...“Dissociation as a response to an inevitable and necessary trauma produces splitting which can manifest as personal schizoid tendencies or the normative splitting of social life – two dimensions on a continuum” (Mitchell, 55). Hamlet experiences much trauma when he sees his father’s ghost for the first time. There is a split in Hamlet’s mind that is caused by this moment. This is the moment where he begins to dissociate himself from reality because as a rational character, seeing a supernatural being causes all sense of reality, everything that has been familiar, everything that, up to this point, was correct and rational, to go. Dissociation is just one of the many features Hamlet has that point to a mental break and bipolar I disorder....
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...The purpose of Jonathan Edwards’ sermon, “The Sinner’s in the Hands of an Angry God,” is to influence the listeners to absorb the Puritan beliefs. The sermon uses powerful imagery, various metaphors and intense emotion to portray the wrath of an angry God towards the sinners. Thus, Edwards impresses upon the audience, the fury of the God towards those who haven’t repented their sins. The use of imagery by Edwards helps him to convey his message to the audience in an effective manner. One instance of a strong imagery used in the sermon is “The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present; they increase more and more …If God should only withdraw his hand from the flood-gate, it would immediately fly open, and the fiery floods of the fierceness and wrath of God, would rush forth with inconceivable fury, and would come 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...
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...TO MY FIRST LOVE I can’t say that I loved you from the moment that we met. I can’t say that we were meant to be or that after years of separation we’ll finally break the walls that separate us and be one once more. I can’t say that in the time we’ve been apart I’ve become a better person, better for you….better for us. If I said anything along these lines it would have been a lie. There’s much I want to tell you and a lot that I know I shouldn’t. Let’s start at the beginning: I remember when we met. You were one of the popular people. I was not. Everyday prior to our meeting I was nothing more than a background image on a less-than-boring wall. But for some reason on this day you chose to acknowledge me. On this day you chose to talk to me. I’ll probably never know why, or care why for that matter, but you did and since then my life has never been the same. As if you pulled me into light from the dark, or as though you created something out of nothing I had existence. I had meaning in my life. And that meaning was you. I would wake up every morning just to see you smile. I would miss my bus on purpose just to spend a few extra moments in your presence. I would shed the few nickels and dimes I had to give you whatever happiness money could buy. I would have given you the earth, the moon and even the sun if it so pleased you. I would have done it all. When you’re young everyone tells you to shoot for the stars, but no one tells you how dangerous ambition can be. No one...
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...While many people believe being a leader involves a bold and entitled person, do not abide by this. Leadership holds many meanings because the moment a person impacts someone else’s life maybe even in the smallest way can display leadership. I myself have experienced a “lollipop moment” the day I met someone who would change my life forever. This small amount of leadership shown by a stranger instantly changed my life. Totally unaware of the significant moment going on, I treated the moment like any other time I acquired a new friend. Before I knew it though the friendship blossomed into something bigger than words. This person changed my life and reminded me that genuine people do still exist. In a way it kind of felt like a dream because...
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...Then I feel a tap on my shoulder. Nothing really can cheer me up, so I turn around, and see multi-time Olympic gold medalist on the downhill, AJ Kitt. “Hey, I saw your race,” he says to me,”Don’t let it get you down. I’ve failed countless times in my career, so don’t let this get you down. ” I was dumbfounded. A multi-gold-medalist just gave me advice! It was at this moment that I, Josh Wurz, would do the best I ever could do with my next race. I was going to do the best I could, even if that meant failing. It is the next day, the day of my final race. They take the best score of the two, so if I did well in this race, I could win. I psyched myself up, ate breakfast, stretched, and headed out onto the mountain for the final time. The air seemed colder, the mountain seemed bigger. This was a beast I had to slay, the course, and the beast inside of my own head. I head up the chairlift for the last time, went down the practice slope for...
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...Look up. I have so many friends yet I'm lonely. I speak to them everyday but none of them really know me. We know only a few of them. Others, we know others through our screens. We spend hours looking at our screen. But, have we ever looked up, sat back and realised that the media we go social is nothing but when we open our computers and shut our doors. All this technology we have is advanced and helpful in every way but it's just an illusion. We are so addicted to it that we forget what's actually happening in the real world. Community, companionship, a sense of inclusion, but when we step away from these devices of delusion, we're awakened to see a world full of confusion. Even while we go meet our friends and have a nice time, but...
