Ebenezer Scrooge

status. They want enormous houses, stylish clothes, newest electronics, and fancy businesses; this could result in jealousy and vanity. In modern culture, people refuse to give to people; instead, they buy and buy for themselves. It is similar to Ebenezer Scrooge or the Grinch on Christmas; they value their own personal desires either to have abundance of wealth or to take away the joy of Christmas from people in Whoville. What outward disciplines do is to surrender our services for all. Through…

1.2 Yalom’s model of existential psychotherapy Yalom believed life has arisen from random events, we are finite and we are responsible for our own destiny (Yalom, 2008), and he identified “four ultimate concerns” as the key to all human existence; death, freedom, isolation and meaningless, and stated, “The individual’s confrontation with these facts of life constitutes the content of the existential dynamic conflict” (Yalom, 1980 p. 8). Death is the central part of Yalom’s philosophy, as we are…

Significant controversy over the question if the big business men of the late nineteenth century were “robber barons” has been widely debated by historians. Notably, Howard Zinn (yes) and John S. Gordon (no) have documented their reasonings behind their opinions on if the big business men truly were “robber barons” or simply “captains of industry”. Most significant was Howard Zinn’s argument that they were robber barons based on how they treated workers, as well as the issues of scandals,…

is speaking to in this book seems to be the politicians, in this case that are either running or considering to run, for the republican nomination for presidency. The image problem that he talks about is that conservatives too often resemble Ebenezer Scrooge. This is because of them opposing increases in the minimum wage, advocating cuts in corporate taxes, railing against excessive regulation of business and worrying about the cost of entitlement programs, they appear to care only about the…

Charles (John Huffam) Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth, United Kingdom ("Charles (John Huffam) Dickens." DISCovering Authors). Dickens had an overall harsh childhood with his father (John Dickens) constantly being sent to debtors prison for living beyond his means ("Charles (John Huffam) Dickens." DISCovering Authors). Since his father was imprisoned and his mother lived with her husband in prison, Dickens was forced to live in poverty and hunger in a rented room ("Charles…

Many readers regard William Shakespeare’s Hamlet as his greatest work, if not the world’s greatest play written in the English language. However, some famous critics such as T.S. Eliot see Hamlet in a different light — they see Hamlet as nothing more than an “artistic failure” full of inconsistencies. For example, why exactly is Hamlet not crowned king when he is already of age? Is it because he is away at Wittenberg? Despite this fault, these myriads of analyses only highlight the fact that…