Are You On The Take?

Let me encourage you this morning to have Thanksgiving anyway. In spite of the trouble, let me encourage you to go ahead and try to celebrate. You say you don’t know what I’m going through. You’re right. However, I do find in my Bible where men and

From a Takers perspective, they believe in order to succeed Takers must prove that they are useful and better than others. Takers also boast about their accomplishments and make sure they receive all due credit. Grant claims that Takers “like to get more than they give.” Alternatively, Givers are individuals who prefer to give more than they receive. While Takers are focused on what others can offer them, Givers carefully pay

It is mind boggling to know that despite the quest for knowledge and learning the truth behind our history, yet a vast number of people still celebrate thanksgiving. What are we really thankful for?

Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, a French novelist who went by the pseudonym George Sand, claims “charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.” Those who give to others solely believe they are helping for the greater good. While those receiving more or less don’t reciprocate the same gratitude. It comes from human nature to believe deep down to help others less fortunate than one. Generosity spreads to those in need creates gratitude for those who dispense.

-- these people jealousy their own mother and father as well as wish to make sure they are be concerned, endure as well as unsatisfied.

Thanksgiving is the holiday for family gatherings. Air travel analysts have coined it the “most traveled holiday” of the year. People may head to the mountains or the beaches at christmas but gathering at grandma’s for that coveted feast of thanks is high on the family priority list. But not all is as blissful as the famous Norman Rockwell portrayed. Family can equal stress, lots of stress. All that traveling makes for weary, cranky guests. Then there is the overcrowded accommodations, unequal division of chores and the dreadful family gossip. So many aspects of this holiday can leave one overwhelmed and contemplating the true meaning of giving thanks.

Throughout time, what comes too easy for us is usually taken for granted. What we take for granted is trust we receive from a friend, a gift from a loved one, or power to help people are usually given freely. One such example that we can see in history is when Winston Churchill abused his freely given power when controlling a British army. With his stubbornness and power, that army was led to their destruction. To a lesser degree, people like me have taken some items for granted. What we esteem too cheap, we esteem to lightly which can be seen to be true with myself, my friend and my cousin.

In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self Reliance”, Emerson introduces this essay with the statement that, “Envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide” (Emerson, 364). This is true today in many different settings due to the fact that people will always get jealous of others, no matter how much one may have. Today in 2016, people base their desires off of other people’s actions. This is seen most commonly in the high school atmosphere where teenagers grow up extremely desirous of each other. When someone gets jealous and then envies the other person, it is not teaching them anything.

This can be consider as a negative trait to have and causes conflict with people close to them.

Envy can also derive from a sense of low self-esteem that results from an upward social comparison

Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks to your life and everyone and everything in it. Thanksgiving is thought of in different ways and is celebrated in unlike ways. Families have divergent meals, places that they visit on Thanksgiving, and activities that they enjoy taking part in on Thanksgiving. Overall, no matter what traditions there are, what meals you have, or the activities enjoyed on Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving is truly a wonderful holiday.

This philosophical work aims to clarify how does envy affects our intellectual view and also the human behavior. For all of us to comprehend or understand that envy is not really a negative matter at all. This also helps us to have a desire of something that we lack of or simply have a desire to be a better one. Envy could have its negative and positive effects for both the Subject and the Rival.

Society is full of people who will never be satisfied by others good deeds. Individuals decide to do something honorable for a person out of the kindness of their hearts and without expecting something in return, but the person isn't always grateful and instead demands for more. For example, in the tv series The Fosters, a character named Jesus decides to help

Envy is a feeling that has been around the society for a long time; therefore, it has been discussed by religions and psychologist throughout the history. “For where envying and strife [is], there [is]

Takers have a distinctive signature: they like to get more than they give. Takers believe the world is dog eat dog place, they always put their own interests ahead of others’