...As the title of this book is Crisis Counseling, this book covers everything about crisis counseling from the definitions of some key words used throughout the book to practical guidance to help those who are going through crisis. Beginning the book with the author’s own experience of how he began to minister to those in crisis, he moves on to define crisis, trauma, loss, and grief in the first four chapters of the book. He provides many real life stories as examples to study the core of crises and biblical references to the subject covered in each chapter. As he shares the process each crisis represents and how and when they occur, he sets forth the model for helping people and different ways of coping the crises in chapter 5. Based on the maps provided to the reader for following an individual through the experience of various crises, the author further discusses practical intervention points and strategies of when and how to help people. He also addresses how important it is to be prepared and trained in advance to provide crisis care to the ministers and certain counselors serving crisis ministry. Chapters 10 and 11 deals with special topics related to the trauma of children and adolescents. Their response to a trauma and how they process the crisis situation are very different from the ones of the adults. So specialized knowledge is required to understand these specific developmental stages and to help them cope with crises. In chapter 12, crises and large-scale disasters...
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...Enlightenment in Fifth Business: The Beauty of Change Fiona Doomasia West Carleton Secondary School Ms. Bell (e-Learning with O.C.D.S.B.) ENG4UT Monday, July 13, 2015 Enlightenment in Fifth Business: The Beauty of Change Millions of people devote their entire lives to achieving enlightenment; however, very few people truly understand how to do this, and what it feels like. Enlightenment is an abstract concept of attaining knowledge and reaching self awareness. Despite the ambiguity in the meaning of enlightenment, today’s society believes that it will guarantee self satisfaction. In Fifth Business, Robertson Davies portrays a man’s quest for enlightenment through his unpredictable life journey. Every change in Dunstan Ramsay’s life journey teaches him a valuable life lesson, and changes him for the better, resulting in his discovery of enlightenment. The road to enlightenment is paved by the insight on life that Dunstan gains as he changes his physical locations over the course of the novel. It is also clear that change can be enlightening when looking at the important characteristics that Dunstan develops from the variety of people that he surrounds himself with throughout life. Lastly, the knowledge that Dunstan learns through his many ambition changes proves to help him find personal enlightenment. Through the principles that Dunstan learns from his perpetual changes in setting, friends and ambitions, Davies uses Dunstan’s life journey to show that in order to...
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...The book Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon covers about the English/ French war. The book is organized by chronologically but Siegfried Sassoon does jump around telling about life in the war. Siegfried Sassoon is a young man in army school for officers. He has a servant, whose name is Flook and sort of privileged. Flook is India. He called the school a holiday for officers taught to kill (France). Infantry Officer George Sherston nick name Kangaroo, has no idea how he got it. He is a bomber; he gets to blows stuff up and goes into WW1. The enemy at the time is Germany. Kangaroo is titled 2nd lt. in year 1916. 18 months approx. fought in server locations, they included Somme- isle of Man-New Zealand-England France. He was all over and he wanted to be a hero and get glory for it. Fighting the Germans, they rode horses. He really did not want to kill, but you had to in self-defense due to he was on the front line. Front line was a harsh one, one loses humanities. (a no man’s land.) Very detailed images of the battle field of bombs, death, gun fires and thankful for being alive. They would recover tools, weapons from No man’s land. That is the French front and is very stressful. Wet weather gave him sore feet and trench mouth. They would use candles for light. He goes into the war obedient, the reality is for glory and he is disillusioned. Men used canaries’ when they dug tunnels because if a bird died they knew it was poison. War made him want to kill after seeing...
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...Fifth Business Essay There are paths that many people can take throughout their lives. “Fifth Business”, a story written by Robertson Davies, focuses on one person, and that is the main character, which is Dunstan Ramsay. In the novel, he takes the path of the Canadian hero, which helps his personality/character change by doing the following: searching for little Madonna; going through the underworld; and leaving his old life behind to begin a new one, and to discover who he truly is. These are the different steps to be taken by the hero and Dunstan follows his path by completing each step. One way that Dunstan’s personality/character changes is by going on a search for little Madonna. His journey begins when he gets his call for adventure. The call for adventure lets the him know that his life is about to change. Dunstan’s call for adventure comes when he leaves for Europe for the second time to search for the little Madonna. The little Madonna was what called him to come back to Europe. “The little Madonna was a bee in my bonnet; I wanted to see her again, and quite unreasonably (like a man I knew who lost a treasured walking -stick in the London Blitz and still looks hopefully in every curiosity shop in case it might turn up) I kept hoping to find her” (pg. 123). Dunstan had to leave the life he was living in order to begin his journey. Even though he knew he might never find the little Madonna again, he had to keep looking. While searching for the little Madonna...
