energy reduction. In fact, quite frequently, efficiency improvements makes things worse by actually encouraging a net waste in energy. This counter-intuitive effect is known as the Jevons Paradox. This energy-efficiency paradox was first described in the mid-1800s by a British economist named William Stanley Jevons. During this era, coal was the fuel that powered industrialization in Britain. Britain was blessed with this valuable resource: geologists estimated that it had around 90 billion tons
Carol Gilligan (1982) sparked a heated academic debate with her popular book In a different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development. In this book Gilligan departs from the traditional sequential stage modals advocated by luminary psychologists such as Piaget (1925) and Kohlberg (1969) and develops her own moral orientation model. Gilligan criticises these theories as she claims they are insensitive to females 'different voice' on morality and therefore result in women achieving lower
Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND, has held many labels, such as being a case history of nuerosis or a specimen of modern tragedy. The most popular label it has obtained however, is being the author's defense of individualism. The novel is writen as a performance, part triad, part memoir, by a nameless personage who claims to be writing for hiomself but consistently maipulates the reader--of whom he is morbidly aware-- to the point where there seems to be no judgement the reader
Paradoxes of Power in Sociological Insight by Randall Collins It may be said that the institution of power has always been a prevalent force in our society. It is a large part of what holds society together; without it civilized society as we know it would not exist. The functions of power range from keeping crime at bay to the more commonplace aspects such as allowing patrons to be served in a restaurant. The notion of power is almost invisible until further analyzed; it is something
correct interpretation of this sentence? This sentence is a paradox. A paradox is an expression or situation that contradicts itself without a defined answer or opinion. Many great writers like to use paradoxes because the reader thinks more about the text. One of the greatest writers of all time; Ernest Hemingway loves to use this in his works. Hemingway not only loves to use them but also Hemingway himself is a paradox. Hemingway is a paradox because he personifies his fatherly traits onto his characters
The Paradox of Heroism in Homer’s Iliad The Iliad presents a full range of valorous warriors: the Achaians Diomedes, Odysseus, and the Aiantes; the Trojans Sarpedon, Aeneas, and Glaukos. These and many others are Homer’s models of virtue in arms. Excelling all of them, however, are the epic’s two central characters, Achilleus, the son of Peleus and, Hector, the son of Priam. In these two, one finds the physical strength, intense determination, and strenuous drive that give them first place within
Dickinson's The Spider holds a Silver Ball Paradox baffles and inspires thinkers because it wipes out the greatest of conclusions, puts us intimately in touch with the very nature of inexplicable feeling, both simultaneously implodes and explodes the mind, and of course induces a certain sensation, as Dickinson puts it, “as if the top of my head were taken off.” It seems to me that in art this is the fix we desire, where sensation obliterates logic. Dickinson's poetry is one of the few places
Theodore Roethke 's "The Waking," is a villanelle, and is made up of five tercets and a quatrain. This villanelle is made up of only two rhyme schemes, two lines of the first stanza alternate repeating with the last line of each tercet and are joined together in the ending quatrain. The two most important lines of the poem are "I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow” (Roethke 1) and "I learn by going where I have to go”(3) These two lines create the meaning of the poem. They are both mentioned
As humans, we have to make choices throughout our lives. Sometimes neither of the choices are good enough by societal or personal ethics for a given situation. These situations are called ethical dilemma and usually consists of complex moral and ethical reasoning. When I think about ethical dilemma, an event that happen to me in my Matriculation Exam (Higher Secondary Exit Exam in Myanmar) stood out to me. The exam result will determine my college career. I need to make the most points to score
In this paper, I am complying all of the skills I have learned throughout this course and applying them to a case study using a caring response from Putrilo and Dougherty’s six-step decision-making process for ethical dilemmas. An ethical dilemma is___________. In Case Study 1, a woman needs a surgery to correct an abdominal aortic aneurysm. The risk of surviving the surgery is 50%, yet the woman is concerned about the potential scar which would result from the surgery and it negatively affecting
