The Ageless Self Book Review

The book explores the feeling and experience of one 's later years: when one feels both cut off from the past and out of step with the present; when the body starts to give up but the mind becomes more passionate than ever. The book offers a wide vision of the issues that we go throughout our lives: the struggle to achieve goodness; how to maintain individuality in a mass society; and how to emerge out of suffering, loss, and limitation and so on. The book is an important contribution to the literature of aging, and of living. Scott-Maxwell’s book is compelling.

There differences in man are not derived from race, sex, or sexuality, but instead traits that are outside the control of anyone. This goes hand in hand with Bradbury’s statement of that, people are not born equal. The qualities of individuals “are unequally distributed, and, as a necessary consequence, in none of them, can one man be justly said to be as good as another” (Cooper 466). Some people are naturally more attractive, athletic, or intelligent than others. These differences mean that people are not on the same playing field.

Society sets the standard for how men and women should behave and that their roles are with relationships, friendships and careers. What is socially acceptable for a man is not perceived as socially acceptable for a woman in certain scenarios. Why is there a gap and will men and women be viewed as equals? One of the assigned stories that I had to read was A Doll’s House. The setting was in the 19th century.

The result shows that 46 or 92% of the elderlies wished that they had more respect to themselves. Forty or 80% of them said that they sometimes pity themselves while 34 or 68% of them perceived that they have little or sometimes nothing to help their family and friends. In addition, 33 or 66% of elderlies said that they are not happy with their accomplishments in life while 32 or 64% of them perceived that they do not have capabilities and good qualities that they can be proud of and shared that they find it difficult to accept the changes happening in themselves at the present moment. Moreover, 28 or 56% of the elderlies shared that they often think and wish that they are in other people’s condition while half of them (50%) think and feel that they are useless. Further, despite of the adversities experienced in later life, 32 or 64% of elderlies didn’t think that they

Age identity is a type of personality associated with the age of the person. This type of identity is very common among certain communities in smaller cities. When a group of like-minded individuals live near each other, they tend to get along better. For example, young people enjoy living around other young people as they know what each other has been through in terms of generation growth. Similarly, the elderly prefer to live in areas with other elders as they believe it is more safe.

All around the world women are being judged on it. Some women have the physical strength but some don’t. But it’s the same with men so why can’t we be equal. Equality is something that’s been going on for years, black to white, and men to women.

Originally, in hunter-gatherer times, men and women were relatively equal because they both contributed equally to the family, whether in different ways or not. As time progressed,

Where they differ, they are not comparable. A perfect woman and a perfect man ought not to resemble each other in mind any more than in looks, and perfection is not susceptible of more or less. In the union of the sexes each contributes equally to the common aim, but not in the same way. From this diversity arises the first assignable difference in the moral relations of the two sexes.”

This idea has been diffused over centuries, but people now are trying to impede gender disparity and efface it. To conclude, we find ourselves on a dilemma. On one side we have machism and men thinking they are better than women and vice versa. On the other, we have people who are just looking for gender equality.

Men are normally taller and have more muscle tone or are just normally muscular, while women are normally more slim and have more curvy bodys compared to men. I believe that a great divide does exist between men and women; however, I feel that the divide comes from how we are raised as children that creates the divide as well. At a young age we are told how we should act and certain things that each gender

Norma’s ways of coping with aging has evidently shown to be a success story. For example, she has noted that she had no surgeries or any medical complications. But more importantly she has showed me how to cope with a reality that you won’t be in this world forever. A reality that can be dealt with by appreciating the world through engaging in everything it has to

This paper describes and analyzes a life review interview with an older adult. The purpose of this paper is to discuss, record and reflect on an older adult’s life in order to evaluate them on the last stage of Erik Erickson’s theory of psychosocial development; integrity versus despair. This paper will also focus on the elements of a life review as well as the reflections of the interview on the part of the author. JC is a seventy-seven year old white male who lives by himself in New York City. He was born in London, England, and was an only child.

Theories of late adulthood development are quite diverse in later adulthood than at any other age. They include self-theory, identity theory and stratification theory. The self-theory tries to explain the core self and search to maintain one’s integrity and identity. The older adults tend to integrate and incorporate their various experiences with their vision and mission for their respective community (Berger, 2008). Also, the older people tend to feel that their attitude, personalities and beliefs have remained in a stable state over their lives even as they acknowledge that physical changes have taken place in their bodies.

The principle of development and aging as a continual process of life is the understanding that a person’s behavior cannot be attributed to one time during a person’s life course and that all areas of a person’s life course have an impact (Schmalleger, 2012). One of the central organizing principles of the perspective is the link between human lives and social relationships with friends and family across a person’s life span. These relationships have considerable influence on a person’s life course (Schmalleger,

Lee points out the famous quote about equality that she believes to be miss-interrupted. She expresses the misconception of the famous quote: “All men are created equal” all men are not created equal, but they can be equal through justice: equality and justice are not compatible words. The definition of equality is the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities and the definition of justice