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...Book Report 3 I – Information about the Book Name of the book: Kane Chronicles 1 – The Red Pyramid Author of the book: Rick Riordan Summary of the book: Since their mother’s death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane. One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a "research experiment" at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things right for his family. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives. Soon, Sadie and Carter discover that the gods of Egypt are waking, and the worst of them--Set--has his sights on the Kanes. To stop him, the siblings embark on a dangerous journey across the globe--a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs. II – Personal Summarization When Julius Kane tries to summon Osiris through the Rosetta Stone in the British Museum, he also releases Set, the Egyptian god of chaos, who seals him in a coffin, as his children Sadie and Carter Kane watch. He also releases the other children of the Demon Days:Nephthys, Isis, Horus, and Osiris. The British police come to Carter and Sadie's grandparents' home, as Carter is with Sadie because of the twice-a-year visit, and question Carter and...
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...Erio Zucchet Mrs. Zakowski ENG 3U1-07 Monday, May 30, 2011 Fifth Business: Origin, Nature and Burden of Guilt In Robertson Davies’s Fifth Business, the concept of guilt is an important component in the development of many major characters within the novel. Guilt is defined as a feeling of responsibility for some offense or crime. Throughout the novel, Robertson Davies utilizes the motif of guilt in order to express the feelings of certain characters. He also employs the logic behind their decision-making. The concept of guilt influences many characters, especially in the lives of Percy Staunton, Paul Dempster, and Dunstable Ramsay. The way in which these characters cope with the guilt they have combined in their lives, is also an essential part in their rebirths. In Robertson Davies’s Fifth Business, the concept of guilt directly influences the events, characterizations, decisions, and transformations of Percy Staunton, Dunstable Ramsay and Paul Dempster. The element of guilt proves to be properly portrayed through the description of Percy Staunton. Percy Staunton is an important figure in emphasizing the importance of guilt within the novel. It is also a prime example in showing how guilt influences a person’s decision-making process. During the first stages of the book, guilt is introduced when Percy throws a snowball at Dunny, which ends up hitting Mrs. Dempster. This shows the reader the moral...
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...The review of the book „Moon palace” by Paul Auster „Moon palace“ is a contemporary novel written by modern American novelist Paul Auster. The book tells story about young man who tries to find himself in a world and about two other men from his previous generations. All three men are linked through fantastic coincidences. Author’s purpose is to remind and make us face some things, which we already know, but usually are afraid to face, things we usually sheer from. “Moon palace” has really diverse characters. The protagonist Marco Stanley (M.S.) Fogg is student in his early twenties, an orphan with no family at all. This lonely orphan seems to be spending entire story searching for his identity, mostly appears, indirectly. He is at a loss in his life and for some time works for Thomas Effing. Effing is wicked person. Man is disabled and blind, but is far from being pitiful. He enjoys laughing at and fooling everyone. All his life is a lie, so it’s no surprise that man is extremely lonely. The last of the main characters, Solomon Barber is trapped in his 350 pound body. He separates himself from the rest of the world by putting the mask of cheerful eccentric, but actually lives in complete solitude. The story takes place in New York, though some of the actions happen in the desert of Utah and in the other parts of America. The events largely take place in the late 60’s and 70’s, but sometimes narrative goes back to early and mid 1900’s. M.S. Fogg is the central...
