Muhammad Yunus- credit for him

Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank were awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize in equal parts for their efforts to create economic and social development from below through a microcredit delivery system to provide banking services for the rural poor.Dr. Yunus' vision is the total eradication of poverty from the world. The Grameen Bank, which began as a research project by Dr. Yunus in 1976 to explore a credit delivery service system for the rural poor, has reversed conventional banking wisdom by focusing on women borrowers, dispensing of the requirement of collateral and extending loans only to the very poorest borrowers. Today, more than 250 institutions in nearly 100 countries operate micro-credit programs based on the Grameen Bank model.

Corporations need a conscious-2012   (07:02 min): 

Muhammad Yunus with ABC News -332(Australia)

The idea that business should be less concerned with creating money and profits seems to be counter-intuitive. But the founder of micro-finance and the concept of social business, Doctor Muhammad Yunus says that making money should play only one part of the whole picture and that in order to sustain global economic growth corporations must have a conscious.

VIDEO:  http://socialbusinesspedia.com/videos/details/332

Find one related video were he gives a lecture or is interviewed.

TASK_ Listen to him once WHILE you take NOTES

Then do one Listen to Write activity  (270 words)

Some lectures:  Select up to 9 min

2017 Griffith Lecture (338)-- 43:07 minhttp://socialbusinesspedia.com/videos/details/348 

Professor Muhammad Yunus delivered the 2017 Griffith Lecture at the Queensland Conservatorium Theatre on April 11. 

The CSR Journal 2016 INDIA -335  - 16:51 minhttp://socialbusinesspedia.com/videos/details/335

The 2010 IMPACT Speaker Series, presented by the College of Management and the Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship from Thursday, August 26 "Building Social Business"  --- 44:30 min

Addressing the One Young World 2012 Summit -- 18:23 minhttp://socialbusinesspedia.com/videos/details/6

 Lugano Keynote Speech - Social Business Conference 2012 --- 44:30 minhttp://socialbusinesspedia.com/videos/details/4

words are weapons - Steven Poole

___ PART   II  ___

 Language, propaganda, unspeak: words are weapons

Change maker!   

 End of peace   1999    6 chapters here

Fascinating descriptions of changes in words meanings over time and how manipulation of this property can change reality.

"pro-choice" or anti-life,
"tax relief" on charitable donations or rather than in taxes to fund the state’s own choice."Friends of the Earth" or Alien from Andromeda
"anti-social behaviour","climate change" for the wrong "global warming""sound science" to forget real science.

•  "natural", "wholesome" and "tradition", these comforting words over all manner of technological innovation
• "war on terror"
• "defence of freedom"
• road map [rather than plan], 
• community [rather than 'some self-elected representatives of a supposedly unified group'], 
• 'barrier' [rather than 'wall' or 'checkpoint' or 'annexation'].
• "ethnic cleansing" .... " genocide/mass murder"as a grisly euphemism?

___ PART   II  ___

In Orwell’s eyes the great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

• ‘All issues are political issues and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia’.

Steven Poole - article:

On the enduring popularity of  Orwell's "Politics and the English Language".
 it is savagely contemptuous of politicians and what they say, an attitude that never goes out of fashion.  Orwell writes, in the most celebrated passage:

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• "In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible."
•  "Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness." 
• "Political language […] is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

unspeak -The politics of Orwellian Failure

The sore facts of a failing life

_ 1___Feeling rejected? George Orwell did, too.

Some writers are more equal than others, but  many writers, some of whom I prefer to Orwell, have responded imaginatively to past and present modern societies:

•  Huxley's or Chomsky's conclusions and challenges can't be reduced to Orwell's call to "common sense and [English] decency"

Scott Lucas and DJ Taylor ___ exchanges -2003

_ 2 __ on life goes on

• In 1952  Sonia Orwell (her 2nd wife) donated the original manuscript of Nineteen Eighty-Four to a charity auction, at which it fetched a paltry £50. It was bought by a book dealer in the United States and is now in private hands.

