...can support a person after death, but his knowledge is salvation Thesis statement Author’s Perception of Death and the Treatment of Death in the play is associated with the hunt of reasoning the real purpose of life, and how Death, by being the God’s messenger, frights the mankind to evaluate his good and bad deeds before confronting the death. It depends upon the person how he wants to spend his life, but it cannot be neglected as well that death is inevitable, and a person should do anything to get an excellent mark in his final exam during the Day of Judgment. The used sources are selected to justify and support the ideas being presented about the author’s perception about death. These sources are also used to cross-examine the ideas personally...
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...social theory is his study of symbolic interaction in the form of dramaturgical perspective that began with his 1959 book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. In 2007 Goffman was listed as the 6th most-cited intellectual in the humanities and social sciences by The Times Higher Education Guide, behind Anthony Giddens and ahead of Jürgen Habermas.” Goffman’s builds his theories in the book based on a starting ideea which attests that in the everyday socialization, every person has a repertory of verbal and nonverbal acts constructed of an individual point of view about situations, persons and most of all, about himself. A person must know that the people with whom he interacts make an opinion and clasify him based on his actions and perspectives about certain subjects in an encounter. Another major fact that defines a person is the impression of self, named by Goffman „ the face”. His definition of this term is that „ ... the face may be defined as the positive social value a person effectively claims for himself by the lines others assume he has taken during a particular contact”. The image a person shows tends to be an institutionalized one and it’s based on emotions and feelings the person is encountering at that certain point of social confrontation. The face is in a state of continuously changes and depinding on the group of persons an individual interacts with or the the subject sustained in a discution, the self impression the individual has about himself modifies...
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...“Raymond’s Run,” is about a girl named Squeaky who protects her brother, Raymond. “Everything Will Be Okay” is about a boy named James who wants to make him family proud but thinks very differently from them. In the stories “Everything will be okay” and “Raymond’s Run” the authors teach is that it is okay to be your own person. In “Raymond’s Run,” Squeaky is very protective of her brother, Raymond. Because of this it is hard for Raymond to be his own person. Squeaky keeps him on the inside of the road so he doesn't run off. He has to stay by Squeaky’s side every minute of the day. She doesn't even let him talk to other people because she is afraid that Raymond will get hurt. For example, when Mary asked, “what grade are you in now Raymond.” Squeaky didn’t even let him defend himself, when she yelled “You got anything to say to my brother, you say it to me, Mary Louise Williams of raggedy town Baltimore.” This shows that Raymond can’t even stand up for himself, without Squeaky jumping in. If Squeaky won’t even let Raymond talk to other people then Raymond can’t become his own person. By the end of the story Squeaky gives him a...
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...during my time at Disney. To keep their anonymity, for this discussion, we will call these people, Person Happy and Person Sad, or Happy and Sad for short. EFFECTIVE INTRODUCTION During my time at Disney, there was one person that stands out above all others as my “Star” player, Person Happy. Happy’s role was Photo Quality Specialist for Disney’s PhotoPass Service. In this role, he was tasked with improving the overall quality of the photographs being taken by providing reviews and developing photographers through mentoring and training. While in this role, he was both highly committed, and also provided a high performance and measurable positive results. This was not always an easy role for Happy to be in because there would be times when he would have to provide feedback to a photographer that they might not agree with, but it was through this feedback, and voice, that he was able to build the overall quality of the product that we were providing though the PhotoPass service. EFFECTIVE EXPLANATION So the next logical question I am sure you are asking is, “Why was this person so good at, and strongly committed to their job?” Excellent question! I feel there were three main factors that lead to his success, a high level of conscientiousness, satisfaction with several aspects of his job, and a moderate, but manageable, and challenging amount of stress. First, let’s talk about Happy’s high level of conscientiousness, which happens to be...
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...In some schools marks the anniversary of William Shakespeare on the day of his birth and death. People celebrate to commemorate the achievements and contribution of Shakespeare that impacts literature in modern days. The article, Why Shakespeare Is Still Relevant, by Joseph Pearce presents the importance of Shakespeare’s work because of his contribution to English literature and the use of his written work to address the person’s morality. Through the plays and works of Shakespeare shows the outcomes of the person’s behaviour, present the reality of life and the significances of his work contributed the English literature. The author, Pearce, displays the relevance of Shakespeare due to his work that impacted today’s literature. Pearce states...
