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    In 1974, Roger Corman released his new exploitation film Caged Heat, with the promotional posters reading, “White Hot Desires melting cold prison steel!” The film was directed by Jonathan Demme where he shows, how women are controlled with prolonged rules and unjust treatment, and how women have very limited choices in the male dominant society because of continuous surveillance and oppressive authority. The representation of theses ideas in Caged Heat can be related as being more superior to the traditional exploitation films because the movie represents women solidarity, and it also depicts a successful escape from a male dominance society, without the need of primary male character. The movie also dealt with the social issues of that time regarding the women’s right, women victimization,…

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    This year Netflix suprised its audience with an unusual acquisition of a documentary film from Sundance Film Festival. The producer of the film, Rashida Jones, focuses on the “amateur” porn industry and women who have no clue what they are in for. The documentary sheds light on young girl exploitation and explains how they got lured into adult film industry. The film suggests that the Kardashians, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, and others from our mordern culture have created this market of sexual…

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    some people have to fall under the radar in order for others to prosper. George Orwell uses the metaphor of Old Major to represent Karl Marx’s Dream of a society of equality. Old Major’s dreams become the main irony of the book, because the corrupted become the corruptors. This ironic theme in the book reveals the truth about dreams: dreams, made to inspire, contradict the reality of hope and cause a corrupted situation. Without a man to exploit the weak, life would improve drastically. Old…

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    It is because it is easy for them to take advantage of periphery labor, that was seen in both documentaries that represent the downside of globalization. Countermovements appear all around the world and fight back against the current route and change brought on by globalization (Chapter 7, Lecture Outline). These countermovements are in support of not just environmentalism, but the exploitation of workers around the world. Movements are important in order to establish change and better the world…

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    In college athletics, the exploitation of athletes is a common occurrence among larger division 1 athletic schools, specifically in basketball and football. In many cases the college is the main source of exploitation, but do the athletes take advantage of cases such as this? Some believe that college athletes deserve some form of compensation in return for their exposure for their colleges financial successes whether in the form of jersey sales, luring spectator’s into the stands or whatever…

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    the public. Although both articles go toward similar goals, Torres (2007) goes in depth into the discourse of exploitation of humans and animals in various scenarios, whereas Hawthorne (2011) attempts to increase awareness of the hidden production process of the food we eat. Torres (2007)…

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    Suffering occurs because of others. It can’t be blamed on individuals. There are five different sources of exploitation. One was touched upon in the previous section that is the labor theory of value. Meaning that capitalist will do whatever it costs to earn profit such as hiring illegal migrant workers. Another source is the objectification of labor, “the more objects the worker produces the fewer can he possess and the more he falls under the dominion of his product, capital” (Farganis, 38)…

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    Sweatshop Labor Ethics

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    definition of the role of work by stating “Sweatshops aren’t that bad” (Kelley). The Compendium describes work as the “original state of man and precedes his fall; it is therefore not a punishment or curse” (Compendium, 256). However, as seen in the Rivoli text, sweatshops do not follow CST’s guidelines for work and would be considered “bad.” The specific practices that make a factory a “sweatshop” as seen in the Rivoli text violate the way the Compendium and CST view the rights of employees…

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    commit irrational acts because of the greed for personal benefit. Humans exploiting other humans for self benefit can be traced back all the way to biblical times. There are scriptures of corrupt tax collectors and sons spoiling their elders fortunes. The ideology of exploitation still remains firmly embedded in society to this date. In a classic literary piece, titled “Thank You Ma’am” written by Langston Hughes. A boy snatches a womans purse, “I wanted a pair of blue suede shoes,” said the…

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    multiple facilities, and their physicians referred the patients to one of their own clinics to carry out tests that were not necessary most of the time. 21st Century Oncology has reached a settlement with the regulators without any public disclosure. On the other hand, Halifax Hospital Medical Center has paid out $85 million in penalties and fines to the regulators. In order to curb the misuse, the outdated Medicare law’s language must be revised thoroughly to meet the standards that would…

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