Identity theft
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
Don DeLillo's main character, Professor Jack Gladney, candidly remarks to his class “all plots move deathward,” and the plot of White Noise proves no exception. In the novel, Don DeLillo establishes a contemporary society where two kinds of people exist—killers and diers—or...
This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona: A break with cultural assumptions of identity amongst contemporary Native Americans
Thesis - 5 pages - Literature
The following dissertation will focus on the short story, “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona,” by Sherman Alexie. This document will outline continual themes on cultural assumptions regarding identity, and based on the perspective of the short story and its interplay,...
Brand identity mapping in India
Case study - 9 pages - Business strategy
When most people think about brand's identity, they usually think about the name, logo and the punch line. But identity consists of much more than that. It includes life style, symbols, colors, attitude, personality, visual style, brand voice and other mnemonic devices, characters,...
The personal universal: Pronouns and identity in Emerson's 'Self-Reliance'
Thesis - 5 pages - Literature
Ralph Emerson's individualist essay, “Self-Reliance”, is an open forum of what is necessary to be independent and skeptical of the ideas of others. Emerson seems obsessed with what truly defines the character of a man, but this obsession seems to stem in part from his own example....
How do magazines construct identity? - publié le 19/01/2009
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
The many different types of magazines that are present in the market could be seen as a proof that editors are constantly looking to target an audience. Indeed, in order to secure the right type of advertisers, magazine editors have to find the right type of readers so that the efficiency and...
Native American identities and adaptations: Identity vs. adaptation: Manoomin and the biotech industry
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In the migration story of the Anishinaabeg, prophets told the tribe to follow a shell in the sky from near the Pacific Ocean to a land “where the food grows on the water [LaDuke 2007].” There, the Anishinaabeg, named Ojibwe or Chippewa by whites, found manoomin, which the whites named...
The cultural identity and the assimilation of the Jewish Community in the Global Cities - publié le 16/01/2009
Essay - 21 pages - Sociology & social sciences
My name is Charles Terdjman, I am a 3rd year student in Sciences Po Paris, and I would like to present my comparative research about the Jewish Community in the Global Cities. Sincerely interested in the social and political studies, I wanted to analyze a social or religious minority for this...
Identity politics and feminism in France and in the United States - publié le 17/05/2009
Thesis - 6 pages - Political science
In 2005, in her book entitled Beyond identity politics - feminism, power and politics, Moya Lloyd writes: “feminism is an identity politics” so far as “it articulates the demands of a particular constituency (women), united and galvanized on the basis of shared...
Gender identity and the theory of performativity
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In her book Gender, Identity and Place, Linda McDowell addresses the question of how gender, identity and geography are intertwined in a shared struggle for power, and how they are reciprocal and interdependent? Her main argument throughout the book is that the notion of gender and...
The historical and philosophical significance of Locke's personal identity
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In Book II of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke established one of the first methodical treatments of the issue of personal identity as it relates to the realm of philosophy. Reflecting back on Locke's theory, it is clear that his work, while not impenetrable to its...
A Nordic identity in the European security structure? - publié le 20/01/2009
Essay - 10 pages - European union
The 3rd and 4th December 1998, the President of French Republic Jacques Chirac and the British Prime Minister Tony Blair met in Saint Malo. Both maintained the necessity to give Europe the ability of autonomous action concerning security and defence. This statement comes within the framework of...
Images of identity in feminist and immigrant Canadian literature - Interior landscapes of the self in Munro and Ricci
Thesis - 7 pages - Literature
This paper will compare and contrast the authorial approach to coming-of-age narratives, and the formation of identities in two works of Canadian fiction, Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women and Nino Ricci's Lives of the Saints. Munro employs a first-person narrative that interweaves the voice...
Women's identity: How do you find it when the world claims you were born with it?
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Women in theatre are always up or down, the virgin or the whore, over-run with emotions or a stone cold bitch. There is rarely a happy medium for women on the stage. But there is an in-between. There is a middle ground between being an extreme, and being a bore. Despite the fact that every woman...
Syncretism and identity: Finding I - Thou in historical dialogue
Thesis - 12 pages - Philosophy
Identity is fundamental to the distinction between faiths and cultures. Proper respect in dialogue hinges on a relational flow in dialogue. Power struggles and anxiety over engagement with the unknown other has caused dialogue to exist as an I-it relationship where the other becomes...
Nationalism and Regionalism in the era of the making of a common European identity - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 5 pages - European union
The year 2000 will be and have already been pivotal for the European Union. Ten new countries became full members of the Union and Turkey is on his way to the membership. But the 2005 failure to make all the countries sign the project of European constitution asks legitimate questions about the...
