Nike today is one of the strongest brands in the world, but to get there Knight pulled through a few near death experiences and lots of up and. Shoe Dog is Nike founder Phil Knight’s autobiography in which he talks of how he launched the biggest shoe empire in the world. He thinks that, by blindly and unnecessarily rejecting the imperial, aristocratic culture that preceded them, the Bolsheviks made fools of themselves. By Lucio Buffalmano / 7 minutes of reading. such pets Margery was, presented her with a nice playful little dog called Jumper, and also with a skylark. Like the government’s absurd attempt to forbid the existence of undocumented people, Sharikov’s name is Bulgakov’s way of satirizing Soviet culture. Goody Two Shoes, a Short Story by Anonymous. So effectively, his whole name is equivalent to something like “Carbon Copy Fluffball” in English. Sharikov is just Sharik the dog’s nickname- “little ball”-turned into a surname. Moreover, after the Russian Revolution, people started taking on new names, often influenced by communist political history and culture. Sharik looked at this calendar and chose the name “Polygraph,” which isn’t a saint’s name-it’s the name of a kind of printing technology, which was presumably listed somewhere on the margins of the calendar. Many Russians traditionally take on the names of saints from a religious calendar. In March 1917, the Russian Empire collapsed in the face of mass unrest and a new Russian Provisional Government took over. The best metaphor in this chapter comes from David Lloyd. Heart of a Dog is set in the Soviet Union in the mid-1920s, during the New Economic Policy period just after the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War. English speakers might not fully understand the significance (and silliness) of Polygraph Polygraphovich Sharikov’s new name. Before empathy became a buzzword, Carnegie was all about putting yourself in everyone elses shoes. Because the government tries to standardize everything, it loses sight of people’s individuality. Sharik’s comment about papers reflects the Soviet government’s absurd, upside-down bureaucracy: government papers are more important than people’s actual existence.

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