classification of a paradox is a veridical paradox, which describes a situation that is ultimately, logically rue, but is either senseless or ridiculous. W.V Quine, famous for his classification paradoxes, stated: “I would not limit the word ‘paradox’ to cases where what is purportedly established is true. I shall call these, more particularly, veridical, or truth-telling, paradoxes.” A veridical paradox, although counter-intuitive, can be demonstrated as true, and a famous example of this paradox is in Gilbert
intense conflicts are internal and paradoxical in nature. Among these is the idea of hope, to which the slaves cling and the masters try to crush. Hope almost always carries a positive connotation, but Frederick Douglass’ narrative exposes its paradox in relation to slavery and freedom, how it was used as a tool to both help and harm. Douglass’ initial perception of hope is a negative one. Douglass uses the metaphor of the Great House Farm, along with situational irony in regards to slaves who
This or That Right vs Wrong and Good vs Bad… We are faced with moral dilemmas every day, some are more difficult than others but it is all based on our preferences. It's what we think we should do while we are being forced to choose between two actions. All of the characters through Of Mice and Men, The Crucible, and The Dark Knight undergo situations and have their own way of doing the right thing. Out of all the characters, the dilemmas dealt with by Of Mice and Men characters were the most heartfelt
Good Country People by Flannery O'Connor Good Country People'; by Flannery O’Connor is an excellent example of irony in literature. From beginning to end it has a steady procession of irony, much of it based on the title of the story: “Good Country People.'; In the beginning of the story we meet Mrs. Freeman, wife of the hired hand. She and her husband have been working for Mrs. Hopewell for four years. “The reason for her keeping them so long was that they were not trash. They were ‘Good Country
This view distilled by Roman rethorics remained the “standard” understanding of irony until German Romanticism. Therefore, with very few exceptions, for twenty centuries irony was thought of as a literary or oratory technique . However, the collision of this version of irony with German philosophy pushed the history of this concept into its modern stage. Crucially, the Romantics did not limit themselves to provide a new definition of what irony is. Irony, as any other concept, can receive a definition
John Ashbery's Paradoxes and Oxymorons This poem is concerned with language on a very plain level. Look at it talking to you. You look out a window Or pretend to fidget. You have it but you don't have it. You miss it, it misses you. You miss each other. This poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot. What's a plain level? It is that and other things, Bringing a system of them into play. Play? Well, actually, yes, but I consider play to be A deeper outside thing, a dreamed
Sit back, relax, and listen to the meanings of these tunes. Lil Peep’s song titled,“Kiss”, takes the listener on an adventure of deep bass bumps with sharp snare hits to explain the story of a painful breakup with a significant other and the aftermath of wanting them back that had fostered inside of Peep’s head. Lil Peep proceeds through the song explaining the issues of how he treated others, how he thinks about himself and the relationship, and the significant other meeting a new lover, causing
of Catch Humans have an uncanny ability to place themselves at a comfortable distance from each other and call it a “mutual understanding,” a “friendship,” or even “true love,” but it is all lies. The essence of man’s mystery is somewhat of a paradox. He yearns to become more familiar with those around him, yet he is unwilling to allow this to happen. The power of "Mending Wall," one of Frost's most often quoted poems, rests upon an opposition. Its two famous lines contradict each other. The
In sonnet 66, Shakespeare creates a paradoxical difficulty for himself as a poet. As Helen Vendler points out, the censorship described in line 9 necessitates an absence of art from the poem (309-10), yet coevally Shakespeare must keep the reader interested. He straddles this problem by speeding the tempo, creating questions in the reader’s mind, and representing intense emotions-- all through apparently artless techniques. Most obtrusively, both sound technique and constant end-stoppage speed
Use of Tone, Irony and Humor in The Hammon and the Beans Ernest Hemingway once explained, "A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it." The attitude and "projection" with which the author creates a story is the tone. A difficult aspect of writing to master, tone