Essays on Individual and Society

Nelson Mandela once declared, ‘If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.’ This couldn’t have been more accurate in Ken Liu’s fascinating anthology ‘The…

Since the beginning of time labels that are put on people and the way everyone is viewed has shaped identities across the globe. Identity can be found by someone’s name. A name gives a stranger a very broad spectrum of how an acquaintance may act….

The world is changing and so is the working of businesses. It is widely known that for a business to succeed, it needs to provide a good or service that is needed by the public and also to make a profit from delivering that good…

Social norms influence our behavior more than any of us realize but we all notice when a norm has been broken. Breaking a social norm is not an easy task and often leads us to feel uncomfortable whether we broke the norm ourselves or witnessed…

Part One People in the school district of Saint Michael value order and the ability to learn without being interrupted. They have set a norm that it is rude to interrupt a teacher while teaching or to disrupt a classroom while they are in the…

We live in a variety of societies, including families, schools, and countries. In each society, many people have different ideas and ways of doing things together, and there are conflicts and fights between the members. For members of each society to solve these problems peacefully…

 When a person is asked about identity, the most common response that you will get is a name, but an individual’s identity is so much more complex than that. Norton (1997) defined identity as “how people understand their relationship to the outside world, how that…

In today’s day and age, many people feel as though humanity has, well, “gone to crap.” People are complaining because they feel as though no one is practicing good citizenship anymore. However, there is a wide variety of ways that one can practice good citizenship…

Giving Back is beautiful. Even though not everyone does it a lot of people do. You will never truly experience the joy of giving back if you do not do it out of the goodness of your heart. Our wants are often other needs. There…

The instance of the law, while complex in variety, can be derived from the aims and means of human action. These qualities also boast imperative influence upon the ever-changing constructs of thought and morality that form the basis for the societies in which the law…