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...exists corporally and while its elemental parts are recycled into the environment, the being as a distinct concept ceases to exist. Or beyond this obstacle if the ‘is’ is referring to the existence and continuation of some latent form of consciousness or the soul, we have no way of verifying its existence currently, let alone tracking its existence after a death. The second affirmation “what is cannot come from nothing” ascertains that something that is considered ‘nothing’ cannot generate being. Simply by being an acting agent, this predication implies that nothing is in fact a something. The third, “what is cannot be what was”, reveals that a subject with a past, is still in existence. Here continuity allows us to denote this substance as being the same at two different points in time, and shows that it maintained its existence throughout this temporal transition, just by having started at time one. Finally, “What is cannot ‘will be’ ”, similar to the previous affirmation reveals that if a substance can be temporally traced back and now forward it must exist in the moment. This makes sense because when speaking of the future and potentiality the referent possibly undergoing change is a current idea in existence, with the ability to become. Remember, an existing thing in a state of becoming is still a part of a presently existing process, and therefore exists and exists continuously through the temporal chain. In recognizing something is changing you also recognize that it was...
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...lack of adult supervision may be scary, but as the boys begin to lose their minds, morals, and humanity, the seemingly only response from the island is encouraging. There is a moment while Ralph runs for his life, “he glimpsed the legs of a savage coming towards him… Ralph crouched still, tangled in the ferns…” This moment illustrates the challenges and struggles that Ralph is facing both between the island and the boys he used to know. Both are tangling him and making him struggle for his mere survival. Many resemblances, like this, are to be found between the island and the boys on it. Another one, is that both are trying to hide who they are and what pain they have. The island does so by covering its scar with vegetation, hiding it from sight, and the boys so the same by using war paint to hide who they are becoming from their past selves. This allows them to go completely savage as they attempt to hunt Ralph down within the burning forest. Both have lost everything that they once had, beauty, gentleness, and most importantly, innocence. There are multiple wars occurring on the island, but none are as intense nor as meaningful as the boys’ struggle for themselves against the savage disposition of the...
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...of selfish, ugly and humble heart by the two protagonists Joy and Pointer’s descriptions, the task of character disgusting twisted side vividly demonstrated to the readers, merciless in exposing pure real life all the evils of human nature and its destruction. Joy is a negative with the nihilist, she doubts everything, hate everything, negating all the traditional values that everywhere is full of evil, all is vanity, she is also a twist on the character, she strongly highlight and strengthen their own to emphasize its ugly appearance "inner beauty" to abnormal behavior against everything around to vent discontent of reality. She pretentious, despised everything, she was advertised herself “I’m one 0f those people who see through to nothing” revealing the arrogance of her heart. She attempts to change Pointer's beliefs, her own blind arrogance ultimately embarrassing, pitiful situation; in fact, he is a hidden under the ugly appearance of the inner ugly people. O’Connor described both her ugly surface and inner world, “she had thought and thought until she had hit upon the ugliest name in any language. Then she had gone and had the beautiful name, Joy, changed without telling her mother” (page. 145). The reason that Joy find a most deliberately nasty name, is not because of low self-esteem, on the contrary, she put the most terrible name as the highest symbol of the creative act, which shows her superior attitude. In addition, its appearance would have been affected by the...
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...like this for a moment, for a short moment? I’m with my girlfriend right now I can’t believe; did you really just say your girlfriend? Is it true? It can’t be She is your girlfriend right now Is she listening to this right now? Do you say that I mean nothing to you now? It can’t be true, don’t lie I was crazy too, it wasn’t like me It was a stupid thing that I would have never usually done But still, you were sober, you were in the right state of mind You shouldn’t have picked up, then I could’ve just fallen asleep I’m with my girlfriend right now I can’t believe, did you really just say your girlfriend? Is it true? It can’t be She is your girlfriend right now Is she listening to this right now? Do you say that I mean nothing to you now? It can’t be true, don’t lie She is your girlfriend, I was your girlfriend That’s not what I wanted to hear I know even if you don’t say it If things just pass like this, is it over? Is it nothing to you? Is that it? Baby don’t lie Loving me, forgetting me, making it be like nothing Is it that easy for you? Is that how you empty me out? Is that how you erase me? Yes, call me crazy but I still can’t forget you Say that I’m talking crazy I won’t remember this tomorrow anyway I’m with my girlfriend right now I can’t believe, did you really just say your girlfriend? Is it true? It can’t be She is your girlfriend right now Is she listening to this right now? Do you say that I mean nothing to you now? It...
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...I stepped into the house and held onto the door frame, knowing that in a minute, I would have to be strong alone, with nothing to support me but myself. I took a breath and tugged on the door behind me to latch it, then turned around and watched my brother ascend higher into the tangled branches of the tree growing in the front of my grandpa’s yard. After Sam made it to the next branch, his small white knuckles gripping the bark tightly, I decided it was time. I took five steps up the cushioned stairs, holding on to the wobbly, old railing next to me and entered the living room where my Mom and Grandpa had been living for the past few days. It smelled as it always did, except for the indistinguishable stench of waiting. A smell like a hospital lounge, a counselor’s office in a high school, or a dirty bus stop filled with strangers. I waited for a moment, just standing there. It was so hard to...
