In the essay “Graduation Inflation”, by Amy Dickinson, she explains how celebrating too often can diminish the actual purpose of celebrating. When we are addicted to celebrating every little thing, it can be problematic as excessive rewards and commendatory certificates can dull out the celebrating experience. Consequently, when a big event does occur, it might seem less significant. Over-commending reduces the value of celebrating events that are more worthy; for example, cases such as winning the league championship might seem less important when celebrating becomes frequent. However, when people get rewarded, especially children, they receive a feeling of greatness where their accomplishments feel extraordinary which induces their motivation and determinism. Nonetheless, celebrating gives a person the incentive to do better in the future and serve as a great confidence booster as well. Dickinson holds some truth that over-celebrating can lead to less meaning in noteworthy events; however, celebrating frequently can be used as a tactic to encourage motivation, determination, and self-confidence.
When people celebrate something, it means they achieved an award that they have not previously had before and is given to them to prove that they have succeeded in any endeavor they set their mind to. The celebrated event might be less imperative, but it does not defeat the purpose or the worth of celebrating for the occasion. Dickinson includes a term “achievement inflation” which means too many of these “celebrations” can dull down the experience of the actual purpose of them. The purpose is to feel proud and accomplished but to not overdo it so the
feeling does not become familiar. The idea of celebrating life events are suppose...
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...ons or recognitions was key and vital to help keep a goal in my mind as it increased my determination to do better in the future.
According to Dickinson, too many celebrated events can dull out the experience because consistent occurrences dismantles the meaning. The author is an example of a radical anti-celebration case but can be disproved because celebrating often can actually benefit people more than not celebrating at all. When one celebrates, it inspires motivation and willpower. It is also a reminder that the more focused they are, the more rewards they can reap which improves self-confidence. The amount of celebrations that are held do not directly take away from the sense of accomplishment that a person might hold, but nonetheless it keeps their motivation, determination, and self-confidence high as they help a person achieve more things in their future.
In “A Rose for Emily”, Charles Faulkner used a series of flashbacks and foreshadowing to tell Miss Emily’s story. Miss Emily is an interesting character, to say the least. In such a short story of her life, as told from the prospective of a townsperson, who had been nearly eighty as Miss Emily had been, in order to tell the story from their own perspective. Faulkner set up the story in Mississippi, in a world he knew of in his own lifetime. Inspired by a southern outlook that had been touched by the Civil War memory, the touch of what we would now look at as racism, gives the southern aroma of the period. It sets up Miss Emily’s southern belle status and social standing she had been born into, loner or not.
There are many policy issues that affect families in today’s society. Hunger is a hidden epidemic and one major issue that American’s still face. It is hard to believe that in this vast, ever growing country, families are still starving. As stated in the book Growing Up Empty, hunger is running wild through urban, rural, and even suburban communities. This paper will explore the differing perspectives of the concerned camp, sanguine camp, and impatient camp. In addition, each camps view, policy agenda, and values that underlie their argument on hunger will be discussed.
As shown in Alfie Kohn’s How not to get into college; the preoccupation with preparation, and in Heron Jones’s Somnambulist, society is pursuing extrinsic motivators and extrinsic happiness, although many feel as though extrinsic motivators are important and essential to be happy, intrinsic motivators are what will truly make one happy for a prolonged period of time. In society’s pursuit of extrinsic rewards, society is losing sight of intrinsic happiness and thus, feeling unfulfilled and lacking intrinsic
It is also a coming together, much the way women come together every day in
I hope that as time passes, the culture associated with this ritual will be happily remembered through stories and pictures, but I understand why the small villages and the people who live their still feel the need to reach back to their heritage and commemorate their past.
As the sunrises over the crisp fall horizon, followers begin to surround the sacred space in anticipation for what is about to take place. The sacred space is soon surrounded by people who are dressed in the sacred colors, some wearing necklaces of their totem, while others wear headdresses that adorn with their sacred symbol. People begin to drink, play music, and prepare a banquet feast for each other, creating a festival atmosphere in hope that today’s ritual will be a success. As the ritual gets set to begin followers begin to crowd into the sacred space, surrounded with pictures and names of those who have reached greatness. As the ritual begins, music is played in order to bring everyone together and prepare for the events that are about to unfold. It is now that the followers have a very simple focus, to aid in the success of the ritual. Those who celebrate the ritual take there places in the middle of the sacred space, with the followers surrounding them; now that the ritual has begun the celebrants begin to perform and focus on certain actions in order connect themselves with the transcendent sacred. The followers who look on begin to aid by chanting, allowing themselves to also transcend. In hopes that the ritual was a success, everyone does their part until the last second of the ritual is completed, it is only then that it can be decided if the ritual was a success and they can either celebrate or grieve by signing in their most sacred song, bonding them once again with each other.
Therefore, all the characters in the story are being inhumane by going through with this tradition. At least one of them should have stepped up and not participated to send a message against this inhumane activity that is held every year. It can be seen today and happens in the world today. Humans want to be followers to make their lives easier instead of taking leadership and making everyone else’s lives
Throughout life graduation, or the advancement to the next distinct level of growth, is sometimes acknowledged with the pomp and circumstance of the grand commencement ceremony, but many times the graduation is as whisper soft and natural as taking a breath. In the moving autobiographical essay, "The Graduation," Maya Angelou effectively applies three rhetorical strategies - an expressive voice, illustrative comparison and contrast, and flowing sentences bursting with vivid simile and delightful imagery - to examine the personal growth of humans caught in the adversity of racial discrimination.
The poetic work penned by Emily Dickinson is often viewed cryptically mainly due to the aspects of less punctuation and presence of destructive language that aligns imagery. For the purpose of analysis, the poem selected is Dickinson’s 754, ‘My Life has Stood – A Loaded Gun’ which was published in 1999. The poem has eluded critics and the interpretation of this work was carried out in a number of ways including frontier romanticism and a spirituality expression. On the other hand, the poem is underpinned with an extensive metaphor, in the light of which the life of the speaker becomes a loaded gun. The beginning of the poem depicts a typical American scene with the existence of a gun, a hunter, and a trip to the woods for hunting. The poem
amid the music and peaceful motto of the festival some individuals feel the need to be
Psychologist, Carol S. Dweck in her well researched essay, “Brainology” analyzes how praise impacts mindset and how a growth mindset leads to greater success. She supports this claim by comparing the two different mindsets and how praise can affect them. She then proceeds to show praise leads to a fixed mindset harming a person by changing their views on effort. Finally, she argues that praise changes how and what people value, which can
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... (2001) showed that grateful individuals were especially appreciative of the contribution of others to their happiness. Expressing gratitude and reviewing three good things highlighted this, and reminded me to show my loved ones my gratitude.
What would happen if you were to reach a big goal that you set for yourself? Would you feel elated? For how many seconds, minutes, hours, or even days will you feel happy for? For a majority of us, the euphoric feeling isn’t going to last very long. Perhaps, the longest we will stay happy for is a month or sometimes more. It’s not like your goal has lost its meaning, but the mere fact that you were happy because the joy of achieving your goal and the feeling of being happy has subsided. Once the feeling fades, the next goal and the next achievement are in motion. Humans rarely ever feel completely content with where they are in life and when they feel that they’re happy when a certain situation happens, it doesn’t last too long it’s because people are always going to look for the next goal to pursue. Thi...
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