People Essays

Judith Guests “ordinary People”: SummaryJudith Guest’s “Ordinary People”: SummaryOrdinary People by Judith Guest is the story of a dysfunctional familywho relate to one another through a series of extensive defense mechanisms, i.e. an unconscious process whereby reality is distorted to reduce or preventanxiety. The book opens with seventeen year old Conrad, son of upper middle-class …

Started in the 1970’s, America’s Gifted & Talented programs are used to enhance the curriculum of students included in either category in order to challenge and strengthen their unique abilities. These students are usually provided a separate class with specialized lessons in all areas and a teacher with a special degree in gifted education. I …

An Enemy of the People, a play written by Henrik Ibsen, is about a small town on the southern coast of Norway and how it perceives and accepts truth. The town is governed by Peter Stockmann and doctored by his younger brother, Thomas. The main conflict flares up between these two siblings and then spreads …

Campus needs wheelchair access Beth KellyI did not expect to be writing this article from first-hand experience, let me tell you that right off. I had been planning on writing a well-intentioned and most likely ineffective opinion piece regarding wheelchair access and Earlham’s lack thereof, trying to make myself feel like a compassionate and involved …

“t children?”Why do people want children? This question may seem a bit trivial, but when you take into affect the millions of people that have children each day the question quickly takes on a new light. This is not just merely a personal question that affects only a few individuals, it is much larger than …

Part OneIntroduction, Location and EnvironmentThe people of the Kalahari desert are extraordinary people. For centuries their hunting and food gatheringtechniques have enabled them to survive in the difficult environment of the dry, hot and barren Kalahari desert. They are known as the Bushmen. Or the Kung or the Gikwe since Bushmen is rather discriminating because …

People in CaliforniaPeople in California wanted mail. The telegraph line was not connected that far west in 1860, and trains did not pass the Missouri river. It took almost took a month to get a letter by ship or stage coach. That’s why the Pony Express was started.In the mid 1800’s gold was discovered in …

Forest People Reaction PaperTurnbull’s entrance into the Ituri forest was shunned by the villagers but not by the BaMbuti. When Turnbull first visited the BaMbuti, they accepted him because they knew that he would bring plenty of tobacco, palm wine, and many other luxuries. The BaMbuti also considered him the father of all children. I …

Prohibition: The Power is in the People”The Power is in the People Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress …

People or Profits?In Almeda County, a private hospital turned away a woman in labor because thehospital’s computer showed that she didn’t have insurance. Hours later, her babywas born dead in a county hospital. In San Bernardino, a hospital surgeon sent apatient who had been stabbed in the heart to a county medical center afterexamining him …

In his book, The Forest People, Colin Turnbull achieves the taste and feel of life inside a Mbuti community, but in doing so offers a skewed anthropological look at the peoples of the African Congo. When reading the book, I did truly feel a part of the Mbuti world, but I also noticed a lack …

Hypothesis: Violence in the mass media has produced more violent behaviour in our society today. My coursework is about the mass media influencing violence in our society today. I have chosen this subject as I am a teenager who realises how much violence there is on our streets today, where you cannot feel safe on …

Reactions from people in Waziristan on DRONE Between November 2008 and January 2009 Pakistani Aryana Institute for Regional Research and Advocacy conducted a survey of the public opinion about the drone strikes in Federally Administered Tribal Areas. 5 teams of 5 researchers each interviewed a total of 550 people from all walks of life. Most …

“Limbo” is a terrific book about the class “straddling” experience. “Straddlers” are people who grow up in the working class who find themselves in the middle class as adults. Through personal narrative, interviews and research, “Limbo” describes the pain and confusion people experience as they what journey from working-class origins to middle-class jobs and standards …

Examples of Primary Research Leon Festinger’s first published case of cognitive dissonance theory was illustrated with a study done with Stanley Schachter about a UFO cult that believed the end of the world is at hand. Festinger and his associates read an interesting article in their local newspaper called “Prophecy from planet Clarion call to …

The very word conjures up images of money-a bountiful sum in cash or checks, a generous amount, richly deserved, paid in return for good works of some kind. But in today’s economic and employment environment, giving someone a cash reward for work beyond the call of duty-a raise or a bonus-often has less impact than …

LAWRENCE OTIS GRAHAM: Our Kind of PeopleI: Inside America’s Black Upper Class (5 .5 pp) Through six years of interviews with more than three hundred prominent families and individuals, journalist and commentator Lawrence Otis Graham weaves together the revealing stories and fascinating experiences of upper-class blacks who grew up with privilege and power. Previously known …

There are too many people… will we survive? Do you feel that we have the right to enjoy natural beauty? The right to decent, uncrowned shelter? The right to eat healthy food and drink pure water? To breathe clean air and avoid pesticide poisoning? Most people would say everyone has a right to all of …

Annotated bibliography Reference: Eckermann, A, Dowd, T, Chong, E, Nixon, L, Gray, R & Johnson, S. 2010, Binan Goonj: bridging cultures in Aboriginal health, 3rd edition, Elsevier, Sydney. Summary The reading from the above source has 2 different chapters which include cultural vitality and cultural shock. The majority of chapter 4 is interpreting the potential …

ARE PEOPLE OBEDIENT? By Queron Thompson Does everyone in society go against what they believe in merely to satisfy an authority figure? Stanley Milgram’s “Perils Of Obedience” expresses that most of society supports the authority figure regardless of their own personal ideals. Milgram says to the reader, “For many people, obedience is a deeply ingrained …

Does it make any sense in a world where so many people live in abject poverty?Space exploration has advanced a lot through the last years. Specially in the Cold War, where the United States and the Soviet Union competed between them and invested a lot in this field. Since then, U. S.A. kept on with …

A Hindu may worship many Gods, may airship just one God or may worship at all. Buddhism was founded by Augusta Buddha in 563 BCC. Buddhist faith was never created however, it just seemed to grow out of Hinduism. Hindus believe in Veda and most of the Vivid texts and Buddhist texts preach the same …

The book Ordinary People explains the troubles that occur in a typical American family. The family, the Jarrets, tries to maintain as much as a normal life as possible without a dysfunctional status. In the beginning of the story, the family deals with minor problems that had little impact to them. Since they had just …

A junior manager is exposed to many new experiences and situations in which his decisions are very important to the company that he is working. In order to be a effective worker he, as to open himself to new ideas and adopt a new way of thinking. According to The Seven Habits of Highly Effective …