What drives Toyota? The presumption of imperfection--and a distinctly American refusal to accept it. This article explains the source of Toyota’s successful “insatiable competitiveness that would seem un-American were it not for all the Americans making it happen.” What drives Toyota is “the presumption of imperfection and a distinctly American refusal to accept it.” Toyota is growing while other competitive companies like “Ford” and “GM” are struggling. Some of them terminated their business
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Pattern Recognition Pattern recognition‚ by William Gibson‚ in relation to our class as whole throughout the course of the semester has many interesting ties. Throughout the course‚ we have discussed topics such as knowledge and the self and both of these topics were ones that were hit upon when reading Pattern Recognition. These topics were hit on through various points in the book and they were touched upon in various ways through different characters. Although Pattern Recognition is a postmodern
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"is defined in the DSM IV‚ a manual used by psychiatrists to diagnose all mental disorders‚ as an AXIS II disorder which has symptoms of impulsively and emotional dysregulation" (Livesley 146). A person with BPD have feelings of abandonment and emptiness‚ and have "frantic efforts to avoid abandonment‚ going to extremes to keep someone from leaving" (Burger 300). He or she is emotionally unstable and forms intense but unstable interpersonal relationships. They show impulsive behavior‚ such as spending
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behind their foolishness is not as simple. Their obsessive behaviors are not deliberate but simply the result of living in a manufactured environment full of things and stuff that are often just used to fill an internal untouchable emptiness (Guild). Because this emptiness cannot be satiated but is soothed with purchased goods‚ the fools continue to seek their happiness in material‚ forgetting the magnificent earth around
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to abandon the material comforts of the temporal life in favor of the spiritual rewards of a life unfettered by possessions. I respect people like Basho who was full of common sense. He has a character that was pure and penetrated by splendid emptiness. He also seems to have somewhat of a mid life crisis. In his work the narrow road to the deep north. The characteristic of individualism has played a strong role in the live of Basho. Basho displays similar acts of individualism in his story as
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As my psychology teacher presses play on a documentary and turns off the lights‚ my head is already on my desk and my eyelids beginning to feel heavy from the idea of watching a film for educational purposes rather than for personal entertainment. I started to drift off as the narrator began describing a man named Theodore Robert Bundy as an intelligent‚ articulate‚ and charming member of society‚ but what woke me up and held my attention for the duration of the film was the narrator’s abrupt change
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means of passing on poems‚ is thought to have been the method of transport for much of the information that was passed on in those days. Many of these poems described the sexual / biological differences between the sexes. Females were thought to be insatiable while males had the capability of showing great restraint. Female sexuality was exemplified through the depiction of women like Aphrodite and Helen of Troy. (The Trojan War was said to have been started because Paris abducted Helen from her household
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The Cone Gatherers In Robin Jenkins “The Cone Gatherers” we follow the malicious character of Duror who goes through an internal battle to try and control his hatred for deformities. Duror’s mental deterioration is caused by the hunchback‚ Calum’s‚ presence‚ Calum is in Duror’s forest as be has been sent with his brother Neil to collect cones‚ which leads to the inevitable dramatic ending to the novel. The central theme throughout the novel is ‘Good versus Evil’ and how they have to co-exist in
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indulgence. The idea of everlasting indulgence comes into play most clearly within the poem of “The Cockaigne” written by Telecleides. Cockaigne‚ a fictional land supposedly west of Spain‚ is essentially a fairy-tale land sought by those who possess an insatiable appetite for pure pleasures and wish to escape grueling labor. For instance‚ Telecleidies mentions that there are “rivers broad and fine/Of oil‚ milk‚ honey‚ and of wine” from which people can incessantly drink and that geese fully cooked
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poetry. The poem Embrace has to do with the main character feelings ‚ different feelings that he encounter in his life that lead me to believe those feelings were feelings of loneliness and sadness. The poem starts out talking about him feeling emptiness that feeling you get when nobody is by your side‚ So he is a little over the edge almost feeling insecure about life. The feeling you get when you are going through something rough like his in a mental state. The author of the poem used a lot of
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