We are what we repeat: Repetition and identity construction in Derrida and Butler
Thesis - 4 pages - Literature
Philosophical and ideological traditions permeate everywhere from popular thought, culture, and subjective experience to science, literature, and politics. In past decades, critical thinkers have engaged in re-determinations and restructurings of philosophical traditions that presuppose or...
A study of Franco-Manitoban cultural identity
Thesis - 7 pages - Educational studies
I have opted to focus my attentions on Manitoba's French Canadians for the purposes of this assignment. I was able to interview Pete Vandal , a 51 year old father of three, about his thoughts on Franco-Manitoban culture and identity. As this cultural group is one of considerable importance...
The construction of a national identity: the case of France
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
According to Ernest Renan, in Qu'est ce qu'une nation, "Nations are not eternal. They had a beginning and they will have an end". While the opposite assumption is widespread, nations are in fact recent in the human history. They are younger than their official histories that the...
Does Rawl's account of the original position imply any theory of the person, or of personal identity?
Essay - 5 pages - Philosophy
Rawls account of the 'original position' is subject to many criticisms from communitarian philosophers. While this account constitutes the very basis from which he derives his theory of justice, it is regarded as being flawed and thus compromises the validity of his whole theory. The...
Dance and National Identity in Latin America
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Dance and music represent a major part of the Latin American culture. The continent is indeed quite famous all over the world for the diverse dances it created such as tango, salsa or samba. Nowadays, events like the Carnival of Rio appeal people from very far countries in Brazil during one week....
Gender Inversion and Spectator Identity in Silence of the Lambs
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
Jonathan Demme's 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs centers on a young FBI trainee's attempts to catch a deranged serial killer before he kills again. Clarice Starling is a young woman determined to rise through the ranks of the male FBI. Already at a social disadvantage due to her sex, she...
Forming and performing the female identity in Daniel Deronda
Essay - 8 pages - Literature
The Victorian era thrived on ideals; knowing their world is more than knowing the facts of British politics, of documented interactions, or popular amusements, it is striving to understand the light in which they saw themselves, the real or ideal roles society endeavored to fulfill. As Lynn...
Establish a Chicano identity: Casares' Brownsville Stories
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
Casares's Brownsville Stories is not just a novel. Instead of following one protagonist through a long series of events, the text presents the reader with a series of vignettes about multiple protagonists. Casares situates all of his anecdotes in the small Texas town of Brownsville, yet the...
Identity sags in transition
Case study - 6 pages - Journalism
In February of 2005, the state of Virginia proposed a “Droopy Drawers” bill. The House voted 60-34 for this bill (Bellantoni), but was later shot down by the Senate. If passed, one would have been facing a fifty-dollar fine for sagging. “It's not an attack on baggy pants,”...
Belgian comics and constructing Belgian national identity
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
Belgium is a unique country that uses a federal solution to construct a civic nation from two competing ethnic and cultural identities. In the north is the Flemish region, in the south, Wallonia, and in the middle, the capitol and mainly French speaking, city of Brussels. There is also a small...
Where is My Voice? : An exploration of questions that minority women ask about their identity
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Universal questioning of the roles of sex and gender began centuries ago. Every culture has their expectations and customs. Even in the present-day united states, where freethinking is a familiar attitude, women find themselves in traditional or likely roles. Within the field of women's...
Choice and identity
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In the United States, the ideology of individualism predominates. The individual, as opposed to the family, community, tribe, or hierarchy, is seen as the central social agent. This individualism allows for greater individual freedom — people have the ability to create and then to recreate...
The Many Faces of Michel Foucault: An Analysis of the Evolution of his Conception of Identity Formation in the Modern World Through his Life and Works
Essay - 20 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Throughout the course of his career as a historian, author, philosopher, and artist, Michel Foucault often shifted directions in his work, reinventing himself in the process and offering little explanation for his decisions to do so. Shortly after the publication of Madness and Civilization in...
Identity politics and feminism in France and in the United States
Essay - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In 2005, in her book entitled Beyond identity politics - feminism, power and politics, Moya Lloyd writes: “feminism is an identity politics” so far as “it articulates the demands of a particular constituency (women), united and galvanized on the basis of shared...
Ethnicity, identity, unanimity, and garvey
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
For centuries, people of African descent have faced systems of racial discrimination and stratification that have affected their life chances. Regardless of class, gender, ethnicity, education, or nationality, these systems have mostly effected the socioeconomic position of Blacks in damaging...
