JANINE CALKIN COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE CONCEPTS OF AGENCY AND STRUCTURE, AND USING EXAMPLES, SHOW HOW EACH IS USEFUL FOR UNDERSTANDING WORK AND/OR LEISURE. Work and leisure are an important part of everyday life and people’s views differ on what constitutes work and leisure and the values associated with them. The availability of work and leisure is determined by social structures such as technical, social and gender divisions, together with an individual’s ability to exercise their agency. This essay aims to give an understanding of work and leisure showing differences and similarities between social structure and agency, using theoretical frameworks supported by examples. Agency is the ability to exercise free choice by planning and organising their own lives and making their own decisions, suggesting that society and social structures exist due to human creativity and autonomy.
In Peiss’ book Cheap Amusements, she describes the Importance of leisure, “Recreation [leisure]- as a necessary period of renewal and a precious resource”(178). Peiss writes it is a time for renewal, which is focused on a time for restoring ones sanity. Peiss considers leisure a precious resource because it is a time when one can escape from the
He offered a lot of help and was willing to make notes on my paper to attempt at helping me make my paper the best it could possibly be. I really appreciate his time and effort and definitely took in to account some of the great and helpful feedback he gave me. Another person I would also like to shortly thank is Professor Miller. She took the time out of her busy schedule to sit down and have a conference with me and go over any questions. It made it easier to figure out exactly what she was looking for in my paper.
The third term for a quasi-contract to be in effect is that the plaintiff reasonably expected to be paid for the benefit, with the defendant knowing this. This last element must also be present for the court to award quantum meruit to the Chesneys. Where to draw line, though? How do we know that a
Also great literature and writing can take you to peaceful palaces of tranquility and respite in a time of need. Those are just a few of the wonderful things that I feel literature and writing offers us but another thing that I feel its gives us is a sense of freedom and being right or confidence. When I am writing about myself, my thoughts, my feelings or any problems I have it gives me more power I feel, more say so, and it makes me feel as if someone is actually listening to therefore I am free to say what I want to express how I feel and that type of freedom is so relieving. When reading a book gaining knowledge and information that I actually had to pay attention to learn that gives me more confidence in what I am talking about, when I am reading advanced literature books and I notice how they speak that give me more confidence to speak with others because of the dialogue and grammar I have learned from the literature. These things do so much more to us than what we see at the
In reading we would read shortened versions of different types of books. I loved reading so this was my favorite subject. After we would read a book we would have to answer questions about it, sometimes we had to write a whole paragraph! We did all sorts of fun projects like making a diorama of Charlotte’s Web; we even got to watch the movie. Some of the books I really liked so I went to the library and checked out the whole
Literacy Narrative All writers write for different reasons; whether it be expressing his or her opinion on a particular subject, or recording factual data from an experiment that had previously been conducted. Not everyone likes writing, just as not everyone likes mathematics or history. Personally, I LOVE writing. Writing, for me, whether it be in a diary, on a pad of paper, or even on a computer, has always been my favorite way of expressing my feelings. When writing, I have the freedom to express my opinion on a certain subject without having to worry about being judged if it is a controversial topic, or being ridiculed if my opinions seem to offend other people.
Being able to confide was not only relieving, but there was also a sense of comfort for the future in it. It also allowed me to learn from the past in ways that I might otherwise not have. To reread past entries and see how much I’ve grown since then, gave me such a feeling of accomplishment that I never want to stop writing. I still continue to write in a journal every day, and don’t plan to give it up anytime soon. I believe that writing has helped me in numerous ways, and I would recommend it to anyone who needs to release some stress.
For instance, Jack and Jill both attend the same university, and they both share reading strategies and intellectual views. Jack and Jill are considered to be in the same interpretive community. When analyzing a work of literature, Jack and Jill would have similar points and break down the structure of work in similar manners. This influences critical analysis greatly in that it is somewhat predictable and is usually prioritized over personal experiences. The analytical differences of interpreting literature is not limited to your interpretive community, but is also influenced by the age at which you read the work, your life experiences with the subject matter, as well as “how the text produces a response” through the transaction of the reader and the text (Siegel).
The teacher called on individual students to talk about what they read briefly. While the topic of the journal writing was personal (what did you do last weekend? ), the writing seemed to serve as a way for students to practice producing written work while not being afraid of making mistakes (as the journals were not corrected but discussed). I thought this activity was a good way to get the students ready for English class with a quick and light writing assignment. Even as a native speaker, I found free-writing/journal writing tasks in my English classes to be beneficial.