Identity Essays

Sigmund Freud’s “Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality”, written in 1905, attempted to trace the course of the development of the sexual instinct in human beings from infancy to maturity. This instinct is not simply an animal instinct but is specific to both human culture and the form of …

The discipline of international relations (IR) is one that has witnessed a multitude of variations and shifts. It has produced a fair amount of debate between academics within the international relations scholarship. Due to a plethora of circumstances scholars have subjected the traditional rationalist theories of neorealism and neoliberalism to …

The expression, deviance draws reference to frown upon behaviour in a social context; the breach of various concerted norm that generally exist in a community or in society (Newman 2004). Some types of deviance are determined by criminal law, others by social standards, morality, the expectations of certain social groups, …

“Reading The Popular”. In this analysis, I will be examining the main points in this chapter and discussing Fiske’s explanation for including each one. I will also be examining counter arguments from other sources on his theories. There are five distinctive sections within this chapter: ‘malls, power and resistance’, ‘consuming …

World War One was a time of death, destruction and was in general a conflict of monumental proportions. However, as the cliché goes, there is a silver lining to every storm cloud. In the case of the Great War, the silver lining refers to the great leaps forward made in …

Brazil is the largest Country in South America, it borders every other country of the continent except Chile and Ecuador and has a mixture of many different cultures. In my cross-cultural study I will be comparing Australia to Brazil in relation to gender touching on characteristics such as the workforce, …

Family relationships are not always the loving embraces seen on the Disney Channel. Some can become more malicious, such as those seen on Fox. The poems “My Father’s Song,” by Simon J. Ortiz, and “My Papa’s Waltz,” by Theodore Roethke, are two similar poems written about a father and child …

The divisions of popularity in the world of girls are very clear. Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Wannabees and also Odd Girl Out, discusses two of these divisions. She labels the first group the “alpha” group; these are the girls that are considered “popular,” who wear the trendy …

Regeneration focuses on troubled soldiers’ mental states during WW1. The Craiglockhart setting allows Barker to explore the psychological effects of warfare on men who went to fight and also their feelings about the war and the military’s involvement in it. While the focus of the novel is firmly on the …

Socialisation is the scientific study of human behaviour and activities. It is concerned with how human beings think and act as social creatures. Socialisation is the process through which we become human. It is through our interaction with society that we learn what is necessary to live in each society. …