...Entangled Identities: Ritual Performance of Alevis in an Urban Area Over the past two decades, there has been considerable debate on the identity of Alevi and representations of their ritual performances in their worship places located in urban areas. All debates illustrate that they have been relinquishing their strong and traditional identities like other traditional cultures would seem around the world. Their traditional culture has been getting lost due to economic and life challenges emerged not only individually or collectively but also globally. It is important to highlight that the change of the traditional cultures of Alevis first appeared when they migrated from rural to urban areas. Most of the Alevis couldn`t carry on their identity...
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...The world is a vast place consisting of an overabounding amount of different cultures and people. Periodically, one question comes to my mind, where do I belong in this immense world that I was put in? Although the answer to that question changes slightly as time passes, it undoubtedly revolves around one central concept- my identity. Often times I proudly refer to my people, Chicanos, as warriors. This label is concise with who we are because throughout history we have been able to fight and counterattack injustices brought upon us by others. I identify as a Chicana not only due to the fact that I am of Mexican descent, but also because I feel like the warrior spirit of my ancestors dwells within me. Even since ancient times, my people were brave and fearless warriors...
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...Cultural Identity Essay Directions: Using your knowledge on writing MLA formatted essays, write the cultural identity synthesis essay below. What is your cultural identity? There are many different things that describe culture and ethnicity isn't the only one. One source stated, “People from multiple ethnic backgrounds may identify as belonging to the same culture” (Trumbull and Pacheco 9). You don’t have to be all the same ethnicity to belong to the same culture, you could all be something different and still follow the same traditions. For one to truly get a gist of their culture they have to examine it closely in order to better understand it. Trumbull and Pacheco both explain, “Social groups existing within one nation may share a...
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...•Has the government done enough to detect and deter the crime of identity theft? “The need for a national strategy begins with an understanding of the complexity of identity theft”. I feel the government has taken the proper steps toward doing more to detect and deter the crime of identity theft but there’s no such thing as done ‘enough’ in the eyes of the people as a whole. The government started a program called ‘A National Strategy to Combat Identity Theft’ and according to the http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Publications/e03062303.pdf website its sole purpose is to detect and deter identity theft by doing the following; Encouraging and collecting identity theft police reports, among other information, to identify patterns and suspects Referring victims to local assistance centers or to the FTC. Submitting all police reports to the...
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...Cyber-wrongdoing additionally a sort of identity theft which is any illegal development gave on the web that uses a PC as its essential method for theft. Through identity theft, a predator without some individual's learning obtains a touch of their personal data, for instance, their social security number, or even their ledger data and uses it to submit extortion. Identity theft can hurt our extraordinary name and recognize, furthermore open us to potential budgetary mishap. It can incite a criminal record in our name, a catch, having our driver's license denied or our wages brightened. We could in like manner be denied business or a spot to live. Regardless of the best tries of law execution, identity cheats frequently maintain a strategic...
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...Dissociative Identity Disorder is often depicted in movies, books, and TV shows. Unfortunately, these medias often leave the public with a skewed view of the disorder. DID, as this disorder is often referred to as, is a dissociative disorder, that is more commonly known by its informal name, multiple personality disorder. Those who suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder start developing alternative personalities as young as six years old. They can have anywhere from two to one hundred personalities, although average is about ten. These alter egos can have different physical needs, medical needs, relationship preferences, thoughts, feelings, genders, and behaviors. These egos all serve different purposes, although their main purpose is...
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...In 2013 an article in CNN Money estimated that identity fraud occurs every two seconds. Identity fraud is a serious problem that claims millions of innocent victims. Our identity is what makes us unique. In 2013 my purse was stolen while I was volunteering at a local private school. The thieves falsely presented themselves as me, using my driver’s license and social security number to diminish my entire bank account in less than 2 hours. Thousands of my dollars, my entire life savings, had been stolen. I worked years to save money and become financially independent, and in 2 hours that was all ripped away from me. Identity is the “distinguishing character or personality of an individual”. When one’s name, address, social security, credit history, and life’s savings are stolen one feels violated. I struggled to reclaim my name and my self-worth. I wanted –I needed- my lives earnings and savings back. I did not have a penny to my name. Simple things I took for granted, paying rent, utilities, and buying groceries were now impossible. My credit score dropped overnight, my loans began to default, and I began the process of trying to clear my name and restore my identity....
