Workaholic

3:58 p.m. I’m sitting on my dark brown, leathered chair, watching an episode of Orange is The New Black, while Mark is walking around the apartment in a hastily manner. As Mark is walking a marathon in here, I notice that our apartment looks peculiarly similar to that of Joey and Chandler’s in the sitcom Friends. We have an entertainment center that takes up at least 27% of the room. We have a 40 inch flat-screen television. We have a foosball table near the kitchen. We even have a portrait of a…

Kentucky born and raised, Diane Sawyer was a powerhouse since birth. She admired her mother, Jean, and her sisters as “everywhere you would look there would be these women- taking chances, not for a minute thinking there was nothing they couldn’t do” (Weller, p. 27). This very ideal would inspire Sawyer throughout her life. Her mother was transfixed on perfection and made sure her daughters’ distinction was well-known by enrolling them in performance classes from an early age. This could’ve been…

Without my dad in our lives, every aspect changed. My mom was a stay-at-home parent. She now had three kids to raise alone, with no college degree. Feelings of injustice, discontent, depression, and anger filled my home. My family became broken and I became apprehensive about my life. Even as a fourth grader, I was so aware of the extreme cost of college that I started a piggy bank with the purpose of saving for college. There were no leftover savings, as we had declared bankruptcy in 2005. My…

The Death of Ivan Ilych…and Gregor Samsa Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych and Kafka’s The Metamorphosis share major similarities. Aside from some thematic similarities the main characters from each story, Ivan Ilych and Gregor Samsa, share many traits. One of these traits is that they are both terribly unexceptional. Also, both of their main focus is their work life. Another is the obvious fact that both men are dying throughout their stories. While on their deathbed’s they both face severe…

worked at Orange Peel Bakery and on top of that I worked as an assistant to a Woman with Ehlers-Danlos. I worked for three empowering woman who had big ideas for me and their community. This was a full seven days a week commitment. I admit that I’m a workaholic and that it’s easier for me to work myself to death than deal with my…

Even now as an adult with his own kids the pain never stopped it just mutated into something different. Sanders may not be a drunk but he grew up to be like his dad. He did not drink alcohol but instead became a workaholic. He believes, “ the labor is endless and futile, for I can no more redeem myself through work than I could redeem my father”(96). He cannot get over the guilt of his father and is constantly burdened by the cloud of guilt that rains over his mind…

Your Sun sign or just plainly "sign" is associated with many stereotypes these are typically the first thing a person hears about before learning Astrology. Here are some of the most popular ones. Sign? Sun Sign? In Western Astrology, the Sun goes in and out of the 12 signs of Zodiac about once a month. If you do not know your Sun sign or are right on the edge and aren't sure, do a quick search. I don't mean to offend- they're all explained below. Aries: Foolish and Impulsive Summed Up…

As the power of the Nazis rose, so did their desire to be perceived as super human. Hitler portrayed himself as a tireless workaholic that only wanted German greatness. He built a society that excelled in athletics, academics, wholesomeness, virtuous, and above all, military might. Germany’s military was limited by the Treaty of Versailles. To expand the borders and to project the perceived superhuman mystique of Germans, Hitler needed an edge, and he found it the form of performance…

Think about the last movie you have seen. Was it a gritty action film? Perhaps a dreamy flick with starry-eyed lovers? No matter what the genre, media typically, consciously or not, embodies a specific ideology or two. Andy Tennant’s romantic comedy film, Hitch (2005), is certainly not exempt from this. The film portrays the career-life of Alex “Hitch” Hitchens. Hitch works as a professional “date doctor,” coaching men in the art of wooing the women they are interested in. As the movie…

In Yeon Sang-ho’s Train to Busan is the most purely entertaining zombie film, finding echoes of George Romero’s and Danny Boyle’s work, but delivering something unique for an era in which kindness to others seems more essential than ever. The titular mass transport vehicle serves as an apt and very literary setting for an exhilarating morality tale that pits humanity’s fragile virtues and delicate principles with a ferocious catastrophe. For decades, movies about the undead have essentially been…