Kenneth J. Gergen

Mesmerized by the internal need to preserve the innocence in the world around him, Holden ventures off on a life-changing journey to grasp the unattainable, the need to prevent children from maturing. With the unfortunate past events in his life guiding the way, Holden embarks on a mission to prove to the world that he can make his inflated dream a reality by protecting the youth from the impurities of adulthood. Being the catcher in the rye is more than just a job that Holden wants; it is the…

“With hard work, talent, determination, and some luck, just about anyone can make it.”(Higginbotham, Elizabeth and Lynn 420) We, as United States citizens, have been brainwashed by this mindset which is not infallible. In view of past and present reality, one would see several tiers of immobility through mobility. Social immobility is terminology society has chosen to refer to economic stagnation. While Social Mobility would refer to a change in standard of living mainly generational ( child…

On Presidents day, April 15th of 2013, the Boston Marathon was the focus of a terror attack. The people behind this attack were brothers Tamerlan Tsarnaev,26 years old and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev 19 years old. They had been United States residents for nearly a decade before they carried out the attack. As a result of the events, three spectators and one police officer were killed. In addition, more than 250 people were wounded from two bombs placed near the finish line. Sixteen of the wounded required…

The Gilded Age was a time period in American history when the economy exploded with railroads and big businesses with the help of: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan. These three were some powerful individuals that helped the economy shoot up. Carnegie helped with steel, Rockefeller with oil, and Morgan with banking. They all were captains of industry in their own way and they all played a big role in revolutionizing the way things currently function. Although some of their…

Three Times the Tasks Means Three Times the Trauma Trauma seems to be the name of the game when it comes to J.K. Rowling’s series on the life of young Harry Potter. He suffers greatly by having his parents killed, is forced to live with abusive extended family, and then is literally shoved into a world of magic in which he is forced to learn quite quickly that luck is never quite on his side. Ms. Rowling’s fourth chapter of Harry’s life, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, proves no…

bank is always hungry for more. The time it stops profiting, all the things will be taken away from you in a blink of an eye. In “Cinderella Man” the family had to send their kids away because they couldn’t afford to take care of them. The boxer James J. Braddock was so desperate to get his kids back that he had to go around and start begging for money. Eventually they lost their nice house and everything else. They started living in a much worse area and with no electricity. The main similarity…

J.D. Salinger and Holden Caulfield Psychoanalysis J.D. Salinger, the author of The Catcher in the Rye, writes about a cynical teenage boy named Holden Caulfield who has a difficult time expressing his emotions to other people. Salinger also had a hard time with his social life, so he composed this novel to express his own difficulties through Holden Caulfield. When analyzing this novel, it is clear to see the similarities between Salinger’s own personal life and the life he creates for Holden.…

What is adulthood? Biologically adulthood is after a person hits puberty, yet politically it is the day one turns 18 and their parents no longer are responsible for their care. However, none of these really describe adulthood. The novel, Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger is about a rebellious prep-school teenager trying to navigate into the life of a mature adult. Like adulthood, Holden struggles to find what maturity really is. He struggles to realize that maturity is not something that just…

software application is critical for a company’s success. Through research, we found that the Marriott Hotels use Customer Relationship Management in order to achieve success within their company. It all began with an A&W root beer stand. Founder J. Willard Marriott and his wife, Alice, got their young business off during Washington D.C.’s hot, muggy summers. Good food and good service at a fair price became a guiding principle for Hot Shoppes restaurants--and for Marriott International as it…

Steve Jobs and J.K. Rowling are two completely different people. They both give outstanding speeches towards college graduates during different times, but the speeches are on similar topics. The similarities throughout both the speeches is that they both talk about failure that they have experienced throughout their lives, and what they have done to move forward from failure. Another similarity that was used during both their speeches is that they both talked about imagination, and how…