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Deconstruction of Business Ethics, 2006.
This paper discusses the deconstruction of business ethics to enhance morality and justice.
2,730 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 81.95
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This paper explains that, because they are finding that it makes good business sense, corporations of today, regardless of size, have transcended their traditional functions from merely being an economic configuration to become both a political and social unit as well. The author points out that deconstruction theory is useful for raising issues of justice, responsibility and fair treatment in business and management because it (1) questions the boundaries that determine who is the proper subjects of justice or to whom justice is owed, (2) demands responsibility without limits, (3) requires addressing the "Other" in the language of that "Other" and (4) is opposed to all forms of totalitarianism. The paper applies the theories of deconstruction and reconstruction to a variety of sexual political issues, such as pregnant employees and childcare, as applied to a wide range of policies within the management of the organization and their relationship to government intervention.
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Introduction
Organization Theory
Deconstruction
Gendered Characterization
Reconstruction
Government Intervention
Conclusion
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"This is where deconstruction comes in. The word "deconstruction" was first popularized by French philosopher Jacques Derrida. It denotes undoing something that has been constructed in perfect order but gradually loses its desirability because of time and circumstance. It is not the same as reconstruction, which means building an entirely new structure or fortifying the old. In the present-day point of view, deconstruction is the key by which to change the perceptions and attitudes of business management that often impinge on the interest and long-term welfare of individuals."
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Challenging Pedagogy with Deconstruction, 2005.
This paper challenges the traditional language pedagogy with deconstruction.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 6 sources, $ 71.95
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In this article, the writer points out that traditional teaching of language has students vainly searching for the "point" of the story, the meaning, the theme, the plot. The writer maintains that such tactics are ultimately reductive and do not foster critical thinking among students. Further, the writer discusses that in order to challenge students to become more aware of the intricacies of language and become better readers and writers, educators must challenge them to approach language from a more deconstructive position.
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"When confronted with possibility of incorporating deconstruction into pedagogical discussions, it is almost possible to hear a host of teachers everywhere shudder in a mix of disapproval and disgust. Traditional language pedagogy has not been especially forgiving of deconstructive methods, especially on levels other than the university. Nevertheless, it is at the earlier stage that deconstruction can be the most useful in language education. At its heart, deconstruction demonstrates the feeling of the inescapable and the suspicion of language."
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Neoclassicism and Deconstruction, 2001.
2,962 words (approx. 11.8 pages), 11 sources, $ 87.95
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This paper compares two very different literary theories, neoclassicism and deconstruction and shows that their underlying worldviews are at odds with each other. The opening paragraph states that the writer will try to determine which theory is more useful in the study of literature. The two methods are then described in detail, with quotes from their main apologists, Alexander Pope (neoclassicism) and Jacques Derrida (deconstruction). Deconstruction, a theory that many find hard to understand, is particularly well summarized. After thoroughly presenting the basics of both theories, they are applied to two works of literature - "Frankenstein", by Mary Shelley and "Psalm 19" in the Bible. The author concludes that while some aspects of deconstruction can be enlightening, the neoclassic theory is much better for analyzing literature.
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Deconstruction and "Church Going", 2004.
An overview of deconstructionalist literary theory followed by a corresponding analysis of Philip Larkin's poem "Church Going"
2,810 words (approx. 11.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 83.95
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This paper examines Philip Larkin's poem "Church Going" from a deconstructionalist perspective. It also looks at how deconstruction is, a mode of literary criticism and how first advocated by Jacques Derrida, this literary theory has spread like wildfire throughout Western humanities departments. It begins with an overview of deconstructionalist theory, followed by a brief history of "The Movement" (the group to which Larkin was classified) and concludes with an extensive analysis of the poem.
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"This poem is indicative of both Larkin and the poetry group categorized as 'The Movement' to which Larkin, albeit reluctantly, was assigned. Following World War II in Britain, there was a general sense of disillusionment that accompanied imperial decline. In its wake, a group of lower-middle-class white poets emerged that have since been labeled 'The Movement.' This group consisted of such poets as Kingsley Amis, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, Donald Davie, Thom Gunn, Robert Conquest, John Halloway, and John Wain, among many disputed others. The poetry from these individuals tends to reflect everyday life, with a (at the time) newfound emphasis on clarity, democratic values, religious decline and intellectual detachment."
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Clarissa Dalloway: Deconstruction of the Feminine Ideal, 2001.
This essay analyzes Virginia Woolf's, Mrs. Dalloway, and women's roles in it.
2,365 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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This essay examines the ideological roles of women in society. Clarissa Dalloway's unhappiness in marriage reflects defiance in the social ideal. Clarissa's marriage to Richard Dalloway is an action, which supposedly, should make her feel complete. Instead, marriage contributes to her sense of non-being. Clarissa's internal and external state of being is analysed in the first section of the essay. This section looks at Woolf's narrative technique. Woolf uses juxtaposition of male, female; internal, external thought to highlight Clarissa's inability to act upon desire. The second topic of analysis in the essay is Clarissa's loss of identity. Clarissa becomes "Mrs.Dalloway" and defines herself by her new title. She plays the role that is expected in her social group. Though she works hard to maintain the perfect image she is not truly happy with her life. The third part of the essay examines Clarissa's interest in alternative lifestyles as a result of her unhappiness. Clarissa dreams about achieving goals that are unheard of for women of the time. She thinks about alternative relationships with both men and women. Though to weak to act upon such thoughts, Clarissa expresses defiance through her desire. Clarissa's internal resistance is intimately connected to the ideology of her social system.
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"In Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf, the actions, thoughts and experiences of Clarissa Dalloway reflect the pressures on women to play ideological roles in society. Clarissa is an upper class mother, wife and hostess, whose thoughts and desires challenge her domestic role. She is not happy, yet she chooses to maintain the illusion of happiness in her life as a means of survival in a society that shuns independent women. Woolf's narrative serves to deconstruct the politics of gender and masculine privilege through Clarissa's internal discontent. Clarissa Dalloway is externally controlled by the dominant systems of belief in her high-class society. Clarissa's internal resistance to social order is apparent in her state of division, loss of identity, and interest in alternative lifestyles. Through the social interactions and thoughts of Clarissa Dalloway, the ideological and the internal are intimately connected."
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A Deconstruction of Shell's Representation of the Ogoni Issue, 2001.
A critical reading of Shell's Nigeria website and an examination of the reality behind their attempt at corporate 'green-washing'.
1,100 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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The author of this paper argues that Shell's website on the Ogoni Issue presents a picture of an innocent corporation that has been unfairly targeted in an internal political battle in the country it happens to have oil operations in, and stresses that it cannot interfere in the domestic politics of Nigeria. The paper shows how, as has been demonstrated repeatedly over the last several decades, Shell has not only been complicit in human rights violations by various Nigerian military regimes, but has actually encouraged them when they benefited their operations. Far from being an innocent bystander, Shell is embedded in and benefited by the human rights violations in Nigeria. The author surmises that in reality, Shell's website is little more than corporate 'green-washing' in a battle in which media representations are often as salient as political and economic truths.
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"The effects of the 40 year involvement of Royal Dutch/Shell in Nigeria is an extremely complex issue, involving the intersection of many economic, political, environmental, social, and cultural concerns. Ogoniland, a 404 square mile patch of land in the fertile Niger River Delta that is home to over 500,000 Ogoni people, has been the site of the extraction of over $30 billion in oil by the Royal Dutch/Shell Company since the 1950s (Barikor-Wiwa, Cayford). Although comprising less than 1% of the population of the Niger Delta, the Ogoni have been amazingly effective in bringing international attention to both the environmental degradation caused by Shell's oil operations and Shell's complicity in and possible direct support of the human rights violations of the military regime which has until recently controlled the government of Nigeria."
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Deconstructing Gender, 2006.
An analysis of the theme of deconstructing gender in Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" and Jeanette Winterson's "Written on the Body".
2,269 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 20 sources, MLA, $ 70.95
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Through a reading of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" and Jeanette Winterson's "Written on the Body", this paper examines androgyny as a gender position. It looks at how both authors transcend the concepts of gender as opposites of the spectrum and how they bend gender or, 'ungender' gender, with their works.
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"In Orlando Virginia Woolf transcends the concept of gender as opposites of the spectrum. Published in 1928, the same year as The Well of Loneliness, when homosexuality was still taboo and the word androgyny did not yet exist (and an androgynous person was called a hermaphrodite who is a person with both female and male genitalia). the novel was dedicated to Woolf's lover Vita Sackville-West. The novel is the biography of an English aristocratic poet in the 16th century, who becomes the favourite of Elizabeth I. Orlando miraculously changes into a woman and Lady Orlando continues down the centuries in her stately home in Kent. It centres around Orlando's search for her/his (sexual?) identity and fulfillment and it is an escape from fixed gender identity. "
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Deconstructing Virtual Machines, 2005.
This paper is a research project analyzing the lookaside buffer, which the author calls "Sackbut," deconstructing virtual machines.
1,640 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper explains the hypotheses of this project, which are: (1) Little can be done to impact a solution's floppy disk speed, (2) SCSI disks no longer affect performance, and (3) much can be done to affect a system's 10th-percentile instruction rate. The author reports, running "Sackbut" on commodity operating systems, such as LeOS and Minix, the experiments proved that exo-kernelizing the saturated online algorithms was more effective than monitoring them. This paper concludes that the author's system sets a precedent for the visualization of robots, and it is expected that cryptographers will improve on Sackbut for years to come. Tables.
