Analysis of Emma Knight Author Stud Terkel was a writer‚ who represented class conflicts in a deceptive style‚ allowing the facts and people he interviewed to speak for themselves. Previously‚ he acted on stage and television‚ hosted a radio program and compiled several books. In Miss U.S.A‚ Terkel writes the story of Emma Knight using irony. If the modeling agency would not have convinced Emma to join the beauty pageant‚ then she would not have gained more confidence in herself. In
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Nowadays‚ job satisfaction has become an important issue for workers since it closely relates to physical and mental well-being. In order to find out what makes work satisfying‚ Studs Terkel interviewed three workers about their jobs in 1974 and Ethan Winning did a survey about job satisfaction in 2004. According to their results and my observation‚ there are three main factors that affect the job satisfaction: Salary and special incentives from jobs‚ personal and professional growth opportunities
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In Westbrook’s Why We Fought‚ he makes a strong argument on how most people in the United States viewed the Axis powers‚ and more importantly Japan as real threat to their way of life. People were told that Japan was not only different that it was a country that embodied everything that the United States stood for‚ albeit that changed during the war. Not only that‚ but Westbrook mentions the differences between the Germans and the Japanese varied greatly‚ “The Nazis were bad Germans‚ to be judged
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“The care of human life and happiness‚ and not their destruction‚ is the first and only object of good government‚” Thomas Jefferson once said. The government is a precarious‚ but influential‚ part in the world today. Many believe that everything the government does should be implemented in order to keep structure in our daily lives. However‚ bureaucracy is not always right. The government can often prove it can not be credible‚ plausible‚ or dependable. For as long as democracy has been in place
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though his “[...] religion was like anybody’s else’s‚ except that [he] worshiped in the woods” (Terkel 166). While the four freedoms asserted freedom of worship was to be globally recognized‚ it appeared there was a narrow scale of what was acknowledged as acceptable. He reaffirmed the notion that other freedoms were denied as well‚ by writing “All I was doing is saying I refuse to murder people” (Terkel 171). While freedom from fear was a war aim‚ physical aggression was seen as somewhat of a necessity
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The government has a certain reputation it likes to uphold. The measures they take may not be the best for the people. For example‚ in the excerpt by Studs Terkel‚ the government made the decision to build a nuclear power plant in Montague‚ Massachusetts. The government was focused on how the nuclear power plant will increase productivity and boost the economy. However‚ they should have focused on how the nuclear
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between humans and horses. Documents referring to the use of this extraordinary relationship in recovery processes date back until the old Greco-Roman times (Bachi‚ Terkel‚ Teichman‚ 2011). The assumption that human-animal bonds can have positive psychological effects for the person investing into such a relationship (Bachi‚ Terkel‚ Teichman‚ 2011) has led to the establishment of equine-assisted therapy‚ which is a form of psychotherapy. It makes use of the framework of attachment theory (Bowlby
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such conduct concerning another group of people. Such researches are the hope of many to see the racial discrimination ending. Vincent N. Parillo‚ through his essay "Causes of Prejudice" tries to explain the reasons of racism in the U.S. Parillo divides his essay in two parts‚ one for the psychological causes and one for the social reasons. In the first part‚ Parillo cites the main psychological causes as: levels of prejudices self-justification‚ personality and frustration. In the second part he transactions
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Studs Terkel and Roberto Acuna titled “Roberto Acuna Talks About Farm workers”discusses the unfair and poor treatment of laborers working in the fields‚ and how Acuna begs for the feudal system to be changed. Acuna implies that the mistreatment of the workers from the big corporations has been the prime cause of the large poverty rate between he and his coworkers. He describes that the big corporations treat the labors “like we have no brains… yet they only have a wallet in their hands.” (Terkel 70)
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society force humans into groups‚ whether to change something‚ unite‚ or to feel a sense of belonging. Nonetheless‚ it can be difficult to find what groups you may fit into and these groups can change as you transform into a more critical thinker. Studs Terkel tells the story a of Ku Klux Klan member turned school board activist‚ C.P. Ellis‚ in his essay‚ “C.P. Ellis.” Ellis’ struggles and realizations prove what critical thinking and self-examination can do. Mike Rose’s essay‚ “I Just Wanna Be Average”
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