Identity development of the African American adolescent
Essay - 7 pages - Psychology
One definition of identity is who you are, what you do, and how you respond to the world around you. One develops this sense of self, an identity, during adolescence. Many contributing factors and variables affect this process to mold how an individual views him or herself. In...
Divided Against The Self :The ego-dystonic individual as illustrated in Stephen Frear's "Prick up Your Ears" An essay On Erotic Identity, Homosexuality and the Cinema
Essay - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Stephen Frear's Prick Up Your Ears (1987) is based upon the life of England's notorious playwright Joe Orton. The film focuses primarily on Joe's 16 year unconventional relationship with Kenneth Halliwell. This relationship shall be used in the analysis that follows as an...
Toni Morrison's Struggle to Find an Identity
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
In Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Morrison rejects the theory that American literature reflects white male views. She argues that “Africanism”, a term she uses “for the denotative and connotative blackness that African peoples have come to signify”...
Comparison of Two Essays on Goddess Identity
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
The book Seeking Mah?dev?: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess, edited by Tracy Pintchman, contains ten essays dealing with the different ways Hindus construe the distinct image of Mah?dev?. I will compare two of those essays here and determine their approach and what they add...
Parfit's View of Personal Identity and Human Behavior
Essay - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
I intend to explicate Derek Parfit's view regarding personal identity as nothing more than non-branching psychological continuity. I will be brief in my discussion to avoid redundancy, as I have more deeply explicated Parfit's infamous view in my previous paper, “Parfit's View of...
True West: Identity
Essay - 2 pages - Film studies
One acquires his own identity through his inner self and his milieu. His interpretation of his own needs and desires plays a big role in whether he decides to abide by society's norms or to completely disregard his ego by complying to the inner beast (or what psychologists refer to one's...
The Transience of Identity and the Unpredictability of Surveillance in City of Glass
Essay - 8 pages - Literature
Through the use of the character Daniel Quinn, author Paul Auster is arguing against the idea that identity is static and also against the idea that surveillance is perfect. This paper explores the complex life of Quinn by taking a good look at every character that he tries to become. It...
Individual identity and global information. The global village (Mac Luhan)
Essay - 7 pages - Journalism
How is individual identity constructed in the environment of global information and media flows? How valid is Marshall Mac Luhan's global village concept in this environment? Nowadays, each of us is aware from the pattern of our everyday lives that there have been lots of changes linked...
Parfit's View of Personal Identity
Essay - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
I intend to explicate Derek Parfit's view regarding personal identity as non-branching psychological continuity as well as some of its ethical and emotional implications. In addition, I will present Parfit's split-brain transplant thought experiment as evidence for his view that...
Dialect as a Form of Identity
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Linguistics & languages
Every time a person opens his or her mouth to speak that person is speaking not only a language but a dialect of that language as well. It is a common misconception that only certain people whose pronunciations vary from what is considered Standard American English, speak a dialect. In fact,...
The European identity issue: what most determines the European "we feeling"?
Essay - 11 pages - European union
“You don't fall in love with a common market” (EU Commission President Jacques Delors in The European, 3 November 1994). Here emerges one of today's most challenging issues for the European Union: the prevalence of market integration has created a political vacuum and so-called...
The party of European socialists and the identity of European social democracy
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
The question wether there is currently something that can be called the crisis of social-democracy is arguable: after all, social-democractic and socialist parties are still the counterpart of Conservatives and Christian-democrats, sharing alternaltively government responsibilities at national...
Religion and early American identity
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Trying to determine what the motives of the migrants to the new world were is a difficult quest because motivations were diverse depending on the colonies. The migrants could be motivated by economical considerations. They thought they could have a better life, to be richer in North America by...
Metaphysics- Is water necessarily identical to H2O?: An argument
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
Kripke holds that the declaration “water is identical to H2O” is necessarily true. According to Kripke, this true statement is only knowable through experience (a posteriori), and cannot be determined by definitions of words only. Even though it is only a posteriori, Kripke claims that...
European cultural identities: The agents of European consciousness and how successful have they been in engendering such consciousness
Thesis - 4 pages - European union
‘Being in Europe' and ‘Being a European' are two different things. It is fair to say that over the years a common space has been created in the economic, legal, and to a certain extent in political spheres. However, when we come to other realities (language, culture, religion, memories,...
