Essays on Role Models

Many of us have role models in our lives and most people have athletes, movie stars or other celebrities as their role models. However, to me a role model not necessarily mean a celebrity, he/she can even be a simple person, who has positively influenced...

A role model can be define as a person who mold someone else’s attitudes, values and behavior. As we already know, we tend to reproduce what other people do, not necessarily what they say. In 1977, Bandura develops the Social Learning Theory which is based...

When Phoenix star, Charles Barkley, said, ‘I’m not a role model. I am paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court. Just because I can dunk doesn’t mean I should raise your kids. ‘ in the 1993 commercial for Nike it challenged people to think...

Twelve spacecrafts drop in twelve parts of the Earth. Colonel Weber, who is a U. S. Army officer, recruits Louise Banks who is a linguistic expert and physicist Ian Donnelly to discover why they have landed on Earth. He takes them to a camp near...

A “role model” means a prominent person whose behavior, habits, or accomplishments are copied by others. The term “role model” was developed in the 1940s by American Sociologist, Robert K. Merton. Merton developed this concept through focus group research that showed that everyday people often...

Have you ever looked up to somebody and wanted to be just like them when you were young? I think we all have admired someone who just weren’t the best of role models, but back then we just didn’t know why. So, when we think...

Today athletes are projected as role models in society, heroes for our children to look up to. This comes with great responsibility to not only the role model, but to the parents and guardians of impressionable children. The role model has changed from past years,...

The typical ‘teen mum’: irresponsible, a bad mum, a secondary school dropout and living in poverty. They are portrayed to the British public in the media as careless and incapable mothers, but do we really think beyond the snap judgements about the influence that these...

Do we need a role model in our lives? What qualifications should role models have? Having a role model in our lives is very important because they inspire us in making decisions and keeping our spirits up, also, the attitude of a role model influences...

While there are plenty of people who still think that global warming isn’t real, and the Earth is flat, some of them are actually trying to change the world to the better. One of them is Leonardo DiCaprio — the best actor of his generation...