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“Doing Nothing is Something” by Anna Quindlen talks about how when people are doing nothing they are actually said to be doing their best work. First off, nobody ever has time where they have absolutely nothing to do. Everybody always has things to do they just might not want to do them. So, they ignore them until they either decide to do it themselves or they have no choice. If kids had more time to do nothing it would be really helpful because no kid can just sit and do nothing. Eventually…

Honoring the Self: Self-Esteem and Personal Tranformation by Nathaniel Branden is exactly what a person would assume it to be: learning how to honor one’s self. It goes into great detail about self esteem; Branden describes self esteem to be the most important concept for a fulfilling life. There are three parts to the book: The Dynamics of Self-Esteem, The Struggle for Individuation, and Egoism. The first part is broken up into seven sections, with Branden going into detail about how self…

The Gender Wage Gap In 1963 the Federal government passed the Equal Pay Act to prohibit employers from discriminating based on the way employees of opposite sexes are compensated. The Act required employers to compensate employees of equal skill, effort, and responsibility, equally. While the gender wage gap has closed significantly since then, women are still making less than men at the same jobs. A portion of the pay gap for working young college graduates can be attributed to their individual…

Despite the fact that over the last fifty years women significantly improved their social position in America and drastically changed the economic situation, by taking over almost half of today’s professions, they are still facing wage discrimination based on gender. According to the Labor Department, the wage gap over the last few years was continuously narrowing; however, the monetary expansion that happened in the last few months greatly improved the economic position of men. As a result of…

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to see only in front of them” (3). Although they are not actually stuck in a cave, and the cave being a metaphor, Walls’ parent’s “caves” are an imprisonment to not wanting to attain jobs, so they can have money to provide for their family. In The Glass Castle Walls’ mother, Rose Mary emphasizes that after she returned from renewing her teaching certificate she “intended to quite her teaching job and devote herself to art” (218). Leaving her telling her children that they can earn their own…

In “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams, the Wingfield family is a very broken one. The Wingfield family represents the average family living in St. Louis at the time of 1937. They consisted of the mother, Amanda, the older daughter, Laura, the younger son, Tom, and the nameless father. In the beginning of the play the father is absent and represented by a picture on the wall. He would “stay out late” and drink and one day he never came back (940). The reader gets a feeling that the…

I have been developing my worldview for the past 22 years. Every single day I expand my worldview by reading, listening, watching, exploring, and learning. Although I have been expanding my worldview since I was born I have been narrowing down and focusing on my worldview when I entered college. Taking Core IX has helped me stabilize my current worldview. As we study Christian Humanism I find myself aligning more with these values. A Christian Humanist recognizes the inherent dignity in every…

The Characters of The Glass Menagerie The classic play The Glass Menagerie was written by Tennessee Williams. The memory play takes place during the 1930’s Great Depression era in St. Louis, where you see the narrator Tom Wingfield walking in his old dingy apartment where he once lived with his mother Amanda Wingfield and Sister Laura Wingfield. That’s where he starts to narrate the past memories he spent with them as well as describing each of the protagonist’s characters in the play. All…

Daniel Sullivan Professor Tomaino THTR-105 December 14, 2016 Tennessee Williams The Greatest Southern Playwright Tennessee Williams, born Thomas Lanier Williams III, was born on March 26th, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. Williams suffered through a difficult and troubling childhood. His father, Cornelius Williams, was an alcoholic shoe salesman and frequently abused Thomas. Cornelius was critical of Thomas 's love of reading and writing poetry, and wished that his son was more robust and…