...Flora Rheta Schreiber’s novel Sybil weaves the true tale of a remarkable young woman possessed by severe multiple personality disorder. Sybil’s body is home to sixteen personalities, all with different personas, speech patterns, behavior tendencies, language abilities, and even different genders. As a child, Sybil began to distance herself from the abuse she suffered from her mother Hattie, a suspected paranoid schizophrenic, thus creating each personality to escape her reality. Throughout her entire life Sybil struggled with “losing time” and often woke up with no knowledge of what she had been doing for days, weeks, months, and at times even years. Upon bringing her own mother to a physician, Sybil is referred to see a psychologist after she describes her “loss of time” to Dr. Hall. On August 10, 1945 at 2 PM Sybil first meets Dr. Wilbur. Despite Sybil knowing that she needs help with her nervousness and loss of time, she often fears that she reveals too much to her psychologist and often disguises her problem before Dr. Wilbur can provide substantial help. Dr. Wilbur suggests Sybil be psychoanalyzed at a local hospital, the very thing that Sybil’s parents fear, suspecting that the doctor will be the devil himself. However, Sybil was determined to receive proper care despite what her mother, father, and pastor advised. Yet on a scheduled appointment day in October, Sybil comes down with a severe fever causing Hattie to contact Dr. Wilbur’s office to cancel Sybil’s appointment...
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...Sybil – Movie Review Sybil is a three hour film, and it discovers the reason behind Sybil’s multiple personality disorder. The film was released in 1976 and was directed by Daniel Petrie. The important actresses were Joanne Woodward and Sally Field. Sally Field plays the main character, Sybil and Joanne Woodward plays the character Dr. Wilbur. This movie fits into the drama a biography category. The movie Sybil, is an excellent and educational movie, because the main actress, Sally Field portrays Sybil very well and the characters are well rounded. The film Sybil is about a young woman named Sybil who suffers from blackouts and massive headaches. On one occasion Sybil breaks the window and rushes to the hospital. Sybil speaks to the doctors with a little girl's voice. Dr. Wilbur is concerned about Sybil and wants to help her. Later in the movie, Dr. Wilbur diagnosed Sybil with multiple personality disorder. Sybil has a tots of twelve different personalities....
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...The Sybil Beauty In life we, as children, are taught to be ourselves in this world. There’s nothing else you can be, or so I thought. This novel has given me a better look into what being “two-faced” or, on a more ironic note, a “Jekyll and Hyde” means. Stevenson’s right, “man is not truly one, but truly two.”, and sometimes more. Me at school, and me at home are two extremely different things. At school I’m quiet, shy, and drastically soft-spoken. I always have been, and probably always will be. My friends like me for that quality. That’s with friends though. One of my teachers this year constantly harps on my quietness. He says hi to me in the mornings, and it seems to me that he always says something like, “Why do you always sound so timid when I say hi to you? You’re not like that during class. So, why so shy now?” I’ve never legitimately answered him. But, I honestly don’t know why, because I’m only like that in school. Sure, I’m a little soft spoken, and sure I’m not the most talkative in that class, but I’m not unconfident. I’m just naturally soft spoken. I don’t normally raise my hand and blurt out answers, or go up to a teacher and have a random conversation. I don’t like talking in front of people, because I’m afraid of what they think. I’m afraid of being judged. It’s like I’m a whole other person. Frightened, and timid. On the other hand, at home I am a COMPLETELY different person. If my mom was to hear any of my teachers say, “She’s just an angel.”, or “She’s...
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...Sybil Ludington: On the same night of Paul Revere’s ride, a message was delivered to the house of Sybil Ludington's father, a New York militia officer. The message said that the British soldiers had entered Danbury, Connecticut (which was relatively close to Colonel Ludington’s militia), and had begun to loot and burn the town. It’s unknown whether she was asked to or volunteered, but Sybil left at around 9 pm to warn her father’s men about the incoming British. She ended up traveling 40 miles - about twice the distance that Paul Revere had travelled. She raised up the troops who fought the British back. Friedrich von Steuben He was a Prussian military officer who was discharged and eventually taken up by George Washington to strengthen the American Army. At age 17, he joined the Prussian army and subsequently moved up in the ranks. He was later introduced to Ben Franklin, who in turn introduced him to George Washington in a letter. Due to allegations of Steuben’s possible homosexuality, he travelled to America, where he made a good first impression on Congress because of...
