The Watergate scandal rocked the American public to its core. During Nixon’s re-election, operatives involved with his campaign trespassed into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel because of his involvement in the attempted coverup Nixon was brought up on charges. Then Vice President Agnew resigned in October 1973 over charges of tax evasion and the acceptance of bribes, which resulted in Gerald Ford being appointed as the vice president. Less than a year into Ford’s
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We've all been there -- fast asleep, caught up in the middle of a cinematic dream that feels so real you think you've actually experienced it. Sometimes even after waking up you question if it was real. Or maybe it was a nightmare that left you in a cold sweat, heart pounding. But what are dreams? Sigmund Freud believed that dreams are a window into our unconscious. Other researchers also discovered that dreams are our brains’ attempt to make sense of the meaningless stimuli. But regardless of which
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Carl Jung has famous theory which is “Collective Unconscious”. It is existing in the depths of a person’s unconscious mind, and it is inborn universal unconscious. From his theory, he said that human being also has “archetype” which is meaning for “image pattern”. People have archetype, and it is using for our common understanding between people. For example, when we see a clay figure embracing a plump body shape woman, we say that it looks like mother, because we are imaging for “Mother’s Archetype”
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First of all, The Alchemist starts off with a young adventurous boy. Who name is Santiago. Santiago is a shepherd and lives in a little city called Andalusia. As Santiago lies under a sycamore tree that grows by a church, he has this dream every time he goes to sleep. During that dream, a boy tells Santiago to go look for a treasure on the Egyptian Pyramids. As Santiago goes on an adventure to Egypt, he meets an old man name Melchizedek. The strange thing is that Melchizedek claims to be a magical
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try again,’ Roy thought.” Roy discovers that this is the attitude he and his friends must have to save the burrowing owls that live in a soon to be construction site. Roy Eberhardt is the main character of the realistic fiction novel Hoot, written by Carl Hiaasen. Roy’s persistence and stubbornly strong attitude taught me what true strength and perseverance was. He never gave up, on his friends, on the owls, but most of all, he never gave up on the hope that things will turn out alright. I believe
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There are three different perspectives that could explain why a person has a disorder or does a certain behavior. Those three dissimilar perspectives are called Psychodynamic, Evolutionary, and Behavioral perspectives. What are psychodynamic, evolutionary, and behavioral perspectives? They each have their own meanings and definitions. Psychodynamic perspective means viewing personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences, then Evolutionary perspective is the
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The presence of archetypes is an essential element of the quest storyline, both in American and foreign literature. Pioneers of the archetype concept include scholars Joseph Campbell, Christopher Vogler, and Carl Jung, whose notions of archetypal literature developed into what most academics accept as the characteristic blueprint for a quest story today. Though these archetypes were first described just over a hundred years ago, they have persisted throughout literary and visual art for millennia
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“A man sets out on a journey, dreaming of a beautiful or magical place, in pursuit of some unknown treasure”. The Alchemist is about how Santiago is having a recurring dream of his personal legend. Then it talks about how he got there and what he went through. In the novel, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho the hero's journey reveals that there are many steps and obstacles to pass or get through before reaching your personal legend. There are so many steps and obstacles, you need to prepare for before
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Carl Jung thought of Sigmund Freud not only as a friend, but also that of a father figure with whom he could not only open his mind up to, but also his heart. Sigmund Freud thought Jung was energetic and a new and exciting addition to the psychoanalytical movement. But these feeling were about to change. Their friendship was also to end. Jung and Freud were a lot like and also had very different opinions. They both believed that the content of dreams should be interpreted, and that this would
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The Alchemist is a very unique book like no other. Although the book shows many messages and themes, there is also other many pieces of literature, art, music, and films that express or set the same message. One piece of literature that relates to the Alchemist is “The Last Shots” by Yuri Bondarev. This book expresses the theme of fear which is also portrayed in the Alchemist. The book focuses on the soldier's perspective of war and how they were compelled to be in the war. A musical piece that relates
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