...In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Bernard Marx’s character is established as an individual seeking social acceptance, yet one who is also confined by society’s expectations. Though he resists society initially, underlying his strained unorthodox ways and perceived rejection of social norms is a man who ultimately needs to be accepted. Huxley shows readers the multifaceted sides of Bernard’s journey towards acceptance, while also creating a utopia-like world. Initially, Bernard is a character who is dissatisfied with himself. It was being rejected that forged Bernard’s resentment towards society - this is apparent in his hypocrisy at the Solidarity Service and how he goes out of his way to unorthodox in chapter seven, when they arrive at...
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...“No Big Brother is required to deprive people of their own autonomy, maturity, and history.” Our society is constantly developing new technology to make our lives “easier,” so much technology, that we are often distracted from what we have in front of us. We have become reliant on our phones and internet for communication with other individuals, and we have completely alienated the thought of meeting someone face-to-face. Just as we are subjugated by our technology, the citizens of the World State are enslaved by their “perfect drug” known as SOMA. SOMA is their happy drug, and it comes with no side effects (or so they say). As a parallel to technology, the citizens would use SOMA as a deterrent from any dissatisfaction, or negative thoughts. Huxley astoundingly predicted “man’s… infinite appetite for distractions,” proven by examining this correlation between our technology, and their SOMA drug. On a daily basis, we use our technology to get out of supposed awkward situations, altercations, sadness, and even to avoid other people. This drug might...
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...dominant theme.” To what extent do ‘1984’ and ‘Brave New World’ depict a dehumanised society? Both Orwell’s ‘1984’ and Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ certainly deny humanness to the characters in their novels. Kelman defines humanness as having two key attributes, identity and community. Dehumanisation occurs when these are removed from society. It is true that individuality is denied to citizens and although the community remains, it is subverted in order to fit the government ideal. It can therefore be said that dehumanisation occurs as people are denied and identity and the true meaning of community which is the perception that a person is part of an interconnected community of individuals. Dystopian literature serves to critique the current social and political conditions by looking at potential conditions. Both novels were written when the fear of growing totalitarian governments was present. The novels are a prediction of what may happen to society if this power grows worldwide. In 1946, Orwell wrote "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." Around the time Huxley wrote ‘Brave New World’ there had been huge discoveries made in science and technology, Huxley took these and created a dystopia that uses technology to trick citizens into loving their slavery. The governments in both ‘1984’ and ‘Brave New World’ dehumanise people in order to maintain their...
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...the mass brawl and take John, Bernard and Helmholtz to Mustapha Mond’s office. Here they discuss their differences to the rest of society such as Helmholtz’s interests in science, John’s passion for religion and Bernard’s attraction to pain and emotion. Bernard and Helmholtz leave for an island fit for unorthodox individuals, while John runs away to live a pure and wholesome life, to his standards. He finds an old lighthouse and begins to live the simplistic lifestyle he believes that he deserves, where his days mostly consist of religious practices and self torture in attempts to clean himself from the experiences he encountered in the civilized world. What he didn’t know was that he was being filmed and when the ‘feelie’ of his behavior is released, intrigued and stupefied spectators rush to the Savage’s door to inquire about his peculiar ways. John gets swept up in the frenzy and ends up with soma in his system. When he wakes the next morning he recognises what he had done and he decides that the only way to redeem himself is to end his own...
