Hedgehog

In Duff McDonald’s paper, The Running of the Hedgehogs, he talks about a certain type of investment called hedge funds. These funds are compared to buying multi-million dollar art pieces that can be sold at a higher price later on, a past time for the ultra rich. The article talks about as of now, there are few regulations regarding hedge funds versus mutual funds. But mentions there are 9,000 hedge funds, with 351 managing $1 billion (page 166). He further explains that if 1 out of 3 prominent…

Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a piece that provides ample fodder for the habitual deep thinker. With narrators of exceptional intelligence, the piece is elegant; their precision of vocabulary and depth of thought lends itself to various levels of analysis and interpretation. There is a compelling quality to the story, wrapped in and with literature. This book grounds itself in high intellect. The works of Husserl and Tolstoy appear significantly in the piece, coupled with…

The Dalai Lama once stated, “A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.” I believe this quote is a great example of what occurs throughout The Elegance of the Hedgehog because both the main characters Paloma and Renee are not transparent about who they truly are and as a result feel insecure around others. This insecurity is what spurs them on to lock themselves away and not voice their opinions because they are afraid of being different or standing out. While in…

Essay #5 The comparison between the fox and the hedgehog can be nuanced in their distinctions. The two animals represent knowing a little about everything as compared to knowing everything about one or few things respectively. There is even a good argument for both being needed to successfully navigate life’s everyday problems. When used as a tool, this duality can help to classify people into two simple groups. Though the pedigree of most humans goes deeper than the probability of a coin flip;…

best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.” – Eleanor Roosevelt. Philosophy is an abstract study of knowledge, existence, and overall, life. In The Elegance of the Hedgehog, philosophy is mainly expressed in a question of what the meaning of life and death is, due to one of main characters contemplating suicide. Though most of the light shined on those two aspects of philosophy, other philosophical pieces and…

body segment look different from another, they called it hedgehog. The mammal equivalent is called Sonic Hedgehog. Sonic Hedgehog is present in a variety of different species. The gene turns on during the same time in these various species; it works by having each digit develop differently depending on the distance from the gene.Our thumbs and pinky look different due to sonic hedgehog. An experiment was conducted where the Sonic Hedgehog from a chicken was moved to the opposite side, the result…

purchasing the company (CEO, COO, CFO, board of directors) are responsible for creating and executing a plan of action. IV.) The plan will be to evaluate the pros and cons of the business acquisition prior to accepting or declining the merger. Using the Hedgehog Concept, the owner will see he is acting as a “fox” and pursuing multiple ends at the same time, while…

to say I think that Kelly is a hedgehog after watching a video of her talking live about the situation. The textbook mentions how, “Both foxes and hedgehogs tend to over predict change, however, Tetlock found that hedgehogs does so more than foxes and how this was the case for predicting both change for the better and change for the worse”(Chapter 9, pg. 95). After watching the New Entertainment show and what Kelly had to say live, I am thinking she is the hedgehog because she seems very strong…

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery: The Beauty and Tragedy of Living Realistically In The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, the two protagonists, similar in nature but living very separate lives search within themselves and through observing the residents of the hotel where they live for the meaning of life and death. Muriel Barbary reveals her ideas, or at least the ideas she intends to convey in this novel, of the true meaning of life through symbolizing the complexity of…

thought is unnecessary. While society upholds science as the dominant method of inquiry, it could not survive without the humanities, and vice versa. In fact, their relationship is similar to that of a mutualistic symbiotic one. In his book, “The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister’s Pox”, Stephen Jay Gould presents an argument as to how the two split, but also how it is possible to close the rift between the studies and reach a point when they can be used together. He believes that this…