Essays on Sense

Sense of self refers to individual’s personality and identity. Majority of people possess vital ways of looking at themselves as well as creatively thinking. The individual, therefore, must consider his or her sense of self before looking into a variety of senses. The roles that we find fundamental to ourselves add to a sense of self. These roles may attribute to how individuals behave and associate with others. We can also combine occupation, affiliation, social relationships and spiritual with sense of self to bring up a clear picture of the meaning of sense of self. In simpler terms, ...

LITERATURE REVIEW

Notably Rovai (2002) argues that student sense of community refers to the feeling of belonging among people who are brought together by common goals and interests. The research undertaken by the various authors as expostulated in this paper takes a bias in assessing the role played by sense of community in the student fraternity and its overall effect on education and academic achievement. Drovin & Vartanian (2010) challenge the traditional view that direct face to face educational interaction is limited in terms of building a community of relations. Direct face to face educational set up is seen to be more ...

Identity, Sense of Belonging and Sense of Place

Introduction The concept of place has primarily geographic connotations, as people tend to associate place with a specific location on the surface of the Earth, detectable on a map. Nevertheless, when thinking of place there are also symbolical values associated with this concept, entrenched in one’s memory, nostalgic recollections of past events or landmarks. These values and memories are reflected, through emotions and feelings about a place, and this creates the sense of place. The sense of place defines who we are and contributes to understanding our individualities. As we have different perceptions regarding our sense of place, ...

Individuals’ sense of “Personal Responsibility

Individuals’ sense of “Personal Responsibility

Introduction

Personal responsibility implies different things to different people. In broad-spectrum, individual sense of personal responsibility would be viewed as doing what one is meant to do as well as fulfilling their obligations that are ought to be attained. As a result, it brings about positive personal transformations into an individual’s work life to a more positive, energetic, and dynamic organizational cultures. Evidently, it would be deduced from the definition that individual sense of personal accountability does not equate to taking care personal interests, but also the responsibilities of others including the organization or ...

Gottlob Frege was a German philosopher born in Wismar, Pomerania. He made a significant contribution in logic and philosophy that was later noticed by other philosophers like Bertrand among others. The basic discussion of the meaning of the Frege’s aspects is the distinction between the reference and the sense of a certain expression (Carl, 1995, p. 56). Frege came up with distinctions as ways to solve puzzles concerning empty names and statements. For instance, ‘the morning star is the morning star’ can be said to be uninformative and compared to ‘the morning star is the evening star,’ which ...

Introduction

Narratives and storytelling have been espoused with the development of our sense of self and personal identity. Illness on the other hand has been shown to potentially impact on the development of the self and identity. Medical sociologists create a distinction between disease and illness describing disease in terms of biology that is the underlying pathology and illness as the social response to diseases especially in light of the fact that we exist within a social context. Illnesses therefore have no biological basis and are termed social constructs of diseases. In essence therefore, the way a ...

Introduction

This research implies that there exists an interrelation of oil in both the concepts of maps and sense of place. The research utilizes the case wherein maps are used as marketing tools for oil industry that greatly affects both the concept of maps and our ‘sense of place’. During the latter years of 1920s, oil companies utilized road maps as their foremost marketing strategy and offer maps freely to customers. They employed cartography widely as a tool for advertisement. An approximated yearly production of roadmaps of around seventy million was reported by a Rand McNally executive in 1934. Moreover, ...

A Sense of Well-being: An Influence to My Personal Ethics

This essay summarizes my personal sense of well-being that dictates my behavior when faced by ethical dilemmas. This growing sense of well-being in me was firmed up by my reflection of Metzger’s (2011) article entitled The Keys to Integrity and a Sense of Well-being for Accounting Professionals. My insights from the article can be condensed in three key senses, namely, sense of wholeness, sense of purpose, and sense of prudence.

Sense of Wholeness

A person’s integrity is rooted in his sense of wholeness which Metzger (2011) describes as ...

