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I left a passive aggressive note at a friend’s house after I stayed the night. My friend, his girlfriend, another friend, and I would all get together regularly to stay the night at Friend 1’s house (Q). Q refused to drink tap water, so he had multiple bottles of water in packs that he wouldContinue reading “Passive Aggressive Note”

Gregg opens the article by setting up an example given in the show Six Feet Under, where a character finds herself in tough situation after breaking up with her boyfriend. Once a creative art student, she dropped out of college and found herself in the position of a temp in an office job. The authorContinue reading “RR5–Gregg”

In my opinion, the most important question to be asked is one of pragmatism versus that of morality. Certain things may work, but are they right? Take the idea of high taxes for example. There is no doubt that the basic idea of higher taxes will lead to more income for the government (but asContinue reading “Economic Questions”

McMillan Cottom’s article “The Education Gospel” begins with an example about the author working out a way to pay for a technical college with a student named Jason. Jason was highly religious person with extreme test anxiety, coming from a rather poor family he had no one to cosign his loan if he defaulted onContinue reading “RR 4–Cottom”

Pierre Bourdieu begins the article talking about how capital is inseparable from the socialized world we live in today, and goes on to describe a short theoretical world. The world, which the author essentially fancies as the libertarian’s fantasy, sees almost everything privatized and no nepotistic or inherited aspects. Of course, this is not theContinue reading “RR 3–Bourdieu”

Zelizer began by giving an interesting hypothetical, fast-forwarding to the year 2096. She gave the run-down, saying that most if not all money has taken an electronic form. She says that there has been a monetary value placed on most things, from spousal care, to children’s behavior, to strongly performing employees. However, the employer takesContinue reading “RR 2–Zelizer”

When looking to rhetorically analyze the movie Knives Out, one would need to look at both the textual and contextual pieces of the of the film. The textual part (that is to say, the substance) can be analyzed by taking into account the relationships between characters in the movie. Many of the characters are portrayedContinue reading “Cultural Artifact Discussion”

A piece of culture I have recently encountered is the movie Knives Out. In the movie, the patriarch of a rich family passed away, and his children and their spouses were squabbling over his inheritance. One of his grandchildren decides to take rather violent means attempting to get more than his share of the inheritance,Continue reading “Culture and Money”