Our names are more than just labels; they are integral parts of our identities. They carry a piece of our history, culture, and personal stories. In this essay, we will delve into the profound connection between name and identity, examining how our names shape our…
Essays on Individual and Society
Introduction The question of what defines our individuality, or more precisely, what makes you, you, is a profound and timeless inquiry. It delves into the essence of human identity, encompassing the complex interplay of biology, psychology, experiences, and choices. In this exploratory essay, we embark…
Introduction Sexual misconduct is a pervasive issue that has profound social, emotional, and psychological implications for individuals and society at large. This essay delves into the topic of free discourse around sexual misconduct, exploring its significance, the challenges it poses, and the potential benefits of…
Introduction Healthcare is a fundamental human right, essential for well-being and quality of life. However, disparities in access to healthcare and its quality persist, often reflecting broader societal inequalities. Social justice in healthcare aims to address these disparities, ensuring that everyone, regardless of their background,…
Introduction The world we inhabit is shaped by the actions and choices of its inhabitants. While it is easy to be overwhelmed by the enormity of global challenges, each individual has the power to contribute towards positive change. This essay delves into the importance of…
As an African American male, reared in a single parent home, family and community are of the utmost importance to me. I grew up at a time when the community participated in the upbringing of the future, to include me. I accredit the person that…
Power is enticing. Power is satisfying. Power enables one the ability to influence others. However, is to much power destructive? Well, back in 1887, Lord Acton became known for quoting ‘power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely (UoPeople, 2018 para 2). This discussion…
Identity is described to be a socially and verifiably developed idea. We find out about our very own character and the character of others through cooperation with family, friends, associations, foundations, media and different associations we make in our regular day to day existence. Key…
Communication is an important skill in our everyday life. I have learnt this in my daily engagement with people as well as what is happening in the world with the lack of effective communication where we pass our messages without the urge to understand what…
Introduction In the article ‘Ostracism’ (2007) the author Williams reviews the literature of the past decade on ostracism, social death, and rejection. While these three terms have slightly different definitions, the author uses them interchangeably. All three terms refer to being ignored, excluded or rejected…
Introduction Ostracism or social death, ‘the judgment of the potsherds’: Athenian juridical practice in which a potentially dangerous person would be exiled from the city without loss of property or civil rights. (Forsdyke) In modern times it can be seen as the exclusion from common…
Summary of Arguments The article raises the question of overcriminalisation and situates it within the historical processes that determine which communities hold power in a society and whose customs form the norms of said society. Using Edward Said’s Orientalism and Radhika Singha’s work on Crime…
How often do you think people realize the effect of immigration and wonder how it feels like to live a life as an immigrant? As emotional as it would be having more legal immigrants will cause a disaster in our country we will have to…
The Embassy of Cambodia is a short story written by the British and Jamaican novelist Zadie Smith. Set in the town of Willesden, London in 2009. The short story follows the life of Fatou, a young immigrant that works as a housekeeper for a white…
Heroes in a Community A hero is someone who shows courage when faced with problems. A hero is a person who helps others who are in danger or someone who is there to give others strength to go through the difficulties. In John Steinbeck’s Cannery…
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born January 15, 1929. He was a Baptist minister and from Atlanta, Georgia where he fought for social justice. He is a most widely known black leader of his era. King’s Triple evils are poverty, racism, and militarism. They…
According to our textbook, DK communication (pg. 180), a relationship is the state of connectedness, with a heightened emotional involvement and commitment, that we have with another person. I’ll be analyzing my relationship with my high school friend, Lizzy. We met freshman year of high…
Introduction ‘No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right, not asked as a favour.’ ~ Theodore Roosevelt Justice…
A definition of meritocracy offered by Levinson, Cookson and Sadovik is that “meritocracy conceptualizes merit in terms of tested competency and ability, and most likely, as measured by IQ or standardized achievement tests” (Levinson, Cookson and Sadovnik, 2014). The idea of a meritocratic education system…
