In Miya Tokumitsu’s article “In the Name of Love,” she expresses the notion of how doing what you love in the line of work is selfish, and is a form of distraction for the actual work at hand. She derives that an issue of DWYL is that it is based around the idea of thinking only about oneself, instead of those around them. She explains that there are two sides to this issue, and that people tend to forget the side of people that are forced to work low-end jobs just to suffice enough money for their families to survive. A major points she includes is how DWYL distinguishes class lines, and she draws attention to the features that make up both. She also contradicts the typical idea of passion and the order that it follows, by saying how it is
In society, most people have an obsession to some extent, these may include such things as a hobby – collecting antiques; or even as simple as having to have things a certain way. For others though, obsession has a different meaning, they might become obsessed with one special object, or possibly attaining a certain goal. They might go about achieving this goal no matter what the consequences to others might be. Mordecai Richler’s book the Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, illustrates one such case of obsession, the title character, Duddy Kravitz becomes obsessed with his grandfather’s saying, “ ‘ A man without land, is nothing.’”, thus starting Duddy on his quest to attain a piece of land. Throughout his quest, Duddy has no regard for the feelings or the relationships he destroys in the process, weather it in his family relations, business relations, or even his personal relations to those that are closest to him.
The inability to achieve “work-life balance” has become a major focus for workplace equality activists. When this topic is brought about it is primarily used to describe how woman cannot have a work and home life but instead are forced to choose. Richard Dorment took on this point of interest from a different perspective in his article “Why Men Still Can’t Have It All” published with esquire. Going against the normal trend he describes how women are not the only ones put into the same sacrificial situations, but instead that men and women alike struggle to balance work and home. Dorment opens up by saying “And the truth is as shocking as it is obvious: No one can have it all.” In doing so Richard Dorment throws out the notion that one
The poem describes workers to be “Killing the overtime ‘cause the dream is your life, / Refusing to take holidays or go home to your spouse, / But for many the overtime comes, ‘cause the work is not done. / Deadlines to be met. So you continue to dream like a war vet, / Having flashbacks to make you shiver and scream” (Jones, stanza 7, lines 2-6). Jones reinforces that overworking for an incentive of money does not give one a sense of gratification, and it also distracts them from the values that should matter more to them than anything else. Both Kohn and Jones have a similar approach to showing the reader the effect that overworking can have on a person, and how it will change their values in life, causing unhappiness. Many students go through school dispirited and do not join various clubs and activities for their own enjoyment. A friend of Kohn’s who was also a high school guidance counsellor had a student with ‘…amazing grade and board scores. It remained only to knock out a dazzling essay on his college applications that would clinch the sale. “Why don’t we start with some books that
This paper focuses mainly on the sincereity as well as the passion with which we do our job. Human body is a very sophisticated machine created by God himself. It can do all sorts of things but there are a few things at which the human body gets very perfect.And that perfectness comes from practice, devotion,love,sincerity and responsibility towards that particular thing. Let me associate the word "thing" in the previous sentence as working. Working for living. Reason I chose to write on this topic was that the Poem " Singapore" written by author Mary Oliver that I read in the book by John Schilb and John Clifford influenced me alot. The Poem narrates the life of a woman which works on an aeroplane and is cleaning teh restrooms which are very dirty. She visually and physically finds the job dirty. But while cleaning that restrooms she sees it in her own world.She finds her hands working in pleasure as she is wondering the scenes of rivers. She realises the truth of life that she has to work to earn her living.
Artsalive.ca. 2004. Love's Labour's Lost Study Guide. [online] Available at: http://www.artsalive.ca/pdf/eth/activities/loves_labours_guide.pdf [Accessed: 6 Dec 2013].
..., the society begins to see love as a goal. Romantic love becomes a noble trait and just quest if one wishes to embark on it.
price of shame" (Tolstoy, 135). Anna is struck by guilt and sobs in surprise when Vronsky describes what has happened between the two of them as bliss. She is disgusted and horrified by the word and requests Vronsky not to say any other word (Tolstoy, 136).
Kittay, Eva Feder. Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency. New York: Routledge, 1999. Print.
of estranged labour as the result of man participating in an institution alien to his nature.
