Calling

Look, name calling, though seemingly benign, leads to a pattern of dehumanization. Over time and when utilized on the mass platforms of social media and nationally televised rallies, it creates sort of a normalization effect. People become accustomed to the behavior and even begin to feel as if they are part of the “in” crowd by cheering it on. It also gives people the false idea that they are disconnected from the ones they are belittling. Yep, the purpose of name calling is to belittle a…

observations about the people that hung around Warhol’s Factory, the band pushed the boundaries with this album. It became a precursor to the 1970s punk scene and set Lou Reed up for a long, successful career. Number Four: The Clash, ‘London Calling’ London Calling brings together elements of rockabilly and ska to become one of the most revered punk British punk albums of all time. The amount of diversity the band shows on this album between songs like the energized title track, the ska…

Introduction In this busy modern age, callings like the one that came from the burning bush of Moses’ time seems like just a flicker in the past. Yet callings seem more needed than ever, as evidenced by the increased attention by researchers, managers (Ponton et.al, 2014) and in popular culture. With the positive outcomes associated with having a calling in life, such as, higher levels of life satisfaction, job satisfaction, better health (Wrzesniewski, McCauley, Rozin, & Schwartz, 1997), and…

Left in despair Envy is the desire to have or wanting something that belongs to someone else. The Cuckoo’s Calling, by Robert Galbraith, takes place in the 21st century in London during the end of winter. It is a fictional story where a detective investigates a mysterious suicide. One detective with the help of his partner work to gather information to find the truth about who the famous black supermodel at the time of her death. The closer the detective comes to finding the truth, the more…

This is somewhat of a modern AU spin-off on Chapter 5 of my story “A Thief’s Calling”; the scene in when Nori just stole the spoons back from Lobelia during Bilbo’s coming of age party, and gave them to Bilbo. chainelements wrote following comment to that: “For some reason, Nori shoving a handful of spoons at Bilbo remind me of a lover giving his date a bouquet of flowers”. That was incidentally exactly what I had in mind writing the scene, but now that someone pointed it out I suddenly saw the…

Calling Narrative I grew up in a strong Christian home that was full of faith and love. My four siblings and I had prayers for our bedtime stories. My parents were heavily involved in our local church, so going to church was never an option. However, this was never really an issue because I truly believed that we really enjoyed going to church. In a small town, church is the community. For a long time, church was just a place to go to have fun. I knew all the Sunday school answers, but there…

Public speaking had always been a struggle for me. Working as a hostess for a restaurant requires taking phone calls and engaging in conversations with customers. Knowing I had to take their order by phone made me a bit anxious at first. It is something scary to do, but it is also very simple with practice. In order to complete a successful phone call order, one has to answer the phone and greet the customer, ask for their contact information and location, take the customer’s order, ask for…

Calling vs. Texting Martin Cooper invented the first cell phone back in 1973; however, the only function it had was to call people. Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert did not design texting until 1984. Back then, the cell phone was a rare commodity, but nowadays, everyone has at least one cell phone to interconnect with each other. People have communicated through texting and calling, but there are major variances between them. One similarity between texting and calling is how…

In the book called Calling on Dragons, the author, Patricia C. Wrede, is trying to tell her readers that sometimes, in life, there is nothing you can do except wait. I interpreted this because of a few quotes I found in this novel. One example of a quote would be from chapter twenty one, which stated, “For the next two months, while Telemain and Morwen disposed of Vamist the and sent Killer the rabbit back to his clover patch, while the dragons combed through the Enchanted Forest for stray…

delivering and receiving end of name calling. When I was 3, I called a girl a "bucket head" and threw a hula hoop at her. At age 7, upon moving to America, I someone called me an "alien." The other day I called my friend a “dumbass.” While I’ve experienced many different versions of name calling, only recently have I sat down to ponder the effects of using these phrases and what they mean about us all as individuals. As I started my exploration into the uses of name calling, I wondered what…