Dairy of a cotton worker 9th January 1812 Dear diary‚ A few days ago my father was employed as a cotton weaver at the largest factory in Manchester. He was only taken in unless me‚ his nine year old son would also join the business. So today was my first day at the factory and I was only there for three hours as I was a new employee. As I walked through the entrance you could hear the loud clatters of metal and the constant banging of wood. The smell was foul and you could see a stream outside
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The sociological imagination was first introduced by C. Wright Mills explaining that it is the ability to see the relationship between indiivual experiences and the larger society. In short‚ what an indivual does and or is short of‚ it affects all of society even if it is not directly. A major example would be the unemployment of an individual effecting bigger companies capital in goods. If one is unemployed he or she cannot go out of their way to consume goods they once used to and companies lose
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During the Enlightenment‚ English Philosophers John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) and Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) were leading propers of Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is the belief that a morally good action is the one that helps the greatest amount of people and produce the greatest amount of happiness‚ for the greatest amount of people. John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham were known as utilitarians‚ they believe “that actions are right in the proportion as they tend to promote happiness‚ wrong as they
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"The Mill" is a poignant poem written by Edwin Arlington Robinson. The poem is a representation of hardship in family. The speaker of the poem is an omniscient narrator and the poem is set in a miller’s house and mill. The poem has an (ababcdcd) rhyme scheme in three eight line stanzas. The poet uses many elements to display the adversity of a miller and his wife. The poet uses a morbid tone and grim diction along with cold imagery to attest the austerity of a man losing his livelihood. He
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of urban living. Society was soon divided into two classes: employers and laborers. The employers rapidly accumulated wealth and lived luxurious lifestyles while the laborers lived in complete filth and poverty. In Harding Davis’ Life in the Iron-Mills‚ the reader can clearly see the dehumanizing effects that the industrialization had on working individuals‚ and Marx’s idea of alienated labor coincides with Davis’ depiction of the daily
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The choice of either living a content life with a wife‚ 2.3 children‚ and 1.4 pets or leaving everything behind to take the once in a lifetime opportunity to be with my soul mate is a difficult decision to make. However through Aristotle‚ Kant‚ and Mills I can determine the most ethical decision. I could not make a decision on staying with my current family or leaving for my soul mate based on happiness. Aristotle stated that true happiness cannot be determined by yourself or how you feel. True happiness
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George Eliot was an English novelist‚ journalist‚ and translator‚ and one of the leading writers of her life-time period. Although she would use a number of spelling variations of her name over the years‚ she was born Mary Anne Evans on 22 November 1819‚ into a middle-class family‚ in Warwickshire‚ England‚ and was the youngest of five children in her family. George Eliot‚ actually‚ was the masculine pen name of the writer Mary Anne Evans‚ one of Victorian England’s influential novelists. She
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C. Wright Mills was an American Sociologist‚ who published a book titled‚ "Sociological Imagination" in which he introduced a new perspective. Sociological Imagination is also the term he used to enable people to understand the link between history and biography. Sociological Imagination is a way of thinking outside the box; a person must see beyond personal trouble and see it in a larger political‚ social‚ economic issues that affect his or her life‚ and the lives of others in the society. Some
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According to Mill (1848) and White (n.d.)‚ utilitarianism is a Greatest Happiness Principle. It focuses on both long term and short term consequences of the behavior and the potential happinesses and pains that can generate by that behavior. Motives cannot determine the right or wrong of that behavior. If the behavior will cause harm to society or others‚ even the motives are noble‚ that behavior should not be done. The final decision should generate the greatest happiness for the greatest number
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Mill would say that torture is acceptable if it increases the happiness of a greater amount of people than if the torture were not carried out. For example‚ if one prisoner had information that could free 1000 people from certain death and if by obtaining this information it would be highly probable that you could save these people’s lives then I think he would say that torturing the prisoner is justified. I don’t think Kant’s morality has to do with intentions like kindness per se‚ but more to
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