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...Disraeli was a Conservative and England's first and only Jewish prime ministe. He was elected to Parliament in 1837 and published his novel Sybil, in 1845. It is a primary source. The extract under analysis deals with the distressed of the working classes of England. He served twice as Prime Minister, the first time from 27 February to 1 December 1868 and the second, 20 February 1874 to 21 April 1880. He abandoned a career in Law to pursue on in writing. My commentary will be divided into two parts : “The condition of England question”(1760 - 1850) and The Industrial Revolution . “The condition of England question” is a phrase created by Thomas Carlyle (Kaliel) in his essay on Chartism (was a working-class movement for political reform in Britain between 1838 and 1848 ) in 1839 which reflected a mood of pessimism, of huge social problems that had not been solved. It has been estimated that the 1830s and 1840s may have been the worst decades for Britain. Benjamin Disraeli, or other famous authors such as Charles Dickens wrote narrative fictions to denounce the social and political issues while focusing on the representation of class, gender, and labor relations, as well as on social unrest and the growing gap between the rich and the poor in England. The main concern for these authors was the social consequences of the Industrial Revolution in England at the beginning of the nineteenth century. A number of writers were strongly motivated to arouse sympathy for the conditions...
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...kisses the young girl, Sybil’s foot. After coming back from a traumatic experience from the war, Seymour is on a search for innocence. He wants to rid himself of the impure, finding the people he once loved no longer innocent and almost disgusting: “He calls me Miss Spiritual Tramp of 1949” (5). He even dislikes his wife, as she isn’t pure, not like a child at least which leads him to calling her degrading names. This is why Seymour befriends Sybil, a young girl he accompanies at the beach. Kids are so innocent, they haven’t been exposed to the real world yet, which is why he surrounds...
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...University of Southern California School of Social Work SOWK 645- [Semester, Year] Reflective Journal [Student Name] [Date] Professor: Ken Howard, LCSW Address: [123 Main Street Anytown, ST 0000] Introduction Throughout my two and a half semesters in grad school I have heard many times over the importance of being in tune with my own feelings, emotions, bodily responses, values, belief systems, boundaries, and cultural norms. Hepworth, Rooney, Rooney, and Strom-Gottfried (2013), state that it is important for social workers to be aware of their own value systems, so that they can be cognizant of how their beliefs may affect clients with differing values. In addition, it is equally important to be aware of issues arising from countertransference. Without being fully aware of ourselves, countertransference becomes hard to recognize. By understanding our own thoughts, feelings, and values, these issues can be recognized and resolved (Hepworth et al., 2013). As such, this reflective journal is an exercise in self-awareness, recognizing countertransference, and application of clinical practice. I will begin this journal with a summary of the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde in order to fully expound on the themes of mental illness existent in the novel. From there, I will present my assessment of the mental illness and describe the clinical approach that I would take to address these issues. A discussion on issues of countertransference that...
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...Name ENG 106 Professor 13 June 2011 The Linkage between “Teddy” and “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” J.D. Salinger’s stories “Teddy” and “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” share similarities between the main characters, the tragic fate of the main characters, and the author’s continued theme of the shallowness that existed in American culture in the 1950’s. In another of Salinger’s stories “Seymour: an Introduction,” it is mentioned that Seymour’s brother Buddy wrote “Teddy,” and described Teddy as having Seymour’s eyes (Kaufman 132). Buddy also says the people tell him his stories are all about Seymour, which further suggests a link between the two characters (Kaufman 132). Seymour and Teddy are both outcasts that share their lives with people that they are emotionally disconnected from. They are unable to assimilate into the world around them and therefore their stories come to a similar conclusion. Seymour and Teddy share many similarities that lead the reader to assume Salinger was attempting to provide a linkage between the stories. Seymour appears to be mild mannered though it is obvious he is disturbed mentally. He lives in isolation from his wife and from others in his social circle. Even doctors that are treating him cannot understand or help him recover. His wife dismisses Seymour’s mental stability in her conversation with her mother, and is more concerned with talking about the psychiatrist’s drinking habits and his wife’s ugly dress, than to ask him questions...
