Totem

No matter what kind of goods or services a company provides, the constant struggle to find even better, more affordable ways to increase productivity is one of the biggest challenges to making it profitable. However, the rise of Human Capital Management (HCM) as both a budding academic discipline, as well as an emerging business philosophy, is leading many organizations to discover it’s not obstacles such as lengthy supply chains or out-dated technology causing the biggest barriers to…

Inception: Perception Changes Reality Christopher Nolan is known for his intellectual takes on genre pieces. Often incorporating his appreciation and love of the film medium, it could be argued that while he does not always resort to cheap twists, his eye for what separates film from other forms of entertainment and how he uses it to play with the audiences’ expectations and notions seems to be what primarily separates him from his contemporaries. Inception is no exception to this, and in fact…

A determinant of health and/or illness is a variable or group of variables that directly or indirectly influences the distribution of diseases. These determinants can be individual, physical, or in this case social. These social determinants of health are "the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels." (WHO, 2018). This plays a large part in how health is…

This is important because it united a previously divided people. It is an example of the long-standing tradition that sharing your better religion and better standards of living with those who are lower on the totem pole. Previously, Pope Boniface had attempted to convert the Saxon people, enlighten them and show them the ways of Christianity, but the result was his death. Through accepting Christianity, the Saxons become essentially equal Frankish people. In…

disenfranchised youth to join in mosh pits from guitar solos. Cultivated music is world renowned and respected by older generations because it was taught in formal capacities. Vernacular music is also world renowned and respected on every level of the totem pole because it is not so formal in nature and you can come as you are and take what you want from it. I think that musical…

The Anomie Theory states that societies in a whole have a culturally driven system that “1) denotes socially approved values and goals and 2) details acceptable norms or institutionalized means for achieving these goals” (Merton 263). This explains how conditions, that of the social nature, put stress on people in different ways throughout a class, and the people inside these classes act or behave independently to these conditions. Further this system that Merton introduced shows how individuals…

There are four different names given to these objects; Sherry Turkle calls them ‘evocative objects’, Donald Winnicott called them transitional objects, while anthropologists and psychoanalysts call them totems and fetishes. Highmore gives an example of such an object by speaking about a film in which a characters last word before his death, turns out to be the name of a sled that he played with as a child. This is future explained because we attach ourselves…

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are two notorious names across the country for a variety of different reasons. In addition, both are on opposite sides of the political spectrum. Taxes dependent on income, a decrease in military spending, strong government intervention, and legal abortion are a few concepts that democrats believe in. Contra, republicans favor ideas such as taxes unassociated with income, an increase in military spending, government with leeway, and illegal abortion (T, S, Sehgal…

and we constantly teleport from one to another. While others argue that the internet, is cruel, ruins your energy, and causes health problems which is partially true, other belief that it is empowering, enlightening, inspiring and a work of art. My totem is my guitar, its an old wooden colored Fender Star Caster, I have an emotional connection every time I play it, we have long conversations about life, fears and goals. We are both ambitious. Meanwhile other people experience transitions, the…

Marcus told himself he wasn't going to get in trouble anymore. He wanted to stay away from the troubles of society to make himself better. Well that didn't last long when a man named Charlie with a brain disorder came into the picture in the book “Pop by Gordon Korman” Charlie was willing to help him and be friends the better himself but little did he know that Charlie was into trouble and wasn't the best influence for Marcus. The opposing force of trouble over took Marcus once again, and it…