Narcissistic
Essays

Alfonso Cuaron's 2001 film Y Tu Mama Tambien shares a number of superficial similarities with Gus Van Sant's 1991 film My Own Private Idaho. Both films focus on an intense friendship between two young men, structuring…

The website for Changing Minds.org describes transformational leadership in the standard way, as charismatic leaders with vision and imagination who inspire followers to achieve radical change in an organization or…

¶ … master guru/student relationship is nothing new in human history and evolution. In more ancient times, curious folks would search for knowledge and wisdom in this form of relationship at least since the days of…

Contemporary life presents a set of paradoxes that can be resolved through what C.W. Mills calls the sociological imagination. Mills makes a distinction between the inner world and the outer, highlighting the conflicts…

¶ … John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, the character of Curley's Wife is a tragic figure. Both flaws within her own character and the lack of opportunities and roles for women in the early 1930s in America play a…

¶ … psychological concepts and principles shape and determine our behavior. They influence how we interact with other people and how we perform in social situations. Psychological factors also play an important part in…

One of the most common sources of conflict in relationships is incorrect interpretations of motivation. Because people are narcissistic and cannot always project themselves into the mindset of others, they focus on…

Characteristics of Transformational Leadership

I have prepared a research memorandum that discusses some significant issues related to the impact of the Internet and the new social media and society. In this memo, I have addressed some key problems such as whether the new technology is ‘dumbing down' young people and the education system, and culture and society in general. Certainly it has had a severe impact on the older print technologies, including book publishing, newspapers and magazines, which have had to go online in order to survive. It is also changing the education system and the way information is being processed, making these more visually oriented. There are major ethical issues with privacy and confidentiality concerns, particularly in medical and psychiatric records, since any information that exists in digital form can be posted on the Internet and sent to mobile phones and computers. Indeed, this is true with almost any type of confidential records held by governments and business organizations.

This is a series of four papers that are reactions and comments on four different memoirs. The memoirs vary in tone, style, and content. A few are well-written, but each of them has something unique to offer. The commentaries offer a critique--sometimes scathing--of the writing style, grammar, and other elements of the narrative.