...1) What is at stake in this decision for Carol and for Davis Press? Why? There is a lot at stake in this decision for Carol and Davis Press. Let’s take a look at what would happen if the book “Meccan Madness” were to be published. Referring to the past and what had happen to Rushdie when his book “The Satanic Verse” was released, it was mayhem. Death threats were issued, Rushdie was wanted dead for several years, and innocent people were killed and much more were injured. If Carol decides to publish Taajwar’s book, there is a possibility history could repeat itself, which includes Davis Press making high profits by selling the book, but also losing millions of dollars that went towards the security of employees. If Carol decided not to publish the book, it is obvious they will lose on the chance of making high profits. However, all the employees will remain safe and not have to fear what will happen to them if “Meccan Madness” is published. 2) Who are the stakeholders here? To whom (or what) does Davis owe her allegiance? The stakeholders in this case are the employees of Davis Press. The employees play a major role in this case because of the amount of work they do for the company. Another stakeholder in this case is the government because in the event problems occur between countries. This sort of situation happen when Rushdie’s book was published where there was issues between Britain and Iran. Carol owes her loyalty to the employees for the amount of...
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...be so. However, though the basics of students have remained the same, attitudes have had an abysmal plunge into a sort of near madness. Given the hypothesis that, there always were weak children and brilliant children the system of giving and taking tuitions has taken up to new dimensions to an all time high. There was a time when those children who were weak were the only ones who took extra tuitions so that they could compete with their more brilliant colleagues. This was also not a thing to be proud of that, the child is taking tuition because it would clearly imply that the child was weak in studies. The parents and also their wards felt a little ashamed that they had to resort to extra tuition. This indicated that the student required an extra dose of teaching to cope with the syllabus. Moreover, the teachers of the days gone by, took the trouble of finishing the syllabus in class so that all could benefit. Then, only the weak who required personal attention would take to tuitions. This was the picture as it existed a few decades back. However, this same tuition has now become almost a necessity, for which several reasons can be assigned. Today, this entire scenario has taken a ‘U’ turn, and all parties involved in the system of tuitions have evolved an absolutely new psyche towards tuitions. This system has become almost madness, a disease. These days every child good, bad or very weak all resort to tuitions, in...
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...When it comes it the topic of the Shakespeare's most famous character Hamlet, most of us readily agree that he is brilliant. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of his meditation. While some people are convinced that he is an over thinker, others maintain that his thoughts are purposeful and brilliant. Multiple times throughout the play you see Hamlet over-thinking something he is about to do. Questioning himself on whether he is right or wrong, or if this is the right time to do this. It is in his nature to over think things because of his want to be right on all accounts. For example, when Claudius goes to the confess murdering his brother, Hamlet is there waiting for him. This moment would be the perfect opportunity to kill Claudius, for he is focusing on praying and doesn't notice Hamlet is in the room. However, Hamlet stops and thinks about this action rather than just getting his revenge. Claudius is praying for forgiveness. Hamlet believes that by killing him in this moment, he would be giving Claudius the easy way out, for he would go to heaven. Hamlet's thoughts have him back down from avenging his father's death. He decides that Claudius deserves a proper punishment, and therefore decides that he will kill him while he is in the middle of doing something sinful so he goes to hell. By thinking over every scenario or possibility, Hamlet does not act out his plans quickly or efficiently. If he killed Claudius the first chance he had, instead...
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...|A BEAUTIFUL MIND | |Film By Ron Howard And Brian Grazer | |Written By Akiva Goldsman | |Biography By Sylia Nasar | | | |Scott H. Smith | |Ron Riggs, M.A., Sociology 101 | |H00166781 | |October 19, 2011 | A Beautiful Mind is the 2001 movie interpretation of Sylvia Nasar biography about John F. Nash Jr. by film makers Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman. The film is about the true life story of John Forbes Nash Jr. of West Virginia. The movie has succeeded in showing that the very brilliantly minded John Nash can...
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...responsibility to love thy neighbor and to endure the anguish of discomfort for the comfort of others. In other words, the main objective is to equalize the well-being of all by repudiating one’s self in the name of divine justice. Every man is antagonized at the forefront of affliction, and the unpretentious consideration of one’s suffering will unite societies together in communal empathy. Affliction is the price humanity must pay to be humbled by the grace of God. To accrue the divinity of God, there must be a presence of love and comfortability with truth. Simone indicates that the only way to fully consent to Gods divine love and justice is when all actions are done out of compassion for others. She defines this as a certain madness; the type of madness that overcomes all social commands, corruption, and...
