Alain Wertheimer Essays

Makeup is now considered to be a necessity for the people of this world. We basically use makeup every single day to help us enhance the beauty that we are all born with. Everyone wants to look their best every single day so almost everyone now wears makeup. But there are some makeups who are just ridiculously expensive, not just because they are high quality, but because they are carried by the most famous brands in the industry. Can you guess which is the most expensive makeup brand in the world

Throughout Bruce Knauft’s book, The Gebusi, there are four distinct periods that showed the change that the people went through. In his work, Knauft describes each of these cultural changes in great detail. Knauft lived and studied with that Gebusi in the time periods of 1980-1982, 1998, 2008, and 2013. Knauft’s first visit in the early 80’s was marked by the Gebusi’s relative isolation and distinct and unique cultural attributes. The Gebusi people dressed in traditional clothing, often times very

In 21st century, there is no doubt that everyone loves the idea of personality assessments. They serve not only as a fun activity during leisure time, but also offer new understandings about individual’s personality and provide alternative perspectives on how individuals view themselves and others. Personality Type or Psychological Type is commonly associated with the model of personality development created by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother, Katharine Briggs, which is called the Myers-Briggs

Dark Days is unique in its approach to the social issue documentary style. Its differences are immediately apparent with its introduction. The film does not explain why the group in the film are living in the subway tunnels of New York City. Instead, director Marc Singer decides to show the audience what life is like in the tunnels through observing and interviewing a select group of homeless individuals. This decision opts out of the often-used expository mode and favors a more observational and

The Great Gatsby, a surrealist novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, has been praised as an American classic. One of the main intrigues of this novel is the character of Jay Gatsby, an enigmatic and wealthy man who becomes the subject of the book. There are dissenting opinions on the mysterious character of Jay Gatsby and what he represents. While Jay Gatsby has been characterized as a sinister gangster and a classic romantic, it is more probable that he is a pathological narcissist with slightly

The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway tells a story of a group of seven Native women that live on Wasaychigan Reserve. The play highlights the struggles and hardships faced by those who live in these settlements. The sisters also further shed light on the internal conflict and individual struggles that each of the characters face. THE WORLD’S BIGGEST BINGO seems to hold the solution to all The Rez Sisters problems and seems to be an escape from their personal demons. Each individual regards the winning

In his article, “Equality, Expectation, and Envy,” Alain de Botton rests on the idea that due to status envy, people cannot be truly happy with their current standings because they are always putting themselves into comparisons with those who surround them. Throughout time, people seem to feel as though “neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough” (25), and due to these situations, people are always in search of becoming better, or succeeding above those whom they consider themselves

In "On Habit", Alain de Botton observes that a "traveling mindset," to which receptivity, the notion of being open to new objects, is the key to the release of latent layers of value in our accustomed surroundings. In Gregory Orr's "Return to Hayneville," "receptivity" seems to be the key as Orr returns to Hayneville, 40 years after what had been the most tumultuous time of his life. Orr, traveling with his 2 other companions, tends to give them a recount of what he actually had to go through in

How does someone know if they are truly happy? Much of society have come to associate happiness with the pursuits of personal pleasures or that which makes us “feels good”. When we feel good we display positive expression of emotions such as joy, laughter, kindness and fewer negative emotions such as anger, hate, and sadness. To some people our happiness is already determined through our genes. Some people seek happiness through money and material possessions. However, many would argue that true

Vanessa Zamora I found great pleasure reading these texts over the past few weeks. The authors have opened my mind to recognize different ways of living through their perspectives. Whether I was influenced by their words positively or negatively, I was pleased to have read and been guided through new directions of different types of living. Below are my thoughts and feeling towards each of the readings and how each one has affected me. “An infant is a pucker of the earth’s thin skin; so are we