Essays on Personality

I’m 18 years old, I recently graduated from high-school. I am the eldest and first person to go to college in my family. Honestly, a couple of reasons why I decided to go to Metro State was that it looked like a good – academically...

In the novel Into The Wild by John Krakauer, published in 1996 the protagonist Chris McCandless (Alexander Supertramp) discovers his own meaning of life, or his sense of truth of the world. Told in the narrative of Krakauer, he addresses the theme by describing the...

Personality is defined as the individual differences in characteristic set of cognition, affect, and behavior. It forms the distinctive attributes of an individual, and it is what makes us who we are. In 1981, Goldberg’s ground-breaking work has successfully narrowed down Cattell’s 16 personality factors...

Impactful decisions that saved the lives of countless Jews were made consciously and deliberately by a Swiss Police Captain, Paul Grüninger, in the years leading up to the Holocaust. Without nearness to the consequences of his actions and feeling the weight of the responsibility he...

Over the past few decades, a growing number of researches regarding personality has emerged and has mainly revolved around five dimensions: Emotional Stability, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Openness to experience and Extraversion, these are the basis of personality. There are many personality tests such as, the Myers...

When Gary Ridgway was a child, his mother, Mary Ridgway, was the one who ran the house. It had been rumored that she had very odd ways of parenting, and her husband never had the courage to stand up to her. His father never seemed...

Anthropology is the study of human societies and their cultures and how they are developed. Anthropologists all over the world use different methods when it comes to experimenting problems. Two specific anthropologists, Bronisław Malinowski and Elizabeth Chin, encountered problems when it came to observing culture...