Self Authorship

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• Self Disclosure Essay

  ...To disclose or not to disclose?, That question usually comes when you start a new relationship with a friend, a boy friend, a new job or any new relationship, but disclosing can also happen with people we have known for a long time or not. Scholars define self-disclosure as sharing information with others that they would not normally know or discover, but I feel like each person has his or her own way of defining what self closure is. To me, self disclosure is letting myself go and trusting the person I am disclosing to, it involves risk and vulnerability on my part sharing important information to someone. Therefore I go back to the question I posed before, do I trust this person or not, do I love this person to feel my vulnerability, do I want to have the other person know my inner most secrets, should I really risk it or not?. The way I feel about self disclosure, is that it is a way of gaining information about another person, it is one way to know about how another person thinks and feels. When it comes to my friends, If they are new friends and I have known them for a short time i don’t really want them to disclose so much information about themselves to me since I don’t know them very well. I feel like once they disclose something to me It is kind of implied that I have to also disclose something to them which I do not really want to do. When it comes to my family in general I find they are some members of...

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• Self Confidence Essay

  ...Self-Confidence December 31, 02:50 Definition • Self-confidence is characterized by: assertiveness, optimism, eagerness, affection, pride, independence, trust, the ability to handle criticism, emotional maturity, and the ability to accurately assess our capabilities. • What is Self-Confidence? – Self-confidence primarily refers to us having a positive and realistic perception of ourselves and our abilities. – A lack of self-confidence, on the other hand, is characterized by: self- doubt, passivity, submissiveness, over-conformity, isolation, sensitivity to criticism, distrust, depression, and feelings of inferiority and being unloved. December 31, 02:50 What Causes a Lack of SelfConfidence - 1 • Experience: We often develop feelings of inferiority and hopelessness through various negative life experiences at home, school, on the job, etc. For example, when you were growing up your parents might have been unable to provide a healthy and supportive environment. They were critical, demanding and/or overprotective of you. As a result, you develop negative perceptions of yourself. • Loss of a family member or close friend. For example: your parent's divorce, moving away from home for the first time (you are away from your friends and family), and breaking up with your boyfriend/girlfriend. • Dwelling unnecessarily on negative events such as failures and disappointment, instead of using...

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• Analyzing Self-Concept Essay

  ...First Short Response Paper Interpersonal Communication Analyzing the idea of self-concept; which encompasses the ideas of values, attributes, and beliefs that all add up to create the individual that I have become; I consider the progress that I have made thus far. See, I believe that I have transitioned to become a different woman that has very different beliefs and values in different arenas of life. According to the book, self-concept is defined as a multi-structural aspect that refers to the perception that one has of oneself. When I was a younger girl, my core belief structure was doing activities, jobs, and experiments that allowed for an increase in my growth, basically activities that I only benefitted from. My major basis for living was achieving goals that would allow me to become an instrumental individual in the world. Although my core belief is unchanged (achieving major success and growth) my underlying goal has changed dramatically. My overall goal for myself is becoming a lady who has instrumental impact on the lives of others which will in turn allow me to grow by seeing the progress in others. In exploring my belief structure, I find myself adhering to a core principle “Doing unto others, the way that you would want them to do to you”. For me to continue to achieve this belief, I have adapted a positive, optimistic, driven, goal-oriented, self-sustaining, and independent attitude. While these sounds...

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• House of Sand and Fog Sense of Self Essay

  ...House of Sand and Fog sense of self essay In House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III, the author states an epigraph in the beginning of the novel from (“ The Balcony” by Octavio Paz): “Beyond myself/ somewhere/ I wait for my arrival.” This epigraph defines ones sense of self and Behrani, Kathy, and Lester in House of Sand and Fog all have a sense of self in some way. It may not be clear at first but the author burn’s an image of each character’s personality into the readers head. By the end of the novel it becomes quite clear of which character feels right at home with their sense of self and that Lester has the clearest sense of self. Dubus makes it clear through the novel that Behrani’s sense of self is to return his current status back to what he once had in Iran and to make his family respect him like before. Behrani is forced to leave his country and had move to California in search of an aerospace industry job. He wants to get his life back in order and live a similar life to the one he lived in Iran. The author first draws our attention to when Behrani states “I do not know if it was the glass of champagne my Nadi drank, or if it was because Esmail had fallen asleep early before his television in his room, or if it was simply the joyful news of the real estate appraiser who I hired to come here yesterday, the news I thank god for and cannot yet believe, that this bungalow is...

