Stepping stone

This is because happiness has intrinsic value and money has instrumental value. Think of instrumental value as a stepping stone toward something, and intrinsic value as that something you are stepping toward. Now, to continue our analogy, let’s think about one characteristic of stepping stones. Unless a particular stepping stone is the very last one before your destination, it will probably lead to another stepping stone. Likewise, things that have instrumental value usually lead to other things with instrumental value. The money will probably not directly buy you happiness. It will, say, buy you something that will let you do something to accomplish something, which will then give you satisfaction or happiness. Of course, the sequence of events before you reach your destination can get far more complex. But all the same, the ultimate destination remains unchanged. Let me give you a tangible…

Behind the glamorous of successful people, they ever had a story from the beginning that they had failure to get into a success. They start from “Zero” to “Hero”. Now as the time going many young people want to reach success in their youth. Unfortunately, some young people did not consider how hard it could be to achieve success. They sometimes think successful person is success because of their luck. And sometimes when the young people meet failure in their way to success, they become…

artistic musings. Her musings are less than inspirational as her life and surroundings are the epitomai of monotony. Marina's humming picks up in volume as she is seen about her day. Marina is in Sick Bay organizing medical equipment, she begins to sing. Her song is about being trapped in the middle of history, nothing she does has a notable impact on anyone or anything. Marina endures her work in sick Bay scanning frozen DNA and reading medical reports. Her song continues to ask what her…

variety of cultures and used to build the foundation of kinship and relationships. Such social processes raise complex complications in it’s production and consumption, as in the case studied by Robyn Dwyer, the consumption of tobacco has become heavily embedded within Vietnamese culture, to where it is probable to suggest that tobacco can become a stepping stone or “gateway drug” to heroin. While still within Australia, Dwyer becomes heavily involved embedded in Vietnamese culture, becoming in…

The painting that I viewed was titled Stepping Stones by Stephanie Faleski. The medium of this painting is oil on canvas measuring approximately 2 feet in both height and width. This is a realistic painting which appears to be in a forest type setting with an opened space. There were several trees placed in the scene showing off their beautiful colors of light and dark green. The trees were very tall, appearing to almost touch the skies if looking up. Some were aligned around a circular light…

For my volunteering hours, I decided to volunteer at Stepping Stones Daycare Center. While volunteering at Stepping Stones, I was able to observes the developmental stages that the children all around me are apart of. Inside, there were different classroom settings for each age group of children ranging from infantry to the age of 4. I was able to experience what each of these age groups were like and viewed the various stages that each child experiences. The infants were the easiest to take…

Nicholas Davis’ “Early Education a Stepping Stone” from the Bozeman Daily Chronicle informs readers that early childhood education should be reformed and set to a higher standard, so that children are well prepared to succeed in grade school, high school, and eventually, their futures. As of now, most early childhood education facilities act as babysitters—watching children while their parents are at work. Davis suggests that these facilities should do more than that, by offering a…

being more dominant. Onyx Properties Onyx comes in a variety of colors like red, yellow or blue. It falls under the category of quartz stones, and has a hardness of between 6 and 7 on the Mohs scale. Most of the black onyx seen in jewelry doesn't have the white stripe, so some people are not even aware that black onyx has another color to it unless it's been used for a cameo. Jewelry Choices and History of Black Onyx Throughout…

The Ruthwell cross is a stone, Anglo-Saxon monument which breaks down and disrupts several different societal and culturally defined binaries and is an example of how one object can exist as multiple things/ideas at once. This essay will focus on the disruption of the narrative of past and present, human and non-human, male and female, and wood and stone. Many different aspects and elements of the cross come into play when doing a diffractive reading of the Ruthwell cross. The cross was created…

The Control of Tradition Embedded in Culture It is an obvious fact that modern America is the superior culture. But in this short story by Shirley Jackson, written in 1948, will provoke a common patriot of this nation to think twice. At first glance the short story “The Lottery” can be read as a brute tale of a barbaric tradition, one that sacrifices a member of the community once a year by stoning them to a slow death. The sacrifice is chosen through two rounds of picking a slip of paper…