True West: Identity
Essay - 2 pages - Film studies
One acquires his own identity through his inner self and his milieu. His interpretation of his own needs and desires plays a big role in whether he decides to abide by society's norms or to completely disregard his ego by complying to the inner beast (or what psychologists refer to one's...
Parfit's View of Personal Identity
Essay - 2 pages - Linguistics
I intend to explicate Derek Parfit's view regarding personal identity as non-branching psychological continuity as well as some of its ethical and emotional implications. In addition, I will present Parfit's split-brain transplant thought experiment as evidence for his view that...
Dialect as a Form of Identity
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Linguistics
Every time a person opens his or her mouth to speak that person is speaking not only a language but a dialect of that language as well. It is a common misconception that only certain people whose pronunciations vary from what is considered Standard American English, speak a dialect. In fact,...
Comparison of Two Essays on Goddess Identity
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
The book Seeking Mah?dev?: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess, edited by Tracy Pintchman, contains ten essays dealing with the different ways Hindus construe the distinct image of Mah?dev?. I will compare two of those essays here and determine their approach and what they add...
Toni Morrison's Struggle to Find an Identity
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
In Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Morrison rejects the theory that American literature reflects white male views. She argues that Africanism, a term she uses for the denotative and connotative blackness that African peoples have come to signify...
The party of European socialists and the identity of European social democracy
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
The question wether there is currently something that can be called the crisis of social-democracy is arguable: after all, social-democractic and socialist parties are still the counterpart of Conservatives and Christian-democrats, sharing alternaltively government responsibilities at national...
The European identity issue: what most determines the European "we feeling"?
Essay - 11 pages - European union
You don't fall in love with a common market (EU Commission President Jacques Delors in The European, 3 November 1994). Here emerges one of today's most challenging issues for the European Union: the prevalence of market integration has created a political vacuum and so-called...
Religion and early American identity
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Trying to determine what the motives of the migrants to the new world were is a difficult quest because motivations were diverse depending on the colonies. The migrants could be motivated by economical considerations. They thought they could have a better life, to be richer in North America by...
Metaphysics- Is water necessarily identical to H2O?: An argument
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
Kripke holds that the declaration water is identical to H2O is necessarily true. According to Kripke, this true statement is only knowable through experience (a posteriori), and cannot be determined by definitions of words only. Even though it is only a posteriori, Kripke claims that...
European cultural identities: The agents of European consciousness and how successful have they been in engendering such consciousness
Thesis - 4 pages - European union
Being in Europe' and Being a European' are two different things. It is fair to say that over the years a common space has been created in the economic, legal, and to a certain extent in political spheres. However, when we come to other realities (language, culture, religion, memories,...
Critically evaluating the ASPIRE model of social work - published: 17/11/2022
Course material - 10 pages - Social sciences
Social work traditionally utilizes a series of strategic steps or procedures to aid in problem resolution. In many cases, the steps include the collection of critical information concerning subjects of interest (assessment), analysis to draw information from collected information (diagnosis),...
Comparative Arts Design
Essay - 2 pages - Arts and art history
In this essay, we discuss contemporary art and how it has contributed in discussing about identity and diversity in the society. In the world of art, Identity is used a lot in describing the life of the moment the piece of work was made from the present time. Identity in art...
The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dream - Nasdijj, Timothy Patrick Barru (2020)
Book review - 6 pages - Literature
The Blood Runs like a River Through My Dreams (2000) is the memoir of a man, Nasdiij (the author) who writes about his life and feelings. Being of mixed Caucasian and Navajo decent, Nasdijj feels like he does not belong to any of those groups. Nasdijj has a hard life, his dad beat him, his mom...
The Impact of Wars and Violence in Scotland - Analysis of an excerpt of Fleshmarket by Nicola Morgan (2016) and of the oil canvas "The Battle of Culloden" by David Morier (1746)
Artwork commentary - 6 pages - Literature
Scotland has often been portrayed as an unstable nation in the midst of violent conflicts both before and after the Acts of Union in 1707. This set of documents consists of two literary works and a pictorial work, spanning the period following the said Acts of Union, from 1746 to 1895, which is...
Native American identities and adaptations
Thesis - 2 pages - Sociology
Jamake Highwater was an impostor. According to an anonymous essay in Dancing Bear, a blog and online collection of essays having to do with Native American issues, Highwater fabricated his Native American heritage, his family history, his credentials, and even his age. Highwater clearly...
