Leisure

What is a flaneur? And how does the concept, as originally expressed, still hold (or not) in today’s moment? The flaneur, as a philosophical and literary mode of exploration and leisure, is still wholly applicable in today’s world. However, the literal figure of a fashionable, strolling man whose “passion and...profession is to become one flesh with the crowd,” is almost contradictory with current American society. Working hard, busyness, constant self-development, as well as spending on bigger…

Lastly, consuming marijuana regularly could cause people to have lots of negative effects to both of their physical and mental health. With a physical health concern, marijuana can affect the heart and lungs of the person. In the article, Robinson shows that, “Smoking pot can increase your heart rate by as much as two times for up to 3 hours” and “smokers are more likely to have an ongoing cough and to have lung-related health problems like chest colds and lung infections” (How Does Marijuana…

The 1860’s and 70’s marked the beginning of the biggest art movement since the Renaissance, Impressionism. In the beginning, paintings in the impressionist style were sharply ridiculed for their “sloppiness” and “disrespect for tradition”. Impressionist artists were banned from exhibiting at the Paris Salon, the largest and greatest art event in the world at the time. This exclusion only fueled the artist’s passion and resolve to show the world the beauty of the new style. Perhaps the most…

Mad Bullets displays the demand of capturing leisures accompanying silly toon exteriors and also sharp controls. It's not an extensive encounter by any sort of approaches, nevertheless there's substantial quantities of things to obliterate in a singular run, which is all you really need from the course. The task is on-rails. When you start a session you're progressively walked with a haphazardly produced screen celebrating a Wild West subject. You take a trip via streets lined accompanying…

focusing on Younger Adults aged 18 – 30. These will typically be people who are full time students or have full time jobs and will most likely have children. This category of people are extremely busy and schedule oriented and do not have time for many leisure activities nor have a high income. My product, which is portable cereal, not just a cereal bar but a cereal brand sold and packaged (separately) with milk allows people to eat one of their favorite breakfast meals in the car or at work.…

Marshall Sahlin's purpose in "The Original Affluent Society" is to change the view point that hunter-gatherers are a group of primitive people who are just scraping by, in reality they are a very affluent group of people who have a lot of leisurely time because they gather what they need and can do so because they desire very little. I wouldn't personally say it changed my opinion of being well-off, but that is because I already shared some of these same thoughts. Although I already had some of…

diets are expensive; high sugar, high fat diets as well as canned foods, which are highly salted, are much cheaper than fresh fruits and vegetables. Low-income individuals might not even have the option of exercise, as they have limited time for leisure and are time poor as well cash poor. However, the responsibility of ensuring good quality of life for patients with Kidney Disease does not lie only with the government. It is also a responsibility of the private sector, and communities…

independent isn’t necessarily a bad thing, especially not in a house similar to mine. I’ve got a pretty big family. With 2 younger brothers, 2 younger sisters, my mom, my dad, and my cat, you figure out how to do things for yourself. I spend most of my leisure time with my family, usually helping my parents or playing with the kids. But when I can, I enjoy doing things such as playing video games, watching T.V., listening to music, playing sports, wrestling, and taking UFC classes. Those are…

where the earliest inns were homes with rooms provided for travelers. Conditions improved in 1700s England when the renaissance sparked the desire to travel. The United States saw its hotel industry created a century later. By this time they had revolutionized many firsts in the industry including private rooms with locks and doors, free soap, a trained staff, and a pitcher of water in each room. Indoor plumbing and the creation of the lobby followed shortly thereafter. The business of providing…

Work culture has evolved very recently and a new phenomenon that has been developed is the concept of a job. A job is no longer a worthwhile, fruitful, enjoyable task in which one is paid for, now the vision that remains of a job is a crude sustained paid position of regular employment. Capitalism fuels peoples’ beliefs in the existentiality of jobs within our society. Employment for a company or individual and salaries and debt are all a direct cause of the industrial revolution. Many Americans…