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- 9151: Behind Closed Doors: The Correlation Between Multiple Personality Disorder and Child Abuse
- ... take Truddi Chase and the "Troops" when they are on The Oprah Show? How worried are we for Sybil when we remember Sally Field as Gidget? As grim as this disorder is we often don't realize the severity unless we hear it from "the voices." Using the psychoanalytical approach, I will show how past abusive experiences have driven some to MPD. Citing case studies from such books as When Rabbit ... one (Hales, 1993). This may be true because will keep their feelings of hostility toward others to themselves, whereas men would be more likely to lash out in random acts of . For instance, Anna doesn't want to believe that she is getting beaten, so she believes if she becomes someone else, it is not really her that is taking the abuse. However, it is only a matter of time before ... consumed Anna and left her broken, with every facet of her personality now being an independent mind. With statistics showing that some form of abuse happens to as many as one out of every four s (Hales , 1993) it is almost impossible not to understand why so many are affected by MPD. Not every form of abuse causes as dramatic of results as MPD. Children who survive less personal traumas, ...
- 9152: The Increasing Use Of Street Drugs
- The Increasing Use Of Street Drugs In today's society the use of street drugs is much greater than thirty or forty years ago. Cocaine, speed, heroine and marijuana (more commonly known as pot) are the most common drugs of the nineties. One week ... a power struggle that unfortunately will not ever diminish. Power struggle to me is the battle between law enforcement and the criminals. Regardless of how criminals may feel, street drugs are illegal. Unfortunately in today's society, drugs can be available anywhere, as it was for me just a week ago. I appreciated what I found and was able to flush it into our local sewer system. Peer pressure is an ... this "life taking" addiction can be. When one is influencing another it is slightly forgotten how people on a daily basis die from doing drugs. Whether it kills you or not, the drug users don't think about how messed up their brain and body can get when just trying drugs. A common way that drug dealers rope in young people is by giving them drugs to try. It is ...
- 9153: Immigration To Canada
- Early immigration to Canada was generated by a network of emigration agents who were salesman who advertised to Canada’s attraction’s to prospected immigrants. They targeted wealthy farmers, agricultural laborers and female domestics, preferably from Great Britain, the United States and Northern Europe. Canada’s first immigration legislation, the Immigration Act of 1869 reflected the laissez-faire philosophy of the time by not saying which classes of immigrants should be admitted but , merely that the "governor" could prohibit the ...
- 9154: The Sound and the Fury Essay
- ... of the Compson family since Dilsey comprehends time, among other concepts. The last section has a little bit of everything in it from the novel. At the beginning the reader gets a sense of Dilsey's way to do things. She takes her time with her chores such as making breakfast in the morning. For example, Mrs. Compson asks Dilsey, "Haven't you started breakfast yet?", and Dilsey responds, "I'll tend to dat too…. I can't do but one thing at a time," (271). Time does not encumber Dilsey because she believes in eternity. Time does not effect Dilsey as much as it does the Compsons. She uses it to ...
- 9155: Censorship From "Obscene" Material
- Censorship From "Obscene" Material Today, in the 1990's, citizens in our society are being bombarded with obscene material from every direction. From the hate lyrics of Gun's 'N Roses to the satanic lyrics of Montley Crue and Marilyn Manson to the sexually explicit graphical content of today's movies, the issue is how much society is going to permit and where we, as a society, should we draw the line. The freedom of speech has always been considered a right, but that ...
- 9156: A Study Of The American Revolu
- ... task. Each country must take responsibility in the beginning of the conflict. Although there is never one country responsible for starting warfare there is an opinion that one side is more at fault for it s beginnings. From an early age, children in America are taught that the British were responsible for pushing the colonies to rebel and declare independence from their mother country. When looking at both sides of the ... may have been profitable for the colonists. Ultimately it became a primary reason for the beginning of social unrest among the early Americans. The colonists were like children who were told that if they don t disturb their parents they could do anything they wanted. While when it became convenient the parents, Britain, came in and started putting restrictions on them. As many in their position, the colonists rebelled against the new found interest in the societies they labored to build, that for so long went unnoticed. The following paragraphs will explain in detail how Britain s neglect of the American colonies and it s use of them lead to the war. In order to understand why the colonists felt threatened by British control, we must first know who these early ...
- 9157: Nobody's Gonna Talk Like That Under My Roof!
- Nobody's Gonna Talk Like That Under My Roof! It can be generalized, that society's younger members, being those under the age of around twenty-five, use slang terminology, or swear, far more than people who are on the older end of the age spectrum. Many of those who are among the "older group" would like to think that today's youth are chaotic and without values, or that it is just a factor of immaturity, which is probably true, but there is more to the issue than purely immaturity. Many things come into play ...
- 9158: Looking For Alibrandi
- ... in a society with different cultural background. This is the major issue the novel "Looking for Alibrandi" discusses. A realistic view through the eyes of a seventeen-year old Italian girl, Josephine is presented. Josephine’s like many teenagers that have learned from their mistakes. This is the long road that everybody meets while growing up. Learning to become an adult has many different responsibilities and every teenager has to deal ... basically a mothers love. If she where to grow up without a father she would have a confusing time trying to relate to most men and the protection of a father around. In Josephine Alibrandi’s case she never knew what it was like to have a father around. In some parts of the novel she recounts the time when she felt he was needed most. There is the conflict between ... with this type of tragedy makes young people grow in a short period of time. They think they see what the future holds for them and give up to early. After young teenager dies, adult’s thinks it’s selfish as they have cut their life short and have not dealt with the pressures and joys of adulthood. Close friends feel guilty, as they don’t realize their friend needed ...
- 9159: Autism
- A relatively rare multifactorial disorder occurring in as many as 1 in 500 people, autism is still largely an enigma to many doctors and scientists (Johnson, Dorman, 1998). Until Leo Kanner's use of the description autistic in 1948, schizophrenia was the general label given to patients with certain behavior patterns. Although autism and schizophrenia are widely seen as separate disorders today, there are still many conflicting classification issues which are distinguished largely with the help of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders, revision IV(DSM-IV). In the last five years research has shown that many people who engage in autistic behaviors have related but distinct disorders (Edelson, 1995). There ... world around them, a problem exhibited early in life. He quoted parents as referring to their disturbed children as, "self-sufficient," "like in a shell," "happiest when left alone," and "acting as if people weren't there" (Nelson, Israel, 1997). Kanner then described the isolation displayed by the children with the word autism, meaning an absorption in the self or subjective mental activity. The characteristics Kanner noted in his eleven ...
- 9160: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... Their reactions towards dying friends show their love for one another. “Suddenly little Kropp throws his cigarette away, stamps on it savagely, and looking around him with a broken and distracted face, stammers “Damned sh*t, the damned sh*t!”” (page 18). Even after their good friend Kemmerich passes away, the circle of friends is able to pull together and get through it all. They have a deep love for each other. Some soldiers like Paul and Katczinsky even feel a father/son relationship with each other. “We don’t talk much, but I believe we have a more complete communion with one another than even lovers have” (page 94). The war has brought them together. It has made them rely on each other ...
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