...A life of isolation seems like a punishment to some. But to others, it's considered the best option. Do people really need to belong? Is belongingness important to life? People do need to belong for a number of reasons. It's human nature to want to belong with similar people to themselves. By Any Other Name by Santha Rama Rau shows this point. In the story, the Indian author moves to an Anglo-Indian and immediately notices the only other Indian girl in her class. “When it was time for recess, I followed the girl with the braids out onto the veranda.” The author wants to be friends with the other Indian girl instead of her other classmates because she wants to belong with someone similar to her. But what happens when people aren't involved?...
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...I think the human need for a sense of belonging is partially based on a primal need to feel safe. In most survival situations you are always safer in numbers. The bigger group you belong to the more eyes and senses you have to be aware of possible threats. I think it is also true that if you feel you belong to the group you can trust them more and feel free to let your guard down. So the human need for belonging is based on survival. That said I think it also serves an emotional aspect. A sense of belonging can have huge effects of the psychic. I think it would help combat depression, improve social skills, help to regulate emotional responses and build a connection with others. Now with the sense of belonging and the need to create an emotional...
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...found in different circumstances for different people. As each individual has their own desires, needs and values, they find their place in the world and a genuine sense of belonging in various avenues. Many individuals find the strongest sense of belonging through relationships, due to the fact that by nature these connections fulfill the human need for social interaction and enrich the lives of the persons involved. Conversely, relationships which do not fit the conventional model of this kind of connection and thus result in negative outcomes for individuals can ultimately lead to a true sense of not belonging and its related notions of isolation and disaffection. Instead, these individuals may attain the same sense that they truly belong outside relationships, though their connections to other ideas such as place and culture, or within themselves. Shakespeare’s As You Like It and Khyenstse Norbu’s Travellers and Magicians are two texts in which an exploration of belonging and its different meanings for individuals ultimately leads to a deeper understanding of the complexity of the concept of belonging and thus that individuals can find a true sense of belonging in a great range of places, not limited to relationships. Relationships by nature embody ideas of a connection on a psychological level between two people which can fulfill other fundamental human needs such as the need for social interaction, and thus can result in the individuals involved attaining a true sense...
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...interactions and experiences with people, groups and communities. It is evident that we can develop a strong need and desire to belong and our ability to achieve this is shaped by our behaviours attitudes and actions. This notion is evident in the novel, The Simple Gift composed by Steven Herrick. Where Herrick demonstrates many concepts of belonging, one being the need to belong to a group or a community shapes our behaviour, attitudes and actions. Herrick conveys this through the perspectives of Billy, Old Bill and Caitlin. In Steven Herrick’s novel ‘A Simple Gift’, he uses various techniques to portray belonging or the lack of belonging. We accompany Billy as he meets great role models which serve to inspire him thoughout the novel. Ernie's train whistle symbolises the beginning of Billy's new life contrasted favourably by Ernie’s accepting and helpful attitude. Ernie give Billy his first taste of hope in mankind, whilst allowing Billy to feel acceptance. His next positive role model is Irene, Bendarat’s Librarian, who welcomes him and encourages him to borrow books and broaden his mind, Irene accepts Billy immediately a helps him at stages of the story. A great technique used in the novel is Multiple Narrators, as the characters of Billy, Old Bill and Caitlin who because of their sense of alienation, are pushed towards one another by fate, to fulfil their need to belong. The mutual yearning they share is revealed by the use of a split narrative writing, in which each character’s...
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...found in different circumstances for different people. As each individual has their own desires, needs and values, they find their place in the world and a genuine sense of belonging in various avenues. Many individuals find the strongest sense of belonging through relationships, due to the fact that by nature these connections fulfill the human need for social interaction and enrich the lives of the persons involved. Conversely, relationships which do not fit the conventional model of this kind of connection and thus result in negative outcomes for individuals can ultimately lead to a true sense of not belonging and its related notions of isolation and disaffection. Instead, these individuals may attain the same sense that they truly belong outside relationships, though their connections to other ideas such as place and culture, or within themselves. Shakespeare’s As You Like It and Khyenstse Norbu’s Travellers and Magicains are two texts in which an exploration of belonging and its different meanings for individuals ultimately leads to a deeper understanding of the complexity of the concept of belonging and thus that individuals can find a true sense of belonging in a great range of places, not limited to relationships. Relationships by nature embody ideas of a connection on a psychological level between two people which can fulfill other fundamental human needs such as the need for social interaction, and thus can result in the individuals involved attaining a true sense...
