Essays Tagged: "human psyche"
A Clockwork Orange: Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish
by Anthony Burgess. Stanley Kubrick is known to critics as a film maker who probes the dark side of human psyche. Kubrick has also directed films such as Dr. Strangelove, The Shining, and Full Metal J ... ing the content of this heinous video? I wholeheartedly believe the answer to this question is yes. Human life is worth much more than one man's sarcastic dissertation on violent crime. What wi ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Innocense of a child. Refers to 'The Child by Tiger', by Thomas Wolf and 'Tears, Idle Tears', by Elizabeth Bowen. Talks about how both use different writing techniques to develop their themes
Many writers have found writing about the human psyche very interesting. The story, 'The Child by Tiger', by Thomas Wolf, is about an African ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"Lord Of The Flies" by Golding Viewing the various aspects of the island society .
island of marooned youngsters then becomes amacrocosm, wherein the island represents the individual human and thevarious characters and symbols the elements of the human psyche. As such,Golding's worl ... human psyche. As such,Golding's world of children's morals and actions then becomes a survey ofthe human condition, both individually and collectively.Almost textbook in their portrayal, the primary ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Lord of the Flies" by Sir William Gerald Golding
What Makes Those X-Men So Darn Great? A personally opinionated paper
y tell a story and fit it all in the allotted number of pages. The stories oftenprobe deep into the human psyche, questioning what is right and what is wrong orshowing human frailty. That is not all. ... ther aroundsomewhere.The X-Men are all mutants, Homo Sapien Superior, the next evolutionary step forhuman beings, a minority group of people with a genetic quirk, an "X-Factor" that grantsthem extraor ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
A Shift in the Balance of Good and Evil Reveals the Dark Side of Man... covers Poe's Madness & Literary Genius
riumphing over good. Poe creates characters that allow the readers to see into the dark side of the human psyche. This is especially true in three of Poe's short stories. Poe had an incredible insight ... feel that they are "victims of perverseness." Perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart (The Black Cat, 2). Each character believes that the evil crimes they commit are of no c ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Adolescent Depression.
Depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tend to act and react abnormally toward others and the ... t paced for them. Teachers and administrators often underestimate the importance of the dynamics of human interactions when conducting organizational behaviors. Educators need to be aware of the symbo ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
Compare and contrast the Psycoanalitic Theory with the Behaviorist Theory
ed his Psychodynamic approach. These perspectives states, that there are three main sections to the human psyche. The first is the "ID" this is the natural drive, which seeks gratification constantly, ... dden, unconscious, and suppressed longings that Freudians attributed to behaviours and posited that humans respond to punishments and rewards. Behaviour that creates positive responses is reinforced a ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
A summer reading essay on the Picture of Dorian Gray
f Dorian Gray, Wilde was made an outcast of society. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde explores human the human psyche when it comes to dealing with being different and the enemy of old age and de ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Compare/contrast essay for Peter Shaffer's "Equus" and Joseph Conrads "Heart of Darkness".
ental differences in these characters. The role of Marlow as the rescuer of Kurtz from the abyss of humanity's darkness parallels the function of Dysart as the savior of Alan from the darkness of the ... r, with both of them acting as a rescuer who must retrieve a lost being from the darkest crevice of human nature. The dark beings of Kurtz and Alan symbolize the truth that society is not ready for, a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"Music is purely for relaxation." Do you agree?
ions.Music is a sine qua non in a man's life and has an amazing power. It works miracles on the human psyche. Music has the ability to alter the brain chemistry. That's why music is important for ... refreshed.Though lots of people consider music as a medium of relaxation, it is often used for human solidarity. Music is not an end in itself. It is a means to an end. Music is the best way to d ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
This is a journal essay i did in psychology on adolescent depression and risk factors.
ion And Risk FactorsAdolescent Depression And Risk FactorsDepression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted act and reach abnormally toward others and themselves. ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide
Socrates' opinion of death and the afterlife.
better lot is known to no one, except the god. (42a)Fear of the unknown is a phobia inherent to the human psyche; we are often dually terrified and fascinated with that which we cannot explain or unde ... st hand without lethal consequences, a topic on which no one can rightly claim to be an expert. Yet human beings, in our attempt to explain the inexplicable, have created innumerable belief systems, o ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
Where is Psychoanalytic Criticism coming from? And What does that mean?
y. Psychoanalytic criticism provides a stimulating approach to literary analysis that holds that we humans are complex yet somewhat understandable creatures who often fail to note the influence of the ... t the root of their problems was psychological, not physical. Freud developed various models of the human psyche that became the changing bases of his psychoanalytic theory and practice. The first one ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics
Depression in adolescent.
Depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tends to act and react abnormally toward others and th ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
The Scarlet Letter: A Psychological Analysis.
ons, creating an intense psychological drama. Nathaniel Hawthorne attempted to open a window to the human psyche during the novel to show that humans deal with emotional tumult in complex ways.Probabl ... e impulse, and sat erect, pale as death..."However, Hawthorne is showing the positive tendencies of human behavior. He does this by displaying that humans have a conscience; morals; a sense of what's ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Adolescent Depression - The Under Acknowledged Disease.
Depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tends to act and react abnormally toward others and th ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
Adolescent Depression: The Under Acknowledged Disease
Depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tends to act and react abnormally toward others and th ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide
Use Mind Over Passions to View Milton's Satan in Book Nine of Paradise Lost This was an essay included with an oral report.
his offspring, evil, and cultivating its growth throughout mankind. Together Adam and Eve represent humankind in Paradise Lost. In life, they represent the whole of the human psyche, Adam is Reason an ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Compare "Apocalypse Now" to Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness". How effectively has the director captured the central themes?
stomed man in exposure to foreign cultures and savagery play key roles in the way of portraying the human psyche. All America contributed to the making of Colonel Kurtz, just as all Europe produced Mr ... s in Vietnam and the Colonials in Africa. The development in both stories being that deep down, all humans are essentially the same. With enough exposure to man's primordial origin and the discovery o ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Adolescence
h a depression.By analyzing depression, we will find that depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tends to act and react abnormally toward others and hi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology