...perishes there, not being able to leave the beauty of his own reflection. The term narcissism is closely linked to vanity, conceit and egotism and is a behavior where often young people think that the rest of the world is interested in them and their views. A professor Jean Twenge from San Diego University has done a survey about narcissistic young people. She has asked more than 16.000 students over a period of 24 years to rate the accuracy of some statements, and based on this she came to the conclusion that young people today are more narcissistic than ever before. This is being backed up by the surgeons Maurizio & Viel who during the 90´es experienced 250 men who in one year had made more than 700 surgical procedures. According to Maurizio the surgery did help their self-esteem. A social critic Christopher Lasch theorized that “every society reproduces its culture, in the individual, in the form of personality.” If personality is a mirror of the culture this explains why TV shows like X-Factor, American Idol and Paradise Hotel has become so popular among young people. In these shows hundreds of thousands audition to get a chance to get their 15 minutes of fame – without any talent. But it appeals to the narcissistic behavior and needs of the young people. The Internet has made life heaven for young people with narcissistic needs. On the Internet anyone can create your own “perfect” image and nobody can disagree. As Simon Crompton states is the Internet instant thrill...
Words: 1203 - Pages: 5
...of the manifesto) From: Christopher Jordan Dorner /7648 To: America Subj: Last resort Regarding CF# 07-004281 I know most of you who personally know me are in disbelief to hear from media reports that I am suspected of committing such horrendous murders and have taken drastic and shocking actions in the last couple of days. You are saying to yourself that this is completely out of character of the man you knew who always wore a smile wherever he was seen. I know I will be villified by the LAPD and the media. Unfortunately, this is a necessary evil that I do not enjoy but must partake and complete for substantial change to occur within the LAPD and reclaim my name. The department has not changed since the Rampart and Rodney King days. It has gotten worse. The consent decree should never have been lifted. The only thing that has evolved from the consent decree is those officers involved in the Rampart scandal and Rodney King incidents have since promoted to supervisor, commanders, and command staff, and executive positions. The question is, what would you do to clear your name? Name; A word or set of words by which a person, animal, place, or thing is known, addressed, or referred to. Name Synonyms; reputation, title, appellation, denomination, repute. A name is more than just a noun, verb, or adjective. It’s your life, your legacy, your journey, sacrifices, and everything you’ve worked hard for every day of your life as and adolescent, young adult and adult. Don’t let...
Words: 17036 - Pages: 69
...Arte R. Ledyard Professor Christopher Lodge Business 230 – Purchasing & Materials Management July 25, 2012 The line of business, mission, and goals of the organization he/she works for. Describe these briefly. For this assignment, I interviewed Ms. Deja Craddock, a Purchasing Manager for the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO is an independent, nonpartisan agency that supports the Congress by investigating how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars. GAO’s work is done at the request of Congress in most cases, but the Comptroller General or head of the agency does also have the authority to independently initiate research. Examples of GAO’s work include: • audit federal agencies to determine whether tax dollars are being spent efficiently and effectively; • investigate allegations of illegal and improper activities; • report on how well federal policies and programs are meeting their objectives; • analyze policies for congressional consideration; and • issue legal decisions and opinions, such as bid protests. The overall mission of GAO is to, “support the Congress in meeting its constitutional responsibilities and to help improve the performance and ensure the accountability of the federal government for the benefit of the American people. We provide Congress with timely information that is objective, fact-based, nonpartisan, nonideological, fair, and balanced” (Young, C., 1st citation). The goals...
Words: 1101 - Pages: 5
...New Narcissism New Narcissism is the modern term for the phenomenon narcissism.The term “narcissism” was used for the first time in relation to psychiatry by Sigmund Freud to describe the phenomenon of “loving yourself”. The notion derived from the Greek mythology’s legend about Narcissus, a handsome young man searching for the love of his life. Narcissus found it when he saw his own face, reflected in the water. This word now has a wide range of meanings; from psychological symptoms, a social or cultural problem, or simply a personality trait encompassing characteristics like arrogance, egoism, vanity and selfishness. Sarfaz Manzoor’s article “Me, Me, Me” tells us that psychologists’ recent studies conclude a disturbing increase of narcissistic behavior. Christopher Lasch claims in his work, The culture of Narcissism, that society reproduces its culture in the form of the individual’s personality. So, according to this theory New Narcissism is part of our culture. People set big goals as beauty, wealth and fame. Ordinary people can easily achieve their “beauty”, boost their self-esteem and confidence with plastic surgeries. Too much effort is put on the appearance and only for people’s own benefits. Fame, and thus wealth, can be achieved for example through the Internet. The Internet has a big impact on our narcissistic culture because everyone can get heard, and nobody can stop you from saying what you want. In the Internet’s virtual world, it’s possible to create, manipulate...