Meritocracy describes a system in which the people that are successful and get ahead, do so on their own merit and accomplishments. The concept of meritocracy grants all individuals a fair chance of success. In reality, the myth of meritocracy justifies the gaping inequalities in…
I read an essay called Once more to the lake by, Elwyn Brooks White. It is a reflective piece on the power of memory and the chill of mortality. He writes about himself suffering from an identity crisis as he revisits a lake that he…
The problem of the Common Pool Resources (here after CPR), all member of the community jointly owns this resource, all the equal rights over the resources. The economic features of the common pool resources are rival by competitive and non-excludable (Professor XU Jintao Microeconomics &…
Moving on to the views of what is the term “sense of place” in sustainability, ‘The notion of place in the construction of History, Nostalgia and Heritage in Singapore’, by Lily Kong and Brenda Yeoh, argues about the proper definition and importance of how ‘place’…
My interviewee of this assignment about Experiences of Aging is professor Z who is a Literature instructor in the department of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia. For instance, he was born in Nanjing, China and became the visiting scholar at Simon Fraser…
The Hull House, is an example of a settlement housing in Chicago which was co-founded (prior to Hayden’s article) by female sociologist Jane Addams and the activist Ellen Gates Starr. At its infancy in 1889, it was deemed as “a community of university women” who…
In 1921, Carl Jung introduced the terms introversion and extraversion to distinguish the way people interact with their surroundings. Whereas extraverts’ interests and energy are drawn towards the outer world of people and things, introverts tend to prefer the internal world of their internal thoughts…
As mentioned above, we knew that social influence can be categorized into implicit expectations and explicit expectations. The differences in controllability, intentionality, alertness, or efficiency are the ideas to characterize implicit and explicit attitudes. Implicit expectations are unspoken rules which are inaccessible to consciousness and…
As being part of the nation, it is important to know how to operate within the boundaries of the statutes given by our forefathers. Obedience is a refiner that molds an individual to maintain order and respect. Especially in these current times, some unfortunately have…
As Mary Mcleod Bethune (1950) states “ We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power towards good ends.” The youth activism of Newsboys and Mother Jones…
“Boys don’t cry”, “don’t be such a baby”, “be a man-get over it” are all stereotypes that sets a standard for what a male behaviour should be. This discourages men showing displays of emotion and allowing each man to be their own unique personality. By…
Sense of place has its distinctive characteristics, whereas usual places do not actually impress people. It can be explained in many different ways, but normally, it means that people find meaning in places through their own experiences (Department of Commerce, 2012). This essay aims to…
Sense of place is an aspect that has been considered from multiple viewpoints and by academics from numerous disciplines. Its significance in different aspects regarding people’s perception of it, the importance of feelings of belonging and attachment to place (Buttimer, 1980; Liu, 2014; Marcu, 2012;…
Introduction “According to Richard P. Adler (2005), Civic engagement refers to the ways in which citizens participate in the life of a community in order to improve conditions for others or to help shape the community’s future (p 236-253). Kent E. Portney stated that “The…
A wealth of theoretical and empirical research has been devoted to causal explanations of youth offending, and to identifying risk factors that lead to delinquent criminal behaviour. Through the lens of risk factors, researchers have viewed youth offenders as those who are living in poverty…
Early masculine ideals display a fear of being viewed as feminine which leads men to compete with others for dominance and become aggressive. As explained in the video about toxic masculinity, these views are learned throughout life, no one is born this way (McIntosh, 2016)….
Introduction Civics, which is defined as the study of the privileges and duties of one as a citizen of a society, undoubtedly plays a big role in our lives. We are surrounded and moreover affected by civics every single day, but even so, a number…
The term ‘sense of place’ can be described for some as just a physical place, while for others it’s more a feeling of perceptions held by people. Each of us have a different perspective on the term ‘place/space’. People can give a different sense of…
I was born and raised in America and I could recall my earliest memory of “boys being boys”. In kindergarten, I remember my male classmates pushing girls around saying “ew” or that girl had “cooties” as a means to separate themselves from the girls. It…
Why don’t all the guys in this room right now man up? Like seriously, why are you guys just sitting there when you could be at work supporting your family? This is not okay. Saying this will never be okay simply because it is incorrect….