Social work is often misinterpreted in mainstream society as a job that one can simply walk into, knowing the ins and outs. Social workers have a job to better communities and families, and to do so appears to be a matter of common sense. Many are surprised to find out an individual may need a University level degree in order to get a job as a social worker. Stranger still, many are surprised you need a degree at all. While it is true that much of what social workers do does involve common sense, they still have laws to ...

Is Social Work Just Common Sense?Name:Institutional Affiliation:

Often the unsung heroes of society, social workers are not often considered to be the top of professionalism. From the outside, it looks like a job that anybody off the streets can apply. Social work revolves around helping people; with common sense as your guide surely you will be able to complete all of your tasks correctly! This is an incorrect assumption, however. It takes many people by surprise to find out that social workers may need a BA or even and MA in order to compete for a job in social work. In fact, many did not know ...

I was raised in the Jewish faith so my sense of self for many years was a tiny idea lost in a very crowded room. On the other hand I knew my sense of self existed with the shared belief and shared faith of millions of others Jews. Until this year when suddenly I realized that my sense of self has nothing to do with the Jewish religion. I had a ‘light bulb’ moment this year during a Rosh Ha Shana service in which I was overwhelmed with anger at the sexism, homophobia, elitism, and irrationality I found inherent ...

Sensory Perception

The Nervous system plays an important role in many mammals including man. The nervous system is responsible for the coordination of different stimuli in the body. Environmental changes can be felt in the body due to the nervous system present. The sense of touch, vision, audition and taste can be understood solely due to the nervous system. A minute change or deficiency in these senses could lead to fatality. A failure in perception of any of the senses makes an individual dependent. Sensory perception is essential for all living organisms and forms the basis for homeostasis. A series of ...

The Asian Horror films that we have viewed for the previous ten weeks were impressive to analyze and view. Last term, I had the experience of attending the lecture of a Kurosawa Kiyoshi film; this term is much different. In contrast to the last term, this term included diverse horror films from different countries in Asia, and last term was Japanese films only. Each film during this term has their own characteristic including directing style, unique way of thrilling the audience, and the way in which the message and theme of each film is delivered. Comparing the genres of ...

The exploration of the idea about the importance of wellbeing brings psychologists to conclude that it is as relevant as treating mental health conditions. In order to fully understand the connection of the sense of wellbeing at university, wellbeing should be first defined. Science defines wellbeing as an experience of good feeling wherein people should have to have a strong sense of individual vitality and clear state of mind. It is important that people have a sense of relatedness to others so that apart from social experience, internally focused elements and personal thoughts, people could achieve also achieve the ...

Human beings have always been social creatures. Often, religious organizations represent the fundamental level at which a society operates and instills the values of that society in its members. As Girard noted, religious ritual and sacrifice has played an important role in the prevention of violence in all human societies, both prehistoric and contemporary (45). In the discussion of human culture throughout history, there has always been a marked difference between the social norms that highly religious, rural societies adopt and those of more secular, urban societies. While urban societies are noted for their ability to produce technological progress ...

The nature of animals and their rights have been a contentious topic for many philosophers. Animal nature has been a complex topic for researchers and scientists and provides a great opportunity for philosophers to come up with theories or concepts that help us understand animals better. It is based on the idea of animals being treated in the same manner as humans such on the basis of being conscious. However, most of the theories agree that animals should no longer be used for clothing, entertainment, research subjects, food, or property. Some of the greatest contributors in this topic include ...

Generally, it is assumed that mothers are very loving and they bond with their small children since the time of birth. At times, it can be assumed that this bond is natural since it starts right from pregnancy when the mother starts touching the child while still in the womb. After all, the child grows inside the mother and this is an automatic way to bonding (Palmer 1). However, I have come to realize that there is a kind of bonding that exists between a mother and her daughter (Johnson 64). This phenomenon is quite interesting and there is ...

