Essays on Hepworth

Everyone, male or female, is subject to the whims and the pressures of society. Of course, not everyone has to bow or bend to the demands of society: there have been a plethora of counterculture movements that have focused on the need to rebel against the mainstream and against the demands that society places on people to conform. Human beings seem to have a simultaneous need within that drives them to want to stand out from the crowd, but also drives them to want acceptance from the crowd. For many, acceptance from the crowd requires conforming to many arbitrary ...

How social interactions may change based on the size of a group

Simmel argues that the larger the group, the more an individual becomes more secluded, alone and segmented. Based on the size of the group, Simmel's views were somehow indefinite. On one hand, he argues the bigger the group of people, the better for an individual. Based on arguments, it is clear that the large the group of individuals, the harder it becomes to exert any control to an individual, by it is very likely the person will become distant and impersonal (Simmel 47). In the smallest social groups, social interaction is usually more intense as opposed to large groups ...

Have Suicide Attacks Helped or Hindered Terrorist Groups’ Goals?

Terrorism that uses suicide as a means of attacking individuals and places is on the rise across the globe with the reasons for the increase in such instances having no clear explanations. However, existing reports that are based on psychological dynamics have gotten contradicted by the widening gap of socioeconomic backgrounds of terrorists who commit such suicide attacks. According to Pape (2003), it is evident that the aim of suicide bombings is to make countries that are liberal and modern in nature to give into demands of terrorist groups existing within their respective borders. Additionally, it is common belief ...