Productivity Management PM – Q7 Self-Fufilling Prophecy or Pygmalion effect and the 4 factors plus its application. The problem with productivity measurements – especially in measuring a company’s workforce efficiency‚ is that they do not take into account other factors relating to the way people work. This means that elements such as employee’s initiatives‚ their flexibility‚ teamwork and adaptability are not incorporated in the measures of input. As such‚ the calculation of productivity
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Pygmalion written by Bernard Shaw‚ was first performed on stage with Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins. The reception of the audience during the play was of utmost disappointment due to the non romantic ending of the play‚ even though that was Shaws initial intentions. My fair Lady on the other hand is a musical based on Pygmalion‚ and the movie was shot in 1964 by director George Cukor. Although there are numerous similarities between musical and play such as the character interactions or how both of
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Pygmalion did contradict the audience’s views‚ as the type of people who would read Pygmalion or see it in the theater would be the upper class‚ as the middle class and the lower class wouldn’t be able to afford it. The upper class were outraged at Shaw’s accusations and portrayals of the upper class. “Pygmalion… scandalized it’s… audiences in 1914.” This quotation is absolutely true; Pygmalion teaches us how the upper class ostracized the lower class‚ and the outrageous and demoralizing way in which
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Deconstruction Deconstruction is the name of a method of critique developed by Jacques Derrida (1930-2006)‚ a French philosopher whose writing is central to the emergence of the post- Structuralim. In 1967‚ he published three books that effectively put an end to structuralism and launched a new era in French intellectual life. The books were Writing and Difference‚a collection of essays on philosophy and literature Of Grammatology‚which includes writings on Claude Levi Strauss‚ Saussure and
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In his essay Derrida‚ mainly mentions and uses five main terms; Deconstruction‚ center of the structure‚ structurality of structure‚ bricolage and totalisation. Derrida explains deconstruction as “reading the text against itself‚ reading against the grain”‚ which means deconstruction is used for to find the gaps and silences in a text which are not mentioned by the author of the text. The purpose of deconstruction is to unvalue‚ undo the text‚ not to destroy the text. Derrida deconstructs
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Literary analysis of ‘Pygmalion’ by Bernard Shaw Shaw’s cleverly crafted and highly entertaining play mixes the Pygmalion myth from Ovid’s Metamorphoses‚ with a Victorian-day twist. Shaw’s Pygmalion combines dimensional characters‚ an entertaining plotline and vibrant themes in a way that truly encapsulates Victorian high society. Set in high society‚ Pygmalion follows a bet made by two upper class gentlemen: phonetics teacher‚ Higgins; and his linguist friend Colonel Pickering. Higgins
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Today I will be commenting on an excerpt from Pygmallion‚ written by Bernard Shaw. This play was first presented in 1912. Pygmalion is a play that focuses on Eliza Doolittle the main character and Higgins‚ the teacher. The storyline basically tells how Higgins teaches Eliza how to speak a proper English. The reason behind this was because the way someone spoke during the time Shaw wrote this play allowed people to define from what social class a person came from. B/c Eliza was from a lower class
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George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion addresses the discourse of education (linguistic retraining in particular) and its interrelationship with other discourses‚ such as class‚ and the transformation of individual and social self. It also deals with the dynamics of teacher-student power relationship in the context of education discourse. Believing that education should produce humane and responsible citizens instead of docile slaves‚ Shaw displays the evils of an incompetent education system. This article
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1. Bloom‚ H.‚ Man‚ P. D.‚ Derrida‚ J.‚ Hartman‚ G.‚ Miller‚ J. H. (1979) Deconstruction & Criticism. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. In this book one of the collections‚ “Living On. Border Lines.” by Derrida‚ J.‚ which translated by James Hulbert‚ was one of Derrida’s early texts which published in the U.S. The chapter describes that it was a landmark later seen as the official birth of deconstruction in America‚ the beginning of adoption process of Derrida’s thought in the U.S. via the so-called
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HOME ABOUT THEORIES SEARCH SITE MAP CONTACT US LINKS STUDYING LITERATURE You are here : Home Page / Theories / Derrida / Deconstruction and différance AVAILABLE LANGUAGES Consultez cette page en FRANÇAIS Consult this page in ENGLISH Deconstruction and différance By Lucie Guillemette and Josiane Cossette Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières lucie_guillemette@uqtr.ca 1. ABSTRACT` DERRIDA Jacques Derrida ’s theory of the sign fits into the poststructuralist movement‚ which runs
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