Alienation in Capitalism: Rediscovering Fulfillment

Many Americans are pessimistic about their country\u27s medium or long-term economic outlook. A century ago, Big Business was born as an economic force, but it has powerfully infiltrated the realm of politics now. The corporate scramble for natural resources has caused global disharmony and domestic economic conflict in the U.S. The capitalist system, which many have come to realize is unsustainable and oppressive, has thus come to fulfill some of the predictions made by earlier critics from Kierkegaard, Rousseau, to Marx. Each believed that a society which is forced to accommodate an oppressive system will inherently display alienation. That is, a person will begin to feel isolated from himself, unhappy (as amply documented in the growing happiness literature), and work without enthusiasm (resulting in lower productivity). Alienation is inextricably linked with all aspects of our lives; it occurs on a material level and we are forced to deal with it on a daily basis. How then does mankind overcome the difficulties posed by alienation? If not capitalism and democracy, then what? This paper discusses these issues in an attempt to give the reader a better understanding of how to overcome alienation and the problems/root causes associated with it

The Harvest

There once was a tiny speck of the universe called World

The Impact of Regulation Upon the Oil and Gas Industries

It is paradoxical that the oil and gas industries both ask for and resist the idea of regulation. Historic examples are given of how and why this is so. Since the Arab oil crisis of 1973, new and onerous rules for domestic producers have been introduced, first by improvization and more recently by a national energy plan. Both the good and bad features of the 1977 national energy plan are reviewed to generate words of commendation and words of warning about its effect on the oil and gas industries

Cuba and the United States in the Platt Amendment Period: Perception and Intent

The relationship between Cuba and the United States continues to perplex many Americans in the twenty-first century. How can a nation so nearby, that was once so closely tied to the United States, be so antagonistic towards the United States? This study will trace the perceptions, over time, of the United States-Cuba relationship during the early Cuban Republic (1902-1934), a time period in which the United States maintained a controlling relationship defined under the Platt Amendment. In this process, the Cuban perceptions of the relationship will be considered, specifically noting differences of views among different social statuses and perspectives. Then, various viewpoints from the United States will be compared to those of Cubans. Ultimately, a review of these sources will show that many early Americans emphasized the intent of American policy and efforts, while Cubans tended to lose focus on original American intent over time as they grappled with the reality of conditions produced in the Platt Amendment era

An Effective Lagrangian with Broken Scale and Chiral Symmetry IV: Nucleons and Mesons at Finite Temperature

We study the finite temperature properties of an effective chiral Lagrangian which describes nuclear matter. Thermal fluctuations in both the nucleon and the meson fields are considered. The logarithmic and square root terms in the effective potential are evaluated by expansion and resummation with the result written in terms of the exponential integral and the error function, respectively. In the absence of explicit chiral symmetry breaking a phase transition restores the symmetry, but when the pion has a mass the transition is smooth. The nucleon and meson masses as a functions of density and temperature are discussed.Comment: 21 pages LaTeX + 11 postscript figures, uses epsf.st

Fannie Lee Carter Papers - Accession 292

Fannie Lee Carter (1903-1988) was a 1923 graduate of Winthrop College and a teacher in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The Fannie Lee Carter papers consist of correspondence, including three letters from a Confederate soldier discussing war conditions and battle plans, photographs, grade reports, memorabilia, newspaper clippings, a thesis, a term paper, and a physics notebook, relating to Miss Carter’s student days at Winthrop College (Class of 1923) and her teaching career in North Carolina.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1320/thumbnail.jp

Prayers of the people

Thesis (M.M.)--Boston Universit