Abstract This paper relates that the author's own life is like a blank paint canvas. The author states that, with each and every experience and emotion that she possess, she is destined to create new and interesting experiences, none of which could be accomplished without her Muslim faith. The paper compares this metaphor to a story written by Dorothy Allison entitled "This Is Our World" because this narrative offers a similar explanation regarding the reality of art and its significance in daily living.
From the Paper "My personal experiences have been diverse to say the least, and I like to think of my life as an unfinished paint canvas that continues to evolve with each stroke of the paintbrush. As each day passes, I am able to add a scene to the canvas that will eventually culminate into one vibrant and sundry painting. This metaphor may be compared to a story written by Dorothy Allison entitled "This Is Our World," since this narrative offers a similar explanation regarding the reality of art and its significance in daily living. From my own life, I possess the knowledge and experience that is necessary to create my own canvas, regardless of the simplicity of many events, and these experiences combine to tell my story in a unique way."
Abstract This paper examines Henry Allison's critique of Kant's theory of rational judgement and then highlights and explains the difficulties Allison has with Kant's theory. Specifically, this paper explains Allison's view that, in contrast with Kant, one cannot have a "disinterested liking" toward the object being judged.
From the Paper "The aesthetics of taste and the merits of rational judgement are often posited as binary opposites. Yet rationalism did not lead Kant to exclude taste from his system of philosophy. Instead, taste figures prominently in Kant's analytic, notes scholar Henry Allison in his text on Kant's Theory of Taste. (2) The theory of disinterested taste advanced in Kant's Analytic of the Beautiful is explicitly in dialogue with his German philosophic contemporaries. It attempts to define a pure judgment of taste, which Kant believes must be devoid of all interest. ?Everyone has to admit that if a judgement about beauty is mingled with the least interest than it is very partial and not a pure judgement of taste.?
Abstract The paper weights each of Graham T. Allison's three conceptual models against the decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the models. The paper explains the rational policy model, the organizational processes model and the bureaucratic politics model. The paper concludes that because the war is a subject of such recent history, and a variety of debates exist as to its actual cause, the conceptual models prove extremely useful in organizing and evaluating many of the war's proposed motivations. The writer of the paper therefore is of the view that although they were conceived over three decades ago, Allison's conceptual models remain relevant to today's foreign policy world.
Outline:
Introduction
Rational Policy Model
Organizational Processes Model
Bureaucratic Politics Model
Evaluation and Conclusion
From the Paper "In 1969, Harvard University's Graham T. Allison revolutionized foreign policy with his American Political Science Review article, "Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis," creating three theoretical models that are still widely references in international relations theory today: Rational Policy Model, Organizational Process Model, and Bureaucratic Politics Model. While some have heeded the models as infallible, others have suggested their need for reconditioning. In their 1992 study, Jonathan Bendor of Stanford University and Thomas H. Hammond of Michigan State University found that "the models require substantial reformation" by subjecting them to a "systematic critical analysis" (301). Other scholars, like Andrew Farkas, have considered one of Allison's models--in his case Rational Actor Model--and critiqued the model based on other factors, such as psychological data (343)."
Compares and contrasts several reviews of Allison's "Bastard Out of Carolina". Also reviews autobiographical details of the life of Dorothy Allison as revealed in published interviews in order to contextualize the novel.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 9 sources, 1995, $ 47.95
From the Paper "Dorothy Allison had published collections of poems (The Women Who Hate . . . Me), short stories (Trash), and essays (Skin). In 1992, she published her first novel, Bastard Out of Carolina. The book, set in Greenville County, South Carolina, in the 1950's, is the hard-hitting, often downright brutal story of the teenaged narrator, Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright, the illegitimate daughter of Anney, who was poor, fifteen, and unmarried when Bone was born. The greatest shame in Anney's life was the stark red "ILLEGITIMATE" stamped across the bottom of Bone's birth certificate; she tries several times--and fails--to have the stamp removed from the record. Finally she marries a sweet young man, Lyle, and has a second daughter, Reese. Though they are poor, they are happy, and so when Lyle is suddenly ..."
Abstract This paper looks at the book " Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club" by anthropologist Anne Allison. It discusses the sociological approaches to how women are treated in the clubs and also how men are looked upon after they retire from work. Allison has used her own unique research method of using hands on experience rather than textual research and relying on others views.
Abstract This paper analyses the similarities between Bone, the main character of "Bastard Out of Carolina" and Dorothy Allison, the author of the book. These two women undergone similar unpleasent experiences such as sexual abuse.