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Introduction 3 Semiotics 3 Exegesis 4 Structural Semiotics 5 Differences and similarities between semiotic and exegetical preaching 7 Importance of Semiotics in the Bible 9 Importance of exegesis in Bible 10 Proper use of semiotic in effective preaching 11 Conclusion 13 The art of preaching using semiotics Introduction In the religious context, preaching is the duty of every person who has belief in God and scriptures. Some people accept this duty and leave their homes to preach in the way of God; those people are called preachers. It is quite difficult to change anyone thought and put your own ...

Memorandum

This memorandum will examine a scholarly article that discusses organizational change and managerial sense-making. The article critique will be presented in this memo by focusing on the thesis, methods, evidence of thesis support, contribution to literature, recommendation and implication.

Thesis

The strategic planners design change management programs, while the middle managers implement these initiatives by managing resistance and emotions of subordinates to ensure organizational transformation. The article, Organizational Change and Managerial Sense-making focuses on the critical aspect that managers must focus on ‘sense-giving’ to reduce skepticism and uncertainty among subordinates regarding the intent and dedication of their bosses about change ...

This paper is an analysis of the papers published by renowned authors discussing their approach and stance towards logic and rationality. This paper aims to compare the work of 4 renowned authors to come to a comprehensive understanding of the philosophy of logic and rationality and how it can be interpreted differently in different situations as according to the context and the play of words and other linguistic tools. The four renowned authors whose work will be up for comparison and evaluation in this research paper include the likes of Willard Van Orman Quine and his paper titled “Two ...

In his essay “The Evolution of the Language of Cinema", Andre Bazin distinguishes between "those directors who put their faith in the image and those who put their faith in reality" (Bazin 43). Here, he essentially refers to the difference that often occurs between the presentational and the representational in film – as film continues to skew towards the realistic, these works tend to emphasize verisimilitude over abstraction. Films today often feel the need to create a sense of immersion within their worlds, wherein an audience member could reasonably believe that they are watching real life unfold before their eyes. ...

I. Part II

i. Introduction Art Buchwald story is a master piece in terms of bringing out how developmental theories play out in real life. Art Buchwald has a life that is deficient of love. He has grown without the parental love that many children enjoy. He does not have a sense of what parental love really looks like. Buchwald argues that this experience during his childhood left a scar in his brain that was difficult to heal (Townsend, 2011, p.27).This paper intends to use Art Buchwald’s story to identify the different developmental phases that are articulated ...

History 1745, US History to 1865

Summer Session, 2015

Introduction

Thomas Paine wrote “Common Sense” in the first month of 1776, and by the end of the year, it had sold 150,000 copies throughout America, constituting itself as the country’s first “best seller”. In this pamphlet, he put forth all the arguments that had been built up by the time, regarding the Colonies’ right to independence, and the evils of absolutist monarchy. The ideas of Natural Laws, and the roles and limitations of the Government, which are expressed in this document, were in wide circulation in the educated circles at the time, and even ...

Motivation Case Overview

For the context of this motivation case analysis, I have chosen to analyze myself in terms of my level of motivation and ways in which I can improve it, consequently improving the motivation and academic outcomes of my students. After analyzing my case through the lens of social cognitive theory and self-determination theory (SDT), I have determined that I have a lack of self-efficacy for completing tasks and engaging with students who require help. I also have poor stress management, as the pressures of completing classroom tasks and day-to-day education administrative work diminishes my motivation to teach and engage. ...

The five sense organs of human beings: sight, taste, touch, smell and hearing are credited to Aristotle. Sight is considered to be the most developed sense, followed by hearing. More recently, the experts have also added another sense called proprioception, or an awareness of the body in space (Bjorklund 2009). Animals have the sensory receptors to sense their surroundings, and some animals can also sense the electric and magnetic field around them. All the 5 basic senses are the main components of perception. For example, music is associated with hearing, perfume with smell, food with taste, and movies are ...

