...In The Road by Cormac McCarthy, It is said that fear is the strongest motivator in the world. People in fear are willing to do whatever, go beyond any border and forget all rules. Fear can easily take over our mind and control our every move. But how much does it take to push a person beyond his limits? What kind of a fear can make us forget everything about humanity and morals? These questions are one of the main themes in Cormac McCarthy’s novel ”The Road” We are all afraid of different things. Some are afraid to lose their family and friends others on the other hand their money and possessions. Cormac McCarthy’s great novel ”The Road” tells us a story of a post-apocalyptic world where everything is destroyed and life is almost extinct. There are left only handful people, who are willing to do everything to survive. But some of them are willing to go further than the others. Fear influences every person differently. But how can some of us still maintain our moral values even though we might be scared to death? In ”The Road” the main characters, the man and the boy represent a group of people who does not let the fear control their minds. The man is constantly afraid of his son getting killed or starving to death. The boy is worried about his father and about being left alone in this terrible world if his father should die. Every single day they live in fear. They can never be sure whether they find food, whether they will survive the cold nights in the woods, or whether...
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...Research on therapeutic options for anxiety disordrers . Therapy? Pharmaceuticals? Alternative treatments? Evaluate the success rates. * An anxiety attack (panic attack) as defined by, Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003, an episode of acute intense anxiety, with symptoms such as pounding or racing heart, sweating, trembling or shaking, feelings of choking or smothering, chest pain, nausea, dizziness, feelings of unreality, and chills or hot flashes. It is the essential feature of panic disorder and other anxiety disorders as well as other psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and mood disorders. [Link]http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/anxiety+attack *Anxiety is the body’s natural response to danger, an automatic alarm that goes off when you feel threatened. Although it may be unpleasant, anxiety isn’t always a bad thing. In fact, anxiety can help you stay alert and focused, spur you to action, and motivate you to solve problems. But when anxiety is constant or overwhelming, when it interferes with your relationships and activities—that’s when you’ve crossed the line from normal anxiety into the territory of anxiety disorders. Anxiety Disorders The DSM is divided into different sections which represent separate, broad categories of psychiatric disorders. One of these categories is anxiety disorders...
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...apprehensive feeling somehow cannot be ignored. Some people may find it easy to overcome this problem, but some others do not. Glossophobia, irrational or morbid fear of speaking or verbally communicating in public, can be the most suitable term for this problem. People with this severe fear usually do not know or realize what the reasons are. The only thing they know is that it is best to avoid speaking in public because they cannot do it. Actually, there are some reasons, which may not be realized by the sufferers, behind this irrational fear of public speaking. Glossophobia is a result of traumatic events. Speaking in public is not easy for some people, especially for those who experience bad things which may or may not be directly linked to public speaking or performing (Douglass, 2003). For example, a person who had experienced being ridiculed when he or she was giving a speech in a stage, and unfortunately made a huge error. This traumatic event may lead the person into vulnerable traumatic effects. Some traumatic events about speaking in public may raise a person’s anxiety to do the same thing. Sometimes, they do not even know how to produce a word to start the speech since it is like bringing them to the same situation which reminds about those particular events. Moreover, environment also contributes to the raise of this fear. It is best to start from the least scope, house. In this case, family plays a big role, especially parents. Parents sometimes overprotect their kids and...
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...Public Speaking: Fear at its Finest The day when I spot a big, black, hairy spider and refrain from screaming will most likely never come. But, the day when I am one hundred percent confident to give a public speech is somewhere in the near future. How do I know this? Through my public speaking course this semester, I completed an anxiety survey. Although I was already aware that I have a slight fear of public communication, this self-examination revealed to me my speaking apprehension score that was labeled with a specific level of anxiety. Not only, though, was I faced with a given intensity of anxiety, I was learning things about myself that I never thought I would obtain such an insight to. Moderate: the level at which my public speaking apprehension score happened to fall. I recognized right away that I wasn’t necessarily in the higher or lower range. This assisted me in looking at the glass as half full, which happens to be an obligation if I plan to eliminate this category of anxiety from my life. As I sat and thought about my score, it hit me that I over emphasized my partial fear of publicly speaking in front of large groups of people. What I thought was going to be the end of the world was really just normal amounts of tension, stress, and anxiety that I was way too easily letting get to me. Seeing these results brought to my attention strengths that can assist my in kicking public speaking anxiety: I radiate optimism, am smart and energetic, and I have confidence...
