Essays on Self-Discovery

Introduction

Desirable Daughters is a novel by Bharati Mukherjee that seeks to illustrate the intricate relations that exist between the Indian caste system and the Western experiences of the immigrants in an effort towards reconciling the world views regarding the feminist gap between the two cultures. In a bid to reveal the intricacies of the caste system in India, Mukherjee delves deeper into the nature of three sisters in the novel and the circumstances they find themselves as they try to fit in different societies. From the outset, it is worth noting that the three sisters from Calcutta belong to ...

Self-discovery is the journey to which one gains knowledge of their character and understanding of feelings and abilities. Christian ministry leaders should encourage disciples in the path of self-discovery (Gaiser, 2010). The journey is important as it enables a person to identify their purpose in life. Digging deep into past experiences reveals instances that mold a person. The benefits of self-discovery include enlightenment, clarity, fulfillment, and happiness. Self-discovery nurtures personal growth in the different ways people think, learn and perceive the world. However, the journey is usually challenging. It involves misunderstanding, fear, confusion, and doubt. It involves decision making ...

(Doctoral students must include the following on the title page instead: The essential task of leaders is to perfect how the things work in the organization. Changing the way “work works” is the essential foundation of leadership, according to Peter Cook (Cook, 2009). Therefore, the leader is the person who takes the organization to the next stage of development and improves processes to make them more effective and functional. This statement is true for several types of organization, such as bands, charities, and for-profit companies. The Five L qualities of leaders are based on the activities they engage in ...

There can be no denial of the fact that the novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by the famous author, Mark Haddon, is one of the best literary works to be adapted in the cinematic form of expression. Indeed, the story in context has enormous scope of quintessential and aesthetic portrayal of the events, emotions, frictions, and mystery. The young teenager of the narrative, Christopher, is the hero of this story in context. The way he is portrayed in the literary narrative truly impresses the readers, and it provides ample scope for catapulting the affective ...

Thesis

Toni Morrison's novel, Home, is an allegory that uses post-Korean war setting to paint a picture of the never-ending human conflicts like war, racism, trauma and manhood. Despite many years as the world’s superpower, America has not yet found a solution for world conflicts. Despite fighting in Korea, where he lost his homes, Frank Money has not yet learned how to be a man, and he thinks of Lotus, where he was grown, as a place worse than any battlefield. The novel is a reflection of a struggle that never ends, no matter how someone, how a country ...

Kate Chopin’s late 19th-century novel The Awakening, and its protagonist Edna Pontellier, demonstrates a protagonist with a complex and layered inner life, pioneering the extent to which female lead characters in American fiction could be displayed. Throughout the novel, her sense of self as it is positioned within the societal expectations of wifehood and motherhood in the late 1800s is continually challenged, as she must weigh the pressures placed on her by her husband and community against her own individual wants and needs. In this respect, feminism and marriage play a significant role in Edna’s growth and ...

Van Helsing as a Protector: The Role of the Vampire Hunter the Present-Day Vampire Culture

Abstract The vampire culture grew out of the Gothic genre and became extremely popular throughout the world. The first and most famous representative of the vampire cast is Dracula, who first appeared as a protagonist in Bram Stocker’s book with the same name. Dracula was created as a predator that hid within his threatening castle, and attacked helpless women. The author also introduced Van Helsing, the hero who acted as a protector of women and fought to destroy the monster. However, Van Helsing remained a less popular and well-known character as compared to the monster he hunted. In ...

Introduction

There are numerous reasons that may support the current upward trend being experienced by the travel industry. This is highly evident among young people who have a lot of free time at their disposal and those who are already employed full-time . With the combination made by a stable income and a significant amount of free time after work, more and more people from the younger generations are becoming enticed to spend their hours and money traveling to different locations. The trend in travel and tourism is so strong that evidences of its growth are now evident even in rural ...

Personal Essay

I had always been fascinated by the skills possessed by the great public speakers. It was a pleasure to witness the power of expression displayed by the orators. I always thought that, to get the recognition and popularity, oratory is the best method. Every time I was swayed by any eloquent speaker, the desire to imitate the performance, similar to one that witnessed, arose. However, there was a big problem that always held me back from taking the initiative. It was the fear of being mocked in the event of performance going haywire. Whenever I thought of addressing a ...

Back at the beginning of the course I was talking about positive and negative leadership experiences that I gained during my time in the Security Sector in Saudi Arabia. I had the opportunity to work under the supervision of two different individuals, one of which will forever remain an example of the unappropriated and even destructive leadership, while the other until todays shapes my understanding and personal concept of great leadership practices. It was an impressive contrast of two completely different leadership styles, and I would like to focus this work on the positive experience and ...

In everyone’s life, there are some actions or events that define who or how a person is. I am also not an exception. But among all, there is one that disillusioned me of a lifelong misconception about myself. The irony of my life led to a subconscious false and flat (stereotypical) lifestyle that needed a shock (climax) to wake me up to true self discovery.

