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- 821: To Kill A Mockingbird 3
- ... time is the early 1930s, the years of the Great Depression when poverty and unemployment were widespread in the United States. The Finch family contains of Atticus (The head of the household), Aunt Alexandra (Atticus's sister), and (Jem) Jeremy (The older of Atticus's two children), Scout (The younger of the two. She also try s to be a boy by doing boy things), and you can't forget their black maid Calpurnia. Miss Rachael is Dill's aunt that lives in Maycomb. Dill is friends with Jem and Scout. ...
- 822: Depression
- ... label, the heightened interest in depression has opened up a host of theories, myths, and treatments that seek to explain the oldest mental illness in written history. Affecting over 17 million Americans each year (that's one in seven) and representing the number-one cause of suicide, depression is one of the foremost concerns of the mental health field, not to mention a booming antidepressant industry. In this arena, women are ... and yes, there are powerful treatments that produce real relief. Yet depression is still widely misunderstood and stigmatized as a "character flaw" rather than being more correctly perceived as a recognized illness. Depressed? Sometimes it's hard to know what depression really is because it has become such a sweeping term, being used to describe everything from deep grief to daily frustrations. But to start with the most rigorous definition, Western ... employ such strict criteria to diagnose depression. Suzanne Pregerson, licensed M.F.C.C., is reluctant to define depression, saying, "I define it individually for every person. I would try not to assume that what's depression for one person is depression for another." But experts from all walks distinguish depression from a natural sadness or grieving period. They describe it as a hopelessness or a profound numbness that is ...
- 823: Swinger's Not Just on Playgrounds Anymore
- Swinger's Not Just on Playgrounds Anymore Dave's marriage had hit the rocks. His wife had lost interest in sex, and Dave did not know how to deal with it. He did not know whether she was bored with him or simply bored with sex. In his search for an answer Dave and his wife attended a swinger's party. This would eventually end Dave's marriage, but it would also lead him to greener pastures. "She did not want to share the lifestyle with me, and sharing is an important part of ...
- 824: Psychology
- ... side of the field. There is only one way that I have gained these perception skills and this has been through the learning process. Learning Process Learning is a relatively permanent change in an organism’s behavior due to experience. Learning is a process in every sport that every athlete will go through. For example, knowing when to jump in order to head a soccer ball. If you jump too early ... negative consequence, but eventually you will try it once again, and if you are successful, you are faced with a reward. In soccer, and almost any other sport, you learn what works and what doesn’t work. You discriminate against moves you don’t like or don’t know how to do very well and you will never use them. There is also extinction. Extinction usually occurs when someone doesn’t play a sport for a couple months ...
- 825: Creative Writing: The Chicken
- ... Sarah lived on a small farm in Ohio in 1959. She was nine years old, had brown hair and green eyes. Her mother raised chickens to eat and would sell the eggs. One day Sarah's mother gave Sarah her very own chicken to raise. Sarah named the chicken Maryanne. Sarah couldn't wait for Maryanne to start laying eggs because Sarah wanted to sell the eggs and buy a necklace that she had been wanting for just about a year now. She found some wood, some chicken wire, a hammer, and nails laying around the farm and she built Maryanne a small chicken coup. Maryanne could eat in her mother's chicken pen but Sarah wanted her to lay her eggs in the coup that she had built. Sarah would let Maryanne out in her mother's chicken pen during the day and lock her ...
- 826: To Kill A Mockingbird: Coming of Age
- ... since their own mother had died when Scout was two years old. Throughout the novel, these children grow up as a result of experiencing new things in their society and overcoming hardships. Jem and Scout’s struggles help them mature by helping them to change their one-sided views about people. Their struggles include facing and dealing with Mrs. Dubose and understanding her problems, being able to change their views about Atticus after the confrontation with Tim Johnson and encountering the town’s racist ways through the injustice of the court trial, and finally determining the identity of and becoming friends with the mysterious “Boo” Radley. To Jem and Scout, Mrs. Dubose was a mean old lady who ... nice thing to say about either of them. Mrs. Dubose would make snide comments to them because she assumed that they were trouble and were always up to no good. She would point out Scout’s unlady-like appearance with, “What are you doing in those overalls? You should be in a dress and camisole, young lady! You’ll grow up waiting on tables if somebody doesn’t change your ...
- 827: Narcissism: Psychological Theories and Therapeutic Interventions in the Narcissistic Disorders
- ... the underlying sense of inferiority which is the real problem of the narcissist, the grandiosity is just a facade used to cover the deep feelings of inadequacy. The Makeup of the Narcissistic Personality The narcissist's grandiose behavior is designed to reaffirm his or her sense of adequacy. Since the narcissist is incapable of asserting his or her own sense of adequacy, the narcissist seeks to be admired by others. However, the narcissist"s extremely fragile sense of self worth does not allow him or her to risk any criticism. Therefore, meaningful emotional interactions with others are avoided. By simultaneously seeking the admiration of others and keeping them at ... her from the feelings of despair. The narcissist views his or her situation arising not as a result of a personal maladjustment; rather it is some factor in the environment which is beyond the narcissist"s control which has caused his or her present situation. Therefore, the narcissist expects the therapist not to "cure" him or her from a problem which he or she does not perceive to exist, rather ...
- 828: The Different Conceptions of the Veil in The Souls of Black Folk
- The Different Conceptions of the Veil in The Souls of Black Folk "For now we see through a glass, darkly" -Isiah 25:7 W.E.B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk, a collection of autobiographical and historical essays contains many themes. There is the theme of souls and their attainment of consciousness, the theme of double consciousness and the duality and bifurcation ... with yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others."Footnote1 The veil is a metaphor for the separation and invisibility of black life and existence in America and is a reoccurring theme in books abo ut black life in America. Du Bois's veil metaphor, "In those somber forests of his striving his own soul rose before him, and he saw himself, -darkly as though through a veil"Footnote2, is a allusion to Saint Paul's line ...
- 829: The Love Song Of J. Alfred Pul
- In T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," the author is establishing the trouble the narrator is having dealing with middle age. Prufrock(the narrator) believes that age is a burden and is deeply ...
- 830: Early 1900s In N. America
- Early 1900s in N. America Life in the 1900's was depressing and was an era filled with extremely hard and strenous work that didn't offer any future for the average canadian in doing better. If you were an average wage earner you would be virtually stuck in the same job for the rest of your life, while rich maintained ... working and would have to be willing to do any thing the boss wanted. I believe my friends and I would most likely resent and despise it if we had to live in the 1900's. During the 1900's horses played a significant role in the everyday life. A horse drawn carriage would bring a docter to the house of where a baby would be born. A hearse was ...
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