Neat People Vs Sloppy People Britt Summary

This quote from the movie supports my reasoning for her unnecessary collection of useless things. As the movie goes on you can see her huge collection of useless gadgets and other random things. She clearly has no intent in getting rid of any of it. In a few years she collects a huge amount of junk and stores it where nobody else can find it. In the book Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things, the difference between just collecting and hoarding is that, "When people collect things, they typically want to display them to other people.... Hoarders want to keep things hidden because of the shame they have (Frost).”

In Britt’s essay, “Neat People vs. Sloppy People”, Suzanne Britt criticizes neat people in a humorous way for certain behaviors. Britt creates a humorous tone and a good impression for sloppy people. This excerpt appears in a book “Show and Tell” Britt writes “It is her journey into the awful cave of self” (214). At first, I was offended by Britt’s essay, but after I realized Britt was using humor, I was able to look at my sister and her sloppiness differently.

One example of this quality is when Britt gives us an example of a messy desk. She states in her essay that, “A neat person would just bulldoze the desk.” (234) So instead of going through the piles of stuff to see if anything might be important, neat people find it easier to just throw everything away. Another example of this quality is when Britt states, “I knew a person once who threw away a perfectly good dish drainer because it had mold on it.” (234-235) So it was easier for that neat person to just throw the drainer away and buy a new one, than it was to wash the mold off. One last instance Britt uses this technique was when she says, “And neat people sell their furniture when they move.” (235) Instead of just packing it up and moving it, they find it more convenient to sell their old furniture and buy new ones.

Many individuals is faced with the decision of conforming or choosing personal desire, and it is not an easy decision. It is hard because being shunned by others for being different is not a good feeling. Choosing to conform over personal desire, often leads to loss. On the other hand, personal desire is what sets others apart and gives them joy. In the poem, “The Jackhammer Syndrome”, Al Purdy discusses the good and bad memories he has experienced. He goes through his memories of when he had fun and made mistakes, but he reflects on what he could have done better. The author of “The Jackhammer Syndrome informs against choosing the welcoming joy of conformity over the long-term gains of personal desire. Making the decision to pursue conformity over personal desire may seem easy at first, but if the choice is to conform, the joy it gives will not last. Making the decision to pursue conformity over personal desire Conformity may seem to give joy at first, but it does not last. When Al is playing pool with his brother, he wants to win badly, but losses. However when he did not care to win, Al wins! Conforming can lead to loss but personal desire has much to gain. If the choice is to conform, personal identity may be lost. In my life, I recognize several instances in which I found several similarities between Al and myself. I have made decisions that were not always good ones such as swimming across long distances with friends.

Everyone in Pleasantville had a routine which was strictly followed day to day. Everyone wore the same style of clothes. Even the houses were the same, with picket fences adorning houses and everyone having the same car. Ross uses mise-en-scene to contrast idealistic, conservative American views and reality. He highlights the fact that the people of Pleasantville like everything to be kept to a routine. Their world has little time for change and is a complete contrast to realistic America.

Social work has long recognized the relationship between the behavior of an individual and the environment in which the individual interacts (Hutchison, 2008). Human behavior theories offer a framework to organize, interpret and understand this relationship (Hutchison, 2008). For this case study, the following three theories will be examined for relevancy: Life cycle theory, role theory and resiliency theory.

The study Melissa Perry-Harris uses as an analogy of the “crooked room” is derived from the field-dependent study which argues people are influenced by the clues in the environment to position themselves and how they people adjust themselves to fit their environment. The Field-Dependent and Field-Independent Cognitive Styles and Their Educational Implications, by Herman Witkin, Carol Moore, Donald Goodenough, Patricia Cox, in 1977 show that field-dependent people make greater use of external social symbols, but only when the situation is vague and these symbols provide information that helps to remove the ambiguity of the situation.

