Research Article Summary: Self-Concept in Social Psychology The article I read was called 'The Effects of Religious-Body Affirmations and Religious Commitment on Men's Body Esteem' by Mary L. Inman. The research article discusses how religion can serve as a conduit to create and preserve self-worth in young Western men. According to the article, there is increasing research that young Western men are discontent with their bodies, and in turn, this leads to lower self-worth and self-esteem. The discontent is derived...
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Since the beginning of time, females have always been perceived as objects who have only one job: to bear children. Men have oppressed, controlled, abused, and limited women in a countless number of ways because of the belief that women are inferior to them. Today, women possess many more rights than they have in the past but men continue to have power over them. In The Handmaid’s Tale, author Margaret Atwood portrays a future dystopian society in which women have...
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There’s a picture of me from 5th grade, the day I got my leotard, tights, and ballet shoes. I stood in what I thought was a ballet pose and smiled the biggest smile. I still cringe every time I look at that picture, due to my horrendous posture and position, but I also smile because that was the start of my love for dance. For 5 to 6 years, I loved and got excited about dance class. My mom would...
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In this essay, I choose the movie “Harry Potter: The Chamber of Secrets” as the object, aim to discover its critical and commercial values in the popular culture industry; but more importantly, I will try to analyze key themes and approaches the movie tends to deliver, as well as discussing its strengths and shortages as an artifact from an audience’s perspective. Unlike written content, images have the power to dramatically depict the events and actors (Bleiker, 2015), which are more...
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'I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.' The preceding quote is an excerpt from Franz Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' which is an absurdist fiction novella about Gregor, a salesman, who unexpectedly transforms into an enormous parasite one morning. 'The Metamorphosis' is an allegoric story that is representative of human connection or the lack thereof in society. Moreover, it integrates various diverse themes like alienation, dehumanization, and...
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As companies continue to expand across borders and the global marketplace becomes increasingly more accessible for small and large businesses alike there are ever more opportunities to work internationally (SOURCE). International and ethnically diverse teams are becoming more common, meaning businesses can benefit from an increasingly diverse knowledge base and new, insightful approaches to business challenges. Along with the benefits of insight, global organizations also face potential obstacles when it comes to culture and international business (SOURCE). While there are...
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I started listening to “Let’s Go Away for Awhile” (1966) on YouTube after it appeared in the movie Baby Driver, which became my favorite track. While listening to it, I remembered the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” (1892) from The Nutcracker ballet I watched as a kid on Christmas and YouTube. The pieces are from different musical eras, 74 years apart. The first one is from the Beach Boys’ album Pet Sounds during a period where mutual inspiration between...
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The American comedy musical film ‘Singing in the Rain’ starring Eugene Curran Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor, and Jean Hagen, and directed by Debbie Reynolds and Stanley Donen. It offers a comic depiction of Hollywood and its transition from silent films to talking films. Throughout the movie, you can see many various elements that make the movie musical. The music, setting, costumes, and makeup, of this movie received enormous success during the 20th Century. Don is happy as he can...
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“You wanted a women’s culture. Well, now there is one. It isn’t what you meant, but it exists.” (Attwood 127). The regime of Gilead claims that it supports the culture of female solidarity and unity, but only creates a culture of tyranny and oppression. In The Handmaid’s Tale by Marget Attwood, the author not only focused on the hierarchy between opposite genders but portrayed the disunity of women. This resulted in the consequent destruction of female solidarity. Women were not...
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“Everyday Use” tells the story of a rural, African American family from the perspective of a mother who has overcome racism, and obstacles, and endured labor-intensive hard work to provide better opportunities for her daughters. Despite Mama’s efforts to protect her children from the side of the world that has contributed to her rugged exterior, her youngest daughter, Maggie, suffered from burn wounds caused by a house fire in her youth, causing her self-esteem to plummet. On the contrary, her...
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Miriam is a fifteen-year-old Afghani girl who has had a troubled upbringing. Mariam’s mother, Nana, was a housekeeper for a very wealthy man named Jalil. Nana became pregnant with Jalil’s baby, Miriam, and has suffered great shame. She and Mariam had to move out of town into a very small cottage, away from Jalil and his wives and children. Ever since birth, Nana has been calling Miriam a “harami.” Mariam did not know what this word meant but later found...
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The novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon is about a teenage boy named Christopher Boone with a developmental disorder in a hunt to find a portrayed animal killer. This book takes place around Swindon, England in the year 1998. Christopher walks into his front yard one day to see a dog, belonging to the neighbor, murdered on the lawn. The plot of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time revolves around...
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Beginning: It all started with Buck and his owner Judge Miller who lived in Santa Clara Valley. Buck is a very muscular dog which is worth lots to gold rushers, some men came to beat Buck and threw him on a train to Seattle. The men deprived him of food and water for 2 days, when they arrived he attacked his handler, who was in a red sweater. The handler sees Buck pull out his clubs and beat the poor...
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second installment of the Harry Potter. This book begins with a visit by a house elf named Dobby during a dinner party back at his horrible relative’s house, the Dursleys. He warns Harry not to return to Hogwarts. Harry tells Dobby that he is going to return to Hogwarts and Dobby creates a scene of havoc that upsets the Dursleys. They punish Harry by imprisoning him in his room for the...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns is a novel written by Khaled Hosseini. In 2007, the year of its release, the book has already taken the attention of many by becoming number #1 New York Times bestseller. The story is about 2 young girls, Mariam and Laila, having to deal with their cursed fate. The story takes place in Afghanistan more precisely in Kabul a city where Mariam moved when she got married and where Laila was born and met her first...