There are different reasons why people commit crime, some of them are caused by inner factors like psychology and emotion, however, on the other hand, some others may become crime due to outside factors like the label given by the society or authority. And that’s…
Throughout history, there have been many influential individuals producing ideologies for and against those afflicted by mental health. Meaning that societal views have changed the way in which people perceive mental illness in general. This is extremely important to note because it applies the foundation…
When I finally narrowed down my search for colleges to Miami and signed up for newsletters, information and updates, I began to get notified of opportunities for minority students on campus. One of the first programs I was informed of was the Bridges Scholars program…
Civic engagement is a process through which individuals or groups of individuals come together in order to find a solution or come up with ways that they can use to improve the society. Civic Engagement “is a process in which people take collective action to…
Crimes based on general understanding, are the illegal activities and a deviant behaviour of an individual or a group of people which disobey and break the rules and laws that have been implemented by the state government. Although it is illegal in the society, but…
The term sense of place is a very controversial and has been used in many different ways. It is characterised either by the geographical location with a specific position such as degrees of longitude and latitude or by subjective feeling and the perception of people….
Introduction Within the field of criminology, it is crucial to view events and the world through various criminological lenses in order to understand any given situation and criminal behavior. In order to do so, we must analyze and compare a variety of criminological theories to…
Social Capital is a topic that is capturing the interest of many scholars who are particularly focusing on the nonprofit sector. Over the course of the last couple of decades there has been a surge of concern in community development policies, and the implementation processes,…
The taste that only satisfies our tongue, and no good for our health, is always poisoning us. Fast food is a toxin that slowly affects our body’s innermost parts. We might call it is like a slow poison. It tends to make our life span…
Being born an identical twin makes you a doppelganger. On one hand, you get someone who is almost always similar to you in every way, a best friend for life. If identical twins are raised together, they look to each other as an influence for…
Throughout the foundation of The United States, there have been many diverse individuals of varying cultures, beliefs, and lifestyles. However, as they came these distinctions between people played a significant role in determining who they were and often represented who could acquire citizenship in the…
Let’s, first of all, define purpose. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, the purpose is the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists. The purpose is at the centre of who we are and what we value. The purpose is…
Communication is how we as humans teach, learn and develop our world. With this communication, we have been able to develop our world through invention and advances in technology. The way in which we communicate has changed drastically with modern forms of communication being electronically,…
Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ acts as an archetype for a perennial issue we have all more than likely encountered: a lack of communication within a relationship. Hemingway narrates this short story through a continuous conversation between the story’s two main characters, the American…
In almost all countries, prostitutes are working somewhere to earn money to support their living condition. With no choices, they become the prostitutes because they are unemployed, or they just want to improve their income to live on, but those prostitutes are at risk of…
During my placement particular attention was given to stigma and labelling, as the majority of the residents were drug users, most of them been stigmatised countless times in their lives on different levels: public, private and institutional. At times, they were multi stigmatised as they…
In short, he thus degenerates from “Bellona’s bridegroom” , as he was called in the beginning of the drama, almost into an epitome of bad and evil – or, in Malcolm’s words a “bloody, / Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful, / Sudden, malicious, smacking of every…
According to our founding fathers “All men are created equal’’ but it all men weren’t treated the same. Thoreau didn’t believe that people were treated the same in fact he believed that people were under appreciated. Furthermore that people should be able to articulate their…
The phrase, civil rights refer to the responsibilities of the government to provide equal assurance and freedom from the taste for all citizens, the things that it must do. This event should not be involved with civil liberties, which point to the limits on government,…
The aim of this chapter is to analyse the key characteristics of post-Euromaidan civil society in Ukraine and to underline the level of progress made by Ukrainian civil society since the Orange revolution. While investigating these changes, we will switch the focus from the traditional…