I was a child of a conflicting family who had no normal boyhood. In the middle of all the conflicts, I grew up as a timid and inhibited child. A thousand nights passed by without any sleep or peace. ...

Abstract

Large multinational corporations in the contemporary business environment have a strong focus on leadership as the external environment places pressure on sustainability of their business models, based solely on the downstream advantages. With the growing complexity of the business, HRM became a paramount strategic element of the organizations, where leadership development and retention build on the core of business competitiveness. Many companies in the modern environment recognize the role of human capital in building productive and efficient internal environment and creating rare and inimitable assets. At the same time, there are numerous barriers that can be seen in the contemporary ...

A human being becomes acquainted with the concept of the self when he starts recognizing a number of things about himself like what are the characteristics, positive and negative things in my personality. Further a human being analyzes that when he is comfortable with any situation and when finds himself in trouble facing any particular situation. Thus self is the set of ideas that a human being embrace about himself and the self plays an important role in the assessment and development of an individual’s personality. This paper discusses the concept of the self and various other related aspects . After ...

No doubt, creation, annihilation and conservation in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” provide a background for the exploration of the ruination and undoing of particular human attributes. “The Modern Prometheus,” the subtitle of Shelley’s novel further reinforces this notion. In fact, this notion is further reinforced by the fact that Shelley’s novel can be regarded as a modern version of the classic German legend of Faust. Shelley puts together the idea of the ruination of human attributes as a result of self-discovery as evidenced by Frankenstein, who claims that he has been blasted in hopes, and the same can be said ...

Introduction

Global business environment is placing more and more pressure on the organizational ability to address diversity in the company. The reality shows that cultural, racial and social diversity along with geographical disperse of the companies creates new and, yet, not fully explored field in Human Resource Management (HRM), Leadership and Management studies. Modern considerations on the selection and recruitment processes that call for specific cross-cultural management capabilities outline the direction in which leadership and management practices have been and will continue to evolve in the near future (Sims, 2007). Team work and leadership practices in this field are one ...

INTERNAL MANAGEMENT

Human Resource Management (HRM) went through the process of transformation over the past decades, which transformed it from supportive administrative function into a strategic element of the companies. This process was majorly determined by the changing and increasingly complex external business landscape, where the competitive advantage of the companies, based on price and product availability could no longer sustain and guarantee long-term profitability and effectiveness (Boxhall and Purcell, 2011; Pravin, 2010). With that in mind, more and more organizations started to realize the role of human capital as a core strategic asset and resource of the organizations. This realization brought into ...

Introduction

This argumentative essay will examine different thoughts regarding religion. This analysis has been carried out with the help of specific epistemology. Some of the most important discussions are carried out in order argue critically about the practices of religion, ethics and science. 1.Ethics A Ethical system based on humanity and equality is essential for making a balanced society. Any kind of ethical system, which is backed by the factors of humanity and equality, will surely give benefits to the people living in any part of the world. It is no denying the fact that every ethical system ...

Digital literature in the United States of America is presently a prominent form of literature. This style of Art has gained popularity with the increased usage of internet and digital applications. The style has been applied in a range of artistic works including cannibalistic poetry. Michael Oswald has distinguished himself among the best digital artists in California today. Michael Oswald, popularly known as Michael, has also distinguished himself in digital art, owning digital host networks specifically for displaying his artistic work. Michael has majored in photo art, editing a number of reference photos to remarkable art, which has raised him to the ...

The Marwencol film is an American documentary film created in the year 2010.The film explores Mark Hogancamp's works and the life as a photographer and artist. The film reflects the life of Mark Hogancamp from the time he was brutally beaten to his life after getting hospitalized for forty days and nine days in a coma. Mark’s mother is even unable to recognize him and had little memory left in his past. Mark has lost his senses of touch and movements on some of his body parts. He is unable to pay for therapy after getting hospitalized, and he starts ...

Philosophy is an interesting discipline as it tries to find answers to several challenging aspects of man and the processes of nature. Since time immemorial, man has been in a quest to find the self and understand the surrounding in which they reside. In the West, realism and romanticism were two competing cultural thoughts and artistic styles aimed at communicating the interactions/relationships between mankind and nature. Romantics associated with Plato emphasized on individual heroic achievement, power of emotions and mysticism dominating the European intellectual life while realists associated with Aristotle focused art and literature to more tangible matters with the ...

Introduction

“Into the wild” (1996) by Jon Krakauer and “Lead us into temptation: the triumph of American materialism” (1999) by James B Twitchell are two books with similar themes – the only difference being that one is an antithesis of the other. Before beginning on the journey of the exploring these themes and understanding what each of the author sought to achieve in writing the respective books, let us take a brief look into the story of each of these aforementioned books.

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

“Into the Wild”, though seemingly a fiction, is essentially a non-fiction book, which was written as an extension of an article Jon ...

