It looks like a snapshot of my own great-aunt. When I first suspected that I was losing my hair, I felt like maybe I was also losing my grip on reality. This was the summer of , and although the previous three months had been difficult for virtually everyone, I had managed to escape relatively unscathed.
My loved ones were safe. I still had a job. Now my hair was falling out for no appreciable reason. The second time it happened, a little more than a year later, I was sure—not because of what was in the shower drain, but because of what was obviously no longer on my head. One day, after washing and drying my hair, I looked at my hairline in the mirror and it was thin enough that I could make out the curvature of my scalp beneath it. When I looked at it, the panic became sharp.
Doing work that is fulfilling has become ubiquitous career advice, but no one should depend on a single social institution to define their sense of self. Since the start of the pandemic, Americans have been talking seriously with friends, family, and themselves about the shortcomings of their modern-day work lives.
According to my research, which draws on surveys and interviews with college students, graduates, and career coaches, more than 75 percent of college-educated workers believe that passion is an important factor in career decision making.
And 67 percent of them say they would prioritize meaningful work over job stability, high wages, and work-life balance. Believers in this idea trust that passion will inoculate them against the drudgery of working long hours on tasks that they have little personal connection to.
For many, following their passion is not only a path to a good job; it is the key to a good life. John Henry Ramirez is going to die. The state of Texas is going to kill him. The question that came before the Supreme Court this week is whether Dana Moore, his longtime pastor, will be able to lay hands on him as he dies. Given the grand, even alarmed pronouncements about religious liberty made by the right-wing justices recently, you might think this would be an easy decision. Our fears about what other people think of us are overblown and rarely worth fretting over.
Click here to listen to his new podcast series on all things happiness, How to Build a Happy Life. Social media has opened up our heads so that just about any trespasser can wander in. If you tweet whatever crosses your mind about a celebrity, it could quite possibly reach the phone in her hand as she sits on her couch in her house. We are wired to care about what others think of us. Tony Judt said that there is darkness in this world, and that darkness often triumphed—and liberated me to do the same.
I always find it hard to list the books that have influenced me the most. Moreover, people who set as their job the task of judging what others do, and why, are not always reliable when turning the lens upon themselves. Still, on that changing list there are a few mainstays.
Having, at that time, read very little of Tony, I was left with the impression of an intellectual monk who eschewed the dictates of party or crowd. It was my mistake. It was my loss. This primary source set include photographs, oral history, and documents that provide context for and different perspectives on the events described in the novel. To give feedback, contact us at education dp. You can also suggest a primary source set topic or view resources for National History Day.
Primary Source Sets. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Show full overview. Subjects American Literature. Cite this set. During this time, a long period of drought and high winds affected large parts of the American Midwest, including much of the state of Oklahoma, creating what was called the Dust Bowl. Many of the people in the lower Midwest moved elsewhere, hoping to find fertile land on which to make a living.
Tom Joad is the protagonist, or main character, of The Grapes of Wrath. Tom is the book's hero as well despite the fact that Tom attacks a policeman at one point in the novel and beats a man at another point, becoming a cave-dwelling fugitive as a result. Tom's actions, although illegal according to the letter of the law, are morally just. The most famous image in The Grapes of Wrath is the novel's final one, in which Rose of Sharon Joad, whose baby was recently stillborn, breast-feeds a sickly, starving man on the floor of an old barn.
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