Essays on My Own Life

When one attempts to analyze society through a macro-perspective, it becomes clear that such analysis is a highly challenging endeavor. With all the interlocking parts, different demographics of people, as well as local and national governmental structures and laws, it can be extremely difficult to make any sort of cogent observation. However, sociologists have attempted to broach these difficulties these developing paradigms through which individuals can examine society. The social-conflict paradigm is one such lens that is effective for such analysis. This paradigm argues that society is best understood as a system of class conflict, with inequality between different ...

A. The process of creating the portfolio was a very absorbing and interesting experience for me. I believe, it is an essential stage in the work life of any candidate who is striving to start a career in a new sphere or start working at all. First and foremost, it involves profound analysis and self-analysis, which takes much time and effort, so your research and work are not superficial or instantaneous, thus it could be called a very good job. In the process of creating the portfolio I had a chance to analyze my own skills and abilities – not ...

I first became aware of Bruce Lee as a child. At that time, for some reason, several of my friends and I had become interested in martial arts. Our interests included reading, watching and playing martial arts related comic books, video games, television series and movies. While I had heard of Bruce Lee, during that initial phase of interest, I did not have the chance to actually see him in action. That opportunity came a few months later during a holiday Bruce Lee movie marathon on TV. The first of his film’s that I saw was Enter the ...

My fictitious character is Debbie, a manager at a small but budding Law Firm in Texas, in the Movie Jaws of the law. Debbie is in her early thirties, single but hopes to get married soon. She is the manager of Purle Consult, a two year old firm that has seen great extension ever since its inception two years earlier. She heads a team of thirty lawyers that are highly qualified in their various fields of specialty. She is very industrious and just like any other manager, holds onto the notion that respect is earned and never demanded. She accepts as true that ...

Introduction

In this self-reflection paper, I discuss how I’ve undergone development with respect to sexuality based on cultural, familial and peer influences. This discussion will draw from various scholarly sources on sexuality and human development.

An Overview of my yester to current years

I was brought up in a Catholic home and the subject of sexuality in that setting was not talked about at all. I have a sister who is two years older than me and we were taught not to have sex until when we get married. I can recall that there were no discussions on sex or birth control or relationship matters. Interestingly, my mum had ...

Inquiry 1

Growing up in a traditional Chinese family, I am the single child who is living with my parents. In conventional Chinese culture, parents are supposed to take care of their children to such age until the children get married. In some cases, children are receiving family economic support even having their own babies. On one hand, Chinese children are exposed to less social stress with the help of their parents. On the other hand, the parenting style brews a mindset that children should conform to their parents’ requests unconditionally. My family is from one of these traditional families. My parents are ...

Thailand is newly industrialized country and has experienced rapid economic growth since 1985. In my own life I have seen a number of advances and examples of modernization. Economic growth, modernization, globalization and Internet technology has made my lifestyle different than my parents. In many ways this has been a positive experience for Thailand, the standard of living has improved, education is better and more people have joined the middle class. However, there have also been some negative effects of this process, such as increased materialism, a loss of culture and political instability. Overall, I think modernization is a good thing; as a country ...

Leo Tolstoy, a well-known novelist, wrote a confession regarding the author’s encountered hardship during his mid-life existential crisis of melancholia. In the confession the author is seen pondering on two philosophical questions- “What is the meaning of my life?” and “What will come of my life?” The confession by Leo Tolstoy provides a strong question regarding how to live one’s life despite knowing that death is inevitable. Tolstoy of death as not only the finality of a human life, but also the disappearing of all his or her traces in the face of the earth. What comes of his or her achievements ...

What is most surprising about Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Outliers” is that it overturns what at least for me was the traditional narrative of how success operates. The Amercian Dream story of success has to do with hard word. Others consider it luck. Others see intelligence and natural inborn ability as necessary for success. Gladwell essentially is saying that it is all three of these things. It takes the hard work of putting in the necessary time to become a “master” of a craft, but also luck, such as with hockey players, of when someone is born plays a role. His central ...