...Vincent Lim Professor Lloyd HISA 125E 5 June 2013 Final Part 2 Marge Piercy’s novel, Woman on the Edge of Time came to be described as a feminist utopia, where it doubts the society’s inability in achieving such utopia. In such utopia, Piercy alludes that gender roles have been eliminated, along with the racial and social tensions that plagued the 70’s in America. In Piercy’s novel, Connie Ramos serves a woman in her thirties, who has been declared clinically insane and turns to the utopia future as an escape. As she spends more time in the future, she is able to conceptualize a society of: equal inequalities, elimination of corruption within a societal state and the fear of homophobia of the time that existed in the United States. As a feminist activist during the 70s, Betty Friedan served as a strong leading figure for the women’s movement in the United States and is recognition for sparking the second wave of American feminism during the 20th century. Friedan would be content of what Piercy conveys in the novel about the equal inequalities that exist within the utopia society. Because of this she is able to explore the ideas of a women in finding a realization beyond the traditional role. As a writer for the feminist and women’s rights, Friedan took part in advancing women’s rights that recognized the women’s inequality as being a typical housewife that has a husband. This led her to the develop the National Organization for Women that aspired to bring the women...
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...William Saffold Professor Caine Writing 106 Utopia/Dystopia 20 February 2012 It’s Not Worth It It is not difficult to see what it takes to have a Utopian Society. George Saunders’s world in “The Semplica-Girl Dairies” was in no way a Utopia. There was nothing but chaos from beginning to end and in all facets. However much the characters in the story tried to make everything perfect it never seemed to really work. Contrarily Forster’s “The Machine Stops” began as a Utopia and fell apart. After reading both stories, and looking at specific examples from “The Machine Stops”, I have come to the conclusion that in order to reach a true utopian society it is more important for everyone to be nourished and content with what they have rather than give everyone the opportunity to make themselves better. However, I believe that pursuing a utopia would be destructive to humanity. It would eradicate everything we know as beauty in our world. Forster grew up in this environment of working to better yourself. He was born around the beginning of the industrial revolution when trains and automobiles were blossoming. I would presume that this is when, as an intellectual, he foresaw humanity being consumed in technology. With his story he was trying to show us that relying on technology and not doing enough for ourselves can be disastrous. However, I do believe that he created a utopia. This was a typical room in Forster’s tunnels. “Imagine, if you can, a small room...
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...Once upon a time there was a village of people. They lived in a utopia, everything and everyone were the same everyday, forever. Within that village lived four young girls who really wanted a change. Their names where Autumn, Summer, Spring, and Winter. One day they decide they couldn't except that everything was going to be the same for the rest of their lives, so they decided to set out on a quest to find a new change. A couple of days into their journey they were beginning to be discouraged. That is when they ran into a fairy who sent from the clouds to grant the girls their wish. The girls didn't know exactly what they were going to wish for. Eventually the fairy told them that she would show them what they truly wanted. She allowed each...
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...In Balaka Basu’s, The Pleasure of Being Sorted in Veronica Roth’s Divergent, Basu states, “Whatever else they may do, all heroes of young adult fiction- and by extension, their readers- are eventually asked to consider the two great questions of adolescence; ‘Who am I now? And who do I want to be when I grow up?’ As they do so, they inevitably embark upon a quest for identity, an apparently innocuous pursuit that lies at the very core of the genre.” (The Pleasure 19) In each of the three books, the reader can see individual or groups of young adults having to unite to achieve a certain goal. In class Professor Walker discussed how rebellious many young adults become as they reach their mid-teens and twenties. Becoming rebellious as a young adult is often seen by our parents as a reckless, impulsive eruption of emotions from within that allow rash decisions to be made. However, in each of the young adult, dystopian novels being reviewed, the main characters are considered rebellious by the law makers and rulers even though they are pushing for change in their unjust society. This essay will discuss three dystopian young adult novels, Divergent, The Hunger Games and Unwind and how each of them reflects on possible futures for humanity and the way young people are called to respond to the changes in the worlds they live in. Before getting started with the novels themselves, getting a brief overview of dystopian societies in Young Adult fiction is necessary. In, Contemporary Dystopian...