If one has to give up one of the five senses, one chooses to give up the sense of touch. One believes that among the five senses, the sense of touch is the least important. The reason for this is that the loss of the sense of touch does not present a severe threat to one’s life. One thinks that life can still go on without much difference unlike if one loses the sense of sight, hearing or taste. One finds the sense of sight very important because there are a lot of activities which one cannot do ...

Post-feminism is a very complicated term in the sense that it encompasses contradictory and pluralistic discourse within our modern society. Both authors Portwood-Stacer and Arthurs focus on the relationship between feminism and consuming behaviors that are depicted through television. Portwood-Stacer argues reality makeover television both reflects and perpetuates the ideology that individualist consumption is an important means of feminine empowerment. (Portwood-Stacer 196) Both authors also agree on the fact that the physical appearances are often emphasized as an empowering device for women in the television shows and for audience viewing the show. According to The Oxford English Dictionary, Post ...

Utilitarianism against Common Sense

In our study of Utilitarianism, we concluded that basic intrinsic common sense cannot be trusted. This statement is quite bold and challenging, yet true. The reality of the statement’s accuracy is evident and will be discussed in the following essay. For the students of philosophy, the validity of this statement is the reason a Utilitarian society is impossible to implement. Needless to say, from the point of view of the Utilitarian Theory, it makes sense that basic intrinsic common sense cannot be trusted considering the natural tendency for the individual to choose the actions likely to bring the ...

Introduction

The Taming of the Shrew is one of the Shakespearean plays that are not traditionally taught in English courses. However, its lively plot and interesting characters make for a remarkable introduction to the Bard. This is because the story is mostly about various “courting” couples, which can be a lively topic as it elicits the timeless battle between the sexes. However, there are other themes and meanings which are explored in the play. The induction scene is an important part of this play because it shows how important different senses, particularly sight, are to humans. The induction scene begins ...

Introduction:

Mary Conde’s book ‘I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem’ uses the Salem Witchcraft Trials as a background for the political implications of a post slavery scenario where the political implications are great. There are also some ironies which can be observed since the Puritans who ended up as abolitionists entertained the worst excesses as regards cleansing and purifying the nation of witches and Conde plays on that notion with subtle irony. The sense of catastrophe is also imminently felt especially in the analogous dynamics of the novel. Tituba is imbued with fantastic and wild notions of witchcraft which ...

Abstract

Although transportation and communication has allowed us to develop global communities outside our physical neighborhoods the physical neighborhood where we reside still impact upon our lives. “Social Geographies” addresses the importance of community to people and how it connects to the geographic location where they live. It looks into how our neighborhoods and communities help develop an individual’s sense of self.

Community and Neighborhoods

Reflection “Community is a contested concept, frequently invoked in a variety of ways by different interest groups.” . It is not necessarily tied to the physical location where an individual resides. Communities are frequently made up of like-minded ...

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Man That Was Used Up” is an astounding dramatic farce involving the search for truth of an unnamed narrator to discern the true secret of a distinguished war hero, General John A.B.C. Smith. Along the way, Poe illustrates a Civil War-era society that brims with a very specific type of cultural revisionism and American exceptionalism that belies the true ugliness of the nation’s atrocities underneath. Looking at this story in the context of the Jacksonian era, in which Indian removal was a very prevalent cultural practice and the upper class lionized ...

Application of Erikson’s Post-Freudian Theory

Application of Erikson’s Post-Freudian Theory

Introduction

Erik Erikson’s’ views make significant contributions to the field of psychology; this is particularly in the understanding of personality development and related factors. An understanding of his own study of personal development creates an understanding of development of his psychology (Fleming, 2004). Most of Erikson’s psychology work became evident in the post-Freudian era. It was between the 1930s and 1950s; being one of Freud’s students, most of his work exhibit the influence of Freudian views and theories; this was mainly in the field of personality development. However, dissimilar from Freud’ ...

