D15 - REFLECTION SHEET SCEB LECTURE 2 05.01.

2017

Points of commonality and analogy among Story of Stuff, The Real Avatar:
Mine - Story of a sacred Mountain, and An adaption from Out at Sea by Mrozek:

STORY OF STUFF THE REAL AVATAR OUT AT SEA

Focuses on how The film by Joanna Creates an analogy,
consumers are enticed by Lumley shows how wherein Fat represents
producers of stuff into indigenous people are the companies/
buying extra items that dislocated by companies producers of stuff, who
they do not need, and are that operate there for has been well-fed on the
hence exploited, while their personal gains, raft, and is leaving all the
this causes great damage while causing health work to keep the raft
to the environment hazards for the people afloat to Slim, who
around them which and disrupting their represents the poor
causes health hazards for livelihoods in the indigenous people in
these people, while the process. In analogy with The Real Avatar, who
government, that is The story of stuff, it work hard for a living,
supposed to take care of shows Vedanta just as Slim is working
people and the analogous to producers to keep the raft stable,
environment is not doing of stuff, and the and companies take away
anything significant indigenous people their resources, just as
towards it. analogous to the Fat ate away the food
consumers in The Story on the raft, leaving
of Stuff, where both nothing for Slim. Slim
Vedanta and the can also be seen as the
producers of stuff are consumers in The story
exploiting the indigenous of stuff, who spend their
people and the hard-earned money on
consumers, respectively, stuff they do not need,
for their personal gains, and are hence exploited
and causing great harm by the producers of stuff,
to them in the process. just as Slim is being
exploited by Fat.
Middle can be said to
be the government/
regulating authorities in
The story of stuff, who
work with and in favor of
producers of stuff, while
not providing for the
common people as they
should.

Johnson & Johnson celebrates International Womens Day:

 Rank Proposition Characteristic
1 Senior Partnership
Management
(Formation of
gender equity/
sexual harassment
committee)
2 An all Womens Own Control
federation
3 The Company Placation
Board (Fixes a
generous Budget
and timeline)
4 Senior Consultation
Management
(Formation of a
committee
representative of
all levels in the
company)
5 The company Manipulation
board (All men)
6 The company Therapy
board (Award for
best woman
employee of the
year)
7 Senior Tokenism
Management and
HR (Mostly Men)
8 The HR division Lip-Service
(Mostly Men)
9 The HR Division Decoration
(Day long event)
10 The HR Division Informing
(Maternity leave)

Senior Management : Announces the formation of a gender equity/ sexual

harassment committee that include 4 women and 3 men chosen by the
management. The committee starts with a suggestion box for employees.

This option has been chosen as the most preferred one by us as it shows equal
representation in the committee by men and women and openness to problems
of all the women/ people in the organization through the suggestion box so
started.
The HR Division: Announces an upgrade in maternity leave policies from
3 to 4 months. And brings out pamphlets, brochures on all such related
policies.

We have kept this option as least preferred because by increasing the duration of
maternity leave, businesses would be more skeptical about hiring / promoting /
giving responsibility to women, as these businesses are well and truly aware that
they would be losing that particular womans service for 4 months. So it would
actually act as a deterrent.

Next Part of Out At Sea:

Going with the analogy of Fat, Middle and Slim being the companies, the
government and the consumers/indigenous people, respectively, we can soon
expect a scenario wherein Slim has a fight with Middle and Fat, and as a sign
of revolt, he throws away the oar which helped keep the raft afloat and maintain
the balance, and all three of Fat, Middle and Slim perish, owing to the lack of a
resource (analogous with natural resources/ resources generated by the
common people) which helped them keep afloat on the raft. In order to prevent
this kind of a situation in the real world, we must ensure more equitable
distribution of resources among the various categories of people, and ensure
lesser burden of work on the common/not so well off people to prevent a
scenario which is harmful for all.