The Ideal Self In Quiet, By Susan Cain

Write or Wrong Identity by Emily Vallowe is a short literacy narrative about Emily trying to discover if she is really a writer or if she just believed what a teacher or parent told her. While writing her narrative Emily gave several details from the beginning of her writings to now. She explains that her mother still has some of the books she wrote as a kindergarten student. Throughout the entire text Emily continues to repeat the same phrase “I am a writer” and the more she writes it seems like she becomes less certain of this statement. By the end of the narrative Emily has stated that by the time she reaches her 90s she does not know if she will still be questioning herself as a writer or if she

Judith Butler’s Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy and Jomny Sun’s everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too illuminate similar ideas by using vastly different styles. Butler chooses to display her work in a very detailed, thorough way. Meanwhile, Sun manages to teach the same lesson, using a much simpler method of writing. Even though both of these texts share common themes, they have varying effects on the reader. After reading Butler’s essay, I felt I was being attacked, as if I was being challenged to help change social norms. With Sun, I finished the book feeling soothed and satisfied with the end result. A particular idea brought up in both texts is the idea of categories and their negative effects. The idea of categories of Butler is shown in Sun by the many characters; I believe that the use of categories overwhelmingly carries more negative effects.

Susan Griffin's "Our Secret" is a study in psychology. It is a look into the human mind to see what makes people do the things they do and in particular what makes people commit acts of violence. She isolates the first half of the twentieth century and in particular the era of the Second World War as a basis for her study. The essay discusses a number of people but they all tie in to Heinrich Himmler. He is the extreme case, he who can be linked directly to every single death in the concentration camps. Griffin seeks to examine Himmler because if she can discern a monster like Himmler than everyone else simply falls into place. The essay also tries to deduce why something like the Holocaust, although never mentioned directly, can

The article, The Cult of Womanhood: 1820 - 1860 written by Barbara Welter discusses the philosophy towards women in America during the mid 19th century. A set of demands and expectations based upon four principles: piety, purity, submission and domesticity were placed on women as well as certain behavioral expectations left 19th century women feeling guilty. It also left women feeling this way during the industrialization period as well as having a huge presence of incompatibility with society. Welter shares her viewpoint that the Cult of Womanhood was an attempt to preserve pre modern values in the industrial age. Men held a dominant place in society and continued to prevent new opportunities for women to explore. Narrow minded

The current generation is quizzical of the importance that religious teachings hold in our evolving pro-choice society. In past generations, spiritualism was a method of uniting the community and nurturing the young. However, we find that faith has the adverse effect. While separate from other religions, a rise in hate fueled discrimination and separatism is observable between different communities in all corners of the globe. In this generation, it is only logical that as religion is taught, after learning from present and past events, the very essence of the teachings is skewed and put into question.

In Annie Dillard’s essay “Sight into Insight” she talks about one of mankind’s most value sense, the ability to see. Annie writes about how she views the world in her very own handpicked words which results in me being so mesmerized by her writing, because she explains her picture of the world in such a matter that will disassemble, reassemble and rotate your viewpoint of the colorful world just like a Rubik’s cube. I believe the main idea in her essay “Sight into Insight” was that she tried to teach us how to perceive the world in a new way. She wants the audience and herself to see more than what meets the eye, she shows us how by letting us relieve her childhood memories and by scientifically proving the existence of “disguised” beauty.

Technological advancement has often outperformed scientific knowledge associated with the causes that determine health. Increasing complications in social organization increase the possibilities by which multiple agents can disturb health, including factors such as those that risk physical health like venomous chemicals or radiation, restricted access to sanitary and pure natural resources, and the infinite amalgamation of them all. Decisions taken in areas apparently detached from health frequently have the prospect to have an impact on people’s health in either positive or negative manner due to a large number of links and connections in modern life. Health is an area comprised of highly intricate systems, which can be accidentally

In No Comfort Zone, Marla Handy brings to the surface something many people tend to avoid: post-traumatic stress disorder. Unlike for many members of society, for Handy, it is not and never will be something she can avoid. She works to, momentarily, at least, bridge this gap for her readers by describing some of the symptoms that she and many others with PTSD live with on a frequent basis.

According to a book A Man without Words, Susan Schaller was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming and graduated from San Jose State University in San Jose, California and she got a master’s degree in public health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has worked for over thirty years through public speaking, writing and advocacy to raise awareness of the importance of language and equal access to language. On February 1991, A Man Without Words by Susan Schaller was published. The book is about a deaf man, IIdefonso, twenty-seven years old and he does not know any language before.

Today’s society is so blinded by the illusion of perfection that it fails to realize the consequences of trying to become something impossible. This is reflected in the short story “Two Kinds”. The main character, Jing-mei, and her mother immigrate from China to America, where her mother wishes her daughter to become a prodigy. Jing-mei is excited to be a prodigy at first, but begins to lose hope after consistently failing her mother’s expectations. She rebels against her mother’s impractical tests, and Jing-mei’s mother slowly gives up.

I really enjoyed the book Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski. I learned a lot of things from the book about how to tweak the way I think and feel about body related to sex. There were many take-aways for me personally, and there are also things that I want to tell other people to spread the word. Although I would love to have my best friend read the book, there are two main points I could teach her about from the book.

W. Somerset Maugham said, “There are three rules for writing a good book. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.” However, after reading Perfect by Ellen Hopkins, Hopkins clearly had figured out those three rules because her book was top-notch. A good book could include an interesting writing style, suspense, and a relatable plot. Hopkin’s book managed to follow all three of these rules which made her book and absolutely amazing read.

Everyone says it’s very hard to find your purpose in life. There are so many possibilities and variations of thing we can do and it’s impossible to try everything. For some, it may be hard to find one thing to which they will dedicate their whole life. That’s why Elizabeth Gilbert talks about four different components that fulfill our lives and help us to enjoy it. The first one is hobby.

In this paper I will review the article How outstanding leaders lead with affect: an examination of charismatic, ideological, and pragmatic leaders (Griffith, Connelly, Thiel, Johnson, 2015) and discuss key findings.

In Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Crown: The Link Between Guilt Proneness and Leadership (2012), Dr. Rebecca Schaumberg and Dr. Francis Flynn of Stanford University argue that guilt-proneness is necessary for effective leadership. Applying the trait theory of leadership, their initial motivation was to identify, as many other researchers have, some of the specific characteristics necessary for good leadership. They noted that while positive affectivity is consistently correlated with good leadership, some negative affective traits such as guilt proneness had not been tested for their relationships to leadership ability. Based on previous research which identified guilt as a catalyst of prosocial behavior (Baumeister, Stillwell, & Heatherton, 1994), Schaumberg and Flynn postulated that susceptibility to guilt may incite behaviors corresponding to effective leadership. They supported their hypothesis with three studies consisting of surveys, lab experiments, and archival research. Schaumberg and Flynn’s research was divided into three studies, the results of which challenge perceptions that negative affectivity adversely impacts leadership potential. Their findings also indicate that guilt-prone individuals are more likely to become popular leaders.