Sharmane Hughes English 101 Ms. Evans 19 September 2012 Assignment #6 Contradicting Denial Tom Junod’s article, “The Falling Man,” debuted a behind the scenes view of how the tragedy of 9/11 affected many different people in various types of ways. Some people were emotionally connected to the tragedy because of the fact that they had lost love ones in the process. Others might be emotionally attached because of the amount of sadness that flooded the United States. Everyone was scared and left wondering what was going to happen next. Junod’s article goes in-depth about the emotions that rose due to the public publishing of a photo that depicted a man on the day of 9/11 descending to his death from the Twin Towers in New York City.
Upon the bombing of the two cities, the Japanese citizens that lived near the explosion had been through a devastating and horrifying experience. These experiences are told by John Hersey in his book “Hiroshima”, where he interviews survivors from the bombing. One of the survivors he interviewed was named Miss Tashinki Sasaki; she worked as a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works during the crisis. When the blinding flash from the bomb had taken place, she was about to talk to the female worker on her right but had become paralyzed with fear from the light. Within seconds the ceiling collapsed along with a bookshelf that fell on Miss Sasaki, leaving her unconscious for three hours.
April Johnson English 095 April 26, 2012 “Difficult Decisions” Artie Spiegelman, who wrote Maus: A Survivor’s Tale VI & VII, is a book of a certain family enduring hardship with the misery after the effect of the Holocaust. The book of Maus for me was hard understanding graphic details from not just words but pictures, as well. Between both stories, the extended walks had a big effect on our people. The placement camps in these stories show how cruel, unpleasant, and uncaring many people can be for how they treated the Jews and Navajos with the amount of diseases going around during both wars. The U.S Colonel Kit Carson was sent towards Canyon de Chelly to gather and bring the Navajos to Fort Sumner like Adolf Hitler when he assembled
How to Help Heal Survivors of Hatred Margaret Morris Rasmussen College Author Notes This research is being submitted on February 20, 2011 For Patrick Gast HS110/HUS1551 course at Rasmussen College by Margaret Morris. Trauma is described as an extraordinary psychological experience caused by treat to life or bodily safety or a personal encounter with violence and death that overwhelms ordinary human functioning. The Lakota Sioux is a Native American group that was the subject of mass violence that devastated and diminished the Native Americans society. The Lakota Sioux faced many obstacles such as death by alcoholism, a very high suicide rate, coronary heart disease, hypertension and a high unemployment rate, which caused them
For professional athletes, the “loss of identity is evident”(Caron 175) and some may even lose their whole livelihood due to head injuries. In this paper I will be examining the aforementioned long-term effects of psychological changes, brain disease, and deterioration of social abilities. Long term effects of head injuries are an epidemic and by identifying these effects and being aware of symptoms or signs may help us better understand them. In recent years, psychological problems have been identified as one of the most prevalent effects caused by concussions in the long term. The sudden deaths of N.H.L players Rick Rypien, Derek Boogard, and Wade Belak all within a year due to suspected suicides shook the sporting world and made more people realize the severity of depression in sports due to head injuries.
At war the motto is “kill or be killed” and the choice you make can lead to your survival or your death. In Tim O’Brien’s “The Man I Killed” shows the traumatized side of war, the effect the death of another human being can have on a person, even if the person is your enemy. Death in general can put a person in a traumatic stage, a mourning stage. Witnessing a death happen right in front of your eyes is something people remember for a long time, if not until their own death. Most of the soldiers that come back from war suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder as shown on many news channels.
Because America is a haven from violence, the violence under the Taliban in Kabul is even more shocking and sobering. Amir gets a taste of violence when he and Baba are fleeing for Pakistan and Kamal's father commits suicide. However, nothing can prepare him for the extent of violence and suffering in Afghanistann. One of the most graphic accounts is of the stonings at Ghazi Stadium. Like the rapes of Hassan and Sohrab, the event symbolizes the devastation of Afghanistan as a whole, as Afghans once knew it.
Throughout Obama’s speech he uses unique styles of language, with words and phrases, in order to support and achieve his objective of informing citizens of the justice this nation accomplished. President Obama begins the speech with an emotional tone in order reminisce on the damage the 9/11 terrorist attack had on the entire United States. Obama uses imagery to bring about this emotion when he mentions, “The empty seat at the dinner table. Children who were forced to grow up without their mother or their father. Parents who would never know the feeling of their child’s embrace...” When this incident took place many people suffered from the deaths that took place, a pain that could be considered unbearable.
Tessa Inverary Walden University October 29, 2011 Trauma is an emotional reaction to a terrible event like rape, earthquake, floods, and accidents among others (Schein, 2006). Traumatic events can be divided into three major subdivisions; man-made disasters, natural disasters, and violence, crime, and terrorism (Schein, 2006). This research paper will discuss the effects of trauma on patients and counselor as well as traumatic events such as earthquakes and rape. Earthquake is a natural disaster that has claimed many lives including the recent 2011 Japan earthquake. Earthquake causes destruction of properties, displacement of people, and deaths.
Suicide Clinton C Pickett Liberty University Abstract This paper introduces the definition of a crisis. A crisis can be many things to many different people; the loss of a house to a fire, the death of a grandparent or the loss of a job all qualify as a crisis; though not all may quality as a crisis to a single individual. Suicide is the most difficult and complicated grievance experienced across the world in every country and every culture. Statistics imply that in the US, one is more likely to die by suicide than to be shot (James, 2008). Dealing with those who have attempted suicide and those who are grieving the loss of a love one who has committed suicide present a delicate dilemma that is multi-faceted can be infinitely complex.