its time, and will then establish to what extent Seuss’s The Lorax stands as a strong example for ecocritics and educators alike, of an environmental children’s story and its impact on the child reader. To further understand the position of this paper, it is important to identify the nature of ecocentricism and the development of the interdisciplinary field. Ecocentricism is an ethical practice that “decenters humanity’s importance in nonhuman nature and nature writing and instead explores the complex interrelationships between the human and the nonhuman,” (Buell, 2011). The practice, in the last twenty years, has become a field of inquiry in response to “growing academic concern about the response of literature and literary theory...
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...rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper co Designed by Heather Hensley Typeset in Minion Pro by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED WITH LOVE TO JulieWalwick (1959-2010) Contents ix Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION i The Problem with Work i CHAPTF1 37 Mapping the Work Ethic CHAPTER 2 79 Marxism, Productivism, and the Refusal of Work CHAPTER 3 113 Working Demands: From Wages for Housework to Basic Income CHAPTER 4 151 "Hours for What We Will": Work, Family, and the Demand for Shorter Hours 5 CHAPTER 175 The Future Is Now: Utopian Demands and the Temporalities of Hope EPILOGUE 227 A Life beyond Work 235 255 Notes References 275 Index Acknowledgments thank the following friends and colleagues for their helpful feedback on versions of these arguments and portions of the manuscript: Anne Allison, Courtney Berger, Tina Campt, ChristineDiStefano, Greg Grandin, Judith Grant, Michael Hardt, Stefano Harney, Rebecca I would like to Karl, Ranji Khanna, Corey Robin, Rudy, Karen Kathy Stuhldreher, and Robyn Wiegman. Thanks also go to Robert Adelman, Brittany Faullmer, Dennis Keenan, Marcie Patton, the Seattle FOJ, Julie Walwick, Cat Warren and David Auerbach, Diana Weeks, Lee Weeks, and Regan Weeks. An earlier version of a portion ofchapter 2...
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...Finally, a few hypotheses drawn from the discussion are presented at the end of the paper. Introduction: Foreign Exchange & foreign currency is the elastic link between various independent political states. The Central Bank of a country frames the monetary policy to maintain a desirable Foreign exchange rate & regulate the flow of foreign currency in an economy. Now let us understand the correlation & interplay between foreign currency & the various economic parameters. In a floating regime of exchange rates, the interest rates in the country are adjusted so as to vary its real exchange rates & also as a measure to control inflation. Therefore a developing capitalist country will have its Central Bank adopt the policy of keeping its interest rate as low as possible. This will enable the entrepreneurs & the various economic actors to obtain capital at a cheaper rate. It will also help to maintain a low real exchange rate & hence boost domestic exports. Growing exports will see a positive trade balance or a Current Account Surplus. With a current account surplus the country can make strategic investments in the foreign markets or acquire factories. This will result in a negative Capital Account while indicating the presence in foreign markets. Such a cycle when sustained can provide a drive to the economy & increase the country’s GDP & improve the standard of living in it. The sources in which a foreign currency enters a domestic economy are either by the way of Foreign Direct...
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...was a Time An Introduction to the History and Ideology of Folk'and Fairy Tales To begin with a true story told in fairy-tale manner: Once upon a time the famous physicist Albert Einstein was confronted by an overly concemed woman who sought advice on how to raise her small son to become a successful scientist. In particular she wanted to know what kinds ofbooks she sll ould read to her son. "Fairy tales," Einstein responded without. hesitation. "Fine, but what else should I read to him after that?" the mother asked. "More fairy tales, "Einstein stated. "And after that?" "Even more fairy tales. " replied the great scientist, and he waved his pipe like a wizard pronouncing a happy end to a long adventure. It now seems that the entire world has been following Einstein's advice. By 1979 a German literary critic could declare that fairy tales are "fantastically in."\ In fact, everywhere one turns today fairy tales and fairy-tale motifs pop up like magic. Bookshops are flooded with . fairy tales by J.R.R. Tolkien, Hermann Hesse, the Grimm Brothers, Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen, a myriad of folk-tale adaptations, feminist and fractured fairy tales, and scores of sumptuously illustrated fantasy...
