Self-harm

but she procrastinated and worked 30 or more hours a week at her job. This caused her to loose track of time and miss assignment or needed study time for her classes. In the end however she found her self and was able to get back on her academic track by making the deans list every year. For my self, I live at home during the school year and do not have a roommate. I do on the other hand have a brother that I constantly fight with so he is like a roommate. To solve this conflict I just leave the…

Harm Reduction: Needle Exchange Programs (NEPs) What is harm reduction? Harm reduction is a set of practical strategies and ideas aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with drug use. Harm reduction is also a movement for social justice built on a belief in, and respect for, the rights of people who use drugs ("Principles of Harm Reduction"). Due to the harm that injecting drug use is causing on the spread of disease, we must have this needle exchange program to lower the odds of…

“Natalie Blake was crazy busy with self-invention. She lost God so smoothly and painlessly she had to wonder what she’d ever meant by the word. She found politics and literature, music, cinema… She put her faith in these things, and she couldn’t understand why” (247). Religion often comes…

Nowadays everyone pursues wisdom. Wisdom brings individuals success, achievement and reputation. There are many different ways to define wisdom. In the essay “Project Classroom Makeover”, Cathy Davison talks about how students’ wisdom is defined by impressive test scores in the current education system. She thinks the true smartness inside students relies on creative thinking so that schools have to focus on helping their future-oriented students cultivate this special characteristic. Similarly,…

Images of thin, beautiful women and muscular, wealthy men form stereotypes for many that have led to a decline of self acceptance. Many of the images portrayed by the media shape individuals to think that thin is beauty and most will attempt by all means to achieve it. Teenagers (mostly women) on social media experience body shame, body dissatisfaction, weight dissatisfaction…

Ownership of objects in regards to self-identity can be quite a complicated subject. Plato believes that owning anything will harm your character, whereas Aristotle and Jean-Paul Sartre believe that it not only aids in building character, but Sartre also brings the idea of owning intangible objects as well. In their eyes what you own goes far beyond what you can see and touch. Based on what Aristotle claims, you could assume that he bases judgement off of what you own, because that’s what…

Identity develops throughout our lifetime and continually changes as we go through different experiences. A lot of our identity in our youth is shaped by those around us; they define certain identities for us and teach us how to interpret our experiences. Sometimes, people who influence us go the extent of telling us what our identity should be, even if we don’t necessarily agree. As we age, we learn different perspectives from others and go through experiences that begin to shape our own ideas…

Facilitating Identity Achievement in Students Who am I? Where do I fit in? These are the questions that spur an individual to begin on their journey to develop their sense of self, a process known as identity formation. Although issues with one’s sense of identity could arise at any point in life, clinical psychologist Erik Erikson theorized that identity formation was most prominent in, and was the most critical developmental task of, adolescence. Ideally, in identity formation, an individual…

Orson Scott Card’s definition of an outsider conveys an idea that outsiders can see things more clearly and are important to everyone around them. He compliments their stronger sense of self compared to the rest of people in society. Card mentions how an outsider has a unique perspective than everyone else and that great heroic deeds are made by outsiders because of this unique perspective. While there is a notion that outsiders are not important, it is clear that outsiders are necessary in…

understand their identity, which is evident in Gogol’s experience. Through three phases of self-awareness in Gogol’s life, Lahiri depicts the development of Gogol’s understanding of his identity to represent the journey of self-perception children of immigrants undergo while reared in America. In doing so, she conveys the necessity of first generation…