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...This excerpt from Nabokov's Pnin focuses on the main character Pnin and how he is obsessed about his health and assumes every worst possibilities that could happen to him. In this extract Pnin is in a station waiting to board a bus to Cremona. Due to circumstances he has to leave his bag in the station and board the bus and that's when he starts getting paranoid and anxious that something is happening to him and he thinks to himself that it's because he left his bag in the station and something bad is going to happen to him. So he stops the bus, gets his refund and lands in the middle of a strange town and starts thinking more about why he is feeling the way he is. He manages to pull out all sort of discomfort he is feeling at that moment and questions everything he did the day earlier. It seems like this story was written from the viewpoint of Pnin's Physician and he knows that Pnin has always had the tendency to over think every situation that comes his way and has a way to make it look bad, like it's written in the excerpt, “...That the repulsive automation he lodged had developed consciousness of its own”. Pnin has also kept track of and noted down the date of all those time he got the same anxious feeling and he's very specific about it. He seem like a very fidgety and a nervous person as a whole. The narrators of this story sounds like he is also in the same state of mind as Pnin's because of the way he ponders about life, death and the world. Pnin seems very confused...
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...many people forever. Young men between eighteen and twenty-three years old were shipped off to a foreign land to fight in a war that they didn’t fully understand. Over the years, there have been many literary works about the Vietnam War, but none compare to the accuracy and brutal reality of Tim O’Brien’s works. Tim O’Brien’s short story “The Things They Carried” explores the hardships of the Vietnam War during combat, and his short stories “Speaking of Courage” and “Field Trip” show the after effects of the Vietnam War and how it changed people forever. Tim O’Brien is considered one of the only authors who portrays the Vietnam War exactly how it was. Through the use of tone and characterization, Tim O’Brien demonstrates a soldier’s constant fear of impending death, and the emotional toll of war. Tim O’Brien uses tone throughout is stories to show what the Vietnam War was like, and how it affected people. The tone in O’Brien’s short story, “Field Trip”, emphasizes the meaning of the trip and why the field is important. The whole purpose of the narrator’s trip to Vietnam is to get closure about Kiowa’s death. The narrator said, “I’d gone under with Kiowa, and now after two decades I’d finally worked my way out” (Field Trip 736). By visiting the site where Kiowa died, some of the burden of his death is taken off the narrator’s conscience. The tone of the passage is shown when the narrator’s daughter, Kathleen, does not understand what is going through her father’s mind as he is gazing...
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...that over 30 percent of people experience symptoms of anxiety disorders, women suffer from this disorder more than men. Phobic disorder is a very common mental disorder of our time. How we develop them is based on the individual itself, from a traumatic event during a person’s childhood, to the perception of something that was brought to their attention. Depending on the person that is suffering from a phobia will determine the level of help, if needed, to overcome a phobia. Phobias are the extreme fear of a specific object, situation, or activity. Having a phobia can determine whether a person is able to live a normal life. Some phobias are extreme and some are very mild. Most extreme phobias alter a person’s life dramatically for example the fear of the color red. If someone were to think of how many red things we encounter on a daily basis, being afraid of that color would confine you to your home, and also harm you. On the other hand, common phobias like the fear of heights wouldn’t do so much damaged to your life because that is a more understanding phobia. Most people that suffer from phobias also have another psychological issue going on. Phobias can be developed by many different stimuli in a person’s life but the cause of a phobia is unknown. Phobias develop in a person when something has happen to that person or a situation that a person has experienced like getting...