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...In The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan represents the theme of wealth, and marriage in this book. Tom is the husband of Daisy Buchanan and also a classmate and club member of Nick Carraway at Yale. The detail about Tom; his personality, and his marriage are important in this novel. In the novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of the book; creates an unlikeable character in Tom. Although Fitzgerald creates a bad image of Tom, he is fascinated by him, because he has power. Tom comes from an old social wealthy family; thus he is so rich that can cause people to blame him: ‘His family were enormously wealthy – even in college his freedom with money was a matter of reproach’, it seem that he can freely get money to buy anything he wants. Tom is a person who likes to showoff, ‘but now he’d left Chicago and come east in a fashion that rather took your breath away’: Tom wants to make a clear to the surrounding houses that he is rich, because he does not want the neighborhood suspects him. Further, he also talks about his polo ponies to show that he is ‘old money’. From this point of view, it is easy to realize that Tom is the kind of person who thinks highly of how the others think about him. After knowing about his background, Fitzgerald starts to describe the appearance of Tom: ‘the enormous power of body’ with the final sentences ‘It was a body capable of enormous leverage – a cruel body’; it seems that Tom has a very perfect body with muscles. The word ‘power’ is seem that he has...
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...numerous pieces arguing for the freedom of his people. In his autobiography entitled Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, he describes his experiences as a slave and how he attained education, despite overwhelming adversity. His story draws similarities to the fictional character Guy Montag created by Ray Bradbury, author of the book Fahrenheit 451’s protagonist. Both of these authors utilize characterization and conflict to develop their main...
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...their stories from a variety of points of view including third person. Emma Lee Warrior’s “Compatriots” is one text that uses third person point of view and this tends to be easier for the reader to understand the relationship between characters. Lee Maracle’s “Sojourner’s Truth” is another text that uses the third person narrative to commentate the events in the story. Readers are able to more easily receive the details about the relationship between characters from the narrator. The following paper gives consideration to some examples from Warrior’s “Compatriots” and Maracle’s “Sojourner’s Truth” of the third person point of view is utilised in differing ways. In “Sojourner’s Truth”, Maracle chooses to use first person and third person point of view to create a frame narration. The author starts the story with the first person point of view, and as the story going along, she brings up the idea of using third person to identify the relations between characters. The first sentence of the story states the way of narration being used by the author, it says “From inside my box, an ugly thought occurs to me” (Maracle 297). This proves that the story is being told from the perspective “I” with words like “me” and “my”. On the other hand, the use of first person point of view allows the story to have a more personal, subjective, and even intimate tone of voice. Readers can notice that the narrator of the story is dead by his own description “inside my box” (297), also “ugly thought”...
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...and background. History can’t decide what kind of a person someone is, but how they live their life and their actions toward others will ultimately determine their identity. When I went to a concert, they had a guest speaker at the concert that talked about his past and how he created his identity. He came from a broken family. His mom was a prostitute and his dad left him and his mom when he was at a very little age. Instead of letting his past bother him and making that his identity, he set out to create his own identity by using his past as how not to treat his family. He talked to us about how he found Jesus Christ and made him his savior and accepted him at the center of his life, and now he goes from city to city talking about God and how he has created his own identity for himself with the help of God. The speaker told us about how through all of those things that have happened in his past have caused him to become a strong person, but how anyone can make their own identity regardless of their background or the actions that they have done in the past. In the essay “On Being a Cripple”, Nancy Mairs talks about being crippled and what it is like. She says “I made the choice” of whether to be called handicapped, disabled, crippled, or another term used for physically disabled people. (Mairs, 231) She goes onto to talk about how she doesn’t let her disability bother her as much, and how she has become the person she is today. When people let their disabilities or...
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..."Cathedral," written by Raymond Carver, is about a person who is blind and is a friend of narrator’s wife. His name is Robert. Robert is going to meet narrator’s wife, who is his friend, after his wife’s death. The narrator feels unhappy that his wife’s friend is coming to their house to spend the night. His wife has gone to pick the blind person from the train station while the narrator stays at home. When his wife arrives at home, he sees from the window and feels bad because his wife is laughing with Robert and hugging him on her arm. Robert and the narrator’s wife have worked at the same office before their marriage. She worked as the reader for Robert. She tells her husband that at the last day of her office Robert touched her face, and she wrote a poem about her experience. The narrator’s wife and blind man keep in touch with each other by sending the tape back and forth. After Robert reaches their home narrator’s wife introduces him with her husband. The narrator asks his wife to take Robert for bowling, but she feels upset and tells her husband about Robert’s wife Beulah who died recently. She tells the narrator that Beulah was also working for blind man before she got married with him. The narrator thinks how awful it must have been for Beulah to know that her husband could never look at her. They have the dinner and have conversation about Robert’s trip. The narrator finds the blind man weird because he has not put on his glasses. They watch television and see the Cathedral...
