Benefit Makes People Lose Themselves
When talking about “what makes people susceptible”, we should think about what makes people motivated first. What provokes people to make this choice but not that one? The answers are happiness. However, where is happiness come in? People feel happy because they gain some benefits. In the essay “Selections from Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom” Leslie Bell discusses different sexual behaviors and opinion of different type of girls. Malcolm Gladwell, the author of “The Power of Context” discusses about the New York City Crime in 1900s. Blackmails are everywhere in the subway and people cheat the ticket machine. In the third essay “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food”, Michael Moss states the situation that companies focus only on taste of the food but not the nutrition even though
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People like to take subway because it’s cheap and convenient, which people get chances to go anywhere. The reason teenagers and twenty-something women like to make friends and hang out with different people is simply that friendship bring them happiness and the self-achievements that they are popular and important to others. What’s more, companies produce and sell because that’s the way how to support their family and give their family and happy life. These are all the reasons why people making this special decision. However, those benefits motivated people keep forward and those things people really want to get (since it provides us happiness) are where human vulnerabilities comes from. People making crime in the subway and those companies who only care about taste of the food but not the nutrition because they really want the money and profit, girls have promiscuous relationship with men because they want to
Sally Satel, author of “Addiction Doesn’t Discriminate? Wrong,” leads us down a harrowing path of the causes and effects that lead people to addiction. It can be a choice, possibly subconscious, or a condition that leads a person left fighting a lifelong battle they did not intend to sign up for. Mental and emotional health/conditions, personality traits, attitudes, values, behaviors, choices, and perceived rewards are just a few of the supposed causes of becoming an addict.
Substance. Poor choices. Juvenility. They may not happen exactly in that order, but they are just “three peas in a pod” when it comes to their commonality. As described in Abraham Twerski’s “Addictive Thinking”, the dreaded “stinkin’ thinkin” can affect anyone, especially young developing adults and adolescents. History has shown the connection between youthfulness, substance abuse, and sheer stupidity, bringing about much debate about these themes in the process. Such discussion may revolve around the origins of addiction, types of substances (licit and illicit), and the effects of consuming these harmful chemicals.
Propaganda such as the newest, shiny vehicle that will be the necessary turning point its owner needs to finally get that promotion or land the perfect date or the latest lifestyle trend that will transform and give people the life they’ve always dreamed of having. All this is sold by vendors who wish to tap into consumer’s deep seated desires for fulfillment they incorrectly believe they will find externally. This, as stated in Addiction in Free Markets by Bruce Alexander and Stefa Shaler, in turn leads to addictions, not just simply drug addictions or alcoholism, but a reliance on excessive pleasures that can be bought. This is a result of them believing, either consciously or subconsciously, that those pleasures are viable substitutes for a lack of stability in their lives (paragraph 5). This tie between free markets and addictions is not only seen in the twenty-first century but actually spans back through the last few centuries. One such example is England’s move into a free market system between the sixteenth and nineteenth century. Those who were victims of negative circumstances such as evictions from their farms and villages and forced into urban slums turned to addictions, like alcoholism, to cope with the instability and unhappiness of their lives (Paragraph 6). This correlation between dislocation and addictions can be seen in other instances as
Which theory, control or differential association theory, better explains why someone exhibits deviant behavior? This is a difficult question as both theories have merit in explaining the deviant behavior being exhibited by individuals in society. Deviant behavior is difficult at times to explain using one theory. This paper will break down the key components of each theory while applying it to the Becker article in helping explain why someone becomes a marijuana user.
Social media does not help in this situation either. America’s trending apps and media such as Instagram and Snapchat encourages others to try the food that they have. These social networks make it easier for others to share pictures that glamorize very unhealthy food that might seem appealing but have a harmful effect on the body. Studies show that social norms highly impact the individual’s decision whether they are with friends or not. The study conducted by Dr.Robinson, PhD, of the University of Liverpool, concluded the environment plays a huge role in the trend. He saw that that people are more willing to eat the types of foods that others choose and the portions that they choose because social identity is guided by its community. If the community were to eat unhealthy foods then the person would eat unhealthy foods but if the community eats healthier then the person would eat healthier to maintain a consistent sense of social identity (Robinson). Community influences play a huge role all over the world and has the same effect on its i...
The need for a positive self image causes people to do anything they can to make
In society today, everything is about the “now”. Everyone wants something instantaneously. Because of the desire for instant gratification, people are overcome by what they desire which causes them to quench their yearnings by obtaining what they want. For example, an individual that has just graduated from high school and he wants money, so he gets a job at a fast-food chain instead of pursuing a college degree. He wants money now and does not want to pay for college even though he would be making more money over his lifetime in his profession than he does at the fast food-chain.