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...BSBADM502B Manage Meetings Assessment task 1 Appendix 1: Assessment Task 1 submission form Meeting name | Conference Venue Choosing | Meeting purpose | To recommend to the General Manager a venue for the conference. | Participants Participant name | Reason for participation | Sybil | Chairperson | Mr Lee | Representing members from NSW, will calculate the costs of three possible venues | Ms Singh | | Mr Jones | Representing members from VIC, Will conduct research on the residency status of the senior managers | Ms Yi | | Meeting format Topical meeting, because this meeting is a gathering called to discuss one work issue – choosing venue for the upcoming conference. Invitation Send out e-mails to invite all the participants. Because in this way, it is fast and easy, just simply stating there will be a meeting, the purpose of the meeting and the administrative details. People can reply straight away simply by replying the email. Meeting Papers Meeting papers should include: • The author and the date of the meeting. • A general overview of the 3 destination to help making a decision. Distribution method: Email attachment. It is fast and relatively secured should ask members to delete the email as soon as the papers have been printed or are no longer needed. Delegation The approach to delegate activities and complete the tasks should follow these steps: 1 Define the task 2 Select the individual or team 3 Assess ability and training...
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...Arthur Birling Husband of Sybil, father of Sheila and Eric. Priestley describes him as a "heavy-looking man" in his mid-fifties, with easy manners but "rather provincial in his speech." He is the owner of Birling and Company, some sort of factory business which employs several girls to work on (presumably sewing) machines. He is a Magistrate and, two years ago, was Lord Mayor of Brumley. He thus is a man of some standing in the town. He describes himself as a "hard-headed practical man of business," and he is firmly capitalist, even right-wing, in his political views. Gerald Croft Engaged to be married to Sheila. His parents, Sir George and Lady Croft, are above the Birlings socially, and it seems his mother disapproves of his engagement to Sheila. He is, Priestley says, "an attractive chap about thirty ... very much the easy well-bred young-man-about-town." He works for his father's company, Crofts Limited, which seems to be both bigger and older than Birling and Company. Sheila Birling Engaged to be married to Gerald. Daughter of Arthur Birling and Sybil Birling, and sister of Eric. Priestley describes her as "a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited," which is precisely how she comes across in the first act of the play. In the second and third acts, however, following the realization of the part she has played in Eva Smith's life, she matures and comes to realize the importance of the Inspector's message. Sybil Birling Married to Arthur...
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...action basing on the information received from the sensors about the surrounding environment. These sensor networks are sometimes referred to as wireless sensor and actuator networks. They monitor physical or environmental conditions such as sound, pressure, temperature among others and send the collected data to the required location. Effective sensing and acting requires a distributed local coordination methods and mechanism among the sensors and the actors in addition to this, sensor data should be valid in order for right and timely actions to be performed. This paper describes secure routing in wireless sensor networks and outlines its threats on security. Keywords: Wireless sensor and actor networks; Actuators; Ad hoc networks; Sybil attack; Real-time communication; Sinkhole; Routing; MAC; adversary. Introduction With the recent rapid improvement on technology, many networking technologies have been created to make communication easy. One such technology is distributed wireless sensor network which has a capability of observing the physical world and process the data and in addition make decisions basing on the collected data and perform actions basing on this. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are rapidly growing and have emerged as one of the important area in mobile computing. Its applications of WSNs are...
