Essays Tagged: "Laziness"

Why Are the Homeless Homeless? - a satire.

ght--whicheverthe case may be. That's it. And I, for one, have reached a solution to thiswidespread laziness.First of all, most homeless people spend their days hunting through trashcans and dumpsters ...

(3 pages) 261 1 4.4 Dec/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Defining Success. Rfers to Michael Korda's book

sometimes it could inspire them to go for it. If they only have a small dream then itcould lead to laziness and they wouldn't want to stress out because of a small outcome onsuccess. Another thing is ...

(2 pages) 61 0 3.7 Jan/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Welfare reform in America

sheading toward a major catastrophe.The current large number of people on welfare is not due to the lazinessof the poor but to three major factors:1) The top heavy distribution wealth in the U. S.of A ...

(6 pages) 331 0 4.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

"John Mackasey" This is a short paper on John Mackasey, an Irish Catholic and other irish immigrants living in Canada during the late 1800s.

olics experienced barriers to success and respect, such as religion. Most native Americans believed laziness, immorality and ignorance were inseparable from Irishness and Catholicism.Although an Irish ...

(2 pages) 28 0 4.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > The Great Depression

The Life and Death of Okonkwo and Ivan Ilych.

from Unoka what not to do in his life. From his early days, Okonkwo's embarrassment of his father's laziness led him to become a hard worker, on the farm and in the battlefield. He earns a high status ...

(7 pages) 92 1 4.5 May/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Critical thinking and decision-making

ed with reason, intellectual honesty, and open-mindedness, as opposed to emotionalism, intellectual laziness, and closed-mindedness. Thus, critical thinking involves: following evidence where it leads ...

(4 pages) 322 0 4.6 May/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making

Should children with ADHD be on Ritilan or similar drugs? Are psychiatrists using this to make money? Is ADHD diagnosis real or made up for the profit of greedy people?

t is far too easy for today's psychiatrists to label America's children with ADHD. Out of their own laziness and greed, these children are chemically straight-jacketed to shut them up or make it diffi ...

(2 pages) 140 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Character changes throughout The Grapes of Wrath of Tom Joad.

's attitude is also very laid back, care free, and lazy in the beginning of this novel. Most of his laziness come from the four years he spent in McAlester Penitentiary for manslaughter, but was parol ...

(1 pages) 45 2 2.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"The Identity of an American Citizen." This essay explains in great detail what the "identity" of an American citizen was like in Pennsylvania during colonial times.

ave enough practice to become a sampler. Children are taught to be eager workers very young because laziness is considered a sin. Families of the mid 1800's emerged a little from the 1700's. People we ...

(3 pages) 47 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

TS Eliot's piece, Our Whimpering World

sgruntled by the profound imperfections in men within hissocial order; which include two-facedness, laziness and indifference. He's not pointingfingers but rather warning us that we're all empty vesse ...

(5 pages) 29 0 0.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Poverty in the world

PovertyPeople may think that the cause of poverty is laziness. This can be right but it is also wrong. The term poverty may have vastly differing meaning ... as a different cause for being in poverty. There are three reasons that can cause poverty which are laziness, misfortune and culture poverty, and further more it will talk about the treatment of pover ... further more it will talk about the treatment of poverty.The first reason that can cause poverty is laziness. Most of the people in the world are poor because of laziness. The word 'laziness' causes a ...

(5 pages) 169 1 4.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Dantes Purpose in Writing The Divine Comedy as Expressed in Cantos I through III of Dantes Inferno

rk because he is guilty of one of the seven deadly sins, Acedia. Some dictionaries give "sloth" or "laziness" as a meaning for acedia, but it is more than physical laziness to the Christian. Acedia is ...

(5 pages) 105 0 4.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

How does the mass media reinforce sterotypes?

Stereotyping is a mental activity that is neither natural or necessary; however, due to laziness, upbringing or coincidental experiences (Lester, 1996, p.1), the stereotyping of individual ...

(6 pages) 436 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

The Jaguar By Ted Hughes

ead. It lays the stage for the jaguar to be a complete contrast to the rest of the zoo. To show the laziness Hughes uses imagery particularly well.The parrots are the main subjects in the 1st verse ...

(3 pages) 36 2 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Analytical Analysis Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

upset and could not articulate quickly enough, he would use violence. (Achebe 4) His intolerance of laziness and improvidence was apparent. Showing any type of emotion with an exception of anger was c ...

(5 pages) 81 1 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Seinfeld and George Costanzas negative values

ostanza, one of the four main characters, best portrays this negativity through selfish actions and laziness to produce humor.George Costanza is a short, fat, quirky bald man, whose career is based on ... light resemblance to one of his male friends. These repeated failures in his life are caused by his laziness and selfishness, George's most prominent values.George's selfishness is best seen through h ...

(4 pages) 27 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

What is Enlightment?

ce of another. The motto of enlightenment is therefore: Have courage to use your own understanding. Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why such a large proportion of men, even when nature has long ...

(2 pages) 41 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

The Harmful Effects of Marijuana have been exaggerated

ked over the past few decades, and one of the only true negative effects of marijuana is short-term laziness, comparable to the well-known side effect of consuming alcohol: a hangover.The argument mos ...

(5 pages) 23 0 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Stephen Hawking Movie Summary: biography of Stephen Hawking, his ideas and ideals

uld finish any homework or any test without even trying, so he didn't. Stephen was not proud of his laziness in the work department and, if it hadn't been for the illness that would soon infect him, h ...

(2 pages) 51 1 3.9 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

'He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.' (Benjamin Franklin)

d money especially, when they are in need. But this need is caused in most of the cases by person's laziness and foolishness. If the individual is ambitious and clever enough, he will never sink in th ... is simple - people don't like to work, don't like to give any of their energy, and because of this laziness, they pay it double after definite time. It is the same with the homework I was 'too tired' ...

(2 pages) 22 0 4.2 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing