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    George Eliot is a verbose writer, and is exceedingly descriptive when it comes to her characters in The Mill on the Floss. Three central characters Eliot paints with an especially detailed and many-layered brush are Maggie, Tom, and Mr. Tulliver. Mr. Tulliver is a decently prosperous farmer, the proprietor of Dorlcote Mill, and the father of Maggie and Tom. In the first dialogue of the story, we learn that Mr. Tulliver’s desire “‘is to give Tom a good eddication, an eddication as’ll be a bread to

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    Life in Southern Mill Villages, 1900s The Industrial Revolution in America began to develop in the mid-eighteen hundreds after the Civil War. Prior to this industrial growth the work force was mainly based in agriculture, especially in the South (“Industrial Revolution”). The advancement in machinery and manufacturing on a large scale changed the structure of the work force. Families began to leave the farm and relocate to larger settings to work in the ever-growing industries. One area

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    Rebecca Harding Davis wrote “Life in the Iron Mills” in the mid-nineteenth century in part to raise awareness about working conditions in industrial mills. With the goal of presenting the reality of the mills’ environment and the lives of the mill workers, Davis employs vivid and concrete descriptions of the mills, the workers’ homes, and the workers themselves. Yet her story’s realism is not objective; Davis has a reformer’s agenda, and her word-pictures are colored accordingly. One theme that

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    people’s lives the most, so we concluded to do our on project on the innovation in the textile industry and impact of the textile mills. The textile mills provided people with a cheap source of cloth that had an impact on every person’s lives during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In order to get our information on the innovation and impact of the textile mills, as a group we gathered information from various places and did extensive research on our topic. We found a great quantity of information

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    officer (CEO) and owner of Textile Gulshan Mills sat in his office puzzling over the best way that how to deal with conflicts among the employees of the company. The conflicts results from ethnic differences were escalating in to riots, which continuously caused damage to company reputation. Now Shahzad desired to take firm action that was thwarted by the even more dangerous possibility of crippling union strikes. Indeed, the diversity at Textile Gulshan Mills was causing tremendous issue at factory

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    Bloomington Utilitarian Theories of Justice In 1,000 words or less, from what we have read of John Stuart Mill, offer the J.S. Mill-style Utilitarian argument you think he would make about whether or not same-sex marriage ought to be legal in the United States and on what grounds. Classical utilitarianism is grounded in the ‘greatest happiness principle’: the preservation of happiness of all of mankind (Mill, 2003, p. 138).The theory states that one must act so as to bring about the greatest happiness for

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    that person conforms to the popular beliefs and values. John Stuart Mill starts off with an argument questioning to what extent “the nature and limits of the power which can legitimately [exercise] by society over the individual” (Mill, n.d., p. Chapter 1). So what if, the nature and limits of power of society know no bounds? This will lead us to the alternative world where liberty and conformity will be social norms. So then Mill goes on and argues that “If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion

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    Introduction In today’s paper, I will be discussing Mill and Nietzsche. These two have differing opinions on what the biggest threat to society are: Mill argues that Freedom of Speech is essential to finding the truth (Mill, 2006, p. P12)– so even controversial opinions should be listened to. He fears that the tyranny of the majority could mean the Truth could be lost because alternative opinions are not listened to. The other threat to society to Mill is that women have fewer rights then men – such

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    philosophers is freedom, and the ways in which a society may be considered free in the first place. Two philosophers stand out in terms of their ideas of political freedom: John Stuart Mill and John Rawls. Rawls and Mill both strive to convince us, the reader as to what form a society must take in order to maximize its freedom. Mill argues that the only restraints set upon people are those in order to prevent someone from doing direct harm to another1 . Rawls goes one step further, where he solves not

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    Utilitarianism is a doctrine in normative ethics that is outlined and defended by many philosophers, including the English philosopher John Stuart Mill as a standard to determine what are right and wrong actions. At its most basic claim, the right course of action one must take should be in the interest of maximizing what is known as utility. The right course of action is determined as being right if it maximizes the total benefit and happiness gained, while at the same time reducing the greatest

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