...Explain at least four of the ways in which More tries to reduce the work load for individuals in Utopia. What did he want Utopians to do in their spare time? Is More’s attitude about labor the same as Marx’s? Why or why not? When comparing Utopia by Sir Thomas More and The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it is clearly noticeable that both take on different extremes while discussing common issues. For instance, Thomas More believes that idleness is unnecessary and that the workload shouldn’t be as burdensome, therefore he finds a way to lessen the workload by lessening the work hours for each day, creating gender specific occupations, emphasizing the importance of reason and intellectual exploration, and lastly through strategic punishment. Karl Marx on the other hand, believes that division of labor leads to the alienation of mankind. Both Utopia and The Communist Manifesto provide insight on a whirlwind of different beliefs all to come to the conclusion that the working class should not suffer. In Utopia people are not forced to work for unreasonable hours each day. The Utopian day is broken into twenty-four hours; Utopians only work for six hours per day (three before lunch and three after). Utopians also sleep on average about eight hours a day. This leaves them with a great deal of free time, which they are free to do with as they will, as long as they do not spend it in idleness. Most people use their free time to engage in intellectual...
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...specific role in the play. But, the character who has played the most various roles and has conveyed the story was "The Common Man". The main character in the play, who was the most supreme and honest man, was Sir Thomas More. Basically, this story takes place in England, and at that time King Henry had a very prestigious place and ruled England. Although the king wanted to put an end to his marriage to lady Catharine, the queen of England, Thomas more, who was supposed to support the king, disagreed with what the King has been planning for. The King did what it takes to win the divorce case against Lady Catharine, but during his attempt, he has changed the holly Catholic Church's rules gradually. After going through many discussions and arguments about the rejection of Thomas More's disagreement of the King's divorce, Sir Thomas was executed for treason against the England's court. Consequently, I have decided, as a reader of this pla,y to pick the discussion between the (Jailer, More, Alice, more's wife, and Margret, More's daughter) in the Act Two of the play on pages...
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...This is a 1960 movie played by Robert Bolt and it’s based on the life of Sir Thomas More. It’s noteworthy that an earlier form of the film had been written for BBC radio in the year 1954 and subsequently, a one hour version of the film was produced in 1957. These early versions of the film were starring Bernard Hepton. However, based on Robert Bolt’s success in earlier films, he finally took over this role from Bernard Hepton. The official version of the film was first performed in London during the opening of Globe theatre after which it found its way to other places such as Broadway. The film then had a successful run spanning over one year and its worth commending that it was commercially viable. Apart from making economic returns to the...
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...Fret no more, your official cool book solution is here! Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini is a book about a high school senior named Jeremy Heere, who goes to school at Middle Borough High School. Middleborough is that type of school where everyone is separated by cool or complete dork. Jeremy was never really able to “fit in” with his peers and was much rather seen as one of the dorks. Upon realization of this, Jeremy tries to find a solution until Rich, one of the cooler kids, approaches him with his answers to his quest. A SQUIP, a drug-like computer that travels through your blood and into your brain and tells you what to do, is presented to Jeremy. Jeremey, of course, buys one and his Squip does it’s job for the most part. While he thinks...
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...Published in 1516, Sir Thomas More’s Utopia drew attention to many of the issues contemporary European society faced at that time. While Utopia is considered a socio-political satire, there is little humor to be found in the problems of their day. Thomas More drew attention to the unfair socio-economic system, the egocentric kings and distrust in technology. Sadly, five hundred years later, the modern world still faces these same issues. Turn CNN on any time of the day and you will hear a multitude of examples. Currently, the United States faces an unfair socio-economic system that gives privilege and opportunity to wealthy citizens, while repressing minorities and the poor. The issues wealthy citizens face are represented fully and addressed...
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...Utopia, as described by Thomas More, is a perfect society because they had a diverse religion, a low crime rate, and an established government. More expresses how Utopia had a very diverse and accepting religion. Everyone could believe in almost anything they wanted. More explained how “Many religions were practiced in Utopia, from worship of the sun or moon to a belief in one God.” (More, Paragraph 9) Overall, most religious beliefs were tolerated. This allowed Utopians to have freedom when it came to religion. Utopia was also shown to have a low crime rate. “Crime was also rare in Utopia because there was no incentive to steal in that all possessions belonged to everyone anyway.” (More, Paragraph 7) Since materials were shared among the...
