...Grief has shocked unprepared people throughout the entirety of human history because with life, comes the inevitable death. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross devised a system to categorize the unpredictable emotions spurred by loss, placing them into one of five stages of grief. Though her five stages have helped people with lost loved one put a name to their volatile mood-swings, the stigma around grief continues to propagate in today’s society. Especially controversial is the concept of self pity, which is denounced as psychological weakness and self-absorption by a modern society. Joan Didion, however, advocates a different perspective, arguing that self-pity naturally accompanies grief, highlighting society’s unjustified absorption with some intangible...
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...angry mother nature. This story depicts the unwillingness of our world to work through our differences and what could result if we fail to do so. In Hiraeth, a land in harmony with the spirit of its life and nature, animals were beginning to dispute for the first time. In desire to be revered, the three most superior creatures, the falcon, wasp, and raven, argued over who deserved the home of Mother Tree. Because of the stubbornness of these animals, what started out as a sophisticated debate soon turned into a vicious war. Fighting to the point of destruction and murder, Hiraeth was no longer a land of serenity and peace. No, what was once a place of unity and love, was now destroyed by malicious actions preceded by ignorant desires. As Mother Nature’s grief grew as the contention did, her anger was carefully kindled towards a plan of resolution of the conflict. Condemning the greed of the animals, she cursed...
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...back. Revenge is a feeling that someone feels probably on a daily basis. It is natural for human beings because it is a survival instinct. The goal and purpose of an animal species is to survive, and to reproduce. But humans separate themselves from animals because of morals. We want to survive but we also feel for others, and want to make the lives of others better so that we can live together in harmony. We want to be the better person, and follow the golden rule of treating others the way we...
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...Library of Congress Call Number | BF575.G7 | Dewey Decimal Classification Number | Fil 155.937 Se68p 2008 | Main Entry - Personal Name | Serrano, Claire. | Title Statement | The power of acceptance / Claire Serrano | Physical Description | 82 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 17 cm | Subject Added Entry - Topical Term | Bereavement | | Bereavement -- Psychological aspects | Bibliographic Data | International Standard Book Number | 0195105915 (pbk.) | Cataloging Source | NLP | Dewey Decimal Classification Number | Ref 155.937 083 C461h 2000 | Main Entry - Personal Name | Christ, Grace Hyslop. | Title Statement | Healing children's grief : surviving a parent's death from cancer / by Grace Hyslop Christ | Physical Description | xxi, 264 p. ; 24 cm | Subject Added Entry - Topical Term | Grief in children | | Grief in adolescence | | Bereavement in children | | Bereavement in adolescence | International Standard Book Number | 1853022853 | Cataloging Source | NLP | Dewey Decimal Classification Number | Ref 155.937 083 In8 1995 | Title Statement |...
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...The Chaos of the Mind Hamlet, although a revenge play by nature, is clearly highly entwined with psychological aspects. This is clearly characterized in the first of Hamlet’s soliloquies (Hamlet I.ii 129-159) portraying the occurrences in the state of Denmark as seen through the eyes of Hamlet, giving the audience a window into his soul and the mechanism of his thoughts. Hamlet begins the passage by cursing himself for what is happening around him. He wishes that he did not exist any longer. He desires that he did not have to live in a world that would allow what is happening to occur. He craves for his body to dissolve into nothing, wishing that he could will his body to “thaw and resolve itself into dew”. Unfortunately, he cannot melt and though he would consider suicide the Christian God whom he holds as “the Everlasting” is against such notions, having “fix’d his canon ‘gainst self-slaughter!” Hamlet feels that things are falling apart around him. He uses the allusion of an un-weeded garden to refer to his surroundings. In this garden there are things growing such as seeds of “things rank and gross in nature” and flowers of treachery and pain. The weeds are the evil King, Queen and the others who follow them without considering their malevolent deeds. This allusion can be considered applicable to the state of Hamlet’s mind as well as to the State of Denmark (being that Hamlet sees the State of Denmark as falling to ruin in the hands of Claudius). Hamlet sees Claudius...