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Propaganda use in media is far from a new phenomenon in our society. Throughout this course, we’ve reencountered the subject of media platforms used throughout history as a tool to propagate the population. This rooted propagandists’ ideologies into society and gains a following. This led to the success of infamous propagandists such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini. This use of propaganda to gain power and a large loyal following is not only sought after by leaders but those in competitive...
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In this bildungsroman novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, written by Mark Haddon, the author creates the protagonist, also known as Christopher John Francis Boone to encounter many difficult family life situations, which force him to mature throughout the story. From the beginning to the end of the novel, Christopher experiences feelings of betrayal, loss, and fear. Once he has no choice but to face these difficult circumstances, Christopher begins to utilize many stress-related coping strategies,...
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Once, I was a boy and my dad used to tell me that one day I would be a Kikuyu man and walk in his footsteps. Raise a family and assume manhood responsibilities. To provide for, protect, and guide my family the way he did, because that’s what a Kikuyu man, a Kikuyu warrior is supposed to do (History, H, 2018). He always told me to enjoy boyhood as much as I could because it passes by as fast as...
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The subject of the case study is me, 19 years old and an undergraduate student. I spent the first 6 years of my life in Sri Lanka and then moved to the United Kingdom. By unraveling my childhood and the youth period of my life course I will be able to analyze my experiences. Gender, place, culture, and ethnicity will be explored to see if they contributed to my experiences of childhood and my youth now. Both childhood and youth...
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Humans are born with the ability to identify five types of tastes sweet, bitter, salty, sour, and umami (Romm, 2016). But each person in this world has unique taste buds, therefore, every human being has a different taste preference based upon the daily foods we eat. We develop these taste buds that could differ based on genetics, culture, and variety of food. However, we are born with a sweet taste, and after 4 months salty taste emerges and after some...
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I am a student of SSWD 120 at Northern Lights College. I have written this paper for self assessment which is a part of my SSWD 120 course. In this assessment, I have written the incidents that happened in my life and how they affected me socially and psychologically. I have used the criteria (Kenyon, P (1999) What Do You Do? An Ethical Case Workbook for Human Service Professionals pp 23-27): given in the syllabus. Life is what you make...
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A recurring theme in with story that is prevalent in not only Sonny’s life but Parker’s as well is darkness. Darkness within the story is symbolized as a menace. Baldwin focuses on whether a person should be conventional in making decisions for their life, or if they should follow their desires and do what they feel is right for themselves. After the death of his mother, Sonny seems to be on the verge of losing himself, trying to decide where...
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I believe that the world is your classroom, and it is full of incredible resources. If you choose not to exploit resources offered internationally, you are only robbing yourself of the opportunity for advancement. I am determined to study internationally. I am aware many qualified applicants are set on achieving this goal, but I have the discipline and determination required to study overseas regardless of what obstacles I must overcome, and I will put in the hard work it takes...
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I studied abroad in Europe this past summer and I noticed many differences between how Europeans live their lives versus how we Americans live ours. One of the major differences was the modes of transportation used to commute. In Europe, walking, biking, and using the metro system are commonly seen, and driving automobiles is the most recognized form of transportation in the United States. Walking ten miles a day to get to restaurants school or other destinations would be considered...
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The movie opens up with our Narrator in a cold sweat with the barrel of a gun down his mouth armed by a man to whom we haven’t been introduced at this point in the film. An insomniac automobile recall specialist, he finds euphoria attending support groups where he pretends to be afflicted with various medical diseases. Attending public support groups and guided meditation, we are introduced to Marla who like the Narrator, takes pleasure in being faced with certain...
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The movie Capitalism: A Love Story by Michael Moore examines the effect of corporate dominance on the regular day-to-day existence of Americans. In this movie, I specifically chose Walmart because it is the world’s largest retail store and most people tend to buy food from Walmart; Walmart’s main focus is on the customers and they do anything for customer satisfaction. However, Michael Moore exposes the past practices of Walmart and shows how Walmart values its customers in the past through...
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In the first part of Albert Camus’ The Stranger, we discover that Meursault is an ordinary man who works as a clerk in the shipping industry. He is satisfactory at his job, but not extraordinary. Each day Meursault does the bare minimum at his workplace (just enough to get by). In the second part of the novel, Meursault is arrested for manslaughter (of an Arab), but put on trial for his unacceptable behavior at his mother’s funeral. The theme of...
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At present, most of the people from all around the world have become lazy. That is why, they search for some sort of recreational components which do not require any kind of physical effort. Because of this, watching various kinds of TV series and TV dramas has become one of the most amusing mediums for people. Previously, only American and British TV series were popular among the people worldwide. However, recently Korean drama also become popular among the people of...
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As a Birthright trip leader and volunteer, you could say that my journey began six years ago when I was asked to go on a five-day paid military vacation to travel with Americans. Little did I know, this trip would turn out to be one of the most impactful moments in my life. But the truth is, my journey had begun much earlier. Growing up, I lived in the small suburban town of Hod Hasharon, Israel. Both of my parents...
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