Ordinary People

Socrates believed that a world where people lived utilizing their natural abilities and talents would be a just world. Such a society would entail three classes of people, those who govern, those who help in the ruling like police and soldiers, and the ordinary people who would be the workers, merchants and the farmers. The third class of people would be the only ones allowed to own property or have families. According to Socrates, such a world would automatically be…...

There is a total of 245 pages in the book. It was published in July of 1976 by Viking Press. Viking Press is located in New York. Ordinary People is a psychological novel. Ordinary People is set in Lake Forest, Illinois during the 1970s. The novel begins one year after the Jarrett family has lost their son Buck to an accident. Their other son, Conrad, is newly released from a mental hospital. We find out that Conrad tried to commit…...

Six years ago, Vikram Patel gave a powerful speech in front of thousands and touching thousands more lives due to one simple idea: by empowering ordinary people to care for others. By centering around mental illness, Patel was able to procure an expectancy gap of 20 years in developed countries between “normal” people and those with some sort of mental illness. Developing countries have an even larger gap due to a lack of professional psychiatrists. These countries tend to adopt…...

Crowdfunding is a new internet-based method to raise capital - pool small amounts of money from individuals. The approach is attractive to entrepreneurs, because it not only allows raising capital for small businesses, which have very limited financing options, but also serves as a tool for testing marketability. Individuals enjoy the possibility to contribute to the ideas they believe in, even if they can invest only small amounts. Governments appreciate the approach due to its positive effects on economy –…...

The author of this book, James Waller, is a professor of holocaust and genocide studies at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Asbury University, his Masters of Science at the University of Colorado, and finally earned his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Kentucky. He is also the author of several other books entitled Drinkology Beer: A Book About the Brew,The Well-Bred Dog: Lisa Zador's Cabinet of Curious Canines, andDrinkology: Wine:…...

Lord of the Flies ​All throughout history, there have been numerous theories of why people behave the way they do. Even to this day, any answer is undoubtfully questionable. Are humans born with the screaming urge to start trouble, do the kids on the island immediately have bones to pick? Or does it rely on the situation they’re put through and how it affects them? William Golding leans toward the situational theory, rather than the nature theory. He reveals it…...

Ancient Greece and Rome founded the ideas of democracy, liberty, equality and rights. Early thinkers showed people new ways of thinking that could change the world forever. From Socrates who taught people to question authority and the world around them to Plato who described what an ideal state would look like and to Aristotle who believed in a constitutional government. Their political ideas went from the Greeks, to the Romans, to Western Europeans, all the way to America. Greece gave…...