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Trying to Explain Tragedy in Oedipus the King, a Play by Sophocles (1163 words, 4 pages)

Sophocles Oedipus the King tells the tale of Oedipus, the King of Thebes, who became king by marrying the widow of the previous king, Laius. From Oedipus, I studied the passage from line 249 to line 322. In an effort to make sense of the passage, I was able to ... Read More

An Examination on How the Caribbean is Following the American Cultures in the Conformity of Music (2937 words, 12 pages)

The Conformity of MusicAmerica has a standing within the leading economies in the world, making it a role model society for other countries in many different ways. In retrospect, one of their leading industries that are closely followed throughout the world is their music. The United States is home to ... Read More

A Reflection on a Lesson About Conformity in a Sesame Street Episode and the Appropriate Limit of Watching Television for Children (646 words, 2 pages)

For this reflection paper, I decided to watch a portion of a Sesame Street episode about conformity. In this segment, we are told the story of muppet-like characters, Stan and Dan. Dan was always copying everything that Stan did, what he wore, and how he acted because he wanted to ... Read More

The Reality of Society and Escaping Conformity by Accepting Themselves As They Are in Be As You Are, a Song by Mike Posner (1648 words, 6 pages)

Be You-niqueIts simple really, according to the guiding figures in our lives, that simply abiding by ones own thoughts, ones own ideas of who they are, will lead to a future rich with happiness, success, and love. For centuries brave individuals have fought back against the demanding societal pressures that ... Read More

A Letter to Convince My Aunt to Try the New Drug for Treating Her SCCHN (1737 words, 6 pages)

Dear Aunt,I hope youre doing well. Ill be coming to visit you sometime in the next week so we can catch up on things and maybe watch a movie together theres lots of laughing to be done! However, I found something that is really exciting and might be a great ... Read More

A Case Study on Bloom’s Tries to Ensure the Company Gets What They Paid for Regarding Training Their Salespeople (576 words, 2 pages)

This case study presents a particularly challenging scenario for Bloom to navigate in order to ensure the company gets what they paid for in the training and that the salespeople are engaged and in turn take something positive away from the training. After the first training session it appears that ... Read More

The Experiences of Women Trying to Be Successful in the World in A Room of One’s Own and To the Lighthouse, Two Books by Virginia Woolf (2839 words, 8 pages)

Virginia Woolfs books are great examples of showing what women go through when trying to be successful in the world, especially aspiring female role models. In A Room of Ones Own she discusses a typical Victorian womans relationship with the men around her and how she is so often interrupted, ... Read More

The Advantage and Disadvatage of Women Rebellion and Women Conformity (1210 words, 4 pages)

Today, women have to make a choice whether to rebel or conform to several heavy expectations placed on them due to their quite prominent oppression throughout society specifically through the media. Both routes have advantages and consequences, but most choose to conform to these expectations. Conformity can present one with ... Read More

The Theme of Conformity in Two Short Stories: A&P by John Updike and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (1145 words, 3 pages)

John Updikes AP and Shirley Jacksons The Lottery share a common theme, conformity. Before comparing the two works, I want to define the term. What is conformity? Conformity is the behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards (Websters Dictionary). Now, with that being said, why would the authors ... Read More

The Issue of Trying and Sentencing Minors on the Example of Marin Sinzer’s Case (1284 words, 4 pages)

AbstractFor about 100 years our society has thought about whether or not it is moral or legal to try a minor or juvenile as an adult in our legal system. No one in our society has thought about whether or not we could or should try an adult in a ... Read More

Women are Trying to Look Good to Draw the Attention of a Confident and Powerful Man (1687 words, 6 pages)

Power Over BeautySocietal remarks against womans bodies have been used throughout advertising to appeal to the companies target markets. Through the portrayal of heterosexual relationships and encounters in advertisements throughout todays media, comes the alienation of the homosexual community. This leads to a lack of purchasing the products that arent ... Read More

An Analysis of Conformity in The Giver by Lois Lowry and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (635 words, 2 pages)

John F. Kennedy once said, "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." In other words saying that limiting yourself to society's expectations acts like a prison, holding one's freedom of choice and hindering one's ability to better understand and accept themselves, thus disabling them from moving ... Read More

A History of the Exclusion of Certain Races Trying to Immigrate to the United States (1374 words, 5 pages)

During specific times of American history there was a great amount of exclusion towards certain races trying to immigrate to the United States in hopes of new opportunity in the land of the free. This influx of immigrants from foreign lands threatened the newly established sense of nationalism, the moral ... Read More

The Important Aspects, and the Pros and Cons of Conformity (546 words, 2 pages)

Being different in society and standing out in your own way is a rare and unique quality. In todays society is very common to see how social pressure affects to all the people at anytime, and it is more powerful than we can think. This kind of social pressure is ... Read More

Sarte’s Criticism of Blind Conformity in the Play Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco (1285 words, 4 pages)

We are nothing and in action become conscious of that original nothingness. -Jean-Paul SartreSartre, the philosophical spokesman for Existentialism in Paris during the rise of the Theatre of the Absurd, criticized one of the absurd play by Eugene Ionesco named Rhinoceros, which was written to depict the criticism of blind ... Read More

