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The Marcusian Conceptions of Automation In his book One-Dimensional Man, Herbert Marcuse argues that automation is a centrifugal tendency that is characteristic of technology itself. For Marcuse, automation can be a benefit, but carries with it some dangerous liability. The negative aspect is that that automation has the potentiality of use by repressive forces in society viz. government, to maintain the existing conditions. In a positive sense however, automation has the ability to yield a…

In 1979, China introduced it’s one-child policy in order to decrease the nation’s rapidly growing population rate. Couples of the Han Chinese ethnicity were not allowed to raise more than one child. In this article, I will argue that China’s one-child policy was a good idea because it lowered the pollution rate and allowed more space for families, provided better opportunities for women, and supplied young adults with better futures. China’s one-child policy was a favorable act because it…

daughters. Their boorish acts led to more than 100,000 girls being placed into foster care. Amongst these numbers, the law also prevented over 400 million births. One of the most significant effects of the policy has been on China’s sex ratio. China has a grossly unequal ratio of about 114 males to every 100 females, (Background). The one-child policy was implemented to curb a then surging population and limit the demands for water and other resources, as well as to alleviate social, economic,…

Between 1958 and 1962, over 20 million people died of starvation. The reason why the One Child Policy started was to reduce the population growth. Deng Xiaoping tried to fix the population problem by passing the One Child Policy. In the One Child Policy if you have more than one child you will be fined up to $50,000. In 1979, there was evidence that with this policy the population growth was reducing. China’s One Child Policy must be banned because girls are abandoned, killed, or living in…

in many countries. According to the one child policy, some serious problems like a skewed abolishment and gender ratio are still happening in currently China’s society. However, in China there are specific laws to forbid that from happening called one child policy. It only allows each family to have no more than one child. According to my perspective, I strongly believe that the government should abolish the one child policy. First of all, why does the one child policy exist? China’s…

the lacking numbers of children, and more parents sterilized their baby based off of what gender it was, China would never have reached to where the country wants to be in future generations. China's One child Policy was a bad policy enforced due to labor shortage and gender inequality. The One Child Policy that China enforced was a bad policy due to the labor shortage in the country. As China continues to thrive, the amount work being completed in the country was caused by the number of…

Authors intentionally develop male and female literary characters within their writings to reflect the role of women and men in society. The novels, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Women at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi display male and female literary characters. One Hundred Years of Solitude incorporates magical realism, through the novel it tells the story of the Buendia family generations beginning from the sixteenth century in Macondo. Garcia portrays a…

The society in the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is a patriarchal society. In a patriarchal society, women play a vital role to maintain the community and families. This role is displayed in the actions of Ursula, Santa Sofía de la Piedad, and Fernanda. Ursula is a perfect example of this vital role, throughout the story she works to maintain the community and her family. Her role in her family is to try and preserve the family and the house. When Jose Arcadio Buendia isolates himself in…

devoted his life to spreading a positive message to all through Reggae Music. One of his most important concerts was The One Love Peace Concert of 1978, Marley brought on stage the Prime Minister of Jamaica Michael Manley and Edward Seaga the leader of political oppression and asked they shake hands as he was always using his music and hoping to inspire and forge bonds of love and peace between any in conflict. Bob was at one time awarded with a United Nations Medal of Peace for his efforts.…

Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich depicts a typical day in the life of a seemingly average poor man entrapped for crimes he did not commit being worked to death in the gulag. In a system designed to kill and forget, Shukhov, the protagonist, manages to live and survive. One Day presents Shukhov in binary form throughout One Day, as a hidden holy fool whom we learn much from and a latter Shukhov which questions the first. Shukhov teaches through lessons of gratitude and…