When presenting the motion to the Legislative Assembly of Singapore on 11 November 1959, Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, the Minister for Culture, stated: "National flags, crest and anthem express symbolically the hopes and ideals of a people... The possession of a national flag and crest is, for a people, symbolic of self-respect".
They were of course symbolic of his self-destructive tendencies, yet he couldn't take the risk of trying to quit because to do so and fail would be psychologically more harmful than contemplating one's chronic inability to quit.
All in all, she has one goal in mind: To give women a symbolic spine of self-confidence in fashion.
In traditions such as the Igbo where women may be known as "fearless fighters," the symbolic and cultural meaning of self and mother fall outside the modern, liberal template of dual gender systems and abstract, formal conceptions of equality (Nzegwu 2006).
Furthermore, the fundamental assumptions of symbolic interactionism about the nature of self and the concept of change provide a structure within which the social interactions of the women, roles, emotions, and presentation of self can be examined in great detail [ 36].
"When a woman is doing her own thing with her own body, the action has an impact far beyond the immediate act: it becomes symbolic of an independence and self-governance that is threatening precisely because it excludes the penis," she said.
Both the content and the style of his verse also caused Whitman's early biographers, and even the poet himself, to confuse the symbolic self of the poems with their physical creator.
Arcangel has reflected something poignant about this collective yearning for creative individuation, about how technology seems to facilitate self-expression while effecting a strange obliteration of the individual a symbolic compression of the self into the repository of the personal brand.
(Why irksome?) "Muscles may be symbolic of masculinity, but bodybuilding, with its self-conscious posing and self-display, is oddly reminiscent of stereotypically feminine activities.... Contestants in bodybuilding competitions shave off their body hair and pose covered in makeup to enhance their physical charms; their preening, measuring and dieting is more typical of female, not male, behavior".
These symbolic representations are diffusely internalized and pervade our experiences of self and other.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — More than a year after a young Tunisian set himself on fire and touched off revolutions throughout the Arab world, self-immolation, symbolic of systemic frustration and helplessness, has become increasingly common across the region.
