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Assignment 1: Philosophy and MediaBy				Saturday, June 15, 2013, respond to the assigned discussion questions and submit your responses to the appropriate topic in this				Discussion Area. You should quote or paraphrase from specific pages in the course text to support your claims about philosophical ideas and concepts, using correct APA citation. Start reviewing and responding to your classmates and the facilitator as early in the week as possible.Address the following in a three-page paper:									Identify a film, book, television show, or other form of media/art that involves characters/narrators reflecting upon the nature of identity and the self. Cite the media using correct APA citation.					Explain at least one theory of identity from this week’s readings. For example, you might discuss rationalism, empiricism, or phenomenology. Cite support from the primary text selections in the chapter as well as authoritative secondary sources such as the course text and online lectures.					Analyze the film using at least one of the theories of identity or freedom from this week’s readings and lectures.					You may want to consider the following questions while choosing a relevant theory and analyzing the media:					Do the characters doubt their own existence or their ability to know themselves and the world around them?					Do the characters/narrator reflect upon whether they exist and how they know what they know?					To what extent do the following factors impact their sense of self: emotions, past experiences, rationality, other people, race, gender, socio-economic status, ethnicity, and religion?					Are they conscious of themselves as having a “self?”								Submit your assignment to the					Discussion Area				by				Saturday, June 15, 2013.								For assistance with any problems you may have when completing this assignment—OR—to offer your assistance to classmates, please use the								Problems and Solutions Discussion									area located through the left side navigation link.																										Use the								Respond									link to post responses and materials that pertain to this assignment. Use the								Respond									link beneath any existing postings to respond to them.																								Assignment 1: Philosophy and Media												Respond			This section lists options that can be used to view responses.						Collapse All						Print View						Show Options			ResponsesResponses are listed below in the following order: response, author and the date and time the response is posted.										Response														Author														Date/Time*																																																																																								Assignment 1: Philosophy and Media Instructions																						Instructor Hensell																						5/28/2013 2:24:46 PM																																																																																											Hi Class, in our discussion assignment this week we are examining how the theories of identity and freedom relate to media and art. You want to begin by selecting a book, film, show, or other form of media/art that you think will lend itself to our examination of freedom and identity. In a three page paper, you want to explore how these particular theories relate to the characters or story line presented in your selected form of media.Almost any television show or film with human characters will work, and I have had students do everything from "The Real Housewives" to films like "Memento" and "The Matrix." Pick a show with characters that interest you, and consider some of the following questions:-How do the characters make decisions? Do they primarily rely on experience? If so, empiricism might be a good theory to draw upon in your analysis. Do they weigh the reasons for the various possible options? If so, rationalism might work best. Do they experience their mind and body as one (as in phenomenology), or as separate (as in rationalism)?OR-Consider a choice a character makes. Is it a free choice? If the choice is completely determined by factors beyond their control, you might draw upon determinism. If it is somewhat conditioned by external forces but free choices are still possible, compatibalism, existentialism, or Grimshaw's theory of psychic coercion might be a better choice.You want to post your assignment to the discussion forum and respond to your classmates and myself in the discussion. To receive full credit, you want to post three responses to your classmates and reply to my response to your initial post. Please review the grading rubric that is attached to the assignment description for more information about how your discussion responses are graded.I encourage you to use the grading rubric within the assignment description as a checklist for completing your assignments.

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In psychology and sociology, the term of identity is a person's invention and 
communication relationships in between individuality or groups. The concept of identity has 
important place provide a lot of work in social psychology (Walter, 2010). In similar words, 
Identity defined as the different feature appertaining and shared by the members of a particular 
or social category group. On the other hand, the psychological identity mainly related to self-
image, self-esteem and personality.  
According to Cohen, human mind work as the cartridge slot, ideas and knowledge comes 
from our senses and receives through the development of investigation. On the other hand, the 
concept of consciousness, knowledge, activities and values that an individual thinks to make him 
or her specific. 
 The real housewives a reality show produced on the television which differentiates 
between the lives of rich person housewives and professional women in the suburban or urban 
areas of several American cities, with the name of metropolitan region (Cohen, 2012). The show 
based on the concept and the name provided by the television series unfortunate Housewives.

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