The extremely large and descriptive book, “The way we never were” by Stephanie Coontz. She was born in late August 1944. She is an author, historian, and professor at Evergreen State College teaching history and family studies and was a Director of Research and Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families from 2001-2004. She has authored and co-edited many books about the history of the family and marriage including “The way we never were”, “The way we really are” and many more award winning books.…
The most destructive of all emotions, jealousy, can cause a person to enact revenge on the…
In the book The Leaving, I think the author, Tara Alterbrando, was trying to get the point across not to trust everyone you meet and to be aware of your surroundings. In this book, 6 kindergarteners were abducted and only 5 of them returned 11 years later with no memory of what happened to them. It turns out that their principal along with a scientist took them and tried to erase their memory of a school shooting. The experiment ended up lasting longer than expected and they had to keep the kids for 11 more years. People shouldn’t have trusted the principal and should’ve been paying more attention and been aware of the kids.…
Helpless, by Barbara Gowdy, was a well written novel which kept the reader interested right until the final page. Gowdy used descriptive language, suspense, and flashbacks to develop the theme that unrequited love lasts longer than love that is fulfilled. Gowdy used descriptive language well.…
In the text “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas, the author shows how racial injustice and death can change a person, especially seeing it happen right in front of you, through the struggle with identity, activism against social injustice, and the importance of relationships both positive and negative. Even though Starr has family and friends around her, attempting to make her feel better is still not enough. Two of her childhood friends lost their lives due to gun violence in Garden Heights, and her experiencing these tragic deaths right in front of her is traumatizing, which can cause a change in a person. Starr has two different “worlds” she lives in, Garden Heights is known for (in African American eyes); Racist cops, injustice, protesting,…
Most marriages are formed when two people love each other and share the same aspirations in life. Once couples are married their views begin to change. They realize that marriage is hard and after having kids it’s even harder. Hope Edelman, in her essay “The Myth of Co-Parenting: How It Was Supposed to be. How It Was,” feels frustrated with her husband because of his lack of participation in their marriage. On the other hand, Eric Bartels in his essay “My Problem with Her Anger,” is frustrated with his wife because she is angry with him all the time. Though these essays address marriage from both a male and female perspective, they both discuss idealistic views of marriage, lack of communication, blame, and how to fix their problem.…
In our humanity, violence is a great flaw. Violence is the reason why we humans caused suffering to this planet and to each other. Greed, revenge and envy are 3 of the 7 deadly sins that are most of the time expressed through violence. But at the very beginning of the sins, we started it through our anger that we cannot control. For example: revenge is caused by anger, envy is jealousy and greed can be caused by fear. Fear is an emotion that is used as basic survival mechanism, but has also proven that it can lead to an act of violence. The Bet by Anton Chekhov, the Hobbyist by Fredric Brown and Lock and Key by Rush have shown great example that emotional human behavior is one the greatest flaw of humanity.…
The plays Trifles by Susan Glaspell and Oedipus the King by Sophocles illustrate how uncontrolled emotions, such as fear, anger, embarrassment and can lead to bad consequences, including impulsive actions, destroying lives, and ultimately death. When reading these plays, the reader sees how detrimental negative emotions can be when it comes to the well-being of themselves and others that are in their lives. Not only can the lack of control of these emotions cause physical pain, but it can also cause emotional distress and also can cause distrust within relationships ultimately causing the relationships to be ruined. The reader is given good examples of cause and effect of how emotions can ruin a person’s life based off of how they are controlled. As humans we are all given emotions, and sometimes we are given challenges to test our emotional control, however it is only when we learn how to control them that we actually learn how to find happiness within ourselves.…
Able to control the emotions can hide the true feeling from someone, growing sensitivity and realise other feelings too…
Revenge is another way for someone to get justice on someone as shown in the article "Revenge: Will You feel Better" by Karyn Hall. All valid points which she states resonates with everyday people. Her main points were recreating trust, thinking rationally, and how revenge is hardwired in people's own nature. Recreating trust is important in someone's relationship, it's shows that they care about it otherwise without that trust in the relationship can go awry. In which they do not try to carry out revenge on that person who wronged them. Consequently some people are not in the right emotional place to make rational decisions, which results in someone making a decision they will regret. Revenge is hardware into humanity's brain, it's everywhere…
This reveals that when humans are put in stressful, intense situations they may react based off emotion rather than logically. It is human nature for someone to be spiteful if they feel they are justified. As well as if someone is hurt, they may attempt to make you feel the same as they do. Hamlet shows that it is human nature to make mistakes when going through a traumatic event, but there are consequences to the harsh decisions…
The play Hamlet by William Shakespeare illustrates how having a strong desire for revenge, changes a person. This message is expressed through the protagonist of the play, Hamlet, who is driven by the murder of his father, to take vengeance on the king. Throughout the story, Hamlet's character transforms from being hesitant to kill the king, to being a cold-blooded killer. Hamlet’s strong desire for revenge is ultimately the thing that ends up changing him for the worst.…
In the article, "Revenge: Will You Feel Better?" the author writes about why we seek revenge and how it will make us feel. The article shows how revenge is actually a very natural feeling for humans to express. The author includes, "revenge seems to be one of the deepest instincts we have." Revenge can tend to also be a feeling of jealousy, which everyone goes through as well. As for some people, jealously hits harder than others, it really depends on the persons natural emotions. The author also states the feeling of revenge could feel like a future safety blanket. The author implies, "establishing justice and that the threat of revenge may serve as a form of protection." Some people could seek to satisfy their need of revenge to end their…
Revenge causes one to act blindly through anger, rather than through reason. Fortinbras, Hamlet, and Laertes were all looking to avenge the deaths of their fathers.…
1. Feelings can affect the decision making of a person drastically. Sometimes this affect can be positives, whereas at other times it is not. The most common instance in which emotions can get the best of a person’s actions or decision making that I can think of is sports. In sports emotions can be both a positive and a negative when it comes to affecting decisions. Sometimes if the game is close, and emotions are high it can lead you to make a good, quick, muscle-memory like play that would be near impossible to complete if you just stepped on the field. Although at other times you let the emotions of a game get to you, and get inside of your head which causes you to make a poor decision. A common phrase you hear in sports is “He let his emotions get to him” usually when a player takes a cheap or dirty shot to an opposing player. This is a result of a player letting his emotions control his decision making. An example that was given in “How We Decide” by Jonah Lehrer was the pilot who during a flight simulation had his engine catch fire by his instructor. Inside the simulator his body and mind took control by making quick decisions realizing what was going on, twisting and tilting the wings as he watched his altitude drop before landing it with nothing but a rough stop. “By the time my ride was over my veins were full of adrenaline” (Lehrer xiii). Emotions helped this pilot in a positive was by giving him adrenaline and focus to safely maneuver and land the out of control plain. This was caused by his body releasing adrenaline out of his adrenaline glands. Emotions the pilot was feeling released this which caused the “flight or fight” decision where you either fight, or run. Adrenaline regulates your heart beat and makes your blood vessel bigger to carry more oxygen to your brain. This is an example of…