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...The meaning of Utopia is “A visionary system of political or social perfection”. Sir Thomas More's book is just that, a perfect society where everyone does their part, everyone has a say in politics. They have their families, which are no more than 16 persons, no less then 10, having a master and mistress of each household, over 30 families there is a magistrate. There are 54 cities on utopia, each having approximately 6,000 families each, for that is the number they strive to keep, should a disaster or plague occur, they send families to help keep that number, though if it effects other towns to much, they will abandon it. Utopias main thing is agriculture, every family must learn how to do it, every year a family is sent to a farm house that holds forty men and forty woman, they must farm for two years, every year 20 of these people leave to live in town while 20 more move to the country farm, the people who have been there a year must teach these to farm, so the system goes, families get the taste of both farming life and city life....
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...while those elements are very important. Are they more effective at affecting the behavior of some actors more than others? Norms can effect the behavior of actors in different ways. Norms can affect an actor indirectly via an other actor, the example of Women's suffrage demonstrate so, indeed during the early 1900s this change in behavior become really important in the United States while other states were demanding the same change at home, the fact that it became really important in the US helped to influence the change in those other states and then became an international norm. Such domestic changes like the Women's suffrage which become international norms led to cause other changes regarding humanitarian rights (rights to life, food, shelter etc). One norm that can hardly effect the behavior of one actor can still do so by affecting the behavior of other actors that will next influence the first one to make this change in its behavior. An other example is the practice of Female Genital Cutting (FGC) in India. In fact if a family does not perform FGC to their daughter in a community (a tribe for example) where that is normally the case, where it is the norm, their daughter risks to be marginalized and ostracized by her peers but she also might never be able to get married. Social norms not only dictate the behaviors to adopt but also condemn deviation from it. Expectations from the group and social pressure are a much more powerful tool to affect the behavior of some actors...
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...lives by. If there were no standards, then society would not be able to be maintained correctly. People have freedoms and liberty, but they know their limits. To have these social norms help us to live comfortably in a society together. I decided to break the norm by standing up the whole time in my history class, even though there were plenty of seats available. First of all I discussed it with my teacher, so he would understand what I was doing. Except I told him that I did not want anyone knowing about it. I entered the classroom, then sat my things at my desk, and then stood up with my notebook and pen. When the teacher came into the room and put up our notes to copy, I started writing. Which, by the way, was very difficult. More students began entering the classroom, their responses to what I was doing at first, were just weird looks. I did not mind the looks, because I was laughing on the inside. It seemed to blow the students minds because I was standing up. It was amazing to me that I was doing just a little thing out of the normal routine, and everyone acted as if I were doing something wrong. After about 10 minutes into class, I started hearing little whispers between the students. They were asking each other what I was doing. I actually done a lot better than I thought that I would be able to do, because when the students started...
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...This film explores the concepts of the complexities of legal ethics and grey areas. There were many situations in this film that displayed “grey area cases”. The first example was when Remmy Bressant admitted to planting evidence. Though this is legally wrong, morally, he did what he thought was the best for the child. He said that he only did it because he wanted to give the child another chance at life. Another situation that dealt with legal ethics was when Patrick shot and killed the man who molested Johnny. Obviously, you cannot kill someone who raises both of their arms. However, morally, he did what he wanted to. Morally, he thought that he deserved to die. And finally, the most “grey” of all situations was when Lieutenant Doyle and Remmy Bressant teamed up together. Doyle kidnapped a child. It is against the law to kidnap a child. Just because morally, it may have been the best for Amanda, it does not make it legal. I think that there is a very fine line between always adhering to the rules and going with our morals. The thing is that, our moral are somewhat based on the rules set by society. We form our morals based off societal norms thus, most of the time, by adhering to your morals, you are also adhering to the laws. However, we can see that in some cases this is not true. Therefore, I believe that you should adhere to the rules. Everyone’s morals are different. So, if everyone were to follow their morals over the law, it would all become too chaotic. People would...
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...Norms are the behaviors that are expected out of us depending on the society that we live in. The norms that we have learned about this year in class can be on different levels of importance and they are also situational. There are many different types of norms and they all mean different things. The two main norms I will be focusing on today with my acts of deviance will be Folkways and More. Folkways are minor rules that change from what group of people you are with and there really isn’t much of a punishment for them. The other norm, More, is a way more important and also cares a severe punishment for breaking them. There will be two act of deviance that I will be discussing today that I performed to see if it changed any of the other people I was around to break these norms. The first act of deviance will be to kneel in an elevator. I choose this because of the video we watched in class when the people stood backwards in the elevator and everyone that got into the elevator turned around as well. I want to see if it still works today and if it works with more people or just with a single person. I expect it to probably not work in today’s society and people to just look at me and my...
