Cage

Strengthening of Weber’s Iron Cage of Rationalism due to Technological Expansion The Annu Aunty Song (Engineering Anthem), The Enthu Cutlets According to Weber, the iron cage of rationality is a symbol of social pressure that constrains the behavior of an individual for the purpose of achieving a certain goal. Today, this social pressure, in a way, is a result of the rapid expansion of technology, which forces individuals to make decisions based on the cost-benefit analysis of their…

other and intimidating each other, as shown in “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Cage Man”. One of Connell’s most famous short stories, “The Most Dangerous Game,” is about an intelligent man, Rainsford, who meets former General Zaroff. General Zaroff then proceeds to make Rainsford participate in a “game” in which Zaroff is the hunter and Rainsford is the hunted for three days or until Rainsford is killed. “The Cage Man” is written around a man named Horace Nimms, who originally handles the…

identified, the cage each girl is standing or sitting in. On the surface level, this may seem obvious supplying no deeper meaning to the story, but you would be incorrect. The cages the girls are presented in are in fact bird cages, and hence symbolize the dehumanization these young girls are facing in this human zoo they have been trapped in. These girls are left to hang in bird cages, they have been reduced to nothing more than a spectacle to stare at, like the beautiful birds stuck in cages…

The Couple in the cage was a performance, filmed into a documentary of artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco. Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Mexican–American performance and installation artist and writer, as well as an activist and educator. His works revolves around the issue of the north–south border and US–Mexican interactions. Gómez-Peña is deemed as a pioneer of performance art, experimental radio, video and installation art. His works often involve dense texts, a collaboration with…

possible for an ordinary person to achieve this status. However, in order to become the best in the world, that presents a completely different story. Through the eyes of both Tom “Digger” Stapleton and Sadie Jorgensen in Angie Abdou’s novel The Bone Cage, the reader quickly learns the difference between becoming an athlete and becoming an Olympian. Both of these Olympic hopefuls put their lives on hold in order to hopefully achieve this standard of greatness. Neither person has long term goals…

One of the main features in A Cage of Butterflies by Brian Caswell is the overwhelming fear of the exploitation and exclusion that Greg and the others have to face both inside and outside the institution. Throughout this novel Brian Caswell explains how hard it can be for someone to fit in with ‘normal’ society when they clearly are not normal. He explores the feelings and thoughts of these extraordinary young prodigies who were put in one of the worst situations thinkable. During this time the…

What is your Cage? What keeps you back from freedom? Maya Angelou wrote an amazing and entertaining autobiography titled I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, about her hard life growing up as a black girl from the South. Among the hardships are things known as "cages" as stated as a metaphor from Paul Dunbar's poem "Sympathy." "Cages" are things that keep people from succeeding in life and being everything they want to be. Some of Maya Angelou’s cages include being black in the 1940's and her…

Opportunism is the conscious policy and practice of taking advantage of circumstances – with little regard for principles, or with what the consequences are for others. Opportunism is everywhere; in the environment, in animals, and especially in humans. “The Cage” by Ruth Minsky Sender shows a great theme of opportunism and that people will do anything for their benefit. The author (Riva Minska) writes a memoir describing the misfortune her and her family went through during 1939, when the Nazis…

It was one year ago when I step on the cage for the first time I had never been so scared before, until the day. The only thing I knew was that I had trained very hard and my instructor had told me to be relax, but it was not enough to keep myself calm. As I waited on the waiting room, the only thing in my mind was to win and pray so that everything came out the way I wanted it to be. My only goal was to impress my instructor, it depended on this fight whether I was going to keep fighting or not…

Cars of equipment were all in a line, driving down the dark, empty freeway. No other cars in sight. Rain was flooding the roads, the moon was full and shining behind the clouds. Jethrow leading the pack, Scar in the truck behind him. Suddenly, the whole line was at a dead stop. Everyone began jeering their heads, rolling down windows, anything they could to see why they had come to this sudden stop. Several crew members were yelling, horns were honking, but their leader still refused to move…