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...supposed to be English, but the English we were always wogs and nigs and Pakis and the rest of it”. Write an essay exploring how Kureishi’s novel maps Englishness as a contested terrain of identities, politics and performance. Your discussion should refer to Stuart Hall’s work on ethnicities and on Judith Butler’s writing on performance as identity. Much of the Kureishi’s early work is grounded primarily in racial and cultural conflict between British mainstream culture and ethnic minority communities; the conflict between the cultural claims that the first-generation immigrants were prone to clinging onto and the sense of belonging, which they their children aspired to develop in mainstream British society. To the children of immigrants, particularly those who had migrated from British Commonwealth or ex-colonized countries, any reflection on Britain, or their parents’ homeland, in terms of “home” may differ significantly from that perceived by their parents. As a writer born and bred in Britain of a Pakistani father and an English mother, Kureishi reflects upon his own identity, affirming in an interview his own sense of identity be seeing himself as British: “Critics have written that I’m caught between two cultures. I’m not. I’m British; I’ve made it in England. It’s my father who’s caught. He can’t make it. Elsewhere he proclaims his British identity in a similar way: I’m British, as wrote in The Rainbow Sign. Just like Karim in the Buddha. But being British...
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...talent, entitlement and arbitrary beliefs which ultimately composed the core theme-Identity. Seen most exclusively between Herr Mozart and Salieri, clashing identities formed feuds, which resulted in tragedy- Salieri, a gifted musician in his own right, wants nothing more than to praise God to exalt him with his music. But instead God choses Mozart- An insulant impenitent child to be his musical regent on earth. Salieri feels he has no choice not to only turn his back on God, but to actually punish God by killing Mozart, an act accomplished by driving the drunkard to work himself to death.(Sholder, Adam) Salieri’s identity was consistent with the Holy Virtues,...
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...What is your understanding of a Canadian Identity? When you first entered Canada and now, has it changed? Canadian Identity is someone that can be identified as a Canadian. To be a Canadian there are different ways that you could identify yourself as a Canadian whether as an immigrant who became a citizen or Canadian born. Before I came in here I was expected to be a citizen as I was a “highly skilled worker” and entered here with my Public Relations, and came knowing already that Canada was the best place to live in the world, not America. I came with high expectations and with the mindset of living a better life which of course we are all living now. So in a recall, identity gives you the rights as a citizen and causes national pride for...
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...INTRODUCTION: An identity of a corporation is a complex thing to understand, and established. There is still a general lack of consistency when these terms are adopted to theoretical models or applied in Practice (Lars Thuger Christensen, Suren Askegaard 1999), in this essay the author has tried to review the literature of scholars of corporate identity to bring the whole concept in a nutshell. This essay consists of two parts (a) and (b), in (a) author has tried to look into the notion of identity based view of corporation by exploring well known literature in order to assess how concept of identity serves organizations, how it helps in defining identity of corporation, the difference between the two, what are Balmer’s “Business identities”?, multiple identities of any corporate entity, inward and outward bound identities of corporation, also author tried to look into Balmer’s corporate identity Quindrivium which is for author of this essay is like a breakthrough in understanding the concept of identity based view of corporation, this part shows that identity of corporation is combination of multiple identities which needs to stay aligned to build positive corporate identity. In (b) the author tries to link the concept of corporate identity with another element of corporate level marketing(Balmer, J.M.T and Edmond Gray 2003), that is “corporate branding”, and tried to look into concepts like what is corporate branding ?, relation between corporate identity and corporate branding...