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...Trent Thompson English 201 Professor Johnson 23 February 2010 “Troubles are just the shadow in a beautiful picture.” “CANDIDE” by Francois-Marie Aroused De Voltaire When following the rules of conformity one leads to or has led to the presentation of needing to follow the leader, when within reality, the truth of our knowledge of the world, lies within in us. Due to the Neoclassicism’s boundaries of order which was imposed upon this societal emergence of satirical views of reality (reality being a truth between two people or possibly more), satire rose up out of the regulatory orders of the Renaissances period leading into the Enlightenments period of time. After the Renaissance, society had the mindset or mindful imaginations produced by great works like the Shakespearian views of the world. Neoclassicism also emerged against the tasteful delights of those “free thinkers,” that could engulf the magnitudes of Michelangelo’s masterful details, emotions, and dialects that art if looked upon on a grander scale inevitably reflects or reflected life. In reality or in the personal beliefs of exposures art gives us, it introduces for us the astonishing capacities to wonder, thus allowing masterful paintings in our heads as well. This analogy would be the insertions or insert of a philosophical thought process. You can or could call it, “The Art of the Brain.” Philosophy is a general analysis of knowledge and thought that depicts reason and values...
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...The Giver vs. Pleasantville Comparative Essay In both works, The Giver and Pleasantville, leaders symbolize control and elsewhere represent new beginnings. Leaders symbolize control. The first example I have for Pleasantville is the time when the Mayor does not allow Bud to speak and defend himself at his trial. wAfter art wreaked havoc and chaos across Pleasantville, Bud and Mr. Johnson decided to paint another painting across the jail walls. At their trial, the judge was the mayor. During the trial, the mayor himselfs asks Bud if there was anything that he wanted to say to defend himself. Bud said "yes," and began speaking. The mayor immediately cut him off because the mayor wasn't hearing what he wanted to. This shows that the Mayor is a...
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...”Welcome to the monkey house” by Kurt Vonnegut The story takes place in the not-so-distant future in an overpopulated world, with an over dominating government. There are way to few jobs and people are forced to take a special medicine, which make them feel numb from the waist down and not feel attracted to sex nor the other gender. The main character is a criminal mastermind named Billy the Poet, whose quest is to deflower the hostesses. The hostesses are women who help the citizens with committing suicide. The government are advertising suicide because of the world’s overpopulation. Billy the Poet kidnaps one of the hostesses named Nancy McLuhan, and deflowers her without abusing her in any way. At last Billy lets her go with a changed mind and a bottle of regular birth control pills. “Welcome to the monkey house” are from a novel collection by Kurt Vonnegut. The main character is, Billy the Poet. He is described as very dangerous and very wanted by the government, but he’s a good person who only wants the best for other people. Billy the Poet does not take his medication given by the government and he wants to let women off the medication too. Every women whose seen Billy and gotten deflowered by him, lies to the government to protect Billy. He is a rebel who fights against the government and fights for freedom of mankind. The hostesses, taken as prisoner by Billy, name is Nancy McLuhan and works at the Ethical Suicide Service. She’s a strong and wilful woman....
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...anomie - social instability, alienation and a sense of purposelessness cause by a steady erosion of standards and values. apodictic truth - an imaginary concept of truth in which it is supposed that we know something with absolute certainty. To be an apodictic truth there must be no possibility of mistake commodification - the subordination of public and private realms to the logic of capitalism. In other words, things (e.g., friendship, women) are valued for their commercial value. With commodification aspects of our lives that are culturally conditioned take on the mythology of being "natural." critical reading - to read in a way that looks for fallacies and defects in the writing. It is to be contrasted with "reading generously." This distinction between generous and critical reading is analogous to a parallel distinction between generous and critical listening. critical theory - Although the term is sometimes used more broadly, in most contexts it refers to the school of thought represented by the "Frankfurt School," which is a school of thought that combines psychoanalysis and Marxism. deconstruction - A term that, for all practical purposes, was introduced in the literature by Derrida. It means to undermine the conceptual order imposed by a concept that has captivated our imaginations and ways of seeing things. (See Shawver, 1996) see "deconstruction quilt" discourse - sometimes this term refers to any kind of talk, but often it refers to particular unified...
