Erich Maria Remarque

The great Erich Fromm once said “Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.” This quote gives a great idea of how we as people countlessly want something, yet we are never satisfied, especially Americans. As a fellow American citizen, we are constantly consuming things we do not need but why? Why do we constantly obtain unnecessary accessories? American’s consume so much because we are influenced by media,…

In Testaments Betrayed Milan Kundera describes a situation during the Prague Spring where someone’s private life is intermixed with their public life. This person was Jan Prochazka, who was a major figure during the Prague Spring. Prochazka commonly had conversations with a opposition figure, Professor Vaclav Cemy and their conversations were recorded and broadcasted throughout several radio stations. Milan Kundera depicts this as a horrid act and explains how people, no matter who they are, act…

I was on October 6 is Tuesday we had to go at Set B room arrive because don't know a place at third-floor conference room never to touch before needs someone people. I use to show my phone post on facebook page for Texas Southmost College of events in an Awareness Month is today for Through Our Eyes with campus. I was helped me can ask person is woman in the work office front at Set B to know where at place is third floor top in the elevator then into saw coming students, some teacher, and…

How To Be The Best You Can Be In College There are two different types of mindsets in this world. You can have a creator or a victim mindset. A creator mindset is where you find solutions to your problems, they have what you call personal responsibility. Victim mindset people are the ones who make excuses for themselves to make it feel like they are not at fault for their actions. These two kinds of people are usually in a different time period in their life, either they are not mature enough…

A prominent humanistic psychologist called Erich Fromm wrote a book called To Have or to Be, in which he describes two opposing orientations to living life. These orientations are the having orientation, and the being orientation respectively. In short, he describes the being orientation to life as living life in such a way that values objects above all else. Be it living life for money, or living for the next edition of the iPad, the concept of the having orientation encapsulates the rampant…

Fancy Title In his 1963 essay, “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem,” philosopher Erich Fromm argues that disobedience to authority started human history and blind obedience may cause its destruction. Fromm’s view on obedience to authority is that when we obey authority, even when it goes against our own reasoning and morals, then that obedience is cowardly and destructive while any act affirming individual will and autonomy is an act of freedom. Humanity could easily destroy…

who would later seize power of the country, overthrow and revolt against the monarchy, and the install the Weimar Republic- making what was thought to be an almost positive victory into a defeat instead. Die Dolchstoßlegende was put forth by General Erich Ludendorff and quickly embraced by the General Staff who wanted to rid themselves of blame for losing the First World War. Ludendorff offered this notion up as reasoning for Germany’s loss, victimizing himself and the military by villainizing…

Course Reflection 1. After taking the course Speech 301 during spring semester of 2017, I have learned that before any speech is presented it first needs to go through a process of constructing it, which takes time and effort. But that’s not all, it takes research, creativity, and practice to prepare and deliver a good speech. You need to get the audience attention before even telling then what your speech is about. After you start delivering the speech it is also important to keep the audiences…

by Theodore Dalrymple and “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem” by Erich Fromm both can be linked to the movie directed by Rob Reiner, A Few Good Men. The article by Dalrymple is about himself sitting on a plane with a woman when she expresses that she doesn’t obey authority. He gives her several examples of how she obeys authority blindly and that obedience is far from abnormal. The article by Erich Fromm tells us that mankind is taught to obey orders and disobedience is a vice.…

you a little about the wonderful activities your children have been engaged in throughout month. Primary: “To lead the child, as it were, by the hand, from the education of the muscular system, to that of the nervous system, and of the senses.” ― Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in 'The Children 's Houses ' The Primary School has been studying the human body. Beginning with studies of the brain and skeleton, students learned all about…