Illusory superiority

The society in which they live in constantly influences and leads them to believe that the genetically enhanced have a greater superiority over the Invalid. At the end of the end of the film, Vincent proves he is capable of superiority and love for his brother, once again challenging Anton to one last game of chicken. There is a connection to the beginning of the film with the repetition of the crucial swimming scenes which help…

Ignorance causes a lack of understanding between parties in Avatar, which escalates quickly into potentially unwarranted violence. As a result of the humans superiority complex, they become ignorant to what the Navi value, and are, as a result, unjust in the way they treat them. Neytiri comments to Jake that the ‘sky people cannot learn because they cannot see’. ‘See’ing becomes a metaphor in the film for seeing…

studies found that people in the Western individualistic societies are becoming increasingly narcissistic. (Foster, Campbell, & Twenge, 2003; Twenge & Foster, 2010). Narcissism is a condition when person focuses solely on the quest for personal superiority (Bushman & Baumeister, 2002). Otto Kernberg (as cited in Lowen, 2012, p.6) identifies narcissists as individuals with various combinations of intense ambitiousness, grandiose fantasies and overdependence on external admiration. Few personality…

Love is a motivation for people to fight, defend, and mature for. Lucius Apuleius' myth, Cupid and Psyche, tells the story of the strength and determination of the mortal needed to regain a lost love. Francesca Lia Block's modern retelling, Psyche's Dark Night, emphasizes the many issues that affect relationships and explores the pain that accompanies dating. The retelling offers a new look into love and whether or not it is worth all the pain that accompanies it. The updated setting and…

Carl Rogers was born January 8th, 1902 in Oak Park, Illinois. He came from a strict religious and ethical upbringing. He was an independent, scientific person. As a child, Rogers was very intelligent. When he pursued post-secondary at University of Wisconsin-Madison, he switched majors from agriculture to history to religion. Later, he doubted his choice and pursued a Master and PhD in Psychology. He studied and wrote books on troubled children. In 1947, he was elected President of the APA. Also…

Individuals who feel the most inferior are usually ones who resort to taking control by the use of fear and pain. Someone who desires control over everyone most likely has felt a sense of inferiority so intense that it becomes almost like a second instinct to take control. In A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Stanley is a very violent man who uses brute force to take control of Stella, Blanche, and everyone in his life. Stanley, being of a lower class than Blanche, felt threatened…

Ethnocentrism is the belief that one’s group or society is better than the rest. You also judge other cultures based on the values and standards of your own. By calling other societies “primitive” or “uncivilized”, we are using our beliefs to judge others. These labels show us who is “superior” because, when used, these labels make people feel lower than others. The labels make people feel bad about themselves causing them to feel inferior. When we label people, we give ourselves the excuse…

indistinguishable from black adulthood, whereas not innocence as their opposite race, whites are. The lives of the black youth have trickled to a devastating issue in America. As life is full of dualism, male-female, binary system black-white, superiority- inferiority, right-wrong and up-down. It makes one wonder, why are black youth lives not concerned innocent or worthy. My reaction to this article comes also from a dualistic approach. Police deemed to serve and protect seemingly are taking…

's use of setting is negative and is emphasized through dysfunctional relationships and self destruction. Similarly, Miller 's Death of a Salesman’s depiction of setting is negative and is illustrated by dysfunctional family relationships and the illusory destruction of achieving success. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s use of setting is negatively reflected by the…

Macbeth’s main enemy was the desire and power that overshadowed the power he had. L.C. Knights stated, “Macbeth had betrayed himself to the equivocal and the illusory. So too time appears to him as meaningless repetition because he has turned his back on, has indeed attempted violence on, those values that alone give significance to duration, that in a certain sense make to me, for ‘without the meaning there is no time.’” Macbeth’s greediness to attain more power once he got to a level of…