Optimist Greed: The Word Paradigm

Think about this, if your surroundings have changed will you still be the same as you were at first. The things you were accustomed to in the past will ultimately become foreign. For example, Bobbie Mason was use to her plain country life and now in the big city nothing seems

After some time, these facts began to sink in. I would no longer wake up and walk into the same bathroom, walk down the same stairs, or eat in the same kitchen. I would no longer take the same walking route to school along with my friends. I would no longer have the same lasting neighborhood friends to socialize with. I would no longer take the same classes in school, talk to the same teachers, or even take notes the same way. However, I did not realize some of the other, not as despondent, impacts that changing environments would have until being ?new? for a few

Change in our lives is a part of living. Without change we would no be here today living as successfully as we are. People don?t always see changes in their life as for the best, but usually when people see through the

If you never change anything it becomes a part of you like a parasite. Saps the strength, knowledge, wisdom, feelings, and affects others around you that are trying to improve life. The negativity filters and you began to form certain habits that you are no longer aware of . Some emotional

fit back into things the way they were and what this means for us is that sometimes you may

Although Catch-22 is a novel that entirely takes place at war, the book uses comedy to emphasize the physical and emotional pain of war. The novel shows us how people are changed by war and how their focuses are changed through different experiences. Many of the people in the book are disgusted by their commanding officers and the conditions around them. Joseph Heller served in the war and witnessed crazy occurrences and met strange people like those in the book. By reading the novel, we can see that he strongly disliked war. There are many themes in the novel, two of the main themes are the greed for power and money.

The article by Thomas Cassidy, points out the instrumental role that greed plays in the modern corporation. Modern Economists have always seen greed as not only a necessary element in the corporate environment, but as also a vital part of the successful evolution of a public company. As the article points out, “Economists from Adam Smith to Milton Friedman have seen greed as an inevitable and, in some ways, desirable feature of capitalism. In a well regulated and well balanced economy, greed helps to keep the system expanding”.

Civilization, as a whole, has progressed at an astounding rate since the first known colony was formed in Mesopotamia more than six thousand years ago. Technology and medicine being two of the main accomplishments of man kind. With all these advances and achievements, the question often arises, does human kind do it for survival or “incentives”, or does humankind do it for greed and “self-interest”.

Change is an indispensable and necessary part of life. As we continue to progress through life, we continue to change both physically and emotionally. Time and experience allows us to change our attitudes and perceptions of basically everything around us.

Born March 13th 1964, Dowell A. Meadows was a American environmental scientist, teacher, and writer, and she is known as the lead author of the influential book The limits to Growth and thinking systems. She said, "Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm." This says that a mind shift is essential, or naturally belongs, to a person's way of thinking. In addition, it says that people do not even realize that it is there until he or she talks to someone with a different way of thinking. A paradigm shift is a fundamental, meaning core principle, change of approach or underlying assumptions. Following the definition of a

I found these articles about the Pursuit of Profit extremely interesting and intriguing. All of the individual articles worked to provide a deeper understanding of how the Renaissance led to a rebirth in economies. This is something that I had not thought a lot about previously. I found the first article by Bendetto Dei interesting because he paints an odd picture of Venice. He continuously mentions the flaws of Venice and why it is not as good as Florence. I saw where he mentioned that Florence had something that was better than anything Venice had, “the trades of wool and silk.” These trades were mentioned in lecture as Professor Cassen talked about the immense importance of wool and silk in Florence. The second article, by Arnold Von Harff, seemed intriguing to me because it mentions the

In the movie, “There Will Be Blood”, there are many depictions of greed and determination. Greed is the feeling of needing money or fancy items. Money makes you feel powerful and gets you those nice items, like the newest phone or the newest jacket. However, it slowly destroys you because it corrupts your character and morals. Some end up doing anything to gain money, even kill. According to a Christian definition, “greed is the obsession of wanting to accumulate material goods.”(Access Jesus 1). Determination means that you refuse to give up. This can be both a good quality but also a bad one. On the positive side, it shows that you’re perseverant and care deeply about whatever task you face. For example, you can be determined to do well in school so you have a great future. That’s a positive way to focus your determination. On the negative side, determination can cause you to lose focus on what really matters. For example, my dad was extremely determined to provide an above average life for his wife and daughter. He wanted to be able to spoil his little girl without worrying about the bills. That’s harmless enough right? Well, his follow through is what makes this a negative tale. He ignored what the doctors said about his back and pushed himself beyond his limits. He worked so much overtime that his daughter didn’t know him the first five years of her life. Finally he reached his limit and one day his wife gets a call saying he was in the ER. He was blinded by greed,

I have always been a creature of habit. I seek comfort in the familiar and thrive in the presence of structure and routine. That being said I do not handle change well. This is something I have known for a while and something I continuously work on, because in this phase of life I do not have the luxury to simply ignore it. Change itself comes in many forms. It can happen all at once, or one little thing at a time slowing pushing you out of your comfort zone. In the last few months I have undergone many changes and dealt with challenges associated with them. I have moved away from the only home I have ever known, my fiancé became my roommate, and I am at a new school with a new approach to chasing my dreams. I guess I didn’t realize the depth of change my life had taken on, looking at it now I simply didn’t have the time to stop and take in what was happening around me. Now that there is an assignment, an actual task to assess myself and my world around me it is all starting to sink in. As I write this reflection from behind my fort of boxes that still need to be unpacked, while listening to my fiancé hum to himself in our shared kitchen; the gravity of my situation hits me and realize literally everything has changed.

A paradigm can be defined as ‘a basic set of beliefs that guides action’ (Guba, 1990). The positivist paradigm can be defined as ‘an epistemological position that

It’s hard to say it, but this just means less people competing with me for scarce opportunities and resources.