Self-Made Men

We hold many values in our lives today, but by far friendship remains the most significant. A good friendship includes honesty, loyalty, sincerity and most importantly trusting each other. Trusting each other in a friendship remains crucial because it shows reliability and confidence between two people. This helps friends become closer and feel more safe. In the play Romeo and Juliet and the book Digital Fortress, the significant relationship of friendship exists through trust. Within the…

What is that makes a person’s identity? Is it the appearance, such as body shape, hair, facial features, or is it someone’s mental thoughts and memories? In “The Self and the Future”, Bernard William’s analyzes the topic of personal identity with possible objections and outcomes. He brings forth the idea of the body theory and the mind theory while creating two thought experiments to further prove his point that both are necessary. In this paper I will consider what exactly creates personal…

It is most important to go on the path to self discovery on him or her own because society is blocking them from their own thoughts and the realization that it is possible to survive without anyone else. Everyone is always being told how to think or act. It is important to reflect without having any influences from the world in order to not lose oneself. In Wild, by Cheryl Strayed, as she walks on The Pacific Crest Trail she begins to reflect on the reasons that she decided to hike the trail in…

The exploration of the sense of self through both the “The Bluest Eye’ and “The Complete Persepolis’ can be distinguished as similar but severely complex. Bildungsroman formats the journey of love, independence and identity for characters development. ‘The Bluest Eye’ endures reconciliations between the protagonist, Claudia MacTeer and the world as she recalls a childhood memoir of being surrounded by “ruined” (Morrison, p.101) women, a corrupt family and a misfortunate lifestyle. Similarly,…

This leads me to self confidence and esteem that are essential for us to feel complete within. As human beings feel as if they have an ocean filled with flaws, they fail to realize that what may seem like a flaw that irritates their confidence is not necessarily a flaw or the problem to their esteem, it is the vicious circle that's almost like a routine in our head that sets ourselves to feel the need to look like a certain way or act a certain way, when in reality we were all made in a…

statement, since self disclosure requires a person to reveal information that is typically not shown to the public, once the person discloses that information it is possible that the consequences may become negative. A reason why people keep certain information away from others is to maintain their presenting self, which is an image of how they want others to view them as. Rejection, negative impression, decrease in relational satisfaction, loss of influence, and hurting others are risks of self…

appearing before me in the mirror, marked a turning point in my journey for self-actualization. I put them in, one daily over the span of the month, caring for them in every way the internet advised me to. They are clean, healthy, and representative of my individuality. At this point in my life, the figure in the mirror and its individuality are interconnected in a way never previously thought possible. My sense of self is as solidified as it can be, independent from public…

‘Introduction to the Second Edition”. In it she outlines an interesting theory of identity as it relates to victimhood. Cooper-White refers to identity thusly, “I have increasingly come to the conviction that our subjectivity – our selfhood, or sense of self – is not unitary or monolithic, but multiple, fluid and contingent upon our relationships with family and friends, circles of community, and wider culture.” (Cooper-White 18) I also believe that selfhood is not archetypical, we don’t even…

Following this further, Boeker (2017) demonstrates from John Locke’s notion of personal identity in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, suggesting that the theory of personal identity very much exists as being classified as a combination of what he’s coined as sameness and closeness. In this case, sameness and closeness represent in a similar fashion what the soul-continuity theory initially did, that the relationship between the two and their distinctions exist as a fusion resulting from…

Yes, we all say it, “I swear I don’t actually look like that” after we scroll through pictures we just took of ourselves. Or, we all know the satirical cartoons that pop up on our Instagram feeds depicting how great we look in the mirror but, when photos are taken moments later, we look almost unrecognizable. But don’t worry, it’s not your fault. Blame the most complex organ in your body, the brain. Our perception of ourselves changes based on what we observe in the mirror, how we…