From the Paper "This is a novel in the southern setting of Greenville, South Carolina. The main characters are of the Boatwright family. These people see themselves as very strong, proud, and independent. Ruth Ann Boatwright, also known as ?Bone,? is the center of the story. This book sees her character grow from a helpless child, to a very mature teen. It would be difficult for anyone to rise above the poverty and lack of education in this town, but somehow Bone gets through it all. From the beginning, it seems like a formula for failure. Annie Boatwright was her mother, giving birth to Bone at just 15 years old. Bone will never know the identity of her biological father, making her the forbidden bastard child. Her mother re-marries to a man called ?Daddy Glen.? From yet another previous lover, Annie has a child named Reese. The story follows this disjointed family through various moves, quarrels, and deaths. It is not long before Daddy Glen starts to strongly resent Bone, and turns his resentment into anger and lust. The story swells to a point where the mother, Annie, must make a choice between her husband or daughter. Bone finds that her mother has deserted her in the end, and at the age of 12 she is left to be raised by an aunt. After being molested, raped, beaten, and finally deserted, she still has a great respect for her mother. This story shows a little girl's strength to rise above hatred and betrayal."
Abstract The paper explores four books which are linked by the trauma of the women characters - "The Bluest Eyes" (Toni Morrison), "Jasmine", (Bharati Mukherjee) "Bastard Out of Carolina" (Dorothy Allison), and "White Oleander" (Janet Fitch). The paper shows how each book involves the story of a young woman who suffered abuse through no fault of her own and that although they take place at different times, different locations and to different types of young women, they are linked. The author touches on the thread of abuse towards women in real life.
From the Paper "As a young girl she shows her strength when she saves the village women from a wild dog. Throughout her life in India, Jasmine, a young Punjab girl undergoes a series of changes. She is the embodiment of the fatalistic beliefs of the Hindu religion as she goes through cycles that allow her to become a mature woman in a new country, America. The story is told from the perspective that young woman in America as she recalls the life she lead in India, and how she came to America. Behind her is the oppression of females. Ahead of her is hope for a better life. In her is the clash of beliefs from the fatalistic Hindu, to the optimistic American. Along the way her name is changed several times until she winds up with the non-ethnic Jane, instead of Jasmine."
Abstract This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the short essays Dorothy Allison's "A Question of Class," and Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing," Specifically, it shows how the impact of poverty shapes the personality of the individual and how this theme is developed in both essays. The paper shows that poverty affects each person differently. Some people simply accept poverty, and have no hope for the future. Others, like the two women characterized in the essays, do not accept poverty, but see it differently, and therefore react to it differently.
From the Paper "The author of "I Stand Here Ironing," Tillie Olsen, was born in 1913 to immigrant parents. As a young woman she worked in factories, as a waitress, and a laundress, so she understood the poverty and oppression she writes about in this work. This story was originally published in 1961. The story illustrates the grinding poverty during the era of the Great Depression in the United States, and how difficult that poverty made life for women and their children. It also shows its affect on later generations, when it affects the daughter Emily's life, too. She has to take care of the younger children, and really never has a childhood of her own. Her mother remembers, "I was a young mother, I was a distracted mother. There were other children pushing up, demanding" (Olsen). In the story, it is obvious that it was mostly poverty that created the situation that forced a mother to neglect her young child. As the mother irons, she remembers, and the story draws the reader into her world."
Abstract Compares the works of Woodrow Wilson, Frederick Taylor, and Graham Allison and their influence on the study of administration and the roles of public administrators.
From the Paper "Many voices have had profound influences on the development of public administration. The writings of Woodrow Wilson and Frederick Taylor were just two voices that identified many of the critical themes that would be permanent parts of this field of study. In Wilson's (1887) "Study of Administration," he expressed his idea of improving government efficiency by developing a management system free from political intervention. In "Scientific Management," Taylor (1912) explained scientific management principles"duties assumed by those in management. Both of their works can be compared to that of Graham Allison's (1979) "Public and Private Management: Are They Fundamentally Alike"" In it, he examined the characteristics of public managers and the characteristics of their environments. These three writings are similar in content; however, there are some portions where the ideas of the authors contrast."
Abstract This paper discusses how Allison uses rhetorical strategies to show the danger of classification by social status. It explains how the author discusses social roles as they relate to a child growing up in South Carolina in the 1950s when social roles were much more defined.
From the Paper "In this passage Allison shows that the Boatwrights discriminate against others just as they are discriminated against due to social rank. Grey and Earl hate the black children even though they have never talked. The boys take pride in the fact that the black children are afraid of them and that their parents force them to stay inside, so that there will not be trouble among the children. Regardless of the anger they feel when members of society differentiate them, the white trash, from themselves, the wealthy, they in turn do the same thing to black people, who are by race viewed as substandard because solely of their genetic background."
