ENGL 224-001
Dr. Annie Montero
March 6th 2014
Pride
Through the age’s mankind has determined what is right and wrong in an emotional point of view as well as the psychological. This term is known as pride. Pride has become an essential problem to basically anyone animals and humans alike. In biblical terms pride appears many times like in; Genesis 11:1-9, The Tower of Babel, in this story describes how mankind wanted to defy God and become greater than him. In this act God decided to destroy the Tower of Babel to teach mankind that pride was a sin. Since pride can be divided in many terms begin to describe it is the steps to understand it.
According to Dictionary.com, pride is a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct. Nevertheless or however we can also mention that pride is also considered one of the mayor problems that have attacked society for ages needless to say they weren’t all positive. To define this term has been a hassle for ages since people who try to define it put their own version of the word pride since the word itself says to be proud. So “pride” can be viewed in a positive and negative way. In psychological terms, Pride is "a pleasant, sometimes exhilarating, emotion that results from a positive self-evaluation". While in social terms pride can be a problem because it’s an emotion that reflects the users feeling towards the subject whether is physical or emotional, personal or considered a group problem.
Pride is a mixture of emotions of self-importance including socializing terms like superiority it can also be determined as a mental toxin. Also pride has its partners which are vanity and hubris. Vanity and hubris are excessive pride or self-confidence or arrogance. Pride can be towards a person that you feel proud of it doesn’t necessarily mean yourself because pride isn’t always a