Ernest Becker

Ernest Becker once said, “Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.” Hayley says there are only two types of people in the world: zombies and freaks. While Hayley’s aphorism was an admirable effort to display her attempt at a doctrine of ontological truth, Ernest Becker’s adage is a neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Zombies and freaks. That is what Hayley categorizes every human on the planet. The zombies, in the story, were the superlatives of the social ladder- jocks, drama queens, hypocrites, and the 1%. Hayley…

At this point, in my quest, I no longer remembered what I was looking for. When I read 'The Denial Of The Death' by Ernest Becker where the author talks about how humans have tried to create 'solutions' to the 'death problem', I realized that I was doing the same which was to create a narrative that would make death seem more tolerable, but I would always fail in that task. Even the idea of creating a legacy through one's work or through one's bloodline that outlives him/her long after one has…

In tennis, there are a few movements that are key to winning the match. When someone plays tennis they are looking for the other player to make a mistake, or to make a shot too hard for the other player to hit. The basic movements of a tennis match are serves and rallies. How a player hits the ball with their racket determines what speed, spin, and trajectory of the ball. These actions can be analyzed through the lens of a physicist to find out what exactly happens. Let’s begin with the serve.…

Goal 2: Improve physical and mental health Objectives: I will exercise twice a week for 30 minutes and do individual or group based yoga three times a week for 30 minutes Strategies: I will attend yoga sessions at the local YMCA. I will attend my local gym two times a week. I will walk around the track at the gym and do the row machine. I will keep track of this by completing a self-monitoring system and rewarding myself with a new journal or another reinforcer for completing the yoga and…

Leadership Goal 1 Goal Number 1 – Cognitive: “Keep the mind sharp” – Continual Learning Relevant Areas of Growth 1 – Critical and Creative Thinking 1. Personal Impact – Professional development; become more knowledgeable in the fraud prevention and intelligence spheres and have more opportunity for advancement within the Army Reserve and my civilian career. 2. Impact on others – Articulate information to support priority intelligence requirements to a higher headquarters. 3.…

that HRM practices affect performance indirectly through intervening factors referred to as HR outcomes. Beer et al, (1984) propose competence, commitment, congruence and cost effectiveness as an intermediary variables. Becker and Huselid (1998) identified variables such as employee skills, employee motivation, job design and the work structure link to operating performance which in turn influences the profit and the market value. The approach of using intermediary variables is adopted in many…

this journal entry is to discuss the cost/benefit analysis of extending a life, and to consider how it may impact the family financially vs. the expenses of caring for someone who is seriously ill. Examining the cost benefits of extending a life, depends upon many factors. One would have to weigh issues such as, whether or not the person is diagnosed with a terminal illness? Is the person is old and frail? Is this a young person, or someone who has a family to raise, or income to bring…

disregarded. Wilde shows how both Jack and Algernon lead the "double life" in order to avoid responsibility: Jack uses the excuse of visiting an older brother named Ernest and Algernon pretends he is visiting his sick friend Bunbury in the country. Both protagonists have made up these characters so they can escape from social and moral obligations. Jack's act of using a fictional brother as an excuse is far more hypocritical than Algernon's as although both characters are pretending to be…

Ernest Hemingway defined a hero as, “A man who lives correctly, following the ideals of honor, courage and endurance in a world that is sometimes chaotic, often stressful, and always painful.” It is blatantly apparent that Henry, the protagonist of A Farewell to Arms, did not exemplify any of these traits at all in the beginning of the novel. However, as the book progressed, Henry gradually learned how to be a “Hemingway Hero”, and he eventually progressed to the point where he completely…

Keep it the Heming-Way “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” - Ernest Hemingway It has been brought to my attention that the English Department is questioning the importance of teaching about Ernest Hemingway, who they say is a “simplistic” writer. A Farewell to Arms is an example of a novel Hemingway wrote which mirrors his life and many of his own experiences during the time he spent in World War I. He is familiar with the settings of his novels…