Plato’s Republic: The Good Society and the Deformation of desire This paper will outline and elaborate upon the important elements of Martha Nussbaum’s article titled Plato’s Republic: The Good Society and the Deformation of Desire. It will focus on three important elements in the article starting with relevance of Plato’s ideas today‚ deformation of desires and the importance of institutions in combating the latter. The ideas set out in Plato’s The Republic are still relevant in today’s
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In the first article‚ “The New Flat Earth Society”‚ by Albert A Bartlett‚ the author discusses the beliefs of the New Flat Earth Society‚ especially pointing out the need for the earth to be flat and therefore infinite in order to encompass the ever-growing population of people. Although the Earth has been proven to be round‚ the Flat Earth Society is deemed ‘New’ because of their desire for the Earth to be infinite to be able to make up for the increasing number of people and the decreasing number
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In my belief technology is degrading our society socially. Personal experience when I started using technology more and more‚ I became less socially active and engrossed using the internet and played more videos and staying inside. Before coming to America and exposed to more technology I was socially active and willing to go outside‚ play with friends and exploring the forest behind my house in the Philippines. I was an extrovert until the end of seventh grade. I started becoming more introverted
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Should we‚ as a society use GMOs? Global food production faces many challenges such as climate change‚ exponential population growth‚ and the struggle to find arable lands. Societies have always produced GMOs (genetically modified organisms) to increase the occurrence of desired traits with methods such as selection‚ cross-pollination‚ and hybridization. However‚ the new technology‚ genetic engineering‚ the process of rearranging genes is saturating the GMO conversation. Still‚ the genetic engineering
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From this week’s readings I found the story “In the American society” by Gish Jen‚ especially appealing. The plot of the story focuses on a narration by a daughter about her first generation immigrant father struggling to keep the balance between his own cultural beliefs and American culture. The narration cleverly portrays the father‚ Ralph Cheng’s behavior within his own society and the American society. Based on this story‚ I believe that first generation Asian Americans faced a substantial challenge
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Chapter 4: European Societies (1300-1600) Activity 1 1. The Black Death killed one third of the total population of Europe. In 4 years it is estimated to have killed 20 million people. Many of the working class died therefore leading to labour shortages and workers demanding for a wage increase. When demands weren’t met‚ there were peasant revolts. It also affected the church‚ as people started to doubt its power to save them from the disease. 2. No‚ I am a firm believer in democracy
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O’Connor T.J. Petullo Intro to Sociology Red The McDonaldization of Society Axiomatic Propositions Chapter 1 1. The more we McDonaldize‚ the more our lives become scripted. 2. The simpler things become‚ the less we can do to address their problems. 3. The more we mass-produce‚ the “easier” things become. 4. The more McDonaldization‚ the less service. 5. The more things are controlled‚ the less “real” interaction we have. Chapter 2 6. The similar we are to one another‚ the more
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McDonalidization McDonaldization‚ as stated by George Ritzer “is the process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world” this is the modern day version of Weber’s concept of rationalization. One of the fundamental aspects of McDonaldization is that almost any task can be rationalized. George Ritzer suggests that “later on in the twentieth century the socially structured form of the fast-food
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Jack Wang LART 211 25 February 2013 Instructor: Natalie Panfili Summary In Joshua Adler’s essay‚ “Our Alarmist Society‚” Adler point out a serious problem; alarmist have a lot bad influence in our society. In his essay‚ he said that “Scientific alarmism is becoming a way of life in the United States.” We all know that alarmism can cause misunderstanding and trouble for listeners‚ but it can cause our life to become miserable if it becomes part of our living element. Based on Adler’s essay
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their culture. This plays a huge role in American society only because it really is human nature to be ethnocentric. Males are always portrayed as the financial supporter of a home‚ one that holds their emotions in‚ independent‚ courageous and strong. But the question is why? A historical event that I believe that has lead up to this ethnocentrism in America is war. Dating back all the way to America’s first war‚ all soldiers were men. Since then‚ society has seen men as the stronger and dominant gender
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