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failure or unintelligent. As Davidson says, “as we narrow the spectrum of skills that we test in schools, more and more kids who have skills outside that spectrum will be labeled as failure”(61). School is supposed to be the place where instructors help students dig out their potential talents so that they can become successful in the future. However, instructors set a variety of standardized assessments in school that limits the growth of students. Students who cannot get high test scores, but…

Religion is a default that people turn to - to step outside their norm, to fill a type of need and satisfaction. As Armstrong demonstrates, people use religion and practices to help them find meaning in their lives, when she sates “a poem, a play, or, indeed, a great painting has the power to change our perception in ways that we may not be able to explain logically but that seem incontestably true” (5). If one is willing to free…

friendship includes honesty, loyalty, sincerity and most importantly trusting each other. Trusting each other in a friendship remains crucial because it shows reliability and confidence between two people. This helps friends become closer and feel more safe. In the play Romeo and Juliet and the book Digital Fortress, the significant relationship of friendship exists through trust. Within the tragic play Romeo and Juliet, the characters Romeo and Juliet have a relationship through trust. In…

What is that makes a person’s identity? Is it the appearance, such as body shape, hair, facial features, or is it someone’s mental thoughts and memories? In “The Self and the Future”, Bernard William’s analyzes the topic of personal identity with possible objections and outcomes. He brings forth the idea of the body theory and the mind theory while creating two thought experiments to further prove his point that both are necessary. In this paper I will consider what exactly creates personal…

The exploration of the sense of self through both the “The Bluest Eye’ and “The Complete Persepolis’ can be distinguished as similar but severely complex. Bildungsroman formats the journey of love, independence and identity for characters development. ‘The Bluest Eye’ endures reconciliations between the protagonist, Claudia MacTeer and the world as she recalls a childhood memoir of being surrounded by “ruined” (Morrison, p.101) women, a corrupt family and a misfortunate lifestyle. Similarly,…

you want to achieve are within your containment because external circumstances do not control your life. In the development of foundation in acquiring personal care, you get to give yourself the opportunity to improve in the process. This leads me to self confidence and esteem that are essential for us to feel complete within. As human beings feel as if they have an ocean filled with flaws, they fail to realize that what may seem like a flaw that irritates their confidence is not necessarily a…

statement, since self disclosure requires a person to reveal information that is typically not shown to the public, once the person discloses that information it is possible that the consequences may become negative. A reason why people keep certain information away from others is to maintain their presenting self, which is an image of how they want others to view them as. Rejection, negative impression, decrease in relational satisfaction, loss of influence, and hurting others are risks of self…

As an adolescent in a society that values aesthetic appeal as highly as it does, a significant portion of my time was spent gazing at my reflection. As I would fix my eyes on points of imperfection, I could not help but notice a disconnect; it was as though the person standing before was not me. My defining external characteristics did not match those of my internal personality, but how was I to resolve this? I did not even know who I was. Hair. Any slight alteration of the strands of keratin…

The most interesting part of Cooper-White’s book has to be the ‘Introduction to the Second Edition”. In it she outlines an interesting theory of identity as it relates to victimhood. Cooper-White refers to identity thusly, “I have increasingly come to the conviction that our subjectivity – our selfhood, or sense of self – is not unitary or monolithic, but multiple, fluid and contingent upon our relationships with family and friends, circles of community, and wider culture.” (Cooper-White 18) I…

Everyone is wondering if they can really achieve self-actualization. Personally, for me, self-actualization is when a person reaches a state of being and self-awareness mentally and physically. It's when a person achieved their highest achievements without caring other people’s approval and doesn't last very long. Humans only striving for something bigger and better and there no stop. Once a goal is accomplished, they move into the next goal. Once a person accomplished a goal, something…