Henry Ford was born July 30, 1863, on a farm in Greenfield Township, Michigan. His father William Ford was born in Country Cork Ireland and his mother Mary Ford was born in Michigan. Henry Ford spent his childhood on his family's farm, located outside of Detroit, MI. When Henry was twelve, his mother died during childbirth. Henrys father gave him a pocket watch in his early teens. At 15, Henry dismantled and reassembled watches and clocks of friends and neighbors dozens of times, and gained the reputation of a watch repairman. Henry repaired my watch plenty of times. I had the very first Rolex Oyster watch, in other words, the world's first water-resistant timepiece. This was no easy watch to work on and just watching how much he loved to take things apart and put it back together just made me think he’s going to invent something big one day. I came from a rather wealthy family and this is how I met Henry. Him being only fourteen and I was just barely thirteen I was always being impressed on how good he was at fixing things mechanically. I had a huge crush on Henry and when I would break ...
Domestic violence is defined as the abusive behavior in a relationship between two people that leads to mental, emotional, or physical harm (“What is Domestic Violence?” Para 1). When an individual feels like they cannot see life without their significant other, that significant other selfishly uses it to their advantage to create power and victimize the other. In the United States alone, there are nearly ten million cases of abuse each year (“Statistics” Line 2). As toxic relationships continue to be an issue within our society, artists Eminem and Rihanna create a song and corresponding video titled “Love the Way You Lie” and use it to share what these types of relationships are really like. The artists use the song and video to raise awareness about the cycle of abuse as they place their audience into their reality of a relationship involving domestic violence.
An individual became part of his or her job. Family relations were especially damaged. Previously, the family worked together as a single unit, with the father doing the job that required the most strength, then the mother by his side, and the children helped with what they are capable of doing. However, that changes in the nineteenth century. “The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.” After the technological advancement in the industrial era, fathers, mothers and even children worked in different places and different conditions, moreover family relations are on the premise of money. The Improvements in the technology also reduced the mental capabilities of an individual; the work has been simplified so that only few movements where needed for the employee to perform his/ her job. “The industrialization era resulted in deskilling people. De-skilling is also de-humanism” The Proletariat was reduced to machines to maximize their output on the expense of losing their ability to reason. This is was the slavery of the brain to prevent the poor from seeing that the premise of this prosperity experienced by the aristocracy and bourgeoisie has come from their enslavement to complete obedience or starvation to death; like the people of
Separation can develop from anywhere or anyone over periods of time since people’s needs, desires, and goals are very diverse. The variety of people with dissimilar interest can cause tensions among groups, especially in the modern age. There are three categories that contributed to the physical and abstract separation all within the realm of labor: workers versus machines, skilled versus unskilled labors or workers, and immigrant versus non-immigrant workers. These three all intertwine and connect to one another under the world of labor. Along with lectures, historians and writers Herbert G. Gutman, J.M. Roberts, Ann L. Stoler, and Rudyard Kipling addressed the causes and consequences brought about from the three categories, which led to separation. The effects divided workers among themselves, thus created the idea of separation.
When it comes to the idea of, “Doing What You Love” there are not many better examples than Steve Jobs. The movie titled, “Jobs” is a film that tells the story of Steve Jobs and his success. The film displays how Jobs took every risk possible and laid everything down on the line, simply to do what he loved and to make his dream a reality. In Miya Tokumitsu’s article, “In the Name of Love,” she specifically talks about Steve Jobs and his story. In many ways, Tokumitsu disagreed with the ways of Jobs, however after being able to watch the story of Jobs, I believe many of her claims against him are quite arbitrary and unfair.
In the early 1900’s people were content with the simple pleasures in life. They spent their time with family and friends, instead of the engaged in electronics. It is during this time of family devotion and satisfaction with the things they had in life that Kafka wrote a story about a man who continued to work a job where he felt alienated and unappreciated. The story portrays a loathsome image of the internal struggles that the workforce is soon to face when Gregor states, “The work is so much more strenuous than it would be in head office, and then there’s the additional ordeal of traveling, worries about train connections, the irregular, bad meals, new people all the time, no continuity, no affection,” (Puchner, Kafka, 2012, p211). Then he continues his internal self-sabotage when saying “If I tried that out with my director some time: it would be the order of the boot just like that… once I’ve got the money together to pay back what my parents owe (my boss)… Then we will have the parting of the ways. But for the time being, I’d better look sharp,...