___ PART   I  ___ from fail to failing AND  failure

The politics ...... of  Orwellian Failure:

Failure, as Terry Eagleton says, was Orwell’s forte.

1. He managed to pioneer what is now known as cultural studies. In a remarkable feat of self-refashioning, he turned his back on a life of middle-class privilege and chose for his companions tramps, hop-pickers, Catalonian revolutionaries, louche artists and political activists. 
2. Orwell thought that the Spanish Civil War provided evidence that the concept of objective truth was falling out of fashion. 
3. Orwell was a kind of literary proletarian who lived in dire straits for most of his life (see list of jobs below) , 
4. Everyone’s got to pay the bills, and Blair was no exception. He spent most of his career juggling part-time jobs while authoring books on the side. 
5.  and began to earn serious money from his writing only when he was approaching death. 

_____ list of jobs 

• Dishwasher, Paris hotel (1929)
• Private tutor, England (1930)
• Hop picker (1931)
• Teacher, Hawthorne High School for Boys (1932-1933)
• Teacher, Frays College (1933-1934)
• Clerk, Booklover’s Corner used bookstore (1934-1935)
• Volunteer soldier, Spanish Republican Government (1937)
• Talks producer, BBC Eastern Service (1941-1943)
• Volunteer, Home Guard (1940-1943)
• Literary editor, Tribune (1943-1945)

___ PART  II  ___ odd tasks

ORWELL ADN money

• Orwell was himself a struggling writer working part-time in a Hampstead bookshop in 1934, with no money to spend.
• In 1939 he even ran a small shop in Hertfordshire, where he had a goat, Muriel.

• His dislike of his early novels (20's and 30's)  arose from his incredibly strong sense that he would always be a literary failure. 

• George Orwell’s lesser-known works “Keep the Aspidistra Flying” (1936)—a novel he was thoroughly dissatisfied with, brought him  quite a pain in his pride and money matters. It was not a particularly happy one for Orwell. He had numerous run-ins with his publishers and receives bad reviews. The misfortunes did not end there. Many of the first print run of 3,000 were lost in a bombing raid in the early years of world war two.

• Homage to Catalonia (1938), his brilliant account of his time on the frontlines in the Spanish civil war of 1936-1937  actually sold only 700 copies during his lifetime)

___ PART   III  ___ before success:  Animal Farm and 1984

1. Their family home was demolished in 1944 by a German bomb...Orwell would return to the foundation where his home once stood and sift through the rubble in search of his manuscript for Animal Farm. After he spent hours and hours rifling through rubbish, he found it.
2. In 1944 Soviet spy Peter Smollett from the Ministry of Information seems to have advised British publishers not to issue Animal Farm .... 
3. For its Publishing Struggles see part V below

• The success of “Animal Farm” at last brought Orwell some financial relief: he could afford to cut back on his journalism and devote more time to his next novel. He took a house on Jura, a windy, remote island off the western coast of Scotland. 
• in 1947 while taking a break from writing Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell took his son, niece, and nephew on a boating trip.... their boat capsized when it was sucked into a whirlpool, hurling them all overboard. Fortunately, all four survived. There, growing more ill each day, he completed it.
• He lived only seven months after its publication, long enough to realize that his book was becoming enormously successful and widely misunderstood. He attempted a note of clarification: ‘My recent novel is NOT intended as an attack on socialism or on the British Labor Party....." Few listened.
• on his death bed, he heard that Nineteen Eighty-Four had been bought by the Book-of-the-Month Club in America in a deal which his publisher estimated would earn him £40,000. Orwell was dead before the money arrived. 

