The Ultimate Gift

t some point during our lives we haven given a gift. Whenever it be a grand gesture, or merely something to say thank you. There is no denying the recipients enjoy great pleasure when receiving the gift. Gift giving is an important part of our lives, we have manifested holidays or specific days designed as excuses to fork out hard earn money for mostly inoperable items such as deep fryers or ties. Scholars believe that as an activity, gift-giving plays as highly important role in the economic…

If you were asked to name a few superheroes, you would probably have Superman, Iron Man, Batman, and Captain America on your list first, and what they all have in common? They are all white males. And you would probably have to resort to Google to get yourself to name more than two minority heroes after Storm from X-Men and Green Lantern, not the Ryan Reynolds one. Straying away from the superhero criteria norm, Marvel recently rebranded Spider-Man as Miles Morales, a black hispanic kid and…

selfless act can positively impact the lives of many.”(Unknown) Today in our world selfless acts are becoming more and more scarce. People in our world are becoming really selfish. In the story The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, the characters Della and Jim do some really selfless acts to buy each other gifts they really wanted. In the story The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers, Lemon teaches Greg that treasure isn’t always worth a lot of money, sometimes it just has to have personal…

questions for me to investigation. I have taken a couple of personality tests in the past, but this one was different because it gave me so much more feedback than just telling me how I think. I love that this assessment takes a look at spiritual gifts, and then gives plenty of bible verses and explanation to help with understanding what each one means. I really believe that this was a useful tool and was very impressed by how much I actually enjoyed the results. I learned a lot of surprising…

The top three jobs I chose to research include Forensic Psychologist, Criminalist, and Correctional Counselor. I decided to pick these three since they were on my list of job interests and they seemed interesting enough. Although, surprisingly enough, it was mildly difficult to choose only three. A main problem throughout the world, especially in heavily populated places, is crime. No matter how much people might wish for the planet to be nonviolent and harmonious, crime will not stop or…

Omar S. Thorton, 34 an employee of Hartford Distributors located in Manchester Connecticut arrived at work at seven am on a Tuesday morning for a scheduled disciplinary meeting. Mr. Thorton had been recently observed on the companies surveillance cameras stealing beer. Mr. Thorton had only been employed with the family owned company for approximately two years. At the conclusion of the meeting, Mr. Thorton was provided with a choice, quit or be fired. As a result, Mr. Thorton drew a hand gun…

Corruption is the utilization of endowed power for private edition. Corruption has two sides, the recipient and the provider. “Both parties to corruption engage in the practice to gain from it and, therefore, both should be accounted for the practice” (Myint, 2000). Debasement is an imperative hindrance to the improvement of a nation. The World Bank has distinguished it as the principle hindrance to creating nations to their improvement tries. The societal improved candid in the general…

Relationships, social networking, social media, society, all terms that imply cooperation, and a willingness engage with other people. Several researchers across multiple disciplines have studied these interactions and proceedings. Some looking to gain insight into why social interactions take place, and why relationships exist. Others seeking to explain that only certain types of interactions have value and what those values are. However, no single discipline focuses solely on cooperation,…

1) The Austronesian languages are spoken throughout Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the islands of the Pacific Ocean. I believe the language started to spread in Southeast Asia, including Malaysia and the Philippians and made its way to Madagascar. Because most of these countries are islands the language would have distributed by traveling, trading, and immigrating 2) Participant observation has both its pros and cons. One of the strengths of this approach is that the researcher who does the…

Mauss in the Gift and Karl Polanyi in the Great Transformation can ultimately be aligned with Adam Smith’s claim, which is that individual desire to attain more material goods is the natural cause of exchanges between people. In this point of view, Polanyi could be criticized for associating economic self-interest exclusively with market transactions instead of considering the various ways economic self-interest could be displayed in different cultures. Mauss also uses the word “gift” to…