Essays Tagged: "numbness"
Children, TV, and Violence
es later. Or perhaps we don't even make any comments at all, just a simple grunt or '..huh..'. This numbness to violence is very scary and very real. Why is it then that America has the most crime and ... hy not Switzerland or Australia. Are we not as civilized and advanced as they? I believe it is this numbness to violence that has made America so violent.When I think back to my childhood and remember ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
Comparing Three short stories by James Joyce; Araby, Eveline and A Little Cloud
stories in Dubliners are often about the ways in which these individuals attempt to escape from the numbness and inertia that their lives yield, and the moments of painful self-realization that follow ... rt of Irish independence. Joyce subsequently incorporates the feelings of exhaustion, emptiness and numbness into his characters as a result of this political upheaval. "Araby", "The Dead" and "A Litt ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Psychoanalysis and Freud
A, an illness with physical symptoms that occurred in a completely healthy physical body--such as a numbness or paralysis of a limb or a loss of voice or a blindness--could be caused by unconscious wi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Keat's ode to a nightingale
how Keats heart ached for a close relationship with Fanny Brown. Then, Keats goes on to talk about numbness, this numbness can be taken in the sense that Keats was an apprentice to a surgeon and surg ... th the patient and they were also thought of as brutal and uncaring. Later on, Keats says that this numbness is a sort of poison (hemlock) for his senses, the numbness really is poison for his sense a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
Sylvia Plath's Poems "Tulips" & "Stings".
o an understanding of the mentality behind Plath's works.The first stanza in "Tulips" discusses the numbness the speaker is embracing while she lays "learning peacefulness" in the white hospital room. ... ful flowers makes the speaker feel inadequate, consequentially withdrawing her out of her catatonic numbness.The eighth stanza further discusses how the tulips disrupted the "coming and going" of the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
The theme of war guilt in Bernard Schlink's, "The Reader".
allegory for the collective guilt of ordinary Germans.Guilt is portrayed in the novel by a sense of numbness and isolation. Michael, along with the others at the trial, is numbed by the evils committe ... l, along with the others at the trial, is numbed by the evils committed in his country's name. This numbness is a symbol of the way ordinary Germans try to distance themselves from the 'monsters' who ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Reasons behind Salem Witch Accusations-bibliography included lucky reader
s, " Late stage signs and symptoms include not being able tocoordinate muscle movements, paralysis, numbness, gradual blindness and dementia," ( K. Holmes, pg. 1).Thisshows that Abigail was not jealou ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Grief
. Grieving is very complicated and personal. There are four steps involved in the grieving process: numbness, yearning, disorganization/despair, and resolution.The first phase in the grieving process ... just suffered the loss of a loved one may seem dazed and may feel a little emotion other than just numbness or emptiness. A lot of the time these individuals try to deny the death, firmly believing t ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Miners' Wives by Ben Shahn
t her husband. She stands off-center, not crying or hysterical, but with an expression of shock and numbness. This isn't the first time she's experienced this kind of pain. The presence of her mother ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art
Continuation of James Joyce's "Araby"
uld not answer. I was alone--free, yet paralyzed and purposeless. Every fibre of my body ached with numbness and I felt emptier than before. The image of my lady appeared in my mind, and my face flush ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
TV Violence and it's effecvt on children
utes later. Orperhaps we don't even make any comments at all, just a simple grunt or"..huh..". This numbness to violence is very scary and very real. Why is itthen that America has the most crime and ... Why not Switzerland orAustralia. Are we not as civilized and advanced as they? I believe it is thisnumbness to violence that has made America so violent.When I think back to my childhood and remember ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Prisoners of War - Chapter 25
re so crowded, and as he stopped at a red light suddenly felt his pills taking effect. The pleasant numbness he had felt this past week returned as any paranoia about the drugs sitting next to him dis ... ork full time."Mike nodded, but instead of stopping he continued to nod unable to stop as a wave of numbness passed through his body and he remembered the pills. Tony looked at him strangely. "You ok? ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Discuss the way in which the horror movies of the seventies were a direct comment on the Vietnam War, focusing specifically on "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "Last House On The Left"
in Vietnam. Commenting on how he drew on these experiences for his film work, Savini discusses the numbness he developed to photographing corpses and body parts, just before we are shown one of the p ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Write an analysis on 'Ode to a Nightingale', focusing on how Keats presents some of the ideas he was struggling with at the time.
the real and the unreal.The opening of the poem is very heavy and negative; 'my heart aches', with 'numbness pains my sense' making the reader think that it must be a very heavy pain to be felt when a ... ed (in a sort of prophetic irony) by the vague suggestions in the words "Lethe," "hemlock," "drowsy numbness," "poisonous," and "shadowy darkness"In the sixth stanza, Keats starts to distance himself ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
Discriptive essay on a day I will never forget
of the truck had turned into a crimson sea of red. The throbbing in my thigh had been replaced with numbness and nausea. As everything started to fade, I remember my cousin Joe saying over and over in ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays
Inevitable Death in John Keats' Works
Keats's was inspired by a singing bird. Keats starts off his poem with. "My heart aches, and drowsy numbness pains / My sense, as thought of hemlock I had drunk, / Or emptied some dull opiate to the d ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Repetitive Strain Injury.
f RSI include: (1) aching, (2) tenderness, (3) swelling, (4) pain, (5) crackling, (6) tingling, (7) numbness, (8) loss of strength, (9) loss of joint movement, and (10) decreased coordination in the i ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Why might women be somewhat more likely to have posttraumatic stress disorder than men?
minds, avoid situations that they associate with the trauma, become emotionally detached ("psychic numbness" or dissociation) and experience hyper-arousal, including an exaggerated startle response a ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
West Nile
ious signs of the virus; symptoms include coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, vision loss, numbness and paralysis. These symptoms usually last several weeks. Some of the effects may become pe ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Multiple sclerosis:
rity and specific symptoms of the disease cannot be predicted; symptoms may range from tingling and numbness to paralysis and blindness. MS is a devastating disease because people live with its unpred ... ."Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) is also helpful for dysesthesias. Areas of numbness should be inspected regularly to prevent injury and development of pressure ulcers. Skin sh ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases