...MICHEL FOUCAULT & THE SHIP OF FOOLS TERM PAPER - WESTERN PHILOSOPHY Submitted by, Meera M Panicker 1st yr Integrated MA Introduction When I started reading Foucault’s madness and Civilization, i had no idea about what i was going to do for the term paper. I was just fascinated by how his ideas on all of it, madness and normality sounded. When i started reading, it was at first not easy to understand, but slowly i started understanding little by little. Foucaults works have little reiews from the west and more reviews from the French. The French had cut and dissected the book in no way the western world has, and this actually made reading harder because there were very little available on the subject. So, i have relied on more of a personal understanding of what i have read. The narrenschiff or the ship of fools, like it had fascinated Foucault also fascinated me. I was fascinated by how renaissance exalted madness and gloricised it in its artworks, but how event then it was excluded at the same time....
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...“Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention” (Paolini). Thomas Paine was born January 29th 1737 in England. He was considered a Quaker. “In 1774, he met Benjamin Franklin in London, who advised him to emigrate to America, giving him letters of recommendation” (Humanities commuting). Paine had entered Philadelphia where he felt tension because of the Boston Tea Party. Thomas agreed on people revolting against the government who requires to tax them. He thought the America did not need to be dependent with England. Paine realized that there needed to be a separation of colonies. On June 10th 1176 pain had a lot of ideas about independence...
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...A reflection on the powerlessness of the individual in modern Russian society through the film “Durak” (The Fool) INTRODUCTION “You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.” Vladimir Putin I grew up on American movies built around stories portraying an underdog protagonist (ex. Erin Brockovich) who against all odds through hardship and danger manages to beat all sources of antagonism, fight injustice, save the day, and ride off into the sunset with cash and a high sense of self-achievement, reaching a full transformation circle in his/her character development. In contrast, after watching “The Fool” by Yuri Bykov, and “Leviathan” by Andrey Zvyagintsev I couldn't help but noticing the exact opposite. Namely, the stories revolve around an underdog protagonist, who in a toxically decaying environment, never seem to change or learn anything while battling against either corruption, injustice or both, ending up with the protagonist being ruined in every way imaginable, losing practically everything including his family and hope, his efforts ridiculed, and he himself severely physically punished. The two protagonists are of course very different, however, one needs to be reminded that behind every movie script there is an individual writer with a goal of conveying a statement to his audience. In the film “the Fool” through Dima, the powerless protagonist, the writer/director describes a society that is deeply in decay, where...
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...safeguard assets from employee theft, robbery and unauthorized use, and enhance accuracy and reliability of it’s accounting records (Weygandt, Kimmel, & Kieso, 2008). Since major company’s such as WorldCom and Enron were able to commit such extreme measures of fraud, in 2002, Serbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was passed by congress to ensure company’s enacted internal controls and required them to maintain an adequate system of internal controls (Weygandt, Kimmel, & Kieso, 2008). The SOX requires that all companies must develop sound principles of control over financial reporting, continually verify that the controls are working, and an independent auditor must attest to the level of internal controls. There should be physical, mechanical, and electronic controls so that when jobs are segregated, there are more than one opportunity for a final verification of accuracy (Weygandt, Kimmel, & Kieso, 2008). In years prior to the SOX, the heads of companies did not pay very close attention to the many individual jobs that were necessary to maintain an accurate accounting system. When a business allows multiple people to manage the same duties, a larger margin of error is created (Weygandt, Kimmel, & Kieso, 2008). To correct this, a few principles of internal controls were created. Companies began to realize that controls are most effective when only one person is responsible for a Internal Controls 3 given task. For example, the till...
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...How Industrial revolutions have helped in the development of OB as a new science. Though human relationships have existed since time immemorial, the branch of knowledge dealing with them is relatively recent. Prior to the industrial revolution, people worked in small groups and had simple work relationships. They were, however, subjected to unhealthy working conditions and scarcity of resources, so they hardly had any job satisfaction. During the early stages of the industrial revolution, the conditions of workers showed no signs of improvement. But as increased industrial activity led to greater supply of goods, wages, working conditions, and level of job satisfaction gradually improved. The Industrial Revolution "When you could have the visual demonstration that, instead of a pecuniary lost, a well oriented attention to form the character and increase the commodities of those who are entirely at your service, will increase essentially your earnings, prosperity, and happiness, no reason, except those based on the ignorance of the own good, could in the future impede you to pay the greatest attention to the living machines you use; and by doing so you will impede an accumulation of the human misery, of which now is hard to have an adequate idea." Speech to factories' supervisors Robert Owen, 1813 As we have seen, already since beginnings of the mechanization there was people who got worried about the "living machines". In this speech for the managers of factories of that...
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...Recommendation Brief for an Internal Accountant Auditors are hired to look beyond the apparent and find the true underlying of an organization, either good or bad. Currently Customer XYZ has an out-of-control system and hiring an internal auditor can help to remedy the issue. Auditors are beneficial because they are subject matter experts on multiple levels. According to Louwers, Ramsay, Sinason, and Strawser (2007), auditors must not only have a substantial knowledge of accounting rules but also play the roles of business advisor, industry expert, and detective. The accounting aspect of the auditor position entails the individual being able to ensure the client records complex transitions correctly (Louwers et al. 2007). As the business advisor the auditor can help clients establish strong internal control within the organization (Louwers et al. 2007). As the industry expert the auditor can help ensure that employees and members of management understand the environment in which the organization is operating (Louwers et al. 2007). The detective piece means that the auditor is making sure that clients are not trying fool the auditors or others through fraudulent reporting (Louwers et al. 2007). When company XYZ is looking to hire an internal auditor a number of factors should be considered so that the right person for the job and organization is hired. Management within Company XYZ will want to closely examine the company’s culture and hire a person that will align with the culture...
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...Women in Greek Society Although modern historians focused on cultural advancements in Ancient Greece, the society remained traditional, in that males assumed a bigger role in most aspect. While men were able to get involved in politics, through a system called polis, women were only confined to oikos, in which they were expected to stay at home and watch their children. Although they had right to their property, this was only possible with the permission of the husband, whom they had to rely on heavily in order to carry out their restrictions, such as going outside. Also, older men married young females, which led the husbands to become overly controlling of their wives. Women and men were expected to live in this manner from early in life, which is shown by the fact that girls were heavily supervised while boys had relative freedom. However, although...
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...Persuasive Rough Draft Anthony Whitten Grantham University Problem’s with my job! The problem we are currently having is that we work in the receiving department, and we have a conveyor system. The way it works is that the product is received in on one end, and then it is shipped across to us by the conveyor system. This is problematic because the person(s) loading the belt on the other end refuse to wrap the product. The system twists and turns and comes up a shaky elevator and across another conveyor, and by the time the product gets to us it is leaning and sometimes product is falling or has fallen off the pallet. This makes the job harder and we like to consider ourselves quality employees, so this disturbs the employees that are responsible for taking product off the belt without damaging it. The belief is that if the product is received right it can be stored and thus shipped right, this includes damage as well. So if you receive it damaged of course you are going to have damaged product to ship. If the product is pulled from the pallet before it is received it doesn’t get charged to the company it is charged back to the shipper, so if the process starts right then you have less damages. Order selectors don’t pick damaged product, so it gets picked over and the employee’s that stock the pick location have to take it out and put it in a damaged product location. We have said something just recently in a meeting and it seems to have fallen on deaf...
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...Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. This links to Animal Farm because it is associated with socialism and revolution. He published a book called The Communist Manifesto. Animal farm is also centred around communism. He argued that class antagonisms under capitalism between the bourgeoisie and proletariat would eventuate in the working class' conquest of political power and eventually establish a classless society, communism, a society governed by a free association of producers. Joseph Stalin was the leader of the soviet union. Central to his program was the collectivization of agriculture, in which the government would redistribute the land by taking over the estates of the "kulaks", the wealthiest peasants. But the kulaks were essentially a figment of Marxist propaganda, which links to Animal Farm because the pigs use propaganda to brainwash the animals into following their point of view (which is also metaphorical for political views). Leon Trotsky was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. His titles link in with Animal Farm because it is all associated with politics, the Government, revolution, and hierarchy (relating to leaders.) Trotsky was a key figure in the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia, second only to Vladimir Lenin in the early stages of Soviet communist rule. But he lost out to Joseph Stalin in the...
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...and dismissal of his creativity, shown by the townspeople destroying his house and the glass artworks inside that Mr Van Gogh had spent many years perfecting without really appreciating it or even trying to protect it. The townspeople's attitudes against him is important due to the fact that it is a prominent theme in this work (and others of Marshall's such as The Fat Boy) as Marshall writes about the...
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...The world's major economies are drowning in debt--Europe, the U.S., Japan, China. We all know the U.S. has tried to save its drowning economy by bailing out the parasite which is dragging it to Davy Jones Locker--the banking/financial sector-- and by borrowing and squandering $6 trillion in new Federal debt and buying toxic debt with $2 trillion whisked into existance on the Federal Reserve's balance sheet. It has failed, of course, and the economy is once again slipping beneath the waves while Ben Bernanke and the politico lackeys join in a Keynesian-monetary cargo-cult chant: Humba-humba, bunga-bunga. Their hubris doesn't allow them to confess their magic has failed, and rather than let their power be wrenched away, they will let the flailing U.S. economy drown. Europe has managed to top this hubris-drenched cargo-cult policy--no mean feat. First, it has indebted itself to a breathtaking degree, on every level: sovereign, corporate and private: Germany, the mighty engine which is supposed to pull the $16 trillion drowning European economy out of the water, is as indebted as the flailing U.S. Second, the euro's handlers have already sunk staggering sums into hopelessly insolvent debtor nations, for example, Greece, which has 355 billion euros of outstanding sovereign debt and an economy with a GDP around 200 billion euros (though it's contracting so rapidly nobody can even guess the actual size). According to BusinessWeek, the E.U. (European Union), the ECB (European Central...
