Outward Bound

Another lesson learnt from our Coniston trip was the importance of having a balanced mixture of roles within a team. Belbin (1981) defined team role as ‘a tendency to behave, contribute and interrelate with others in a particular way’. At the start of our trip we sat down as a group and completed the Belbin Report to see which team role we each were according to the 9 team roles identified by Belbin (1981). Each team role is associated with typical behavioural and interpersonal strengths. This…

such a reward system for characters who follow the gender schema, children tend to view them as role models to measure and monitor their own behavior. As Aaron Devor notes, “Children’s developing concepts of themselves as individuals are necessarily bound up in their need to understand the expectation of the society of which they are a part.” Afraid of being excluded from their social groups, they follow the schema to be recognized as valued. In order to gain acceptance from their gender groups,…

Many authors utilize books to convey problems with society. More talented authors such as Gustave Flaubert and Kate Chopin address their perspectives creatively through the life of a character, Emma and Edna. These authors both impart their perspective on the topic of women’s rights in the books Madame Bovary and The Awakening. Although it is their diverse tone in which both argue their positive or negative ideas for letting women have the ability to choose. Gustave uses his tone to show how…

believe our creator perceives us through our actions. It is the basic idea of doing what is “right” to be good and eventually deserve paradise in the end. My right and wrong is determined by how they not only affect me, but my peers as well. The outward effect of my choices are equally as important as the inward…

Regan’s disrespectful and inconsiderate behavior when interacting with her father is an outward product of this inner selfishness; a night and day comparison to resilient selflessness of Kent. Regan is greedy to attain her father’s land, bitter from her perceived lesser love from her father, and too prideful to even entertain his audience. In…

Herbert Marcuse published An Essay on Liberation in 1969. Marcuse was a German-born Jewish philosopher and political theorist who fled Germany during World War II and relocated to America. Marcuse was one of the primary theorists of the Frankfurt School and is credited as being one of the founders of Critical Theory. In his essay Marcuse use critical theory to critique the capitalistic society in America and global dominion. The essay is portioned into four main areas which are A Biological…

According to Bronfenbrenner's ecological models, development is affected by a number of systems within the environment with the child being the center. The model recognizes five ecological systems. They are the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem and chronosystem (Boyd & Bee, 2012). These interactions with either will help or hurt the child’s development, which is why this model is important to understand. Microsystem implies the immediate environment of a person. These surroundings…

As typical with most friendships, during the course of several conversations the subject of our childhoods aroused. To my surprise, mentions of my experiences growing up in a suburban New Jersey neighborhood produced incredulous gazes. Based on my descriptions, it was concluded that I grew up in “the Hood”. My friends were surprised that my personal conduct and philosophy did not overtly reflect my background in a manner they expected. “The Hood” is associated with all forms of…

can also be applied to James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Both works of later-Romantic Gothic, these novels deal with the social impact of their protagonists’ ‘selfhood’, or ‘inner life’, rather than how the outward sublime influences the ‘inner self’. Instead of seeking ‘transcendence’ in sublime nature, Victor Frankenstein and Robert Wringhim aim to transcend their social and spiritual positions through, respectively, scientific and religious pursuits.…

Governmental Cycles in the Roman Empire Rome was the one of the most influential empires in history. Present-day countries, such as the United States, look up to Rome for its remarkable accomplishments: its invention of civil law, representative practices. However, with the impressive resume it has, Rome still fell in 476 C.E. The reason for Rome’s decline is still debated by scholars today. Some believe it was the rise of Christianity that hurt Rome while others state the weakening of the…