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...The nature of discovery entails a journey that is transformative and concerns one’s relationship with one’s self or one’s world. Discoveries can be either sought or serendipitous and can lead to good or bad consequences, but ultimately they are all concerned with the acquisition of greater knowledge and a new perspective. In William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Prospero comes to realise not only the limitations of his art, but also the importance of love and redemption in redefining one’s place in the world, as well as one’s view of it. Peter Weir’s Dead Poets Society represents the importance of new perspectives on the familiar in order to realise the self, in the face of conflicting and controlling forces. The Tempest, as its title suggests, is partly concerned with the forces of nature, but mostly it is about the need for the liberating and redemptive power of forgiveness in the face of man’s inhumanity towards man. Prospero conjures a storm, with Ariel’s forced assistance, that brings to the island those who have wronged him. The scene seems set for a revenge plot to unfold. However, we soon discover that Prospero has changed in the 12 years that he has been exiled on the island. He realises that he is as much to blame for his exile as his treacherous brother Antonio to whom he relegated his ducal responsibilities in order to pursue his selfish interests: ‘And to my state grew stranger, being transported/And rapt in secret studies.’ Just as Miranda discovers her true identity...
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...For example, while in combat, Tim O’Brien is shot in the buttocks and the new medic Bobby Jorgenson freezes in fear and is not able to respond to Tim quickly enough for him to have a swift recovery or even recover correctly. Additionally, when Jorgenson does try to help, he fails to treat Tim for shock almost costing O’Brien his life. After Tim O’Brien’s episode, Tim felt the need to salvage his reputation so he and Azar plot to scare fellow comrade Jorgenson. While the prank is going on, O’Brien has a breakdown after hearing what sounded like gunshots. Azar looked at him, “... with a mixture of contempt and pity. After a second he shook his head. ‘Man, I'll tell you something. You're a sorry, sorry case’” (O’Brien 144). Despite O’Brien stooping to attempt to regain his reputation as one of the company, in a twisted...
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...his slightly effeminate behavior (15). Harding’s story, much like that of Alan Turing, who was persecuted for his homsexuality, demonstrates that 1960’s society often placed less appreciation on skills than on socially normative behavior. Along with Harding and Bromden is Billy Bibbit, the timid young man who fears leaving the hospital on account of his stuttering, despite his “m-m-mother [being] a good friend of M-Miss Ratched” (110). Billy is most closely reminiscent of slightly autistic people during the era who felt that they could only belong in an institution as pariahs, rather than as ordinary members of society. His mother’s connections don’t matter because he has gradually been made to feel as if he couldn’t survive in the outside world. However, Billy improves over time and pushes away his ingrained shyness as he grows closer to Candy and eventually “Billy and the girl … were...
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...William Wilson Spring Term Writing Assignment 10 April 2014 General George S. Patton – US Army General Patton achieved and accomplished many things while serving this great nation. One may often look at his twenty-two service awards that he received, or take notice that he was an Olympian, served in both World Wars and the Mexican Revolution, or even the numerous commands he held. However, the greatest accomplishment that must be recognized is General Patton’s unique ability to lead and inspire soldiers. General Patton is recognized as one of the greatest military figures and this can mainly be attributed to him being one of the greatest leaders in military history. “Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.” –General Patton General George S. Patton was born November 11, 1885 in San Gabriel, California. His family had fought in the Revolutionary War, Mexican War, and the Civil War and would share war stories to Patton when he was a young boy. From an early age, Patton was determined to one day become a war hero and was influenced by the stories of valor and bravery that his ancestors had shared with him during his childhood. Patton went on to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 15th Cavalry Regiment on June 11, 1909. He married Beatrice Ayer on May 26, 1910. A few short years later Patton would represent America in the Olympics in the first Modern Pentathlon where he finished fifth overall. With...
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...Prepared for: Mr. Jubred A. Peñano BP Course no: BE F06 International Training Program, Banking Academy Prepared by: Dương Thị Mỹ Hạnh – Class F06B Registration No: ITP F06-039 No of word: Submission Date: 7th November 2013 Executive summary In recent year, the world economic is being stressful; all of economy activities are difficult. A lot of big and small companies fall into bankruptcy. Therefore, in order to maintain and develop the business, companies need to have reasonable strategy and also consider about the internal factors, external factors around the company. British Petroleum is one of the biggest oil companies in the world, it is also affected by the economic crisis. Hence, Bp should understand about the current situation of company to give more strategy which help develop the firm in the future. This report was carried out through the BP website, books and newspapers what relate to the BP’s information. Moreover, the report also provides more information of BP such as vision, mission, goal, value, objectives, BP's environmental and economic situation in the UK. Besides that, this information what was given in this report: * Evaluate the extent BP what it has achieved the objectives of stakeholders * Responsibility of Bp with the factors around the company * Analyst policies in UK what influence to run business * Evaluate economy system allocation of resources and way to use. Introduction British Petroleum- England’...
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...leadership, then you come up against Napoleon like a student of modern art comes up against Picasso. There is simply no way around the man. But why? Firstly, Napoleon had a very large canvass to work on. The French revolution was a truly remarkable event. It began as an essentially liberal revolution, but was hijacked (as revolutions so often are) by homicidal fanatics: Robespierre and his fellow Jacobins. When Napoleon seized power in a nearly botched but nevertheless bloodless and generally welcomed coup, he became the leader of a nation that was beset on all sides by the old monarchies of Europe, desperate to snuff out this terrifying, king-killing, unthinkable republic in its midst. The French people were equally desperate to retain their new and bitterly hard-won freedoms from the essentially feudal rule of the Bourbon kings and the Ancien Régime. A significant sector of society was also keen to keep its hands on the financial benefits that they had accrued by buying up, at a very good price, the lands and estates previously owned by the monarch, the aristocracy and the church. Napoleon found himself at the head of nation that was predisposed to welcome his proven military skills, which could be usefully deployed in the defence of France and its newfound freedoms. But then Napoleon proved himself to be much more than merely a successful general. Saviour of the Revolution Napoleon’s rise to pre-eminence in France had been due to his astonishing ability, as a young general in France’s...
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...300 SECRETS 1. A life is a terrible thing to waste. So easy to beat yourself up over mistakes you've made. So many amongst us live in the past rather than loving the present and building a brilliant future. First of all, no one tries to fail or mess things up. Every one of us wakes up in the morning, walks out into the world and does the best we can do based on what we know and the skills we have. But even more importantly, every so-called "mistake' is actually a rich source of learning. An opportunity to build more awareness and understanding and gain precious experience. Just maybe what we could call failures are actually growth lessons in wolf's clothing. And just maybe the person who experiences the most, wins. 2. A world-class company puts systems in place to ensure consistency of results. If you want to get something done and if you want to see consistent results, build a system around it. Celebrate the previous days wins and then rededicate to work for the mission. Systems‛ thinking builds structures into your life so that your best practices actually get integrated into your life. Systems allow you to live in a proactive rather than in a reactive way. And having a bunch of systems in place to keep you at your best doesn't mean that your life will be overly structured and full of stress Because nothing deprives a human being of happiness as much as seeing a life being wasted. 3. ABC. Always Be Connecting with everybody, everything around you. The best leaders build strong...
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...Acknowledgements: Paper prepared for the Homer Jones Memorial Lecture at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, April 1, 2010. I am grateful to Gauti Eggertsson, Todd Keister, Jamie McAndrews, Paul Mizen, John Taylor, Alexander Wolman, and Michael Woodford for extremely useful comments on an earlier draft, and to Princeton’s Center for Economic Policy Studies for research support. Apparently, it can happen here. On December 16, 2008, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), in an effort to fight what was shaping up to be the worst recession since 1937, reduced the federal funds rate to nearly zero. 1 From then on, with all of its conventional ammunition spent, the Federal Reserve was squarely in the brave new world of quantitative easing. Chairman Ben Bernanke tried to call the Fed’s new policies “credit easing,” probably to differentiate them from what the Bank of Japan had done earlier in the decade, but the label did not stick. 2 Roughly speaking, quantitative easing refers to changes in the composition and/or size of the central bank’s balance sheet that are designed to ease liquidity and/or credit conditions. Presumably, reversing these policies constitutes “quantitative tightening,” but nobody seems to use that terminology. The discussion refers instead to the “exit strategy,” indicating that quantitative easing (“QE”) is looked upon as something aberrant. I will adhere to that nomenclature here. This lecture begins by sketching the conceptual basis for QE: why it might be appropriate...
