Expected Family Contribution

Leidner wrote a book, Fast Food Fast Talk: Service work and the routinization of everyday life, in which she worked in and observed working life in a McDonalds and compared it to an insurance company. Her book focused on the routinization of service jobs and its effect on the people working, the customers consuming the product, and the effect it has on the company. This paper focuses on a McDonalds in the Southside of Jacksonville, FL and how it compares to the observations made in Leidner’s…

We rise to our expectations. When we have goals to meet and expectations to fulfill, we feel inclined to do just that, but it doesn’t necessarily mean we should. People make decisions based on what’s expected of them, but becoming “what you are capable of becoming” doesn’t always mean becoming something you are happy with. When the people all around you expect you to be something, when you just want to be someone else, it can foster unhappiness and loneliness. Goethe believes that,“if I treat…

By human nature we constantly make attributions regarding the cause of other people’s behavior as well as our own behavior. We may strive to be objective, but nevertheless, we are prone to perceptual errors, or attribution biases, based on our own expectations. Often our expectations are based on assumptions that we have made about people. The fundamental attribution error refers to when we over-emphasize the role of dispositional factors in explaining other people’s behavior while minimizing…

The Use of Sound Design in Creating Fiction The crowd rustles, the jostling for seats rises and then slowly abates. Lights begin to dim, and a quiet stillness of anticipation palpably subdues the audience. After darkness and silence fills that space of minute eternity, sounds in orchestra escape into wanting ears and thus a sojourning through story, in the form of theatre, begins its irrepressible rein. Regardless of technology, or venue sophistication; regardless of social status or…

Growing up in a small town, everyone knew everyone. You cannot go to the store without running into one of your grandparent’s friends or a coworker of your parents. Before you even introduced yourself the person you were talking to already knew many details about you. Now this can get extremely annoying but nothing is as annoying as when your teachers would have set expectations for you because they had taught your older siblings that had come before you. My two older sisters were not only great…

The text mentions “how in 1994, Roese proposed that thinking counterfactually simply is functional in two ways such as; preparative function (for which helps us to avoid the recurrence of negative outcomes) and affective function (thinking in ways to help individuals feel better)” (Chapter 6, pg. 62). The text also mentions about “how when one or any individual fails to achieve a goal, it can often lead to a negative affect which in turn can either activate upward or downward counterfactual…

Recognizing the limits of our ability to forecast could leave us healthier, safer and richer. 2016 has dealt a blow to certainty. Or it certainly should have. Just a few weeks ago, the experts were telling us that Hillary Clinton was certain to be the next President of the United States. Depending on the prediction source or betting market, the odds of a Clinton victory were anywhere from a low of 65% to a preposterous high of 99%. One betting outlet, PaddyPower, for some unfathomable reason,…

The chapter three on The Twilight of Paganism: Magic in Norse and Irish Culture describes the mythology of Irish culture. One of the Irish literature involves a man named Conle that is tempted by a seductive female fairy. As the fairy invites Conle to partake in paradise with her at Fairy Hill where there are never ending feasts and no death. However, Conle uses a charm that was given to him by a Druid to fend off the fairy’s allurement. Although, this only lasts temporally and the fairy…

given credits for the work they've done. The image and perception of Middle Ages is so manifesting because of the ordinal or the chronological changes that has been faced by the society related to Middle Ages. There has been some considerable contributions to the discipline, academic history and the study of Middle Ages. Moreover, there has been major social and cultural changes as discussed before over the time of medieval which has made it more pervasive and…

that men are typically physically stronger than women, and are supposed to be the moneymakers within the family. For example, Radha expects her husband to be the only one in the marriage to bring home money and asks him, “’Where is the food? Did you give me anything to cook? Must I earn money myself to buy it?’” (Tagore, 894). Radha expects that Dukhiram will financially support her and their family, and when Dukhiram got angry over her disobedience, he physically forced his power over her. This…