Ignorance Manipulation And Enslavement

Author : Kenyon B. Greene
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781425731908

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Ignorance, Manipulation, and Enslavement by Kenyon B. Greene Pdf

This transdisciplinary book deals with the most critical problems now challenging our and our world's survival: human overpopulation, vast environmental destruction, persistent ignorance in spite of purported advances in education, dominance of neoconservative thinking incommensurate with the world/s problems, increased religiosity that harks back to the Middle Ages, anti-science thinking, persistent warfare, exhausted and outmoded philosophies of people and Nature, Capitalism gone berserk, and devolution of democracy, These seemingly diverse areas arc integrated by the theory of complex systems, Avoiding Pollyannaish optimist, this hook is must reading for all people who want to make up their own minds about where we go from here.

Author : Erik Malewski,Nathalia Jaramillo
Publisher : IAP
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781617353475

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Epistemologies of Ignorance in Education by Erik Malewski,Nathalia Jaramillo Pdf

Epistemologies of Ignorance provide educators a distinct epistemological view on questions of marginalization, oppression, relations of power and dominance, difference, philosophy, and even death among our youth. The authors of this edited collection challenge the ambivalence – ignorance – found in the construction of curriculum, teaching practices, research guidelines, and policy mandates in our schools. Further, ignorance is also considered a necessary by- product of knowledge production. In this sense, the authors explore not only issues of complicity but also issues of oppression in spite of educators’ liberatory intentions. While this is the first systematic effort to transfer epistemologies of ignorance to the educational scene, this movement has its roots in race, class, gender, and sexuality studies, particularly the work of Charles Mills, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Shannon Sullivan, and Nancy Tuana. It is our unequivocal belief that, while this is transformative and powerful scholarship, the study of ignorance remains understudied and under-theorized in education scholarship, from curriculum studies and cultural foundations to science education and educational psychology. This collection highlights without apology why this dangerous state of affairs cannot continue.

Author : Kenyon B. De Greene
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453506721

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The University by Kenyon B. De Greene Pdf

The twenty-first century is lurching chaotically into a perilous and uncertain future. Once vibrant and creative, the University—now large, anachronistic, and bureaucratic—has all but exhausted its capabilities to respond to challenges and threats from within and without. Years of hypocrisy and power politics have taken their toll on the would-be “second Caltech.” Now, everything is going wrong. A cynical attempt to fire a popular young teacher, Alistair Higham, explodes as students, parents, alumni, and the professors’ professional organization come to the aid of the teacher. Investigation by the professional organization brings other injustices to light. It seems likely that the University will be censored and will lose its accreditation. The neighborhood around the University rises in protest over the latter’s ham-handed attempt to have a block of lower-middle-class houses razed to make room for a parking lot. Tight connections with industry make the University a partner in dumping toxic wastes in poor Mexican American neighborhoods and in mining in mountain wildernesses. Eventually, a crafty liaison with the oil industry comes to a head as the University is revealed to be an indirect participant in genocide in Quetzalgalpa, a remote and war-ravaged Central American country

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : epubli
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783753145136

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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Pdf

"Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel", often published as "1984", is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated. The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a totalitarian superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employ the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not even exist. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skillful rank-and-file worker and Outer Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters into a forbidden relationship with a colleague, Julia, and starts to remember what life was like before the Party came to power.

Author : Itay Talgam
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780698154742

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The Ignorant Maestro by Itay Talgam Pdf

“Choosing ignorance might seem a terrible quality to exhibit in your workplace—a sure path down the stairs and out the corporate door. But stick with me here and see how it leads you upward. You’ll understand why great leaders embrace ignorance and use it to elevate their people to new heights of achievement.” A conductor in front of his orchestra is an iconic symbol of leadership—but what does a true maestro actually do to enable the right sort of cooperation among his players, leading to an excellent performance? If you think his primary job is making sure the musicians play the right notes, prepare to be surprised. For twenty years, in addition to conducting orchestras around the world, Itay Talgam has been a “conductor of people” for companies large and small, for CEOs of Fortune 500 companies as well as startup entrepreneurs, and beyond. Drawing on his decades of experience on the podium, he teaches nonmusicians how conducting really works and how the conductor’s art can help leaders in any field. In his lectures (including an acclaimed TED talk) and now in this book, Talgam shows why imposing your vision on your people is likely to backfire. Great conductors may know in advance how they want a piece to be played, but they make room for the creativity and passion of their musicians. They respect the gap between the baton and the instruments. They focus more on listening than on speaking. And they embrace their own ignorance, knowing that others may have better ideas than the conductor can imagine. Talgam explores the nuances of leadership by describing the distinctive styles of six world-famous conductors: the commanding Riccardo Muti, the fatherly and passionate Arturo Toscanini, the calm Richard Strauss, the gurulike Herbert von Karajan, the dancing Carlos Kleiber, and the master of dialogue Leonard Bernstein. All took different approaches to the age-old leadership dilemma: how to maximize both control and creative freedom at the same time. The Ignorant Maestro will empower you to help your own team make even more beautiful music. Talgam’s anecdotes and insights will change the way you think about listening, humility, and the path to unpredictable brilliance.

