Cynic

Prompt:http://sharepoint.mvla.net/teachers/HectorP/Language%20and%20Comp%20AP/Documents/Resource%20AP%20Prompts/Ellen%20Goodman,%20Company%20Man%201995.pdf Ellen Goodman, a columnist, explores the harsh reality of big business in her critical piece titled “The Company Man.” By telling the story of a robotic business man indifferently pursuing higher corporate success. Her subject, Phil, embodies the corporate world as she acerbically outlines the bottomless pit that it can become. Through the…

1. What words best describe your business? • Retail (17%) • Wholesale (11%) • Café (22%) • Health food store (11%) • Supermarket (11)% • Manufacturer/producer (0) 2. How long have you been in business? • 0-5 years (11%) • 6-10 years (5%) • 11-15 years (17%) • 16+ years (67%) 3. Which fair trade certified products are you involved with? • Coffee (94%) • Tea (77%) • Sugar (55%) • Cocoa (77%) • Chocolate (77%) 4. What motivates you to deal with fair trade certified products? • Attracts more…

noting it contained a strong message about America becoming “highly segregated by income, educational attainment, and race” (Kling). He recalls in the 1960’s when “ the newly-created Department of Housing and Urban Development touted ‘urban renewal,’ cynics charged that ‘urban renewal equals black removal,’” which unfortunately became true (Kling). He also talks about how Cowen addresses several possible causes of the stagnation, but never pin points the cause as having a single source…

Loss of Innocence in “Young Goodman Brown” American literature grew much through the early 1800s. The second Great Awakening contributed much to this growth. Its effects were far-reaching, and with it came the subgenre of Transendentenalism, highly influenced by religion. This subgenre conveys the belief that man is generally good, innocent, and meant to be pious and God-fearing. Of course not everyone agreed with this sentiment, and soon followed the subgenre of Dark Romanticism…

Gangly, analytical, and predominantly unappealing, Winifred was the astonishingly disparate sibling of the Corradetti household. Having grown up in an unapologetically hubristic household with geniuses and troublemakers dissimulated as siblings, Winnie indulged in the grand art of evanescent into her bedroom and formulated her prescribed persona of the flexible prick within the comfort of her own flustered mess. Near silent and misconstrue as charming, she takes the path of least resistance in…

In an exceptionally ambitious biography—the first volume of a projected three takes us from Stalin’s birth, in 1878, up to 1928 in just under 1,000 pages—Stephen Kotkin, a history professor at Princeton, sets out to synthesize the work of these and hundreds of other scholars. Stephen Kotkin has a goal, to remove the fog of mystery and the mythology out of Soviet history forever. His goal in Stalin is to sweep the cobwebs and the mythology out of Soviet historiography forever. He dismisses the…

“Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.” This is my favorite excerpt from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli. I believe it represents everything Machiavelli believed in as a political leader. He truly believed that a ruler should be feared by the people. Niccolò Machiavelli was an important figure during the Renaissance Era in Italy. One of his books, The Prince, which is also known as a political treatise,…

During the Late 19th Century and early 20th Century, African Americans were just coming out of one struggle which was slavery and immediately facing another which presented itself in the form of Jim Crow. Many of the Negro Leaders during this time were trying to come up with useful solutions that would be able to effectively combat Jim Crow and these biased laws. Throughout this time, there was for the most part, two different sides as to how to go about getting equal rights for the Negro…

In the March 2015 issue of National Geographic, an article by Joel Achenbach entitled “The Age of Disbelief”, discusses the rise of climate change skepticism, explore the increasing polarization between cynics and advocates, and examines the what is causing reasonable people to distrust reasons. Achenbach, who is a staff writer for left leaning Washington Post and a monthly contributor for National Geographic, points out that the concept of climate change is born out of scientific methods which…

It is hard to believe that a segregation of living in the United States was one of the major issues till The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended all states and local laws. A vast number of philosophers, politicians, and educators have been taken adequate involvement within this issue. There are three prominent philosophers including W.E.B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington, and Marcus Garvey, who obviously have their own points of segregation view. W. E. B. Du Bois is one of the marvelous figures who…