Essays on Bother

In the article Why Bother, the author Michael Pollan discusses that the planet is at a great risk due to climate change and the immense carbon emissions yet ‘we’ the people have so far done nothing fruitful to counter the issue. He writes about Al- Gore and his proposition about saving the planet by changing one’s light bulb (Pollan). The problem is far more rooted and intense than this mentality. He says that this impassive and carefree attitude is the reason why even if one person on the planet starts making a change with their lifestyle and habits, ...

If I were Jackman’s manager, I do not think I would have reacted in the same way unless there were multiple complaints from customers and even then I believe I would have discussed it with Jackman first prior to sending him home. It does sound as though Jackman’s manager overreacted in this situation because, while the kufi is not mandatory, Jackman wants to wear it as a part of his religious observance while also providing for his family. While it is in violation of the organization’s dress code, because it is a part of religious observance, ...

Introduction and Thesis Statement

St. Aquinas believes that way is sinful and waging war is unjust. He argues that “those who take to sword will die by the sword.” According to him, war is a detriment of peace and therefore a sinful endeavor. However, St. Augustine explains the validity and the justifiability of war. He believes that war, to some extent, is just and necessary (White 269). However, for a war to be just, it has to follow three conditions. A just was must that that has been sanctioned by the highest authority. It will be unjust to wage war at a personal ...

The novel, House Rules, by Jodi Picoult, brings out the issues faced by children with Asperger’s syndrome; a form of autism that affects an individual’s relations with the world. It triggers their inability to communicate, interact and imagination their world. The main character, Jacob Hunt, has a special gift in deducing most of the cases in a crime scene. In all situations, his views about what the cops should do to close the case are right. However, a terrible murder rocks the town, and cops point towards Jacob for questioning. They pin him for being a key ...

Introduction

The role of sociology in the society cannot be ignored. One can easily make use of social theories to reflect on the environment they live in. The conflict theory stipulates the existence of class structures in a society. Simply put, there exist social inequalities. This paper gives a reflection of this social theory in relation to the lifestyle of a given community.

The segment that gives the best reflection of my neighborhood is the ‘New Empty Nests’. As the term implies, people and families classified under this segment do not appreciate staying at home, hence the reason their families ...

Memories are clips or images about events that transpired in the past composing of experiences, situations, or people who made a difference in one way or another in a person’s life. However, some of these memories fade away with time while others recur in a person’s mind. Bad memories end up being nightmares in people’s lives especially if the event that took place was traumatic. The film in question, Waltz with Bashir by Ari Folman blends in memories from soldiers who served in the Lebanon war in the attempt to recreate events that took place. However, ...

Psychology

The article "Why Humans bother with Emotions" by Meredith F. Small is quite edifying since it draws one to an issue that has often been ignored, yet quite important in people's daily life. This indifferent may be natural at the beginning but in the end, the emotions affect people in a profound way, and that is why care should be taken to examine them. Some people told me that openly displaying my emotions is a sign of weakness. The author has answered my unspoken question adequately. She does this by use of rhetorical questions: "Why do we have emotions?" ...

“The Saga of the People of Vatnsdal” is a legendary account on lives of the islanders that lived in the North. It’s main purpose is to explain how the society of that part of the world functioned, what was important for the people, and how they resolved their conflicts. The stories are about justice, honor, and strong bonds that developed between men. There are many characters in the book, and each of them carries their own purpose (usually either an example of a proper behavior, or an anti-example.) In this paper, I’m going to look into the ...

There is a natural ebb and flow of people. People stand in a slow moving river that flows with time. Like a busy cafeteria, there is an upbeat hustle and bustle here and there, to and fro. This place is not a destination for many them, it is merely a stop-off to somewhere else. Inside a Starbucks coffee outlet are smells of different brews being made for customers. The place has an earthy feel because there are dark, wooded colors. Some people come and order their coffee and then they quickly leave to wherever they are going. For some ...

Article summary- Against unions

The article titled “Labor Union 'Studies' Lead To Minimum Wage Legislative Malpractice” written by Richard Berman appeared in the Forbes magazine on the 18th of October 2013. The author states that the main role of unions, which is to lobby for pay increases, harms the employees and the economy at large.

