Historical Perspectives of Healing A Review of Eeva Sointu’s article ‘The Search for Wellbeing in Alternative and Complementary Health Practices’. Eeva Sointu is an assistant professor in medical sociology and has a B.A. in religious studies, an M.A. in "Religion, Culture and Society," and a Ph.D. in sociology. In 2006 she began teaching courses in medical sociology, Introduction of the Sociology of Selfhood and Identity, Qualitative Methods and a senior seminar on contemporary therapeutic cultures at the Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Retrieved 18 October 2012 Donny Meertens, in his article, “Facing Destruction, Rebuilding life Gender and the Internally Displaced in Colombia” elaborates the refugee crisis in Colombia with different aspects such as violence, forced displacement, Gender violence, displaced women in Cordoba, The “Before”: Destruction and Uprooting, The “After”: Survival and Reconstruction, and the conclusions of survival, organization and construction of a new future. One of the key things in this article is how this crisis effects men and women differently and violence. As said in the article, “During the 1900s this complex of violent actions has produced an annual death toll of 25,000 to 30,000, which represents a rate of 85 violent deaths per 100,000 inhabitants”(Deas and Gaitan Daza, 1995: 223-231; Eschandia, 1999: 99-149). Majority of the deaths that occur in Colombia are of males in fact “Almost 90 percent of violent deaths in Colombia are males” (Comision Colombiana de Juristas, 1997; Meertens, 1998). In his article, Meertens seems to be arguing the difference of violence towards different genders, how the violence towards males murders results in, many cases, families being forcibly displaced.
Term Paper: How have human beings reacted to unexpected tragedy, suffering and pain throughout the ages? General Humanities Alexa Flores March 6, 2012 GNHU: Tuesday/Thursday 11:30 Dr. J. Braveman • Introduction o The similarities of response to tragedies in early civilization in comparison to the current world • Paragraph 1 o The journey that is takes place when affected by an unexpected tragedy • Paragraph 2 o My reaction to the death of my best friend • Paragraph 3 o Tragedy in relation to The Book of Job—the anger and depression that Job experiences because of the pain he is enduring • Paragraph 4 and 5 o Unexpected tragedy vs. grief counseling in respect to The Book of Job • Paragraph 6 o Denial—a reaction to tragedy • Paragraph 7 o Anger—related to Oedipus reaction to tragedy • Paragraph 8 o How I related to the Asch family discussed in Unending Journey Through Faith and Heartbreak • Paragraph 9 o Questioning God’s existence during tragedy • Conclusion o The trend of emotions in response to tragedy is similar in all times throughout history. Throughout the semester I have noticed a trend of the reaction of human beings in regard to tragedies. It turns out that whether you were present during early civilization or are part of the current world the reactions are still quite similar. This is justified in the readings of The Book of Job and Oedipus the King, two works that had significant impact on the reasoning’s of human emotion.
Although religion gives a person meaning to life, it guides people into the right direction, comforts people in times of sadness, and connects people together. Many believe that religion is the cause of all wars, because of the large number of general encounter between opposing different worshipping of leaders. But the cause of a war can be very difficult to figure out. Others would argue that religion is the primary cause of war, because of the many wars that have been caused by it. Throughout history, religion has been named the number one source of creating the torment anguish of human wars.
This large influx of Americans brought more diseases to the Native Americans that devastated their tribes with great number of deaths. Traveling across the country for the California gold, Americans infected the Native Americans with cholera, measles, and scarlet fever. The resulting deaths added to the toll of Indian deaths
The film deals with the impacts of racism and how friendship and teamwork can overcome it. Characterization is very important in the film and there are many relationships which show how racism is overcome in the film. The most important of these is the relationship between coach’s Boone and Yoast and teammates Gerry and Julius. For example, at the beginning of the film, Coach Yoast who has lost his job to Coach Boone only stays on as assistant out of his loyalty to the white players. But by the conclusion of the film, his friendship and respect for Coach Boone helps not only the team win, but helps the community to overcome racist attitudes towards Coach Boone.
The empathy I feel is numb. As sad as it may seem, it affected the lives of millions because of the hate inside of one certain group of people. We learn about these kinds of events because we as Americans do not want this to happen in our nation. Through the many years, we have grown and made our nation stronger. We won’t let discrimination alter our lives in such an unforgivable way.
But after abit of time the death of people began to increase rapidly. Wars and massacres is an impact also experienced by Indians in North America. The most tragic war of the Indians was the battle of the Wounded Knee. In this massacre there was a place in the Sioux community which was a very dangerous place for the Sioux people so big foot the Sioux chief decided to move to a safer place. One of the US soldiers orders the Sioux people to go back to their place HOWEVER one Sioux soldier didn’t want to go back and people started to fight back in a result 300 men including women and children were killed.
Willie Brewster David Johnson English Composition I October 13, 2008 Disaster in Darfur Since the year of 2002, a major civil crisis has been in place within the vicinity of African nation Sudan. The Janjaweed, soldiers known as militiamen out to cleanse the land of non-Arabic individuals, have began to pursue an ethnic cleansing within Darfur, a western region of Sudan. The cause of the conflict is Janjaweed’s hate of the large non-Arabic population in Darfur. As a result of their hate, the Janjaweed have increased killings, destroyed villages, and alienated the Darfuri’s government. The Janjaweed’s involvement in Darfur has and continues to destroy the Darfuri’s society and their diplomacy.
Paper 1- The Management of Grief Grief in Diversity Outside of India, many may find India and people of Indian decent to be quite peculiar. We as people are all so different especially between cultures. Based on the actual event, the Sikh terrorist bombing of an Air India plane on June 23, 1985, which killed all 329 passengers and crew, The Management of Grief emphasizes on Shaila Bhave’s in the hours, days, and months after the deaths of her husband and two young sons. The story centers on her of grief and guilt, which are detailed to her Indian culture. As an Indian wife, she hadn’t expressed her husband’s name or ever told him that she loved him which is also particular to her culture.