Claude Lévi-Strauss Essays

J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians: Affirming alterities through the resolution of key conflicts and representation of power. This essay offers an analysis of the concept of alterity or otherness through the representation of power and the resolution of key conflicts in J.M. Coetzee’s novel Waiting for the Barbarians. The essay first explores the representation of power in the novel as it relates to certain binaries such as ‘self’ and ‘other’; ‘just and ‘unjust’; and ‘powerful’ and ‘vulnerable’

Rhetorical Analysis on an Exposia of Nursing Ethics In the essay “ Nursing’s Code of Ethics, Social Ethics, and Social Policy,” Marsha D. Fowler explains the history of Nursing ethics and what should be utilized in today’s society. Fowler explains to her readers what nurses should promote within the healthcare field. The purpose of her essay is to persuade her audience, whom are Nurses or someone who has background knowledge, into taking action. In order to explain the importance of ethics,

INTRODUCTION This essay serves the purpose of analyzing the ethnographic principles that are illustrated in the popular film “Avatar”. An “ethnography” has come to be “equated with virtually any qualitative research project where the intent is to provide a detailed, in-depth description of everyday life and practices within a specific culture” (Hoey 2008). The film in question was released in 2009 and was directed by James Cameron. The film depicts a native culture known as the “Na’vi” who live on

Loeb Strauss, later to be called “Levi”, was born on February 26, 1829 in Buttenheim, Bavaria, Germany to his jewish father Hirsch Strauss and jewish mother Rebecca Hass Strauss. He grew up in an six hundred and forty five square, three room apartment, with three older brothers and three older sisters. The eight member family lived in an house described by Levi Strauss & Co. “ 5 Little-Known Facts about Levi Strauss”: “There was a large living room, which was the only part of the house that was heated

all knew that the first inventor of jeans is Levi Staruss. He got the idea of making that sturdy pants in 1850. But why the “birthday” of blue jeans is on May 20, 1873? It took about 23 years after the invention and why it is not exactly on the year that jeans was invented? The answer is because blue jeans have just patented on that date by Jacob W. Davis and Levi Strauss & Co. Davis is the other man who took a role for the evolution of jeans and asked Levi patented it together. He invented rivets for

Levi Strauss soon established wholesome business, in which he imported fabric, bedding among other goods. Strauss was successful in selling among other drugstores. The new invention made thousands and quickly made big profits. With the secure contract of all rights secured, Levi Strauss& Co. became the only company to make riveted clothing for nearly twenty years. But then when the contract expired

Denim was once only thought of as a functional item of clothing belonging in the wardrobe of cowboys and construction workers, but label giant Calvin Klein set the fashion world on its ear when they featured a teenage Brooke Shields in an advertisement boasting that nothing came between her and her ‘Calvins’ (Barney & Hesterly, 2015, PC1-11). With this the designer jean movement began in 1970 and reached its pinnacle in 1981 “when sales jumped to record $6 billion and 520 million pairs” (Barney &

Conformity is a type of social force related with a change in behavior in order to fit in or to be correct within a group in society (Meyer &Anderson, 2000 and Losh, 2003). This change is in response to real physical presence of others or imagined group pressure. Mcleod, (2007) interpreted conformity as one of the major influencing factor in young society. Horn (1970) in his study states that people conform to group pressure because of two types of social pressure: informational social influence

Friedrich Nietzsche once stated, “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” In the novel, Life of Pi by Yann Martel a young man, Pi, is enforced to survive through suffering and endure the grievances of a shipwrecked human being. After embarking on a journey with his family from India to Canada aboard a ship, the Tsimtsum, which holds a variety of zoo animals sinks. Facing the bitter truth that he does not have a family anymore, Pi must withstand the urge to mourn