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...attractive opportunity being solving it, when PageRank algorithm were created by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. The new system works like this: there were created reliable searches through the amount of websites, which than link to a certain page, or otherwise «votes» to weight the relevance of the search result. * Another crucial factor is Google's orientation specifically on user. Customers were attracted by simplicity of interface – simple one-tone white search page and bright catchy logo. Moreover there were no ads or any content with editorial carater, which led to easy and fast search. * As it was said earlier, a huge accent was maid on delivering to customers the informaton they was really looking for. That means that Google didn't sell search result placement to any advetisers, and if Goodle did it, all the sponsored links were umbral to the keywords of a search, so users in any case found information that was somehow useful for them. * It was highly effective paid search that made Google very successful economically. Firstly «cost per impression» was adopted in 1999, which helped to earn independently of people clicking on an ad. After the successful experience they turned to “cost per click”, which helped to do the ratio of “cost per click” and “expected click through rate”, to make certain that users during the search get relevant information. Trying to give customers exactly what they need – rapid search and relevant useful information, they managed to maximize...
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...……….………...…… 7 4. Comedy…………………………………………………………………………… 8 4.1 British Comedy………………………………………………..………………..… 9 5. British Television Comedy.……………………………..……………………...… 9 5.1 Sitcom - situational comedy……………………………………………………. 10 5.1.1 Britcom……………………………………………………………….…….…… 11 SECOND PART 6. What makes Britain laugh?..……………………………………………..…… … 11 6.1 Madness & Surrealism………………………………………………………….. .12 6.1.1 Monty Python's Flying Circus…………………………………..………….…… 12 6.2 Political Satire…………………………………………………..…………….…. 14 6.2.1 Yes, Minister……………………………………..………………….……. …….. 15 6.3 The Race……………………………………………………….…………….. …. 17 6.3.1 Da Ali G Show……………………………………………………………….. … 18 6.4. The Family………………………………………………...…………….…… … 20 6.4.1 Only Fools and Horses………………………..……………..……... .. 21 THIRD PART 7. It’s Monty Python!.………………………………………………... ….… 24 8. Manipulation in Political Life……………………………………… ……. 26 9. “Boyakasha!”..................................................................................... 27 10. "This time next year, we'll be millionaires!"………………………. .… ….. 30 Conclusion…………………………………………………………. 33 Appendices Appendix A……………………………………………………………….. 35 Appendix B……………………………………………………………….. 37 Appendix C………………………………………………………………. 38 Appendix D……………………………………………………………… . 40 Bibliography……………………………………………………………… 41 Resume…………………………………………………………………… 44 INTRODUCTION Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense...
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...not decide on one plan for. It’s always changing. It almost seems as though every president has a new plan for the Welfare program. While growing up in a poor neighborhood and having been raised by a single parent on welfare, many of these issues are important for me to understand and learn about them. It is a better way to understand and come up with ideas to help it. In 1996 congress passed and the president signed the “Personal Responsibility and work opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996” which drastically changed the welfare system. This welfare reform helped to move 4.7 million people who were government funding dependents to self sufficient in just three years. Since 1996 welfare cases have declined by 54%. The reform then expired and current president, President Bush, was trying to continue the success of this welfare reform. President Bush’s proposal was to make welfare more focused on the well being of children and families. He was trying to make it so that families that receive welfare could eventually be self sufficient. The president’s plan also plans to increase work resources for families. The reform also helps pay for childcare, that is funded with the “Childcare Development Fund”. It funds about 4.8 billion dollars a year. The plan also pays for other expenses need to get a job. The new welfare reform also attempted to empower state and local governments with flexibility to more efficiently move people from welfare to work. The plan requires people to be able...
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...Free Will; Do We Have it or Not The question of free will is one which has been hotly debated for millennia. Some people believe that humans have the capacity for free will - the ability to choose their actions without being forced to follow a certain course by either by the influence of others or by natural laws. For many theists, free will is regarded as a special gift from God. The notion of human free will is also an important premise for a lot of what happens in human society - in particular, when it comes to our legal system. Free will is necessary for the notion of personal responsibility. If people do not have free will, then it is difficult to argue that they are personally and morally responsible for their actions - and if that is the case, how can they be punished for their misdeeds? In fact, how can they be praised for the good things they do, if those actions were not also freely chosen? George Orwell did not have free will when it came to shooting the elephant. Orwell expresses his conflicting views regarding imperialism through three examples of oppression by his country, by the Burmese, and by himself on the Burmese. Thus he was not morally responsible. This made Orwell realize his role in society and has made him a stronger man. But first let’s see what led to his feeling toward the Burmese people. The building up of the feeling of pressure starts with Orwell feeling humiliated and disrespected from the Burmese and shifts to a feeling of authority...
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