In Huxley’s’ Brave New World, the world’s motto states community, Identity, and Stability (Huxley 3), in contrast to 1984’s, War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength, and Freedom is Slavery motto (Orwell 4). The novel Brave New World shows that in order for a dystopian society to achieve a state of stability, a loss of individuality, and the undoing of mother nature must occur. Successfully engineering these conditions produces a world where people are finally living "happily ever after," but at a great cost. The main element of what makes a person unique are the emotions that inhabit their minds, which they can control to some degree, "Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery" (Huxley 150). However, in Brave New World, the government uses the drug soma to suppress humans from having negative emotions.
In this selection from the autobiography of Malcolm X titled “My First Conk”, readers will find out about Malcolm X's first real step towards what he calls “self-degradation”. Although there is no exact thesis stated in the excerpt there are still clear points stated throughout the reading. When Malcolm X wrote this piece the idea was to show the reader how society can make one feel like they must change to be considered better than who and what an individual really is. It is also expressed that one's individuality can be taken away and the negative outcomes one can struggle with after that change. It is described that society can be a truly horrifying thing and the ways men and women try to fit in can be both shameful in the long
The disturbance of this order is wrong and creates an unhappy situation. The immortality experienced by the Tuck family is an unnatural disturbance of the order and cycle of life. The book explores the concept of immortality and the reasons why it might not be as desirable as it appears. Angus Tuck uses the image of the wheel to make Winnie understand the importance of the cycle of life, just as the author uses the imagery of the wheel repeatedly to show the reader how the wheel works, how life moves things along as they should be moved. Angus says: “Everything’s a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping....
Our environment shapes how our genes affect us though. Genes work in mysterious ways and we may not enjoy what the give to us. Good or bad, genes are what turn on nurture so our environment can shape who we are, how we behave, and possibly who we love. Ridley certainly backs his theories with much evidence and this book strongly displays his opinion of how nature brings about nurture. From the text, I gathered that Ridley wrote The Agile Gene from a biological perspective of psychology.
For Dalrymple, the overdose is the easiest way to relieve the crisis in their lives. I see the nature of the suicides and attempted suicides in the U.S. as being part of a greater philosophical debate. It is the question which was so often debated by such existentialist philosophers like Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sarte, and Franz Kafka. They argued that when life breaks down to the point where it is rendered meaningless, the only question that is left, is whether or not to commit suicide. I feel that the absurd reality that surrounds the youth of our present day underclass, while not absolving them of any responsibility for their actions, can be viewed as viable source of the crisis.
1. Quotes. A)"Dreams are the language of God." (pg.12) Santiago's dreams show that God is trying to talk to his soul. B) "...the world's greatest lie is this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate."
Innocence is in us all By Sharat Ramamani What is innocence? Is it good? Is it something we retain our whole life? Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is story that shows how the diminishing of innocence can positively affect a character in the end. This is done through Lee’s use of character development to show how Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, Jeremy Atticus “Jem” Finch and Boo Radley’s experiences have stolen away their innocence but changed their characters for the better.
The management of the therapist’s counter transference, through the containment of the group’s projections, is related to positive therapeutic outcome. Self-awareness and self-care are crucial in counter transference management. Regular consultation with a co-therapist or supervisor/consultant can also be very useful. (Association, 2007) I have found it very difficult to research the effectiveness of a non personalised induction in hypnotherapy as all the evidence shows that personalised inductions are far more effective, the only time that it would be difficult to produce a personalised script is if you were to hold a group session or produce a CD or video to focus on a certain situation such as to stop smoking, fear of spiders etc. Personalised inductions are more effective as they treat each person as an individual, in order to do this you need to assess the client, it is important that you have to try to find the most effective way to communicate with your client so that they get the most benefit from the session, in order to do this you need to take into account the clients modalities, explained below.
The scientific world is always trying to come up with ways to extend life and the quality of it. Technology has come up with a drug designed to slow down the process of death and the loss of brain function. The theory is if brain function can be preserved the drug will give the doctors more time to get the heart started again or perform other lifesaving procedures. This brings up the question “How do the doctors know when it is too late? “ This then becomes an ethical quagmire, where few doctors will fear to
McNally states, “some scholars argue, however, that diseases are socially constructed, not merely socially caused” (129). He is right in the fact that mental disorders are socially constructed and uses an array of examples from bulimia to post traumatic stress disorder to prove his claim. The two criteria that McNally uses to determine whether or not certain mental illnesses are socially constructed is if it has not been observed across different cultures and that it is not mentioned in historical records. When it comes to the mental illnesses of bulimia and anorexia, society has constructed them due to the Western ideology of body shape. One specific mental illness that McNally uses to show that it is socially constructed is bulimia nervosa.