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The Cultural Value of Work in America In present day society, work is necessary for survival. Work provides income, which in turn allows people to become self-sufficient and to provide for themselves and their families. It also gives people a purpose, provides an environment for social interaction, and creates mental stability. Work is important all over the world, but more specifically, it is a colossal aspect of American culture. Despite the arguments that work distracts from the true culture…

The time of modern technology, where we live today, brings us daily changes. Smartphones, tablets, high definition televisions, personal computers, and many other devices help us to manage our time better and increase our productivity. Health field is one of the rapidly growing field when it comes about technology. With so many computer programs specially designed for health field, liability of medical stuff and physicians takes less effort now to complete patient’s records with high percentage…

The perception of our emotions, and the world we live in isn’t all that it seems. Daniel Gilbert, a professor of social psychology at Harvard has an inquisitive view of the relationship between perceived happiness, and reality. In the chapter “Immune to Reality” from his book Stumbling on Happiness, Gilbert reasons that our psychological immune system causes us to be self-deceiving and as a result, causing us to have the tendency to cook the facts of situations that can affect our happiness.…

Kahneman and Tversky developed the Prospect Theory to describe how people choose different choices that involve risk, knowing the probable outcomes. This demonstrates the way a person feels toward taking risks that involve positive outcomes is very different from the way a person feels toward risks that involve a negative outcome. The decision a person makes reflects on their judgement which can be heavy considering the conditions of uncertainty. For example, if people had a choice of: a) 100%…

because that’s her son. Another moment where Hodgman shows his love toward his mother is when he states, “There is no such thing as a perfect parent.” Betty would always say that. But to me she was perfect. Especially when she thought she was not” (7). And he is right because no one is perfect but our imperfections makes us unique. Furthermore, one thing that I do not relate to Hodgman is the issue about the mother son bond that it doesn’t seem to work as well as me and my mother. For me, my…

‘Flowers for Algernon,' written in 1958, by Daniel Keyes is a short science fiction story about a mentally disabled protagonist called Charlie Gordon. Charlie, who is a 37-year-old man, due to his eagerness to learn, receives the opportunity to increase his intelligence through an experimental surgery. Following the experimental process, Daniel Keyes uses the techniques of the juxtaposition of events such as the thematic apperception test, as well as changes his writing style’s literacy skills…

Dinner With Walter Mitty From what we’ve read in James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” Walter Mitty has an ebullient and wandering imagination. There are multiple occasions in the short story in which Mitty is distracted by a daydream that is somehow tied to what’s happening in reality, causing him to lose sight of what he’s doing at the time. Absent-mindedness can cause some trouble if one finds themselves in a daydream while driving, or perhaps in the middle of a conversation. On…

first displayed as Nailer begins to ponder the meaning of his existence. As Nailer enters a period of deep thought, he becomes more focused on a, “Clipper ship as it sliced across the waters, sleek and fast and completely out of reach.” (Bacigalupi 7) For the first time, Nailer is given a glimpse of what has been hidden from him and as a result, he gains a new perspective on life. Seeing the clipper ship provides Nailer with insight regarding the “sleek” nature of life…

Erik Larson, the author of The Devil in the White City, was born on January 3, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York. He studied Russian history at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated at the top of his class. One year later, Larson enrolled at another Ivy League School, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he graduated in 1978. After starting his career as a journalist for The Bucks County Courier Times in Pennsylvania, he worked for The Wall Street Journal, Time…

Previous decades have been plagued with slavery and civil rights, but injustices still exist in today’s society such as prejudice based on social class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, occupation, education and religion. Although civil rights movement was seen as a heroic and victorious episode in the U.S.’s history about equal citizenship rights between African-American and whites, the inequality and prejudice about African-American is still a painful blain. It’s not hard to find various…