He asserts that the demands by unions for an increase in the minimum wage make no economic sense. This is because an increase in wages will make labor more expensive leading to a decrease in the demand for jobs. This means that the number of jobs available, especially ...

This March, the whole world celebrated the 161th anniversary of the birth of Vincent Van Gogh's, whose paintings are now included in the list of the fifteen most famous and expensive artworks in the world. The paradox is that it was the artist's lifelong dream to sell at least one of them to get the money and pay off his countless debts. When a healthy boy was born on the 30th March, 1853 to the ...

Introduction

Carl Robins, an enthusiastic recruiter, becomes frustrated upon realization that his plans regarding the recruitment had not turned out as he expected. He was confident that he had everything planned out well and that the training would be successful. The turn of events, unluckily left him frustrated with no idea of where to begin. Carl has been in employment for ABC Inc. as the campus recruiter for the past six months, and this was his first successful recruitment effort. He had the assignment of recruiting 15 candidates, who were to work for Monica Carrolls, the operations supervisor. The ...

I have decided to address my report to the director of Anti-Crime Inc. for the state of Philadelphia. I will be recommending a Business Identity Theft course program. The course objective will aim at training and curbing potential devastating repercussions of a business identity theft, which faces both the employers and employees of not only small-scale businesses, but also medium sized businesses.

A decade ago, it was hard for unauthorized party to acquire and use private personal data of another person, but with the growing technology of computing and networking it is now easier. Personal data, especially credit card, bank account ...

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Introduction

My place of observation for analyzing a crime spot was a café and bar located in a nearly shady neighborhood, located at the far end of some shops, cornering an isolated alley, which remained isolated most of the time. This neighborhood harbored people belonging to a working class, underprivileged and working hard all their lives. Normally expected in an area like this would be lots of rebellion by the youth, people probably not literate enough because of their lack of resources and low incomes. The youth in such ...

- Prostitutes/Exotic Dancers: initially I was conflicted on these professions because an exotic dancer is a typically accepted form of job for a woman in our culture while prostitution is looked down on. However, in both jobs the woman is using her body and sexuality in order to gain a profit. The only difference (sometimes) is that one involves sexual activity whereas the other does not. This is a fine line between the jobs and yet society somehow thinks it is okay to harass prostitutes while exotic dancers are normally protected by bouncers and security guards. I do not think this is right. ...

I Would Never Have Sex with Someone on a First Date I Would Never Have Sex with Someone on a First Date Why should I even bother whether or not to have sex with someone on a first date? In the first place, I did not even bother to think of having sex at all with someone or somebody. I do not even want to entertain the thought that I would like to have a date with another person because I focus on my studies. Nonetheless, for the sake of argument, I would definitely not agree to have sex with someone ...

It seems to be a common belief, that “Marriage is the foundation of a good family; good families in turn are the foundation of a stable civilization”. (Bahai’s Publishing 12) However, lately, marriage does not seem to be such a sacred institution, it was decades ago; people get divorced so often, that the question of “Why even bother getting married” becomes very actual these days. Of course, many will probably disagree, but I sincerely believe, that marriage is just an institution, which is “manifestly in a mess” (Bedell)

At this point I would like to raise some objections that have been inspired by the

skeptic in me. Nowadays marriage is still popular among people, but the core reason of ...

In the world today, there are several huge problems in the education world, and they are growing larger and larger by the year. One of these problems is bullying, and cyberbullying. This is a problem that seems to plague schools worldwide, and continues to be a prominent issue in the world today; there is little evidence that it is being effectively handled at this present time. However, there is another issue in the education world that is one of the largest, but seemingly ignored problems and that is a shortage of teachers. Interesting enough, it can be said that a teacher shortage is a ...

This essay is about to tell us how do the fantastic and fictional worlds and images correspond to the real life of the living people, how their culture and traditions are depicted in the works of the artists, writers and film directors and how the images of art pieces reflect and form the life of modern people. Here we are going to describe the outstanding examples of the modern literature and find out how they highlight the world and the people with their beliefs and hopes, their feeling and thoughts. These will be the "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by ...