 For an article on  money & his foundation.... here

___ PART   IV ___ real failure was success

1.  Orwell never seems to have taken the least interest in success. 
2. Failure was  a leitmotif of his fiction. For him, it was what was real. 
3. All of his fictional protagonists are humbled and defeated,  this may be arraigned as unduly pessimistic.
4. Orwell, like Freud but unlike Marx, has passed into the common language. Orwell at his worst seemed to imagine that common sense was socialism.  ‘My chief hope for the future,’ he wrote, ‘is that the common people have never parted company with their moral code.’  He found in the Catalonian working class a solidarity which was an earnest of the political future.

___ PART    V   ___Rejection 

                  Orwell said when he wrote the book, in 1943: 

“It was obvious that there would be great difficulty in getting it published.”

“If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution, but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves.”

Rejection Note on Animal Farm:

Orwell received four rejections, including one from his usual publisher who said releasing such a politically controversial work would be “ill-advised” during what was then the height of World War II.

But Orwell got the last word. Animal Farm arrived on bookshelves in 1945 thanks to Secker & Warburg, with Orwell using the preface to share this dismal reflection on self-censorship: “Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness.”

Knof Publishing:

George Orwell's Animal Farm was rejected by Knopf Publishing Company on September 18, 1945. The manuscript was described in the rejection note as a 

“stupid and pointless fable in which the animals take over a farm and run it, and their society takes about the course of the Soviet Union as seen by Westbrook Pegler. It all goes to show that a parallel carried out to the last detail is boring and obvious. Even Pegler gets off a few smart lines now and then but this is damn dull. Very very NFK.”

It was rejected earlier by T.S. Eliot writing on behalf of Faber and Faber in a letter dated 13 July 1944. TS Eliot rejects George Orwell’s allegory Animal Farm because 

“we have no conviction … that this is the right point of view from which to criticise the political situation”

Here's the facsimile published on the British Library website: 

Wsheet 64. Animal farm session4

              Chapters  7-8                       to get started ....  Quick Quizzes

(7)  https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/animalfarm/section7/?quickquiz_id=337

(8) https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/animalfarm/section8/?quickquiz_id=338

Chapter 7      

   Summary and Analysis:   ( source   CourseHero ) 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQzIc0Qefh8

     

TASK.  Watch the video and Write a Twitter message on this chapter.

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ORAL_Use the prompts to retell 

as much as you can from the Chapter (groups)

     1.    Mr Whymper visits
2.    Something ressembling a rebelion
3.    The mislaid key
4.    Squealer Speeech:

                             “A most terrible thing has been discovered….”

   5.    Jones’s agent
6.    Without any further prompting they confessed
7.       Clover’s eyes filled with tears (develop her thoughts)
8.    Beasts of England was heard no more

_________ Second part  _________

Chapter 8         

   Summary and Analysis        ( source   CourseHero ) 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aNtp3HNVPA 

     TASK.  Watch the video and Write a Twitter message on this chapter.

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ORAL_Use the prompts to retell

as much as you can from the Chapter (groups)

1. Benjamin refused to meddle in such matters.

2. The Crown derby dinner service.

3. Pinkeeye’s task - lest it should be poisoned. 

4. Fredereick’s cruelties upon his animals. 

5. Napoleon Mill. 

6. Five-pound bank notes. 

7. Huge cloud of black smoke, breeze drifted it away. 

8. Old bowler hat.

9.   Booklets of brewing and distillin.

the forgotten art of dismissing you

item # 1 

As many of you know, and the BARD wrote clearly: 

Life's but a walking shadow, (...) it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.     

(Macbeth, act V, scene V)

Somebody somehow held the position of postmaster at the University of Mississippi for almost three years despite numerous reports of his writing novels on the job, losing and occasionally throwing away mail, ignoring colleagues and customers, playing bridge during opening hours, and regularly turning up late only to leave early,...... until, in September of 1924 when he wrote this famous text:

As long as I live under the capitalistic system, I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. 

This, sir, is my resignation.
(Signed) 

  Who was he? ......................    .......................... 

   Clue : he wrote  the Sound and the Fury) -not a bad novel...I have heard me talk so often about how it is the greatest novel ever written....And that is the incredible thing that the writer has done there. He has told us that tale.

item #2

TASK 1.  Are there really that many English language teachers left who aren’t using technology nowadays? 