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...The True Nature of Lear’s Madness Out of all of Shakespeare’s works, King Lear is by far his greatest tragedy. Tragedy, not in the sorts of horrific blood shed, but in terms of the hostile nature of humankind, that was thoroughly explored within the play. The brilliance of the play does not only lie in its brilliant storyline, it ultimately lies in the numerous universal, yet controversial themes. Themes of familial obligation, metaphorical blindness, political disarray, cruelty, betrayal, insanity and madness, these are only a few of the many conveyed. The critical summation of King Lear is as such: King Lear, ruler of Britain, decides to abdicate his throne and leave Britain in the charge of his three daughters. However, due to his weakness to flattery he bestows the entire kingdom to his daughters, Goneril and Regan. Unlike her malevolent sisters, Cordelia is banished by Lear. Ultimately, as a result of the committed acts, Lear sets not only himself, but also his entire country into civil strife. The natural order originally established by Lear falls apart and disorder engulfs the realm. Lear’s, ‘fall from grace’ in addition to the abuse he attains from his offspring causes him to go temporarily insane. However, insanity leads Lear to self-realization, completely stripped from his royal pretensions. Such a realization causes Lear to overlook his values and finally learn of humility. One is able to state that before the climax took place Lear, in fact was ‘mad’, this...
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...Ever heard of the story The Tell Tale Heart? It is a dark story of a man descended into madness murdering an old man. But not everyone thinks he was a mad man, some think he was just acting or that murdering the man brought him into madness. Everyone has their opinion on this matter and we will be exploring just one of them. Well truly it’s more like I am defending my opinion on this story and how I believe the man truly was with evidence from the story itself. I would have to say that the man was truly insane and completely capable of planning ahead despite of his mental state. I say he was a mad man because of his reasons for his actions, the narrator explains in the story page 1 says: “I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this!” (Tell-Tale-Heart) and this was enough to drive him to murder. His drive for the murder was such a simple and pathetic reason that anyone sane would have to disagree that it would be an acceptable reason....
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...what has happened to him, perhaps William, Elizabeth, and Clerval wouldn’t have been murdered. When the creature speaks so articulately to Frankenstein when conveying his story, it’s clear that the creature did not come to life with evil intentions. “On you it rests, whether I quit for ever the neighborhood of man, and lead a harmless life, or become the scourge of your fellow- creatures, and the author of your speedy ruin.” (79) Here the creature seems manipulative even. Listening to his tale we know that he only had the purest intentions for humans at first. The rejection he faced first by Frankenstein and then by the family in the cottage led to Frankenstein’s ruin. The death of Frankenstein’s mother caused him to fall headfirst into madness. He calls her death “evil”. (27) The dream Frankenstein has right after the creature is created speaks volumes. “I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel.” (39) This dream could be seen as many things: a premonition for the events to follow, a warning from the beyond, or simply Frankenstein’s fears manifesting themselves in the most horrible way. The gruesome fact that he didn’t...
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...Compare Contrast Paper How is it that things so different can be so similar at the same time. Its really quite an amazing thing if you look at it. One of these amazing comparisons is the one between night and day. Such simple things constantly flying by use but rarely admired for what they hold. They have many clear differences but they are more alike than you might think. Day is beautiful full of the light and warmth from the sun. The world is full of brilliant bright colors that draw you attention.The sky above is an amazing blue bright and inviting. The day is warm inviting bright and busy with everything going on. It's noisy everyone has a place to be something always has to be done. The world moves quickly through the day. Night on...
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...This book explored schizophrenia as a rational response to unbearable experiences. When he sat down to write the book in the late 1950s, the outlook in psychiatry was that the mind of an unbalanced person was just an amalgamation of senseless fantasies or obsessions. Patients were simply tested for certain symptoms of mental illness, and treated proportionately. His goal was “to make madness, and the process of going mad, comprehensible”, and he accomplished this by showing how psychosis – especially, that relating to schizophrenia - actually “makes sense to the person suffering it.” According to him, the psychiatrist on his/her part should simply get inside the mind of the sufferer. He very categorically pointed out that ‘The Divided Self’ was not a medically researched book rather a set of observations, clouded by existential philosophy, about the essence of schizophrenia. Our knowledge of schizophrenia has moved on markedly since his day, towards a more biological and neurological explanation, but his narrations of what it feels like to live with a ‘divided self’, go ‘mad’ or have a ‘breakdown’, still remains one of the best...
