Re: If You Go I 39;ll Stay
Rene Thivierge
The purpose of this paper is to provide a broader typology and inventory of recreational facilities and activities in shopping malls. The paper then investigates the relation between the proposed entertainment types and shopper behavior both directly and indirectly by considering the mediation of shopper emotional states.
The results indicate that permanent entertainment predicts shopper satisfaction directly and indirectly when considering the emotional state of pleasure as a mediator. Moreover, findings indicate that permanent entertainment indirectly influences the desire to stay at the mall through pleasure and arousal. In addition, pleasure mediates the relation of temporary and special event entertainment with satisfaction and the desire to stay at the mall.
This study adds to a better understanding of the role of entertainment types in shopping malls. The study also reveals how each type of entertainment can enhance different emotions and behaviors. Practical suggestions to this end are offered.
We ended up having a mostly lovely weekend playing board games, watching DVDs, reading through paper comic books and occasionally standing out in the street in the rain to maintain our Duolingo streaks.
You know what else is useful? Easy access to hundreds of thousands of movies and TV shows at the push of a button so we can find something for the whole family in minutes. Being able to stay in contact with my communities and friends and read the newspaper in bed without having to wear shoes before breakfast is also nice.
I also use the internet to keep in touch with my games, learn a language, communicate with friends, look up map directions for the bike ride the next day, know the temperature, and generally interact with the sum of all human knowledge and humour.
Recently, I found myself on an accidental digital detox. My parents\\u2019 place has terrible internet at the best of times because it\\u2019s a semi-underground, apocalypse prepper house with reinforced walls, and mesh wifi can only do so much.
But a storm had knocked out the modem a few days before we came to visit, and there\\u2019s no mobile reception indoors unless you contort yourself in a weird position at a particular window, and that window belongs to the spiders now.
Undeterred, I viewed this as an opportunity for transformation. For years, I\\u2019ve been reading articles where people in flowy linen clothing bang on about , about how constant connection to the internet is frying my brain and how social media is ruining everything for everyone.
But, all weekend, something was missing. I\\u2019ve come to a conclusion: I like the internet. I don\\u2019t need to detox from the internet. The internet is filled with useful information and not having it made everything take longer and be more difficult than it needed to be.
Yes, I\\u2019m on screens and devices the vast majority of my waking hours, and spend an ungodly amount of time on my phone, even for a tech reviewer. But I\\u2019m not addicted, I don\\u2019t need to detox; the internet just happens to be great.
I also use the internet to keep in touch with my games, learn a language,, look up map directions for the bike ride the next day, know the temperature, and generally interact with the sum of all human knowledge and humour.
My passion for teaching led me to apply for the Teach For Nigeria fellowship, a two-year fellowship program where young promising leaders are recruited to teach in low-income communities with the aim of fighting educational equity in Nigeria, and I got in!
Many also lived in a community where there was no role model for them to look up to and where no one made them hopeful that with education, tomorrow could be better, regardless of their experience or background.
I chose to stay to ignite hope in their hearts and show them that their background should not be a major determinant of their future; instead, they should embrace education and be empowered to soar as high as eagles.
In that classroom, I believed that I could make a change in their hearts and give them my best so they could become the best versions of themselves. Hope and love were the major words in my heart, and I wanted to live it out, so I stayed.
The burden of the educational inequality in Nigeria led me to start Talent Mine Academy, a nonprofit where kids in low-income communities are provided with fully funded access to quality education and enrichment programs so that they are raised to be leaders and responsible citizens of their communities. So far, I have worked with 100 kids, boys and girls, in the Ota community of Nigeria, including every one of the kids I met that day on the street.
Now, with my Harvard degree in hand (and hanging on the wall of my apartment), I am more equipped with the right skills, knowledge, and expertise, and I am working to develop a model of schooling and learning for kids in low-income communities so that they can access quality education at little or no cost to them.
After graduation, I never considered moving. Just as I chose to stay during my Teach For Nigeria days, despite the challenges, I chose to stay after I graduated from Harvard. It is important for me to do this work in Nigeria because, at this point, we need good governance, leadership, and accountability more than ever. We need schools and organizations in the education space and beyond to invest in raising the kids who are the promising leaders to make a change in the country and continent at large.
Lyinghere on the beach, it starts raining. Just as I returned to 15th Streetfor an afternoon by myself. The clouds are darker. The crowded beach packs up.And although I look all around me and see gloomy weather and heavy clouds, Idecide to stay and wait it out.
ButI chose to stay. I chose to find the people that did support me, made me laugh,and grew me greatly, even after we lost touch. I worked hard and cherished the teachers, coaches, and friends whopushed me to be even better. I chose tostick it out to get to the next phase of college and dancing on a team andgreat academia. I persevered.
While recent efforts in religious studies have focused on why many Americans seem to be leaving religion entirely, much less is understood about why many others choose to remain committed to their faith--especially when they hold many of the same social values, doubts, or divergent opinions that others cite for leaving. Within a Latter-day Saint context especially, very little research has been done to explore the experiences of those navigating the complexities of competing ethical affordances while remaining committed to their faith. Through ethnographic research in both Salt Lake County and New York City, I document the patterns and processes by which Latter-day Saints choose to stay committed to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints despite holding conflicting ideals. Using the "Three Ethics" framework (Autonomy, Community, and Divinity) to understand the patterns of ethical reasoning these Latter-day Saints employ, this research explores the ways in which the ethics of Community and Divinity become paramount, even as Divinity becomes less tied to the institutional Church and its truth claims, and more tied to a Divinity-informed ethic of Community.
Jardine, Venice, ""I'll Stay Where You Want Me To Stay": How Latter-Day Saints Navigate Conflicting Social Values While Remaining Committed to Their Faith" (2024). Theses and Dissertations. 10346.
My life is very simple, maybe to some it may look too simple, even boring. The music I listen to stays the same for months, the clothes I wear stay the same as long as they are clean, the movies I watch seem as if they will be on constant rotation until I die. The poem I write will come out the same, even if I try to write it a hundred times. The places I visit are the same as they always were, but this place is so magical that it often makes me feel like a tourist visiting it for the first time.
The bus that takes me from Fush Kosova to Prishtina gives me this feeling. The whole journey is an experience in itself, except that in the mornings and evenings you feel suffocated because the bus is jam-packed with travelers like sardines in a can and it is rare to find a free seat.
I find the library not particularly beautiful and very melancholic, but despite this, it is the most beautiful place in the world to me. I like to joke that being deprived of all these privileges will put me on the path being fully prepared for a zombie apocalypse.
Every night I spend here I hold close to my heart, where through the most beautiful Albanian words, I learn more about the people around me. Then, I feel sad about how quickly I assumed that I was alone in going through problems that everyone seems to go through.
I have the impression that even the sky above is more beautiful and more blue, because it ignites your fantasies and arouses your curiosity. It makes you look beyond the places of infinite beauty and happiness that it stretches over, which makes you believe in the infinite blessings that God brings us from above.
And until I understand what lies in those unknown parts of the sky, I want with all my heart to learn about the infinite potential in the hearts of the people around me. And I think that will take time.
The book of Tobit does at least acknowledge the feelings, contributions, and roles of women in the families of which they constitute so important a part and even promotes a positive view of marriage as a partnership that is not to make the spouse the vehicle for sexual gratification or to become grievous for the woman.1
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