Self Concept In The Movie Fatal Attraction

What does “coming of age” mean? For most it means moving from childhood immaturity to adulthood maturity. Additionally, “coming of age” can signify that a boy or girl is mature enough to understand his or her responsibility towards society and family. In the short story “The Man Who Was Almost a Man,” Richard Wright tells about a boy named Dave Saunders that thinks he is “of age” when in reality he is not. As the title suggests, Dave is between boyhood and adulthood. In several ways, other figures in the story—Dave’s parents, Hawkins, and the unnamed men he works with—threaten Dave’s sense of manhood. Dave is eager to grow up and gain respect, so he buys a gun, thinking it will make him a man. Although Dave tries to force himself into maturity, it is shown throughout the story he is not ready manhood.

The documentary, A Death of One’s Own, explores the end of life complexities that many terminal disease patients have to undergo in deciding on dying and dignity. It features three patients, their families, and caregivers debating the issue of physician-assisted suicide or pain relief than may speed up death. One character, Jim Witcher has ALS and knows the kind of death he is facing and wants to control its timing. Kitty Rayl is suffering from terminal cancer and wants to take advantage of her state’s Death with Dignity Act and take medication to terminate her life. Ricky Tackett, on the other hand, has liver failure and together with his family and caregiver agrees on terminal sedation to relieve his delirium and pain.

I decided to create a collage to display all of my key attributes and to further display how my actions affect those surrounding me. I chose each picture carefully to ensure that the images accurately depicted the stories which I received and the self-assessment that I felt best describes me.

In Mcleod’s article, it said that people “‘think about, evaluate, or perceive’ themselves” (Mcleod 1). Mcleod talks, in the article, about how people thinking, evaluating, and perceiving about themselves is call self-concept. Whenever people think about themselves, most of the time, people are confused about whether or not they are pursuing right actions for their future, especially people with low self-esteem . Furthermore, people get more confused if their actions dramatically differ from others. However, again, people’s actions determine who they are, so even if their actions are dramatically different from others, it may be a path for that person’s success. Following others do not mean people will be as successful as them.

Chapter two in the textbook Reflect & Relate an Introduction to Interpersonal Communication by Steven McCornack talks all about what “self” is and how to achieve complete fulfillment for one’s self which is also known as self-actualization. The components of self, as described in the book are, “ . . . self-awareness, self-concept, and self-esteem” (McCornack 39). Self-awareness is the idea in which one can take a moment to move feelings, beliefs, and other external influences aside and just evaluate oneself in a holistic perspective that is not skewed by opinions of others, etc. Having the ability to actually think about who one is brings a lot of power and mental stability in such a way that allows for improvement. For example,

Parkinson’s disease is a “disorder of the nervous system that affects movement” (Staff, 2015), but does not have an acute onset. Usually symptoms start with a slight tremor in the hands and then slowly progresses to other parts of the body (Staff, 2015). Even though most people have fast, shaking, movements, Parkinson’s can also cause stiffness or slow movements. According to Mayo Clinic Staff, early signs of Parkinson’s disease may include diminished facial expressions, absence of swaying arms when walking, and “speech may become soft or slurred” (2015). Unfortunately, Parkinson’s does not have a cure, but there are medications out there to help symptoms as well as brain surgeries.

When Janie is sixteen years old, her nanny coerces her to marry a man named Logan Killicks to not disappoint her. Despite not loving Logan in the slightest, Jane marries him to make nanny proud, she goes along with it because she is under the conception that “marriage compel[s] love like the sun the day”(21). She believes that love will come eventually after marriage commences just as automatically as the sun rises each morning. Janie holds this idea with her because she wants to find love, and she thinks that marriage is the correct way of going about it. However, over the course of Janie’s marriage with Logan, she realizes this is not the case. She never feels in love with Logan like she thinks will happen after marriage, “Looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead”(25). As one dream ends, a new one begins for Janie as she looks to the horizon. Janie initially holds the thought of love because of marriage, with this not being the reality, she knows it is time to find a new dream. Janie would see that she did not love Logan before their marriage if she has a choice in whom she's marrying. This is a lesson that Janie learns from her first marriage, and this might lead to the impetuous decision of marrying her next husband, Jody. It is