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• The self is constructed through social interaction Essay

  ...The self is constructed through social interaction I was not born a woman. Rather, I have become one. As the result of history, social forces, conditioning or ideology. Gender- the womanhood and my role in it is not inevitable or fixed, it is not, necessarily, determined by my biological characteristics and human nature. Contrary, it is an addition to the physiology and the product of the social world. Society has created certain rules and ideas of how the womanhood is supposed to look and expects me to behave in a certain way. Therefore my living and the experience of myself are changed by being classified as a woman. Sometimes it may seem I am an individual, which behave freely and create itself by acts of its own will. However, the most of my living is determined by the society I live in. 'I myself am, of course, a social construct; each of us is' (Ian Hacking 1999:2). Rosenberg says that social factors play a major role in formation of the self and that self arises out of social experience and interaction (Philip Blumstein 2001:183). 'Without others there would be no such things as a “self”' (Philippe Rochat 2009:35). This essay will explore different aspects of how society participates in construction of the self. First, how others shape somebody’s self, then, how that somebody constructs itself in regard of others. At the end it will consider an opposing view, i.e. not how an...

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• The Rejection of the Self in Twelfth Night Essay

  ...The “dark side of life” that William Shakespeare exposes in his play, Twelfth Night, is the danger in the individual's willingness to abandon the intrinsic self as a means to better realize a goal. The characters Viola, Feste, and Malvolio, in assuming new persona's, engage in a metaphysical betrayal in which they deny the reality of their nature. Viola's choice to serve Duke Orsino as a page in hopes of finding her brother is by no means unethical, and her efforts are ultimately successful, but she does develop a major existential crisis when she assumes the identity of Cesario. Upon agreeing to woo Olivia on Orsino's behalf, Viola realizes that her service has encountered a “barful strife” with her unexpected love for Orsino (1.4.41). Chiefly, she is unable to reveal her desires due to Cesario's inabilities to both accurately represent Viola and offer a genuine heterosexual intimacy. Moreover, the unknown whereabouts of Sebastian deter Viola from risking her position in Orsino's court. Viola's freedom has become chained to love and servitude, as her overarching goal, locating her brother, prevents her from acting in good faith to herself. Even Viola's disagreement with Orsino, in which she claims that “In faith, they [women] are as true of heart as we [men],” is accepted with a biased civility (2.4.106). Orsino, who harbors an omnipresent misogynistic attitude, would likely dismiss Viola's argument without consideration if it came from a woman. While her...

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• Coraline a Wizard of Earthsea the Sense of Self Essay

  ...The Search of Self Through the Discovery of the Shadow and the Unconscious If you see a wallet on the ground and discover there is an enormous amount of money in it, what would you do? Do you think you'd return it, or possibly keep the money for yourself? How would you feel about it emotionally afterward? For the sake of an argument let us say you would keep the money. How would you then feel if someone you hate also had the same circumstance happen to them? Would you feel like them keeping the money would further prove why you dislike that person? Did you not also keep the money yourself? In the book Psychoanalysis Terry Eagleton states that "Lacan permits us to explore the relations between the unconscious and human society... the unconscious is not some kind of... private region 'inside' us, but an effect of our relations with one another"(Eagleton 150). The unconscious is part of your "self" and can be negative or positive; the negative side that we produce is part of our ego. Ego is defined as "the complex factor to which all conscious contents are related" the ego is only one half of a whole and that whole is the "self" (Jung 139). Our ego is broken into three sections and the section most apparent in this case is the shadow. The reason why your peer keeping the money creates resentment in you is because of the shadow, it is a part of you that you keep in your unconscious, a part you don't like and when it is revealed to...

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• Bukowski Self-Exploration in Bluebird and Transgressive Fiction Essay

  ...Bukowski Self-Exploration in “Bluebird” and Transgressive Fiction I liked Charles Bukowski’s poem “Bluebird” because it was very gritty and realistic, and I really understood the expression of loneliness and depression and escapism. His work seems to really represent the dirty, gritty, realistic soul of America in the 20th century and he uses his writing to express his inner pain and questions about himself and life. He does this through writing in a realistic way in transgressive poetry, by exploring his own personal problems in life and putting them on paper in the form of poems, and great imagery in his poems. The first thing that I am going to explore is the era that Bukowski was writing in and the poetry of that period that he was a part of. Two movements that Bukowski was a part of were realism and transgressive fiction.2 A lot of the themes surrounding transgressive fiction – breaking out of norms, nihilistic philosophy, and dealing with “taboo” subjects like drugs or sex or violence – are very much common themes in 20th century literature. 8 It was a reaction to the more restrained and polite fiction of the Victorian age. 5 Transgressive fiction deals with dark subjects that never used to get explored in depth. 8 Before transgressive fiction, nobody liked to write about characters breaking out of approved roles or doing things that are common in human experience, but not really that “polite” to talk about publicly in a work of fiction, like...

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