Alfred Hitchcock

There are many examples that show that birth order influences someone’s personality. Alfred Adler, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung are three very famous philosophers who have theories on how people’s personalities are based on the order they are born in. Based on their theories, only children, youngest children, middle children, and oldest children all have different characteristics and personalities. Some of the characteristics that would alter, based on birth order could be: openness, social…

Paradox’s can be found everywhere in everyday life. From literature to our personality. A personality is a pattern of approximately permanent traits and individual characteristics that are both consistent and are individual to a person’s behavior (Fiest, 2014). A paradox is any statement or proposition that is self-contradictory, but expresses a possible truth (Merriam, 2016). Each and every one of us has a personality that is unique to ourselves. Our personality affects every aspect of our…

• “Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm”: Sigmund Freud’s theory that a woman has not achieved sexual maturity unless she’s experienced sexual pleasure in her vagina. Enforces heterosexual views of sexuality and enforces the belief that women need men to achieve orgasm; a myth maintained deliberately by men. He also mentions that “if a woman is unable to achieve sexual pleasure even though she has an adequate partner, shows her frigidity and her need for psychiatric assistance”, this statement enhances…

Georgia O’Keefe was born the second of seven children near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on Nov. 15, 1887 (“Georgia O’Keeffe: About the Painter”). From the age of 13 (Stabb), she knew she wanted to become an artist, and she began her art career in 1905 by studying at the Art Institute of Chicago. She continued her education a year later at the Art Student’s League of New York. After working in Chicago as a commercial artist for a while, she moved to Texas to teach art (“Georgia O’Keeffe: About the…

3.3 Motivation to be Better Freud thought that the psychological motive power is decided by the inborn instinct drives and the human behavior is driven by the biological urge directly or indirectly. So Pip’s motivation is natural and involuntary. According to Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs in 5 levels, namely physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging need, respect need and self-actualization need, Pip made great efforts to learn blacksmithing and hoped to win people’s respect and…

I was invited to the castle of Macbeth for his coronation and this is my recollection of the event. The castle had a perplexing feel to it. From the outside, it was sweet and delicate, but the moment one entered, there was a disorienting feeling of vulnerability. The castle was far from being illuminated, so much that not a soul would notice if there were to be brute lurking amongst the fortress. All of the guests, including myself, were being lead to the room of the great feast as if we were a…

and more frequent. He had to get out! Alfred had tried many times, but they were guarding the door under the doormat. They could only appear under rugs and carpets, so he figured the hated the light. For that reason he decided to call them moles.They had been unsuccessfully trying to kill him off for a month now and Alfred was running out of food. He tried calling the police but the phone lines were disconnected. A few days passed with no attacks on Alfred. Since there had been no attacks…

LeRoy Colombo was born on December 23, 1905, in Galveston, Texas. He is known for being a champion long-distance swimmer and being a lifeguard. A an early age, LeRoy Colombo was diagnosed with spinal meningitis, which caused him to lose his hearing and his ability to use his legs. He would regain his ability to use his legs because swimming, which started because his siblings repeatedly tried to make him swim. It was shortly after swimming for a while that his legs became strong enough to walk…

Viktor E. Frankl (1946) once wrote, “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves” (p. ?). In his book called “Man’s Search for Meaning,” Frankl writes about his experiences and suffering in a concentration camp during World War II. Throughout his book, most of the prisoners, including him, adapted because of the crisis they were in. These alterations of their character demonstrate examples positive leadership. After reading and reflecting on Frankl’s…

ndividuals win Nobel Prizes for doing something out going, discovering something, or even curing someone. Albert Einstein, won a Nobel Prize for Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. Growing up he felt not smart and thought that he was going to be nothing in life, but he realized that he loved learning and that he was going to be something in life and make something of his name. He has inspiring quotes that just make you want to push…