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Introduction
Reliable Communication
Implementation
Results and Analysis
Hardware and Software Configuration
Experimental Results
Related Work
Conclusion
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"Contrarily, this solution is fraught with difficulty, largely due to digital-to-analog converters. Predictably, Sackbut constructs fiber-optic cables. Existing constant-time and classical heuristics use extensible technology to develop the intuitive unification of the partition table and the Turing machine. We view steganography as following a cycle of four phases: synthesis, construction, storage, and emulation. Such a hypothesis is entirely an unfortunate mission but has ample historical precedence. The basic tenet of this solution is the important unification of linked lists and A* search. Combined with the Ethernet, such a claim constructs an analysis of the transistor."
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Deconstructing Dr. Laura Schlessinger, 2002.
Analysis of the media attention Dr. Lauara Schlessinger receives and the controversy it generates, and discussion of her views on homosexuality.
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The following is an essay and analysis of the media attention which surrounds Dr. Laura Schlessinger . Examined first, is the news coverage which she has been receiving, and in turn, why it is controversial. Second, the focus of this discussion is turned toward the goal and aim of 'deconstructing' Dr. Laura Schlessinger . To this end, a number of secondary sources are raised and analyzed toward the end of understanding where this 'perspective' comes from, and in turn, some of the more glaring limitations of her position on homosexuality. This paper argues that this is a form of prejudice which is not substantiated by 'science', and conversely, this paper demonstrates that, in contrast to Canada's inching progress in terms of politically acknowledging same sex relations, Dr. Laura Schlessinger represents a regressive rather than a forward thinking or progressive means of thinking - that is, within a 'liberal' or 'egalitarian' framework.
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The FBI's Attempt to Deconstruct the Black Panther Movement, 2001.
An in-depth look at the Black Panther Party with a focus on the civil rights movements.
6,050 words (approx. 24.2 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 143.95
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The paper muddles on the evolution of the African American struggle coupled with civil right movements formulated- specifically the Black Panther Party- and focuses on the question of what the organization is, where it originated and spread, and why it was so popular.
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Amid the turbulent struggle for equal rights for the black community in America numerous organizations and arenas emerged as potential facilitators of that laudable goal. The struggle was long and arduous, and various approaches arose as potential modalities to pursue the end most effectively. The Black Panther Party, which was established in 1966, was one such tactical approach. In its brief sojourn on the American scene, it attracted mega attention and an almost mythical status and reputation. Actions to cope with the potential repercussions of the Black Panther Party were numerous, and often violated associated constitutional norms within the American psyche for fairness and legal protection. Nevertheless to some powers that be on at that time, no more dangerous cadre of proponents of black rights existed then the Black Panther Party (Summers, 1993, 21). To those who opposed the methods, philosophy, and personas of the Black Panther Party, the need to crush the organization and nullify their influence within the societal complex of the United States was considered a crusade for the survival of this country itself. To truly analyze and come to terms with the importance and problematic issue of the Black Panther Party, it is necessary to review in some depth the overall complex involved in the struggle for black liberation in this country. The Black Panther Party occupies a decided niche in this puzzle, but it did not exist in a vacuum. It is a clear product and reaction to what preceded it.
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Deconstructing Racial Essentialism, 2008.
This paper addresses the question of how to define race.
5,023 words (approx. 20.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 126.95
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This paper discusses the age old question regarding what constitutes racial identity. The paper relates that the theory that there is something inherent within each race that makes them vary from one another whether biologically, psychologically, was a truth that permeated the discourse of racial identity of both Black and White intellects. The paper then goes on to examine the emersion of anti-essentialist critique of essentialism, and more specifically how the debate between the two sides relate to the Black Power nationalist movement of the 1960s and its attempt to make a new cultural identity for the Black community of interests in America. The paper argues that the performative nature of Black Nationalism is a testimony against the very essentialist claims that it is built upon and that its heavy reliance on rhetoric and language demonstrates that like language, racial identity is indeed a social and historical creation.
