Milton Friedman titled the social responsibility of business is to increase profits and the speech given by bill gates at the world economic forum 2008 both address the nagging topic of social responsibility of corporations. Both articles offer tremendous insight on this issue. Friedman points out the contradiction of the notion of social responsibility and the aim of making profit while gates introduces Recognition as a new variable in this equation. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast
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Comparative Study of Stoning Punishment in the Religions of Islam and Judaism Sanaz Alasti* Volume 4 – No. 1 –Spring 2007 * Sanaz Alasti is currently a CA S.J.D. (Scientiae Juridicae Doctor) Candidate‚ Golden Gate University School of Law‚ San Francisco‚ CA; LL.M‚ Tehran University‚ Tehran‚ Iran (2003); LL.B (Honors)‚ Allameh Tabatabae University‚ Tehran‚ Iran (2001). Abstract This Article under takes a comparative study of stoning in Islam and Judaism. In Islam stoning (rajm)‚ which
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authorial choices‚ we are lead to a heightened consciousness of the complexity of human attitudes and behaviour. Mark Baker holds a tight reign of control over his work by deciding what to keep and omit throughout his non-fiction prose text‚ the Fiftieth Gate. While Redgum juxtaposes our knowledge about the Vietnam War with a very personal and poignant recount in their song and video ‘I was only nineteen’. Baker identifies selectivity‚ tensions and similarities between past events and recollections
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Baker’s ‘The Fiftieth Gate’. Baker uses deliberate selections of documents and personal accounts from his parents‚ with stylistic features and representational methods‚ to create a rounded understanding of the Holocaust. ‘The Sydney Jewish Museum’ similarly employs a range of representational methods and medians to present history and memory‚ in order to gain a complete understanding of the truth. History is evidently used as an important framework for events throughout ‘The Fiftieth Gate’‚ using fates
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Memory and history share a unique dependent relationship with one another‚ and through the study of Mark Bakers’ The Fiftieth Gate along with Christopher Koch’s Highways to a War it becomes evident that the combination of history and memory brings meaning of past events to the present. French historian Pierre Nora once said that ’history is a representation of the past; memory is a perpetually actual phenomenon‚ a bond tying us to the eternal present’‚ therefore implying history is a record of
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Series of Quotes ▪ Schopenhaur‚ “The world is my representation.” ▪ 50th Gate Quotes: - "[I]t was not the facts that were held under suspicion‚ but her credibility as a survivor. Unlike my father‚ she could never show her children the scars on her arm; hers were invisible‚ numbered in the days and years of her stolen childhood." - ‘Let their memory be bound up in the bond of life.’ - ‘So always remember it‚ and your children will remember it. They will survive‚ they will
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Memory brings history alive. Good Morning/Good Afternoon Today I would like to explore how memory brings history alive and how successfully it is achieved in Mark Baker’s novel The Fiftieth Gate. Memory brings history alive and helps history to live on. History validates memory however it lacks personal experience and emotions. Memory gives a human face to history and confronts people with a subjective recollection of events. Throughout the book‚ Mark Baker retells his parents and his grandparent’s
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If a meaningful understanding of the past is to be gained‚ the resources of both history and memory must be used. History is the factual‚ objective recording of events through documents‚ archives‚ records‚ artefacts and physical evidence whereas memory is the recollection of individuals of their personal experience and sequence of events however‚ adding the human element to the situation or experience. However‚ history and memory sometimes contrast with each other but most importantly they need
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and their ability to shape meaning‚ in order to reflect upon their attitudes towards the past. This interaction manifests in the examination of the conflicting strengths and limitations of history and memory throughout Mark Baker’s memoir The Fiftieth Gate and Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis as both texts place emphasis on the inherent bias of acts of inclusion‚ emphasis and omission. Consequent of the inability to objectively capture definitive truth‚ all modes of representations of the
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fought in the Civil War. And Douglass was one of Lincoln’s harshest critics. He constantly pushed Lincoln to move aggressively against slavery. The historian William Jelani Cobb wrote in a recent New Yorker essay on slavery: "On the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation‚ it’s worth recalling that slavery was made unsustainable largely through the efforts of those who were enslaved. The record is replete with enslaved blacks—even so-called house slaves—who poisoned slaveholders
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