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...to completely block out their grief and acquire a diverse mindset, in addition to losing themselves on the front. This thereby demonstrates that these underlying causes have gone above and beyond what each of these countries had anticipated, thus resulting in the lives of 17 million people in addition to the subsequent, vast global effect on the many European nations. The consequences of WW1 dramatically altered the shape of history because of its tremendous effect on the countries that were involved, yet what is truly outrageous is the way in which the soldiers were affected. Throughout the course of the novel, we can tremendously see the way the soldiers have adapted to the war; ultimately by yielding their emotions in the midst of the demolition of the war as well as operating merely on instinct once they are on the battlefield. In the beginning of the story, Kemmerich took a pair of boots from the corpse of a dead airman as he was in great need of them. Subsequently, as Kemmerich lies in the hospital and nears death, now Muller immediately sets his mind to receive the boots from his comrade. As Paul brings the valuable boots to Muller, he narrates, “We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important to us and good boots are hard to come by.” (Remarque 21). This quote exemplifies the idea that as one of their very own men lies on his deathbed, Muller sets his emotions and grief aside, and plans to receive the...
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...This passage appears in the text quite early on, quickly giving the audience a window into Hamlet’s soul and the clockwork of his thoughts. In this the first of several of Hamlet’s soliloquies, Hamlet sets the scene as it has evolved in his mind. Hamlet begins the passage by cursing himself for what is happening around him. He wishes that he did not exist any longer. He desires that he did not have to live in a world that would allow what is happening around him to occur. He craves for his body to dissolve into nothing, wishing that he could will his body to “thaw and resolve itself into dew”. But since he cannot melt, he would consider suicide if God “the Everlasting” were not so against the notion. His belief is that God has his “fix’d his canon ‘gainst self-slaughter!”. Hamlet feels that things are falling apart around him. He resolves that the world is a kind of un-weeded garden, the garden itself being an allusion to the world around him. Hamlet’s world/garden “grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature”. His garden is flowered with treachery and pain, weeded by the evil King, Queen and the others. This allusion can be considered applicable to the state of Hamlet’s mind as well as to the State of Denmark. Being that Hamlet sees the State of Denmark as falling to ruin and chaos in the hands of Claudius. All after his father, who had been “so excellent a king” to the people of Denmark. He compares his father and Claudius as being like unto a “Hyperion...
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...DISENFRANCHISED In life, there are certain situations in which an individual's grief is not recognized and unacknowledged by others, a phenomenon that has been termed disenfranchised grief. These individuals are denied the "right to grief" and are not offered social support, sympathy, or opportunities to express their emotions. Disenfranchised grief is more actively negative and destructive as it involves denial of entitlement. Disenfranchising messages actively discount, dismiss, disapprove, discourage, and invalidate, the experiences and efforts of grieving. And disenfranchising behaviors interfere with the exercise of the right to grieve by withholding permission, disallowing, constraining, hindering, and even prohibiting it. ( Attig ). Kenneth Doka defined disenfranchised grief as the grief that people experience from a loss that is not, or cannot be, openly acknowledged, publicly mourned, or socially supported. There is a wide range of multiple losses that people experience on a daily basis that fits into a disenfranchised grief framework. These losses can range from changes in jobs and friendships to loss of a lover, through divorce or the death of a pet or due to the physical or emotional changes to a loved one brought on by conditions such as AIDS or Alzheimer's disease. In each case, where there was once an attachment, there soon follows a loss and its accompanying grief. The grief process, however, becomes more complex because the usual supports that facilitate...
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...kinds of difficult and unexpected emotions, from shock or anger to disbelief, guilt, and profound sadness. The pain of grief can also disrupt your physical health, making it difficult to sleep, eat, or even think straight. These are normal reactions to significant loss. But while there is no right or wrong way to grieve, there are healthy ways to cope with the pain that, in time, can ease your sadness and help you come to terms with your loss, find new meaning, and move on with your life. What you can do Acknowledge your pain Accept that grief can trigger many different and unexpected...