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...Written Report Student name: Ho Sze Wing Student PolyU ID number: 14089919D Programme enrolled: Introduction to Economics Name of lecturer: Wai Kwong Mok Name of tutor: Xibin Zhang Tutorial group number: AF1605_20141_D Tutorial day and time: Monday (17:30-18:20) Number of words used in the report: 914 Question 2.2 Price ($ per ticket) Supply Demand Quantity 36000 600 (500) (500) E 34000 0 This diagram shows the relationship between the demand and the supply of three concerts held by a pop singer last year and this year. The supply is vertical and does not change in these two years as the amount of seats in the Hong Kong Coliseum is the same and fixed. Also, since the question mentioned there is only one fixed price for all seats and the demand for this pop singer’s concert were the same in last year and this year, we can find out the range of equilibrium price for this singer’s concert. For the fixed supply, there are 12000 seats in the Hong Kong Coliseum, and there are three concerts each year. Therefore, there were 36000 seats (12000X3) each year. Last year, the concerts were sold out and the ticket cost $500 per one. This year, the ticket price was raised to $600 each, and there were 2000 unsold ticket. That means there was a surplus this year and when the price level is at $600, the quantity demanded and the quantity transacted is 34000 tickets (36000-2000). As the given information notes the tickets were sold out only, we cannot determine whether...
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...ACCEPTANCE IS THE KEY -RoMae The third sex was and still is an issue in today’s society. They aren’t accepted by the people around them and sometimes they aren’t even accepted by their own families. They are discriminated, bullied physically and emotionally and these things lead them to fear other people which cause self-torture, self-pity and sometimes even suicide. But why aren’t they accepted in our society? Is it because they’re different—that they don’t belong to the norms because God only made men and women not gays and lesbians nor bisexuals and transgenders? But aren’t they human too so why can’t they be treated equally as how we, men and women, are treated? I know a lot of people who belongs to the third sex. Take for example one of my friends and former classmate in high school, Ronel, a fine-looking young man who is a part of the LGBT community. When I asked him what the reasons behind him being gay were, he answered that it had always been in him, that he had always thought of himself as a girl trapped in a boy’s body. The same goes with another friend and former classmate, Jonas, who despite having a strict father turned out to be gay which he said that it was the effect of him playing with girls when he was still very young. Hanging out with girls and other gays was also the reason why Mark and Christian, two of my friends since elementary, turned out to be bisexuals. On the other hand, I don’t know much about the Lesbians. But I do know some people like my...
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...Diversity is found in SES which varies because of individual difference. No one is similar to another by any way of aspect. Some earn more while some earn less. Education can be an instrument of cultural change which is being taught from home. Parental SES can have possible impact on student’s academic achievement. Parents belong to different occupation have different styles to educate their children, different styles of disciplining their children and different way of reacting to their children. According to Rothman’s (2003) within the same school a student comes from low cannot perform better than the student coming from high SES. Onocha (1985) analysis revealed that a child belongs to well educated family and high SES perform better than a child that belongs to an illiterate family. The reason is that children belong to high SES and well educated families have much support e.g. good environment, support of parents, guidance and academic materials. Their parents send them in good school where well educated and well experienced teachers handle their...
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...1) The “Belongingness Hypothesis” is how it is human purpose to belong. It is that humans have a drive to form and keep interpersonal relationships. There are two criteria that are involved. Firstly, human beings have the need for recurrent, pleasing interactions with other people. Secondly, the interactions should be stable and the people involved should have concern for one another’s welfare. The “Belongingness Hypothesis” also states that it is most satisfactory to have frequent interactions with the same person as opposed to changing partners. It is also unsatisfactory to not have frequent contact with another person. The lack belonging should effect in severe deprivation and an assortment of ill outcomes. Lastly, it is thought that a big portion of human behavior and emotion is caused by this interpersonal motive. 2) Baumeister’s characterization of the “need to belong” focuses on how the need to belong is really a need not just a want. A need would be something like water or food. He states that if someone had unsatisfied their need to belong in should result in extreme consequences, such as behavior, medical or psychological. This differs from the common concepts such as “attachment” or “affiliation”. These common notions often categorize these things, as human wants not needs. 3) Positive emotion is linked to increases in belongingness and negative emotion is linked to decreases in belongingness. One example of positive emotion being linked to...
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...of the fundamental human needs for companionship and security. For those who have a place where they belong such as with a family, with friends, with the community; they feel safe and content. For those who don’t belong and cannot “fit” into their surroundings they are faced with problems of alienation and loneliness. These different aspects of belong are reflected in a variety of texts; “Romulus My Father” by Raimond Gaita explores a sense of familial belonging and how it shapes who we are, “The Comic” by Leunig explores the troubles of being accepted and “fitting” in. Finally, the feature article, “Compulsive Gamers ‘not addicts’” by Pady Maguire explores the need for gamers to belong to a community. In “Romulus My Father” the most profound sense of belonging exists with the narrator himself. The narrator delivers his observations in a reflective and thoughtful tone. The high modality of verb choice suggests a pleasant nostalgia about events in the book. Particularly his recollections of his father, notions such as, “I loved him too deeply… no quarrel could estrange us” displays the sense of belonging \ he feels with his father. This is evident even after Christina dies. He observed, “We came together as son and husband with the woman whose remains lay beneath us”. Raimond’s aspect of belonging is that of family and culture. Juxtaposed against Raimond’s belonging is the suffering of Christina in her displacement. For the mother her inability to belong is described by Raimond...
