Essays on Self-Analysis

A. The process of creating the portfolio was a very absorbing and interesting experience for me. I believe, it is an essential stage in the work life of any candidate who is striving to start a career in a new sphere or start working at all. First and foremost, it involves profound analysis and self-analysis, which takes much time and effort, so your research and work are not superficial or instantaneous, thus it could be called a very good job. In the process of creating the portfolio I had a chance to analyze my own skills and abilities – not ...

Business

Every year hundreds of people in different countries across the world take a chance and try their faith and start their own small business, which requires a lot of hard work. But for those who survive, the rewards is worth a try. An entrepreneur is an individual, who starts building up his business with limited amount of resources, knowledge, planning, who should always take into account all the risks, remuneration and rewards of his business venture. Business ideas of new start ups set up by entrepreneurs are usually new to the market – an innovation, product or service, but not ...

The poem “The Race” by Sharon Olds and “In the Desert” by Stephen Crane are the poems chosen for the poetic analysis. The first one is a blank verse that in details describes the thoughts of the main hero, the second stands out as a perfectly concise dialogue, which encourages own independent self-analysis. They are unified with the similar topic, which depicts the importance of human soul and neglects everything material. Nevertheless, there are also a lot of differences in poetic form, linguistic and stylistic devices chosen. For sure, some of them are predetermined by the time when the ...

Introduction

Being an American Caucasian, I understand that though I live in an America, my lineage can be traced back to Western Europe (Nadel, 2005). Despite the fact that I have been in America for quite a considerable length of time, I still hold on to some elements of our culture. Considering that America has its cultural identity defined by some particular elements, I have since acclimatise with the culture. In this case, the two cultural backgrounds that makeup my cultural identity are the American culture and the Caucasian culture.

Features that illustrate the Two Cultures

Being a Caucasian American, I have since gained a number of physiognomies that ...

John Updike’s ‘A&P’ and Tillie Olsen’s ‘I Stand Here Ironing’ are two short stories that seemingly do not have anything similar, yet share some themes that form the central core of the stories. Although there are more differences between the two short stories the themes of conflict, feminism and self-analysis runs through both the stories.

Updike is multifaceted and was a novelist, an art and literary critic and a poet. He was a proliferate writer and is one of the very few writers who won the Pulitzer Prize more than once. Most characters in his works go through a personal ...

John Updike’s ‘A&P’ and Tillie Olsen’s ‘I Stand Here Ironing’ are two short stories that seemingly do not have anything similar, yet they share some themes that form the central core of the stories. Although there are distinct differences between the two short stories, the themes of conflict, feminism, and self-analysis run through both the stories. Updike is multifaceted, being a novelist, a literary critic, and a poet. He was a prolific writer and is one of the very few writers who won the Pulitzer Prize more than once. Most characters in his works go through a personal conflict and have ...

Summary of the critical incident

During a recent holiday that I had a residential weekend in Newcastle. I took part in a small group and completed many tasks together. My leader told me that I am needed to integrate into the other people’s culture and enjoy it. The reasons for informing me that I need to share ideas during the teamwork. The teamwork has had playing of a major role in the social life and activities I associate with regularly. During the task such as” building the bridges with a span measured over 3 meters, “different country have different ways of doing things. I was unconsciously denying myself the ...

According to the critical incidence technique, I have a variety of strengths and weaknesses. The weaknesses observed have been affecting my interaction with people, and I need to work on them. My language, which affected by my Chinese origin has affected my communication with other persons. I will work on it by engaging myself in learning both spoken and learning English. I with a language barrier, expressing my ideas during group meetings have been significantly impaired and thus require my quick action. I also noted that I had a problem in adapting to other people's culture. This is because of my Chinese ...

Sigmund Freud was one of the most innovative and pioneering figures in the field of psychology, pioneering many of the basic principles and practices of the field that are still used to this day in one form or another. However, in order to fully understand where these concepts came from, it is vital to know more about Freud’s complex, intriguing and short life. The things he experienced and observed all form the basis and inspiration for many of his essential theories (psychoanalysis, Oedipus complex, and so on). In this essay, we will explore many of his more popular ...

Person centered therapy focuses at helping clients in the growth process so that they can better cope with the difficulties they are facing and with future difficulties. A person centered counsellor will help a depressed client by creating a helping relationship that helps the client explore ares of their life that are distorted (McLeod, 1998)

Case Study of Billy

Billy's self analysis shows that he feels helpless, powerless and incapable to make decisions or efficiently direct his own life. On the brighter side, he has quite a good idea of what he wants for his life. The person centered therapist relies on the self analysis as ...