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Placing the book Anthem in the category of a dystopia is pretty accurate because the government is forcing collectivism into the society even though many are not in agreeance, people aren’t happy and are afraid to speak up, and the people don’t know the history about the

In Goodsell’s “A Case for Bureaucracy” Goodsell makes several valid points about the argument for and against Bureaucracy. Before reading I too would have assumed bureaucracy is a waste of time and that most bureaucrats are just lazy, rude and tend to hate their job. But now I've realized that Bureaucracy does succeed. People, Americans, tend to expect bureaucrats to be able to do anything. Even when the tasks seems impossible they expect the problem to be solved immediately which ultimately sets the bureaucrats up for failure from the beginning.

The book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a good nonfictional read for those who don’t know much about immigration and discrimination. Sinclair uses the characters Jurgis and Ona that move to a the center of Chicago 's meat packing industry to demonstrate the cruel treatment that was given to immigrants from American’s. The theme of The Jungle is to show the evil of capitalism in the world at that time. Jurgis’s family was treated unfairly under the law for being immigrants. Sinclair tries to portray all the ugly sides to capitalism in this book by showing how it is effecting Jurgis’s family.

Imagine living in a world where people are not content with who they are, and as a result are always striving for perfection, which as learned through Oryx and Crake is unachievable without consequences. This world, portrayed in Margaret Atwood’s book, displays the different factors of how society has changed through time and displays the negative effects of people’s need to be flawless. This aspiration for unattainable perfection leads to the destruction of the society through unethical behavior, segregation, and technological advancement. Although these repercussions may seem like a small price to pay for perfection they will ultimately destroy the world as they know it. Perfection is something people strive for, but it is these ambitions that inevitably create a society filled with unethical behavior.

(Namie & Namie, 2015) As shown majority of the reasons why a target was selected was due to the fear that they were more skilled at their job than the bully. The bully used the aggressive measure to gain control and demoralize the target until they seem incompetent at their job. Most often those who shift from showing moments of incivility to becoming bullies are shifting the burden of their problems onto someone else. This action allows the bully to gain control when they feel that their own life is out of control.

Plato once said that “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” Outsiders, members of illegitimate societies, are shunned because of limitations and restrictions in society. They tend to gravitate towards the light, but very few complete their journey. In Othello, The Great Gatsby, and The Death of a Salesman, heroic ambitions for acceptance and escape from the darkness are combated by societal expectations, shown through the light, which acts as a lure, towards societal norms and goals. Ironically, however, the tragedies that face all the protagonists are because of the darkness, or secret desires that each character makes to overcome their expectations.

Their strongest weapon is their right to stop work, should the negotiations fail. They use collective bargaining to fight for higher wages, better benefits and safer work conditions. Company executives don 't always agree with collective bargaining because it treats the entire workforce as equals and does not recognize the difference between workers who excel and thrive and those who perform poorly. They argue that compensating employees on performance is better for the company than compensating the

Strain theory is people who experience strain likely to feel anomie because of mainstream norms don 't seem to get anywhere. In other words, strain theory is society tends to put pressure on individuals to meet society goals and end up sometimes failing which can lead to crime.   Jim and Sara are suffering from anomie because of them being from a lower class they are unable to live the American dream. anomie is a lack of usual social and or ethical standards in an individual group. As the American dream is the idea that every individual should have an equal opportunity to achieve success through hard work and dedication.

The short essay “Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy” explains to readers what Generation Y Yuppies are and why they are unhappy. We learn that Y Yuppies are the generation after baby boomers and we learn that they are not happy because they think they are special. Generation y yuppies also think they are entitled rather than believing in hard work. I liked this story because it really informed me about how hard work can and will get you much further in life than everyone thinking they are special because it will ultimately make me unhappy.

Instead, he must be cruel only when necessary to avoid greater wrongs. Even his assertion that the leaders of armies must be cruel is based on the maintenance of discipline, for undisciplined armies harm innocent citizens—or even the ruler himself. The most cynical of Machiavelli‘s statement is his assertion that people are quicker to forgive the death of a loved one than the confiscation of their property—there could be no bleeker assessment of raw human selfishness. Surrounded by people like these, a prince is indeed safer if he can control them by fear, because love is so fleeting and

Consequently, many rich Americans believed in this view, and used it as an explanation of why some are poor and some are rich. Additionally, a similar view is expressed in Progress & Poverty, written by J.M Dent. (Doc. 11). In Progress & Poverty, Dent explains that an uneven distribution of wealth will aid social progress, because it will drive people to work harder, which in almost all cases, never worked, and only caused social unrest and strikes. Conversely, some politicians fought for workers’ rights and developed legislation in response.

It takes the lives of precious individuals that bind our country together. You are not seeing that this is a war in our country; instead you are worrying about why the men are making the decisions for the women: “it seems so arrogant and callous for men - who dominate state and federal governments and judgeships - to make decisions about what women may or may not do with their bodies and the life that grows inside them.” The men dominate the governments because women tend not to run, and someone has to get the job, “men are more than 60 percent more likely to run for office than women” (American University). The data was taken from a survey by the American University to show that women tend to not run for state and federal offices simply because they do not have confidence or do not care to run. Therefore, men take the initiative and run for state and federal offices.

(page 81) Therefore, by taking an active role in choosing the elected officials, as a means to overthrow capitalism. Collective ownership was the way for employees’ achieved voice. Although they were not very successful, I like how The Knight of the Labor, viewed workers/producers as human beings, and how money although nice to have, was of less value that human life. It seems that they were not fully knowledgeable in what it took to operate a successful employee union, but I feel that their intentions were honorable.

Some jobs that deem one as eminent are simply too tough to accomplish. Fort displays the idea that the father in the poem works at a horrendous job where he, “left the factory floor with oil and sawdust inside his mouth” (line 21); this supports the idea that decent paying jobs are far too arduous to acquire, thus making it nearly unmanageable to meet society’s standard of success. In this example, the father will not meet modern-day requirements that define success because of the strains of his job that make him want to relax without the stress of work. Furthermore, in “The Mill,” Edwin Arlington Robinson illustrates a figurative interpretation of the brutality under certain work related circumstances. Robinson, through the lens of Psychoanalytic Criticism, explains that, “what was hanging from a beam” (line 15), was a tempered man who committed suicide because he was unable to meet society’s ideals of being successful.

The businesses took advantage of their workers by extending work hours but also leaving their wages the same. They were trying to work them for every penny they could not caring who they were hurting in the process. The people also disfavored the new political system they did not agree with politicians no longer listening to the opinions of the people, they felt that they were being silenced and they could do nothing about it. The corporations may have lowered the costs of a few accommodations but it was outweighed by the unfairness the people had to deal with.