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...Martins Onskulis PRPE_108 Sec. 08N January 31, 2016 A Map in Your Head There is nothing more worrying in the moment than when you have to say goodbye to your family, a moment when sitting in the airplane and the pilot is starting the engines. Like a heavy bird the plane slowly glides to the runway and turns. Not to miss a single second to feel vibration of airframe, wings and tension beneath them. Land begins to run turning into regular tracery, knitting together like grandmother’s knitted gloves and socks. The only question is how free you can let your daily routine behind you and be open to unknown. Nothing is more breathtaking than the moment when you get out of the train in a strange city, with a map in your hands and overhead the sun as a compass needle. Welcoming of tourist groups and organizations holds back the true first impression of the city. How many places will not been discovered - the festival or hidden waterfalls, by traveling together with the tourist groups from point A to point B, and left without the landscape behind the car window. The best way to travel is alone. Standing alone on the dusty platform, I fill my lungs with the smell of a strange city perfumes. My map is adjusted to the north. Once the first steps are taken in a strange land, it becomes yours. I will never forget the days-long train trip to Omsk (Russia), when I woke up in the morning in my tiny cabin and I know – few more days to travel, I am not leaving train today, have to keep myself...
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...01/09 Nothing Gold Can Stay Why do things change? In “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, the theme of the book is that “Nothing Gold Can Stay” (77). This means that things do not last forever. Johnny, Ponyboy, and Randy all learn this lesson in different ways. Johnny learns “Nothing Gold Can Stay” (77) in many ways. First, it states, “I never noticed colors and clouds and stuff until you kept reminding me about them,” (78). When Johnny took the time to think about colors like Ponyboy had mentioned, he realized that “Nothing Gold Can Stay” (77). The colors of the clouds were seldom golden, and when it was it lasted only but a short period of time. Before Ponyboy showed Johnny the good he saw in sunsets and colors, he was just another greaser boy who lived by the stereotype. After Pony pointed out to Johnny all the interesting things he thinks about, not only was their relationship stronger, but Johnny’s thoughts were too. Next, it...
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...live with Alzheimer's and still laugh, love and find joy is nothing short of amazing. I never got that chance to meet Julia when she was full of life and energy. Instead God blessed me with Julia on May 6th of this year. God had also blessed me with the ability to really connect with Julia. I spent many nights by her bedside, I've spent many hours listening, I've shared many tears with her daughter's and I've experienced many lifelong connections. Julia taught me the importance of living in the moment and finding joy in the small things. No two minutes were alike. Things were constantly changing and it put us on the wildest roller coaster ride imaginable. I must say it took a while and I'm sure I'm speaking for a few others when I say this but I came to realize that in order to survive, you must live in the moment and appreciate each and every good thing that happens, no matter how small. Sometimes you really have to dig deep to find the good in a lousy situation. The interesting thing is that bar is constantly moving. That thing that may have seemed completely insignificant a few months ago, can suddenly become the joy that gets you through each day. That became more apparent to me with each passing day. 2 1/2 months ago, the fact that Julia ate and drank well all in a day was nothing. The last month, when I heard she had a few sips of something I felt like shouting from the rooftop. I learned to cease the moment. One day someone asked me, "How do you feel about Julia...
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...Epiphany at Death and the Road to Salvation In Everyman and Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, the protagonists are faced with their judgment day and presented with an account of their lives. Everyman is a man wealthy materialistically, while Faustus is wealthy in arts such as logic, medicine, law, and divinity. Everyman represents the men in society who are fixed in their material lives and lose sight of Christ. He befriends men who abandon him while on a pilgrimage to Christ, learning that what he once valued, his wealth, is useless to him when he has to account for his lack of good deeds. Faustus unlimited intelligence, yet he is dissatisfied with his gift; he would prefer experiment with black magic. Faustus gives his soul to the devil in exchange for the power to perform black magic, but he is ultimately damned to hell because of his decision and failure to recognize his fault. Faustus and Everyman fail to recognize Christ and their afterlife is left at stake. On the road to salvation, death serves as a groundbreaking event in the life of mortal men. Throughout their quest, Everyman and Faustus struggle to prove themselves worthy of greater afterlife through misusage of their mortal lives. Everyman is approached by the devil with a pilgrimage which he must partake, one where he will not come back alive. He seeks help in that those who befriend and abandon him during his lifetime such as: beauty, goods, and knowledge cannot help him on his journey. Good Deeds is the only...
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