Introduction to Social Comparison Theory Social comparison theory‚ first introduced by Leon Festinger explains that individuals have an inherent need to evaluate themselves and their place in the world (1954). Individuals look for external standards upon which they can compare themselves and in the absence of objective measures‚ people look to their social environment. The theory posits that individuals compare themselves to others‚ and that through these comparisons they develop self-evaluations
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Semester‚ 2013 English III ENN314Q Reading Classics Assignment 02 Unique assignment number: 343304 First Semester 2013 By Edith Suhartono Student no.: 48063754 Topic: Georg Eliot Middlemarch 0 Edith Suhartono‚ 48063754‚ ENN314Q‚ Assignment 2‚ No. 343304‚ 1st Semester‚ 2013 George Eliot - an Intrusive Author In Middlemarch George Eliot shows us a variety of different characters‚ different living circumstances and classes. Eliot is able to vividly mirror live and fates in her characters by creating
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Running Head: SOCIAL COMPARISON THEORY Introduction Individuals tend to differentiate significantly in conditions of how they observe and assess their personalities & abilities. There are individuals who observe themselves more positively and those more realistically. Research has exhibited that an individual possessing an enhanced view of one’s self-concept through social comparison tends to lead to extremely favorable outcomes. Social Comparison Theory The theory that I had chosen to discuss
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Ecological Footprint Comparison 1. Go to one of these sites and complete the form and find your footprint. 1.9 hectares. 2. Go to one other site and do the same. 4.4 hectares. 3. Compare the result. Compare the question they ask and the biases if any. The first site compare to the second is more complex. However‚ the question is all base on the same‚ but the first test is more specific. The result from second site is 2 times more from the first site. They are all focus on pollution absorption
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and dream of something we are not But would be for your sake. Alas‚ Alas! (Aurora Leigh: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) In 1855 she wrote a sympathetic essay ‘Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft’ that anticipates the concerns she takes up in ‘Middlemarch’: women’s natures‚ their need for work‚ men’s presumption of superiority and its destructive consequences. Eliot says of Fuller‚ “some of the best things she says are on the folly of absolute definitions of woman’s nature and absolute demarcations
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Rubric Thesis follows proper format‚ uses template design. 1 1 Thesis includes at least 3 comparisons with similarities and differences. 1 1 Thesis would gain point on AP rubric: format + 3 comparisons + factually correct + specific + concise. 1 1 Topic sentence introducing topic of paragraph. 1 1 Three pieces of specific evidence. 3 3 Direct Comparison 1 1 Start to analysis - Used cue words‚ got a minimum of 1-2 results/impacts 1 1 Analysis - Gave 3 results/impacts
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individual‚ both men and women. It is not enough to look back at the laws and statistics‚ in order to grasp the concept of marriage. Middlemarch‚ by George Eliot‚ paints a realistic‚ almost disheartening‚ portrait of marriage.
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Middlemarch By: George Eliot. Report Characters: Dorothea Brooke-Tertius Lydgate- Edward Casaubon- Mary Garth- Mr. Arthur Brooke- Celia Brooke- Sir James Chettam- Rosamond Vincy- Fred Vincy- Will Ladislaw- John Raffles. Setting: In a small town in Europe and some parts in London‚ like in XIX (1800). Type of reading: Novel‚ drama. Characterization: Dorothea Brooke: She’s a beautiful‚ really pale‚ clever‚ good‚ kind‚ lovely‚ independent and confident woman; she always tries her best
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The Prelude of Middlemarch very obviously ties Dorthea‚ as the central character and analogous of Saint Theresa‚ to community idealism as does Elliot’s very direct description of Dorthea‚ lacking any subtlety‚ in the beginning paragraphs of Chapter 1 where the reader is told that she yearned by nature “after some lofty conception of the world” and was likely to “incur martyrdom” in a “quarter where she had not sought it.” Since Middlemarch picks up when Dorthea is “not yet twenty‚” her family and
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Women in Middlemarch by Mary Elizabeth Rupp February 23‚ 2002 A major theme in George Eliot ’s novel‚ Middlemarch‚ is the role of women in the community. The female characters in the novel are‚ to some extent‚ oppressed by the social expectations that prevail in Middlemarch. Regardless of social standing‚ character or personality‚ women are expected to cater to and remain dependent on their husbands and to occupy themselves with trivial recreation rather than important household matters. Dorothea
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