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People think they can tell others identity or personality just by looking at them. People judge others all the time, one cant really help an impulse idea about the person. The reality is there is more to a persons identity than what people can see. We question how identity is amped everyday. Some believe it is influenced by personal choices; other believe it is by culture. There are obviously many different things that go into forming a persons identity. In my opinion culture is one of the most influential things that going into shaping a persons identity. This argument can be enforced in the articles “Who You Callin a Bitch” by Queen Latifah, Julian Dibbell’s “Alter Egos” and Mrigaa Sethi’s “Facebook:Editing Myself”

The article “Revenge: will you feel better,” author Karyn Hall (2013) claims that while the temptation of revenge may be convincing, acting upon these urges is not always worth the consequences after. Hall contemplates the idea of revenge being “self destructive” and being harmful to both those giving and receiving revenge. Furthermore the article states People who have been hurt seem to believe that if the other party suffers, then they will feel better and that their emotional pain will lessen. This idea is later touch on towards the end of the article when author explains the idea of the “understanding hypothesis”, which is when the offender knows the connection between the original insult and the retaliation. In contrast, the author also

There are many lessons to learn in life. I believe that we are dealt with some trials, some larger than others. We make choices based on our reactions to these certain circumstances some of us regret our choices or decisions and learn from them to do better the next time. I believe that is what life is about. What choices we make and the outcome of the choices and what we can do to make it better is our decision.

Throughout life everyone has been in a situation where they were offended or they have offended someone else. Therefore, forgiving someone is therapeutic for the victim, and the offended. However, when someone is wronged, justice is what they seek. On the contrary, when people feel pain from being wronged, they experience an “injustice gap.” Worthington defines “injustice gap” as, “the difference between the way the person would like a transgression to be resolved, and the way things are perceived to be currently” (Worthington Jr, 2005, pg. 121).

In the film ‘Her’, directed by Spike Jonze, the main protagonist,Theodore Twombly conveys the idea of alienation via technology and its possible effects, due to his depression via his divorce and his easy going relationship with an artificial intelligence operating system named Samantha. The idea of alienation and technology and its possible effects on human relationships is conveyed via the quote, “Sometimes I think I have felt everything I'm ever gonna feel. And from here on out, I'm not gonna feel anything new. Just lesser versions of what I've already felt.” Theodore recently experienced is his divorce depression, and therefore becomes vulnerable, anti-social from society and isolated himself, by spending time with the artificial intelligence

I don’t understand the urge to hurt someone physically, mentally, or emotionally despite frequent occurrences and can only hope that I never put someone in a position that would cause such grief and pain.

Howard Zieff ‘s 1991 film My Girl, is a comedic drama and coming-to-age tale of a young girl that goes through an emotional roller-coaster, which confronts her with death at a very young age. The film replicates real-life scenarios and experiences which grabs the audience’s attention because it’s relatable. End result, we are all confronted with the fact that death is inexplicably inevitable.

Psychological conditions leave more of a scar in your heart than being physically hurt. For instance, the idea of being separated

Mommie Dearest was a biography by Christina Crawford. In the book and movie, it talked and showed the abuse that she endured through her childhood. Joan Crawford was the adopted mother to Christina and other children who were adopted. During the time of Christina living with her mother, in that time she noticed Joan suffered from various psychosocial factors. Those factors affected Joan’s ability to have a meaningful relationship with other people. Most of everything that we see in the movie is based off of what Christina has experienced while she was living with her mother. Although the scenes that you see in the movie are actual disorders that Joan had you also have to remember that the media and films can justify truths or can bend it in negative and positive ways.

Pain can be emotional or physical, but the obvious part about it is that it is caused by being hurt by someone or something. The mental wall that everyone builds after being emotionally abused makes many people believe nothing will ever hurt them. They are extraordinarily wrong. Even when someone believes one hundred percent that the wall is indestructible, they should never have

In the story “The Love of My Life,” author T. Coraghessan Boyle, writes about China and Jeremy, two outstanding students in love with each other. China and Jeremy spend every moment together that they can. When they got to college they discover that they China is pregnant. The two are terrified by the pregnancy and try their best to hide that China is pregnant from their peers and parents. When the baby is born both teens do not want it and Jermy throws it in a dumpster. Today’s kids are given everything they could want. When a problem rises they are not sure how to deal with it because they have been given everything all their life. Society is to blame because society tells kids how their life is suppose to be and when it is not what society says it is okay to act up.

The movie, Girl, Interrupted, displays Susanna Kaysen’s eighteen-month stay at a mental institute in the 1960s. This film was an adaptation of a book based on a true story of the main character and author Susanna Kaysen. Susanna was checked into Claymore, a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts, after chasing a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka. At first, Susanna denies this blatant attempt at suicide and constantly struggles with uncertainty of her thoughts and emotions. Although Girl, Interrupted exhibits several mental disorders one of the most prevalent disorder of this film is Susanna’s Borderline Personality Disorder. This film depicts majority of the signs and symptoms of a person with Borderline Personality. As stated in the textbook, “the lives of persons with borderline personality are marked by instability. Their relationships are unstable, their behavior is unstable, their emotions are unstable, and even their images of themselves are unstable” (Larsen and Buss 593). Susanna’s romantic relationships are extremely unstable and she frequently engages in casual sex. She jumps from one guy to another in a matter of few weeks. One scene that establishes this the most is when her boyfriend at the time comes to visit her at Claymore and expresses his true feelings for her and she instantly withdraws. He asked her to go to Canada with him and she turns him down immediately. She also kisses Lisa who she befriends at the mental institute, displaying a switch of

The article discusses how not choosing to forgive can hinder people from fully recovering. Brief therapy says that it is natural and okay for a person to feel anger toward an abuser but instead of teaching the benefits of forgiveness and letting go of the resentment, brief therapy does not allow the opportunity for reflection and understanding of what happened and why it may have happened. It does not allow the opportunity to find meaning in the suffering of the abuse, and when we can’t find meaning in something we can’t accept it and move on. Brief therapy causes people to dwell more on their anger, making it almost impossible to improve the negative outcomes of the abuse.

Eeny Meeny is an amaing book about taking precious things and trying to break them. It’s about coping with your decisions which one felt forced to do, much like Macbeth when he kills the king and all that fills his mind is horrible thoughts that keep him up at night. Each of the actions of people in this book takes a different toll on the individual, and each of them takes a different path after the incident. I am going to write a musical tribute to three of the victims in the book. Music is a way to say more about the characters than words ever would.

To lead a happy and fulfilling life, I believe we should all discover our own philosophy of life. Exercising the ability to rationally use our thinking and reasoning abilities is essential. We should all strive to be honest, good people and live our lives as well and happy as possible. Through experience we learn about ourselves and the world around us. I still have