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...in life, but what about it leaves people to grieve the way they do, and affect the way they live their lives? “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer is a testament of what it means to be human, how people grieve, and how they are affected by their losses. Several characters in the book are going through some sort of grief through loss. Searching for answers that will probably never be found each of them is brought together and deal with their respective issues differently. Most of them spend years of their lives attempting to understand and find closure, but some don’t find any at all. No grief is greater than the other, no matter how miniscule some seem. It’s how they responded to the losses that defined what kind of person they are. Oskar Schell finds his own unique ways of dealing with his grief. Dealing with his issues in his own unique way, Oskar is doing his best to prevent the loss of his father from destroying his entire world. He uses the key he found, his inventions, and even self-harm to help grieve the untimely loss of his father. Using his journey to find what the key opens as way to cope with the grief of losing his father, Oskar struggles to understand why this is happening to him. One would suspect his intelligence would help play a factor in his grieving process, but it is shown that he is still very much a 9 year old kid to the core. Embarking on his journey he searches for not only what the key opens but also answers to what really happened...
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...assimilation to nature felt by the boy. The poem's syntax is fairly regular up until the second paragraph, where the first sentence is connected by “and” eight times. This technique tends to draw in a sense of thoughtless routine. Typically when a death occurs, there is that beginning grief stage of denial where all senses are numbed by the force of the reality, and the layout of the sentence only seems to add to that sense of restlessness the narrator felt was necessary to illustrate the boy's consciousness. “Tall escarpments” and “grassy swale” are used to indicate how small the boy and his wolf are and the insignificance of the death. Essentially, it is saying that it is nature for things like this to happen and the fact that it is uncommon for anyone to take note of something so small in the world. This only amplifies the feelings the boy has toward the death, and causes him more grief. Choice vocabulary is the main technique used by McCarthy to convey the protagonist's emotions on the subject and give insight into the possible reality of the situation. In the first paragraph, “cradled” and “unfolded the sheet” release the idea that the boy has a deep care for the life. No one would cradle a dead animal up in a sheet and take it up to the mountains specifically for the burial of the creature; therefore, it implies that...
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...Disenfranchised Grief. This may be a word that you are not familiar with but it is a feeling that you may have dealt with. This is a term genially used to describe the grief that a person feels after the loss of a something that is not acknowledged by society. This is generally the feeling that pet owners feel after the loss of a pet. Around 55% of American citizens have at least one family pet in the household. You might have one yourself. When you lose a pet one thing that many do not think about or want to think about is how to properly dispose of the body. There is no socially acceptable or emotionally reasonable way to properly let go of your deceased pet. For many states, they will pick up your deceased animal, but it must be placed in two black trash bags and labeled properly. This can be very hard for a person to do right after the loss of a pet, or for a child to understand....
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...The poem relates to plans going astray, leaving grief and sorrow. The story conveys grief by mentioning the plans Lennie and George shared that soon dissolved from the catastrophe of Lennie and Curley's wife. The two characters died leaving people in sorrow, Curley's wife died but it didn’t leave Curley in distress it left Leenie in agony which soon resulted in the Lennie's death leaving George (his partner) in mourning no longer being able to have their plans in the future. From the allusion from “To a Mouse” expressed grief and pain in Of Mice and Men consequently leaving George without Leenie to finish their future together from the wife’s...
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...Dear Editor, Jeremy Rifkin’s findings published in “A Change of Heart about Animals” made me realize that animals can undergo pain, suffering, and affection just like us. The society is indebted to Rifkin for showing that animals are actually more identical to us than we thought. Rifkin just stated the obvious and argued how we should give animals more care and respect. The research conducted on whether animals can experience emotions like pain and fear rationalizes the adoption of laws protecting animals from lab experiments or human consumption . I agree with Rifkin,animals should not get abuse, kill, or hit. They are just like humans who have family to go to, take care of, and feed. An example are pets because they know...
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...Today 1935, two bodies found in the forest early morning are announced dead. The bodies are suspected to be that of Ulrich von Gradwitz and his long time rival, Georg Znaeym. The two are known to be rivals fighting over a small stretch of land each claim belonged to their great grandfathers. The men have been found on Gradwitz land, located in between both of their territories. A natural incident may have played a role in this accident since a beech tree was found on top of them at the scene of the crime and Gradwitz was all scratched up. The police may also believe that they either argued to death or killed each other at first sight. Both men were stuck under a large tree branch that fell last night due to strong winds. After being pinned...
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