“The time is always right to do what it right.” (Martin Luther King Junior). A beloved community is what everyone would like to live in, sadly not every community is this way. Alpena is an amazing community to live in, but we have some areas to improve upon. The parks are bare and some people are unwilling to smile.…
In the short story "Rules of the Game" by Amy Tan, a main theme is that staying quiet and holding back can help you to achieve goals, shown when Waverly's mother awards her, when she wins a chess game, and when Waverly accidentally blurts out something she regrets saying. At the beginning of the story when Waverly is a young girl, her mother drills a life lesson into her. She tells Waverly to “ ‘Bite back your tongue,’ scolded my mother when I cried loudly (...) ‘Wise guy, he not go against wind. In Chinese we say, Come from South, blow with wind- poom!- North will follow.…
In Leslie Jamison’s “The Empathy Exams” Jamison informs the reader about empathy “Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete Edges.” She then continues to say “Empathy comes from the Greek Empatheia – em (into) and pathos (feeling) – a penetration, a kind of travel. It suggests you enter another person’s pain as you’d enter another country, through immigration and customs, border-crossing by way of query.” Lesilie Jamison also teaches the reader the importance of empathy. She begins by describing her experience as a medical actor, In the story Jamison says, “My job title is Medical Actor, which means I play sick.”…
Born To Be Good is a non-fiction novel by Dacher Keltner. Keltner is a psychology professor and a director of a science center that studies emotions. He has dedicated his time and research to the study of positive emotions thus, giving him the credibility and authority to write this book. Throughout the entire novel he uses accurate representations of rhetorical devices to make the argument seem more plausible to his audience. The novel gives an in-depth analysis about emotions and their origins.…
A PLACE AT THE TABLE America, although ranked one of the world’s greatest and wealthiest countries is home to an appalling percentage of undernourished and poverty-stricken Americans. A place at the table, directed by Lori Silverbush and Kristi Jacobson is a documentary outlining one of America’s vital yet most neglected problems and their proposed solutions. The documentary was produced in order to raise awareness about the hunger and poverty situation happening all over America in which millions of Americans are struggling to support themselves and feed their family. It is estimated that 14.5 percent of U.S households struggle to provide food for the family and most do not have enough food on the table.…
One of the research articles from the presentation was all about how smiling is perceived in different cultures. It would be interesting to do a follow-up of this experiment in other cultures as well to see if the smile-leniency effect still exists. Similar to the study in the presentation, it would be interesting to replicate this study in Japanese culture as it has quite a few different social norms than we…
This wide range of knowledge on this particular subject, should give the reader a sigh of relief that the author has the knowledge and academic background to write this book. She also wrote a number of books on the lives of women, these include: The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley, Divorce, Confronting Race:…
Current interventions for minor depression in adolescents have been taken into account. Lin, Hu and Gong (2015) state that simple, smile manipulation could decrease depression and negative moods. A recently reviewed article concerning smile manipulation discusses how facial expressions serve as an importance of emotional feelings. The researchers hypothesized that inducing a smile would have a positive effect on the participants’ emotions. Furthermore, the researchers studied three different types of smiles such as, the Standard smile, Duchenne smile, and no smile.…
Gender Reaction Language and gender play a very crucial role in cultures throughout the world. Throughout history, women have challenged the inequality they have face and have addressed equality. Although what these theorists have said is not one-hundred percent true this is the majority. Article 1: Deborah Tannen’s You Just Don’t Understand— Asymmetries: Women and Men Talking At Cross- purposes.…
In fact, nobody would care whether the smile is sincere or what’s the truth behind it, all they wish is only the response with a courtesy standard-smile. In the article “Why Women Smile”, Cunningham shares how women use the smile as a tool to manage and resist society’s expectation, overall the society has the most control over women’s freedom and emotion. According to a famous psychology expert Carl Jung, “woman is expected to be more nurturant and less aggressive” (Jung 1875 – 1961).…
Craig’s Essay Analysis In Men’s Men and Women’s Women by Steve Crag, he argues about the purpose of using gendered images and portrayals in advertising. Advertisers look to target audience such as men and women who are at home watching daytime televisions on weekdays or those who are at home on the weekend watching sports. Prime time (evening) is a good time to reach women who are outside of home and also the men who fall in this category. These gendered programs and portrayals are constructed for the desires of the target audience to watch.…
According to science research, Women believe that men who tend to have heavy stubby beards are more attractive. Not only are these men classified as more attractive but the beard is a symbol of masculinity. Smiling in this case takes the cake for gender expectation for women. It is found unusual for a lady not to smile. According to science a smile marks a women’s feminity.…
In Anne-Marie Slaughter’s essay “Why Women Still Can’t Have It all” Slaughter explains how she wants to incorporate her success and family to have a balanced life. Slaughter is the president and CEO of the New American Foundation, “a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute, and has taught at Princeton University and Harvard Law School and worked as director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department. Slaughter’s concern is not being a supportive mother to her children because of working policies. Her working policies require her to work for long periods of time while juggling reports, and writing commentaries on drafts, leaving little room to spend time with her family. I agree that working in a high position job can have a negative…
"Unpleasant experiences with the opposite sex seem to be unavoidable. " This is one of Karen Horney 's first statements when she speaks directly about sexual matters and what she sees as male anxieties. She describes the distinct conflict areas between men and women and how it is from psychologically originated in her piece called The Distrust Between Sexes. Karen Horney was a psychiatrist whose career was developed independently when influenced by Sigmund Freud according to a biography published in American Decades by Judith S. Baughman. The research Horney spent most of her time was centered on the question of female psychology.…
“There’s More to Life Than Being Happy” is a journal article that was written by Emily Esfahani Smith. It was published on January 9, 2013. Its purpose is simply to explain to the audience that, ‘It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness’ (Smith 2013). I very much enjoyed this journal article because after reading it I felt that I had actually connected to it. For example, a big topic that she focused on while writing this article, was that being happy dealt with “taking”, while living a meaningful life, dealt with “giving” (Smith 2013).…