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...theoretical exploration, both of the philosophy underpinning the Person-Centred Approach and of ‘the Approach in action in a psychotherapeutic context. Introduction Carl Rogers (1902 – 1987) is the pioneer of Person-Centred therapy. In this essay, I will discuss the approach, which revolved over 70 years of his life. His necessary and sufficient conditions which he said was all that was needed to self-actualize and become a fully functioning person. I will also talk about contributions from others and expansion of his theory and lastly, I will discuss the limitations of person-centred approach that may result in ineffective therapy. Philosophy of person-centred approach Carl Rogers developed person-centred therapy in the 1940s. He wanted to move away from therapist reliant to a therapeutic relationship where he had a more humanistic philosophy which is captured nicely by the metaphor of “how an acorn, if provided with the appropriate conditions will “automatically” grow in positive ways, pushed naturally towards its actualization as an oak.” Rogers was born in Illinois to a very strict religions family. He originally studied agriculture, then theology and finally psychology. Rogers approach was developed over four periods. The first being in the 1940s which saw the birth of “non-directive counselling”. Rogers became the leading figure in the third force of psychology known as the Humanistic psychology movement. His philosophy was that people are essentially all good and...
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...Outside. Christopher Johnson McCandless was an intelligent, idealistic young man who believed that life was best lived alone, in nature. He spent two years testing his theory throughout the western United States before he entered the wilds of Alaska unprepared and starved to death. Chris had a very bright, hopeful future and why he left it all behind confuses most people. After analyzing Chris's personality traits, it helps things make sense. This makes many people ask the question, what was Christopher McCandless's temperament type? The theory of temperament type was introduced in the 1920s by Carl G. Jung. The essence of the theory is that much seemingly random variation in the behavior is actually quite orderly and consistent, being due to basic differences in the ways individuals prefer to use their perception and judgment. Based on evidence from the story, Chris McCandless was most likely an INTP (introverted, intuitive, thinking, and perceiving) temperament type. This means he was focused internally, where he dealt with things rationally and logically. Some people would diagree wiht this position and would argue that Chris McCandless leaned towards the preference of sensing and feeling. There is some evidence provided in the story that Chris demonstrated the preference of sensing. According to MBTI basics, a person with a sensing personality type pays attention to physical reality; what they see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. They're concerned with what is actual, present...
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...order for a person to “fit in,” one must interact with others. This communication allows one to find his or her place in society. Whether it is face to face or between a long distance, people with similar interests and characteristics communicate regularly. Because people separate themselves from those who do not have the same ways of life that they do, there can be mixed opinions. Private communication allows these conversations to be held without offending others. However, in many recent cases, a person’s peers, and in several instances, employers have broken the concept of privacy by viewing one’s online interactions. Although useful information about a person can be accessed through his or her online profiles, the right to privacy should be upheld. A person’s private life should not be “spied on” by his or her employers. When phone calls were society’s form of communication, laws were set in order to protect one’s privacy rights. This banned others from wire tapping a person’s phone. Just as technology has advanced, laws should as well. Due to the modernization of technology, today’s society uses the Internet as a main form of communication. That being said, one should have the right to interact with others online without having to fear his or her employment. In several instances, a person has been fired from his or her occupation because of something posted online that the employer did not agree with. Everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion, and his or her opinions...
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...as a person. He lets you get inside his mind and his thoughts to let you know what he is thinking and how he feels. At the beginning of the story, we see a man who already has his mind made up about people. He talks about his wife’s friend “the blind man”. He does not refer to him by his name because that is all he sees this man as, is a blind man. When he meets the blind man, he is expecting him to be the stereotypical blind person who uses a cane and wears dark sunglasses. He has already made up his mind about him, without knowing him as a person. He also talks about his wife’s ex-husband as “this man who enjoyed her favors”. The husband does not think that these people are even worthy of names when he is referring to them. He comes off as a little close-minded and judgmental. He asks if the blind man’s wife was a negro because of her name, and the wife is offended by that question. He seems to love his wife though. He was a little jealous when she told him about the story when the blind man asked her to touch her face. He did not understand why he wanted to do that. He gives you the sense that he thinks his wife is a beautiful woman. At one point in the story, his wife is in her robe and it slips down her leg and opens. He thinks about fixing it because Robert is right next to her, but he decides not to. He figures, why should he, the blind man cannot see her anyway. As the night goes on, he gets to know the blind man, who we now know as Robert, to be more of a person and not...
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... By using the person-centered approach ones view of human nature comes from one’s helping style. One would require a style that would make the client believe he or she is safe and understood. By the client knowing his or her therapist or counselor does understand him or her then he or she will believe he or she is safe and accept the help offer by the therapist or counselor. One could possibly set his or her on goals for change or except those of the therapist or counselor. “Person-centered therapy holds an optimistic view of human personality and focuses on present rather than past experience. Focusing on the inner experience of persons rather than on observable behavior, it holds that behavioral change evolves from within the person rather than through the manipulation of the environment” (Parrott III, 2003). View on Helping Developing a personal theory for the way one would want to understand human nature and provide him or her with the help he or she needs takes careful consideration. From what I have learned from this model of effective helping course is that the human service profession is a complex and overwhelming process, and one has to understand the methods one uses. My view on professional help is that, it was created for a reason and that reason is to service those who are in and to offer the best guidance for individuals who need it. One has to understand all the therapeutic theories and which one will be the most effective for his or her client...
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