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Short Stories Short Story
712 wordsWhat is home? Home can be defined in a variety of ways. Having a feeling of completeness is a main component that allows one to find such a special place. Home can be anywhere. Not only feeling complete, but also being able to express one self freely and having a feeling of belonging is usually where home is. The special place called home is a theme that is seen clearly in the two short stories A Pair of Tickets and The Gentle Wholeness of Home. Ironically my definition of home is similar to tho...
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Faust And Frankenstein Wholeness In Knowledge World
772 wordsGoethe in Faust and Shelley in Frankenstein, wrap their stories around two men whose mental and physical actions parallel one another. Both stories deal with characters, who strive to be the bermensch in their world. In Faust, the striving fellow, Faust, seeks physical and mental wholeness in knowledge and disaster in lust. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein struggles for control over one aspect of nature and disastrously, through the monster, nature controls him to a much greater degree. Many...
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Personality Disorder Social Relationships
1,668 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Question: Are Narcissists also schizoids? Answer: This is not a question about dual diagnosis or co-morbidity. The implications of a positive answer run much deeper than a mere listing of traits and behaviours. This is the definition of the Schizoid Personality Disorder (SPD) in the DSM IV (1994): A. A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of ...
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Jing Mei Mother Joy Luck Club
1,498 wordsA family gives the feeling of security and belonging, but a crisis within the family can change it forever. A family always goes through some sort of crisis, and it forces each member to realize the painful truths. Two novels, Mary MacCrackens A Circle of Children and Amy Tans The Joy Luck Club, deal with families trying to overcome a crisis. Characters in these books experience differences that cause miscommunication, sacrifices for their family, and the transition that unifies and completes th...
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Sigmund Freud Collective Unconscious
1,104 wordsCarl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of the school of analytical psychology. He proposed and developed the concepts of the extroverted and introverted personality, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. The issues that he dealt with arose from his personal experiences. For many years Jung felt as if he had two separate personalities. One introverted while the other was extroverted. This interplay results in his study of integration and wholeness. His work has been influenti...
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Essay Quot Earth Quot
2,276 wordsMany authors throughout history have expressed their, or society? s, yearning towards a simpler life: a life without responsibilities or obligations, a life without worry or regret. Sigurd Olson expresses such a yearning in his essay " Contemplation" , where through reading Lao Tzu, he had discovered that in order to understand and relate to wilderness, we only need a contemplative mind, which is simple and easy. He suggested that life in wilderness is a continual contemplation and com...
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Human Nature Human Relationship
2,228 wordsMany authors throughout history have expressed their, or society? s, yearning towards a simpler life: a life without responsibilities or obligations, a life without worry or regret. Sigurd Olson expresses such a yearning in his essay Contemplation, where through reading Lao Tzu, he had discovered that in order to understand and relate to wilderness, we only need a contemplative mind, which is simple and easy. He suggested that life in wilderness is a continual contemplation and communion with Go...
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Greek City States Order To Understand
1,172 wordsImagine studying the political and social developments of the 20 th century without ever considering Communism or evaluating the idea of Fascism. Envision a Russia without the effects of Joseph Stain or a Germany untouched by the doctrine of Adolph Hitler. The above statements seem incredible because these systems created so much of the political and social turmoil throughout this century. Just as politics seems incomplete without the prevalence of these ideas, it is also incomplete without the ...
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Level Of Reality Subatomic Particles
2,410 wordsIn autumn of 1992, one of the worlds greatest contemporary physicists passed away. David Bohm, whose work inspired many people all over the world, died in London. David Bohm's contributions to science and philosophy are profound, and they have yet to be fully recognized and integrated on the grand scale. David Bohm was born on December 20, 1917, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Bohm was fascinated by the dazzling concepts of cosmic forces and vast expanses of space that lie beyond our understandin...
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Merge Into One Lady Bruton Diamond
675 wordsHow many million times she had seen her face, and always with the same imperceptible contraction! She pursed her lips when she looked in the glass. It was to give her face point. That was her self-pointed; dart like; definite. That was her self when some effort, some call on her to be her self, drew the parts together, she alone knew how different, how incompatible and composed so for the world only into one centre, one diamond, one woman who sat in her drawing-room and made a meeting-point, a r...
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Great Spirit Didn T
792 wordsOn Origin Myth Origin Myth On the first day humans walked around aimlessly without a purpose, concealed in their own personal darkness. Endless days ran into endless nights with no direction for man or woman. After many days and nights of wandering it happened that they came across a strange creature that slithered quickly and smoothly around their feet. They had seen this serpent before, but never before had they been approached so closely by this long, earth-bound creature. This living thing i...
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State Of Mind Sexual Desire
1,452 wordsViolence and sexuality are usually the theme for action movies. In Hitchcock's Psycho, violence is brought out as a substitute for sexuality. Norman Bates uses violence to release his sexual frustration. Two clues in the movie to support such an idea are: taxidermy and the shower murder. To most people, taxidermy is a hobby; in Norman s case, stuffing birds can be viewed as a sign of violence and sexuality. Hobbies are usually regarded as innocent activities of casual interest, designed to help ...
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Steinbeck Elisa Allen
2,657 wordsThe purpose of this paper is to offer an analysis of the women characters in the works of John Steinbeck, with a special emphasis placed on Elisa Allen, the main character in his short story, ? The Chrysanthemums. ? Most of Steinbeck? s fiction is concerned with his native California, with the Great Depression and how people endured it, and with the deprivation that farm workers in the west suffered generally (Beegel et al. 54). Many of his novels and short stories take place in the Salinas area...
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