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...who experiences the delight of freedom rather than the desolation of loneliness after she learns of her husband’s death. Later, when Mrs. Mallard learns that her husband is not dead, she comes to realize that all hope of freedom for her is gone. The devastating disappointment then leads to Mrs. Mallard’s own death. Meanwhile, in the story ‘The Way up to Heaven’ Roald Dahl tells about Mrs. Foster who had a pathological fear of missing plane to New York to her daughter’s house. Mr. Foster was delaying her until a certain point where Mrs. Foster takes the decision in her own hands. She leaves to New York without her husband and when she comes back he was dead stuck in the elevator. As I scrutinize both stories, I find similarities in their role in male dominant society as well as some differences in their character traits. The dissimilarity that I find in these two stories is their type of sickness. In the exposition of these stories I am introduced to both characters and also their sickness. Mrs. Foster is mentally sick because she has an ‘almost pathological fear of missing a train, a plain, a boat or even a theatre cushion’ (Dahl, p.36). Mr. Foster refers to the nervousness of his wife’s for being early as foolishness and increases her “misery by keeping her waiting unnecessarily” (Dahl, p.36). Jessica (2008) stated that this nervous flaw is the “instigator” of the entire plot. Meanwhile, Mrs. Mallard is ‘afflicted with a heart trouble’ (Chopin, p.33). Here Chopin uses the literary...
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...Frankenstein – Chapter 5 - Without annotation It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!--Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation;...
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...Catherine Merriman, we are introduced to the theme of Xenophobia; the irrational fear of places or people that seem foreign to oneself. This is done as an indirect criticism of the prejudiced tendency of modern society, as people often seem to frown upon those who appear unfamiliar, and look at them as primitive and hostile. We are, through a third-person, non-omniscient narrator presented to a family of three, the father Alex and the mother Eileen, who are visiting their daughter Suzanne who works as a teacher in Thailand. The narrator is non-omniscient, as the story is told from Alex’s perspective, and the reader therefore does not become aware of neither Eileen nor Suzanne’s thoughts. The story starts in medias res, as it begins in the middle of the action, when the family comes back from a trip to the waterfall, and realizes that they are lost. They have been down at a waterfall, and Alex suspects that they might have taken a wrong turn, hence “three hours ago, this forest clearing had been a busy market…”and it becomes apparent, that they are not aware of their location, and they need help to get home, which they come to receive from 4 Thai-men who randomly walks by. Eileen, as well as Alex, seems to possess a dislike of Thailand, as seen in the quote “Eileen found Thailand stressful, and wasn't ashamed to show it. Alex was grateful to her. Her constantly-expressed anxiety kept his own fear suppressed.” This quite clearly illustrates that they are uncomfortable in Thailand...
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...upon you with omnipotent power…” This segment provides a clear picture to the audience about the uncontrollable angst of the Almighty towards the guilty. It paints a picture of horror and agony among the the listeners. The tone created by Edwards’ imagery in this excerpt is intimidating to the audience. Edwards conveys the intensity of the wrath of God to the audience by giving them a visual of the fierceness of the great waters that would rush forth from a dam if God wishes to release his hands from the flood-gate. The choice of imagery by Jonathan Edwards is very effective in this segment because, by comparing the fiery overflow of the great waters from the dam to the inconceivable fury of the God, he fills the hearts of the listeners with fear and anxiety. The audience also feels guilty about the sins they have committed during their life along with a realization of the omnipotent power of the Almighty God. Another example for imagery in this sermon is “You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of a divine wrath flashing about...
