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- 231: Ernest Hemingway
- ... war. Only three months later, Agnes wrote Ernest a letter saying that she was going to marry an Italian Lieutenant named Duca Dominico Caraceiolo instead. Back in America, Ernest was crushed and he fell into depression. Ernest was so heartbroken that he would write letters to nurses and patients from back in Italy about the terrible things he hoped would happen to Agnes. Thus began his career as a writer of ... to pay more attention to Ernest. They started to take walks around the village together, as soon as Ernest could move on crutches.3 That October, Agnes was moved to Florence and Ernest fell into depression. He would write her letters, sometimes two or three a day, telling her how he felt about her.4 Just before he was shipped home on the S.S. Giuseppe Verdi in January of 1919 ... married after the war was over.5 That April, Agnes wrote Ernest a letter breaking off their engagement by telling him that she had fallen in love with someone else. Once again Ernest fell into depression. He started writing angry letters to his friends from Italy who knew Agnes. He wrote about the terrible things that he hoped would befall her.6 Some time later Ernest learned that Agnes' engagement ...
- 232: Andrew Jackson 2
- ... was put into great debt that took him years to pay off. Then again, with the panic of 1819 his resentment towards the "Eastern Money Power" and national bank grew. During this time, an ensuing depression fell hard upon the people of the west and south, including Jackson who had regained his financial footing. The depression was the result of rapid expansion, speculation, and wildcat banking. In the west men had placed all their resources into reckless buying of land. The banks that had overextended themselves were forced to press their ... victory. During his second term, Jackson decided to remove all federal funds from the national bank. In response to this action Biddle, the head of the national bank, brought about a short-lived but severe depression. He achieved this through the restriction of credit. However, this ended once the business community rebelled. Biddle s intentions were to force Jackson to return the funds to the national bank. Once the depression ...
- 233: Mark Schaller's Study About Fame
- ... personality and social behavior in such a bad way that he took his own life in April of 1994 when he was twenty seven years old. Cobain's attitude changed. He started to suffer from depression even though he was rising in fame. His social behavior was not the same. Cobain was also addicted to drugs. In effect, both the physical and mental aspects of his self were deteriorating. According to Schaller(1997), Cole Porter achieved his fame around the year 1930. Porter, like Cobain, seemed to suffer from depression. Schaller mentions that in 1951, Porter spent several months undergoing electroshock therapy. Porter was also an alcoholic during his time of fame. In these ways, Porter's personality and social behavior were also effected by ... is self-conscious, they are very aware of how they look and what they think and do. An extremely self-conscious person will scrutinize their self for every negative thing. Sometimes this can lead to depression. This is especially true for famous people that must make themselves have a favorable image in the eyes of their audience. Constant searching for faults will cause a person to have a bad self- ...
- 234: The Life of Kurt Vonnegut
- ... Kurt Vonnegut was born in November of 1922 in Indianapolis. This is where he eventually met and married Jane Cox. Vonnegut's life has been a struggle, starting with his mother's constant bouts with depression. In 1943, when Vonnegut enlisted, his mother's depression grew deeper. Because of that Private Vonnegut asked permission to visit home to surprise her on Mother's Day. She overdosed on sleeping pills the night before he arrived (Walker 206). Surprisingly, this tragedy was ... Kurt Vonnegut was born in November of 1922 in Indianapolis. This is where he eventually met and married Jane Cox. Vonnegut's life has been a struggle, starting with his mother's constant bouts with depression. In 1943, when Vonnegut enlisted, his mother's depression grew deeper. Because of that Private Vonnegut asked permission to visit home to surprise her on Mother's Day. She overdosed on sleeping pills the ...
- 235: Work And Labour
- ... not from mining, but from cigarettes and a bad eastern European diet." Dust to Dust. Not only can work be bad for your physical health but also your mental health. Every year many people suffer depression and some even commit suicide due to workplace stress. "Workplace Stress" by Cathy Walker explains that in the year 1989, after the signing of the free trade agreement, four workers, all from the same General ... allow workers some control over their lives at the workplace." Workplace Stress. "Madness at Work, A Call For Compassion", is an article written by Jane Caron. Jane suffers from a very sad illness called manic depression. Jane writes about how she has dealt with her illness and how it has effected her life at home and at the workplace. Her story is a sad one, but true. One of the leading causes of manic depression is workplace stress or losing a job. Jane explains the hard times she went through with her family and at work before her illness was recognized and treated. After twelve years of depression she ...