Absurdism as a worldview theory is a part of the philosophy of existentialism; and as the fundamental philosophical concept it was firstly developed in the work of Albert Camus “The Myth of Sisyphus”. As a system of philosophical views, it claims the lack of meaning of human life (the absurdity of life existence). According to the absurdism, people have been trying to find the meaning of existence throughout their history. Traditionally, these attempts have ended in one of two ways: man has come to the conclusion that all life is senseless or he has started to understand that everything ...

Final Responsion

Having taken on this new position as a principal for a particularly troubled school, there are quite a few goals I would like to achieve within my first few months. First and foremost, I need to be able to establish myself as a leader in order to gain the trust of my teaching staff, who are still getting used to me and who are unsure what to think of me. I must be able to improve their perception of me to have a better effect on them than they might have otherwise. Low morale is another huge problem that ...

The relationship between the Madonna and the Christ child has been a subject of myriad works by a number of important artists, particularly in the decadent Italian Renaissance with its emphasis on the exploration of the divine. Of particular import and beauty is Filippino Lippi’s rendition of the Madonna and Child, in which the Madonna holds her child on her lap as he plays with a Bible. This subgenre of Renaissance painting inspires numerous questions and approaches to a variety of subjects, from man’s relationship to nature and God to a mother’s loving relationship with her ...

In Allan Bloom’s book The Closing of the American Mind, he essentially argues that the modern liberal idea of cultural and societal pluralism is leading to an inability to perform critical thinking. Essentially, instead of saying one of two differing choices is better, one would simply ‘see the merits’ in both – this leads to us not forming opinions of our own, but instead offering a milquetoast acceptance of everything that dilutes our experience. While these concerns are valid, these arguments do not necessarily correlate to an objective assessment of how critical thinking works, and instead reads as a ...

Gordon Allport is a personality trait theorist who coined the term “proprium” which he describes as the core to personality which represents the positive, creative, growth-seeking, and forward-moving quality of human nature. According to Allport, the proprium develops in stages from early infancy to the adult years. The first stage of the proprium is the sense of bodily self. The sense of bodily self is characterized by “a sense of one’s own body, including bodily sensations, attests to one’s existence and therefore remains a lifelong anchor for self-awareness”. This is the infancy stage. The sense of self-identity ...

Book VII - On Shadows and Realities in Education

SOCRATES - GLAUCON AND now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: --Behold! human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads. Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a ...

Comparing Z. Freud’s Conceptions and E. Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development <Student’s Name> <University>

Psychosocial development theory is the theory of psychosocial reeks of personality, created by Eric Erickson, in which he describes the eight stages of personality development and focuses on the development of the individual I am. The issue of personality psychosocial development is not only of scientific interest. Psychoanalysis seeks and finds the roots of the problems in the various stages of childhood and adolescence. It turns out that not only all of us from childhood, but our problems come from ...

When people, especially politicians, talk about the future, they often refer to the present as working towards a more perfected version of future. Their agendas are directly associated with this more perfected reality of the future. The futurist sociologist Jean Baudrillard however sees this as a fallacy. He believes the intrinsic state of human nature, the completion and perfection of knowledge as one that will always lead to us being incomplete and without our most basic need as the search for truth and understanding as unfulfilled. This essay explores those ramifications 50-100 years in the future. Baudrillard believed that ...

Introduction

Caribbean countries are those countries that underwent centuries of exploitation through slavery and indentureship. The whole Caribbean region entails; State members of CARICOM, Spanish-speaking Cuba and the Dominica Republican, The semiautonomous states of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, The British Overseas territories, The US Territories, The US Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and territory of the US Virgin Islands.( Wharton, F.1997).

The territories of the Republic of France

The region has several cultural differences due to the existence of different ethnic groups for example, English, Dutch and French. (Wharton, F. 1997). Colonization of the region not only led to psychological, environmental, social and economic damage but also ...

