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...also a Crimson photo editor, calls her sculpture from her VES 30 class the more literal interpretation of peer pressure and self-realization. “I was dealing with evoking awareness of the space within people, this idea of inner space and searching for the traces of oneself,” Yuan said. “Eventually the whole piece is meant to decay.”Kayla A. Escobedo ’12 continued the theme of personal development, using her oil painting as a way to acknowledge and commemorate her growth in her relationship with her father...
...hear the sirens’ song without steering the ship onto the rocks, people acting in the present have restricted or coerced their future selves for the benefit of those future selves. New Years’ resolutions don’t take the form of physical restraints like tying oneself up, but if the resolution is public, then one puts the credibility of one’s future self at stake – if your future self blows the resolution, you are calling yourself (your future self, that is) a liar...
...result, the website has become what the researchers dub a "media superpeer" that promotes and establishes norms of behavior among teens. So as more kids openly discuss their sexual and drug experimentation, it becomes less and less taboo to join in. The article also notes that merely presenting oneself as a wild child invites "unwanted online attention from individuals such as cyberbullies or sexual predators...
...anti-apartheid campaign - economic sanctions against South Africa - arguing that they hurt blacks more than whites. And while she earned the admiration and friendship of Mandela - in 1997 Mandela praised her "courage born of the yearning for freedom" and "hatred of oppression, injustice and inequity whether the victim be oneself or another" while awarding her a gold medal of honour - she did not flinch from criticizing his African National Congress (A.N.C.) once they won power. (See pictures of Mandela...
...meaning of a nickel. Children are natural curators, classifying their Barbies or Bakugan, holding on to Happy Meal toys until they have a full set. Freud had a theory about this: not surprisingly, it had to do with toilet training and the trauma of relinquishing a part of oneself. But it's not a need we outgrow. Over the course of his life and travels, Freud acquired more than 2,000 statues, vases and terra-cottas, plus some phalluses, of which his favorites stood in a row on his desk. "I must always have an object to love," he confessed...