Working class students really have it hard sometimes. They often have to deal with the rising cost of education, and social inequalities that take a toll on the working class and students of color. Here are just some of the facts that show the working…
Can you imagine if America did not have equal rights for all citizens? Luckily, today’s society is not like that. However, the late 1950’s and early 1960’s was a time when the Civil Rights Movement broke out. Many groups of angry people different from each…
In a country or state, there consists of other parts which entail diversified individuals. For instance, Kenya, as a country, comprises different people who come from diverse regions, tribes, religions, and with distinct cultures. In these regions, there are individuals and families: Some who are…
A couple of years ago civil society organizations were enjoying a good reputation in the international forum and this was due to their significant contributions to health, education, etc. But in the latter part of the 19th century, with the end of the conflict and…
In this essay, I am contending that the mistrust between the British working-class and the doctors and health officials in the nineteenth century was justified. I support this view by looking at different factors that contributed to this distrust; the purchasing of cadavers by medical…
The land shapes individuals and it defines who they are. The landsacape of anyone growing up shapes them into who they are. That is why the landscape people grow up in has a big inpact on their views and personality. The landscape acts as a…
A review of the available literature provides a wealth of research concerned with developing an understanding of White Working-Class low achievement. However, the term working class is indeed becoming hard to define therefore the category of social class is seen as outdated by many (Bennett,…
Now-a-days speech recognition has overcome all of its earlier presumed limitations and is widely used as a well capable security screen. The growing popularity in the application of speech recognition in all phases ; be it homes or even the industries. With the advancements in…
‘Health inequalities and the social determinants of health are not a footnote to the determinants of health. They are the main issue.’ This a quote from the prominent professor, Sir Michael Marmot, who was commissioned by the then health minister, to propose, evidence-based, cost effectiveness…
Within the last decade social media has become more prominent in the day-to-day lives of people around the globe. Because of this, the digital space has also taken on a role as a public forum; individuals exchange and interact with a variety of information including…
Alexis De Tocqueville from what I have gathered about him I find him very interesting. His determination for looking at every aspect of America’s political system and everyday life astounds me. While reading about his views, De Tocqueville presented civil society as voluntary and as…
The Duke of Wellington described the rank and file of the British Army in the nineteenth century as “the scum of the earth”. Throughout the nineteenth century there was tremendous prejudice towards the working class both in Britain and India. This prejudice held such a…
Non for-profit organizations (NGOs) have existed in Argentina before the nation was consolidated, and traditionally have always had a very strong catholic religious influence. In order to understand the third sector in Argentina, it is very important to take into account the role of the…
The end of the American Civil War was the reason slavery was Abolished. African Americans were no longer slaves, but they didn’t get any rights of freedoms until the 1960s. They were not treated equally, but the Civil Rights Movement put an end to that….
Protests were a way for “the People” to have an impact on the function of society, one example is the Boycotting of the Bus system that started in 1955. This protest was sparked by Rosa Parks’ act as well as another individual named Claudette Colvin…
Formal and informal segregation, lynching and police violence, discrimination in employment, education and public services, lack of political rights, extreme poverty, all of this characterizes African Americans life before, during, and after World War II. During the World War II most African Americans serving were…
For anybody brought into the world after 1980, it is effortless to see the popularity of social networks and it doesn’t take a virtuoso to distinguish the direction where our world’s fame of social media marketing in Canada will keep on moving. Individuals from the…
Furniture installation is an essential part of the office setup. Individuals are advised to ensure that time and resources are not wasted . Being diligent enables help to make the equipment and goods to be installed properly. Choosing a random trade is not a clever…
The American Red Cross is a well-known organization that provides services at the local, state, national and international level. The history of the organization began on May 21, 1881 when it was founded by an American nurse named Clara Barton (The Red Cross, 2020). Even…
Everyone dreams of a happy life, with a healthy relationship with family members, but this remains a dream for many people. The dysfunctionality of family structures can be the results of verbal or physical abuse. Everything, Everything, a young adult novel by author Nicola Yoon…
When someone thinks “how did that person get over a traumatic even so easily?” that person that gets over that even quickly might have good resilience. Merriam Webster defines resilience as an “ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.” Resilience is…
