Machismo is the belief that some men have about men being superior than women. This was very common between the 60's and 70's in Mexico, and for Mexicans living in certain parts of the United States. In the novel called "House of Mango Street" a...
Bravery, Loyalty, Honesty In Walt Disney’s Pinocchio, a puppet maker named Gapetto creates a marionette to be his son. The blue fairy comes along to bring him to life. Pinocchio must first prove that he is a brave, trustworthy, and unselfish person to become the...
Kooza: A Return to the Roots of Cirque du Soleil Introduction Kooza first premiered in 2007 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where the circus conglomerate Cirque du Soleil, the largest theatrical producer in the world, was founded in 1983 as part of the 450th anniversary celebrations...
The paper demonstrates three different aspect of leadership to deal with violation of integrity within the Dutch police force. The three aspects mainly focus on setting an example at workplace, strictness and openness. To further make a research in this field the author conducted a...
An ideal person is one who is ideal in respect of physical and emotional balance, behavior and attitude, moral values, personality. In practical life, the combination of all these fine characteristics is very rarely found in any person in practical life. Hence, it is tough...
You will find in Plato’s Phaedrus a story about Thamus, the king of a great city of Upper Egypt. For people such as ourselves, who are inclined (in Thoreau’s phrase) to be tools of our tools, few legends are more instructive than his. The story,...
I became friends with Jillian in the summer of 2016, because we both worked at our town’s Parks and Recreation day camp. We became very fast friends, largely due to our willingness and ability to express ourselves to each other, including our honest thoughts and...
Resilience is the capacity to withstand stress and trauma. Plainsong, by Kent Haruf, is an impeccable portrayal of the resilience individuals require to overcome adversity. This adversity defines every character’s life, as they must fight to overcome hardship. People do not accumulate the same life...
The Roman poet Horace once said “adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant”. And on the surface, there are numerous examples that support this statement: our founding fathers, Martin Luther King Jr., and even our current president...
Introduction Understanding one’s personality is like embarking on a lifelong journey of self-discovery. One tool that often aids in this journey is personality tests, which aim to unravel the intricacies of our character. For me, taking these tests has been an enlightening experience, helping me...
In a modern world where everything has changed so much and the concept of integrity is getting lost, is wonderful to find people who still carry this code of behavior with them. People who not only pursue honesty but try to inculcate it in others,...
Group productivity plays a huge part of the Huxtable family and is measured by group integrity. Group integrity is the togetherness of the family. In other words, the family itself tends to develop different strategies to make the group operate better as a coherent and...
Engineers are innovators of the future. They are most often the people who solve the hardest problems in our society in an attempt to bring us into a newer age. It doesn’t necessarily take a degree in Engineering or Computer Science to be an engineer....
Anna Bunting faces adversity each and every day and this helps make her a better, stronger person in the end. “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant” –Horace. This quote signifies that every person faces an obstacle...
Introduction The author of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a fervent anti-transcendentalist who opposes the naïve ideology of the transcendentalists in which they believe that people are always pure and good. Hypocrisy is a dominant theme throughout the novel, as almost all of the...
The LGBTQ+ community has been a prevalent topic in modern society; whether regarding the rights of these members, or hate crimes against them, there is often a story on the news that about the community. However, these stories are exclusive to a select few members...
Philanthropy is the act of being a humanitarian and charitable towards the others by improving their welfare. Just like Barbara Dodd Anderson, people should possess the willingness and motivation towards helping the others. It does not call for someone to be rich sin order to...
Eartha Mary Magdalene White, a well-known African American and a resident of Jacksonville, Florida, was widely known for her humanitarian and philanthropic endeavors. White was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on November 8, 1876. Her Mother died after childbirth, at a very young age, she was...
Popular Media Critique: Popularity and Narcissism Thomas Freeman’s Maxim article, “Here’s Why Narcissists Have the Most Friends,” claims that “people with narcissistic personalities more quickly amass friends and admirers,” but that people with high emotional intelligence “gain the most popularity overtime.” He goes on to...