referents for comparison activities (O’neill & Mone‚ 2005). So the CEO has to give the employees an environment that allows them to generate the outcome that he is wanting. A way to avoid Social Comparison is not as simply as the statement itself. As Leon Festinger stated “People have a natural tendency to evaluate their opinions and abilities (hypothesis 1).” However‚ not being able to avoid social comparison does not restrain us from carefully analyzing positive versus negative comparisons. My
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of Stalin’s tyrannical government. It is generally accepted that Orwell constructed his story to reflect this purpose: Manor Farm represents Russia; Mr. Jones is the tsar; the pigs represent the Bolsheviks‚ the bureaucratic power elite; Snowball is Leon Trotsky‚ who lost a power struggle with Stalin; Napoleon is Stalin; and Napoleon’s dogs are Stalin’s secret police‚ known as the GPU. The corruption of absolute power is a major theme in Animal Farm. As most of the animals hope to create a utopian
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Before Hitler gained control over Germany in the 1930’s‚ another European dictator had already come to power in Russia. Commonly known as Josef Stalin‚ a name that translates to mean the man of steel. Stalin‚ along with Hitler‚ was one of the most brutal men in recorded history. In relation to the criteria on ethical leadership constructed by Lino and myself‚ we believe that Stalin was a very unethical leader. According to his actions‚ it is clear‚ that Stalin failed in all aspects of our criteria
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balance etc. For example‚ when someone is forced to do something publicly that they privately really don’t want to do‚ dissonance is created between their cognition (I didn’t want to do this) and their behavior (I did it). The term was first coined by Leon Festinger in his 1956 book‚ When Prophecy Fails: A social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World. This book gave an inside account of belief persistence in members of a UFO doomsday cult‚ and documented
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and Leon Trotsky is Snowball. Other factors such as the KGB (secret police) and the Russian Orthodox Church are also represented in Animal Farm with Napoleon’s trained litter of pups and Moses the raven. Using pigs to personify the political leaders and the sheep to represent the masses of “mindless citizens” that ate whatever information was fed to them by superior leaders are important symbols and analogies all in their own. Meaning that‚ by using a pig to represent Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky
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The Kronstdat rebellion holds tremendous significance in the shaping of Russia‚ it was the first attempt by the people to achieve a social revolution for themselves as Voline states "the first entirely independent attempt of the people to liberate itself from all yokes and achieve the Social Revolution‚ an attempt made directly‚ resolutely‚ and boldly by the working masses themselves without political shepherds‚ without leaders or tutors."(1)‚ furthermore the the rebellion also highlighted the failure
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In literature‚ contrasting societal issues‚ norms‚ and beliefs are relevant in different time periods. The distinct dissimilarities are demonstrated in the three pieces of literature‚ Animal Farm‚ Pride and Prejudice‚ and “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”‚ selected for this research paper. The three pieces of literature from each of the three different time periods help present England from the late 13th century to the early 20th century and speculate the relevance of message to today’s society. The three
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Annoying Animals Animal Farm is still relevent to read today because of major wars in history have connections and similarities to the Soviet Union. Are the Pigs in Animal Farm similar to how the people in the Soviet Union acted? Yes‚ there are very simular in many diffrent ways. In Animal Farm‚ George Orwell presents the idea that leaders use language to gain power which allows them to manipulate their citizens.In Animal Farm their owner Mr. jones does not treat them very well so the animal have
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Many characters in Animal Farm were based on people in real life. Lenin and Karl Marx serve as inspiration for Old Major. Joseph Stalin serves as inspiration for Napoleon. Lenin and Leon Trotsky where the inspiration for Snowball. Vyacheslav Molotov makes up the inspiration for Squealer. Adolf Hitler also shows partial inspiration for Mr. Frederick. Later in the book‚ Napoleon’s farm purge goes off of The Great Purge (which Stalin
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hands‚ and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution’. Stalin managed to convince the politburo to ignore this and covered the testament up. Lenin praised Leon Trotsky in his testament. Stalin’s closest rival in the struggle power was Leon Trotsky. Trotsky unlike Stalin was not from a peasant background‚ this lost him votes as they felt he thought higher of himself he also was very arrogant which also lost him many votes. People
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