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...I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading—treading—till it seemed That Sense was breaking through— And when they all were seated, 5 A Service, like a Drum— Kept beating—beating—till I thought My Mind was going numb— And then I heard them lift a Box And creak across my Soul 10 With those same Boots of Lead, again, Then Space—began to toll, As all the Heavens were a Bell, And Being, but an Ear, And I, and Silence, some strange Race 15 Wrecked, solitary, here— And then a Plank in Reason, broke, And I dropped down, and down— And hit a World, at every plunge, And Finished knowing—then— 20 “I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain” If one does not know much about poetry, they might think that a sixteen-stanza poem does not have abundant meaning. Little do they know, although, there aren’t many lines, it can be the most meaningful text. The poem I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain, is a sixteen-stanza poem that uses metaphors to describe a situation or feeling (depending on how the reader or critic interprets the poem). I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain by Emily Dickinson has substantial reviews and critics’ critical information on this poem. Each critic reviews a poem differently and all have a different interpretation on this particular poem. Although all of the interpretations are all on the same poem, they all have something different...
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...The Proliferation Of Ska The music most commonly associated with Jamaica is reggae. However, this was not the first type of music to emerge from the island nation. Mento, ska, and rock steady all preceded reggae. “Mento was Jamaican folk music that combined sacred and secular elements. The styles mixed Pocamania church music, Junkano fife and drum sounds, the European quadrille, slave-era work songs, and even elements of American jazz. It was the first type of music recorded in Jamaica.”[i] In contrast rock steady is, “roughly half the speed of the standard ska beat, and the texture of the instrumentation is much less dense. Also, in rock steady the reggae accent patterns started to emerge. The guitar was played on the second and fourth beats of the four-beat measure while the bass guitar emphasized the first and third beats. The role of the drums was absorbed by the percussive playing of the guitar and bass, so the drummer’s role was diminished.”[ii] Ska music would come about in the early 1960’s, about the same time Jamaica was in the process of gaining it’s independence from England. “The general ska band lineup was a core of singer, guitar, bass, and drums, with the addition of a horn line of varying size. At barest minimum, the horn line included a saxophone, trumpet, and trombone. The style itself was a mixture of influences including Jamaican mento, American rhythm and blues, jazz, jump bands, calypso, and others. The ska beat was fast, appropriate for dancing...
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...Greek warrior and kind of Ithaca, son of Laertes and Anticleia. However, it is also said that Odysseus is the son of Sisyphus. Well known for persuasion, strategic thinking, cunning, intellect and trickery. There are numerous stories where Odysseus displays his ability to think strategically. Many of these stories can be found in books such as The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Aeneid. These are but the major books that such stories of Odysseus’ ability can be found in; however, they are not the only transcripts. The first story that I will cover and probably the most well-known is the story of the Trojan horse. After the nine years of war between the Trojans and the Greeks a victory was still not clear for either side. Odysseus gets a brilliant idea; the Greeks will construct a giant wooden horse, load up on their boats and pretend to sail away. However, they would leave a group of Greeks inside the horse in order to open the gates of Troy for the rest of...
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...possible realms within comprehension. But it has the titular characters sharing a close bond while simultaneously possessing eccentric personalities to keep us intrigued; the other characters of the family are also slowly developing into their own unique identities and the whole lot of them makes for a weird family group. The crux of the humour remains the sheer absurd and often mind-boggling adventures they get themselves into and each one of them unique and taut with different dosages of effective comedy. The brilliant drunk scientist whose highly developed intelligence has him building incredible devices of extraordinary powers like that of his portal gun - used to create inter - dimensional portals to other universes and even timelines. He is a pessimistic atheist whose demeanour is that of a wisecracking jester but obstinately drunk and erratic. His relationship with his daughter ( Beth ) forces her to loan the garage to his various schemes of mischievous scientific madness and also to stay with them in spite of her husband's initial insistence to send him off to a nursing home. Morty is a passive, insecure yet extremely agitated 14-year-old, whose boring and mundane life goes into ultimate chaos and unpredictability during his various adventures with his grandpa and often ends up nearly destroying their lives and world and...
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...The narrator is constantly suffering from theses symptoms of Psychosis. Starting from the very beginning of the story, the narrator is constantly in denial that he is mad. For example, he stated “Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded --with what caution --with what foresight --with what dissimulation I went to work!” which he tries to deny that he is mad by saying how brilliant he was when he murdered the old...
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