Words: 971 - Pages: 4
...Marlon Christopher T. Cadungog October 1, 2014 BSIT – 1B Ms. Jo Janine Nikkie I. Tuna English 1 Soul Surfer Soul Surfer is the inspiring true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame all odds to become a champion again, inspiring millions worldwide through the love of her family, her sheer determination, and her unwavering faith in Jesus Christ. This essay will cover some questions and their answers through explanatory paragraphs. Compassion: Changing People’s Point of View Why does compassion change the way we view things? Let us first define it: It is the pity for suffering, with the desire to help or to spare. The definition itself explains the answer of the question. Compassion can be the natural instinct of a merciful individual who tends to help mostly those who are needy as of certain individuals - who are more likely Samaritans - being practiced. Compassion changes our viewpoint because of this, since it provides us the courage and will to change and to be open for new possibilities and opportunities, as Sarah told Bethany that it could move people to do great things and can also provide a new perspective. It could also be considered as a life changer, as it can greatly influence individuals that have gone through several trials and problems. It can also empower us to be prudent; being persistent enough to do good things with faith in God towards other people, especially our loved...
Words: 1815 - Pages: 8
...What is Your Philosophy? Christopher Robinson PHL/215 December 12, 2011 Kathleen Ramsey What is Your Philosophy? How does one define his or her personal philosophy? A variety of personal, social, political, and economic circumstances help molds one’s philosophy. Using myself, as an example, I will explain how each of these areas has played some part in the molding of my personal philosophical views. The formation of my views began when I was a young child at around six or seven years old. I didn’t realize at the time of course. Only through growing up and looking back can one realize such things. According to the Performance Aid, I find myself falling into two categories of philosophy: Social and Post-Colonial. The post-colonial aspect is very easy for me to explain. One of the questions posed by post-colonial Phil osiers is “Can oral history and tradition be preserved for future generations? I believe that it can. This can only happen if we as a capitalistic society stop being so self-involved with money and possessions. We have to realize that history repeats itself in one way or another. Each generation needs to stop and take the time to learn from parents, grandparents, and great grandparents about their lives. The lives of those before you help shaped the ways and methods of thinking for the next. This could be passing along family history or traditions. I have often regretted not hearing more of my father’s stories of his time in the military. He was in, what...
Words: 823 - Pages: 4
...Personal responsibility essay Older generations had trust in teachers that they could leave their children alone in a one on one setting and even employ corporal punishment if necessary. My definition of personal responsibility is when someone takes ownership of a task, team or person weather they ultimately achieve success and or failure. Our education system is riddled with scandals and bouts of inappropriate relationships between faculty and students which ultimately have grave ramifications hindering these young people in their future and how they perceive the educational system. Today we are finding that this is no longer the case because not all people in positions of trust should hold their position. Many teachers have been caught having inappropriate relationships, assaulting the same children they are charged with educating and also, some teachers have chosen to neglect their “less capable” students. I feel that if we begin taking responsibility for our actions early on, then our society would suffer less. People would begin holding themselves accountable for the things that they are doing, or thinking of doing. Our young students need their teachers taking responsibility for their actions. These things are damaging them far beyond the point where their studies are on the forefront of their mind. On the flip side of that statement, as our young students become adults, they must find a way to overcome the mental trauma that consumes them and creates...
Words: 1503 - Pages: 7
...world through the pain and triumph of personal experience. In the mythical poem “Beuowulf” the audience is able to see how he grows in wisdom about himself and about the world with each monster he faces. Beowulf is a hero who battles three different monsters, Grendel, Grendel’s mother and the Dragon. Each monster he faces represents different meanings to him. In times of battle, Beowulf experience many hardships and victories. Grendel is a strong evil water-monster who went to Herot Hall and slaughtered many of Hrothgar’s men. When Beowulf is called to fight Grendel he depicts himself as a man with no fear. Beowulf knows that he is a young strong warrior and is the only one who has the strength to defeat this evil monster. He accepts the challenge and announces that he will fight barehanded which concludes that he is fully confident in himself. He announces, “I have also heard the thrust of a weapon no threat to his threws. Thus I foreswear my sword and strong shield. Instead I shall grab and grapple with Grendel, fighting for life with that fearsome foe” (Gardner 40-41). Beowulf proves his expertise to defeat Grendel by keeping Grendel’s arm. As described, “ As a token of triumph, the troop leader hung the shorn-off shoulder and arm by its hand: the grip of Grendel swung from the gable!” (Gardner 48). Fighting Grendel with just his bare hands and keeping Grendel’s arm as a prize proves that Beowulf has developed into a confident young hero. After Grendel’s death, his mother...