RESPONSE: THE SEVEN HABITS

Response: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Person is one of those books that I feel could really help me develop into a better person. I agree with Jim Collins who wrote in the foreword that the book is not guide on how to succeed in life or a career. It is not the usual self-help good. Rather, the book is about character development. It is hard to question Covey’s underlying philosophy in the development of character. It is character that determines who we are, how we feel, and how we ...

Introduction and Problem Identification

Organization is a social phenomenon, where individual actors and organizational group factors outline the set of behaviours and personality traits, which build on the comfort zone and standards of those, within it (Armstrong & Baron, 2002). To understand the relationships between organizational culture and personality traits and cultural influence on individual behaviour it is critical to recognize that the as social element, organization and individuals are mutually affected (Huczynski & Buchanan 2010). That said; the values, principles and procedures within the company are static, influenced by the individual behaviours, while the same individuals change their roles and acts, influenced by the group ...

Interview Summary – Hassan AL Naser

The task that we received for this assignment is to identify and interview someone in the professional field, relevant for our careers. The objective of this interview is to understand his role as a leader in the company and learn with his experience for our future. I have an acquainted that works for the Saline Water Conversion Corporation and I decided to approach him and ask for fifteen minutes of his time to conduct an interview. When I receive his confirmation, we scheduled skype interview and I prepared for it in advance, to be able to lead the conversation and ...

The three centuries of colonization of Brazil by the Portuguese empire led to Brazil adopting most of the cultural practices owned by the Portuguese. Among the cultural inheritance that Brazil acquired is their language, the Portuguese architectural styles and the christian predominant religion. However, after gaining independence, a sense of nationalism, which can be defined as the political or philosophical ideology that stresses on the welfare of a nation or state to be regarded paramount by its people, was adopted by the Brazilians. They eventually started experiencing a process of self-discovery both politically, economically and socially. Some of the cultural self-discovery that ...

Bernard Malamud’s short story, The Last Mohican, follows American Fidelman in his travel to Rome, Italy, and his conflict with the itinerant Shimon Susskind. Fidelman, a self-described “failure as a painter,” arrives from New York to Italy to do a critical study of artist Giotto (417). Before he can even begin, his encounter with Susskind interrupts his precisely laid and budgeted plans for his studies and travels in Italy. He thinks Susskind is stalking him because Susskind wants one of his two suits. However, after his briefcase with his writing is stolen from his hotel, Susskind is suddenly nowhere to be ...

Romanticism is a historical era that began in the late 18th century. Its peak was around 1800 to 1850 when it had a massive influence in Europe. Romanticism is defined as an artistic and intellectual movement comprised of an individual's interest in nature and validation of high emotions and imaginations in expression. Romanticism was a rebellion against the established social classes and conventions. It was a movement established in search of personal freedom in terms of political and artistic elements. Romanticism in particular was a revolt against the age of enlightenment and a reaction to industrialization. Members of romanticism toiled to revive their history and ...

Question one

A maxim that, in order to maximize my pleasure, I will take recreational drugs whenever I feel like is self-defeating. It cannot be applied as a universal law to all humans as rational beings. It will be a failure to cultivate talents in exchange for a life full of pleasure and leisure. This is also a compromise of human capacity for self insight, self development and personal growth. This is because it is just a quick fix to challenge individuals are facing in their lives. Additionally, Kant provided arguments against taking of recreational drugs because he termed them as exclusive substitutes for self ...

When studying the theories of childhood, there are many different beliefs and opinions available, many different interpretations, and many varying points of view. How does one decide what is right and what is not so? How can one determine which is fact and what is false? How can one decide which theorist is the one which makes the most sense? Is one theorist necessarily right, or perhaps is a combination of two or more different theories perhaps more to one’s liking or beliefs? It really can be quite confusing and has proven to be so for many people over ...

A definition of self-identity: transversal analysis of the philosophical problematic of the self and the quest for self-acceptance and happiness.

If there is a pertinent question to be asked, as many times as a mind gets lost in the world of ambivalent feelings, decisions, choices, vices, uncontrollable passions, deep boredom, despair and fears, as well as excitement, pleasure and joy is this one: «Who am I?». It is not an innocent question and it does not allow an innocent answer, as all possible paths leading to it are rooted in the most important quest any human being can go in search of: the quest for self-acceptance and happiness. It is a long expedition to the roots of any life, involving the past ( ...

Introduction According to Erik Erikson’s theory, youth is a time of self discovery (Alice and Landale 2011). A young person attempts to seek individual identity which is separate from family. During this period, the youth tend to think in terms of establishing a life philosophy which is free from conflict. This is in contrast to the reality, which is laden with conflict. In this process of self discovery, the youth tend to be rash and ignorant and in a sense consider themselves ‘immortal gods’. This can be illustrated by the carefree attitude they adopt (Hunt et al., 2009). Many ...