Eccentricity

Space is a vast and unexplored region, the exploration of which is necessary to satiate mankind’s curiosity and answer the enduring question, “What is our place in the universe?” The need to explore and understand the universe we live in has driven us to establish government agencies, such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA), whose main goal is to study outer space. NASA’s projects have led to many great advancements, including the…

In 1893, author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle became sick of his character Sherlock Holmes and did the only logical thing he could think of: kill him. Within a short period subscriptions to the magazine publishing the stories dropped at unprecedented rates and people wore black armbands in the streets. Two years later, Doyle was forced to miraculously bring him back for the mere necessity to keep food on the table and death threats out of the mailbox. Now, even a century later, fans of the remake are…

His many eccentricities, as these are noted and interpreted by the (neurotypical) narrator, seem to indicate a neurological-developmental difference in Bartleby; one that today would very likely be deemed an autism spectrum…

to adapt to cultural norms; and through her fieldwork, Benedict was able to observe “The dilemma of the individual whose congenial drives are not provided for in the institutions of his culture.” (1934 (1985) 152) Benedict evaluated the role of eccentricity within a society, and she observed that every society possessed a unique set of values and norms. Her work emphasized the importance of “cultural relativity” in the field of…

Introduction Pay-for-Performance (PFP) is an organisational employee motivation tool put in place by the human resources team, wherein the employees are rewarded and compensated based on achieving certain performance targets in addition to the overall time worked (Billikopf, 2001). From the above definition it can be seen that PFP revolves around two critical elements; motivation and performance. The critical analysis of these two elements individually and as a combination, would help in…

For the Summer Assignment, I read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Huxley was born into a wealthy family of scientists and wrote Brave New World in 1931, when the Great Depression was starting up and Hitler was rising to power, not to mention the fact that Huxley already had lived through WWI and lost his mother, his brother, and most of his eyesight, all in the same year[1]. Given all of these circumstances, he had plenty of reason to fear for the future. Brave New World is a model…

Jesse Aylsworth Research Paper RELS 313 April 18, 2016 In Tibet, art and religion are connected on many levels, images are not purely aesthetic, instead art operates on a deeper, spiritual and cultural level, which can be applied to almost every part of traditional Tibetan life, Tibetan thangka paintings, from process, creation and ultimately the final sacred image, aid in devotional religious activity for Tibetan Buddhist practitioners and helps preserve the tradition. There are…

The book, “Umbertina” by Helena Barolini is one that captures the experiences of immigration from Italy to America. It is a story of how an Italian family moved from poverty to poverty and finally to riches through sheer hard work and determination from Umbertina. The story is one that traverses through three generations of women in one family and is a tale of family strength, heritage and culture that moves through three generations of an Italian-American family struggling to get rich enough to…

The book Nazi Literature in the Americas, written by Robert Bolaño, is a collage of biographies written about fake American authors with far right-wing views. For the most part these biographies are independent of one another with very little connection between them. Bolaño uses these independent stories to show different aspects and qualities of these right-wing actions and beliefs. In this essay we will explore how Bolaño uses these authors to both reveal what he considers to be the nature of…

Filipinos know to adjust to its surroundings even though they face racial discrimination in a multinational crew vessel. We are “easy to get along with “one trait we inherit from our Malay ancestors. Filipinos are righteous; we honor courtesy and eccentricity among people and kind but belligerent when…