Grace Kelly’s Fashion Style and Influence on Contemporary Fashion

Introduction Grace Kelly was an actress known for her extensive work in film and stage during the 1950s. Kelly starred in many films and portrayed iconic characters including Lisa Carol Fremont in “Rear Window”, Frances Stevens in “To Catch a Thief”, and Princess Alexandra in “The Swan”. She was born on November 12, 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Although Kelly was born to a family of athletes, she showed interest in acting at a young age and joined several plays and presentation in school and the community, and signed up for small modeling projects. Later on, Kelly attended the American ...

Common sense was an influential pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1776. He was very careful in the way he wrote his works. This was necessitated by the fact that he always wanted his readers to understand the occurrences of the time better by informing them clearly. At one time, he claimed “I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.” Thomas Paine’s common sense argument is depicted by his reflections of the government and the religion. He distinguished the society and the government by stating that the government is an institution whose main obligation ...

The national ethos of Americans everywhere is no better represented than by the ever-present, American Dream that has captivated a worldwide imagination since its inception along with the beginning of the Unites States’ existence as a country. For many years, the American Dream has described a world of opportunity in which people of varying cultures and backgrounds enjoy equality in their pursuit of richer, fuller lives. It was this dream that brought the first immigrants to America in the first place, and it was again this dream that gave them the necessary impetus to stay and to improve the ...

Thomas Paine, a political activist, theorist, and a philosopher in his pamphlet "common sense" inspired people to protest and fight for independence from the Great Britain. Common sense explained why they needed independence and the advantages independence would bring to the people of America. It also presented them with an argument for freedom just in the right time when independence was a vital issue. It communicated in a manner that ordinary people understood, shunning philosophical references used by other writers, and referring to the Bible to speak to the people. Thus, it was seen as the most incendiary and ...

Common Themes:

The two readings provide a broad converse over which a lot of pertinent issues could be discussed. Of interest is that there are themes that are common to the two readings. One of the themes is that individual input or understanding is very important in every aspect of human wellbeing. This is so because in both stories, it is the reasoning of the individual that makes it possible for an end to be achieved. For instance, in the ‘fixation of belief’, doubt and belief are substances of human ventures. They are manifested both in the mind of an individual ...

Throughout history and across cultures, people have looked to the sky in search for life. Even though response has been weak at best, man still keeps hope that there may be life outside of the Earth. Unidentified Flying Objects, also known as UFOs, are even a part of pop culture, being a central part of many films and folk tales. When confronted with an unknown, human beings try to make sense of the situation at all costs. UFOs are a part of Western culture, especially that of the United States of America, so the minimal misunderstood perception could be ...

Law and justice are two aspects of the same coin. While one cannot be without the other, "The Merchant of Venice" by Shakespeare is a play where a conflict between the two is observed and eventually resolved. In the paragraphs to follow, we will compare and contrast the sense of law and judgement as felt by the various protagonists of the play and understand how "Christian sense of justice weighed more than Venetian law in Merchant of Venice." We will be focussing majorly on the court scene, which is calibrated in Act IV of the play. - Shylock and ...

Introduction

In thinking about death one is likely to come up with two inescapably true and mutually excluding conclusions: certainty and unknowing (Orbach, 1999, p.9). On the one hand, each of us seems to be convinced that death is inevitable and inescapable, while, on the other hand, nobody of the living is able to confidently predict the time of his/her death and provide a clear vision of what is going to happen to what can be called a soul after the body is dead. Since ages lots of people have been dreaming to invent a way to either escape or ...

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a novel and a collection of short stories related to one another. It talks of the war with a protagonist that shares the author’s name. However, perhaps the most interesting character in the book was Kiowa. He was American Indian and was raised a Baptist by his father who taught Sunday school. In the midst of war, Kiowa brought rationality and a sense of calm to the members of the Alpha Company. Kiowa was kind to everyone, and it was apparent that he was Tim O’Brien’s closest ...

