Sense Of Self-identity Research Articles

Does Clio Have a Place in Technical Writing? Considering Patents in a History of Technical Communication

Technical writers need a historical perspective in order to distinguish between enduring and transitory writing standards, to understand the variety of past styles in building future styles, and to give the profession a better sense of self-identity. To overcome the problems in developing a historical perspective, such as a dearth of artifacts to examine and the peculiarities in rhetorical time and place which undercut attempts to generalize on historical information, the 200 year-old federal collection of patents is offered as a solution. This collection of patents is also very often the only remaining written work of the ordinary mechanic of the nineteenth century, and this collection truly reflects technical not legal, business, or science writing.

Wilfrid Ward and his Life of Newman

The most subtle nineteenth century analysis of religious conviction was the work of John Henry Newman; but who would analyse Newman himself? The simplest, most brilliant and wicked interpretation was that of Henri Bremond, for whom the ‘mystery of Newman’ was an all-devouring ‘autocentrism’ and self centredness, evidenced in an impassioned sense of self-identity and intensified by a twofold conviction of the reality of God and of the unreality of the visible world. Bremond's proof text was Newman's account of his Calvinist conversion, ‘confirming me in my mistrust of material phenomena, and making me rest in die thought of two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator’. ‘Myself and my Creator’—here, thought Bremond, was an appalling glimpse of Newman's egotism, die secret of a spirit alien to other men, for whom ‘every individual soul is a closed world’. Here was the making of that touchy hypersensitive melancholic, ‘the solitary by choice’, who ‘by confining his universe to two beings, his Creator and himself, made forever that void at the very bottom of his heart’.

John Lingard and the catholic revival

The nineteenth-century histories of England were inspired by and reflect the political and religious ideologies of the era; the liberal anglican school described by Duncan Forbes, the varieties of high church scholarship from Christopher Wordsworth to canon Dixon, the optimistic whiggery of Hallam and Macaulay, the protestant high toryism of Southey, the political protestantism of Froudc and the teutomania of Freeman. Most of these writers had two ideas in common; a strong sense of the importance of national history as a reinforcement of the English sense of self identity, and the oneness of English history. This was a view given classic expression m John Richard Green’s Short History of the English People, and has been perpetuated by Trevelyan and Churchill into the twentieth century. Far better than most of his predecessors, Green’s history was more than just a history of the nation written from a partisan point of view, and owed its popularity as much to its breadth of sympathy as to the author’s gift for quicksilver generalisation and narration which move the reader on at the pace of a hare. In this last quality, it was most unlike the most popular nineteenth-century history of England before its publication, the work of a Roman catholic priest John Lingard, though Lingard also professed to rise above the turmoil of parties to write an impartial history.

Innovators in the Catholic Church

The role of the innovator in the Catholic Church (as well as in society) is thought to be great, particularly in this time of rapid change in which the postconciliar Church presently finds itself. A highly innovative group of Catholics who belong to alternative types of change-oriented parishes were compared to Catholics from diocesan and more traditional parishes. The innovative group was significantly different than the more traditional group (more openminded, having a greater sense of self-identity, more intrinsically motivated regarding religious affiliation, more post-Vatican II in their theologies, more liberal on certain social questions, and more participative and satisfied with their parishes). The Catholic Church is comprised of significantly different sub-groups, with orientation to change and innovation a relevant differentiating variable. The importance of the way that religious affiliation is approached as opposed to membership per se was pointed out.

Development of a Sense of Self-Identity in Children

Development of a Sense of Self-Identity in Children

Self Revisited: The Sense of Self-Identity

Self Revisited: The Sense of Self-Identity