Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon History Oh Hiroshima1 is written to show Keiji Nakazawa’s own ideas on peace and how the world needs to live peacefully together. The story is about Keiji’s alter ego Gen’s life before the atomic bomb was dropped on his hometown of Hiroshima. Gen and his family are poor civilians living in Hiroshima who are under the constant burden of the town officials, the citizens of the town, and the hunger that plagues all of them. When Gen’s father is accused of being a traitor to the Japanese government life for them gets even tougher. When the bomb drops at the end of the story all that are left is Gen, his mother, and his newly born baby sister. Gen has to face the harsh realities of war at a very young age and has to become the man his father wanted him to be. Barefoot Gen is written as a first hand account about what civilian life was like for the people of japan during World War II. Also there are many themes in this book including power, and loyalty. Each one is shown by either the Japanese Government or by Gens own family. Also symbolism plays a big part in this story like the name Keiji picked for himself, the wheat that Gen and his family grow, and the sun that appears in the book many times.…
As we read this article, we see the Nacirema as a masochistic culture which gave their possessions for the chance to be treated with rituals they felt purified the body, mind and soul. This was achieved through the treatment and advice of the medicine men, holy mouth men or the listener. When they followed through with the rituals, it was thought…
Fear of people in Hyoscyamus patients is primarily related to jealousy and suspicion. This two emotions motivate much of the Hyoscyamus behaviour. It may start as a jealousy about the spouse but it quickly turns into suspicion about strangers that leads to obsessive thinking and eventually results in a paranoidal state. As a suspicion takes over Hyos. patients greatly suffer from many fears. They fear to be alone but at the same time they want company because the active imagination make them believe that strangers will poisoned them or they will be sold or murdered.…
Abnormality is deviating from what is considered the normal or usual behaviour as a society, normal is a statistical standard defined by what society are managing and what society considers socially acceptable or deviant or what the standard of adequate functioning meaning are they capable to cope with everyday life? There is a concept of ideal mental health this is a state of contentment we all strive to achieve. Abnormal behaviour can be understood by the biological and psychological models of abnormality these consider explanations to why people suffer with mental illness; mental illness is defined by a condition which causes serious disorder in a person’s behaviour or thinking, the…
• In the example of a child who fears doctors, what label would you give to the presence of the…
In Mike Davis’s, Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster, he analyzes the patterns and trends of Southern California’s environment. Through his research, Mike Davis explains how the history of Southern California’s environment proves that California is uninhabitable. However, over the last century there have only been two earthquakes and no one hundred plus year droughts. Leading to the question, how has man made it possible to live in such an environment?…
One biological therapy for phobic disorders is chemotherapy. Drug therapies include Anti-Anxiety drugs, Beta blockers and Antidepressants. They aim to alter abnormal behaviour by intervening directly in bodily processes (helps with the symptoms).Those that experience psychological problems or show disturbed behaviour patterns go to their family doctors. The first line of treatment is medical. Drug therapies are most common for treatment for phobias.…
Most living things, be it a human or an animal, are afraid of what they do not know. In…
Growing up in Houston I could see a business man full of success and then I would move my eyes away from him, to see a homeless man barely making it by all on the same street. It is sad that in order to live you have to focus on gaining a green piece of paper.…
Fear of people in Lycopodium is related to the feeling of a cowardice. In the beginning of the pathology, Lycopodium patients display a great lack of self- confidence, enormous inability of fulfilling their life responsibilities and a great sense of inferiority. Because of this inner weakness, they fear that other people will notice it and they compensate for it by creating the world where they surround themselves with people whom they don't have to fear but in the fact, who fear them. They enclose themselves with people who boost their ego and never contradict them. With the progression of the pathology, Lycopodium patients become more and more dictatorial, tyrannical and controlling that lead them to become more terrified, petrified and…
It makes sense that Congress was hesitant about impeaching the president. Impeachment was a new process. Actually, some could consider impeachment to still be a new process in the present day because no president has been fully impeached yet. However, even though impeachment could still be seen as a new process, the checks and balances of present day are more well development. I also hope that if this situation happened in present day, citizens would take a…
Phobic disorders are classified as one of the most common of all anxiety disorders; they are a persistent and unreasonable fear of a particular object, activity, or situation. Many people who suffer from this disorder know that the fears they have, are excessive and unreasonable and, the feared object can usually determine how much it affects a persons functioning. Although, anyone can develop a phobic disorder, it is found more commonly in women than in men. Phobic disorders are broken up into three categories; simple phobias, social phobias, and agoraphobia.…
After watching the video on aversion therapy, a form of physical therapy, I feel as though we have stepped back in time. Going back to when mental institutions were flourished with different types of “treatment” that many patients have experienced, such as electroshock therapy, ice baths, etc. In my opinion, if a person is clearly not permitting to such painful physical approach, it is considered torture. Forcing someone to wear an electroshock device against their will so that you can prevent them from hurting themselves or others is absolutely inhumane.…
Aversion therapy is a form of behavior modification that employs unpleasant and sometimes painful stimuli in an effort to help a patient unlearn socially unacceptable or harmful behavior. The first recorded use of aversion therapy was in 1930 for the treatment of alcoholism, but by the 1950s and 1960s it had become one of the more popular methods used to "cure" sexual deviation, including homosexuality and sex offending.…
According to the DSM-V, specific phobias are types of anxiety disorders caused by an excessive and persistent fear due to the presence or anticipation of a certain object or situation (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Specific phobias are considered to fall under the category of anxiety disorders due to the severe anxiety and distress that one experiences from their extreme fear. Symptoms vary depending on the type of phobia that exists, but fears generally last 6 months before they are considered to be a phobia. Various types of phobias fall under specific phobias including animal types, the environment, blood-injection injury and situational types. This paper deals with spider phobia, otherwise known as arachnophobia.…