Being and Time

ability. It allows us to escape the present, but it also seems to cause unhappiness. Yet, according to Killingsworth 's study, "forty-seven percent of the time, people are thinking about something other than what they 're currently doing." Living in the moment is also an important part of minimalism…

store, etc. After that, we would return home and watch old movies, all night. With The Self Determination Theory it states that people basic need are autonomy, competence, and relatedness. My hypothetical good day includes all three needs. Autonomy is being in control and the feeling that you have a choice. I would choose and control, where my niece and I would go and do. I would also control what movies we would watch. Doing the week, I have no choice, but to send my niece to school because it…

was a mandatory orientation course, so I automatically thought it would be a waste of time. However, I was curious about what the class would entail, so I asked one of my friends who took the course his freshman year. He said it was mostly group activities/assignments, and I would have to go around campus and take pictures of the places I went. He left out just how thought-provoking the lectures would be. My all-time favorite lecture in the class was mindfulness. I enjoyed doing the Go Picture…

Wall-E is an ingenious film which subtly portrays the future being destroyed by consumer culture. We are living in time where we’re always thinking of our future and how our society can further progress our civilization. Through Wall-E, the movie creatively acknowledges the concerns of corporate control and how consumer culture is devastating our way of living in the present and ultimately the future. With the contrast between the past and the future throughout the film, there is an evident…

He was so used to the thought of being superior to manual labor whom, to him, meant related to “a rude, coarse, and ignorant class of people” and suffer from irremediable “natural dullness or make up for original mental deficiencies” (Bellamy 106). Especially when Dr. Leete tried to explain…

but instead watches for a short time in the distance, then leaves. This alienation is defined in “A Retrospective Look at The Catcher in the Rye” as “the negative side of detachment” (Rosen 97). Although Holden could easily walk down and watch the game with everyone else, he makes the choice himself to turn around, thus isolating himself even more. However, he quickly reaches out for those around him once again when he goes to visit his old teacher, Mr. Spencer. Being much older than Holden, he…

past 13 weeks, I have been somewhat content with how I have been doing. Again, when one always says somewhat content, I feel I have been doing pretty well and say somewhat because we all know we can always find a way to do better. With all of that being said the highest I have scored on an exam in Anatomy & Physiology I was an eighty-three percent. My scores in anatomy have been almost always above average, so not extremely worried, I will and already have been preparing a lot sooner for exams,…

Course Reflection 1. After taking the course Speech 301 during spring semester of 2017, I have learned that before any speech is presented it first needs to go through a process of constructing it, which takes time and effort. But that’s not all, it takes research, creativity, and practice to prepare and deliver a good speech. You need to get the audience attention before even telling then what your speech is about. After you start delivering the speech it is also important to keep the audiences…

Thank you, thank you so much for being here. You know it's funny how a cross country runner can run a 5k for their race, yet gets winded walking up the stairs. I can't tell you what an honor it is to receive this award. This is something I will remember forever. Time is very precious to me. I don't have much left in the season so I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully at the end of this speech, I will have said something that will be important to other people, too. When people…

Long ago, a story was lost to time. Deep in the mountains of now Switzerland our story begins. On the outskirts of town, I wait and watch. My father is to be back any minute. Ever since the invasion from the ghastly northerners. We have been taken as slaves to work the fields for their unhampered appetite. When they arrived, they stripped us of our land and ranks. I would have been nephew to the king but when the northerners brought us into bondage, my uncle was murdered in front of the…