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...wanted to serve with him. These phases affect everyone at some point in their lives. Whether it causes someone to take an iconoclastic stand against a certain more or folkway or if it enables a person to give serious thought to what life could mean, archetypes enable any protagonist in any story to take a journey to find the treasure of their true self. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Gawain was willing to take on the heroic quest and say yes to himself and, in doing so, became more fully alive and more effective to the knightly community and, inadvertently, the literary world. The purpose of the heroic quest is to find the gift retrieved from the journey and give the gift to help transform the kingdom, and in the process, the hero himself. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, three archetypes are present that displays the qualities of a heroic quest that leads Gawain to become a true knight in shining armor. The Innocent Hero Archetype, the Seeker Archetype, and the Lover Archetype forms the mold that Sir Gawain conforms to that makes him fulfill the quest and earn the honor of a literary classic. The Innocent Hero Archetype is present when describing how Gawain acts and thinks during his journey. It is characterized by the gifts of trust, optimism, and loyalty (Pearson 71). Heroes that are innocent usually are prone to trust life, themselves and other people. It enables them to keep their faith in their...
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...Assignment 4 Valerie Rountree Walden University Management in Human and Social Development - MGMT 8010 June 28, 2014 Understanding Burrhus Frederic Skinner B. F. Skinner was one of the most influential of American psychologists. A radical behaviorist, he developed the theory of operant conditioning, the idea that behavior is determined by its consequences, be they reinforcements or punishments, which make it more or unlikely that the behavior will be repeated again, (NNDB, 2014). His principles are still incorporated within treatments of phobias, addictive behaviors, and in the enhancement of classroom performance as well as in computer-based self-instruction, (NNDB, 2014). Skinner believed that the only scientific approach to psychology was one that studied behaviors, not internal (subjective) mental processes, (NNDB, 2014). He denied the existence of a mind as a thing separate from the body, but he did not deny the existence of thoughts, which he regarded simply as private behaviors to be analyzed according to the same principle as publicly observed behaviors, (NNDB, 2014). According to Michael (2013) Burrhus Frederic Skinner is very famous for developing his own philosophical studies around animal and human behavior. Once I had realized that this Theorist had caught my attention, I really became very excited about this research project so I started finding information about the man called B.F. Skinner, (NNDB, 2014). I am not sure if you’ve heard...
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...of women, and any contemporary issues of the time. The criticisms show that Voitaire did not see the era that he lived in as the best possible world, but one that is ruled by chance and human cruelty lived. To him there is no “perfect” society. Candide is about the illegitimate nephew of a German nephew, Candide, who is expelled from the baron’s castle when he is caught kissing the Baron’s daughter, Cunégonde. He grew up in the Baron’s castle under the watch of a scholar named Pangloss. Pangloss main teaching to Candide is to see the world they live in as the best possible world and to see the optimism even in the darkest of situations. The book highlights what happens after Candide is expelled from the baron’s castle. This includes his quest to marry the baron’s daughter. Many dark events take place in Candide’s story; most of them are very plausible events so in this we see how Pangloss’s teachings are challenged with Candide’s events in his life. In the end, Candide is reunited with all of those he had been close with, where they cultivated their garden of goodness. And found this to be the real purpose in life. In the beginning of the novel, when Candide still lives in the Baron’s castle we learn that he...
