Carl Rogers, The author of the essay “Communication: Its Blocking and its Facilitation”, presents the idea that communication between people today is struggling. Rogers states that the “major factors in blocking or impending communication” is due to “our very natural tendency to judge” other people’s thoughts, ideas, and opinions without ever being in their shoes (419). Rogers goes in depth on the overlaying problems of communication these days but also gives us various ways to help us communicate on a new level of understanding. When communicating with individuals, we must listen and not immediately judge the person. Rogers puts blame on this as one of the biggest reasons for communication breakdown.
In the New York Times Article “ the Singer Solution to World Poverty” the author Peter Singer argues that there is no reason why Americans don’t donate money they can afford countless of luxury that are not essential to the their lives and health to the needy like the over sea acid organizations and UNICEF. Singer's solution is suggest every American stopping use money to buy any necessity and donate the saved money to all kinds of charities. Singer's idea is well-meaning enough, but there are many problem existing. I do not think his plan can apply to today's society. In his article, Singer pursues the audience with two different situations trying to motivate the reader to donate money instantly.
Yet, both of them invoke a model of translation that emphasizes the historical uses of translation in and between cultures, the importance of translation and the ethical and intellectual imperative to keep translation irreducible. If we get back to Rebecca’s example, we find that “Diary of a Bad Year” is a work of world literature which has been written for translation; we can even say that it was born-translated due to its marvellous design allowing it to travel. It is good to mention that Comparison Literature emphasizes narrative over idiom exploring the political history of languages in formal and thematic registers
Everyone makes mistakes, but those mistakes are ultimately how lessons are learned. Without choices and decisions to make, life would be redundant and meaningless. Choices give different lives diversity. The decisions people make are based on their form of personality, and with every fork in the road, they are giong to make the same kind of decisions every time. People can change their fate by changing the decisions they make in the process.
Essay 1 Multitasking I’ have been asked to write my opinion on why I feel that multitasking is good or bad for our current and future generations. There are many reasons why this is bad and good. I will touch on some of my own experiences as well as those of some professionals. At the end of the article you will have heard a little on both sides why multitasking is, in my opinion going to hinder future generations. Let us start out with my own experience.
In the article “The Singer Solution to World Poverty”, Peter Singer is trying to convince the people of America to donate a large portion of their income to help prevent world hunger. He recommends they save the money they would have typically spent on extra or luxury goods, as they are not a necessity to life, and give it to a charity that aids in helping to end world starvation such as UNICEF or Oxfam America. Although Singer’s proposition sounds like a good idea in theory, I don’t believe it is a practical way that this issued can be solved. It would be very hard to find someone who is willing to give a large sum of their earned income to aid people so far away. Singer attempts to appeal to your inner moral being by comparing his idea to two different situations.
Life has its unexpectancies and we have control over how these unexpectancies take over our emotions. As humans we have the choice to let our emotions take over who we really are. Living in fear of judgment and the little imperfections of our daily life causing us to be unhappy, due to the fact we care more of how others perceive us than our own self. Wayne Coyne’s essay “Creating Our Happiness” and Catherine Royce essay “I Always Have a Choice” both describe the internal human emotions to the fullest extent, and both using techniques such as flashbacks and imagery to portray their concept thoroughly to explain how life is but a choice. As if you were living that situation, feeling their pain, happiness, and thinking
Internal conflict is when you ask yourself questions about what is right and is wrong, if it corresponds with ones moral and values or does it go against them, it is generally a result of what is occurring in a persons life. Conflict can also arise with others when two conflicts opinions and views meet, this brings a sense of inner conflict on whether to say what’s in ones mind or continue to uphold the beliefs one has. Only through conflict we can learn to adjust, transform and learn from it allowing ourselves to better ourselves. At some point in a persons life everybody experiences some sort of inner conflict that can be of higher complexity than just fighting a urge. Pressing issues can cause doubt and anxiety with in a person and which is proven through psychology can cause stress.
People tend to make assumptions when we don't understand a situation. It is a normal reaction to immediately fill in any missing information by making up our own story. In the essay “Don’t make assumptions” Don Miguel Ruiz states that one of the problems with this tendency to make assumptions is that we believe them. We usually do this because we prefer to try to make sense of people and situations. The problem with this is that most of the time our hypothesis is incorrect which causes all kinds of difficulties.
However, interestingly, most undesirable habits or personality traits stem from the same problem unsettles sentiments that motivates us to perform action that we later on regret and the best way to change or remove such a habit or trait is to overcome or release this emotion. Changing a bad habit or personality trait is possible with the ability to identify the problem, determination and support. Firstly, determine the habit or trait that is in question and bring yourself to see that it is detrimental to your lifestyle. Be honest with yourself. Determine the habits and traits you want to change and acknowledge that undesirable habit or personality trait.