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...My Cultural Identity I have never took my cultural identity into consideration before this essay. I've learned that cultural identity is what you believe and the way you live your life. My cultural identity could be related to the informational text “What is Cultural Identity?” by Elise Trumbull and Maria Pacheco. Which talked about defying the words cultural identity. Also the personal essay “ Two Kinds” by Amy Tan that has also taught me about my cultural identity in comparison with other people. With that in mind, parts of my cultural include my love of music, my passion for sports, and my obsession for spicy food. The instrumentation of music is what I connect to most. When I played the trumpet I really felt music. I love how the different...
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...Understanding Consumption in Context Why am I obsessed with the consumption of toiletries and personal grooming products? It was September ‘08 when I first came to the UK. I remember walking down the high street. I had to buy basic care, so someone suggested that I go to the Boots store. It wasn’t that easy because when I entered the store I was surprised to see the huge collection of healthcare and grooming products. I was extremely excited. Just like a kid in a candy store I went around the store more than twice. There was something in all the sections that seemed like as if were made especially for me. Eventually, I ended up purchasing a lot more than I wanted in the first place. This was just a beginning, now that I know, to what has become my obsession to use these grooming and healthcare products. Shopping for healthcare and grooming products in India is a completely different experience to what it is in the United Kingdom. There are not any dedicated stores for healthcare products such as Boots, Super Drug. The differences in such consumption patterns can be better understood through the concept of Sociohistoric Patterning of Consumption, which suggests that the institutional and social structures systematically influence consumption, such as class, community, ethnicity, and gender. I had never seen, until then, a store with such collection of healthcare products. It was a totally new experience for me. Maybe it was also...
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...Results May Vary: Adam Phillips’s Theory of Cloning and The Paradoxical Apotheosis of Individualism Adam Phillips’s essay “Sameness Is All” takes the form of a dialogue with two children to introduce the fantasy of cloning in which everyone is identical. Specifically, Phillips observes that cloning is a “denial of difference and dependence” which leads to a “refusal of need” (92). However, Phillip remains mindful that such fantasy of physical or psychological sameness is implausible as everyone is different - even clones. One then questions the significance of such wanting of sameness, or if the sense of sameness serves any purpose. Using the concept of Self and Other that Joanne Finkelstein examines in “The Self as Sign,” I propose that the sense of sameness that is offered by the illusion of cloning allows one to establish a sense of identity. In a final analysis, I will elaborate on Finkelstein’s arguments on the Self and Other to shed light on the question posed by Philips on whether cloning was the death or apotheosis of individualism, and suggest that cloning has the paradoxical outcome of reinforcing individualism even as one seeks uniformity. Cloning is supposed to lead to conformity and uniformity, the absolute sameness. Phillips argues that cloning is appealing to society because it seems to represent a cure for “the terrors and delights of competition” (90-91). What is interesting, however, is the eventual admission by Phillips that this...
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...P1- Discuss factors which may affect the development of self- esteem. This essay will be discussing factors which may affect the development of self- esteem. The main topics that will be looked at are, the growth promoting climate, the looking glass self, self-actualisation, ego identity and constructing of self. . Carl Rogers’ person-centred approach to change and understanding personality and human relationships is focused on demonstrating the conditions required for enabling a growth-promoting climate and the tendency, creativity and empowerment of people to achieve their highest potential. The approach provides the conditions for a growth-promoting climate, a relationship that enables people to discover the capacity to use it for growth and change, it is a relationship that doesn’t position itself from a perspective of “how can I treat or cure, fix or change this person?”, instead from a place of “how can I provide a relationship which this person may use for their own individual growth?”. (PCA York’s 2006) The looking-glass self is a social psychological concept, created by Charles Horton Cooley in 1902, stating that a person's self grows out of society's interpersonal interactions and the perceptions of others. The term refers to people shaping their self-concepts based on their understanding of how others perceive them. Cooley clarified that society is an interweaving and inter-working of mental selves. There are three main components of the looking-glass self which...
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