Self Analysis Examples

As I grew older, it was impossible to notice that my world was imperfect. In elementary school, all my parent’s problems here hidden; I didn’t understand my family’s economic status. As I grew older and began to ask my parents question about our lifestyle and compared it to the other people around us. This conversation would always end in the same place; because we can't afford it. My high school is composed of economically unstable families, and economically stable families. Seeing that other families were better off than mine, I grew up with the idea that a comfortable life, is a luxurious life. I know that others around

In the past, plenty of issues were concealed instead of confronting them, which is no longer the case nowadays. Coontz has noted, “There are plenty of stresses in modern family life, but one reason they seem worse is that we no longer sweep them under the rug” (96). We talk candidly about controversies now, no longer hiding issues. We straighten out the problem instead of hiding or ignoring it. There are two disputing narratives about American families. One

At some point of our lives, we’ve all wondered who our ancestors are, and what might

In over a period of years, an increasing amount of attention has been shed to the problem of child sexual abuse in the church. While churches, and other facilities which care for children, have had their experience of this problem, most attention has been brought to the abuse in the Catholic Church. Around the world, case after case has been seen in the press of clergy and members of religious orders being charged with sex offenses against children. Some of these cases go back decades. The issue has certainly brought attention around the world. The reason why, is the question that ponders in everyone mind.

The family I grew up in has been by far the largest influence on how I think, and they have taught me many great things and have been amazing parents, however in this essay I will focus on how my views have differed from theirs, and how I have learned to think differently. My mother is a small town in the middle of nowhere Oklahoma, and my father is from San Antonio, Texas. I have two sisters, one who is eight years old than myself, the other is two and a half years younger. I was born part of the middle class, white, and I 'm a male. Born in Dallas, Texas I 've spent the vast majority of my life in Frisco, Texas. The entirety of my childhood was spent growing up in a Southern Baptist Christian home. From a young age I was taught in church, which I attended for preschool, that an “acceptable” family is a mother and a father with children. This traditional family model was the setting in which I was raised, so I didn 't realize for a long time that

Not just any institution, the Catholic church yields power and influence on a global scale. Yet again, we see the presence of both an oppressor as well as the oppressed. The Catholic Church has been viewed as the ‘defender of all that is right and just’ throughout history because it claims that many of its unholy actions were carried out in the name of God. As we study history to make sense of the present, we can often become naïve, accepting ‘facts’ at face value. With that said, we form ‘silences’ just like in the historical narrative

Whoever pursued and obtained the ‘unnatural’ or was a ‘threat to the society’ was punished by the church and the society as well as the

Finding Normality Most of humanity walks around with a desire of being normal despite what they have done or experienced; good or bad. The man, a.k.a. FH, narrating Denis Johnson’s short story “Beverly Home” testifies to the need for one’s own feeling of acceptance and feeling normal. FH based on the name he gives himself doesn’t really think highly of himself.

My next offensive argument is that the Catholic Church creates a space of hypocrisy by publicizing one theme of morality but practicing whatever they like through alteration or blatant ignoring of religious tradition within the clerical order with the intent on making money instead of upholding doctrine. This hypocrisy extends to religious vows that were blatantly ignored by the clergy in the past, and do so now with more secrecy. It is Cannon Law that “competent authority of the Church” must take vows of the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty, obedience, and charity (Catholic Canonists). Meanwhile, in the past as seen by the previously mentioned criticisms of Pope Alexander VI’s use of great wealth to help seize the papacy and the modern “Bishop of Bling” shows that both the vows of poverty and obedience to those vows are explicitly ignored by those who are supposed to enforce them. As far as chastity goes, Pope Alexander IV had four, possibly more, very public children with a mistress that he was able to legitimize and use for his own political ventures, as well as two other mistresses he had while serving as pope, blatantly ignoring the vow of chastity (Murphy). In more recent days the Catholic Church sex scandal of pedophilic priests and Cardinals shows not only an air of disobedience and sexual immorality, but that the insubordination of the clergy hasn’t stopped since the more “primitive” days but has

In a world context of ever-growing LGBT rights, since Pope Francis's election in 2013 there has been renewed hope that the Catholic Church is evolving towards greater tolerance of sexual minorities. Huffington Post published a story in August 2015 featuring a unique nun, known pseudonymously as Sister Monica, who claims that her God-ordained purpose is to provide religious guidance for transgender people (Gadoua). Although this article seemingly indicates a major shift within religious institutions, a Marxian analysis shows that fails to demonstrate a real divergence. Sister Monica's story simply repackages the familiar notions of martyrdom, the malleability of the Church, and religion's conformity to societal norms.

Satire is constantly evolving in order to maintain with the times. As technology, culture and humanity change and grow, satire is forced to grow with it. Satire of our modern time is more likely to be found on our phones than on print, more likely on a television than a telegram. By merging with pop culture, in forms of Family Guy and Comedy Central news shows, these forms of satire are able to stay relevant. But, despite the change in medium, the purpose of satire and effect of satire holds true. Modern satire, just as that of past satire, sheds light on the problems of our society through ridicule and mockery, without reinforcing and further cementing the stereotypes and prejudices they are trying to expose.

When my classmates and I should have been at home watching Recess or Ed, Edd and Eddy while overdosing on sugar laced cereals such as Coco Pops or Cookie Crisp, we braced the bitter cold to line the never ending concrete steps of the Cathedral in full school uniform, quietly anticipating the arrival of the ‘saintly’ relic. I know the Catholic Church has long been associated with child abuse but this was abuse of a different sort. They robbed me of my Saturday morning and for that I cannot forgive.

I am a fast worker; I easily find ways on how to get things done. Basing from the comments I have earned from my supervisor during my On-the-job training, she said that I am an accurate and fast worker.

Use the guided analysis exercises within the lesson as a model for this part of the assignment.

Nelson, Jeffrey A. (2009). "Sex Abuse in the American Catholic Church and the Attempt at Redemption". Communication & Theater Association of Minnesota. Summer: 37–51. "From a review of the New York Times, January 9 through April 18, 2002."