...A kinder, gentler philosophy of success by Alain de Botton The Text ‘a kinder, gentler philosophy of success, is a Speech, spoken by Alain de Botton. In this Text Mr. Botton proves his case by phrase some arguments. He starts the text with a contention by saying, that career crises aren’t a personal problem.” I think that we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises” Botton proclaims. The things we thought that we knew about ourselves suddenly in an imaginable was become a sort of reality to us. By reflecting over some thoughts he can conclude that we are surrounded by snobs. This is maybe why we have this so-called career crises and career anxiety. The “snob phenomenon” doesn’t depend on where on the country you come from, but it is more like a global disease so to say. Here Mr. Botton again come with a sort of conclusion” A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery”. This snobbery often appears on jobs these days. It is so important to have the right job, to earn a nice sum of money and telling about it if anybody asks so you don’t get the cold shoulder. The opposite of a snob is someone who doesn’t care about your achievements. This could be your partner or your mother - someone who respects you without putting you in the social hierarchy. The time we live in is filled with people who love material goods. But this is not the reason why we care so much about our...
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...Root Word | Translation | Noun | Verb | Adjective | Adverb | (e.g.) authority | قوة نفوذ سلطان | authority | authorize | authoritative | authoritatively | criterion | معيار, مقياس | criterion/ criteria | | | | foundation | تأسيس | foundation | Found | | | notion | فكرة | notion | | notional | notionally | voluntary | اختياري, طوعي | volunteer | volunteer | voluntary | voluntarily | ministry | وزارة | ministry/ minister | minister | | | alternative | بديل , اخر | alternative | Alternate | alternative | alternatively | outcome | نتيجة, حصيلة | outcome | | | | stress | اجهاد , ارهاق | stress | stress | stressed | | seek | يبحث عن , ينشد | seeker | seek | | | adequate | كاف | adequacy | | adequate | adequately | regime | نظام الحكم | regime | | | | focus | بؤرة, محرق | focus | focus | focused | | occur | يحدث, يقع | Occurrence | occur | | | comprehensive | شامل | | comprehend | comprehensive | comprehensively | ink | حبر | ink | link | inky | | scope | مجال , فرصة | scope | | | | licence | رخصة | licence | licence | | | affect | يؤثر على | affectation | affect | affected | | distinct | واضح | distinction | distinguish | distinct/ distinctive | distinctly | category | فئة , صنف | category | categorize | | | philosophy | الفلسفة | philosophy | philosophize | philosophical | philosophically | consent | يوافق, يسمح | consent | consent | | | item | مادة , مفردة , بند | item...
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...Nuit et brouillard is primarily a film about the memory of the Holocaust than about the Holocaust itself During World War II, France woefully surrendered itself to the Nazi Regime. This new government, led by Henri-Philippe Pétain, was soon to implement Hitler’s anti-Semitic laws and, consequently, France became involved in an event recognised worldwide as the ‘systematic mass murder of European Jewry by the Nazis’ – the Holocaust. Following the end of the war, Charles de Gaulle hastily recovered France’s collective identity and repressed the reality of the nation’s collaboration out of shame. The result? A ‘crisis of consciousness’, in which French society was incapable of facing its shared responsibility. Resnais’s documentary, Nuit et brouillard, offered an even plane, where France was able to recover its memory of the Holocaust. In the forthcoming discussion, there will be detailed consideration as to whether the memory of said genocide is the fundamental theme of Nuit et brouillard, with close reference to the film’s imagery, text, and musical composition. Shot in 1955, ten years following the camp’s liberation, Resnais’s film begins with post-war colour images of Auschwitz, capturing what remains of the barren land. As the camera progressively moves through the barbed wire fence, the present day moment is established and one sees ‘une drôle d’herbe’ surrounding the edges. The inclusion of overgrown flora can be argued as a metaphor for the surface and deep memories...
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...Max Rose Dr. Finkelstein ENG 205-16 Paper #2 The Corrupted Consumer The role of commodities and consumerism in The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith is paramount in the development of the protagonist, Tom Ripley. The novel begins with Ripley in New York struggling to make ends meet without a socially acceptable job but rather an illegitimate occupation in which he swindled people who had no withholding taxes (artists, writers and freelance workers). Although Ripley is undeniably skillful at social manipulation, he lacks self-confidence and an established identity as a man. As a result of his insufficient cash inflows, the offer from Herbert Greenleaf (an all-expense paid for vacation to Europe in the hope that he can persuade his former acquaintance Dickie Greenleaf to return to New York City) will provide an excellent opportunity for him to live the lavish lifestyle that seemed natural to him and establish his own masculinity through materialist possessions and behaviors. The exceedingly low self-esteem of Tom Ripley (at the beginning of the novel) stems from his Aunt Dottie who constantly berates him verbally by saying that he is a “Sissy! He’s a sissy from the ground up. Just like his father.” (p. 40) Ripley was brought up in an unpleasant environment without a supporting family and a lack of material wealth. These factors contribute significantly to the insecure and self-loathing nature Tom Ripley possesses prior to European excursion. The meetings and conversations...