Shakira Isabel Merabak Ripoll was born on February 2, 1977 in the Colombian city of Barranquilla. The girl became the first child of the mother and the last kid of her father and that made her to be the favorite child in the family. From very early childhood, Shakira began to show interest to literature and music. She was super smart and at the age of 4 she was all prepared for school. Her mother always thought that her daughter will grow as an artist or a writer, as Shakira liked to draw, and then, at the age of four ...

Introduction

The 2001 Enron Scandal was one of the first corporate persecutions of the New Economy. The fall of the company marked one of the biggest cases of bankruptcies and pointed at the gaping hole in America’s corporate morality and responsibility. The constant pursuit of profits and indiscriminate bid for rising revenues, while trying to downplay all signs of dangers of such a path, led to the collapse of the company. As long as the company value was increasing and stock prices rising thus benefiting the investors, even the board of directors did not bother to take an in depth ...

- Introduction As a profession, nursing existed since the early years of civilization. Although nursing in the early days was not sophisticated or complex as it is in the contemporary, various attempts were made to improve on care given to the patients (Parker, 2010). In fact, nursing as a field has its roots in the early attempts by human kind to provide care to the sick and the weak. It was through progressive modifications, adjustments and improvements that nursing or caring evolved into a large field with its roots deeply grounded in various concepts. Nursing concepts since the inception of care ...

Introduction

There are key factors in business growth and sustainability. These factors are: reliability of the service offered, high product quality and management of the business operations. Undertaking the analysis of Starbucks reinforces the three concepts of control and quality management, providing reliable service and having efficient operations. Starbucks is a global American coffee company headquartered in Seattle, Washington and was founded in 1971. Starbucks one of the largest coffeehouse company, with approximately 23,305 stores spread in more than 63 countries around the world. The stores offer hot and cold beverages, whole-bean coffee, snacks, pastries, teas and ground instant coffee. ...

Anyone can observe that today’s lifestyle is fast paced wherein trends changes constantly. Jacko p. 4 shared that “there is a high demand for advancement in technology and people appear to have a never ending desire to have more.” It appears as if contentment in advancement no longer exists in the vocabulary of some individuals. Yes, technology has integrated itself (too) deep into the lives of people. Despite its undeniable benefit towards society, the constant dependence on technology still has a price to pay. More than its monetary equivalent, the price of technology is the drastic shift in personal relationship with ...

The Awakening, an early twentieth-century novel by Kate Chopin, is often cited as one of the first feminist pieces of literature written for a modern audience. The novel follows a woman named Edna through her everyday activities, as she goes through a transformation that can only be described as an “awakening.” Chopin’s work is heavily concerned with the difference between masculinity and femininity in Victorian-era society. Throughout the work, her protagonist’s continual self-awareness is tempered by her increasing isolation from everyone in her life; thus, Chopin suggests that society, as it existed, does not allow femininity to be self-sufficient without ...

How the prevalence of cell phone has impacted on privacy issue of adolescents in the U.S.

Introduction

In this paper, a research will be conduct to determine how the internet as an application on cell phones has influenced private lives of adolescents in the United States. The use of cell phones has continued to increase worldwide with United States reporting the highest percentage. The increased use is due to its increased availability in the market. Cell phones have moved from being used as communication gadgets to more significance that is commercial. Most of the functions that could only be performed by ...

Arguably, Meursault, the young man living in Algiers, is very strange compared to other people and even maybe the rest of humanity. In retrospect, his strange behaviors and detachment from his emotions would likely make him wonder for the psychology community. Similarly, in the book, his actions and indifference earn him a backlash both at the trial and at his neighborhood. People are more concerned with his lack of emotions towards his mother’s death than towards the fact that he killed a man in cold blood even after convincing his friend Raymond not to kill him. While many would argue ...

Nowadays there are harsh debates about implementation of uniforms into schools and universities. Each side claims that its arguments are better and weightier, however one does not consider the interests of the students themselves. The main point of education is to provide the students a set of skills and knowledge that will enable them to build their successful career and life, and to socialize them. During the school and university years students interact with each other, exchange information, have fun and study, therefore the way they are dressed really matters. The essay will stress upon major issues students have with ...

