Identity/ Hope 2020

Identity is the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and/or expressions that make a person or group. Gender identity forms an important part of identity in psychology; other aspects of identity, such as racial, religious, ethnic, occupational etc. may also be more or less significant. Psychologists most commonly use the term "identity" to describe personal identity; sociologists, however, often use the term to describe social identity or the collection of group memberships that define the individual.
In philosophy Heidegger, following Nietzsche, did work on identity. For Heidegger, people only really form an identity after facing death. It's death that allows people to choose from the socially constructed meanings in their world, and assemble a finite identity out of seemingly infinite meanings. For Heidegger, most people never escape the "they", a socially constructed identity of "how one ought to be" created mostly to try to escape death through ambiguity.
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Identity

What does identity mean? Well, identity means the qualities of a person or group that make them different from others but it can mean more than that.
Each human being has his own identity. That means that each of us has a gender, faith, an eye colour, his position in the family, culture, job, age, hobbies, and the list can go on. All of these make the difference. Peter Weinreich gives a definition: "A person's identity is defined as the totality of one's self-construal, in which how one construes oneself in the present expresses the continuity between how one construes oneself as one was in the past and how one construes oneself as one aspires to be in the future"; this allows for definitions of aspects of identity, such as: "One's ethnic identity is defined as that part of the totality of one's self-construal made up of those dimensions that express the continuity between one's construal of past ancestry and one's future aspirations in relation to ethnicity".
For example, each person has his own religion, as a part of Romanians are Christian and other parts are Repent. People from Istanbul are Muslims and from Asia, they are Buddhists and so on. They believe in God or Buddha and others in Zeus. Another example is that people have their own faces or body shapes, like, some of us are skinny, others are fatty, other has a small height and others are tall. The point is that we are having our identity and we are unique by our fingerprints, even if sometimes we are similar to other people, we are ourselves. Even if some of us has different eyes or skin color, different faces, smile, religions, cultures, age, hobbies and preferences, we need to be kind.
In conclusion, all of us are different with small details to big ones, but we are human and we need to respect all people around the world no matter how we look like.

By Antonia

Identity in the Odyssey
How does Odysseus prove his identity to Penelope and Eurycleia?

The theme of identity is also apparent in the epic. Odysseus was disguised as a beggar and changed to be more handsome, ugly, or old depending on the occasion, by Athena throughout his long and tiring journey. When Odysseus returned home to his native land, Ithaca, Athena disguised him as a beggar so he could have an easier time plotting against the suitors and saving his family and kingdom.
Odysseus faced many perils on his 10-year-journey home, such as being held captive by Calypso and resisting the sirens. Odysseus needed to keep his identity a secret many times. He couldn't reveal his true self to his wife, father, or other citizens of Ithaca, either. At the palace, the faithful nurse Eurycleia is the only person who privately identifies him when she recognizes a scar on his leg as she bathes him. Penelope seems to suspect who he is the moment he wins the contest of the giant bow and slays the suitors.
However, his love of glory prompted him to reveal his identity to the Cyclops and brought Poseidon’s wrath down on him.
Of course, Odysseus is no stranger to keeping his identity secret or even changing it. During the Trojan War, he initiated the ruse of the giant wooden horse filled with Greek soldiers and led to the defeat of Troy.
All in all, Odysseus has the defining character traits and identity of a Homeric leader, such as strength, courage, nobility, a thirst for glory and confidence in his authority. His most distinguishing trait is his sharp intellect, which helped him overcome the difficulties and obstacles created by gods or people.

By Elena