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...not belonging. This view is clearly evident in The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick and the two related texts _______________ and __________________. The Simple Gift explores the characters of Billy, Caitlin and Old Bill. At the beginning each character feels a sense of not belonging, but this changes as their relationships with each other develop. Billy feels like he doesn’t belong in his world. He is neglected and abused by his father which is conveyed in the poem ‘Sport’. Billy expresses his father’s aggression through the line, ‘gave me one hard backhander across the face, So hard I fell down.’ He also shows his contempt for school in the poem ‘Wentworth High School’ when he begins to sign his name ‘Billy Luckett rhymes with…..’ The only place Billy does experience a sense of belonging is expressed in the poem ‘Westfield Creek’, which he describes as ‘my favourite classroom.’ The language used in this poem is much more positive. Billy’s relationship with Bendarat gives him a sense of belonging, that is carried through in his relationship with Caitlin and Old Bill. At first Billy doesn’t feel he belongs, he uses alliteration to express his preference to be ‘better a bum than a school kid.’ In the poems ‘Lord of the Lounge ‘ and ‘Librarian’ he finds some acceptance, this is conveyed through the lines ‘it’s a good library’ and ‘she’s OK, not like the librarians at home.’ Moving into ‘The motel Bendarat’ is also a positive move for Billy, ‘I close the door and make a home.’ The...
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...uses the spectacle of college students to show that humans have such a strong urge to belong and fit in that they will subconsciously form groups based on arbitrary criteria. One Paragraph Summary: In “It Takes a Tribe,” David Berreby looks at the social constructs of colleges across the nation and their implications. From the point when a student is accepted into a college they almost immediately start to affiliate themselves with that college’s mannerisms and culture. But it goes farther than that, once they arrive the divisions grow more and more. Different majors and clubs have rivalries and even within majors there are divisions. Berreby goes on to explain that often students will rank the groups they’re part of higher than some racial groups in terms of having qualifications that define a group. Also, students will often use words that are associated with the college they attend to describe themselves. Furthermore, it seemed that groups that were more difficult to get into or required embarrassing acts to get into were ranked higher than those that weren’t difficult or didn’t require embarrassment to get into. Berreby cites Peter Richerson saying humans are “looking to be told what group they belong to, and then once they do that, they want to know, ‘What are the rules?’” Exemplifying that people want to belong above all else. Abstract: Belonging is one of the most basic human needs. Take a look at any college campus and you will see exactly how much this influences...
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...not belonging. This view is clearly evident in The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick and the two related texts _______________ and __________________. The Simple Gift explores the characters of Billy, Caitlin and Old Bill. At the beginning each character feels a sense of not belonging, but this changes as their relationships with each other develop. Billy feels like he doesn’t belong in his world. He is neglected and abused by his father which is conveyed in the poem ‘Sport’. Billy expresses his father’s aggression through the line, ‘gave me one hard backhander across the face, So hard I fell down.’ He also shows his contempt for school in the poem ‘Wentworth High School’ when he begins to sign his name ‘Billy Luckett rhymes with…..’ The only place Billy does experience a sense of belonging is expressed in the poem ‘Westfield Creek’, which he describes as ‘my favourite classroom.’ The language used in this poem is much more positive. Billy’s relationship with Bendarat gives him a sense of belonging, that is carried through in his relationship with Caitlin and Old Bill. At first Billy doesn’t feel he belongs, he uses alliteration to express his preference to be ‘better a bum than a school kid.’ In the poems ‘Lord of the Lounge ‘ and ‘Librarian’ he finds some acceptance, this is conveyed through the lines ‘it’s a good library’ and ‘she’s OK, not like the librarians at home.’ Moving into ‘The motel Bendarat’ is also a positive move for Billy, ‘I close the door and make a home.’ The...
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...QUESTIONNAIRE 1) Gender – Male Female 2) Which Age group do you belong to? * 14-17 * 17-20 * 20-23 * 23+ 3) To which rank do you belong? * Patrol leader * Scouts master * Venture scout 4) How long have you been in this scout group? * 1-2 years * 3-4 years * 5-6 years * 7+ 5) Is there a structure to this group? * Yes * No 6) Does this group have any specific objectives laid out? * Yes * No 7) Does this group have any laws you have to abide by? * Yes * No 8) Does this group take part in events in the community? * Yes * No 9) Does the scout group need new programs? * Yes * No 10) Does the scout group face any problems? * YES * No 11) ------------------------------------------------- If yes state what ------------------------------------------------- 12) Does the problem affect the scout group? * Yes * No 13) Does the programs and policies are effective in the scout group? * Yes * No 14) How relevant is the scout movement to the youths in the area? * Very relevant * Not relevant * Little relevant 15) Does the scout group need new programs to be implemented? * Yes * No 16) How does the group have an impact on society? * Give moral guidelines * Leads to the development of young people * Keeps them away from doing wrong things * All of the above ...
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...that the more wealth a worker produces and the more his production increases, the poorer he becomes. The worker becomes a cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. As the world of commodities increase, the worker becomes devalued. Labor not only produces commodities, it produces a worker as a commodity as well. This fact explains why an object created by a worker becomes something alien to him, a power independent. A worker loses reality to the point of starving to death, in comparison to objectification, that the worker is robbed of objects most necessary for his life but for his work. This, Marx says, is that a worker may work so hard that they may lose their reality, such as the reality that their stomach is grumbling and they need to eat. In regards to...
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