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"The argument over what constitutes racial identity is one that spans centuries, continents, and (as it is a debate that is still being occurring between critical race theorists, political activists, and artists) disciplines. The theory that there is something inherent within each race that makes them vary from one another whether biologically, psychologically, was a truth that permeated the discourse of racial identity of both Black and White intellects. This paper is concerned with the emersion of anti-essentialist critique of essentialism, and more specifically how the debate between the two sides relate to the Black Power nationalist movement of the 1960s and its attempt to make a new cultural identity for the Black community of interests in America. While the Black Power movement was an endeavor to empower and politically mobilize a disenfranchised group of society, its politics, rooted in racial essentialism, became more about racial performativity than political policy. The Black Nationalist movement was about controlling a style, an appearance, and more significantly a language rooted in performance (particularly poetry) that was believed would mobilize the otherwise stationary black subject. The performative nature of the Black Nationalist Movement became difficult in that racial identity came to be closely linked to political agency for it was assumed that the language of the political activist could transform the Black masses because of racial essentialism. However, it is my argument that the performative nature of Black Nationalism is a testimony against the very essentialist claims that it is built upon and that its heavy reliance on rhetoric and language demonstrates that like language, racial identity is indeed a social and historical creation
"The main question at the heart of the discussion between racial essentialists and anti-essentialists is an obvious one: how does one define race? According to W. E. B. Du Bois "It is a vast family of human beings, generally of common blood and language, always of common history, traditions and impulses who are [...] striving together for the accomplishment of certain [...] ideals of life." (Bracey Jr. 252-53). This depiction of race as "family" is one that runs throughout essentialist discourse which, coupled with the imagery of common blood, emphasizes the idea of biological sameness. Paul Gilroy, a post modernist writer, critiques this definition of race as family as an "[...] absolutist approach to "race" and ethnicity which animated black nationalism during the sixties but which [...] has also failed when faced with the need to make sense of the increasingly distinct forms of black culture produced from different diaspora populations" (Gilroy, 98). According to Gilroy, the essentialist view of race as a family does not account for the various, differing ways in which populations involved in the Diaspora have manufactured culture."
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"La Revolucion", 2006.
Discusses Thomas Benjamin's deconstruction of historiographies of the Mexican Revolution.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 31.95
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This essay provides an account of how Thomas Benjamin's deconstruction of historiographies of the Mexican Revolution demonstrate how the ideology associated with written versions of the Revolution is a state sponsored one. It often tended to deny the distinct causes, leaders and enemies of Revolution in favor of promoting a unified effort that would promote national cohesion and a common struggle.
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"Thomas Benjamin's 'La Revolucion Mexico's Great Revolution as Memory Myth and History' the author provides an account of how culture and memory are often the products of production by elites who rule society ..."
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The Tempest, 2005.
This paper provides a deconstruction analysis of Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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A deconstruction analysis of Shakespeare's play "The Tempest." The paper focuses on how Prospero imposes English values and beliefs on Caliban primarily because they are "English" and not absolute truths.
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"The modernist view of human identity believed that human beings through independent thought and ration developed their ideas, beliefs and values. Following the modernists, Postmodernists like the founder of deconstruction, Jacques Derrida, maintained that all values are a product of culture. To the deconstructionist, meaning is out there but is not knowable through a Western valuation of beliefs, truths or meaning."
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Postmodernist Literature, 2006.
A discussion regarding the representation (or the deconstruction) of national culture in the postmodernist fiction of the United States.
2,870 words (approx. 11.5 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 85.95
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This paper reviews four novels from the perspective of the representation or deconstruction of national culture in the USA. The four books this paper discusses are Philip Roth's 'Portnoy's Complaint', Kurt Vonnegut's 'Cat's Cradle', Saul Bellow's 'Herzog' and Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man'.
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"That "vanished frontier" is perhaps Vonnegut's allusion to the loss of the idealism that America once represented. "The highest form of treason is to say Americans aren't loved wherever they go, whatever they do," Minton added on page 98. "
"Vonnegut's postmodernism style throughout this book is a quasi-cynical but not entirely exaggerated representation of America; the folly of religion, for example, is shown in numerous passages. On page 4-5, God liked people "in sailboats much better than He liked people in motorboats." And on page 2, humanity is organized into teams to do "God's will" but those teams never discover "what they are doing." Hence, God is a mystery, and writers like Vonnegut have license to muse over society's clumsy attempt to define and categorize Him for their own future salvation from themselves. "
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The Nude in Art, 2001.
Examines approach of Marcel Duchamp & Jean Cockteau re: use of nude as a subject. Their deconstruction of the nude as subject of art.
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"The influence of Marcel Duchamp and Jean Cocteau on the use of the nude as a subject in art falls outside the usual categories of influence. Duchamp's singular experience with his Nude Descending a Staircase (1912) was instrumental in his decision to turn from any conventional type of art career and become the twentieth-century archetype of the anti-artist. Even though the popular 'scandal' surrounding the painting was of a type that would have launched a more typical artistic career, and his intentions with regard to the Nude were somewhat conventional, Duchamp's subsequent path was devoted to the exposure of art's ways and means. The nude, however, was one subject whose dimensions fascinated him and at the end of his career he created the disturbing multimedia work Given: 1. The Waterfall 2. The Illuminating Gas (1946-66) which, in some..."
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