The Metaphysical Realm Of Garbage - 2077 Words

The Metaphysical Realm of Garbage My volunteer experience at Howling Timbers included cleaning and preparing meals for the animals using expired produce donated from local grocery stores. My work started with sorting the new shipments of goods into categories and rotating them with the old, molding fruits and vegetables that would get used in the evening. During meal preparation, I cut off the fuzzy, moldy, slimy, and decomposing parts of the fruit and vegetables and put the salvageable portions into food bins for the horses, pigs, donkeys and sugar gliders, the scraps into a compost pile. I asked Brenda if larger corporations gave Howling Timbers their expired produce and learned that the food donations at Howling Timbers come from local grocery stores. Brenda explains to the managers at these larger grocers that the food they receive is only for animal consumption. Still, they deny her the food and dispose of their expired goods in the dumpster— out of sight, out of mind. Sl avoj Zizek says in â€Å"Examined Life† that â€Å"Part of our daily perception of reality is that this [shit/garbage] disappears from our world. When you go to the toilet, shit disappears. You flush it. Of course, rationally you know it s there in canalization and so on, but at a certain level of your most elementary experience, it disappears from your world† (Zizek, 2008). In a metaphorical sense, thoughts are like garbage. Perhaps, these large corporations know that the products they dispose of will go toShow MoreRelatedMental Health Issues Impacted By Psychological Stress2105 Words   |  9 Pagesprinciples. To exemplify that groups of people coming from different cultures have unique perspectives (in this case health perspectives) and thus responses and behavior patterns, I refer to the documentary â€Å"Drugs and Prayers: Indian Psychiatry in the Realm of Saints†. The documentary displayed a scene of a woman on the floor in distress, it would seem as if t here was a force inside her that caused her to yell and contort her body in odd ways. It becomes clear the clients and professionals at the healthRead MoreWhat Does Organizational Change Mean?17842 Words   |  72 Pagesfollowing interactions between structure and agency. Analogous attempts to address this issue in management accounting studies employing institutional approaches have investigated relationships between the socially constructed institutional realm (structure) and the realm of action (agency), e.g. Burns and Scapens, 2000. Change has been seen as a process with no predetermined outcomes (Brunsonn, 1985; Hopwood, 1987; Laughlin, 1991) or as a process with no outcomes at all (Burns, 2000). However, this leavesRead MoreRastafarian79520 Words   |  319 Pagesvisits of world leaders to the Vatican as evidence for their position.20 At the highest level of generality, Babylon is the forces of evil arrayed against God and the righteous (Selassie, Rastas, and the poor). The forces of evil, however, are not metaphysical entities, but human attitudes and activities that are out of touch with the divine, natural order. Any human activity that is inimical to harmonious human relationships is a reï ¬â€šection of Babylonian values. This includes nuclear proliferationRead MoreContemporary Issues in Management Accounting211377 Words   |  846 Pageswell as from outside the organization and reshape the nature of management accounting. In the recent past, management accounting has not only seen changes within existing domains of the Weld but has also witnessed extensions outside its established realms of activity. Wider systemic transformations including changes in political regimes, novel conceptions of management controls, the impact of globalizing forces on commercial aVairs, shifts in notions of eVective knowledge management, governance, and