...Marco Canto Composition I “Adrian” Ms. McGee Everyday, as I log in to my Facebook page, I get plenty notices from friends and family posts. I surf thru them trying to see if anything will capture my attention. Some of the posts are irritating and make you even more tired, especially after a long day at work. However, there are those posts from a particular friend that make you wonder and say, “what the fudge”. Crazy partying, expensive clothes, cars, and things that are usually for people that either have a lot of money to spare or have too much are some of the post from my friend, Andy. It’ll usually get plenty of compliments and nonchalant comments because posts like these can sometime get a reaction from someone or somebody not necessarily wanting to engage. But if I know my friend, I know that this is far from the truth. My friend is an undocumented alien. He’s been in the states now for 15 years, alone, depressed, poor, and working for so much less that what someone with his skills and expertise is making. I met him thru my wife who went to the same management class when he was still new to this country. We became friends and have been ever since. On facebook, he portrays himself as a party guy who likes to buy people drinks and pick up the tab when eating out. He parties hard and creates an impression that there is nothing in this world that bothers him or that he could care about. In reality, he longs to go back to his birth country to be with...
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...JINS 307 Fall Semester December 11, 2012 The Outcomes of Friends with Benefits Friends with benefits usually consist of two individuals who decide to have sexual interactions with each other. The idea of friends with benefits is that two friends want a sexual partner, but do not want to have a romantic relationship. Can two friends have a sexual relationship without romantic feelings occurring? Can friends with benefits maintain their friendship? Questions involving friends with benefits arise from a myriad of readings involving cross-sex friends. It can be deduced from modern culture that the practice of having sex with someone other than one’s significant other is a commonality. I personally feel that many men and women, when young, are more willing to explore their sexuality. Young adults often don’t want to settle down as soon as possible; they may like to enjoy the pleasures out of life. There are many factors, such as feelings of love and the prospect of marriage, which can change the relationship between friends with benefits. The outcome of the relationship will depend on the individuals involved. There are multiple readings that discuss or portray the outcomes of friends in sexual relationships. For instance in Sula, a reading that involves different relationships between friends, the author used literary analysis to portray the effect of a sexual friendship between a man and a woman. Sula is a Native American woman who is sexually promiscuous. Even though...
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...The Benefits of Spending Time with a Large Number of Friends Chet Sunhong, En Rotana, Tum Sotheary Institute of Foreign Language No human should be alone. We all need connection, communication, support and protection. All sort of these things are mostly thought that they are given by our first form of relation, family. However, there is also another important relation second to family which is called friendship. Easily understand definition of friendship is the relationship between friends. Our schoolmates, classmates and playmate are all our friends. Friends are those whom we spend most of our time with beside our families. And this come down to a stated topic that, “some people prefer to spend time with a few close friends.” And “other choose to spend time with a large number of friends.” Both ways of making friends are so much beneficial but we prefer having a large number of friends. First of all, communicating with a large number of friends provides us chances to learn many new things. They are also the source of information since they are living in many different places, experiencing many things and some of those might be the one that we have never heard of. For instance, we might learn the traditions and cultures that are only practice in their hometown. We can learn from their experiences and knowledge. Among all of our friends, there might be someone who is good at researching the documents or learning new language. So, we can ask them to share their experiences or...
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...Friends with Benefits: Blame Media or Generations? To what extent are the expectations we form from watching movies affecting our dating habits: friends with benefits The high extent of how powerful the media affects society’s habits and forms ideals for interaction seems as if the television is controlling the way society interrelate. The media creates false expectations for the rest of society. It’s the false accounts- the fictional stuff- that sells but also becomes the expectation in real life as society models the behaviors from the movies. It is a paradoxical concept that the entertainment industry creates movies with actors in roles that need to be exaggerated in order to sell; this obviously implies that the lifestyles portrayed on the television are not representations of the average person’s life. However, when viewers- normal people- watch these television roles, these false lives are assumed to be the norm for real-life so that creates a false system in which we approach interpersonal relationships, such as in dating. Romantic realism deals with creating stories of high-level stimulation, not something boring to bring a movie to life, etc. Unfortunately, this influence from the media and the humane aspect that we are never fully satisfied with what we have are vast contributions for the increase of friends with benefits in contemporary dating culture. When one looks at what plays on the television, the perfect, utopian, or ideal accounts of the characters’...
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...that it deserves. One of the types of relationships that is most common in the United States is known as “friends with benefits.” This “friends with benefits” type of relationship is a complex relationship that is typically grouped with another type that is known as casual hook ups, but this grouping is done erroneously because they are two very different types of relationships. Friends with benefits is a type of relationship that is defined as an understanding between two people that are friends and choose to engage in sexual behaviors while holding no emotional ties or feeling obligated to be committed to one another. This definition allows us to see that a friends with benefits relationship is more complex than a casual hook up. The reason that most people tend to confuse the two is because they both disassociate sexual actions from romance and feelings, but that is where the similarities end. A casual hook up is also known as a one night stand. Most casual hook ups involve sleeping with different people, many times an acquaintance or even a stranger, and usually occurs as a spur of the moment. It would just be for that night and after that you would go your separate ways. Studies show that when participating in one of these hook ups the two people will not engage in intimate activities such as kissing, oral sex, hugging, talking etc. Where as a friend with benefits relationship is an ongoing...
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...When watching The Bare Bears, one amazing thing I have noticed is that the friendship among them. They are so close to each other, but when a girl later involved in the friendship. Things seems have changed. Panda fell in love with the girl, but they other bears see the girl as a good friend. Later, there are funny things happen because of this. I was wondering what is this thing that makes friendship different between opposite sex. According to this, the question I used to lead my research is “What is the difference between same sex and different sex friendship?” This question is kind of broad and what I intend to do is looking to some specific aspects about it, especially gender. I searched a few research articles and found some that fits...
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...with killing five people whom they did not accept her friend requested on Facebook. She told that if somebody in the same apartment building with her did not accept her friend request, she would kill them and that was true. She killed five people and left a “calling card” on murder’s bodies with menaces that being friend on Facebook was good but they did not accept so that is why she killed them. Nowadays with the development of Social networking sites, there are a lot of problems come from of that. Another example evidence of defect of social networking is appearance more and more “hero of keyboard”. Hero of keyboard is a phrase to describe people specially is younger people use keyboard to say their opinion with purpose of lowering and dishonor others. Hero of keyboard also describe people use the keyboard to flirt others and they talk a lot on Social networking site but in real life, when face-to-face reaction, they are different extraordinarily from Social networking. Two examples are specific demonstration of unhealthy way because of Social networking. Although social networking sites are places for user to promote their relationship, they have become an unhealthy substitute for developing face-to-face relationships. Some people argue that Social networking on Facebook, Twitter, for example, is a healthy way to maintain relationships. First of all, Social networking helps people keep in touch with family members or friends who live far from away. They have to do that because...
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...Become A Real Friend Le Hong Anh Huynh Thi Kim Hanh Nguyen Dac Huy Ho Minh Phuc Nguyen Thi Kim Sa Phan Thi Kim Thoa Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy Business Academic Skills November 7th 2012 Douglas Foster Let Facebook Become A Real Friend “Social network”-a familiar clause -which is used to regard the virtual community on the Internet, emerged as a common type of communication, entertainment for almost young generations and become the lives of many individuals. Providing many kinds of social group together in one place and making them interact is really a great thing. One of those popular social networks is Facebook, which is considered as the world’s biggest social site. The founder of Facebook-Mark Zuckerberg-launched his product on the 4th of February 2004 and witnessed a remarkable rise in the number of registered member and page views each day. Existing research shows that young people are motivated to join this site to make friends, to keep in touch with the old ones who they have not seen for many years or live in another region of the Earth, to strengthen ties with new acquaintances (Acquisti, and Gross, as cited in Valenzuela, Park, and Kee, 2006, p. 3). Besides, Facebook also allow them to exchange news and discuss issues, both public and private. However, this social network site is not entirely free from drawbacks. If one is not a Facebook user, he/she can easily realize the problems it can cause. In this paper, the authors examine some benefits and problems...
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...this theory – Peter M Blau and Richard M Emerson. The social exchange theory proposes that social behaviour is the result of an exchange process. The purpose of this exchange is to maximise benefits and minimise costs. According to this theory, people weigh the potential benefits and risks of social relationships. When the risks outweigh the rewards, people will terminate or abandon that relationship. The social exchange theory suggests that we essentially take the benefits and minus the costs in order to determine how much a relationship is worth positive relationships are those in which the benefits outweigh the costs, while negative relationships occur when the costs are greater than the benefits. Costs involve things that are seen as negatives to the individual such as having to put money, time and effort into a relationship. The benefits are things that the individual gets out of the relationship such as fun, friendship, companionship and social support. When you are at a young age, you don’t really care about relationships and friendships. You can have loads of friends and not really care about keeping them because you can find some more very quickly. However, as you get older you tend to have fewer friends and only have a few friends that you actually class as your friends. This shows that as you get older you value your friendships/ relationships more than when you were...
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...Introduction The English word 'Decision' originated from the Latin word 'decisio' which means "to cut from." 'To decide' means "to come to a conclusion" or "to pass a resolution. According to Trewartha and Newport "Decision making involves the selection of a course of action from among two or more possible alternatives in order to arrive at a solution for a given problem." Bounded rationality The concept and associated decision model of bounded rationality was first discussed by Herbert Simon in his celebrated book Models of Man published in 1957 by John Wiley and Sons. Simon basically stipulates that individual decision making is not rational as assumed by a number of theories, especially dealing with economics issues. Individual decision making is limited by a number of boundary conditions such as the individual's intellectual traits, time, and non perfect information. Non perfect information for example, can pertain to limited access to reliable information or raw information, information corruption through layered processing and/or simply lack of information Bounded rationality and decision making. When applied to management decisions, managers, usually because of time constraints, lack of information, and cognitive factors usually make numerous daily decisions and seek to make the best possible decision considering the circumstances, rather than the optimal decision; the optimal decision would be the most rational decision under perfect circumstances. Perfect...
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...becoming more common, people are less likely to question about the dangers and start using it as well. Up till this day, people are increasingly thinking that sharing and communicating online are more important than privacy and security (Elsas, 2008). The purpose of this paper is to further raise awareness of the benefits and dangers of social networking. It also covers examples of why people should pay more attention to dangers they might encounter before posting anything online. 2. Benefits While there are many dangers when social networking, there are certain potential advantages when it comes to communicating and sharing online. Social networking provides better chances for people to communicate and build up relationships with one another and it is also important to encourage others to build positive relationships with others online. 3.1. Gaining social confidence online Children improve relationships with friends that they have never met online (Pekel, 2012). For example, making friends online before meeting them, allows them to get to know the other better before meeting up. This usually works with situations such as going to a new school or meeting new friends. 3.2. Users find support from online communities. There are thousands of different online communities in the internet for users to join. Such communities are important for users who have unique interests and who are isolated (Pekel, 2012). These communities allow users to create groups online in search...
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...worried that the use of Internet is dangerous to their kids. Some others said that Internet may bring benefits to their children especially to those who will be sitting for an examination. On my opinion, Internet has both benefits and drawbacks. First of all, let me talk about the benefits first. As we know, Internet is mostly used by students. By surfing internet, students can visit various websites to assist their studies. The examples of popular websites are tutortv.com , unicliq.com , and tutor.com.my. They can visit the websites and revise their studies in more exciting way. Some of them are free. Students can visit it anytime they want. The websites also provide useful notes and exercises. At the same time, students can get additional information that they cannot find it in books. For instance, they can go to 'Google' or 'Yahoo' search engines to search for more ideas to write an essay. In short, Internet provides vast informations and knowledge which is very beneficial for the students. Next, Internet also provides lots of social networks such as Facebook , Twitter, MySpace and many other. Through these social networks, we can add more friends and make new friends. We can also know friends from other country as these social networks are used internationally. Other than adding friends, we can also strengthen our relationship with our friends and family who are staying far away from us using Skype. We can see them in front of our eyes eventhough...
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...marketing enterprise from 2 decades. NIRDOSH is a unique non tobacco smoking stick which is used as substitute for normal cigarette but having no harmful characteristics of smoking rather providing additional health benefits. The production was carried out with 30-40 labour workforces manually by hands. NIRDOSH got health certification from medical bodies claiming numerous health benefits. The brand tag line was to curb the habit of smoking by simply smoking a different cigarette. NIRDOSH was sold in one main outlet in Ahmadabad and through VPP. Free samples of product were distributed and door to door selling was done to make awareness about NIRDOSH. The annual average sales were 1.4 lakhs per annum. A packet consisting 10 sticks was Rs2.5 subsequently increased to Rs5 per packet. The major constraints were the financial sources for the company which were tried to generate by contacting friends, government and local leaders. The attempts were made to get orders from outside countries to boost the sales of NIRDOSH. SITUATION ANALYSIS The business scenario for NIRDOSH can be analyzed by using the SWOT analysis tool in this case. Strength – It is an innovative product with proven health benefits, so at present there is no competitor in the market. Having medical benefits and generating awareness about anti smoking. The educational part associated with NIRDOSH will cover free publicities in media through newspaper, magazines and radio etc. The 20 yrs experience in manufacturing of...
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...Lying? we all do it , sometimes without even thinking ahead of time we just do it . I'm not saying that the fact that we all do it is an excuse but with today's society lying is not all that bad . i believe that in certain situations lying is acceptable not all but a big portion , what i'm saying is at this point in our world i believe lying is sometimes okay . I mean think about it , we tell lies for many valid reasons some just come off our tongue without even realizing it . Think about it most lies we tell are to your benefit , protection to yourself or others , preventing trouble , and the list goes on . Maybe you agree maybe you disagree whatever your opinion might be we all lie whether it be valid or pointless . Lets use the “ ugly...
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...“All my life I’ve been teased about being fat…skinny and pretty…that’s the way to be.” Elena began struggling with weight at the early age of seven when her parents were going through a difficult divorce. Elena’s parents were never fully engaged in her schoolwork, friends or interests. However, Elena was spoiled by her dad and often given food for comfort. Elena is currently a young teen who began coping with her weight struggles by smoking marijuana and a methamphetamine known as crank. Elena also experimented with sexual partners, and is currently involved with Johnny, who smokes marijuana and carries a gun. Elena does not always practice safe sex, and Johnny is not her first sexual partner. Elena’s peer group is known for their interest...
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