After reading The New York Time's Bestseller, Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks, I realized that in order to become part of this "content" upper class, I need a college education. .
A college degree is very important in American society. A good education leads to a high-quality job, which leads to money and ends in society's views of happiness. The tale of the educated class began in the eighteenth century. This sophisticated group is called the bourgeois bohemians or better knows as the Bobos. Bourgeois is defined as of, relating to, or typical of the middle class. A bohemian is defined as a person with artistic or literary interests who disregard conventional standards of behavior. It used to be easy to differentiate between the bourgeois capitalism and the bohemian culture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, were prim, and went to church every Sunday. The bohemians were free- spirited artists and scholars. Bohemians held the values of the freethinking 1960s while the bourgeois were the hard workers of the 1980s. Brooks explains .
how the early Bohemians formed their rebellious ideas and combined with the bourgeois materialistic definition of success. Brooks goes on throughout the book explaining the sudden changes he witnessed when our society turned into Bobos. He gives specific examples using the small town of Wayne. "A new culture has swept into town and overlaid itself onto the Paisley Shop, the Neighborhood League Shop, and the other traditional Main Line establishments"(55). The two cultures combined in this town and it is clear that the small town of Wayne has changed. "There probably still aren't a lot of artists and intellectuals in Wayne, suddenly there are a lot of people who want to drink coffee like one"(55).
It amazes me how fast our society can change. Two extremely different types of people form together to make up the new upper class of America.
Firstly the section that I feel that is least credible is the part where as soon as The Pigman finds out that Bobo had died he just drops dead just like that. "Bobo died last week" said the attendant (page 133). ... Firstly, I would change the part about how he dies when he finds out that Bobo has died. ...
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A study conducted by Albert Bandura showed that children acted aggressively towards a "Bobo doll" after seeing an adult hitting the doll several times. The behaviors towards the doll were very different than those of children who did not observe any aggression towards Bobo. ...
Bobo- A monkey at the zoo that Mr.Pignati visits every day. ... So they did and he fed peanuts to a monkey named Bobo everyday. ... John and Lorraine called the Pigman and wanted to make it up to him so they asked him to go to the zoo the next day because he had always gotten enjoyment from seeing Bobo, the monkey. When they got to the zoo, the zookeeper said that Bobo had did that week of pneumonia. ...
He was responsible for the bobo doll studies. He made of a young woman, beating up a bobo The woman would punch the clown. ... In the play room, of course, were several observers, a brand new bobo doll, and a few little hammers. The observers saw a lot of little kids beating the daylights out of the bobo doll. ...
In the Bobo doll experiment, the children witnessed the Bobo doll being verbally and/or physically abused by live models and filmed models. 2. ... In the Bobo doll experiment, the children imitated the aggression they witnessed in the video. They aggressively hit the Bobo doll because it was coded and store in their memory. 3. ... In the Bobo doll experiment, the children witnessed the adults being rewarded for their aggression. ...
He wanted them to all go to the zoo so he could visit his baboon friend whose name was Bobo. Bobo played a big part in the Pigman's life. Before John and Lorraine, Bobo was the only person the Pigman had ever really talked to. ... They all met up at the zoo the next morning and visited the cages where Bobo resided. ... A nearby zookeeper uncaringly said that Bobo had died. ...
Tutwiler, Goody Tutwiler, the Circle girls, John and Bobo the bird. ... There is talk about a bird by the Circle Girls (a group who gets hysterical around witches) that Goody would be seen with, and it was said that the bird named Bobo was the gateway between her and the devil. ... On the side of the plunging fish, the arrogant dolphin, was a name inscribed, the odd name of Bobo, which was the name of the small yellow bird that the devil and Goody Tutwiler had used as a go-between in their machinations." (499) This part sent chills up my spine; it made me wonder who was the actual one that ...
Also he's a really lonely person, as we know BoBo is his best friend which means he doesn't have any "human" friend except for the monkey. That's why when Lorraine and John came to him; he thinks that they could the first "human" friends that he would have besides BoBo. ...
