Identity

The keyword Identity is tagged in the following 12 articles.

Fraternity and Social Change in the Digital Age: The It Gets Better Project in the March of Online Fraternity

January 2, 2012 - 14749 words | Political Science » Social Change

Throughout the ages, communication has impacted human interactions and relationships. The dawning of the digital age has changed communication, facilitating individual and group interaction in previously unimaginable ways. However, has such transformation fundamentally... Read Article »

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Identity Communication Internet Fraternity Social Change Digital Age It Gets Better

Dissociative Identity Disorder: Overview and Current Research

May 9, 2011 - 3200 words | Psychology » Identity Disorders

This paper entails a description of factors related to diagnosis and treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Epidemiology, including risk factors and sociocultural aspects of the disorder are presented, along with recommendations for treatment. Highlights of current... Read Article »

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Dissociative Identity Disorder Identity Disorders

The Importance Of Canadian Identity: Michael Adams' Fire And Ice and Richard Bocking's Canada's Water

April 1, 2011 - 1523 words | International Affairs » Canada

Michael Adams’ Fire and Ice and Richard Bocking’s excerpts from Water Export: The Canadian Response present two very distinct scenarios in which the relationship between Canada and the United States is played out. Fire and Ice consists of mostly raw data... Read Article »

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Canada Identity Michael Adams Richard Bocking

Examining Intersectionality: The Conflation of Race, Gender, and Class in Individual and Collective Identities

March 28, 2011 - 1374 words | Political Science » Identity

As many cultural studies theorists have noted, Identity is problematic (Hall, 1989; Ang, 2001; Brah, 1996). It is ambiguous because it is in a constant state of negotiation and interpretation: ever changing, always contested, sometimes contradictory, and continuously... Read Article »

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Identity Gender Race Class Feminism Intersectionality

Identity in Conflict: Race and Violent Crime in South Africa in the Context of Contemporary Insurgencies

March 4, 2011 - 8042 words | Political Science » South Africa

Violence undermines an inclusive national Identity that considers those of other races, classes and creeds as compatriots, for as Mirowsky and Ross (1983: 238) note, “When other people in one’s life have become a hostile army, social alienation is at its... Read Article »

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South Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Counterinsurgency Identity Crime Race Relations

Western Feminism in a Global Perspective

February 24, 2011 - 4559 words | Anthropology » Feminism

American women have struggled historically against certain paradigms of inferiority that all women experience. The female Identity is different according to each culture and their customs, but many cultures are based on a patriarchal past where men wield more power... Read Article »

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Westernization Feminism Empowerment Gender Identity Globalization

Exploring the American Immigrant Experience Through Literature

February 23, 2010 - 2011 words | English » Immigration

In “Amor de lejos: Latino (Im)migration Literatures,” B.V. Olguin writes, “Latino/a (im)migration narratives…often illustrate the traumatic aspects of displacement by focusing in part on how immigration, migration, exile, and colonization place... Read Article »

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Immigration Migration American Immigration Narratives Asia Haiti China Nationalism Cultural Identity Buddhism Marriage Stereotypes Spirituality

Sylvia Plath's "Bee Sequence": A Microcosm of Poetic Development

January 21, 2010 - 4017 words | English » Sylvia Plath

The poems which Sylvia Plath composed in the weeks and days immediately preceding her death contain some of the most disturbing themes present in Modernist poetry. In Ariel, an anthology containing her most fervent, emotional, and troubling poetry yet, poems such... Read Article »

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Sylvia Plath Bee Sequence Ariel Poetry Development Endurance Self-recovery Identity

Understanding the Implications of a Global Village

November 20, 2009 - 2207 words | Opinion » Global Identity

Imagine the vast spectrum of all the cultures in the world. Listen to the music—from the gentle drum beats of Africa, to the melodic didgeridoo of Australia, to the scream of the electric guitar. Taste the curry from India, the coconut milk from Thailand, the... Read Article »

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Gobal Village Globalization Modernization Westernization Dependency Theory Technological Advances Cultural Identity Humanitarian Efforts Economic Opportunities Globalizing World Globalization Studies

Stamp Paid and the Power of Self-Actualization in Beloved

November 12, 2009 - 2803 words | English » Beloved

A character in Toni Morrison's Beloved whose crucial importance to both the plot and thematic intent of the book is Stamp Paid. He is a character with limited space devoted to him, but whose every action is a catalyst for the book as a whole. He is a highly admirable... Read Article »

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Toni Morrison Beloved Self-Actualization Slavery Race Identity Stamp Paid

In Search of Manhood: The Black Male's Struggle for Identity and Power

November 3, 2009 - 5143 words | African-American Studies » Discrimination

Within the cultural framework of America, the systemic structure is characterized by White male patriarchy that allows for Black males to have the ability to negotiate the way in which they have been socialized and institutionalized to think, act, and behave because... Read Article »

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Black Men African-American Males Identity Patriarchy Manhood Oppression African American Black Struggle For Identity And Power

Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia: The Socioeconomic Origins of Machismo and the Macho

November 2, 2009 - 4258 words | Sociology » Machismo

The simultaneous allure and repulsion of Mexican machismo belies its ambiguous nature as an identifying characteristic of the nation itself and as a phenomenon that some claim is unique to Mexico and others say is endemic throughout patriarchal societies worldwide.... Read Article »

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Culture Machismo Macho Socioeconomic Mexican Mexico Nationalism Identity Yo Soy Yo Yi Mi Circunstancia Socioeconomic Origins