Are there really language teachers who aren’t turning on their laptops/tablets and exploiting some of the amazing things you can find on any of your FAV FAB websites, name them:

   1.... 2.... 3.... 4.... 5.... 6....

TASK 2.  Imagine  a French (Russian) Teacher. Think about what 5 topics could be included .. were these  below or others.

self-deception,  bloody knives,  betrayal,   

honour,  disgrace, disgust, thwarted ambition,   

shattered hopes, wicked sting .....

Follow up: Learn about this case below.

Resignation may be NOT Always necessary, under these conditions:

performing tasks - showing up - 

overseeing the project, 

drafting reports, supervising 

JVG doubted about resigning or not resigning, 

• whether do it or not, kind of wishy-washy,
• being on two minds about the issue, so.... 
•  over SIX years he couldn't bring himself to care one way or the other.

TASK 3. Read about this book below: The Last Goodbye

• Matt Potter work'd hard to collect all of them. Here’s what the press said about the hardback edition last year…
• 
  
• “A hilarious history of the resignation letter… Potter examines our fascination with parting shots” (Daily Telegraph)
• “There is a poetry to the best resignations that comes from having nothing to lose” (Independent)
• “Will make you want to quit your job immediately” (Buzzfeed)
• “Just magnificent – an alternate history of our time” (Monocle)
• “A cracking read” (The Daily Politics)
• “Celebrates the art of the elegant – or explosive – resignation” (The Week)

TASK 4.  You work in the company DYSTOPIA, you to follow the rite of writing your own resignation letter as qualified expert in your field. Think about what 5 topics could be included:

..............
1. .......................................... 
2. ........................................................
3. ........................................................
4.  ........................................................
5. ........................................................

item # 3 

TASK 5.  Listen to the first 70 seconds of the "Interview With An Applicant" - interview.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W_qrc-TkR8

• Start the dialogue (70 seconds -IN PAIRS)

• Mrs. Kruthers, welcome. Come on in, have a seat.

• Of course.

• I have been looking over your resume and I have to say I am very impressed.

• Oh, thank you.

• You know, actually I think, to be honest, you are overqualified to be an accountant.

• Oh well, that's okay. I don't intend to work very hard.

• Really?

• Absolutely! In fact, I only intend to show up when I feel like it;......which is good because I've a wide variety of extremely annoying personal habits and absolutely no sense of hygiene.

• Oh! You know, then I don't feel like you're the correct person for this position.

• That's okay, I quit.

• You can't quit, you don't work here.

• Like, I would ever work here.

• Like, we would ever hire you.

• Oh yeah?

• Yeah. And even if you did work here I wouldn't even give you the opportunity to quit because I would fire you.

• Well, you can't fire me because I don't work here.

• That's right! You don't, and I would can your ass so quick.

• Prove it.

item # 4 

TASK 5.  Read the letter below, to get some ideas. Copy 6 phrase you enjoyed from it.  Remember them and write a similar version of each one. 

Chicago 

June 25, 1918 

Dear Barton:You have a man in your employ that I have thought for a long time should be fired. I refer to Sherwood Anderson. He is a fellow of a good deal of ability, but for a long time I have been convinced that his heart is not in his work. 

There is no question but that this man Anderson has in some ways been an ornament to our organization. His hair, for one thing being long and mussy gives an artistic carelessness to his personal appearance that somewhat impresses such men as Frank Lloyd Wright and Mr. Curtenius of Kalamazoo when they come into the office. 

But Anderson, aged 41,  is not really productive. As I have said his heart is not in his work. I think he should be fired and if you will not do the job I should like permission to fire him myself. I therefore suggest that Anderson be asked to sever his connections with the Company on August 1st. He is a nice fellow. We will let him down easy but let's can him. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Sherwood Anderson

TASK 6.  Write in groups of three a resignation letter (inform of the context)