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...City of Glass Story by Paul Auster Essay by Vanessa Jagna Hoff Levinsen In this essay, we will be working with Paul Auster’s novel “City of Glass”. In the story, we follow the character Daniel Quinn, whose occupation is writing literature. This novel works with different themes that are related to mental health. The first theme we will be talking about is a question of identity; who am I, and who are you? We will follow this with describing human contact’s connection with the sanity of mankind. Social life and its influence on our mentality will lead us to the question of the masks of mankind; who is the real personality among the many faces of a single human. We will also discuss the theme of deciding. What crucial decisions have lead to the life we now live, and what could have been, if our stories had taken place just a tiny bit differently. Last but not least we will go into depth with Quinn’s mental disorder and how it is related to the other characters in the novel. Can a single, presumably random incident change the entire course of our lives? We all have one or more events that changed the entire direction of our own personal tales of existence. It can be a moment of clarity, where we realised we had lived our lives wrong the entire time. It could be the moment we bumped into that special someone, and fell in love. Or maybe it was that day when you received a rather odd phone call; let us say that perhaps you got a phone call from someone who looked for a detective...
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...Essay Paul Auster: City of Glass * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * By Cornelius Andersen * October 2013 * * * * City of Glass is the first novel in Paul Auster’s bestseller: “The New York Trilogy”. In the novel we follow Quinn, a lonely writer who has lost wife and son. One day Quinn receives a phone call that completely changes his life. Quinn gives oneself out of being the famous private detective Paul Auster, which leads him into an old case that eventually will change him forever. * * Our main character and protagonist of the story is Daniel Quinn, 35 years old, living by himself in New York. Daniel is a writer, who writes mystery novels by the pseudonym William Wilson. Some years ago he lost wife and son. Daniel spends most of his day walking around in the streets of New York. But Daniel is not just one single person. In the story, his name is no coincidence. Daniel also changes his identity to Paul Auster, the famous detective, and his initials (DQ) also have a reference to knight Don Quichote. He also uses the pseudonym Max Work in his literature. All these different identities make Daniel a very confusing main character. Though the story he shuffles between different identities, which also change the way that Daniel acts as a person and to his surroundings...
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...Analysis and interpretation of “Elephant” + different types of endings Part A Polly Clark wrote ”Elephant” in 2006. It is a short story about a man, who writes biographies of female pop singers. He is having a writer’s block in the text and later begins to write false events to the biographies. His wife is also trying to get pregnant. The text is in a restricted third person, which means that the narrator can see everything but only hear the thoughts of one person, the main character William. That also means that we have to guess what the other character thinks, if needed of course. The text mainly contains description, but there is a small amount of dialogue between William and his wife. The narrator finds the events in the story boring and there is not anything exciting about William. The narrator is a bit unreliable because he has pre-interpreted William’s life and therefore describes it the way he does. That could change if it was another narrator or in first person. William is an adult male in his late twenties or early thirties. He is married to a woman named Ginny, who works in an office, maybe as an assistant, and he works as a biography writer. He writes biographies of female pop singers who are still alive, which is not what he would have preferred. He would have preferred to write biographies of male actors, but someone got there first. He and Ginny could live either in Great Britain or in the USA or some third country, but there is nothing in the text to indicate...
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...Kyle Bain March 10, 2015 What’s Cohesion? ENG-550: Graduate Studies in English Language Professor Makhanlall What’s Cohesion? Paul Auster has a rather unique form of writing. Compared to other writers, Auster uses different techniques to draw his readers in. Auster’s use of cohesion, rhythm, and voice play unique roles in Auster’s City of Glass and Ghosts. Auster tends to do things in a very subtle and precise way, he never leads his reader astray and always leaves them wanting more. What interests me the most about Paul Auster’s writing is his use of cohesion (or lack there of). According to Martha Kolln and Loretta Gray in “Rhetorical Grammar:” “The first sentence in a paragraph, like the first paragraph of a chapter or an essay, sets up expectations in the reader about what is coming. Certainly one of those expectations is that the following sentences will stick to the topic. Another is that the sentence will have new information, not just a repeat of what the reader already knows.” (Kolln/Gray, pg. 87). This differs from what Auster does in City of Glass. Paul Auster draws his readers in by saying a little as possible until it is absolutely necessary; he is very literal with his language and does not give away information until it is essential. Firstly, Auster does not name his chapters, he simply numbers them. The beginning of chapter eight is a prime example of how Auster typically starts his chapters: “The next morning, and for many mornings to follow...