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...Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine Department of English Philology Diploma paper Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Peculiarities of Adverbs in English Lviv - 2010 Contents Introduction Chapter 1. The adverb in English theoretical grammar 1.1 Categorial meaning of the adverb 1.2 Formal characteristics of the adverb 1.3 Syntactic functions and positional characteristics of the adverb Chapter 2. Paradigmatics of adverbs 2.1 Semantic classification of adverbs 2.2 Lexico-grammatical subdivision of adverbs Chapter 3. Syntagmatic valency of adverbs and its actualization in speech 3.1 Syntactic valency and combinability patterns of adverbs 3.2 Semantic and syntactic properties of adverbs of degree 3.3 The use of adverbs of degree with gradable and non-gradable adjectives 3.4 Semantic preferences of amplifiers Conclusion Summary List of References Appendix Introduction The diploma paper sets out to explore paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations of adverbs in modern English. The work considers such branches of grammar as morphology and syntax and is concerned with the two levels of word relations. A word as a part of the language system is considered on two levels: 1) the syntagmatic level; 2) the paradigmatic level. On the paradigmatic level it is the relationship with other words in the vocabulary system. On the syntagmatic level the semantic structure of a word is analyzed in its linear relationships...
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...Day Without Your Watch 22. Take More Risks 23. Live a Life 24. Learn from a Good Movie 25. Bless Your Money 26. Focus on the Worthy 27. Write Thank – You Notes 28. Always Carry a Book with You 29. Create a Love Account 30. Get Behind People’s Eyeballs 31. List Your Problems 32. Practice the Action Habit 33. See Your Children as Gifts 34. Enjoy the Path, Not Just the Reward 35. Remember That Awareness Precedes Change 36. Read Tuesday’s With Morrie 37. Master Your Time 38. Keep Your Cool 39. Recruit a Board of Directors 40. Cure Your Monkey Mind 41. Get Good at Asking 42. Looking for the Higher Meaning of Your Work 43. Build a Library of Heroic Books 44. Develop Your Talents 45. Connect with Nature 46. Use Your Commute Time 47. Go on a News Fast 48. Get Serious About Setting Goals 49. Remember the Rule of 21 50. Practice Forgiveness 51. Drink Fresh Fruit Juice 52. Create a Pure Environment 53. Walk in the Woods 54. Get a Coach 55. Take a Mini – Vacation 56. Become a Volunteer 57. Find Your Six Degrees of Separation 58. Listen to Music Daily 59. Write a Legacy Statement 60. Find Three Great Friends 61. Read The Artist’s Way 62. Learn to Meditate 63. Have a Living Funeral...
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...exceptional leader, and live life ‘full out’, buy this book.” Darren Hardy, publisher, SUCCESS magazine In The Leader Who Had No Title, You Will Learn: • How to work with and influence people like a superstar, regardless of your position • A method to recognize and then seize opportunities in times of deep change • The real secrets of intense innovation • An instant strategy to build a great team and become a "merchant of wow" with your customers • Hard-hitting tactics to become mentally strong and physically tough enough to lead your field • Real-world ways to defeat stress, build an unbeatable mind-set, unleash energy, and balance your personal life Regardless of what you do within your organization and the current circumstances of your life, the single most important fact is that you have the power to show leadership. PICK UP YOUR COPY NOW! LITTLE BLACK BOOK FOR STUNNING SUCCESS 3 © ROBIN SHARMA INDEX WHAT IS LEADERSHIP?: 5 WORLD CLASS LANGUAGE: 7 WHO MADE SUCCESS A BAD WORD?: 8 THE POWER OF DAILY PRACTICES: 10 THE EYES OF LEADERSHIP: 13 THE MYTH OF PERSONAL...
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