Self-defense

The game Hex was invented by the Danish mathematician Piet Hein in the 1940s. This game has been of great interest to mathematicians around the world since its introduction, including Martin Gardner who explores it in chapter eight of his first Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Games (1959). The game is normally played on a board of 11x11 hexagons with two edges labelled black and the other two labelled white. It is a two-person game in which both players (using black and…

Living in the past can hold you back from opportunities that present themselves in the current day. This is shown in the film The Silver Lining Playbook directed by David O. Russell, this film sends an important message that living in the past will affect you in the present. Patrick Solitano Jr lived in the past, this torn his whole life apart. Living in the past cause Pat to go through many mental stages such as obsessed, Bipolar, defensive and decisive. Pat’s first hurdle to become mentally…

Self defense is more than just carrying a gun for safety or knowing how to fight back. It revolves around being aware, thinking smart, and taking extra precautions for safety. Everyday habits that people don’t even think twice about could be the one reason that makes them a target. Any scenario is possible no matter how harmless a person seems. Having knowledge in self defense plays a big part in keeping citizens from being potential targets to actual victims. According to The National…

The Existence of Multiple Identities In the essay, “In Defense of Masks”, by Kenneth Gergen, the author argues that we cannot be true to ourselves because we do not have a basic self identity. According to Gergen, psychologists make false assumptions: that one, every person can find their own sense of identity and two, that it is perfectly healthy to do so. In context with the author’s argument, studies have been conducted in order to evaluate different ‘masks’ of identity. One study involved…

larger toll on the individual than previously thought. In her book, Turkle makes a balanced argument that technology’s ubiquity and permanence in the 21st-century American society, frails the self and our individuality. Throughout the book,…

most people quiet. “Terror becomes total when it becomes independent of all opposition. It rules supreme when nobody any longer stands in its way” (Arendt, 1953, p. ). The fascist state of mind is a state in which the parliamentary functions of our self cease to work under the pressure of some particularly intense drive (such as greed), or force (such as envy), or anxiety (such as fear of mutilation) (Bollas,1995, p. 197). A “conflict takes place between the old ego of peacetime and the new…

picture of an individual’s psychology, it was helpful to incorporate self psychology theory in order to further understand Melissa. Self psychology focuses on the development of the cohesive self through interactions with selfobjects, which may be a person, various forms of art, or other symbols. Selfobjects validate and attune to the individual (Flanagan, 2011). According to Kohut, there are three poles of the self: the grandiose self, the idealized parental imago, and twinship (Flanagan,…

initiative, my mother validated me during this period by allowing me to do things on my own. I was very observant at this age and when I did everyday task I usually succeeded in them not because I was taught, but I mimicked actions that I saw. I was a very self-reliant child, because I did not like backlash. My mother was very a hard on at a young age and would scold me for not knowing how to things she thought were basic. The period of industry versus inferiority is a period where I had a lot…

The social hierarchy does not provide a way for those on the bottom to escape the bottom. They remain at the lowest of the low purely because there is profit to be made from the suffering of the inferior. The psychologist John C Turner examined the consistency of one’s identity in a group and its inability to change: “It is the awareness of the existence of categories which generates the in-group response, not necessarily past hostility nor objective conflict. Identity within a group is either…

In the editorial article “Guns are an effective means of self-defense” by John R. Lott Jr, takes on a widely debated issue of gun control. In this article the author gave us a look into some of his beliefs through his research as he teaches criminal deterrence, law and economics at the University of Chicago. Lott claims that defense gun use occurs more frequently and is more effective than the media reports. He argues that a criminal is less likely to attack a potential victim when that…