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- 17671: Michel Foucault And The Cultiv
- ... Self Michel Foucault (1926-1984) spent much of the later part of his studies on the idea of the care of the self and cultivation of the self. He defined such care as using one’s own reason to ascertain who one is and how he can be his best. Foucault takes several perspectives on this theme, from medical to phenomenological, to develop his focus on finding out who one is, the goal of the care of the self. Human’s failure to attain and nurture this self results in the decay of this self. Foucault saw his writings on this and other concepts as part of a philosophy known as the art of living. The ... of art, to think of life and art together. The are of the self was inventing who one can be, not the process of discovering who one really is. The creation of art was Foucault’s model for the care of the self. Accordingly, he viewed lives aesthetically; i.e. the artistic creation of the self must use elements which one already faces. Foucault suggests that we approach our self- ...
- 17672: Microsoft The Company
- ... Allen had employed eleven other people, but the revenue had jumped to 1.3 million dollars. The growth rate was quite steady until 1982-1983. This was when Microsoft had grown 104%. By 1995, Microsoft's revenue was 5.9 billion dollars, and they employed 17,800 people (Cusumano and Selby 3). In December of 1996, Gates owned 282,217,980 shares in Microsoft, which ultimately helped him become the richest ... employed over nineteen thousand employees (Cusumano and Selby 3). It is estimated that 90% of PCs (personal computers) have, or once had, Microsoft Windows installed on it (monopoly 1). There are many alternatives to Microsoft's Windows. Such systems include: Sun's Solaris, Caldera, BSDI, Digital's Unix, BeOS, Apple's Rhapsody, and IBM's OS/2. Microsoft's Windows 95, MacOS, and IBM's OS/2 are all around the same price (monopoly 2-4). ...
- 17673: Queen Mab's Speech
- Queen Mab's Speech I see that Queen Mab has been with you. She is the faries midwife, and her body is no bigger than agate stone that is on index finger of a alderman. She is drawn ... because they are tainted with sweetmeats. Sometimes she comes over a courtiers nose. Who dream of the desire to gain office with the king, and sometimes she may come with a pigs tail, tickling parson's noses as he/she sleep. Then he dreams of another lucrative church appointment. Sometimes she gallops over a soliders neck, he then dreams of cutting foreigh thoats, give farthoms deep. Then she drums in his ...
- 17674: Ode to the West Wind Essay
- ... of the poem deals with the wind as being a power of the wind in the heavens. He begins the second section of the poem by saying that the wind is "'mid the steep sky's commotion." Here he is commenting on the winds power by describing the commotion the wind produces. He then uses an image of death in describing the leaves as "decaying leaves", giving us the image of ... an extremely dark and dreary scene. This leaves the reader with the idea that the wind is a destructive force. In the third section of the poem again the speaker talks about the West Wind's power, but this time describes its power in the oceans. The speaker begins the third section with a sleep image. He says, "Thou who didst waken" seeming to say that the wind has the ability to make the sea come alive. Then in the second stanza of the third section he speaks of "Quivering within the wave's intenser day." This gives the reader two images. First, that the wind is making the water move with intensity. Secondly, quiver can be taken as an action when someone is scared. The water is " ...
- 17675: Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Li
- ... World War (Britannica, Vol. 26, Page 998). The legendary president was born on Jan 30, 1882, at the family estate in Hyde Park (White House Webpage). Young Franklin had a secure and idyllic childhood. Franklin’s most lasting educational experience was at Groton School in Massachusetts (Electric Library). At Groton, Franklin revealed that he could adapt himself readily to different circumstances. Even when he went to Harvard, the experience was only ... White House Webpage). Eleanor and Franklin move easily among the upper classes in New York and Campobello. Eleanor, however, was often unhappy, because during much of her married life, she had to live near Franklin’s widowed and domineering mother. During World War I, she was staggered to discover that Franklin was having an affair with her social secretary, a pretty young lady name Lucy Mercer. Despite these tensions, Eleanor remained ... which was badly split in 1910. For all the reasons, Roosevelt won impressively in the usually Republican district. Roosevelt made an immediate impact in the legislative session of 1911. His motives were idealistic. Reflecting TR’s faith in progressivism and in honest government, he distrusted the “bossism” of Tammany Hall; which was New York City’s powerful political machine. In 1912, Roosevelt defied Tammany again, this time by supporting Gov. ...
