...Byron Colbert PSY-100 5/28/16 Kevin Salcido Elisabeth Kubler Ross was a psychiatrist and revolutionizes how people view death and dying. She would listen to dying patients a give them a public form. She came up with five stages of grief. They stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. These stages are used universally. In the first stage that I will discuss is denial. In this stage people may deny the reality of the situation by blocking out the words and hiding from the facts ("5 Stages of Loss & Grief | Psych Central," n.d.-a). For instance, someone could be diagnosed with some form of cancer. That person may not want to know because it might overwhelm them. So they would not want to know the reality of that situation. The second stage would be anger. When denial is no longer working, anger comes into play. People can express anger at a lot of things including themselves ("5 Stages of Loss & Grief | Psych Central," n.d.-b). For example, if someone died unexpectedly and you thought that you could have prevented that death, you could be angry with yourself for not doing all that you could. You could also direct your anger to anyone who could be blamed. The third stage is bargaining. In this stage a person has hope they could have avoided the cause of grief. Sometimes it could be negotiations for an extended life ("Kübler-Ross model explained," n.d.-a). It could be that someone got in a terrible accident and you might think you could have saved...
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...Caroline Serup Gregersen 3.a The short story ” No Angel” is written by Bernie McGill from 2011. The story takes place in Northern Ireland. A limited 1st person narrator tells the story because the main character Annie tells the story from her point of view. The short story starts in media res. The short story is about how people handle death and the effect it has on a person. The short story circles about the main character Annie who sees her dead father´s ghost. In this essay there is an analysis and interpret the short story´s composition, supernatural elements, theme and the relationship between Annie and her father. The composition in the short story contains flashbacks because it jumps back and forth in time. In the short story there are some streams of consciousness, and that is why the chronological order has been unregulated. There is harmony between the start and the end. The use of flashbacks has an effect - it gives a full picture of the theme to understand the main character and her problems dealing with her father’s dead. It is a common element for a short story to have flashbacks. “The first time I saw my father after he died, I was in the shower, hair plastered with conditioner, when the water stuttered and turned cold. He was at the sink in front of the misted-up mirror with the tap running, his back to me. It was two weeks after his funeral. His things were all where he’d left them. ” This is the first flash back in time in the short story. Annie is seeing...
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...The casting of Duane Jones for the role of Ben in the film, Night of the Living Dead, is thought of being profoundly evocative because the role his character plays in the film of being an African American taking control during extreme conditions can be reflected to the events that have occurred or are still occurring during the making and release of this film. Some historical background surrounding and during the time the Night of the Living Dead was released, many things were going on in the year 1968 (Many is an understatement). Some big events that were happening during this time was the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, and the 1968 Presidential Election. Although years prior to 1968, legislations were being passed that banned any...
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...This essay will be about the movie Dead Poets Society and the rules which are imposed by the teacher Mr. Keating and also how the teachers deal with students who break the rules. In the movie we can see that the teacher is a hero to his students, the teacher uses different types of methods and applies different rules to which the school applies, this in a sense is very important as one must be aware of the context in which they are teaching. The rules applied in this movie may seem to show that Mr. Keating is a very good teacher, but as the context is not appropriate for his teaching methods it portrays him as being a bad teacher. Firstly, I will be talking about the teacher’s style of teaching, Mr. Keating is a teacher who wants his students to think for themselves, and encourages them to do what they think its right even if they are told the opposite. He also mentions that words and ideas can change the world, assuring the students that they can do whatever they please because their thoughts matter. Mr. Keating pushes his students to find their own voice. Mr.Keating does not apply simple classroom rules he makes students rip out from books because he believes they are unnecessary, he also does not use the classroom like it should be, students are allowed to stand up tables to prove a point, he also takes his students outside of the classroom teaching in different environments such as in the courtyard or applying poetry with physical education. It also seems as if the teacher...
