Assertiveness
- Confident and direct in claiming one’s rights or putting forward one’s views.
Assertiveness is a quality that the world tends to beat out of us all too often. Nevertheless, a quality life depends upon having the ability to speak up for ourselves and our interests, to follow that internal hunch ~ without spinning off into arrogance or aggression. Assertiveness is a high-level yet mission-critical element of a strong, happy, meaningful life. Following are excellent examples of people exercising assertiveness… or reaping the consequences of having failed to do so.
Examples of Assertiveness in Film
- A Man for All Seasons
- Alien Nation
- Alien vs. Predator
- All the President’s Men
- Alpha Dog
- Anna and the King
- Boyz N the Hood
- Breaking the Waves
- Charlie Wilson’s War
- Contact
- Cool Hand Luke
- Crimson Tide
- Dead Man Walking
- Deep Impact
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age
- Fair Game
- Frances
- G.I. Jane
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
- Hairspray (2007)
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- Heart Like a Wheel
- Holes
- Horrible Bosses
- Jack Goes Boating
- John Q
- Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Million Dollar Baby
- Network
- Never Let Me Go
- Not Without My Daughter
- Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
- Remember the Titans
- Straw Dogs (2011)
- The Big Kahuna
- The Bounty
- The Caine Mutiny
- The Color Purple
- The Contender
- The Fighter
- The Good Girl
- The Graduate
- The Paper
- The Proposal
- The Queen
- The Shipping News
- The Station Agent
- Titanic
- Tootsie
- Urban Cowboy
- Watership Down
- Whale Rider
- Working Girl
“assertive.” Dictionary.com Unabridged. 18 Dec. 2011. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/assertive>.
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