Das Kapital

In “Clients” by Kathy Page, we see how capitalism can take control of people’s lives and forget some of the simplest things, such as social interaction and the sentimental value of one another. In this story we are shown a couple that seems to be always out of time and unable to interact or lost the ability to communicate. They resort to hiring Martin, a conversationalist and therapist to generate the thought process and help teach them how to communicate with each other once again. In the end,…

in actuality technology such as that shown in the feed is necessarily a bad thing it 's just being used in a bad way. When the feed first came out I 'm sure it wasn 't intended to be used as a mass form of marketing, "It was all da da da, this big educational thing, da da da, your child will have the advantage, encyclopedias at their fingertips, closer than their fingertips, etc.," which is not necessarily a wrong statement. If the feed were to be used right it could have been an excellent help…

confront its history. A notable example of this challenge is Germany after the events of World War II and the Holocaust. For German society, the current prevailing attitude is that a nation can only truly reckon with the past if they understand it. Das Boot is the perfect cultural representation of the idea that the only way Germany will be able to look to the future is through acknowledgement and realistic portrayal of the past. The modern confrontation with Germany’s Nazi past, like many…

The purpose of this review is to discuss the literature on national physical literacy interventions aimed at youth. The first section will address the definition of physical literacy (PL) and its philosophical roots, and the second section will develop the use of PL to guide several national sport and athletic performance development programs in youths, particularly in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom (UK). The final two sections provide a summary of evidence related to physical…

Figure 1 below illustrates the predicted route of the track as identified during the least cost paths analysis. The four parts of the route are shown: Punakiki to the ventilation shaft; shaft to the mine portal (lookout point); portal to the amenities area; and the ventilation shaft to Blackball. The results clearly illustrate it is possible to use cost paths modelling to identify a track. However, further assessment will be necessary around the aesthetic value of the track, to assess whether it…

Published in Vanity Fair, in the October 2016 edition, Kohler showcases an advertisement of their faucet collection. The advertisement features a woman sitting on a table in a dim room. The headline of the newspaper, titled “Wanted” is partially noticeable. A police officer, blurred in the foreground, holds a newspaper under his crossed arms. The part of the newspaper that is visible is an image of a woman that appears to be the woman sitting on the table. In the center of the table lies a…

I am against human experimentation. Many human experiments are psychological, though some are physical, both usually causing damage to the body and/or state of mind. My first point being the Stanford Prisoner experiment that took place in 1973. Psychiatrist, Philip Zimbardo chose 24 out of 75 undergraduates and randomly assigned them roles as guards and prisoners in a mock prison on campus. They adapted to their roles within a manner of days,1/3 of the 'guards' began to show agressive and…

Cloudy Judgment In 1971, Professor Phillip Zimbardo Ph.D. from Stanford University devised an experiment to test the willingness of people to conform to social roles in a simulated environment (McLeod, S. A. 2016). There were tons of applications the research team had to sort through settling on 24 college students who were broken up into two groups. The prison guard group who had no formal training on how to work as a prison guard or utilize law enforcement tactics, and the prisoner group. The…

If I was a guard, I believe that I would have become a guard who is oppressive, but not to the point of physically injuring the inmate. I believe that I would adopt a behavior of oppressing the inmates because I would be fearful that the inmates would feel power in numbers against me without my constant threats, but I would recognize that my role as a guard is not real, thus I would not physically abuse the inmates. However, I am unsure whether if my idealistic morals will still remain intact…

Imagine you are a student at Stanford University in the 1970s, and you hear that a psychologist is offering $15 per day to take part in his experiment. You figure that you could use the extra cash and figure that it’s a good way to help out. You and 20 other students are accepted to participate, and you are split into two groups, prisoners and guards. The only instructions given were “...do whatever they thought was necessary to maintain law and order in the prison and to command the respect of…