MICHAEL ARLEN: ODE TO THANKSGIVING It is time‚ at last‚ to speak the truth about Thanksgiving‚ and the truth is this. Thanksgiving is really not such a terrific holiday. Consider the traditional symbols of the event: Dried corn husks hanging on the door! Terrible wine! Cranberry jelly in little bowls of extremely doubtful provenance which everyone is required to handle with the greatest of care! Consider the participants‚ the merrymakers: men and women (also children) who have survived
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Michael Foucault’s work‚ a renowned French philosopher‚ has greatly influenced the study of politics. He began his career as a Marxist and went on to research about sociologically and politically valuable data. In 1961‚ for his doctoral thesis‚ Foucault wrote his first major work called the “The History of Madness.” In this book‚ he gives a historical account of a constitution (as he calls it) of experiences of madness ranging from the 15th to the 19th century in Europe. It involves studying effects
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numbing shocks delivered by catfish. In 1600‚ William Gilbert‚ an English scientist made a careful study of electricity and magnetism and coined in the word ‘electricus’ which later lead to ‘electric’ and ‘electricity’ in English. Later in 1821‚ Michael Faraday invented the electric motor and George Ohm analyzed the electrical circuit in 1827. In 1921‚ Einstein discovered the Photoelectric effect‚ a concept applied in solar cells to produce electricity. Other minor but crucial discoveries has contributed
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How we discern right and wrong seems to be an inborn instinct‚ but some of our perceptions seem to be influenced by surrounding people and society. Michael Crichton expresses in his speech that we struggle to determine "which of our perceptions are genuine‚ and which are false because they are handed down." Crichton believes that the greatest challenge facing mankind is distinguishing fact from fiction and whether the threats we face today are real. Crichton illustrates his point in the idea of
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the animals die. What actually goes on within the walls of these so called slaughter houses? Sure there are a wide variety of films depicting such places‚ but sometimes it difficult to convince oneself that they’re eyes are no deceiving them. In Michael Pollan’s article An Animal’s Place‚ he goes on to state the horrible conditions that these animals are placed in‚ the worst of all‚ he says‚ is the American laying hen‚ “who passes her brief life span with a half a dozen other hens in a wire cage…
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The purpose of the War Convention is to establish the duties of the persons engaged in the act of aggression. Michael Walzer defined the War Convention as the articulated norms‚ customs‚ professional codes‚ precepts‚ religious‚ philosophical principles and reciprocal arrangements that shape our judgement of military conduct. Thus‚ the War Convention may be interpreted as the multitude of non-binding moral criteria by which the justice of actions within the prosecution of conflict may be judged. The
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Michael Ondaantje‚ author of The English Patient‚ and author Ernest Hemingway‚ who wrote A Farewell to Arms take the readers on a whole new journey set in the tragic time of war filled with stories of love and pain and loyalty which all of these feelings play an important role in the characters’ lives. The English Patient is the story of four mentally and physically injured characters living in an Italian monastery as World War II was coming to an end at the time. One by one‚ Ondaatje reveals the
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Michael Porter‚ a Harvard Professor introduces his ideology of the Five Forces model that shapes the competition in the industry. Each force is interrelated and therefore leads into the other to show the elements directly involved in the further success or ultimate success of the firm. Starbucks Coffee Co. throughout its existence since 1971‚ with its great management team‚ innovative style of thinking and strong will to succeed in compliance with its mission and vision statements has and continues
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The author of the book‚ Michael Sandel is considered today as a modern day philosopher and is professor at Harvard University. In this book Sandel looks at the ethical and moral aspects of the market system today. He talks about what how life as a whole has been turned into a market system where everything can be bought and sold including things that ought not to be. Sandel takes up some examples in aspects of life in society like betting on someone’s life‚ were characteristics of the markets are
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Michael Pollan in 2006‚ published a work that has to some degree changed the way that people eat‚ or at the very least attempted to change the way that we think about the food we eat. (Shea 54) Pollan demonstrates through fundamentally modern rhetoric the relationship that people‚ and more specifically American’s have with food and how very distant we are from it. ("History‚ Old Favorites in" B08) To some degree Pollan‚ others like him and internationally challenging food shortages and even worse
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