Personal Essay Defining the Self Essay

Introduction There has been a shift in marketing theory, from transactional to relationship-focused marketing. In this essay, the author will give a brief description of this shift, and how this affect the relationship between companies and consumers. In the next part of this essay, the author will discuss how consumer buy product to change or create their identity. As Tuan (1980:472) argues, “we are what we have and what we possess”. Thirdly, the author will discuss the term “working consumer”…

with a look that makes this work, "the foulest, the vilest, the obscenest picture the world possesses", as Mark Twain famously stated. The Venus of Urbino helped to establish the female nude as a genre. This genre, like any, has developed clear and defining characteristics. The nude must have…

advances men. Women have always been seen as a lesser sex, and men and women alike have consistently used language to oppress the female gender. Susan Sontag in her article, “A Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?” and Gloria Anzaldúa in her essay, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” both discuss the implications of using language as a tool of oppression; however, in “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton reclaims the language used to put women down. These three texts…

Meet Brian Thomas Mettenbrink, an unsuspecting 20-year-old computer geek from Nebraska. He looks just like you and me, acts just like you and me, but yet there is a defining difference about him that separates us: he will be serving a year sentencing in a federal prison for his relation to the 2008 DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack on the Church of Scientology’s website called Project Chanology. The goal of a DDoS attack is to overwhelm the targeted website with repeated access…

times when technology did not over power every event brought on in this era. When hurricane Irene struck Simics city he had no choice but to face boredom. Realizing society does nothing but depend on technology, Simic found himself discovering his true self, even so, becoming his own “spectator”. Simic states “Drowning in it, I became face to face with myself as if in a mirror”. Simic has nothing to do but to read, sit and stare, and face reality. However, this allowed him to read and learn way…

The cultural period known as “Romanticism” arose at the end of the eighteenth and was characterized by radical changes in intellectual, artistic, and social patterns. It is generally understood as concluding in the early nineteenth century. It reflected revolutions in America and France, but also England in the form of the Industrial revolution. These dramatic changes in the world were mirrored, in turn, by significant developments in poetry, prose, and fiction. Although it may be said that…

positionality, it doesn’t determine positionality. My positionality does not necessarily align with the positionality stereotypes of those who identify in the same groups. My complex personal experiences and background all contribute to my positionality and how I view the world, but doesn’t definitively determine them. In this essay I will argue of all the factors that shape my positionality, the three that have impacted me and my positionality the most are my ethnicity and race, socioeconomic…

In the first part of my essay, I will discuss how the cultural problem of sexism permeates into many aspects of my day to day life. I will raise some personal problems I have experienced, such as the pressure I have felt to become ‘more feminine’. I will also talk about the fake persona I have cultivated in the past in my attempt to emulate the ‘perfect woman’. I’d like to start by saying that I’ve gone through most of my life oblivious to the sexism around me. I simply accepted that being a…

from inside a mother’s womb like the permanence of birth marks and wrinkles upon skin. Letters from World War II hold expressions of concern and sentiment, a delicate symbol of hardship for soldiers and their families back home. John Kerstetter’s essay “Triage” represents the emotional trauma that medical personnel undergo at war. “A Brief Encounter with the Enemy” follows a young soldier and his contradictory goals of acquiring glory and avoiding to face death when going off to war. War…

political morals. Included in that mo-saic of contrasting views is modern-day communitarianism. Drawing primarily upon the insights from renowned philosophers Aristotle and Hegel, communitarians place a greater emphasis on the role of the community in defining and shaping individuals. Classical liberalism, on the other hand, depicts communities as emanating from the acts of pre-community individuals. Such is the basis for Rawls’ original position. Although many of the renowned communitarians did…