Words: 934 - Pages: 4
...Christopher Munsey wrote an article about a Psychologist Professor at Harvard, Daniel Gilbert who was giving a speech at an APA convention. According to the Monitor on Psychology journal, Daniel Gilbert began his speech about marriage (2010.) While growing up, Gilbert’s mother had told him to aim for three things in life, “finding someone nice and getting married; building a fulfilling, well-paid career; and above all having children” (Munsey 2010.) Before I read this article, I used to think that getting married made things better. You would be closer to one another, trust more in one another, and build a better relationship with one another. I have been with my partner for almost four years, and even though marriage is one thing on our list, we haven’t felt that it has been something we have to do right away. I have a four and a half year old daughter from a previous relationship. Since my partner and I have been together, it seems that the more time and time goes on, the more the four of us grow together as a family. There are some things about this article that I completely agree with and some that I will definitely disagree with as well. As twenty-three women who has lived with the same man for almost four years, and have risen a little girl together seems fair enough that I can consider myself basically married. There is no paper that states that, but I believe that our history and current state very well proves that. There are three main topics that this Harvard professor...
Words: 1594 - Pages: 7
...Read the following articles from Unit 5, jotting down your first impressions of each article to use in the reflections. * Sleeping with Guns by Bruce Holbert * My Daughter Smokes by Alice Walker * A Drunken Ride, A Tragic Aftermath by Theresa Conroy and Christine M. Johnson * Young and Isolated by Jennifer M. Silva Sleeping With Guns By BRUCE HOLBERT THE summer before my sophomore year in high school, I moved into my father’s house. My father had remarried and the only unoccupied bedroom in his house was the gun room. Against one wall was a gun case he had built in high school, and beside it were two empty refrigerators stocked with rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. My bed’s headboard resided against the other wall and, above it, a resigned-looking, marble-eyed, five-point mule deer’s head with a fedora on its antler rack. The room had no windows, so the smell of gun oil filled my senses at least eight hours each day. It clung to my clothes like smoke, and like a smoker’s cigarettes, it became my smell. No one in my high school noticed. We all smelled like something: motorheads of motor oil, farm kids of wheat chaff and cow dung, athletes like footballs and grass, dopers like the other kind of grass. It did not appear to anyone — including me — that residing within my family’s weapons cache might affect my life. Together, my three brothers own at least a dozen weapons and have yet to harm anyone with them. Despite their guns (or, arguably, because...
Words: 6088 - Pages: 25
...Not My Problem The September 11th 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center was one of the most violent events that occurred in America in the past decade. People were horrified and shocked when they first learned that one of America’s most famous buildings had been attacked. It was a day where the entire country was in a state of mourning over those individuals who lost their lives in this catastrophic attack. Ironically, Thomas Hoepker’s photograph captures a group of five individuals casually observing this tragic attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 with no display of concern or grief. These individuals appear as if they are not worried about the thousands of lives that were lost on that sad day. At first glance, the first thing that comes to one’s mind is that these five individuals appear to be desensitized to violence. However, through further analysis we learn that these individuals are not desensitized to this violence but in fact feel a different sense of responsibility to express their feelings in the presence of others. Thomas Hoepker’s photograph shows a group of five individuals under the sun in a park near Brooklyn while a dark grey cloud of smoke fills the sky behind them as a result of the two buildings being under attack. The body postures of the individuals show that they acknowledge the disaster that is occurring behind them but that they appear to ignore this violence. The woman lying on her back is shown to be very oblivious of the situation at...
