CAFÉ SOCIETY‚ A TIMELESS ALLURE LINGERING OVER COFFEE IN THE COMPANY OF OTHERS IS A RITUAL THAT NEVER LOSES ITS APPEAL: MUCH HAS CHANGED OVER THE GENERATIONS‚ BUT THE GLOBAL ’CAFÉ SOCIETY ’ KEEPS IT TIMELESS GLAMOUR In 1971‚ Starbucks was just a single bar in Seattle’s market plaza. Ten years later‚ the one location had become five‚ and the company began importing their own blends of coffee. The legend surrounding the birth of Starbucks tells of Howard Schulz‚ one of the company’s
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Stories Are for Adults Too! by Chris King Very often when I tell someone I am a storyteller‚ they will say‚ “Oh‚ how nice. Do you tell stories to children in the schools and at the libraries?” Well‚ yes‚ I do tell stories to children of all ages‚ but I also tell stories to adults. And‚ in my opinion‚ adults need and want the stories even more than the children. In this article‚ I am going to address why we‚ as storytellers‚ tell to adults. I will be including some quotes and ideas from many other
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Myth Today Barthes’s many monthly contributions that were collected in his Mythologies (1957) frequently interrogated specific cultural materials in order to expose how bourgeois society asserted its values through them. For example‚ the portrayal of wine in French society as a robust and healthy habit is a bourgeois ideal that is contradicted by certain realities (i.e.‚ that wine can be unhealthy and inebriating). He found semiotics‚ the study of signs‚ useful in these interrogations. Barthes
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Utilitarianism and Kantian Ethics Ethics is one part of philosophy that will always be studied‚ and like most subjects in philosophy‚ will never be viewed the same by everyone. There are so many cultures that have so many different beliefs about the way a person’s life should be lived out. Things like religion‚ poverty‚ and mental health all contribute to our beliefs in ethics. Some people believe that the mental state of a person or the motive for that person committing a crime should be
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personal experience‚ or a humorous anecdote; it can tell about an especially significant academic encounter or about an unusual test of character. The possibilities are unlimited (well‚ almost so). You choose. Just relax and write it. Princeton 4. Sartre said "Hell is other people‚" while Streisand sang‚ "People who need people are the luckiest people in the world." With whom do you agree? Amherst 5. If you could hold a conversation with someone (living or deceased) you consider significant‚
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Its origin can be traced back to early 20th century philosopher such as Husserl‚ Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. Many of the ideas were later adopted by behavioural and social scientists such as Amedeo Giorgi(Psychologist‚ 1970) and Alfred Schutz(1967). Nowadays‚ the term is used more broadly to denote the study of individual’s perceptions
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Where Happiness Lies "Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don ’t find happiness‚ you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are‚ who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings YOU the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run." -David Leonhardt People can spend their entire lives searching to fill what they feel is that void of happiness. They will get lost in their own sense of time
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PHILOSOPHY 1100: THE MEANING OF LIFE Different Approaches to the Meaning of Life 1. Why we want to know the ‘meaning of life’ The question "what is the meaning of life?" is often treated as a paradigmatic "head in the clouds" sort of philosophical question that more practical people shouldn’t have the time for‚ but its actually a question of tremendous practical importance. Further‚ it is a question to which most people‚ even those who claim to have no interest in such questions‚ answer implicitly
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Robert Strode In Peggy McIntosh’s article “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible backpack” we see detailed examples of how white people are extremely privileged in ways that people of other races may never understand. Even though sometimes we do not realize this is happening it has been seen to be true in many things throughout history and in the world today. One of the parts of this article that caught my eye and made me think a bit was the list of 26 white privileges that McIntosh wrote about
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06-25-13 Prof. Rosemarie Gorman Essay Paper Personal Commitments In this essay I will try to analyze two topics from the book‚ “Personal Commitments by Margaret Farley.” The first topic will discuss‚ “The Way of Fidelity.”‚ the second topic will be‚ “Discerning Obligation: A Love.” There are two situations when there is a need for and sense for fidelity‚ in a love relationship‚ and a commitment or promise made to a person or institution. According to Farley sense of duty is not the only thing
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