The Factors That Influence and Individual to Conform to a Deviant Group (4204 words, 14 pages)

AbstractDeviant groups rely on its members to uphold group ideals and to maintain practice of those ideals. When a deviant group increases its member size, it also increases its reputation among other groups and among society, which is fragile and able to again decrease. This means that the group seeks ... Read More

The Conformity of Women to Society Through Janie’s Actions in the Novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1028 words, 3 pages)

In her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Hurston uses Janie's actions to suggest that in order for a woman to conform to early 1900's society she must first sacrifice her ambitions and lower her expectations for her own accomplishments. Throughout the novel, Janie marries Logan Killicks, Jody Starks ... Read More

Being Constrained by Society Versus Conforming to Society in the Characters of Blanche and Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (600 words, 2 pages)

A Streetcar Named DesirePost- World War 2 America was great, if you were a man. Women and other minorities face boundless issues in a society built by men whose only purpose was to repress others. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanches character is representative of all the problems a person ... Read More

A Review of the Play How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (398 words, 1 pages)

How to succeed in Business Without Really TryingOn March 8, 2014, I went to watch a play called How to succeed in Business Without Really Trying. The play was about a young window washer who reads a book called How to succeed in Business Without Really Trying and applies it ... Read More

Freedom of Expression and the Dangers of Conformity in the Short Story The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster (1130 words, 4 pages)

Messages of the MachineThe world in which E.M. Forsters short story The Machine Stops is set has been so extremely standardized and stripped of individuality that any difference in personality of the storys characters becomes especially noticeable and meaningful. Forster conveys his ideas about freedom of expression and the dangers ... Read More

Ethnic Identity in Trying to Find Chinatown, a Play by David Henry Hwang (400 words, 1 pages)

The manner in which Benjamin and Ronnie identify themselves are very similar but extremely different. Benjamin identifies himself as an Asian American due to the fact that he was adopted and raised by Chinese parents. Although he possesses no blood from China, he fully identifies himself as having an ethnic ... Read More

Apple Pay Trying to Take over the Banking Industry (538 words, 2 pages)

Apple Pay is a method of payment that is used on iPhones and is quickly gaining popularity as the years are passing. This is making banks worried that they may lose customer loyalty and that Apple may top them.The Apple Pay is starting to become more popular. Only a minority ... Read More

In Highbrow/Lowbrow Author Lawrence Levine Argues That the Upper Class Is Always Trying to Make Itself More Elite (1115 words, 4 pages)

The United States unemployment rate is at a staggering 9.1 and people walk day in and day out of the Missouri Career Center empty-handed and feeling completely hopeless (Employment Situation Summary). They fail to pick up the countless pamphlets about how dressing appropriately can land you the position of your ... Read More

The Conformation of the American Constitution to the Ideal Government of St. Thomas (500 words, 2 pages)

Throughout the pages of history, many men have attempted to set upa perfect government that would ensure lasting security and happiness. Sofar, no manmade government has come close to obtaining this goal. Therehave always been flaws. It is said that there can be no perfectgovernment, since man himself is imperfect. ... Read More

Why Do I Conform? (1465 words, 5 pages)

Journal 1 Why Do I Conform?Amazed. That is the only word I can come up with to describe how I feel. There have only been four lectures so far but this class is already making me rethink everything I thought I knew about society and the role I play in ... Read More

An Exercise Plan and a Healthy Diet Plan For a Person Trying to Lose Weight (506 words, 3 pages)

Todays world is dominated by appearance. Because of this obsession with weight and body image, people search for the perfect diet, feeling that they must have a models figure to be accepted by society. Without exercise, a diet would not perform effectively. People often quit diets because they dislike constantly ... Read More

Changing the Behavior of Classmates Using Laptops to Take Notes by Enacting the Persuasion Tactic of Conformity (1352 words, 5 pages)

Last week in each one of my classes I attempted to change other peoples behavior of taking notes using a laptop during class. Earlier in the year Professor Oishi explained how there are studies that show that students understand and remember material better when taking notes in a notebook rather ... Read More

A Study of Obedience and Conformity in Society (570 words, 2 pages)

Obedience is a behavior change that is produced by the commands of some sort of authority (Brehm, Kassin, Fein, 1999). Some of the key variables that are responsible for an increase in obedience, as found in the Milgram studies, are when commands are given by an authority figure, the experiments ... Read More

The Two Prevailing Theories that Try to Explain the Properties of the Mind (1828 words, 7 pages)

What is the mind? Where does it come from? Is it supernatural, i.e. unexplainable by science, or natural, existing due to physical phenomena? Philosophers have pondered over these questions for thousands of years without an end in sight. While many have thought that the mind is something unquantifiable, recent discoveries ... Read More

The Psychological Rule of the Government Over the Constituents and the Belief and Conformity of the Constituents in The Norwegian Rat by Naguib Mahfouz (614 words, 2 pages)

Naguib Mahfouzs piece The Norwegian Rat is a study in governments psychological rule over its constituents, and the willingness of said constituents to believe all that which they have been told by their governing body. Mahfouzs prose is clean if not bland, relaying only the facts with little attitude to ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013