Being 6 feet tall and 245 pounds, I was really tiny next to this great giant. .
As soon as our tutoring sessions began he made it very clear that I was only there as a guide, and someone who would help him get good study habits since it was his first semester back in college since he graduated 6 years ago. When he did need help on an essay or on an algebra problem he would not ask for help, but rather argue for it. This in a way helped him maintain the control of most of our sessions, which went to show that although he was not sure of his abilities in school, he looked like he did. If I altered his essay in a constructive way, he would question it and alter it again a similar way like mine but not my suggestion. In the math problems he would argue relentlessly although he knew my answer was right and his was wrong because the book said so. His chauvinistic personality after a while was quite entertaining, and the more I got to know him the more his act would slip a little. If I would say an inspirational quote to get him to focus on school like "you need to put your needs before your wants-, he would use it while his friends came over and joined us for pizza. .
All of his close friends thought that this giant of a young man was very wise and smart, yet he was full of insecurities and those were the main reasons he did not enroll in school immediately after high school. He boasted that college to him would be a breeze to everyone, yet in a heart-to-heart conversation with me he confided that he doubted himself so much that he only enrolled for 2 classes and got a tutor just to prove to everyone that he could do it. Everyone who knew him thought that the reason he never went to college was because he loved the party life, when in reality it was a scene from his great play.
Theory .
In a famous theory formulated by Erving Goffman known as the Dramaturgy Theory, it was hypothesized that people are constantly presenting themselves according to how they want in everyday life situations.
Two theories have been proposed as the answer to social cohesion, which is the degree to which members of a society feel united by shared values and other special bonds. ... The second theory of what holds society together was proposed by Ferdinand Tonnies. ... What is dramaturgy? Erving Goffman developed dramaturgy or dramaturgical analysis. ...
However, theatrical traditions around the world have had equal influence on modern theatrical theory and practice, including the rich tradition present in India. ... In fact, even the oldest book of dramaturgy comes from the Indian tradition. ...
Homelessness/Symbolic interaction theory is a theoretical perspective claiming that people act toward things because of the meaning things have for them, people develop and rely on the social interaction. ... Individuality- Psychoanalytic theory- Depicts the human psyche in three parts: the id, the superego, and the ego. ... Social learning theory- Considers the formation of identity to be a learned response to external social stimuli; this theory emphasizes the societal context of socialization. According to this theory, behaviors and attitudes develop in response to reinforcement and enco...
Kenneth Burke born in 1897 and died in 1993 was a rhetorician whose criticism and theories had a major impact on many American writers and thinkers in the mid-twentieth century. ... His ever-fertile writings, collected in more than fifteen books, have made his name a byword in literary theory, history, economics, linguistics, dramaturgy, rhetoric, and much else. ...