Observation of various life stages
Essay - 2 pages - Psychology
The field of growth and progressacrossthe humanlifethat include physical, cognitive, intellectual, social, perceptual, personality and emotional growth is developmental psychology.(In Fiske.2010).This is important in order to understand how humans learn, mature and adapt. Life has various stages...
The Blockchain
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Computer science
First of all, the blockchain's system is the main thing to understand, everything that is going to be in this document is related and depends on the blockchain's system. So, a blockchain is a decentralized database which allows everybody to see the transaction history. Those transactions have the...
Cane by Jean Toomer
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
Double consciousness is defined as a concept that describes an individual as having an identity divided into several parts. This makes it difficult for an individual to have a sole unified identity. As such, a person with double consciousness may be considered to have two thoughts,...
The Interplay of National and European Considerations in the Foreign Policy of EU Members - France and Germany
Course material - 11 pages - Political science
Since the origins of the European project, Europe has depended on close Franco-German cooperation. As we have seen, all the big moves forward were possible because of the basic Franco-German agreement; the last major instance was Maastricht in 1992. The other countries had to follow. Of course,...
Is the Reality of the Subject a Certainty or an Illusion?
Essay - 3 pages - Humanities/philosophy
"Cogito ergo sum. "I think, therefore I am'. This Latin locution, uttered by René Descartes, philosophers of the Enlightenment, gives an unmistakable type of view of human consciousness. Since I have the will and the consciousness to think, I am, I exist. My thought, which I observe, refers...
Geography, Demography, Social Issues, Education and Culture in the United States of America
Course material - 20 pages - Sociology
(...) One of the characteristics of US climatic conditions is the constant fear of violent climatic happening such as hurricanes (in the Southeast, particularly during the fall), violent wind storms known as "tornadoes" (the Midwest), or flooding due to heavy rainfall and storms in the eastern...
The waves of Jewish immigration at various times in history
Course material - 4 pages - Modern history
Jews had begun arriving in the New World long before the immigration waves of the twentieth century. As early as the 1700s, before America became the United States, before it became known as a haven for the tired, poor and oppressed, European Jews fled religious persecution to find solace here....
Developmental Psychology Quiz
Tutorials/exercises - 10 pages - Psychology
This document is a 50-question quiz on developmental psychology, covering topics such as intelligence development, the oral stage, reflexes in infants, attachment, language development, motor and postural development, and growth. The quiz includes questions on the theories of Jean Piaget, Lev...
American Cultural Aspects for Business
Course material - 11 pages - Modern history
America has been created from the East to the West. The West is a concept in history, for an American it is often associated with the idea of frontier. In the 19th century St-Louis (Missouri) was considered as the gate way to the West, when people went to the West they went directly to Oregon or...
English Test Correction: Geopolitical Relations in Great Britain and Australia
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Linguistics
This document contains an English test including sentences and expressions to translate, as well as questions on geopolitical relations about Great Britain and Australia.
Spaces and exchanges
Essay - 2 pages - World geography
In this notion, we talk about Spaces and Exchanges. It is first about the immigration in Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954, it's the legal immigration. To continue with legal immigration, we talk about the Green Card Lottery. Then we can talk about the illegal immigration with the example of...
My Own Private Idaho - Gus Van Sant (1991) - The Character's Inner Torments
Artwork commentary - 2 pages - Film studies
The movie My Own Private Idaho was directed by Gus Van Sant. It was released in 1991, in a period when almost no films dealing with homosexuality and queerness in general had yet been shown to the public. Everything was still just the "right" way to behave. So for one of the first times, we...
An analysis of "As Nature Made Him" by John Colapinto
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
There are many different ways to be uncomfortable in one's own skin. Each individual is never satisfied with their appearance, or some other aspect of their everyday lives, like their jobs. However, there are many cases where people are so unsatisfied in their own skin that they ask for a...
Notion of the subject - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology
A subject position is a hard place, we cannot read it ourselves; we are given over to others even as we make inevitable public attempts to read our subject position (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak). Discussion of the complexities of Spivak's notion of the subject in the context of race...
Religious disaffiliation and the transformation of bodily practices
Essay - 15 pages - Educational studies
Students of religion, from a variety of disciplines, have recognized the numerous ways religion is inscribed on the body. Most religious rituals are embodied and they, in turn, embody the sacred. These bodily practices including dress, diet, hairstyle, facial hair, and body modification are...