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...of people. The dictionary definition of “right” is something that is “morally or socially correct or acceptable,” but there is a conflict that arises between the two factors of the word. General morality may derive from a universal set of principles, while social mores are laws and standards that are relative to groups of people. This conflicting definition enables the meaning of “right” to be ambiguous. Thus, an act can be morally wrong, but socially right, or vice versa. The ambiguity of justice has influenced philosophers such as Sophocles to explore the true definition of justice by writing tragedies such as Antigone, where a clash between the morally correct and the socially correct is purposefully staged to spark questions on the true meaning of justice, morality, and ethics. Sophocles’ writing can also be analyzed through the ideas of other philosophers such as Confucius and Nagel in order to see how the overarching ideas of philosophers from different cultures and eras converge to challenge the same ideas. Ultimately, through Antigone, I want to try to show that the definition of right and wrong can be more focused if one eliminates or challenges law and takes the human natural intuition to act morally into more...
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...Norms are based on your behavior. Norms can be put into many groups. Informal norms are everyday behavior. They aren’t written down and can be as common as saying “good morning” and washing your hands or saying a prayer before you eat. Formal norms are written down into a law, which, if broken you will face a punishment. Examples of formal norms are do not steal from a store or do not speed. We enforce norms by sanctions. Sanctions can be positive or negative. Positive sanctions could be as simple as smiling at somebody or as formal as receiving a raise. Negative sanctions could be a frown or going to prison. Society adapts the norms to the world around them. For example, people in Texas don’t need to wear the same winter apparel as people in Colorado. Norms are important in society because they regulate our everyday life. Our days are based on norms. I broke the norm of how I greet my friends every day. I did it by simply walking up to my friends, shaking their hand and saying, “Hey, How’s it going?” This took place on future freshmen day, which was on September 29, 2017. This took place at Saxony Lutheran High School in the science and math hallway. Most people who was around was my friends and other students at my school that I didn’t know. People were reacting by looking at their friends and laughing. They would ask me why I was doing this. They would give their friends a weird look. They would respond to my question, but hesitate before answering. Despite the...
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...Term Paper The novel ‘joys of motherhood’ has brought different questions to light, with its clever plot of flash back on flash back and the clear illustration of themes and morals in the novel. The novel is said to be the best of the author, Buchi Emecheta’s collection. Nnu ego, the main character of the novel shows us the unfamiliar side where the relationship of females to motherhood, and how our cultural norms provide basics for judgement by humans. The novel rejects the feminist codes normally associated with motherhood. In the world we live in, we come across different societal cultures and norms, in this very essay we discuss the negative aspects of women adhering to societal norms and how women all round the world are likely to end up like Nnu Ego. Nigeria is a larger country with different cultures where some believe the first born child must be a girl, while others also believe in sending off their female children as soon as their ready for marriage. Such actives have been responsible for many societal problems faced in Nigeria. The novel by Buchi Emecheta shows us the violence that our culture causes makes people to develop some kind of violence against people who do not follow cultural norms, a good example was when it was time for Agunwa to be buried, Nwokocha Agbadis eldest wife who is said to have died due to the unpleasant scene of her husband and Ona. It’s a culture in their land that the personal slaves of Agunwa be buried with her as she will need them...
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...The social norm I chose to violate was to sit in an empty chair at an otherwise occupied table. I chose a table occupied by three people in a coffee shop in Portland, Oregon. There was not much of a reaction to the social norm violation I committed. The people at the table just looked at me for a moment. After an awkward moment of silence the people at the table said hello and made small talk with me. They were very friendly and easy going. They did not seem to mind that I sat at their table uninvited. After speaking for a few minutes I explained to them that this was a psychology assignment and let them read the assignment. The people at the table were somewhat confused as to why such a thing would be assigned by a college professor. They explained that they felt it was inappropriate for a teacher to ask students to put themselves into any of the listed situations. All the people stated they were not offended by someone actually doing these things. They were bothered that students were required to violate any of the “so-called social norms on the list”. I found my actions to be rude and inconsiderate. I would not like it if someone came over and sat at my table uninvited. Maybe someone wants to have a private conversation with the others at the table. Maybe someone is on a date and wants to be alone. Maybe the people at the table are criminals. Maybe the people do not care if someone sits at their table uninvited. The bottom line is that for me it was uncomfortable...
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