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...studied municipal corporation in Canadian context. They identified certain significant factors with impact on best practices of municipal organisation such as decision making and investment planning, environmental protocols, roads and sidewalks, water and sanitation, storm and wastewater. In the Chinese context, Liu (2005) claimed the integral elements of evolving system, central planning and economic transition to be the key success factors of improved infrastructure of Municipalities in China. Liu explored various scopes of improvements in the efforts of China in order to meet the challenges of future. Al Alain City Municipality Researcher focuses on the Al Alain city municipality for the study. This city has reputation of being ‘Garden city of the Gulf’. This city has nearly 4000 years old history and significant role in history of the UAE. The Alain city municipality is the part of the departments of Municipal Affairs. This was established in 1967. It started working as a circle-governmental organisation after it got organised by Special Emiri Decree in 1974 (Government of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, 2011). This municipal organisation has adopted advanced and latest technologies and techniques in order to serve its purposes. “Al Ain Municipality as an institution service was able to take the latest and highest standards of scientific and professional in quality and...
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...Parents are universally viewed as the one’s that shower their children with affection and are looked to for support during critical times. At a young age, individuals tend to view their parents as role models and savor any opportunity they have with them. They crave for the smallest bit of attention and despise the mere presence of anyone else. However, this stage is outgrown to the point where people tend to feel ashamed whenever we see our parents in public. This idea is clearly transparent in Kiss and Tell by Alain de Botton. Botton illustrates how teens and young adults repel from being around their former idols, especially in public settings. Botton conveys his theme of growing up through the means of exemplifying the chagrin and humiliation individuals feel in the presence of their parents....
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...Alain Locke was a Harlem Renaissance writer who greatly influence the time period. He was able to use his writings to express how the Negro race felt, and how society could change to erase prejudice. Locke used his writing to convey how he felt and give suggestions for society, so different kinds of people could live together more easily. Locke felt as if the Negro race was creating a “New Negro” to better fit into the current society. Then the “Old Negro” was more of a myth and then actual men. Whites had made the “Old Negro” seem dastardly and animalistic. This would be why Locke felt it was a myth because Negroes were never like that, but whites made everyone believe that Negroes really were that bad. The whites distorted everyone’s view...
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...Within our society there are cartoonists, stand-up comics, comedians, writers, and television hosts that say things that other people would never dare to utter in public. The purpose of the humorists, according to Alain de Botton, is “to convey with impunity messages that might be dangerous or impossible to state directly.” In Alain de Botton’s book, Status Anxiety, he argues that these humorists serve a key function in our society. I believe this statement is true because humorists have played a role in history, allowed people to reap benefits from laughter, and confronted unmentionable issues. First, comedy has long played a role in our society. In Medieval Europe the court jesters made jokes. The jester’s jokes were thought to affect...
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...In chapter two, “Equality, Expectation, and Envy,” of Alain de Botton’s novel, “Status Anxiety,” Botton argues that even though the rise of western civilization had some benefits, it was also the cause of static anxiety, increasing anxiety about how one is perceived in society. Botton articulates that people feel that they require an ever expanding amount of superficial things to be satisfied and that without those things they feel inferior to the people they deem their equals. Botton addresses many concerns related to his observation, such as: why people suffer from status anxiety, how an individual overcomes society’s high expectations and achieves a high self-esteem, how does religion or a lack thereof tie into this, and what are media’s...
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...Alain de Bottoms Satus Anxiety argus that the use of humor is not only for intertanement purpose only,like cartoons.In this case it’s use to alleviate the stress of the speaker,when they are addressing something serious to their audience.which is something many people are’t capable of just stating or addressing the people directly. The use of humor for this purpose have existed since the time of Canterbury tales ,still prevalent in todays time.An example of the use of humor to help the function in society ,by reducing the pressure on a person when delivering a serious topic or event are Jonh Olivers Satire on televangelis,the Onion piece on magnasoles and lastly the millers tale fro Canterbury tales. In the show with jonh olivers satire on...
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...Prosperity in many aspects of human advancement have taken place in the past two thousand years, however, with gain there is loss and social anxiety has flourished as well according to Alain de Botton in his book, Status Anxiety (1991). In his speculation, the condition of an individual’s life, drab or pleasant, does not determine how they view their “wealth.” Instead, it is how we compare ourselves to certain other individuals that we choose, specifically and usually those that we grow up with. Botton argues that with the growth of media, wealth, and prosperity in a society comes the unfortunate social anxiety in the forms of inequality, envy, and the most unforgiving of all, expectation. Shown throughout history, it is apparent that humans will view their living conditions as normal, despite how drab or unpleasant they might be, if peers that they grew up with are in similar conditions. In his argument, Botton denotes this group as our “reference group.” How we define wealth and prosperity may not always be in the form of currency. It...
