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- 1021: Stress Management
- ... home, work, in social settings, and when engaged in activities to simply have fun. Police officer s experience stresses the same as others, but also in ways much different than the average citizen. The dangers, violence, and tragedy seen by officers result in added levels of stress not experienced by the general population. What is stress? Stress is not a new phenomenon, it has been experienced throughout history. Stress is a ... t see a way out of a miserable situation. The worst part of chronic stress is that people get used to it and forget that it s there. Chronic stress kills by means of suicide, violence, heart attack, stroke and cancer. The symptoms of chronic stress are hard to treat and could require a lot of medical and behavioural treatment, therapy, and stress management. Traumatic stress is a special kind of ...
- 1022: Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
- ... home to many menial workers and unemployment, as well as welfare recipients. The lack of education and opportunities provided by the schools contribute to this cycle. Kozol describes these neighborhoods as slums, M. Medina where violence and hopelessness is an everyday issue. C. Wright Mills speaks of the "social imagination" as "how unique historical circumstances of a particular society affect people and, at the same time how people affect history" (Henslin ... seem to go unaccounted for leads to leads to a decline in their motivation. How can they want more than what they know? They see the streets in which they live in infested with drugs, violence, death and decay. It's as if they are living in a battle zone in their own community. Yet despite these factors and other barriers, there are those that whish for more and strive to ...
- 1023: Black Boy: Richard's Hungers
- ... thing that contributes to Richard's emotional hunger the subject of blacks and whites. I wanted to understand these two sets of people who lived side by side and never touched, it seemed, except in violence (54). He viewed this culture of justifiable torment as senseless, but dared not go against it. Richard accepted this segregation, but never let the whites go too far in the way they treated him. Richard ... painful excitement that the story had given me, and I vowed that as soon as I was old enough I would buy all the novels there were and read them to feed that thirst for violence that was in me, for intrigue, for plotting, for secrecy, for bloody murders (46). Richard passionately craves reading, but his grandmother views these stories as devilish and forbids him to read such things. Granny is ...
- 1024: African Culture
- ... a fierce and pathological rejection of the possibility that they might harbor traits identified with various racial "others," was for nonwhites a quasi-terroristic requirement that they anticipate and strive to protect themselves against the "violence of representation" (Armstrong and Tennenhouse 1989), not to mention the physical violence, directed against them by members of the ruling race. Psychohistorical approaches to US racial dynamics have long investigated these processes (Drinnon 1985, Rogin 1975, Williamson 1986). Thus racial dualism was in part an adaptation, a ...
- 1025: Moby Dick: Good and Evil
- ... Whale is an evil force, the ruthless efficacy with which Moby Dick defends himself seems to vindicate Ahab in the end. It is this mutual malevolency that is the impetus for the downward spiral of violence begetting violence that culminates in the mutual destruction of Ahab and Moby Dick. In being left to evaluate the respective fates of Ishmael and Ahab, the reader is forced to examine what each character has accomplished or ...
- 1026: A Tale of Two Cities: Inner Soul and Human Emotion
- ... unfortunately, human nature causes us to be vengeful and, for some, overly ambitious. This book describes how, even with the best of intentions, our ambitions can get the best of us. It also demonstrates that violence and the Machiavellian attitude of "the ends justifying the means" are deplorable. A Tale of Two Cities is a love story, which chronicles the lives of Charles Darnay, a Frenchman who renounced his link with ... as she wants to have Charles Darnay killed, not because he has done something wrong, but because he is related to the Evrmonde family, which killed her relative. Though "Dickens seems almost to regard violence as the one way to bring about social change,"(Lucas, 288) he then began to denounce the actions taken by some of the revolutionaries. The citizens let their righteous cause turn into vengefulness. Even servants ...
- 1027: Everything Old Is New Again
- ... unrest, while underground alternative rock became mainstream. In 1969, the Woodstock music festival embodied the spirit of peace and love. It was repeated in 1994 and 1999, but unfortunately, the festival in 1999 ended in violence, marring the essence of the original Woodstock. Racial tensions, civil rights disturbances, and deeply divided opinions over the American presence in the Vietnam war, all served to give the sixties a radical edge. People were ... give their lives, if necessary, to the cause. Young people became increasingly opposed to the Vietnam war and had a tendency to express their opinions more violently than Martin Luther King, Jr., who preached non-violence while leading the civil rights movement. The idea of free love and the feminist movement was popularized by the widespread acceptance of the birth control pill. People in the sixties were intolerant of a government ...
- 1028: Appearances Are Deceptive In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... hand they could be considered exactly the opposite. The Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons are soul enemies and the two families have been feuding for years but instead of settling it as gentlemen they go to violence as the answer. Violence in this case does not help the situation but instead makes it worse and the two families become even angrier with each other. They were fighting one day and the next Sunday they are all ...
- 1029: Personal Impacts Of Death
- ... to kill (we assume to eat) the bird, only to have each attempt lethally backfire before he is once again resurrected to resume the hunt. This cartoon is followed by others bearing similar messages of violence, death, and indestructibility. The following is the breakdown of their responses to the question "When you were a child, how was death talked about in your family?" Openly 39% With some sense of discomfort 19 ... lower rungs of society's stratification order. For the former, death typically comes to the old--to those who have lived full and completed lives. For the latter, death too often comes prematurely due to violence or accident. Consider, for instance, the following table derived from the 1988-90 NORC General Social Surveys (n=4194), summarizing Americans' responses to the question "Within the past 12 months, how many people have you ...
- 1030: Alfred Hitchcock: 50 Years of Movie Magic
- ... is the story of split personality and not letting go. Suspense (and in some cases fear) is built up throughout the entire movie, making the viewer forget that there are only two actual scenes of violence. Psycho is a film that takes place more in the mind of the viewer than on the screen. The movie is based on a novel with the same name by Robert Bloch, which was a ... describes the mastery of Alfred Hitchcock. Philip T. Hartung who reviewed Psycho for Commonweal magazine in September of 1960, had a different opinion of it; "Hitchcock pushes everything as far as he can go: the violence, the sex, the thrills and the gore." All of the literature used in this report all agree on one fact: Psycho is a movie beyond its years and is one of the best in movie ...
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