By reading the assigned chapter on Love and Money from Warm Hands & Cold Cash by Marcia Millman, it got me thinking about my family’s accounting system. Like most middle class parents, my family focuses less on inheritance and more on “cultural” capital. Cultural capital is how children are raised and educated. The education they receive allows them to be successful in life. I have to say education is the best investment anyone can make. You can learn so much when you attend college. During college, you are also independent from your parents. You can make all the choices you want but you have to suffer the consequences. You learn from your mistakes. This is a huge part of growing up. This part of your life is extremely important. Ever since …show more content…
But it does. Money and feelings could become intertwined through expectations of reciprocity. Reciprocity is when someone gives something to another individual, and then that individual gives something back in return. Feelings are involved. The reciprocity of the family can be demonstrated through an example. Let’s say there is a grandmother. She gives a pair of boots to her granddaughter out of love. Then her granddaughter gives a pair of earrings to her grandmother out of love too. This reciprocity becomes an economy of exchange. An economy of exchange involves someone who will give you this much of something if you give them this much of something. This means that someone who spends a lot of money on a gift and gives it to someone else, they expect them to do the same. If they don’t, then what they give next as a present will surely reflect that. Sadly, family members count all the money that they have received and record their degrees of feelings. If someone doesn’t express the emotion the other wants to see, then that shows when they receive a present. This is shown quite a bit during Christmas and on birthdays. People expect to receive good gifts on Christmas and when the gift doesn’t meet their expectations then that ruins the relationship between the individuals. They feel that they are loved less. As a result, this has a detrimental effect on the gift giver and the gift
When somebody is being unappreciative that makes someone feel bad . In “The Jacket” by Gary Soto there is a little boy who is being very unappreciative of a jacket his mom got him and it probably makes her feel really bad about her jacket decision for her son.
...nts this is showing that he has no sense of kindness because when somebody buys you a present that is showing that they care about you.
However, as may be expected from our modern society, the custom of giving gifts quickly turned into the practice of exchanging them. If one gives gifts to loved ones at Christmas, the reasoning goes, then those who do not receive gifts from a person are obviously not loved by him/her. So each individual now is required to give a gift to all of his/her friends, or risk communicating to them that s/he no longer loves them -- or perhaps never did! Also, there arises another problem when someone gets a gift from a person to whom they did not give one. The logic here is that the one who gave the gift obviously has a greater love for or places a greater value on the friendship than the one who did not. A decidedly awkward situation arises from this, one can imagine.
College is a place where people go to learn and to grow as a person. Most people go to college for the same reasons. They want to set a good foundation for getting a job, experience new things, or because their parents wanted them to. All of those reasons apply to me also.
Wilkie Collins’ The Women in White begins in the perspective of Walter Hartright, a drawing master who has recently taken a job and is on his way. While traveling he helps a woman in white named Anne Catherick. Hartright thinks nothing of the encounter except that he found it odd the she was dressed in all white. But he later finds out that she has escaped from an asylum and is on the run. After finally arriving and prospering at his new job, Hartright takes a liking to Miss Laura Fairlie and befriends Marian Halcombe, her half-sister. The two women each share a relation to the owner of the house. However because Laura is scheduled to marry, Marian sees it best to send Walter away but not before telling him that Laura was marrying the man that was after the woman in white named Sir Percival Glyde.
Christmas is a special time of year that deserves to be remembered for its true meaning. Every year, Christmas becomes more and more commercialized and society forgets the origin of Christmas. It was not started with cookies, toys, and a fat man that delivers them, but instead it started with a humble inn where our Savior was born. The definition of Christmas is “a holiday on December 25 celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.” Nowhere in that definition does it say anything about the outrageous pressure society has set on consumers to buy, buy, buy during the Christmas season. Christmas is about presence not presents.
worse. Since these people make very little money, their gifts come more from the heart
Attending college has helped me see the right benefits that will help me achieve my ultimate dream goals. First of all, I want to be able to learn how to relate to different cultures, ethnicities, and personalities, and also be able to understand different backgrounds, the way people from diverse culture think and act and their lifestyles; In addition, I want to learn how to adapt to new situations including dealing with responsibilities such as using Blackboard and making sure that all my assignments are completed and submitted on time. Furthermore, I will have to learn how to adapt to being an adult and taking care of my own needs.
We live in a culture where people are expected to give to others gifts of gratitude and expressions of love. Sometimes these gifts are accepted for what they are worth and other times they are not. We use that which others give us based on several factors. Among them are whether we perceive the gift as valuable, whether we can practically use the gift, or whether the gift is given earnestly and for the right reasons. Because of this there is not one explanation why certain attitudes about gifts exist. We should, however, understand that it is not for us to realize why a gift is given, but rather that someone thinks enough of us to give a gift in the first place. It is certain that if gifts are not accepted and used in a prudent and expeditious manner, then the gifts that are received will deteriorate or whither completely away.
From my college experience, I hope to gain many things. Obviously college is a time that students can truly become individuals. When I attend college I will have the opportunity to become more independent and to take on new responsibilities. I have always relied on my parents for support, but at college I will be on my own and will have to push myself harder. This will help me to become more mature and will help me grow in character. I have long awaited for the time to be independent and now is the time that I shall prove myself.
Henry 's story tells us that it is not the gift that is important but the thought behind it.Jim should understand and appreaciate all the thought that Della had given to his present.She had spent the whole year saving up money to buy him something especially something nice,and she had also spent the whole year thinking about what she should get.She not only decided on a watch-fob but then spent a long time deciding exactly what kind of watch-fob it should be.O Henry 's Christmas story tells us that real love is always shown in caring more about someone else than we care about ourselves.Jim and Della really love each other Della cares more about him than she does about herself,and Jim cares more about her than he does about himself.These are thoughts and feelings that go with the spirit of Christmas and may not necessarily prevail throughout the entire
A college education opens the door to gain knowledge that high school does not give you. In college students obtain the knowledge of how to become more independent. For example, the students learn to choose their own class schedule, extracurricular activities, and how to organize your time.
The people giving are not the only ones to feel this way. Children and teenagers experience exclusion if they do not receive the same presents as their friends do. Because stores and companies boast the popularity of the item they are selling, everyone has to have it. People are more focused on worrying through this chaos than understanding the significance of being happy and surrounded by loved
Money, the media of exchange for products and services, provides things people need, like food, clothing, shelter, or medicine. People spend most of their life looking for it. My parent for example, works from sunrise to sunset to obtain it. The more money people have the more benefits they can get, because they will be able to get a bigger and better houses, clothes, or food. Less money means stress in bill payments, gas prices, and food prices. With money, people can fulfill their material need. However, money cannot buy everything such as happiness, friendship and love, health, and appetite.
Cultural, social, and economic capital work as qualifiers in favor of the person who holds them. Each of the three forms of capital have a significant amount of influence in the path to academic achievement. While you can certainly find successful ways to navigate education without one of the three forms of capital, it is much more difficult to do with the absence of two, or all. Although I recognize that the other two forms can aid a person in their academic success, I feel cultural and social capital exist because of their relationship to economic capital; and for that reason I believe economic capital is the most important tool necessary for academic success. Without the finances, cultural and social capital would not exist with the elitist