For my research, I’m interested in covering the topic of homelessness. Why is homelessness rising ? What can be done to help solve this issue? This issue is a worldwide problem that seems to just grow and worsten. It is seen on a day to day basis due to the sum of numerous factors. I’m interested in doing research on this topic because on the daily, I come across numerous victims of homelessness. I feel empathy to those that suffer with this and with my research I would like to find out what the leading cause of it is. As well as what it being done to help remedy this problem. As of right now I’m not fully informed on all the aspects of homelessness or how it impacts the rest of society. However I feel like not enough is being done to help those that are struggling and need help. Especially with the growing economy and with prices continuously rising, their is a lack of affordable housing, making it difficult for everyone in the community. I’m looking for solutions that any individual can accomplish in any, even minor help, to aid those that are in need of support from homelessness.
Author: bianca (Page 4 of 6)
This time rereading “Later” by James Surowiecki, I approached it slowly and read it word for word. I found it to be much more informative and interesting this second time. I realized as I read that the author was not just spewing examples at random but was dissecting the problem of procrastination by breaking down every aspect of it. The author includes surveys with the results being that college students tend to procrastinate and writers struggle to finish their own pieces. However the outcome is not just a display of laziness but taken from a different perspective it is a “basic human impulse”. By the 18th century, Samuel Johnson was describing it ;” for having so long neglected what was unavoidably to be done, and which every moment’s idleness increased the difficulty.” This common problem was persistent to modern times, Piers Steel performed a study in which people admitted to difficulties with procrastination, the resulting percentage quadrupled between 1978 and 2002. One of the more intriguing perspectives to me , is from the philosophers in “The Thief Of Time” with a more radical explanation called “the divided self”. This interpretation from Thomas Schelling suggests that bargaining with your short term interests and long term goals is the result of procrastination. The author then goes into solutions, one being “the extended will”. This is going going out of the way to take precautions using external tools and techniques to help with work. For example getting someone involved to help keep you responsible for your work. The opposing argument that disapproves the reliance on external tools, advices you to strengthen your will rather that depending on techniques. With research supporting will power to be “in some ways, like a muscle and can be made stronger.”, however the same research, “also suggests that most of us have a limited amount of will power and that it’s easily exhausted.” Throughout the reading James Surowiecki illustrates every possible aspect of procrastination, ranging from controversial theories and perfectionism.
My plan to reread “Later” by James Surowiecki would be to reread it and try applying it to my life to try to understand the article better. As well as reading it in a quiet place where I can’t be disturbed or distracted. To make sure I take in his choices of vocabulary by trying to use context clues more too.
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