Author : Ada Ferrer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107029422

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Freedom's Mirror by Ada Ferrer Pdf

"The Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804 was the only slave rebellion in which slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state, making it perhaps the most radical revolution of the modern world. Yet on the Spanish island of Cuba, barely fifty miles away, the events in Haiti helped usher in the antithesis of revolutionary emancipation. There, planters and authorities saw the devastation of their neighboring colony and rushed to prevent the same events from happening in Cuba by buttressing the institutions of slavery and colonial rule. Freedom's Mirror follows the reverberations of the Haitian Revolution in Cuba, where the violent entrenchment of slavery occurred at the very moment that the Haitian Revolution provided a powerful and proximate example of slaves destroying slavery. By linking two stories--the story of the Haitian Revolution and that of the rise of Cuban slave society--that are usually told separately, Ada Ferrer sheds fresh light on both of these crucial moments in Caribbean and Atlantic history"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Luis N. Rivera,Luis Rivera Pagán
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664253679

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A Violent Evangelism by Luis N. Rivera,Luis Rivera Pagán Pdf

In this thought-provoking book, Rivera argues that evangelical reasoning and symbolism were appropriated to justify the armed seizure of people and land in the New World and to validate the conversion, peaceful or forced, of the natives. He recaptures the 16-century political debates, contrasts "discovery" and conquest, and examines the tragic outcome: demographic collapse from the islands Columbus first sighted to the Inca empire in Peru.

Author : James Marten
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Adolescent psychology
ISBN : 9780190920753

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Youth Culture by James Marten Pdf

"Youth culture is not an invention of 20th-century movies and television; youth have been forming their own cultures from the moment they were given space to invent their own ways of relating to one another and to their parents and communities. Taking a global approach and beginning in early modern Europe, the essays in the Oxford Handbook of the History of Youth Culture provide broadly contextualized case studies of the ways in which the meanings and expressions of both "youth" and "culture" have evolved through time and space. The authors show that youth culture has been shaped by geography, ethnicity, class, gender, faith, technology, and myriad other factors. Examining subjects ranging from monastic schools to online communities, from enslaved youth in the Caribbean to Indigenous students at government sanctioned boarding schools, from youthful entrepreneurs to youthful activists, from war to sexuality, and from art to literature, the essays show that there have been many youth cultures. Throughout, authors emphasize the ways in which the idea of youth culture could become contested terrain-between youth and their families, their communities, and the culture at large-as well as the importance of youth agency in carving out separate lives. Among the tensions explored are the struggle between control and independence, as well as the explicit and implicit differences between male and female constructions of youth culture"--

Author : Hartmut Lutz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Indian universities and colleges
ISBN : UCSC:32106007659565

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D-Q University by Hartmut Lutz Pdf

Author : David Livingstone Smith
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781429968560

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Less Than Human by David Livingstone Smith Pdf

Winner of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today's headlines "Brute." "Cockroach." "Lice." "Vermin." "Dog." "Beast." These and other monikers are constantly in use to refer to other humans—for political, religious, ethnic, or sexist reasons. Human beings have a tendency to regard members of their own kind as less than human. This tendency has made atrocities like the Holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda, and the slave trade possible, and yet we still find it in phenomena such as xenophobia, homophobia, military propaganda, and racism. Less Than Human draws on a rich mix of history, psychology, biology, anthropology and philosophy to document the pervasiveness of dehumanization, describe its forms, and explain why we so often resort to it. David Livingstone Smith posits that this behavior is rooted in human nature, but gives us hope in also stating that biological traits are malleable, showing us that change is possible. Less Than Human is a chilling indictment of our nature, and is as timely as it is relevant.

Author : Neven Gibbs
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781312723092

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A Metaphysical, Quantum and Philosophical Examination of the Universe by Neven Gibbs Pdf

A secular examination of the universe combining elements of Quantum Physics, Theological History, Shaman comparisons to current physics research, Historical opinions that can be proven using valid scientific methods and an analysis of human relevance to existing in a fluid manipulable Universe.

Author : Joseph Raz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199573561

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The Authority of Law by Joseph Raz Pdf

Raz begins by presenting an analysis of the concept of moral authority. He then develops a detailed explanation of the nature of law and legal systems. Within this framework Raz then examines the areas of legal thought that have been viewed as impregnated with moral values.

Author : Ezra Tawil,Ezra F. Tawil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107048768

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The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature by Ezra Tawil,Ezra F. Tawil Pdf

This book brings together leading scholars to examine slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day.

Author : Aileen Kavanagh,John Oberdiek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135029142

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Arguing About Law by Aileen Kavanagh,John Oberdiek Pdf

Arguing about Law introduces philosophy of law in an accessible and engaging way. The reader covers a wide range of topics, from general jurisprudence, law, the state and the individual, to topics in normative legal theory, as well as the theoretical foundations of public and private law. In addition to including many classics, Arguing About Law also includes both non-traditional selections and discussion of timely topical issues like the legal dimension of the war on terror. The editors provide lucid introductions to each section in which they give an overview of the debate and outline the arguments of the papers, helping the student get to grips with both the classic and core arguments and emerging debates in: the nature of law legality and morality the rule of law the duty to obey the law legal enforcement of sexual morality the nature of rights rights in an age of terror constitutional theory tort theory. Arguing About Law is an inventive and stimulating reader for students new to philosophy of law, legal theory and jurisprudence.

Author : Dale Francis
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781491741849

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The Quelbe Commentary 1672-2012 by Dale Francis Pdf

Explore the rich heritage, contemporary culture, and society of the Virgin Islands by delving into its wonderful music. Dale Francis, a resident of the Virgin Islands whose ancestry there dates back to the early 1700s, examines what Africans, Europeans, and Tainos contributed to Virgin Islands quelbe. He also chronicles key genres that were played between 1672 and 2012. As you immerse yourself into a fascinating blend of African and European music traditions, you'll learn about the anthropology of the music, what it tells us about power dynamics, the relationship between the music and religion, and deeper meanings hidden in the music. You'll also discover the ancient secret in the bamboula art form, the power of cariso, freedom in the quelbe, and learn how the music of the Virgin Islands continues to retain traditional elements despite contemporary influences. Your appreciation for life will reach new heights as you explore the social, economic, and political dynamics of mankind through the musical heritage of the Virgin Islands in The Quelbe Commentary.