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...is temporarily occupied by different people, travelling to different places. It is a public space that is part of our daily routine, and is a part of the city’s cultural geography that contributes to its expansion and growth. The following six reports can be used as a learning basis for the topic of the public transit metro system in Toronto as a cultural landscape. “Reviewing and assessing the Toronto metro system” by Sybil Derrible and “Toronto: A historical leader in transportation innovations” by Ron Stewart and Joanna Musters are two research reports that analyze the facts of the Toronto metro system and can be used to see how rapidly the public transit in Toronto has grown, along with the city. The next report by Christopher A. Kennedy, “A comparison of sustainability of public and private transportation systems”, further analyzes the impact of the metro system on Toronto and proposes that it is an important cultural landscape in urban sustainability. The next report, “Characterizing metro networks: state, form, and structure”, is written by both Sybil Derrible and Christopher A. Kennedy and can be used to understand the process behind building a metro system. This report views the metro system from a geographical viewpoint; it explains how demographics, location, and infrastructure have an effect on the location of a metro system. The report by Jane McMahan, “Subway performance: An excavation” looks at this topic from a different standpoint than the other authors; the...
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...Life Threatening Illness: Can you live with it? Abstract This paper is a personal reflection on facing death while living with a life threatening illness. While there are many ages of persons who can be affected by illnesses, when a child is affected it brings many stages of grief while accepting what you are faced with. Systems are in place that are available for those affected and if utilized can prove to be a blessing in what feels like a time where feels as if they are being cursed. Life Threatening Illnesses and Living with It This paper will hopefully give you a firsthand encounter of how a life threatening illness can affect not only the immediate victim of the illness, but the family and the friends of the victim as well. Life threatening illnesses, specifically Cancer in this instance creates an immediate crisis in the life of each family member. Normal daily life comes to a halt, parents will miss work or feel forced to quit their jobs, siblings might need to be cared for by relatives or neighbors and the ill child becomes the major focus of family time and attention. All other concerns that might have been before the diagnosis is put on hold and parents will have to make tough decisions and become their strongest ever at the weakest of moments. Life is taken for Granted Sometimes My cousin Amy was a beautiful red-headed...
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...Jonathon White 12/22/13 Blues, Spirituals, and African American Novel Final Paper The Invisible Man or the Invisible Woman In Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, his novels tells a story of a educated African American on a quest a to find his true identity. Throughout his life, he has been controlled and oppressed by white men in order for him to make a name for himself. He tells his own story as the narrator and he journey’s from the South where he attends an all-black college to finally Harlem where he joins cult-like political party called the Brotherhood. The narrator is handed these roles throughout the book, whether it is a driver, a student, a worker, or a party member, which each one he rejects until he is able to realize his role in society as an African American man. The era that the narrator faces his identity crisis is during a time of segregation between races and the complex theory that the white race was the superior. Ellison’s position of racial stereotypes men throughout the novel has a clear compare and contrast for me, but it seems almost invisible for women. Both black and white women characters throughout the novel are neglected and “invisible”, and are personified as typical classic female stereotypes that imitate either the nurturing mother complex or the whore or seducer. Ellison portrays the most notable white women as highly sexual objects and has this fascination with the sexual stereotypes of black men. Black women are as well portrayed as overly...
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...room in which her mother showed how worried she was about Muriel. Muriel’s mother begins to ask her if her husband has started acting weird yet. She also insists for her to come back home. Her mother even told her she shouldn’t get in a car while he is driving. Muriel’s mother explains that he has a psychiatrist and he says that Seymour can lose control of himself. After Muriel’s mother informed her of this, Muriel explains that there is a good psychiatrist at the hotel. Muriel’s mother questioned Seymour’s behavior alone on the beach. While Seymour was on the beach he was with a girl named Sybil. He told her that they would look for bananafish. He described bananafish as a fish that goes into a hole and eats many bananas. He says the fish get so fat that they can’t leave the hole and they die. He went in the water and made comments about how she looked in a bathing suit. Sybil was concerned about Seymour sitting next to a girl named Sharon. She told him not to sit next to her anymore. Seymour kissed Sybil’s foot. He pushed her in a float to shore and she ran off. Seymour went back to the hotel and ran into a woman who he claimed was staring at his feet. He asked the woman why she was staring and she too walked away from Seymour. Once he got in the hotel, Muriel was asleep. He went into a suitcase and took out a gun. He looked at Muriel and then shot himself in the temple. Muriel...
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