Understanding the Impact of Group Dynamics on Violent Conflict: A Case Study of the Rwandan War and Genocide, War, and Violent Conflict
Case study - 4 pages - Modern history
The research paper will specifically explore the complicated relationships between groups and social identity, in a setting of exogenous violent conflict with the Rwandan war and genocide of 1994 as an example. A literature review and critical analysis are carried out on how the old,...
Data Security and the Benefits for Users and Companies
Dissertation - 7 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
In today's interconnected digital world, data becomes the life-sustaining fluid of every part of existence, whether we are talking about individual communications or global trade. (Lopez, 2023) illustrates that, ultimately, the role of the SOC becomes a validation of the importance of...
Testing a Hypothesis - Consequences of a Rise of Populism
Practical guide - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
To rigorously investigate whether party systems experiencing a rise of populism exhibit a shift towards polarization along cultural and identity lines rather than traditional economic divisions, a comprehensive research program utilizing a multi-method approach would be most appropriate....
Runaway, Trespasses, Extract - Alice Munro (2004)
Text commentary - 3 pages - Literature
'Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up' wrote the American polemist Camille Paglia. Everything is also a question of identity in Alice Munro's short story collection Runaway, published in...
A Lesson before dying - Ernest J. Gaines (1993) - Reader's response essay
Text commentary - 4 pages - Literature
'A Lesson Before Dying' is a touching novel created by Ernest J. Gaines, a remarkable African-American writer whose works illustrate the lives of the rural Southerners in the era of segregation. This novel is set in a small Louisiana town in the late 1940s where the topics of racism,...
Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills in the US
Presentation - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Today, I am going to talk about the surge of anti-LGBTQ laws in the US. To do so I will start by taking the example of the expansion of the Don't Say Gay bill in Florida, on April 19, 2023. The original Don't Say Gay law, adopted in 2022, banned lessons relating to sexual orientation and...
Native American identities and adaptations
Thesis - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Jamake Highwater was an impostor. According to an anonymous essay in Dancing Bear, a blog and online collection of essays having to do with Native American issues, Highwater fabricated his Native American heritage, his family history, his credentials, and even his age. Highwater clearly...
Comparative Arts Design
Essay - 2 pages - Arts and art history
In this essay, we discuss contemporary art and how it has contributed in discussing about identity and diversity in the society. In the world of art, Identity is used a lot in describing the life of the moment the piece of work was made from the present time. Identity in art...
Introduction to British Civilization
Course material - 9 pages - Modern history
In this lecture, we'll be looking at some of the key dates in the history of the UK and looking at recent events that have illustrated the fragility of British nationhood and identity and the very real possibility of the UK as we know it today no longer existing in its present state.
To What Extent Does the Expression of Emotions Influence Relationships?
Dissertation - 3 pages - Psychology
Emotions play an important role in our daily lives, they are affecting everything from our behavior to our decisions, and contribute to the construction of our own- identity. So they represent a crucial part of the communication between humans and relationships are based on communication,...
Boyhood - Richard Linklater (2014) - An Eriksonian Analysis
Artwork commentary - 5 pages - Film studies
Personality development is a complex and multifaceted process that occurs across the lifespan and is influenced by a myriad of biological, social, and psychological factors. Throughout history, an enormous number of hypothetical models have been brought up to explain the causes and the steps of...
Observation of various life stages
Essay - 2 pages - Psychology
The field of growth and progressacrossthe humanlifethat include physical, cognitive, intellectual, social, perceptual, personality and emotional growth is developmental psychology.(In Fiske.2010).This is important in order to understand how humans learn, mature and adapt. Life has various stages...
Critically evaluating the ASPIRE model of social work - published: 17/11/2022
Course material - 10 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Social work traditionally utilizes a series of strategic steps or procedures to aid in problem resolution. In many cases, the steps include the collection of critical information concerning subjects of interest (assessment), analysis to draw information from collected information (diagnosis),...
Cane by Jean Toomer
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
Double consciousness is defined as a concept that describes an individual as having an identity divided into several parts. This makes it difficult for an individual to have a sole unified identity. As such, a person with double consciousness may be considered to have two thoughts,...
The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dream - Nasdijj, Timothy Patrick Barru (2020)
Book review - 6 pages - Literature
The Blood Runs like a River Through My Dreams (2000) is the memoir of a man, Nasdiij (the author) who writes about his life and feelings. Being of mixed Caucasian and Navajo decent, Nasdijj feels like he does not belong to any of those groups. Nasdijj has a hard life, his dad beat him, his mom...