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...History 1302 November, 13, 2013 Thesis statement: during the gilded age there were created several documents that expressed the way the different social groups were thinking and feeling with the changes in the society. There is no doubt the gilded age was a key historic moment in the developing of the United States of America to become the place that now we know, during this period the economy growth thanks to the combination of certain factors such as the appearance of great businessman who built the corporations that were the bases of the economy and a huge improvement in the technology. This historic moment set the path to became into the society that now we are. The assembly line together with the mass production and was established during this time. It also was a time of corruption one of the most important things that this time gave to the world is the institution of monopolies. Henry Demarest wrote an article called “wealth against commonwealth” in 1894 This article was written with the intention of showing what was really happening in the world of the monopolies during the gilded age. The author probably was motivated by what he was watching; the inequality between the rich and the poor, too many were poor and just a few were extremely rich. He described the wealth as some kind of infection, He thought that we were losing the liberty that we earned by falling into corruption trying to be wealth. Demarest mentioned that...
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...4 March: City of God – Utopian Reader – include a little bit on it – 22 volumes in all. Christianity – Augustine – classicly trained greek scholar. City in north Africa. Story like apostle Paul – orginially a person who persecuted Christians – north African wealth family from – found enlightenment in Christianity. Once he joined became one of the early scholars trained in greek – regulized Christian theology. Influence on western world – top four or five who influenced. Confessions and City of God his writings…look up! What’s the purpose of improving human society – complex – why do it? Can human society be made better? Why bother, what is the point, justification? Takes effort, misery involved, change, unknowns, takes energy, takes risks. HAPPINESS – justification for improving society. What do you have to have to be happy? What is happiness – PHI 101 – happiness according to whom? Lack of misery; literally the elimination of misery. Secondly, food – gives pleasure – Happiness is lack of human misery and maximizing /pleasure and happiness. Bliss 24/7 – hedonism Epicureanism – eliminating misery and maximizing happiness. The justification of utopianism = why did plato want the republic? Justisifcation for improving human society among the Greeks? Poor always poor, always unhappy, death claims everyone - it is rational to maximize pleasure and eliminate misery. Do eternally accouding to plato. Opinions – 1. Relativism is a retreat in the 20th century. Can’t...
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...Research Essay The articles “The Clash of Civilizations”, “Jihad vs. McWorld”, “The Coming of Anarchy”, “The Summoning”, “The End of Progressivism”, and “The Myth of Global Ethnic Conflict” all exercise ideas and hypothesis that relate to present day world problems. The authors of these articles have strong beliefs about issues that could potentially lead to an apocalyptic future plagued with war. Throughout this paper I will talk about the main ideas of each article, compare and contrast the articles, and discuss my opinion about the article. In the article “The Clash of Civilizations”, Samuel P. Huntington believes that the fundamental source of conflict in the future will be a conflict on culture. Huntington strongly believes that 8 basic civilizations will clash in the future. These civilizations are Western, Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu, Slavic Orthodox, Latin American, and possibly African. Huntington defines a civilization as the highest cultural grouping of people and the broadest level of cultural identity people have short of what distinguishes them from other species. Civilizations can be seen as a cultural entity with commonalities in language, history, religion, customs, institutions, and may contain several nation states. Huntington believes these conflicts will occur because the world is becoming a smaller place, there is a rapid growth of civilization-consciousness, cultural characteristics and differences are less mutable and less easily compromised...
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...Organizational Behavior, 15e (Robbins/Judge) Chapter 14 Conflict and Negotiation 1) ________ is defined as a process that begins when one party perceives another party has or is about to negatively affect something the first party cares about. A) Problem solving B) Assessment C) Conflict D) Negotiation E) Collective bargaining Answer: C 2) Conservationists have had a perpetual conflict with the government of the United States over the fast and rampant depletion of the earth's natural resources. They argue that the United States must reduce its consumption level significantly to rectify this problem. Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conservationists' argument? A) The United States has been conserving forests for several years. B) Most countries have not taken any measures to reduce their consumption levels of natural resources. C) There are several countries that have more requirements for resources than the United States. D) The United States accounts for one-third of the total world resource consumption. E) New resource deposits are constantly being discovered. Answer: D 3) According to the traditional view of conflict, all conflict is ________. A) harmful and must be avoided B) natural and helps generate discussion C) necessary and improves creativity of a group D) healthy and improves productivity E) rational and cannot be avoided Answer: A 4) According to the ________ view of conflict, conflict can be a positive force in a group and some...
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