It found all the dirt and dust and grime on the sidewalk and lifted it up so that the dirt got into their noses, making it difficult to breathe; the dust got into their eyes and blinded them; and the grit stung their skins” (ll 21-25). Wind cannot discourage people or physically lift dirt up into people’s noses and eyes. The personification in this quote emphasizes the negative thoughts about 116th street and how it affects the people who live on this street which further develops a negative relationship between Lutie Johnson and the urban setting Petry uses selection of detail to establish the negative relationship between Lutie Johnson and the urban setting. For example in lines 50-55 it says, “she could see that it had been there for a long time because its original coat of white paint was streaked with rust where years of rain and snow had finally eaten the paint off down to the metal and the metal had slowly rusted, making a dark red stain like blood.” Petry uses selection of detail by the negative way she describes the streets and items on it. Petry uses words that have negative connotation, like “streaked,” “eaten,” and “blood,” to help emphasize the negative relationship between

Would you rather have a pet that is messy and needy or a pet that is clean

In Dave Barry’s “Batting Clean-Up and Striking Out” and Suzanne Britt’s “Neat People vs. Sloppy People Both show similarities and differences between the many personalities, the organizational structure of the essays, the literary elements used in both text, and the many connections they share and their thesis statements. Barry’s essay is the more leveled out humor essay because he creates a balance with his humorous tone, gives personal evidence, and uses point by point structure. However, Britt’s essay uses subject by subject structure with a bolder humorous tone.

O’Connor’s description of Mrs. Hopewell and her daughter, Hulga lead us to believe that they do not fall into the category of good county people, but see themselves as better. Mrs. Hopewell contrasts herself against the good country people, saying, “Good country people are the salt of the earth! ….it takes all kinds to make the world go ‘round. That’s life!” (273.) Mrs. Hopewell also gives the readers a glimpse that they are not good country people when she first invites Manly Pointer, the bible salesman, into her home. Mrs. Hopewell notes that “[he] glanced around the room as if he were sizing her up by it. Her silver gleamed on the two sideboards; she decided he had never been in a room as elegant as this.” (272.) Nothing about their prior interaction or conversation would lead the reader to believe Manly had never been somewhere as nice as this before. At this point in the story, we know very little about him, but Mrs. Hopewell is proud of her house and believes it is so nice that he could not have possibly seen a nicer

The movie “Mean Girls”, featuring Lindsay Lohan and Tina Fey, is a comedic film about a girl in high school who has to deal with all the problems, pressures, and choices of growing up in American society in comparison to that of being homeschooled in Africa. This motion picture was the perfect platform for showcasing various types of behavioral psychology. When Cady first moves from Africa to attend a public school she is a nice, innocent, respectful teenage girl. Her behavior quickly changes and these alterations can be explained through both the Freudian and Behaviorist perspectives.

John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania on March 18, 1932. His father was a high school math teacher who supported the entire family, including his grandparents on his mothers side. As a child, Updike wanted to become a cartoonist because of The New Yorker magazine. He wrote articles and poems and kept a journal. John was an exceptional student and received a full scholarship to Harvard University. At Harvard he majored in English and became the editor of the Harvard newspaper. Upon graduation in 1954, he wrote his first story, Friends from Philadelphia, and sent it to The New Yorker. This started his career and he became one of the great award winning authors of our time.

I also agree that management has to be able to change and grow and continue to listen to any upward communication from the staff. In order to accomplish better communication, management should provide an ‘open-door’ policy and also informal meetings where employees can either feel free to go to their supervisors first with any questions or concerns and also raise issues with resources or basically anything that interferes with their job performance (Newstrom, 2014, p. 70).

In the novel, decorum is violated through physical appearance. In the early chapters of the book, the eldest sister of the Bennet family, Jane, had fallen sick and was left to stay at the estate of the Bingley family. Mrs. Bennet had perfectly plotted this scenario in hopes of Jane receiving more quality time with Mr. Bingley, a quite eligible husband. Elizabeth, knowing her sister better than anyone, senses that her sister would wish to have her in her presence. Rather than taking a carriage, Elizabeth decides to walk three miles to the Bingley’s. This results in indecorum based off of how Elizabeth looks by the end of her venture. Miss Bingley, Mr. Bingley’s sister, takes the initiative to call Elizabeth out when she states, “Her hair, so untidy, so blowsy!... To walk three miles… or whatever it is, above her ankles in dirt, and alone, quite alone! …It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum” (Austen 35). It was