Abstract This paper discusses the effect of societal norms in relation to the characters in Dorothy Allison's novel, "Bastard out of Carolina". The paper discusses Bone's relation to the women that surround her, especially her Aunt Raylene.
From the Paper "In her novel, Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison portrays what might be viewed as the stereotypical "white trash" family. Such stereotypes are widely understood and often include many themes found in Allison's novel. Her employment of the themes of incest, and illegitimacy and certain ideologies of motherhood undeniably offer visions of the ugliness and injustices of poverty found in her novel. Allison's portrayal of her characters under such circumstances sets the stage for an analysis of her characters reactions and positions in an unsympathetic society."
Abstract By claiming that space is empirically real and transcendentally ideal, Kant rejects both the Newtonian and Leibnizian metaphysical views, though, to be sure, he also finds a median between them. In the preface to the "Critique of Pure Reason," Kant asks, "How are synthetic judgments a priori possible?" To show that they are, he cites pure mathematics and pure natural science as 'progressive' exemplars. Kant plans to show that these judgments are possible, in part, because of the pure forms of intuition, namely, space and time. In this paper, the writer gives a detailed examination and critique of his main arguments to this effect, principally with reference to H. Allison's excellent commentary, "Kant's Transcendental Idealism."
From the Paper "His position was that such a form must necessarily and logically proceed the actual intuition of an object, and thus, must be given by the mind (logically) prior to any possible experience of an object as distinct from the self. This is the sense in which it is necessary and universal - that is, a priori - as it is an 'epistemic condition' of all human knowledge derived from outer sense. So far I have only asserted Kant's claims, I shall now turn to the arguments he puts forth to establish the apriority and pure intuitive nature of space."
Abstract This paper seeks to explore various challenges that faced program manager Gary Allison in the management of Orion Shield Project. Some of these issues are technical, ethical, legal or contractual in nature. The Orion Shield Project was an undertaking to improve the structural capabilities of NASA's launch rocket booster known as the Shuttle Launch Booster. The paper is a study of the activities undertaken by Gary as a product manager in charge of phase one of the Orion Shield project.
From the Paper "According to Meredith, J. R, Samuel J. M, Samuel J. M, Jr (2005, p. 465), the wrong direction and failure of the Orion Shield project could be attributed to the wrong choice of the project manager. Gary was more interested and confident with his work as an engineer and not a project manager. His desire to experiment with his MBA coupled with Henry Larsen's insistence drove him to take up the management of this project. Because he was very new to project management, It was incorrect for Henry Larsen to let Gary be solely in charge of this project, the best way could have been to assign another more experienced project manager to work hand in hand with Gary or better still he could have allowed a more experienced project manager to lead the project while Gary worked as an assistant to the experienced project manager. Henry Larsen's motive could also be read in his choice of having Gary as the project manager, he needed a new inexperienced manager who could be easily manipulated to promote his unethical management standards."
Abstract The paper discusses Anne Allison's book "Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club". The paper notes that the book examines the corporate practice in Japan of entertaining the "salarymen" in the sexualized environment of hostess clubs and that the book's theme contributes to the anthropological and sociological literature on the construction of gender and sexuality, as well as Japanese corporate culture. The paper comments that the story line introduces the readers to a dimension of Japanese white-collar male workers' lives hardly ever considered seriously even by Japanese scholars themselves. The paper recommends this book for courses on Japanese studies, gender and sexuality, anthropology, sociology and for scholars interested in culture and the workplace.
From the Paper "Nightwork is an ethnography on the production of masculinity and the corporate Japanese elite. As a participant observer, Allison spent four months in 1981 working as a hostess to learn what goes on in a hostess bar, and why. The setting is a high-class club in Roppongi, Tokyo, where Japanese men go to relax and unwind with their corporate colleagues. In this book, Allison investigates the conflation between work and entertainment among Japanese salarymen. She analyzes how the masculinist behaviors practiced at the hostess clubs strengthen internal and external corporate relations. Specifically, Nightwork explores how Japanese cultural and ideological structures shape and support these behaviors."
Abstract This paper deals with approaches taken to Kant's categorical imperative. The author examines the Kant's work such as "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals", and various interpretations by critics such as Dietrichson as well as Allison. A look at Kant's approach to methodologies.
From the Paper "When Immanuel Kant wrote his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, it was as the basis for which he would write all his latter works on the study of morality ? namely reason in Kant's estimation (though admittedly this is a simplification). There have been numerous chapters written on Kant's work in the Groundwork, and therefore, there have been numerous approaches to analysis of the Groundwork attempted by authors who have sought to either support or attack Kant's conceptions of human motivations."