Introduction

No matter the line of business, the most significant aspect beyond producing revenue should be the motivation of its employees. Managers are continually faced with the challenge of motivating a workforce to do two things. One challenge is motivating employees to work towards ensuring that the organization accomplishes its goals. The other challenge is motivating employees to work towards accomplishing their own individual goals. Having employees who are successful and satisfied increases the productivity of a company, creates an environment for the proliferation of new ideas and ensures better job skill performance. This is because employees who are happy ...

Although symbolic interactionism offers an adequate understanding of social interaction, its failure to investigate common sense reasoning' is a serious omission Social interactions in society are made possible because of different symbols that are universally acceptable. It is this reason that makes it possible to use common sense to attach a given symbol to a specific meaning. It is easy to associate the nodding of the head with a positive answer or ‘yes’ as an answer to acceptance (Turner 2006: 211). Symbolic interaction therefore means a lot in regard to communication and interaction Symbolic interactionism theory focuses mainly on ...

The literature written during the 1920s brought to life America's fixation of rising to the top within social ranks. The themes and ideals presented in novels and poetry during the 1920s were a depiction of the fantasy that was the American dream. The fantasy, often associated with leaving rural life and joining the ranks of the modern city, was one that most people can still relate to today. Literature in the 1920s highlighted this and offered it as an antidote to rural life. In the twentieth century some American modernist’s decided to blend the concept of pastoral tradition ...

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a new environment for creativity as expatriates in Europe, Williams lived a remarkably conventional life. A doctor for more than forty years serving the New Jersey town of Rutherford, he relied on his patients, the America around him, and his own ebullient imagination to create a distinctively American verse. Often domestic in focus and "remarkable for its empathy, sympathy, its muscular and emotional identification with its subjects," Williams's poetry is ...

One of the educational leaders of his day had this to say about the students who came into his classroom: “Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.” This educator, however, was not speaking last year at a conference at Harvard, or even back in the 1970’s; instead, it was the Greek philosopher Socrates. There appears to ...

A definition of self-identity: transversal analysis of the philosophical problematic of the self and the quest for self-acceptance and happiness.

If there is a pertinent question to be asked, as many times as a mind gets lost in the world of ambivalent feelings, decisions, choices, vices, uncontrollable passions, deep boredom, despair and fears, as well as excitement, pleasure and joy is this one: «Who am I?». It is not an innocent question and it does not allow an innocent answer, as all possible paths leading to it are rooted in the most important quest any human being can go in search of: the quest for self-acceptance and happiness. It is a long expedition to the roots of any life, ...

Empathy and Equality: Assessing Traditional Notions of Gender Identity

EMPATHY AND EQUALITY

Abstract

Carol Gilligan’s contention that male gender identity is threatened by intimacy while female identity is marginalized by separation has its basis in the generally accepted view that men approach morality from a justice perspective in contrast to women, who adopt a care-focused outlook. Gilligan’s view of this sociology of gender identity is quite plausible given her contention that care is a viable agent of moral development for women and that separation and individuation are profoundly rooted in complex, mother-child relationships. While Gilligan essentially concurs with Lawrence Kohlberg as to the universality of ...

Nowadays the problem of poverty and limited resources becomes more and more urgent. The famous Hardin’s essay, “Lifeboat ethics” covers different aspects of this issue and gives strong but often disputable arguments against helping the poor in the worldwide, international sense. The fact that Earth’s resources are limited is undisputable, and Hardin’s metaphor comparing nations of people to lifeboats floating in the limited space of resources seems very neat. In this situation different ethical and moral problems come into play. The main ethical issue in current situation is helping the poor with the limited helping capacity ...

SECTION 1:

1.2) Genre analysis: Consider the role of genre in understanding comics and manga. Compare comics from two different genres and discuss your results. You might find the reading by Coogan (posted on the course readings page on Desire2learn) useful in your answer. The genre analysis handout, which you might find helpful, is posted to the Desire2Learn exam materials page. Comics are considered as a genre of reading materials accompanied by distinct imagery that is presented in a form of conversation between the characters through the use of conversation balloons. Emotions and presentation of distinct human element in each comic ...