Case Study Brian Bailey May 1, 2011 University of Phoenix-Axia PSY-210 Dr. Stephanie Sencil – Instructor Michael is a 40-year-old airline pilot who has recently begun to experience chest pains. The chest pains began when Michael signed his final divorce papers, ending his 15-year marriage. He fought for joint custody of his two children, ages 12 and 10, but although he wants to be with them more frequently, he only sees them every two weeks. This schedule is, in great part, a result of his employer's announcement that budget constraints would result in layoffs. Michael worries that without his job he will be unable to support his children and lose the new townhouse that he purchased.
This includes his description of his job as a school teacher (paragraph one), the big mystery he encounters as he travels overseas (paragraph two), and the life-altering change he goes through after killing hundreds of men. The boring parallelism used when talking about his job describes that he just has a normal life and that it drags on like your average, American worker. But in reality, it’s anything but ordinary. Once he comes overseas, it’s a completely different story. In paragraph two, when Hanks talks about the change that he goes through and wondering if his wife will even recognize him, he uses a much more depressed state of parallelism.
His family abandoned, his son not even knowing what he was like had to ask his neighbors. A comment was made to his wife about missing him and she replied, “I already have. Missing him all these years.” (Goodman 398) It is important for a man to have balance in his life. Men can get so engulfed into their work that they forget to enjoy their life and before they know it, it’s over. Phil had a heart attack because he was so stressed out from work, and he didn’t have a life outside of work so he was always stressed out.
At 28 this man could not write , when working at the mills you might make money , but your education suffered from the tiny amount of money you would make. In An excerpt from the testimony of Joseph Hebergam (Document #2) Joseph is describing how he is ill from the dust in the factories , overwork and insufficient diet. Joseph also states that he will die within the year because his lungs are damaged and his lung muscles are so damaged that they will not support the weight of his bones. Joseph also tells the story of how a little boy died in the factory and how the shafts in the factory were never covered, this document shows how the working environments in the factories could kill/seriously hurt people and how even if you survived working in it , the long term affects will catch up with your health. In Document #8 , There is a chart that shows the iron production from 1740 until 1900 , with the British iron production in 1740 being 17,350 tons and in 1900 being 9,000,000 tons.
“D”: Roger Chillingworth Roger Chillingworth, Hester Prynne’s, deformed husband, slowly transforms into what many call the Black Man. Chillingworth’s transformation, ultimately detrimental to Reverend Dimmesdale’s health, began once he questioned the reverend about sin, and his obsession did not, “set him free again until he had done all” of his searching (117). He leeched info out of poor Dimmesdale every day until, “there was a fiend at his elbow” his own self (155)! Chill., hired to help nurse Dimm. back to health, actually took more years off his life.
Once his Dad has gone through so many medical procedures the family has no money left and they are forced to move in with their uncle in Detroit. Hakeem is very upset because he’s leaving all his close friends, memories, and most importantly girlfriend behind for good. Also he knows the real reason the move is occurring is because his father’s cancer could come back and the
Superficially, all seems well because his family lives a comfortable existence. Emotionally, however, his family has missed his emotional support for years. His wife, Helen, gave up “trying to compete with his work years ago.” All of his children grew up in a so-called normal family with a father and mother. At his funeral, though, they do not have enough memories about him to say a proper eulogy. Phil himself was “overweight” and unhealthy, obsessed with work and negligent with his personal life.
"When the undertakers came to wheel my father's lifeless body out to the hearse, it was like they were taking my childhood with them." (PG 28). In this case Charlie is mourning over his father’s death. With no real father figure in Charlie’s life, it causes him a huge amount of grief especially when he is hurt, when he is looking for inspiration and especially when there is no income coming in. With none of these things he becomes a very unhappy and with no income, he becomes a very poor boy.
He figures this out when visiting his old home in California. He was furious. This was untruthful of his dad, and that's one thing that Chris hates most. Because of this incident he stopped talking to either of his parents and was withdrawn for the first time in his life. “Chris's smoldering anger, it turns out was fueled by a discovery he'd made two summers earlier, during his cross-country wanderings... Chris pieced together the facts of his father's previous marriage and subsequent divorce-facts to which he hadn't been privy.” (p. 121) This is not good mainly for Chris and his dad's relationship and also his mom and him.
He is the character who recalls the events as a now 27 year old successful writer and father. Gordie lives his younger years full of denial and much uncertainty. His parents tried to cope with the loss of their older child Denny who was killed in a car accident, but this continued to devastate them. Their struggle with this loss had long term effects on their relationship with Gordie, as he sees himself often as the forgotten child, ‘I had become the invisible boy’. Gordie has fonder memories of his times in the ‘Secret Tree House’, where the boys would spend their