Part I - Illumination Experiments (1924-27) These experiments were performed to find out the effect of different levels of illumination (lighting) on productivity of labour. The brightness of the light was increased and decreased to find out the effect on the productivity of the test group. Surprisingly‚ the productivity increased even when the level of illumination was decreased. It was concluded that factors other than light were also important. Part II - Relay Assembly Test Room Study (1927-1929)
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means is that spirituality was more important than material possessions. Two very famous authors of this time were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Emerson was a transcendentalist and in his writings are many characteristics of this time period. Three of those characteristics are nature‚ the goodness of mankind‚ and individualism. Hawthorne‚ on the other hand was a non-transcendentalist. In his writings‚ the way he dealt with the same three characteristics shows why he is a
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As put by Gloria Ehrlich in Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Study of the Short Fiction‚ “At the time of writing‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne was facing the impracticality of his literary vocation as the economic support for his growing family” (Bunge 46). Nathaniel Hawthorne felt misunderstood as an artist and used his story The Artist of the Beautiful to represent what he was going through. In the Artist of the Beautiful Owen Warland has a love and need for beauty‚ where is everyone else feels the need for objects
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From the beginning of his writing career‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne has made several references to Anne Hutchinson. In fact‚ he even wrote a sketch called “Mrs. Hutchinson”. Because of Hawthorne’s apparent interest in Mrs. Hutchinson‚ it is entirely possible that he would use her as a template for one of the characters in his many books. Hawthorne’s character‚ Hester Prynne‚ is similar in many ways to Anne Hutchinson. One likeness between the two women is they were both respected
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story ‘’The Birth-Mark’’ is a story of love‚ emotional attachment‚ desire of perfect-beauty along with sacrifice. “The Birth-mark” is a story authored by Nathaniel Hawthorne about love between Aylmer and Georgiana. Aylmer was a scientist who‚ in order to make his wife ( Georgiana) perfect by her charming glory‚ attempts to remove her birthmark from her skin. Going through “The Birth-Mark” you become forced to reconsider human desire for perfection and its appropriateness. The story touches the emotions
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Hawthorne was a profoundly Christian writer: Nathaniel Hawthorne is often considered a profoundly Christian writer. He found pride the root sin. Faith in nature was only easy optimism. What he did best was to translate the heavy moral burden of life into the substance of his imagination. Personally‚ I think that it would be fair to consider Hawthorn a Christian writer with many characteristics seeing in humanist writers. There could be a fine line‚ but if we take into consideration that the base
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common goals‚ integrate the group‚ and protect the interests of group members. One celebrated example is the subculture of factory workers that was accidentally discovered by Elton Mayo and his associates in the 1930s. The research team visited the Hawthorne plant of the Western Electric Company to study the effects on productivity of variations in lighting. What the researchers found was that lighting had little to do with worker output. Instead‚ work group norms were found to be the strongest forces
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Jesus Freak Dougey Houser ENC 1102 26 November 2013 Research Paper on The Birth-Mark Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the greatest short story writers of his time. His uniqueness in his writing makes him a talented writer. He never directly comes out and says exactly what he means‚ instead he incorporates different symbols‚ characters‚ and themes throughout his stories that the reader has to analyze and figure out. In his short story‚ “The Birth-Mark”‚ he uses an intriguing plot
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The Case of Nathaniel Wu The case of Nathaniel Wu deals with discrimination against a man’s career‚ because of a very serious potential health problem. As part of the application process Nathaniel submitted a blood sample‚ which revealed Nathaniel had the allele for Huntington disease. Nathaniel’s case involves the questioning of ethics. Should Nathaniel be recommended or not. Nathaniel exhibits many positive aspects that could contribute to IPC. Nathaniel Wu is a top-notch microbiologist‚ who
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The Shape of Things and The Birthmark have a lot of similarities and differences. Both pieces of literatures characters focused on a couple. A main character each piece of literature have the common objective of changing human imperfections to become more desirable and in the end‚ achieve similar results. However the Motives and other aspects differ in both pieces. The Shape of Things the story is about an graduate student in arts named Evelyn and an English major named Adam‚ who works at a museum
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