On the midnight of August 31 1997, on the streets of Paris, a tragic accident occurred. The victims of the accident included the most popular figure in the media fraternity to have hailed from the royal family, Princess Diana. The event generated a lot of heat from all sections from the local and international media, religion, government authorities and the royal family among others. However, that notwithstanding, it is not the actual accident or death of the Princess that generated a lot of heat but rather the role the media played in the accident and subsequently, the demise of the Princess. This ...

Darwin established the argument on the origin of species through an analogy inspired by artificial selection or breeding and natural selection. Darwin provides that the nature’s power of selection explains the human selective practices which mount up variation in a certain direction and by so doing lead to the generation and sustenance of new and distinctive races. As such, natural selection functioning through the continuous selective action which Darwin referred to as the ‘struggle for existence’ is responsible for producing and maintaining new and distinctive species (Darwin 210). According to Darwin, nature provides successive variations while man adds increases ...

The two essays by Michael Pollan and Curtis white talk about climate change in regards to the relationship between the environment and human beings. Although the two essays share the same topic, they take the subject and engage the readers in totally different points of views. Pollan’s essay talks about global and ecological responsibility being a personal virtue while Curtis discusses the socio-economic or political issues underlying sustainability (Pollan; White). These two essays are very different in terms of voice; however these pieces of writing are both important for people all over the world to read. Climate change and ...

The Lie is a short story written by T.C Boyle and published on May 20th 2010.The story is based on the character who found himself on the wrong side with lies after he had his sick days off and wanted more days off and in the process, the habit persisted, it became clear that he was becoming addicted to lies with time as “the small issue’ became intense. The next day he was supposed to report to work but instead he called his employer Mr Radko and explained to him of his baby’s sudden sickness and therefore wanted some ...

Cultural differences play a vital role in shaping lives of people and influence their opinions, ways of thinking and living. In this paper, I have discussed my personal experience about the differences in culture of between two countries i.e., America and my country, which is Saudi Arabia and. I have visited and spent some time in the United States and noted that its culture differs from Saudi Arabia’s culture in a several ways. The most obvious difference that I have realized between both countries is of religion, family, social life, political system, personal appearance, education and statues. I have noted ...

Psychology: Case Study

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Initial interview 4 Assessment formulation methods utilized 4 Assessment of John presenting problems and goals 5 Analysis and critique of MMT approach 6 Agreed goals 6 Treatment plan 6 CBT interventions 7 Intervention for cognitions-thoughts records 7 Benefits of the approach 7 Interventions for behavior- activity scheduling/diversion techniques 8 Benefits of the approach/ interaction 8 Interventions for imagery/interpersonal- imagery based exposure 8 Benefit of approach 9 Intervention for sensation- relaxation/ visualization 10 Conclusion 11

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- Biographical Information Ann Petry was born in 1908 in the state of Connecticut. She was among the first African American women authors in the United States. Petry was born of a poor black family. It was not until she was a bit older that her family was able to attain some economic stability. Her father was a pharmacist while her mother engaged in business. Being from the minority, Petry experienced different elements of racism and discrimination in her own society. In her article “My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience” which was published in 1946, Petry explains some of the incidences ...

Phonetic transcriptions illustrate that there are various pronunciation in various accents of English. It is important to note that despite the word being spelled out the same, the fact remains that its pronunciation dictates the region or the culture that any English speaker hails from. The basic spelling of a word cannot be used to explain how a word should be pronounced. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a special system that is used in conducting transcription of an English word in different accents. A good example of a phonetic transcription is the word no. According to the IPA phonetic transcription of the ...

Franz Kafka, in his novel The Metamorphosis writes about a travelling salesman called Gregor Samsa. He one day wakes up to find himself transformed into a huge bug to the surprise of not only himself but also his family and everyone living around him. The novel is primarily about the thoughts, actions and feelings of Gregor in regards to his environment (Bloom 64). Environment and all that happens around a person therefore play a crucial role in shaping up or influencing a person both in thought and in action just as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels put it in his writings, The Communist manifesto. ...

Introduction

Soft skills are such skills in a person that can win others’ heart and mind emotionally and psychologically. It personifies a person’s abilities, qualities, habits and dealings which lead to his personality development and conceptual approach. There is a very common saying that common sense is not that common. Soft skills are exhibited by a person’s EQ level that is Emotional Intelligence Quotient which is embedded in his personal dealing, conflict resolving, friendliness etc. While it leads to hard skills which are related to person’s IQ level that is Intelligence Quotient, it becomes an integral part of mind by exercising ...