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film Psycho redirected the entire horror genre, and in doing so dismantled the prudent 1950’s societal barriers of cinema. Although unseen for its potential by the large studios of the time, Psycho became one of the crowning achievements of film history. While based partially on a true story of murder and psychosis from Wisconsin, the widespread viewing of this tale made way for a new era of film and ushered in a new audience of movie goers. The use of violence, sexual explicitness, dramatic twists, sound, and cinematography throughout this film gave Hitchcock his reputable name and title as master of suspense. In 2018, reviews of films often are headlined with “the book was better.” But, in 1960 there was no such thing

The ethical sequence, as Leopold sees it, is the process of ecological evolution. The ethical sequence is also a combination of ethics in ecology and philosophy; other wise, known as symbioses. We have ethics in dealing between the individual and with society, but not with men and the animals and plants that we grow up with. This idea of men having ethics toward animals and plants is ecologically necessary and possible. Leopold’s community concept connects the new seemingly different ethics (philosophical and ecological). The community concept is to make man “from conqueror of the land –community to plain member and citizen of it” (Leopold 204). Society has changed the way the landscape is used. There is no harmony to how we handle the

“An individual perception of self, of body image, of time, of space influences the way he or she responds to object and events in his/her life. As individuals grow and develop through the lifespan, experiences with changes in structure and function, of their bodies over time influence their perceptions of self” (King, 1981, p. 19). These concepts give us the basis for understanding how individuals are personal systems. Perception, is “A process of organizing, interpreting, and transforming information from sense data and memory” (King, 1981, p. 24). Self, is a dynamic, open system, based on ones actions. King (1981) explains self as Jersild’s (1952) definition that “knowledge of self is a key to understanding human behavior because self is the way I define me to myself and to others. Self is all that I am. I am a whole person. Self is what I think of me and what I am capable of being and doing. Self is subjective in that it is what I think I should be or would like to be” (p. 26). Growth and development is “The processes that take place in an individual’s life that help the individual move from potential capacity for achievement to self-actualization” (King, 1981, p. 31). Body Image is “An individual’s perception of his/her own body, others’ reactions to his/her appearance which results

The self can be defined as ‘an organised, consistent set of perceptions of and beliefs about oneself’ (Passer, Smith, Holt, Bremner, Sutherland & Vliek, 2009, p676). We should aim to understand ourselves, learn know how we function

The movie narrates a unordinary “loving story”, the plot of which is unordinary, suspense and thrilling, while the theme of this movie has nothing to do with it. At the end of the film, Amy came back, standing in the bathroom with her whole body covered with blood, spit out the so-called truth of marriage imperturbably and even remorselessly. However, the terror of marriage is killing people intangible, not murder or guns, which lowers the profundity of this social issue. It’s a really good suspense film, giving audiences the feeling of being on an emotional roller coaster, yet this is the only thing the story leaving for us.

Self-concept is a product of many things, it is not just simply what a person is. One specific example of an action that affects someone’s self-concept would be social comparisons. Social comparisons are when a person looks at the people around them and decides how they feel about themselves based on the items or qualities that the others they see have. This

Who am I? I am Quentina Burnett and I have been developed by socialization, to be able to fit within the society. Socialization is the process where an individual learns behavior, values, culture, and norms of the society to develop his or her personality to become a proficient person in the society (Keirns et al., 2016). This process starts in the early stage of a baby, to an adult, and continues until the individual dies. The process of socialization gives people and myself the basic social contact and social interaction needed to develop “self”. Self is the ability to know right from wrong, understanding the society norms, behaviors, culture, and values. An example of this is learning and talking the native language, know how to eat from a spoon, and able to communicate with other people. If people or myself fail to experience socialization, they will not possess the acquired skills needed to develop self. This process is required for me to be apart and successful fit in the society.

Most people believe that they have a good sense of self-awareness, but it would be best to check at a comparative scale to see where you fall on it in contrast with others. Self-awareness crates a chance for everyone to make necessary changes in his/her behaviors and beliefs.