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...Death I remember when I was younger; I used to just not think about it. I would say “I’m not afraid to die, I’m afraid of pain.” But that was a lie I told myself. I had an irrational fear of dying that was very real. I was raised in a baptism church. We believed in life after death in heaven. And if this is true then why do so many people fear death? Perhaps deep inside I long for proof, Okay I know we should have faith, but I think we just accept things better when we can see a glimpse of the truth. I was blessed to spend sometimes prior to my grandmon passing away. I cherished the time spent with her and feel blessed that I was able to witness a beautiful moment. My sister received a phone call from my mother that the time was near and if we wanted to say good bye we needed to get to Macon GA. Daddy and sister and I got on a plane and headed out. By the time we arrived Grandmon was in and out of consciousness. One moment she knew who I was the next she would think I was my mother. This is when I experienced what I could only describe as a miracle well to me it was. It was the moment that I realized there was life after death. As Grandmon lay there in what looked like a deep sleep, she was talking to people in the room that only she could see. I remember her expression on her face was that of pure peace. At first we thought she was dreaming and when we touched her, her body was very cold. After we touch her, she would become warn again and then her face...
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...how you would propose to identify change in your organization and recognizing the strengths and weaknessesd of various approaches to the management of change. Explain the need for new thinking and methods that may be utilized at each change and how teamwork is important. Industry to which your new changed company will exist. Specualte for the chances of success. The fear of change… Identifying change within an organization involves assessing the issues within the company. Many times issues can be identified by communicating with employees. Employees can reveal what they are struggling with, which often identifies a larger issue within the structure of the organization. The key is to keep open communication with employees of all levels within the organization. Employee suggestions and struggles, when identified by a manager, can create longevity and keep jobs by keeping employees with the company. The manager of the company has the leadership and innovation to take issues bringing the company down and create positive change. Often employees are unhappy with policies, yet can be resistant to change for fear that they may fail at the task, be looked down upon, lose respect of co-workers and management, and not be able to fill the new shoes of change. A great manager can communicate with employees of all educational level, cultural backgrounds, socioeconomic status. Employees will feel the manager is easy to converse with and they can be upfront and honest. This type of manager...
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...Your Name English According to the 1990 Veterans organization report, one in every three Vietnam veterans that were in heavy combat suffers from post-traumatic stress; this includes thirty-three percent of soldiers who went to Vietnam, or nearly one million troops, who gave into post-traumatic stress. PTSD must have been common in the group of soldiers in Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” due to the amount of burdens each soldier carried. Throughout the story, O’Brien demonstrates theme of psychological, physical and mental burdens carried by every soldier. He emphasizes these burdens by discussing the weight that the soldiers carry; their psychological and mental stress they have to undertake as each of them experience the brutality of the Vietnam War. The physical burden that each soldier carried was a necessity for them due to their emotional burdens that they carried. O'Brien depicted of all the things the men carried in order to create illustrations for the reader. One important use of description the author uses is weight. He uses weight to describe the burden of items that are carried by the soldiers in this story. “The weapon weighed 7.5 pounds unloaded, 8.2 pounds with its full 20-round magazine.” He continues later saying “Among the grunts, some carried the M-79 grenade launcher, 5.9 pounds unloaded, a reasonably light weapon except for the ammunition, which was heavy. A single round weighted 10 ounces. The typical load was twenty-five pounds.” This gives...
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...them on a theoretical framework. The client reveals many strengths in his life and character, which I shall highlight, and will serve as basis for a positive formulation into his needs. I will also explore appropriate therapeutic approaches for this client and suggest a course of action based in theory and clinical applications. Client initial presentation During the initial consultation it was evident that Mr X was looking for some change into his life. He disclosed a deep wish to move on but he also felt that he was being held back by his insecurities and fears. The main issues highlighted by Mr X were :- Wanting to apply for the job promotion, feeling he is able to do the job but insecure of applying for it; Feeling that his work colleagues find him boring, because he does not go out with them for a drink; Desire to improve his ‘relationship’ with his work colleagues, by proposing another day out. However he fears that they will say no; Unsure if he wants to marry his ‘sort-of’ girlfriend because he has not much to offer to her at present; Pressure to get the job to impress his mother and offer more to his girlfriend; Interestingly, many of the issues presented by MrX appear linked to each other. Some of these are functional difficulties, since they derive from the way he...
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