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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Human development
Leadership
Metaphysics
Personality
Psychological theories
Science
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a popular personality assessment tool, chosen more often than other options available. It is derived from Carl Jung’s theories and uses four scales to identify personality traits. This assessment is commonly used to assess leadership abilities, which can be beneficial for team building in educational and organizational settings. Psychologists have…
Archetypes in How to Train Your Dragon
Archetype
Dragon
Hero’s Joy Rene: Separation: Hiccup (the male protagonist) begins his journey to heroism right from the first scene. In this scene he is seen as a useless child and he is sent away from all the action of hunting dragon to repair the weapons of the other Vikings. Hiccup disobeys his father’s orders and he…
Exile of Rizal in Far-away Dapitan
Personality
“Difficulties are not a justification for quitting, but rather a source of motivation to persevere.” This belief, I believe, was foremost in the thoughts of Dr. Jose P. Rizal during his time in Dapitan. Despite the Spanish authorities’ attempts to undermine his existence by means of intimidation, Rizal remained resolute in his commitment to serving…
Perception, Attribution, Diversity
Perception
Chapter 3 Perception, Attribution and Diversity Perception – the process of interpreting the messages of our senses to provide order and meaning to the environment people base their actions on the interpretation of reality that their perceptual system provides rather than on reality itself Components of Perception The perceiver Their experience, needs and emotions can…
Critical Incident Assignment
Incident
Reflective practice
Trip’s four approaches focus on the why challenge, personal theory, thinking strategies and lemma identification. I will examine these four approaches and discuss the ways in which I can develop my teaching practice. Moreover, I will outline further recommendations for my future practice which will be suggested throughout this assignment. Pollard (2008) points out that…
Aristotle on Democracy
Aristotle
Democracy
In sections 3.9-3.13 of his magnum opus Politics, Aristotle puts forward several arguments for democracy within the larger context of his political theorizing. Although Aristotle has some reservations about the democratic system and a few of its implications, he assigns democracy a crucial role in achieving the good of the state and the common interest…
Kant and Schopenhauer
Categorical imperative
Kant
Schopenhauer objected to the metaphysics of Kant, and yet he is classified as a Kantian. I argue that the conventional designation is a valid one, and that objections put forward by Schopenhauer are only semantic in the end. Schopenhauer finds Kant’s philosophy couched in absolutist terms, and this he finds to be inhuman, and not…
A Discussion on the Term of Intersectionality
Discrimination
Intersectionality
Oppression
Politics
Intersectionality involves the social characteristics of one‘s identity, which incorporate societal, community, individual, and global factors like ability, age, class, sexual orientation, gender, and ability among others. According to Patricia Hill Collins and Kimberle’ Williams, the people of color feminists who developed intersectional theory, it is specifically concerned with social identities formation. The kinds of…
Port Huron Statement Analysis
Democracy
Idea
War
In 1962 America was going through a tough period, marked by the Cold War, against USSR and its communism. This was also the time of the Vietnam War and the Arms Race, with the possession of the nuclear weapon, and the president of the time, John F. Kennedy was a fervent believer in the “Domino…
Tom Jones Comic Epic
Aristotle
Hero
Novel
Enjoying the freedom of an artist, Fielding in his ‘Tom Jones’ bursts on the literary scene giving thousands of hours for a kind of writing, which is in his own words, “I do not remember to have seen hitherto attempted in our language”. His immediate inspiration was the Spanish Classic, ‘Don Quixote’. However in discussing…