... value system. For example, we can compare a middle class man who has a career and is living in the suburbs with his family, and a homeless man living in the ghetto with no ties or bonds with anyone. The man that “has nothing to lose” is more likely to commit deviant acts, due to his lacking in a career, possessions, and close bonds in a community. The homeless man would feel more free to deviate, versus the middle class man that has a status to uphold to, and a family to tend to.
We live our entire lives caring about other people 's opinions of ourselves where they seem to become our own but they don’t have to. While most of us as we grow up will realize how foolish this was and be themselves anyway; It takes too long, as children we are not shown to be ourselves but shown to follow the crowd, the safe route. The younger generations need to see that risks can change your life for the better and let each of us live a happier more fulfilled
Growing up in different generations, our actuality was shaped differently by society. This also gives us insight about how each generation changes so dramatically and how society will shape the new generations. For example, it showed us that her being in poverty was her “private trouble” but since almost her whole town was in poverty, she realized it and therefore it became a “public issue”. The times are always changing because people are starting to see things differently and they want what’s best for each other and the society. What we need is a quality of mind that will help us see what’s happening in the outside world and possibly
One of the main themes of Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt is the idea that while searching for the truth of a subject the researchers becomes possessed by their search. Byatt uses many characters as a vehicle for this idea, but the best character that illustrates this would be Mortimer Cropper. Mortimer Cropper is a Randolph Henry Ash scholar. Randolph Henry Ash is one of the most renowned poets in the novel. He is very famous and is an inspiration and influence to many of the poets in the modern age. Mortimer Cropper is the biggest collector and most well-known Ash scholar. He spends his live obsessed with anything having to do with Randolph Ash. From the start of the novel Mortimer Cropper is introduced as a very intimidating and possessive character. When new Ash artifacts are found and his rival Blackadder finds out of them he talks about Cropper immediately by saying “Cropper will have been through [the artifacts] with a tooth comb [already]”(Byatt 35). This shows just how possessed with his work Cropper really is. New artifacts, that no one has ever seen, of Randolph Henry Ash have been found and already it is thought that Cropper has, not only seen then but, already examined them with “tooth comb.” Jackie, Buxton writer of the scholarly article on possession What’s Love Got to Do with It? writes “Possession also exhibits a postmodern obsession with "the question of how we can come to know the past today”. The American academic, Mortimer Cropper, seeks to own the past by accumulating its material artifacts”(Buxton). This shows just how large Cropper’s obsession with Ash can be. Even a Possession scholar identifies this as worth mentioning. Cropper wants to own the past by collection thing that belonged to Ash. Cropper ha...
One of the main factors that are harsh in the world of bourgeois life, with it's premius placed on appearance, skill, and ambition. According to The New York Times ¨Teenageers, friends, and Bad decisions,¨ Teenageers and peer pressure has a distinct effect on brain signals involving risk and rewarding, helping to explain why young people are most likely to misbehave and take risk when their friends are watching. They start feeling left out, not wanted. But, when they seem to talk about how much fun they are having doing it you can just hear but not relate. This is when they start to give up , and give into the dangerous situations they're friends are doing.
Q1. Describe Okonkwo, the protagonist of Things Fall Apart. Consider him as an Igbo hero character: How does he achieve greatness and defined by his culture? How does he differ from Western heroes you are familiar with? What are Okwonko’s strengths and weaknesses?
“The combination of all these causes forms so great a mass of influences hostile to individuality that it is not easy to see how it can stand its ground. It will do so with increasing difficulty unless the intelligent part of the public can be made to feel its value, to see that it is good there should be differences.” (208, Mill) People who always think new ideas go thru a harsh path, but they learn from their mistakes and experiences, and keep moving forward and in the end those who do make it, make society
At the past, people were well known with the togetherness and respect each other. The relationship between the people was quite closed. To illustrate this point, they used to help each other, for example when their neighborhoods need a hand to clean or built a house. They gave a hand, without expecting a bonus or money but when the other neighborhoods ask for help, they will come to assist them. It shows how harmony was their life able to help each other. Even though the social live was great but the economy situation of our parents’ generation was demanding. The prize of the utilities was uneconomical, which is for many people it was too expensive. For example, the cost of motorbike or bicycle was really expensive. It is because there are not many companies, which produce those items. Lacks of competitors make the company set out a high prize. That is why few of people can buy of those stuffs. In contras, our present generations are obviously; live more individual and careless to the situations around us. Many of us seem anti-social because of technology; they choose to spend their time with a game or Internet, where it is really opposite with our parents’ live. Foremost, the economy situation now, is getting better. Lots of companies opened, which is made the prize of the stuffs decrease and the prize is friendlier than