Primo Levi recounts the daily struggles he endured under German enslavement in his Holocaust memoir, Survival in Auschwitz. Levi fights not only to save his life, but most importantly save who he is, despite being surrounded by hate and ignorance. Levi witnesses his friends crumble under the weight of Nazi terror, which causes them to surrender to the bliss of and all-consuming apathy and disinterest of life. Because of this, Levi is mindful of maintaining his individuality and saving his soul. Years

prisoners in Auschwitz inflicted by the Schutzstaffel. Primo Levi was a twenty-four-year-old, chemist whose only crime was that he was Jewish. He, like so many other innocent Jews, was sent to die in Auschwitz. In the his book, Levi, examines the different characteristics and traits that he and the other survivors had that set them apart from the other prisoners and ultimately attributed to their survival. In the essay, “The Gray Zone” Levi focuses on the relationships in the lager, and the roles assigned

Encapsulating Analysis: Primo Levi provides a cold testimony of survival amidst continued dehumanization. When numbers replace names (Levi, 27), the soul-less mind creates delusions of logic to keep the body moving. Continuous strikes of atrocity can bring about secretive, subtle, and even deep-buried personalities, which may hold dwindling views about fate. Following sheds light on the views that one may holds when put to constant insult: “According to our character, some of us are immediately convinced

Primo Levi describes his incarceration in Auschwitz through the lens of his practical/logical mind. While he certainly witnessed questionable things and suffered, his account of Auschwitz is less graphic then that of Elie Wiesel’s. Primo Levi was already twenty-four years old when he had been captured and unlike Elie Wiesel was not a very religious man. Primo did not find himself praying or even turning away from God in the midst of the atrocities, but solely relied on his logic and degree of optimism

only 9 members, including a Jewish Italian named Primo Levi, was infiltrated by the Fascist Militia and its members were sent to a detention camp in Fossoli, Italy. Just two months after their capture, on February 21, 1944, all Jews at Fossoli were shipped to Auschwitz where most of them would meet their death. Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi’s memoir of the ten months he spent in a Nazi concentration camp, then begins. From this point, Levi never goes farther than 400 yards outside the camp as

Nickel I Axel Fredrik Cronstedt am the discover of Nickel. Now first I have mistaken Nickel as a copper mineral when our miners were looking for copper in 1751. “The name Nickel is the shortened for the German 'kupfernickel' meaning either devil's copper or St. Nicholas's copper” (http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/28/nickel). So now that Nickel has been discovered it has been said that it is an “tale of mistaken identity and superstition” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel). Nickel has

The video Worst ever pitch, Worst ever product on BBC’s Dragons Den I found to be confusing. From the beginning of the video the inventor did not make a clear presentation of the problem his invention was going to help alleviate. Prior to pitching his idea he did not take any steps to meet with or do the research needed to ensure his product would be accepted by the local area that would be purchasing his product. In fact he stated that the woman who runs the traffic signals did not like his idea

experiences inside the infamous Nazi concentration camp. Among the many disturbing aspects of his narrative, Levi's relationships with the guards and civilian workers in Auschwitz stand out as particularly troubling. Throughout his time in the camp, Levi was subjected to constant abuse and violence from the guards, who were often sadistic and cruel. Meanwhile, his interactions with the civilian workers were more complex, as they occupied a more ambiguous position in the camp's hierarchy. In both cases

“He will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering and needs, forgetful of dignity and restraint, for he who loses all often easily loses himself”(Levi 397). In war countries, people tend to lose a lot, sometimes they may lose everything. Survival in Auschwitz is a memoir by Primo Levi, an Italian chemist recounting his experience in Germany during the Holocaust. For the Grave of a Peace-Loving Man is a poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. European literature addresses the the topic of war in their countries

The Story of One is a documentary that was released in 2005 about the history of numbers, and most importantly, the number one. Terry Jones teaches us about the history and evolution of the number one in a fun and easy to learn way. The film starts off in Africa, where bones were discover with notches on them. There’s no way for scientists to exactly know whether or not these notches were used for counting. They could have perhaps been used as tally marks to add up and count things. Jones then

journey; it involves coming to terms with certain, more disturbing, aspects of things you are remembering. Primo Levi's text aims to highlight not only the dehumanization and suffering inflicted on the Jewish people but also their protest and resilience. Levi makes it clear that while we remember the atrocities for what they are, we must not forget the people who not only survived but resisted them. One of the acts of resilience he discusses quite often is the practice of individuality and the small acts