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...of the Storm, Part 3 In today’s story, we have a religious leader and an outcast Both have to overcome social stigmas to come to Jesus- both have to choose faith over fear Tell the story: Mark 5:21-43 Pray Central truth we can learn from today’s story: In moments of desperation: God is there listening and responding even if it’s not on our timetable Let’s look at these two people: Jairus and the nameless woman 1) Jairus’ desperate situation Leader of the synagogue- had declared Jesus to be public enemy #1 So Jairus coming to Jesus shows his desperation- this probably will cost him many of his friends and maybe even his job, but he doesn’t care because his daughter is dying We know from Luke’s account that this girl is his only daughter- she’s 12 years old- so they’ve had 12 years of joy together and her life is about to begin- in this society, 12 was when you might get engaged and should’ve been an exciting time, but she’s sick- she’s dying. She needs Jesus. And so does her father. 2) Woman’s desperate situation Woman is complete opposite of Jairus- she was a social and religious outcast because of a disease- most likely a uterian cyst- that has caused her to bleed for 12 years- so she’s had 12 years of pain and disgrace- in this society, she didn’t have a life because of her illness OT law said she was unclean so that means she couldn’t partake in any religious ceremonies at Jairus’ synagogue. But it also meant that if she was married- she couldn’t have...
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...A) Role of Eric 1) Summarize your thoughts on the problems at hand, alternate solutions and your strategy on how to proceed at the forthcoming meeting? A) The major problem that at are at hand which the Eric is facing are: * Dealing with Fred: Fred is the old employee at the Texmark and since his assignment to India Fed has been this had been a major concern to Eric. His assignment to India has exceeded more than the designated period. His initial assignment was supposed to be for 18 months but it has been exceeded for more than 3 years. * Solution in dealing with Fred: Since the Eric has already sighted the major concern with Fred is that his unwillingness to train and transfer his responsibility to local engineers and his inability to work with the regulator is the major problem with Fred. Hence this situation can be better dealt by Eric personally supervising Fred and assigning him task with a limited dead line to each task. * Global expansion: The second major issue with Eric is the issue of the rising global presence of the company, as the company could not solve the expatriate issue. Hence company is facing a hard time when it’s needed to be established and to be made as a global company. As the main part of the strategy is dependent upon repatriation policy, where the growing numbers of repatriates are not meaning fully responding the debriefing and career counseling sessions. Hence this repatriation issue is affecting the long-term strategy development...
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...In this case, isolation is beneficial because it gives the women a chance to explore on their own without having to be overlooked by the men. The women began to piece together clues like the messy quilting, the messy kitchen, the shattered fruit preserves, and ultimately the dead bird in the sewing box. The women began to see through Minnie Wright’s perspective, her marriage with her husband, and what she had been dealing with. The unorganized quilt symbolizes that Minnie lost focus on her hobby. This illustrates that her mind was more focused on other ideas, which could be assumed that she was planning her husband’s murder. The kitchen is most likely Minnie’s sanctuary, the only place in the house where she likely spends the most time, and it is a mess. Normally if a person spends a lot of time cooking and cleaning in the kitchen they would try to keep it clean, but Minnie has left it a mess which implies that she was probably very stressed and not in the right mindset, dealing with the issues her and her husband have. The preserves can be viewed as a metaphor for Minnie and Mr. Wrights marriage in a sense that their marriage was under so much pressure that...
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...The stages don’t always come in order and there is no specific time frame, which a person goes thru them (Kubler-Ross, 2014). Kubler Ross explains the five stages as follows: Denial which is usually the first stage, where the person can’t believe that it is happening to them. Anger person may become angry with themselves, family members, network or even God. Holding everyone responsible for their plight (Kubler-Ross, 2014). They begin to bargain/negotiate with God to allow me to make it thru this situation or allow me to stay around long enough to make sure my family will be safe (Kubler-Ross, 2014). They become depressed and despondent giving up hope as well as all sense of positivity (Kubler-Ross, 2014). The last and final stage is acceptance of their fate. They have made peace with God and their inner circle, most importantly with themselves (Kubler-Ross, 2014). Although the Kubler-Ross model is a process for dealing with death, she original wrote it as stages dealing with any form of major personal loss (Larry Menkes). All cultures handle death differently, In Switzerland they accept death as a part of life. They compare it with birth, as a process and people are allowed to die at home surrounded by family and friends, instead of wasting away at a hospital as its done here in the United States. They focus more on the patient’s acceptance of what is going on with their emotional balance and less on high tech medicine. In Mexico death is also celebrated by...