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...Quant Investments “It had not been a particularly good year for Quant Investments”, mused Alain over his pate de foie gras and champagne. It was lunchtime on Christmas Eve, and his three colleagues Belén, Carlos and Dawood had already set off on holiday to far-off, exotic locations. The four of them had worked as a close team of analysts for the past 15 months since graduating as MBAs, and Alain realised that their performances had not come up to expectations. Alain feared that all four may lose their jobs shortly. At this moment of low spirits, Xavier, one of the senior partners whom Alain had always found remarkably candid, joined him for lunch. “Well, Alain, I’m sure you have heard rumours about the board meeting this morning. The future of the four of you was discussed and a decision was taken to release one of you. I can’t tell you who - the Chairman is writing to you all immediately. However, I can say that we were unable to make the decision on merit, so we made it at random. The Chairman took one of four cards, each of which had one of your names on the back!” “So, I have a one in four chance of being out of work after Christmas”, said Alain. He felt relieved, as he had thought the odds might be worse. “But of course you know definitely who it is”, he added. Alain felt he could leach rather more out of the partner. “Since we both know that at least two out of Belén, Carlos or Dawood will definitely have a job here next year, if you tell me the name of...
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...James W. Taylor February 2012 Imperial College EMBA 2012 Quantitative Methods Individual Assignment This assignment consists of two parts. Part A is worth 50% of the marks, and Part B is worth the remaining 50%. Your report for the two parts should consist of no more than 1,500 words. Part A – Blanket Systems Blanket Systems is developing and testing a new computer workstation, OB1, which it will introduce to the market in the next 6 months. OB1 will be sold under a three-year warranty covering parts and labour. The company has decided to subcontract the service support for the warranty and has entered negotiations about the support contract with Fixit Inc. Fixit has proposed two different pricing schemes for the subcontract. The first involves the payment of a fixed fee of $1,000,000 and the second a variable fee of $250 per workstation sold, subject to a minimum fee of $350,000. Under both schemes, the payment will be made one year after the introduction of the workstation to the market at which point the product will be replaced by newer models not covered by the warranty service subcontract. At the moment, there is uncertainty about the sales potential of the new workstation. Sales of OB1 are expected to come from two sources: (i) the successful closure by senior management of a major purchase of 2000 units by a long standing customer, (ii) the efforts of regional sales offices. Given the state of the negotiations with the long-standing customer, the current estimate of...
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...follow any single person. Something draws people in and once in these people can be inspired to do things. Some people, like Charles Manson, drew in followers and inspired them to murder; while some people, like Gandhi, drew in followers and inspired them to be better people. (Rosenberg, Charles Manson) (Rosenberg, Gandhi-Biography of Mahatma Gandhi) Manson and Gandhi had certain characteristics that drew people to them in the first place. These may have included maturity, communication skills, humility, and substance. Other traits include not just leading but being liked, care for others before you care for yourself, celebrate life and inspire enthusiasm, see the best in people and channel it, deal in hope and spread the goodies (Alain, 2011). Charismatic leaders do not necessarily have all of these traits but these would be what to look for when choosing a charismatic leader. Charismatic leaders need to be mature. This does not refer to age. This maturity is a buildup of wisdom over years through experience. This wisdom can be in business it can be in whatever are the person excels. Manson new how to draw in women and used that knowledge to start a cult. Communication is a key characteristic. Leaders must be able to motivate their followers and share information and details. This comes through great communication skills. Knowing how to speak to a group and how to make difficult information easy to understand allows a leader’s followers to know what to do...
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...INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES GHAZIABAD R E V I S E D – N O T I C E IMPORTANT: 30 Hours Module on International Business by Prof. Alain Boge, Professor of France Special Time Table from September 14-18, 2015 PGDM STUDENTS TERM – I (2015-17) September 09, 2015 We are happy to share with you all that MS Ghaziabad has signed an MOU with Prof. Alain Boge, Professor from France (Formerly Worked with French Universities Such as Lyon 3 University, Catholic University, Lille 1 University etc.) to teach the full 30 hours module of International Business (IB) for PGDM 1st year students as per the following schedule: DAY |Section |Venue |I |II | |III |IV |V | | | | |9:30AM-10:45 AM |10:45AM-1:00 PM |1:00-1:40 PM |1:45PM-3:45 PM |3:45PM-4:45 PM |4:45PM-5:45 PM | |September 14, 2015 Monday |A |12 |OB-A |30 Hours Module on International Business by Prof. Alain Boge, Professor from France (All Five Sections) Venue: (Auditorium) |LUNCH |30 Hours Module on International Business by Prof. Alain Boge, Professor from France (All Five Sections) Venue: (Auditorium) |OB-B |PPSP-I-A | | |B |13 |QTM-I-A | | | |ME-B |PPSP-I-B | | |C |14 |ITM-B (Lab-V) | | | |ME-A |MM-I | | |D |16 |FAM-A | | | |ITM-A |ITM-B (Lab-V) | | |E |17 |ME-B | | | |QTM-I-B |MC | |September 15, 2015 Tuesday |A |12 |MM-I | | | |QTM-I-B |OB-B | | |B |13 |OB-B | | | |MM-I |FAM-B | | |C |14 |QTM-I-A | | | |MS |QTM-I-B | | |D |16 |FAM-B | | | |ME-A |ITM-B (Lab-V) | | |E |17 |ITM-B (Lab-V) | | | |ITM-A |ME-A | |September...
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