- 17676: Contemporary Performance Issue
- ... Group Ltd. estimates that it cut employee turnover in half—from 25 percent to 12 percent—once it put in place a comprehensive transportation benefits program. Some of the perks offered to the investment firm’s 160 employees include $75 per month for parking and full reimbursement for public transit fares. About 25 percent of Calvert employees use alternative forms of transportation, says Judy Schober, HR director. Another plus: “It tips the scale in our favor when a recruit is comparing offerings of other companies to ours,” Schober says (Wells par. 4). ? At Kaiser Permanente, 50 percent of the company’s 2,600 headquarters staff in Oakland, Calif., now commute five days a week by a method other than driving alone, says Kathy Gerwig, national manager of resource conservation. “We created a financial disincentive for parking ... links potential car pool or van pool riders by neighborhood, says Cathy Kralik, corporate communications director. If employees miss their rides, the company helps them find another one. For the last two years, the company’s Rideshare Program has met the Air Quality Management District’s goal of an average of 1.75 employees per vehicle (Wells para5). ? Company vehicles on site. Kaiser Permanente guarantees workers access to company-owned ...
- 17677: Canada And Nato
- Book Report In the book entitled Canada, NATO and The Bomb: The Western Alliance in Crisis by Tom Keating and Larry Pratt the main issue discussed was Canada’s position in Europe, North America and their view on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It went into specific issues dealing with political tension within Canada and tension outside Canada with other countries. It went through the years of different political parties and how they dealt with the matters of NATO. It states Canada’s opinion dealing with matters such as the alliance, war, and decision making with other countries involved in NATO. The book came across Canada’s decision making as though Canada went along with the decisions made by other countries. Canada, NATO, and The Bomb is not a book to inform it is a history book. It addressed issues that ...
- 17678: The Merchant Of Venice - Anti-
- William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice contains many examples that insult Jews because they were the minority in London in Shakespeare’s time. Although many parts of the play could be interpreted as offensive in modern times, Elizabethan audiences found them comical. The majority of London’s population at the time was anti-Semitic because there were very few Jews living there. Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice supports anti-Semitism actions and thoughts and therefore proves that Shakespeare was an ...
- 17679: The Church Is Foundation In Christ
- ... Christ is unveiled. Defining redemption and shedding light upon the process of redemption opens, as Balthasar would assert, a window which brings us closer to the mystery of the Church. The Church begins with Christ's mother who consents to be his mother. She offers her womb to receive and bear the seed of the Word. Balthasar understands Mary's concent in that it is with faith that she accepts the seed to be laid in her womb. He asserts that it is not a obscure faith but "a faith that is fully incarnate that embraces body soul and spirit so that they can become the vessel of God's Word" (Figures of the Church, p. 199). The Incarnation is possible through Mary who, by virtue of her faith, is "pre-redeemed." She accepts an Incarnation and the redemption inherent within it. Her assent ...
- 17680: Independence And Failure In Ma
- ... Shakespeare. Using these two metaphors, the breakdown in the relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth and between the king and the thanes and how they perfectly parallel each other because each is caused by Macbeth’s will to be independent . According to Webster’s dictionary, the archaic definition of independence is “competence” (1148). To be independent is not to be “subject to control by others” (Gove 1148). This means that independence is to be in control of ones decisions ... if the universe that strikes is more impressive than the man who is stricken, as great as his size and gaunt as his soul may be he will fall. (Van Doren 217) According to Macbeth’s ideas of independence and of strength, he is neither independent nor strong. He feels the need for both and thus allows nothing, including murder, to get into his way. Shakespeare opens Macbeth with the ...
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