Personal identity

As human beings, it is our nature to group and label different items in our world. But how does one describe themselves? Our self-identity, in my opinion, makes us feel like someone. Self-identity includes our race, language, sexual orientation, culture, and many other attributes of ourselves including visual components such as body type. But according to Michael Hogg and Scott Reid, categorizing people holds them accountable to other similar groups and depersonalizes an individual person.…

only way a person can combat that is through forging a strong academic identity by having a strong support system, academic goals and life goals. Our academic identities as Lukin seniors are very…

Both dimension and abstraction are common features that characters portray in their world of interaction. Characters are forced to assimilate new ways of life in order to match with their immediate surroundings while others are resistant to such changes. In East goes West, several attempts are being made to form relationships. Evidently, some of the relationships work successfully while others are not. This nature of things brings about ambivalence in the lives of characters, which leads to…

Transitions may be challenging, confronting, exciting or transformative and can propel individuals into new phases of life and cause transitions in social context for broader society. Ben Haggerty, Mary Lambert and Ryan Lewis’ song ‘Same Love’, explores transitions that result in creating shifts in attitudes and beliefs, deepening understanding of one's choices and changing attitudes of either conforming or resisting the social norm. A proposal of transition is portrayed through the idea of…

Place According to T. Cresswell in “Place” stated about the place refer to location, locale, and sense of the place. Location is an absolute in the space with a specific set of coordinated and measurable distance from other sets of location, but the locale is material setting for social interaction, and send of place refers to feelings and emotions with that place. When people used space for living, space become a place. Reading about the place was very informative and easy to understand,…

An individual’s self-esteem can be high or low depending on certain factors in their life, such as the media, their friends and family and their social experiences. Due to these factors, they can significantly impact an individual’s view of themselves. These concepts and ideas are explored in 2001 film “Shrek” directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson. “Shrek” projects how different factors in an individual’s life can alter the way one perceives themselves. Family and friends can have a…

life, in which it forms the identity of each character. There are diverse ways in which identity is presented in each text for example through the use of: Love, Gender Roles and one's Family influence. Relationships are portrayed in multiple ways throughout each of the texts, whether it’s romantical, friendships or familial. ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ presents mainly romantic relationships as it is a key part of the play and links with the characters identities. Whereas ‘Breakfast at…

DISCUSS FOUR SYMBOLS AND THEIR INTERPRETATIONS. A symbol is a concrete or familiar object that is used in reference to something. Symbols are widely used in various forms of African literature for exploring moral and spiritual matters as well as deep philosophical thoughts. Northrop Frye defined symbolism in his book, ‘’Anatomy of Criticism’’ as any unit of any literary structure that can be isolated for critical attention. A word, a phrase, or an image used with some kind of special reference…

An Awakening Coming of age literature can be defined as literature that follows the progression of a youth as he or she changes from adolescence to adulthood, awakens to whom he or she is, and becomes aware of the world around him or her. These coming of age narrative describes the time when family, mentors, friends, peers, relationships, and community influence and shape an adolescent into the person they will one day be. And, it contains similar characteristics such as, innocence of the…

Personal knowledge and shared knowledge are two extremely different ways in which people obtain knowledge. Shared knowledge is defined as ‘a socio-cultural knowledge, broadly along the lines of a set of norms, values, signifiers and cultural mores’ and ‘personal knowledge comes from the local experience of an individual’ . From my own perspective I believe shared knowledge is obtained through collaborative work; knowing from others, and personal knowledge is obtained from a person’s own…