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...Introduction Advertising obviously plays an essential role in the success or failure of a product. In some cases, using celebrity endorsers to promote products has been quite an effective campaign strategy for advertisers. Celebrity endorsed campaigns are created to sway the consumers and to promote a positive image. Research on Brand Endorser and Consumer Perception Since one of the key objectives of an advertising agency is to persuade customers to purchase the products they represent, an advertisement’s credibility plays an intricate part in heightening the sense of appeal to potential consumers. The enormous amount of money that is allotted for advertising budgets for celebrity endorsements indicate that they are vital in the “advertising world”. Pursuing a celebrity endorsement strategy enables advertisers to project a credible image in terms of expertise, persuasiveness, trustworthiness, and objectiveness (Till and Shimp 1998). Even though it may sound vain, when creating campaigns, advertisers also have to consider the attractiveness, physical appearance, personality, etc., of the celebrity. An attractive, likeable, celebrity spokesperson has been proven to reach audiences more effectively than an unattractive spokesman. A celebrity spokesperson has great influence on consumers. In comparison to “normal” spokespeople, celebrities evoke massive attention and remembrance. They increase awareness of a company’s advertising, create positive feelings towards brands and...
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...Current Issues Final Portfolio “One definition of an economist is somebody who sees something happen in practice and wonders if it will work in theory.” – Ronald Reagan. Is there any better way to sum up the past four months in Econ 404W: Current Issues? Day after day we performed experiments to see first hand how certain economic theories and phenomenon work in practice, and afterwards try to understand how the theories relate. Throughout the semester, we participated in 27 games/experiments that covered a wide range of economic theories and principles. Of all the different concepts that have been discussed, two have stood out time after time. These are backward induction and the free riding problem. The first experiment that used any sort of backward induction was Network Externalities. In this experiment my strategy was to think as a group of people would, rather than how I would personally, and act in the first round to maximize profits. Each decision, as simple as the two choices were, had one choice that I believed would appeal more to the rest of the class, regardless of what my personal preference was. One round, for example, had a choice between a blue and white paper and a red and white paper. As appealing as the red and white was to me, I knew that a class of Penn State students would clearly choose the blue and white as opposed to the aesthetically repulsive colors of Ohio State. Thinking of how others would act allowed me to get into the superior...
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...The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World t His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, MD Doubleday New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland Copyright © 2009 by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, M.D. All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday Religion, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. www.crownpublishing.com doubleday and the dd colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bstan-’dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935– The art of happiness in a troubled world / the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler. p. cm. 1. Happiness—Religious aspects—Buddhism. 2. Conduct of life. 3. Religious life—Buddhism. I. Cutler, Howard C. II. Title. BQ7935.B774A82 2009 294.3'444—dc22 2009024717 ISBN 978-0-767-92064-3 Printed in the United States of America Design by Elizabeth Rendfleisch 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 First Edition www.DoubledayReligion.com To purchase a copy of The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World visit one of these online retailers: Amazon Barnes & Noble Borders IndieBound Powell’s Books Random House www.DoubledayReligion.com t CON TE N TS AUTHOR’S NOTE INTRODUCTION vii ix PART O NE I, Us, and Them Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 1 Me Versus We 3 Me and We 25 45 Prejudice (Us Versus Them) Overcoming Prejudice 67 Extreme Nationalism 97 ...
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...Brainia.com Join Now! Login Search Saved Papers 60 Free Essays on Starbucks Control Mechanisms SEARCH Documents 1 - 30 of 1,000 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ... 34 » Control Mechanisms Control Mechanisms Executive Summary February 1, 2006 The control mechanism for Raytheon Missile Systems and TUSD Food Services is bureaucratic while Pima Medical Institute has culture control. A control is any process that directs the activities of individuals toward the achievement of orga Premium 2 Page 344 Words Foucault and Truffaut: Power and Social Control in French Society Foucault and Truffaut: Power and Social Control in French Society Both Michel Foucault and Truffaut's depiction of a disciplinary society are nearly identical. But Truffaut's interpretation sees more room for freedom within the disciplinary society. The difference stems from Foucault's be Premium 3 Page 727 Words Starbucks Srategy 1) Starbucks used mostly a differentiation strategy, however it had also used a cost leadership strategy. Its differentiation strategy was exemplified by their stores providing an experience, offering interesting coffee-related drinks in a theatrical kind of atmosphere, their unique Coffee blending Premium 4 Page 900 Words Problems in Air Traffic Control and Proposed Solutions Problems in Air Traffic Control and Proposed Solutions In northern California this summer, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) unintentionally performed it's first operational test of...
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