Crawford

The Untraditional American Dream “Hallo, danke, bitte,” (hello, please, thank you) are just a few words that Jim Crawford (the author’s father) had to learn when he was deployed to an American Army base in Germany, Neureut Kaserne, in 1986. During this time, the Cold War was beginning to end. The Cold War was started to help protect Iran from the Soviet Union, aka communism. The American people and their leaders desired to help spread democracy; they viewed communism as a threat. The “threat”…

society does not solely determine one’s outcome. With his article “The Case for Working with Your Hands,” Matthew Crawford, along with Anthony DePalma and his piece “Fifteen Years on the Bottom Rung,” collectively discuss how society has implicated certain ideas for one to approach life. Both authors discuss the impact a positive mind has on one’s ability to overcome obstacles. Crawford, as well as, DePalma would agree that to achieve success, one must possess motivation and drive. At…

obsessive-compulsive disorder gets thoughts that are unwanted that cause them to do repetitive behaviors (Rathus, 2010). For example, people with OCD have the obsession to clean everything spotless, like Joan Crawford when she had to clean under a plant that would be easily forgotten by anyone else. One night in the Crawford household when the children were still young, Joan walked into the bedroom where Christina was sleeping to hang a dress and found a wire hanger, a long with a “messy…

old, and Matthew Crawford is 51. To relate this to myself my mother is the exact same age as Crawford. Through the years of living at home I had to constantly teach my mother the new ways of technology as it rapidly developed through my youth, and continues to the present day. There is such an extreme generational gap, whereas the current generation going through college, technology was introduced at a young age so that it was a part of our life from little on. In comparison Crawford, and my…

Dearest, by Christina Crawford, we were shown the life of a woman suffering from many psychological disorders herself. The movie was written by the woman's daughter, who did not personally have any diagnosed disorders, but felt the wrath of each of her mother's. Four specific disorders that was shown throughout the movie were borderline personality disorder, OCPD, bipolar disorder, and histrionic personality disorder. The first disorder shown through the behavior of Joan Crawford was borderline…

This Has to Stop.” was published in the Chicago Tribune on May 30, 2017. This commentary was written by Pat Crawford, an assistant professor and a senior administrator of the Nutrition Policy Institute at the University of California, and Wendi Gosliner, a project scholar and administrator of the Nutrition Policy Institute at the University of California. The commentary’s…

On February 1, 2001, Michelle McCottry called 911 and told the operator her ex-boyfriend, Adrian Davis, had beat her with his fists and fled the scene. Davis was arrested and charged with felony violation of a domestic no-contact order. During the trial, McCottry did not testify and the prosecution used McCottry’s 911 call as evidence of her injuries caused by Davis (Davis v. Washington, n.d.). Davis objected to the use of the 911 call as evidence, citing his Sixth Amendment confrontation…

If we are to operate under Bispham’s thesis that the processes of municipalization were welcomed and not forced onto the municipia then we are left with an interesting reality. The power that is mandating these laws is indirectly the Roman state, but it appears that no coercive or direct administrative leverage is being held over Heraclea, which certainly raises the question of enforcement. If these laws are simply being coopted out of desire to conform to a rather unobtrusive outside-state,…

Cultural Problem”, the author uses logos very strategically, Crawford uses very logical statements, but then simplifies topics and ideas by putting in personal experience. Crawford also implements use of mentioning the cause and effect of the lack of attention in society. One example of this is when the text states “One consequence of [overstimulation] is that we are becoming more alike (Crawford 45).” Even though lots of ethos is used, Crawford, like Davidson also uses logos, like when various…

In Matthew B. Crawford’s “The Case For Working With Your Hands” he writes about how having a manual labor job is right for some people. His thesis being, a physical labor job can be more rewarding than a desk job, Crawford tells how in current times young men and women are taught to believe that to be a successful person you must attend college and then go on to pursue a career wearing a suit and tie while working at a desk. He goes on to describe his own personal experience of working…