- 236: Job Stress
- ... hearing more about job related stress. With many households depending on duel incomes, people are working more and having less leisure time. Many claim that job stress has contributed to such illnesses as heart disease, depression, gastric problems, exhaustion, and many other related illnesses. This paper will focus on the background issues surrounding stress; as well as, the steps that need to be taken by one s self and the employer ... high stress levels. Today, that number has increased to one-third of the American population claiming they are rushed on a daily basis (Schor, 1991, p.11). King 2 Prolonged severe stress can cause emotional depression, the exhaustion stage is not depression, but a physical process. Long-lasting excessive stress can cause a variety of physical illnesses. Among them: high blood pressure, ulcers, colitis, arthritis, diabetes, stoke, and heart attack. The same type and level of ...
- 237: Herbert Hoover
- ... eliminate the scourges of poverty and that America was entering a future of peace and ever-increasing economic prosperity. After his election he turned his attention to America's most noticeable economic problem, the agricultural depression that had been chronic for nearly a decade. The resulting Agricultural Marketing Act, passed by Congress in 1929, promoted the idea of marketing cooperatives among farmers to increase their efficiency while the government purchased surplus commodities until--it was intended-- individual cooperative action could maintain farm prosperity without government intervention. The Wall Street crash of October 1929 and the onset of the DEPRESSION OF THE 1930s shattered Hoover's dreams and his popularity. He refused to mobilize fully the resources of the federal government to save the collapsing economy. What actions he did take, such as approving creation ... the Crisis of American Capitalism (1973); Lyons, Eugene, Herbert Hoover, a Biography (1964); Nash, G. H., The Life of Herbert Hoover, 2 vols. (1983-88); Smith, Gene, The Shattered Dream: Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression (1984); Smith, R. N., An Uncommon Man (1984); Sobel, Robert, Herbert Hoover at the Onset of the Great Depression, 1929-1930 (1975); Wilson, Joan Hoff, Herbert Hoover: Forgotten Progressive (1975). NAME: Herbert Clark Hoover ...
- 238: America: One Nation
- America: One Nation Through struggle and turmoil, past and present, America remains one nation. It has not been easy though. In the twentieth century alone, two world wars, two wars in Asia, one depression, and a couple of earthquakes have shaped the United States and her social and political views. Now I am not writing this paper about Richter scales. And though the Great Depression was a very rough time, I am arguing the impact of the Vietnam and Second World War on American society. World War II was a war the people wanted. When the war had been brought ... military at hand. The Government sought to maintain its military dominance, and further the development of the atom bomb. Thus a nuclear age began. Before the war, the American people were unsettled by the Great Depression. Unemployment was high. But the Second World War brought a lot of people into the work force, including women. While the men were at war, the women were at work. The standard before had ...
- 239: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... their inflation rate was at a never again seen high of fifteen percent. Everyone was upset with the war profiteers who had gain enormous amounts of wealth while the whole of the country plummeted into depression. Wilsons desertion of the nation to save the world did not help the United States domestically. His October Appeal weakened his glorified here image in America. He insulted his people by dictating to them ... precious League would fail because it was based on the faulty premise that nations would not operate out of elf interest. When Wilson returns home as a failure, he returns to a country ravished y depression, race riots, red scares and low economies. The public is angry at the outcome of the treaty and they refuse to comply with the majority of the outlines. Wilson embarks in a nearly fatal battle ... points had failed miserably and were shunned by the Republicans. More importantly to his career, he had deserted his country in its time of need. They felt deserted and betrayed as they entered into a depression while their leader was overseas. Wilson had built his country up but he also managed to bring it tumbling down. Wilson left office disgraced and disliked. So I propose that Roosevelt made a better ...
- 240: Judith Guest's "Ordinary People": Summary
- ... We see Conrad's anger and aggression is displaced, i.e. vented on another, as when he physically attacked a schoolmate. Yet, he also turns his anger on himself and expresses in extreme and dangerous depression and guilt. "Guilt is a normal emotion felt by most people, but among survivors it takes on special meaning. Most feel guilty about the death of loved ones whom they feel they could have, or ... So this is a good sign; turning his anger outward at last." Because his family, and especially his mother, frowns upon public displays of emotion, Conrad keeps his feelings bottled up, which further contributes to depression. Encyclopedia Britannica, in explicating the dynamics of depression states, "Upon close study, the attacks on the self are revealed to be unconscious expressions of disappointment and anger toward another person, or even a circumstance..., deflected from their real direction onto the self. ...
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