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...not be able to view things the way Roach does. “If you really want to stay up late worrying about lawsuits and bad publicity, explode a bomb near the body of someone who has willed his remains to science” (Roach 358). Mary Roach mentions this quote in her article when describing the personal consequences when considering cadavers. When describing the situation, Roach focused on the political concerns, complaining about the burden it does to herself other bearing in mind the cadaver’s family feelings. Her sarcasm would normally offend most readers, however, some of us wouldn’t know how to react because we simply just don’t understand the complexity of life. This is because the same type of people are everywhere, whether they are in a rural area, a big city, or another country, we're all not that unique. Some of us just know how to hide our weaknesses as a human a little better. Mary Roach may be considered as a rational thinker, but I believe that if she were to be on the other side of her experiments, the family; the survivor, she may surprise herself. I believe that all of us can reason realistically towards any situation, but we seem to always react first emotionally,...
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...Walter et al. (2011), they addressed the challenges in the sequestration of death and how the prominence of the internet changes our patterns of grieving for the dead. This writing helps me gain a better understanding of the reaction to death and how these behaviours vary depending on the relationship one has with that dead person. In addition, it also highlights the potential that of overcoming grieving through online forum and their implication. Besides that I am also interested in the sociology of death, the development, structure and how the human society functions with respect to death like in the book by Kearl (1989), it analyses how we are shaped by death, in the sense of discovering our purpose, having our ethos moulded and also how our speech reflects how we view death. In addition to this, I am also keen on know how this sociology concepts are relevant or altered in the internet age which is almost 20 years after the publication of the book by Kearl. This drew such attraction to me as I am currently a nursing student and as a nurse I have to deal with death of patients at some point in my nursing career. Furthermore with my interest in the specialty of geriatric nursing and palliative care, I am likely to have more exposure to death. In the Singaporean context, there are many different cultures and tradition dealing with dying, death and after death. Through the module I would like to put these cultures and tradition side by side with the internet age and evaluate how this...
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...Killed”, Tim O’Brien kills a Vietnam Soldier for the first time. Although he is terrified by this horrific event, the other men in his platoon share opposing thoughts. Azar congratulates him and says in a joking manner,” On the dead test, this particular individual gets an A-plus,” (O’Brien, 126). In addition, Kiowa adds on by saying, “Nothing anybody could do..it’s a war,” (126). Both of these individuals agree in some way that killing the Vietnam soldier is the right choice, and they remain calm. For this reason, both believe strongly in their own masculinity, to be tough in any events...
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...Magic Realism in Francis’s Journey to the Past In the novel Ironweed by William Kennedy, the protagonist, Francis Phelan, is constantly trying to escape his past. He leaves the town he lives in to avoid dealing with problems and decisions he made years before. Unfortunately for Francis, a man named William Faulkner once said “the past is not dead. In fact, it is not even the past.” Many people go through life not realizing how much the past truly does affect them. However, running from the past is inevitable and will always find its way back into one’s life. One can see how William Kennedy used magic realism by making the living and the dead coexist. Not only did the dead walk among the living, but they were able to converse with one another. Francis’ infant son, Gerald, was only thirteen days old when he accidentally slipped out of his diaper. When the baby hit the linoleum floor, he broke his neck bone and died. Francis only drank a few beers when he dropped the child and he never forgave himself for the death of his baby boy. The memory haunted him and eventually led to Francis’ fleeing of the town. Years later, he returns and finds himself a job working at a cemetery. When he approaches Gerald’s grave, the memories from his past hit him hard. He talks to the grass and shows the deep sympathy and guilt that he feels. Kennedy uses elements of magic realism by allowing Francis to express his emotions with Gerald and by giving Gerald the ability to respond back. Oddly enough...