Michael Pollan presents an argument on the World’s changing climate and what individuals can do to save life on earth. In his argument, he notes that individuals are left wondering why they should be bothered with climate change. What Pollan calls an “Inconvenient Truth” struck his mind after Al Gore managed to convince him (Pollan) that the climate change was threatening the survival of life here on earth. When it, finally, came to a time to change such electrical devices like bulbs, it was a really dark and depressing moment for Pollan. There was a big disparity between the intensity of ...

I = Interviewer

I: Under what circumstances did you smoke for the first time, including where you were and your age? H: I was 11 years-old when I began to smoke. Wow [Gasp], it’s been 50 years! I smoked for the first time as a dare. I was hanging out at the baseball field with a couple of my friends and a couple of boys who were a little older. We were told that if we smoked with them, we could play on their team in a pick-up game that was going to occur soon. We all smoked, we all played, and ...

The Compassionate Morality of a Perfect Sap-head

First published in 1884, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was seen as a wildly adventurous novel for children until the pioneering critical work of the American scholar, Lionel Trilling, who saw it for what it is: a bildungsroman that charted the moral and emotional growth to maturity of a young boy exposed to an evil and corrupt society. Throughout the novel Huck’s innocence and especially his naïve, innocent voice constantly subvert the values he observes in the society he comes into contact with on his and Jim’s epic voyage down the Mississippi. The novel’s use of offensive racist ...

1. Research Search engines that I was to compare and contrast, Google and Complete Planet, are both well-known, and respected, although Google, of course, is more popular and recognized all around the world. For me it is also more common to search with its help, but in this research I saw rather clearly that when we talk about the scientific research, Complete Planet can be even more useful, than Google. The search results that I analyzed in this exercise were dedicated to one of the topical issues in critical care nursing. There were several phrases that I ...

Some people are wary or hostile towards individuals, or groups, who are different to them. Such hostility can be based on ignorance or fear, or a whole host of other factors. Lack of acceptance is a widespread problem but, often, people simply need it pointed out to them that everyone is different.

SOPHIE: Look at the state of that. Just when you think she can’t get any uglier, she does.

NICOLA: Who? SOPHIE: Dora. Look, she’s just got on the bus. Look at her stretching up to put her bag on the shelf. That waistband looks like boxer ...

Bus 174 is a documentary that takes us through the incidence of June 12 2000 where a young man hijacked the bus and terrorized the passengers. After four hours of the experience, the police came in and in their attempt to shoot the young man, they short one of the hostages who was a woman. After interrogations with the young man, it was realized that he did not have a good background, which mainly contributed, to his criminal life. On the other hand, representing the body is literature by Bill Nichol who focuses on the representation of documentaries basing on historic facts. He ...

There are different opinions about the causes and effects of climate change and whether or not there is anything we can do to halt it. Some people believe that there is little point in efforts such as recycling and installing energy saving light bulbs as such initiatives are too insignificant in comparison to the scale of the problem. However, with climate change causing such drastic issues such as food shortages around the world, surely any effort we make to slow it down has to be worth the trouble. Climate change is a modern controversy, which gathers an opinion from ...

English Literature

Climate change is a modern controversy which garners an opinion from nearly every person walking on the planet today. In his article, entitled Why Bother?, Michael Pollan discusses the futility of our situation on Earth, and questions why it seems worth us trying at all when our efforts seem so insignificant; he opens his essay by stating how ridiculous it is to ask us to change our light bulbs in pursuit of a solution: “the immense disproportion between the magnitude of the problem [Al] Gore had described and the puniness of what he was asking us to do about it was ...

Two main problems of evil tend to bother atheists and unhappy individuals. First, the evidential problem of gratuitous evil causes atheists to contend that theists must make sense of their belief in light of the facts of evil. This is fitting since atheists deny the existence of a god, and the theists, not only argue for a god, but they also believe this is the omnipotent, omnipresent God Almighty. Second, the existential problem of evil appears to questioned mainly by those who are simply not happy that they exist at all. Happy people do not have a contention against the existence of ...