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...What is a back brace? It’s easy to be confused about just what constitutes a back brace—of course, there are plenty of consuer-targeted devices that will “stabilize” the back. Many of these are knock-offs and have little value. Back braces can come in metal or plastic and are designed to support the back. They protect areas ranging from the entire body to just the lower back. No matter what design, back braces are typically used to encourage healing by reducing the workload on the back. Should I be wearing a back brace? Many of you who suffer from lower back pain from a herniated disk or degenerative disk disease may consider using a back brace to relieve pain. Although most individuals who use back braces have either a herniated disk or degenerative disk disease, consulting with a professional is the best way to determine if a brace will be beneficial in your unique case. If you and your chiropractor determine that a brace is the best fit for you, you can begin using one to recover faster and easier. How can a back brace help? Back braces provide muscular and spinal support in the lower back. By keeping your body in the correct alignment, a back brace keeps pressure off your spine. Since this is most likely the primary cause of your pain, back braces can lessen the pressure on your back and promote comfort. How often should I wear a back brace? Every person and their situation is different, so this answer will vary case-by-case. However, as a general rule of thumb, the...
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...The Power of Freedom in Braveheart and the Lord of the Rings How far would you go to defend freedom? Would you overcome impossible odds? In the films “Braveheart” and “The Lord of the Rings,” the main characters, Mel Gibson and Elijah Wood, go to the ends of the earth to achieve their goals and bring freedom to the people within their society. The two main plots emphasize the concept that no matter what nation you live under, any man or woman will fight to defend their right to freedom. In “Braveheart”, Mel Gibson, plays William Wallace. In the movie his wife is brutally killed by one of the English kings. Before the death of his wife, Wallace also experiences the death of his brother and father by the hands of the same aggressor when he was a child. After this he decides that any aggressive action against those he holds dear will not be left unavenged. The day of his wife’s death, William waited for his wife at a secret hiding place and when he finds out she isn’t coming because she was killed, he takes the ways of the law into his own hands. When William becomes a revolutionary he leads the Scottish people to an uprising against the English government. William then begins to de-thrown all the kings in the English region. He loses all sense of inhibition while pursuing his desire to avenge his loved ones’ death and brings freedom to his people. “The Lord of the Rings” is a movie about the plight of mankind while defending itself against a great evil of a supernatural...
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...most famous scores in history. He is a five time winner of the Academy Award and has vastly left his mark on the film industry. Aside from films, he is a well established composer of concert works and is now the laureate composer for the Boston Pops Orchestra. The Lord of the Rings, on the other hand, opens as a narrator provides the audience with a history of an ancient ring, which was thought to be lost. However, the ring finds its way to a hobbit named Frodo, who must make a journey to the Cracks of Doom to destroy it. He makes this quest with an elf named Legolas, a dwarf named Gimli, Aragorn, Boromir, and three other hobbits named Merry, Pippin, and Samwise. They call themselves the Fellowship of the Ring, and the first film of the trilogy ends with the Fellowship standing on a cliff and embarking on their journey. The score to The Lord of the Rings was composed by Howard Shore specifically for the film. Shore, who is well-known for...
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...The Lord of the Rings Reading Journal # 1 So far in the novel “The Lord of the Rings,” I have been intrigued and enlightened by the events that have taken place. Frodo, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimle, Gandalf, Sam, Merry and Pippin are sent on the quest to destroy the ring, though the four hobbits, Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin, know little about the ring and how dangerous and powerful it proves to be. As the novel proceeds, the men and the hobbits meet many other characters, some good, some evil. One main character that they meet throughout the journey is Gollum – a practically naked, evil-looking, gross hobbit-like creature with big, unappealing eyes. I am excited to read further into the novel so that I can learn more about the characters and the dangerous situations they must face. At various reading moments, puzzles and problems have been formulating in my mind, problems such as dangerous obstacles and creatures throughout the journey to destroy The Ring. The very beginning of the journey in the first book of the series involves the seven brave men (Aragorn, Legolas, Gimle, Frodo, Gandalf, Sam, Merry, and Pippin) to experience life-threatening problems and battling for their lives due to the fact that they are constantly in danger, as the orcs and the Nine Black Riders are trying to end the age of men. After reading deeper into the novel and gaining more knowledge about the main characters, I have been able to thoroughly form mental images of many of the characters in my mind...
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