Individual rights

Throughout life, people experience the pressure to conform and feel the need to fit in with others. The poem “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco and the anecdote “ The Mermaid” by Robert Fulghum reveals the conflict/tension individuals experience when stuck in the border of conformity and individuality. Although we may feel compelled to conform, people can achieve true happiness/freedom by accepting differences, by embracing their unique identity. Throughout the five stanzas of the poem…

studying this, many scholars have found how an individual and a society can depend on each other. At the same time, scholars have also found that the two can live without depending on each other. Two literature pieces that can be used to study the relationship between an individual and a society are Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s Letter From the Birmingham Jail and Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, A Long Walk to Freedom. Both pieces show how an individual can gain a sense of self from their…

everyone can be happy at the same time, therefore society 's happiness as a whole is more important than the happiness of an individual alone. We all work together to keep society functioning properly. Through happiness, sadness, anger, and despair. Everything works together in such a way that we should not have to worry about one persons’ happiness, but the majority. Most individuals are already consumed with themselves enough that in reality they do not need any more attention than they…

Chapter 4 Developing Diversity Consciousness: Stepping Outside of Ourselves Stepping outside of ourselves helps to increase awareness and understanding (Butcher, 2015) reports, that it enables you to see through other’s eyes. Also, he encourages us to put ourselves in other people’s shoes. This will in turn give us the ability to view experiences through different perspectives. In addition, while bringing awareness to our own perspectives. Many times we may interpret or draw a conclusion using…

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humans universally abide by. Cicero describes it best as, “knowledge of the truth, comes closest to the essentials of human nature, for we are all impelled and attracted towards a desire for discovery and knowledge.” It is the private interest of an individual which a person seeks and ultimately, voluntarily, agrees to follow. With that in mind, this question is referring to the unwritten law among human…

If an individual interprets more events positively they will have more positive memories. In the same way, if an individual interprets more events negatively they will have more negative memories. This has caused me to believe that if a person can remember positive memories more easily than negative memories it might…

Individuals are sensitive to their surroundings to survive, therefore individuals have an innate awareness of their environment and relate themselves to the qualities of a certain environment. Individuals are born with the idea of change instilled into their minds until they learn that in order to thrive in their environment, an individual must behave and think suitably to the status quo. As individuals age, they learn to conform to their environment’s shared norms instead of defining themselves…

actively work to not let it come into the way I treat others. I see a person dressed a certain way and I automatically assign a judgment to them, which I have in the past believed to be true. Now, I can quickly dismiss this thought and let the individual teach me about him or herself by interaction. How will you approach unlearning stereotypes and myths you have been taught? As mentioned in the above paragraph I have become aware of my own shortcomings and worked to overcome judging others. …

In a world without values, people would be lost in a sense of who they are and what they want to be. Living in this world gives us a multitude of opportunities to craft our beliefs. Once these beliefs are seeded, values begin to grow in your life. Values are the things that are subconsciously back in our heads yelling at us when we are making every single decision throughout our lives. The years that pass allow for you to shape these molds directly and fittingly into your own life. Individualism…