Oliver Smith

According to Marx, there are several “powers” of commodities. He believed that a commodity has both a use-value and an exchange value but that there was also had a third factor: value. Use-value is how valuable a good is. Marx explains how it is only useful for the person using the commodity. For example, if I am selling a frisbee or a chicken, I have no use-value for this commodity. The use-value of a commodity only serves to satisfy social need. The demand is for its function only exists for the

The Transformation of Charity In "First as Tragedy, Then as Farce," psychoanalytic philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Zizek poses the question, "Why in our economy, charity is no longer the idiosyncrasy of some good guys here and there, but the basic constituent of our economy?" in order to expose the problems associated with charity in a cultural capitalist society. Zizek explains the tendency in today’s capitalism to combine our “egotist consumption” with our “anti-consumerist duty to do something

I was quite intrigued to start reading 1984, and I was disappointed by how quickly it ended. It focused on an overruling government that forced the inhabitants to only think for the better of the government. The ruling force know as Big Brother, was the ultimate power that could not be betrayed. The people were not allowed to think for themselves because the government saw this as a form of treachery. Big Brother and the party (the form of government) took away all forms of pleasure so the people

In chapter one, Marx says that a commodity is a use value and exchange value. The commodity as a use value is something that humans want or need, the use value of the commodity is determined by how useful the commodity is, but Marx says it is immeasurable and explains that it can only be determined when consumed. After he explains, use-value Marx explains commodities as an exchange value. He explains that commodities’ value as the quantity of other commodities that it will exchange for. Later in

What are the reasons that hierarchies emerge in organizations? What about the roles and the nature of this emergence? Does this aid in structuring these organizations/work areas? In this essay, I will be relating the description of activities that take place in an early industrial pin factory from Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations to the organizing and structuring of work. The relation will be described done by examining the division and specialization of labour, requirements that lead to the need for

Literary Devices Character “There was no emotion in her eyes, no sense of the person behind it… At the girl's throat was a necklace of human tongues … Just for a moment the girl looked at Mark Fossie with something close to contempt” (O’brien 105). From the introduction of her character, Mary Anne Bell, seemed like the typical American girl, but that changed within time. Her character at first was flat and dull; she behaved in the way any “girl next door” type would. Coming to Vietnam to her was

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”This quote by John F. Kennedy illustrates that by conforming to society, is being imprisoned to society and that if a person is conforming, they, as an individual, will never grow. In The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, the protagonist, Esther Greenwood feels pressure to be a housewife and be like every other women at that time period, all the while not having the option to be independent and encounters oppressive men throughout the story. She

Throughout The Bell Jar and The Color Purple both women are subjected to societal constructs that dictate the course of their lives. Although Celie and Ester come from different experiences and upbringings, they both endure the restricted freedoms, frustration, cruelty and violence that have been thrust upon women throughout history. In The Bell Jar Esther uses the fig tree story as a metaphor for her life. The fig tree and the figs upon it represent the opportunities and paths Esther's life could

Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar is an anti-coming of age novel. Plath’s novel focuses on Esther Greenwood a young college student on the cusp of adulthood. At the beginning of The Bell Jar, Esther is a young girl and relatively innocent compared to the world she’ll soon find herself in. Esther goes through all the usual rites that signify a young woman coming of age, college, marriage proposal etc. Ultimately however these experiences and the pressures they put on Esther break and permanently

Winston Smith- Winston Smith is the protagonist of 1984. He is the character that the reader connects with the most, and the reader sees the world from his point of view. Winston is a kind of innocent man in a world gone wrong, and it is through his character that the reader is able to understand as well as feel the suffering that engulfs the totalitarian society of Oceania. Even Winston’s name is gives the understanding and feel of this totalitarianistic society as the name Winston is used to represent