How Literary Criticism Met Your Mother Writing Assignment From the pilot episode of an American comedy TV show called How I Met Your Mother‚ I find that both Marxist criticism and Feminist criticism exist in this episode due to the roles of the characters‚ the ways they act and speak‚ the things they own‚ etc. In terms of the Marxism‚ it is easy to find out that there is a relationship between class and power in this episode. As Barney who always wears a suit while his friends are all wearing
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Taylorism in the Workplace Mechanization and industrialization adversely affected the workplace but increased productivity. Taylorism had as many good points as it did bad‚ and many workers did not like the new technology of streamline production. I will show how these ideals were not always the best implementation of technology. I will also show that although engineers had a good plan‚ they did not always see the whole idea through to completion. Mechanization is the act of doing
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Reader Response Criticism: William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” “A Rose for Emily” was written in first person point of view. The narrator is never given a name‚ but it is apparent to the reader that the narrator is one of the townspeople. This is evident in the opening of the story when the narrator exposits that‚ “our whole town went to her funeral” (Faulkner‚ “Rose” 90). This story tells the tale of Miss Emily Grierson in psychological order‚ beginning with her funeral (as a flashback) and
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Critiques of Taylorism Taylorism promotes the idea that there is "one right way" to do something. As such‚ it is at odds with current approaches such as MBO (Management By Objectives)‚ Continuous Improvement initiatives‚ BPR (Business Process Reengineering)‚ and other tools like them. These promote individual responsibility‚ and seek to push decision making through all levels of the organization. The idea here is that workers are given as much autonomy as practically possible‚ so that they
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Feminist and Womanist Criticism of African Literature: A Bibliography By Sharon Verba July 20‚ 1997 Those women who struggle without giving up hope‚ herald the impending change...: change in attitude for both men and women as they evaluate and re-evaluate their social roles.... -Rosemary Moyana‚ "Men & Women" Rereading‚ willful misreading‚ and de- and re-coding are tools used in African literature and womanist or feminist discourse to challenge "canonized ’literature ’"
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Danya P. Ms. Q English 1302 April 2013 New Criticism and the Poem “When I Heard a Learn’d Astronomer” During the early half of the 20th century‚ a new style of criticism emerged allowing literary texts to be examined as “independent and complete works of art” as defined by Linda Pavlovski (1). It is evident that literary works were and still are interpreted with aid from historical‚ biological‚ and even cultural perspectives but New Criticism advocates each work of literary can stand with its
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action of production. Taylorism did not reach the same level of adoption as its managerial cousin‚ Fordism. Worker resistance—a topic Braverman demoted to an extended footnote—posed a hindrance to Taylorism. Despite the implementation of incentive-systems‚ the monotony of the task cannot escape the resistance of workers who may not complete the task under the allotted TMU‚ whether purposefully in an act of rebellion or uncontrollably due to sickness. Under capitalism Taylorism flourished because
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Fordist Management control methods increased organizational productivity at the expense of employee job-satisfaction” Taylorist and Fordist management control methods have had the most influence impact on organisational production till present day. Taylorism‚ also know as scientific management was developed by Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856 – 1915) based on making labour more efficient. Taylor believed that “the best management was true science ‘resting upon clearly defined laws‚ rules and principles’”
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Focht-Hansen Monday‚ March 31‚ 2014 Reader Response Criticism and C.S. Lewis’s “An Experiment in Criticism” C.S. Lewis‚ besides being the author of many popular children’s stories‚ was a professor of medieval literature at both Cambridge and Oxford. Contrary to what might be supposed‚ he was not an author by career‚ and much of what he wrote was in the same vein of his area of expertise‚ literary analysis. “An Experiment in Criticism” is his longest and most complete work‚ and also the most
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Despite many criticisms‚ and a wealth of newer theories on the topic of managing people‚ Taylorism (i.e. Scientific Management) is alive and well in 21st century management practice. Initially instituted by Adam Smith‚ an economist‚ who first discovered increased outputs via the division of labour through the observation and application of breaking down tasks in the transformation processes of a pin factory‚ the concept of scientific management can be traced back to the 1800’s. However‚ the
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