Essays on Personal Identity

Self is the totality of our five senses and what they long for. As humans we are full of emotions which is also very normal, but the thing is, are you unseating the self in you to be able to have a good and solid…

Are you a loser? What haunts you more; bitter memories from past or the upcoming future? Mindset and character represent our personality, reflects the inner side of us. If you don’t have a positive attitude towards life, if you underestimate your powers, if you fail…

One of the biggest challenges faced by the European Union is also one of the most ignored by academics. Many talk about an economic, ecologic or democratic crisis but few focus on a key-issue: the European identity crisis. This paper looks into how significant the…

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think” (Ralph Waldo Emerson). Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher and spokesman for the American Transcendentalists. The Transcendentalists movement consists of a group of New England romantic writers, who believed that…

Morality of constraint Morality of constraint refers to a pre-adolescent inclination to follow the orders of their parents and superior without questioning the significance, reasoning or consequence thereof. This is the first stage of moral development and children believe that morals are absolute/ “the ultimate”….

Personal identity is a big deal, especially for a young girl in today’s society for everywhere we look, there are magazines, billboards, and people telling us what to wear, how to talk, and who to be. When I started reading ‘The Bastard of Istanbul’, I…

Abstract Unique personal identity in a given society is very important in various aspects. Fingerprints are considered to provide the most unique feature that can differentiate one individual from the other. This paper focuses on how fingerprints are used in determining the gender of an…

There are many different theories of personal identity that are concerned with the question of who we are and what compromises our identity. Separate from identity theories are solutions to the mind/body problem, which tries to figure out how our thoughts and minds are related…

It was made evident that the majority of respondents’ in the survey conducted thought that their personal identity was shaped by their family/home environment. According to the survey results, family taught them respect and values, providing them with moral and ethical guidelines, “a factor that…

Face recognition (FR) is a biometric modality capable of uniquely identifying a human by his or her facial characteristics. Over the past decade, FR technology has been gaining a lot of popularity in the field of computer vision and pattern recognition. In fact, it is…