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...Cross Culture Business Bereavement Leave Judy Sheats ETH/316 October 14, 2013 Dawn Chisholm Cross Culture Business Bereavement Leave It has been said, ‘the only sure things are death and taxes.’ Though taxes may not always apply to global businesses, death of an employee is a global occurrence every company must deal with. Death is a permanent loss and is dealt with differently from culture to culture, mostly based on religious beliefs or traditional rituals. A global company must consider these cultural differences when initiating bereavement leave policies. According to "Studymode.com" (2008), “Grieving and funeral rituals vary greatly across cultures and, in most cases, are associated with religious practices and beliefs. People tend to look at the death phenomena through the scope of their religious beliefs and often relate their personal experiences with death to cultural norms and traditions” (para. 2). Death to a Salesman “When managers consider whether or not to develop a business relationship with those from a different culture, their decision may be affected by actual differences in ethical profiles, but potentially even more so by their perceptions of ethicality in the counterpart culture” (Gift, Gift, & Zheng, 2013, para.1). A worldwide company for instance, has corporate facilities around the globe, which employs Americans and those raised in the country where the business resides. Everyone has their cultural traditions they must follow when...
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...out*. In “The Pit that They Digged”, irony is found in several instances, and has several functions. The first few paragraphs show examples of situational irony. The main character, Hawkins Mumrath, is seen as about to die (‘lay down to die’), but actually does not (‘he rallied’), thus going against the expected (his friends and acquaintances ‘gave him up for lost’). This return to a state of good health does not bring a feeling of relief or happiness, on the contrary (he gets back to work ‘to the disgust of his juniors who had hoped promotion’). The situation turns into an administrative nightmare as well: the man is not dead, yet the Government makes arrangements for a grave to be dug for him, causing a zealous employee, Ahutosh Lal Deb, to try and get back the money spent on the grave. The situation is thus absurd: a man, quite alive, is asked to pay for his own grave. He writes letters (a sure sign of life) to put the situation to rights, but the administration is unwilling to see his point of view. The administration is presented as a caring entity, a maternal figure almost, full of ‘loving-kindness’. But this kindness does not translate into understanding or compassion, as Mumrath is at first denied his claim (to be given back the money taken away from his salary to pay for the grave). He has to play on ‘the Babu mind’ and bend the rules to get the results he wants. Mumrath uses the system to his own end, but this will backfire: it...
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...Connections to “Antigone” through “If I Die Young” By Chelsea Fidler Throughout both “Antigone” and the song “If I Die Young”, there are many relative ideas comparing the two pieces. Whether it's related to Antigone herself, Creon, her only love Haemon, or the “curse” on her family, there are plenty of connections to cover all of those subjects. Both girls suffered victimization through both the pieces. Which then comes to show why “If I Die Young” connects so well to “Antigone”.Through the connections that are made it is shown how Antigone overcomes herself and all the situations leading up to her ending. To die young is never a thing anyone plans or even wants, but we cannot control our fate. Our fate is decided upon before we even exist or so the Greeks think. Antigone saved he brother knowing she was going up against Creon's promulgations. What she didn't know is how cruelly she would be punished. She was sentenced to an early death to rot away in a walled up cave. “If I die young, bury me in satin, lay me down on a bed of roses.” This set of lyrics reflects how Antigone died a premature death. In ancient Greek times, a proper burial was essential to the soul of the deceased. Without a proper burial, the Greeks believed that is a body was not given a proper burial and the body was cadaverously left to rot, the soul would be trapped on earth and never know peace in the afterlife. Antigone and the citizens, knowing she was a good person and her intentions were harmless...
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