Words: 1781 - Pages: 8
...Academic Paper In partial fulfilment as one of the Requirements for BA 196 Submitted by: Marie Elisabeth G. Labatos 2011-38997 Submitted to: Atty. Christopher Honorario SGV: A closer look Originally established as W. Sycip & Co. in 1946, SGV is very much known as the largest multidisciplinary professional services in the country. With the highlight of joining as a member practice of Ernst & Young Global Global Limited on the 6th of June 2002, it further became the country’s leader when it comes to assurance, advisory and tax services. Furthermore, with eight offices across the country, with the main office located in Makati, and over 4000 highly competitive professionals currently employed in the firm, SGV truly upholds the highest standards of quality. SGV is divided into eight different market groups, called as MGs. Each MG focuses on a specific area on which to concentrate their services. MG-1 for example is more on Real estate, MG-2 is on Telecommunications, MG-3 on Manufacturing, MG-4 on Power & Utilities, MG-5 on Banking, MG-6 on Media and Entertainment, MG-7 on Mining and Logistics, and lastly, MG-8 on Construction. MG1 Real Estate MG4 Utilities MG3 Manufacturing MG2 Telecommunications MG6 Media & Entertainment MG5 Banking MG7 Mining and Logistics MG8 Construction MG1 Real Estate MG4 Utilities MG3 Manufacturing MG2 Telecommunications MG6 Media & Entertainment MG5 Banking MG7 Mining and Logistics MG8 Construction ...
Words: 1419 - Pages: 6
...[ THE INFLUENCE THAT SOCIAL NETWORKING PLAYS IN SOCIETY TODAY. HOW, AND TO WHAT EXTENT, HAS IT RE-DEFINED SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND IS THIS GENERATIONALLY SPECIFIC?]] | Tim Berners-Lee had a vision to create a system for linking information over the internet; his idea for creating the web was about anything potentially connected with anything, thus providing us with a new freedom and allow people space to create and communicate, he never anticipated that it would have a global impact as far as social networking is concerned! [Weaving the Web by Tim Berners–Lee, page 1] A social networking is basically an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, e.g. who share interests and/or activities. It essentially consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network services are web based and provide means for users to interact over the internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. These types of sites allow participants to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks. The main types of social networking services are those which contain category places (such as former school year or classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages) and a recommendation system linked to trust. Popular methods now combine many of these, with Facebook and Twitter widely...
Words: 1402 - Pages: 6
...Determinants of Financial Literacy among Youth: Case of Amritsar City Dr. Arwinder Singh Assistant Professor/Department of Commerce Guru Nanak Dev University Regional Campus, Gurdaspur, Punajb, India #08968092299 arwinder.gndu@yahoo.com Nitika Bhandari (Corresponding Author) Assistant Professor/Department of Commerce Khalsa College for Women, Amritsar, Punjab, India #08146993589 Nitika3088@gmail.com Determinants of Financial Literacy among Youth: Case of Amritsar City Abstract Financial markets around the world have become increasingly accessible to everyone but financial products are becoming more complex and difficult to grasp for an average individual. Therefore it is of paramount importance to equip the Youth with Financial Literacy so that they can manage their own finances and securing their financial future. The present study is carried out with the objective to find out the determinants of financial literacy of the youth. The major determinants that influence the financial literacy are required to be sought in order to deal with the complexities of current financial markets and products. Data has been collected through primary sources by framing questionnaire answered by 100 respondents in Amritsar. Factor Analysis has been used to analyse the data. The analysis revealed five underlying dimensions namely Interest in Financial Issues, Financial Behaviour, Saving habits, Financial Attitude and Financial Awareness. The results...
Words: 3777 - Pages: 16
...An Argumentative Analysis of: Profiting From a Child’s Illiteracy By: Kristof Nicholas Christopher Corder Baker College of Muskegon Profiting From a Child’s Illiteracy Supplemental Security Income (S.S.I.) benefits for minors is a national governmentally funded program for disabled children. S.S.I is for helping the families of children with disabilities. It helps manage the stresses of financial burdens that come with children who have special needs. Nicholas Kristof states that “America’s safety net can sometimes entangle people in a soul-crushing dependency.” (Kristof, 2012) Nicholas Kristof believes that people become dependent on S.S.I and enable their children to become illiterate in order to maintain the use of S.S.I. Kristof’s title and initial arguments lead you to believe he will thoroughly examine this claim. However, he provides insufficient evidence and makes assumptions that are inaccurate and unfair to the families who are receiving S.S.I. Furthermore, he weakens his argument by introducing other thesis statements later in his paper. This distracts from and sometimes contradicts his initial thesis. Kristof begins with an interesting and potentially important statement that dependence on S.S.I. inadvertently perpetuates illiteracy, but he doesn’t ground his argument with clear evidence or maintain his focus. Kristof states that poor parents in the Appalachian hills purposely pull children out of literacy program to increase their chances of qualifying for...
Words: 1696 - Pages: 7
