Intentional living

The short story written by Alice Munro, "How I Met My Husband", takes place in Canada in the 1950s. Edie, who is the main character of the story, is a live in housekeeper for the Peebles. Mr. and Mrs. Peebles purchased a rather large home right outside the city limits across from the old fair grounds. While Edie was brought up to lead a simple lifestyle one could say she has come jealousy directed towards Mrs. Peebles by the way she judgmentally talks about the finer things within the…

A living wage is a decent wage. It affords the earner and her or his family the basic needs of living without utilizing government support or poverty programs. A living wage is a complete consideration of the cost of living. Wages vary according to location as costs of living vary by region. What specifically do “Living wage” ordinances call for? Since 1994, 130 municipalities have adopted living wage ordinances, that mandate that covered workers receive an hourly wage providing enough income…

of the economic system”. Somehow, the ideological divide of sustainability and sustainable development does not have to emotionally driven now while it has to based on one position on ones spectrum. Thus, the ideological divide of dignified way of living should not be centered around one spectrum, rather it should be about the good of the environment and…

The house smelled of pizza. We carried the bags up to Liz’s room and hurried down to eat. We dished up our food and grabbed our drinks and sat in the living room together. We watched ‘The Voice’. We had just finished cleaning up when I got a call from my mom. “You need to come home now!” my mother yelled at me through the phone. “I-I gotta go.” I said nervously as I grabbed my backpack and pulled on my…

It was interesting to find out that the City had many different collective bargaining units for its employees based on department and function. I also learned that the Cost-of-Living Adjustment increases for protected workers are about 1% higher than for normal employees. This was surprising to me. I had thought Cost-of-Living Adjustment increases would be equal across the board so I asked one of my coworkers in the Budget Division why the increases were different. He explained…

minimum wage was created, President Roosevelt declared its purpose was to “maintain a minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being.” With every increase the same objections and fears are brought up about inflammation, the loss of jobs, and essentially economic suicide. However, the minimum wage has been raised nine times now to keep up with the cost of living and America is still standing. Both critics and advocates of raising the minimum…

The modern homesteading community, is one of people seeking self-reliance and independence for a myriad of reasons through small scale independent farming and food preservation and crafting. The homesteader is more that just a famer and embodies a broad and contradictory spectrum of motives, affiliations, and material practices. (Wilbur, p.154). As Rebeca Kneale Gould states “the homesteader has converted to a new way of life in which the practice of everyday life is a chosen ‘answer’ to a…

homesteaders and began to look for more information. The autobiographies of other homesteaders become like a sacred text with guidelines of how to live this lifestyle. “Many have well-stocked libraries of books and magazines on simple living with serve as testament to a way of living that is both practical and philosophical, not just ‘how-to’ but ‘why you should’” (Gould, 1999, p.191). She goes on to say that if one considers the autobiographies as the sacred text, then nature itself becomes…

Living Does anybody know what the true meaning of life in this world or what it takes to be stress free or even to be successful in life? Well a person may ask his or herself these questions because he or she is trying to find the real reason to continue to live in this opinionated world or what is his or her true destiny is in life. In the story, “Walden”, by Henry David Thoreau wrote about the events and thoughts that came to his mind while he was living at Walden Pond. In 1854, Thoreau lived…

In his essay, “Walking,” Henry David Thoreau discusses a number of ideas on wilderness and society, and makes several bold claims about society’s detrimental effect on the “wild.” He begins by expressing his affinity for taking long walks on which he “saunters” outdoors. Thoreau explains that not everyone is equipped with the necessary disposition for these types of journeys and says, “no wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession.”…