Yuppie

People usually think of technology as the latest smart phone, but technology can include tons of different things, not involving computers one of those would be medication. Technology does not have to be strictly computers it can include almost anything, whether, it be dealing with medical issues, wars, almost anything can be classified into technology. It is crazy how scientists can create a pill and when you take it you are cured from whatever you were suffering from. Technology has come a…

Elinor Fuchs is a university professor whose work has revolved around the analysis of theater and comprehension of the world inside a play. She released an article with the intention of helping her readers create a better analysis of whichever play in hand by creating a series of questions that removes the reader from looking inside the world of the play into the outside. Questions such as “What changes in this world?” (Fuchs, p.7) help place the reader from the first page to the last sentence…

behaviors and possessions, nothing more than the material self that they share with thousands of other educated urban upper middle-class Americans. (One wonders about the extent to which Moushumi is to them simply an ethnic accessory to their ready-made yuppie outfits, a Pashmina shawl thrown over their designer name-brand overcoats). There must be more to them than that, and yet this is how they seem to Gogol” (Caesar 115). Caesar’s observation is very interesting to assume some Americans…

Nick Naylor, from the movie “Thank You for Smoking”, written by Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckley is a lobbyist whose means of ‘mortgage’ is to promote the usage of cigarettes. The Yuppie-Nuremberg defence of saying he knows what he is doing is wrong but does it anyways to make money. The entire movie is dedicated to Nick talking on shows and giving interviews about how cigarettes are not destructive. Is Nick Naylor a bullshitter, or is he a brainstormer? The answer is obvious; Naylor is a…

American Psycho, Election 2016, and the Entropy of the American Dream The ‘80’s described in the book were a time of excess, immorality, and sloth. They were also significantly a time when the American Dream, as originally described was one of hard work and charismatic patriotism, changed to one of excess and moral competition. In this, the human persona became more animalistic; so begins this discourse with a genius line from the main character of American Psycho, Patrick Bateman, “There…

language, probably assuming that the audience may not be the smartest group of people. The author right off the bat stereotypes the generation between the late 70s and mid 90s as Gen Y yuppies, Gen Y protagonists or GYPSY calling them “a unique brand of yuppie,…

gave Barney a false tape and plays the real one over Barney’s objection. While watching the tape they see a longhaired, hippie-ish Barney, playing the keyboard and singing a weepy, desperate love song to a girl named Shannon who had left him for a yuppie alpha male. While sobbing on tape Barney says, “Shannon! I love you. I love you so much..(short pause)..What about us changing the world together?” I found this scene to be incredibly comical because many have gone through a tough breakup and…

Hipsters are a product of rebelling against a consumer society and attempting to diverge against mainstream culture only to become the very culture they despise. Hipsters’ are middle class adults in their early twenties and late thirties that grabbed the public eye during their 2011 Occupy movement. This, in fact, was embodied in the Occupy movement of 2011 in which it was thought that “voices of the working class are sidelined [by the wealthiest 1%]” (Maher 48). As a result, hipsters choose to…

Both Marx and Durkheim perceived flaws in the Capitalistic system, although, where Marx sought revolution, Durkheim proposed reform According to Durkheim, the division of labor, carrying an increasing specialization among the workforce, represented a stage in the evolution of humankind that was social as well as economic in nature According to Marx, the conflict model of society was evolutionary. Society was comprised of a moving balance of antithetical forces that generate social change by…

Penelope Eckert’s paper Linguistic Variation as Social Practice seeks to investigate the social dynamics within the male/female and jock/burnout matrix, as well as the linguistic qualities each subset expresses and compare it to the linguistic variables in the Northern Cities Vowel Shift, which is comprised of the following phonological qualities include the raising of /æ/, the fronting of /ɑ/, the lowering of /ɔ/, the backing and lowering of /ɛ/, the backing of /ʌ/, and the lowering and backing…