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    CU261P Mood disorder: this is a group of diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV TR) which classifies mental health‚ this particular one is when a person’s mood is seen to be the underlying cause of mental health issues. This umbrellas a host of disorders‚ such as; Bipolar Disease (BD)‚ Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)‚ and also less severe depressions such as dysthymic or cyclothymic. Some mood disorders can be substance induced‚ (due to someone’s drug use)

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    In chapter one of The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald introduces the story using detailed imagery to create a mood for the book. The narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ just moved to West Egg‚ Long Island‚ a neighborhood of up and coming young‚ wealthy people. While Nick himself isn’t over the top wealthy‚ he can afford a modest house next door to Gatsby’s mansion. Since he is in New York now‚ Carraway goes to visit his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan at their posh home across the bay in East Egg

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    In the story‚ the adults in Paul’s life are seen to be extremely materialistic and this creates a distressed atmosphere in the house. Paul’s mother has an unquenchable desire for more money and this creates voids in the relationships with her children. Her feelings towards the children are shown when the reader is told‚ “She had bonny children‚ yet she felt they had been thrust upon her‚ and she could not love them.” (Lawrence 1). The mother was constantly thinking of ways to make more money because

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    The poem “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost encompasses a dialogue between the narrator and his neighbor in which they communicate their feelings about the continuous renovation of the stone wall that divides their properties. The overall poem has a simplistic tone with the internal thoughts of the narrator and the external dialogue of the narrator and the neighbor. The point of view of the narrator is clearly shown as he demonstrates his distaste for the walls renovations year after year. He claims

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    Ngoc (Lily) Le Abnormal Psychology Case Study #3 – Mood Disorders 29 May 2014 1. The different mood disorders that we explored together as a class are as following: depressive disorders and bipolar disorders. (I didn’t factor suicide into this.) Going into further detail‚ depressive disorders are the clarified grouping of individuals who have been identified to have unipolar depression. Having unipolar depression is when that same individual is in a mental state of depression without having shown

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    Tone and mood are very important features in poetry. In the poem‚ “The Raven‚” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ he uses lots of different types of figurative language to express the mournful tone. To begin‚ alliteration is a series of words that begin with the same consonant sound. To start with‚ in the second stanza‚ Poe states‚ Eagerly I wished the morrow;-vainly I had sought to borrow/From my books a surcease of sorrow-sorrow for the lost Lenore (Lines 9-10). First‚ Poe uses alliteration to surcease of Sorrow

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    of coloured lighting and ambient sound on mood. 48 psychology undergraduates‚ comprising of 38 females and ten males‚ took part in this study. This study is a 2x2 between subjects design. The coloured lightings used in this study are blue and yellow combined with the ambient sound of ‘city’ and ‘nature’ whereas mood was measured with the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). We discovered that coloured lighting had no significant effect on mood as opposed to our hypothesis. The results from

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    The term music reflects the mood of an age often used by many people who are attempting to decipher what exactly is occurring in the world today. In the past‚ we had all kinds of music created such as jazz‚ bebop‚ Rap‚ and R&B that has paved the way for the musical creations we enjoy today. Often we look into the past at huge artists such as Aretha Franklin‚ Shaka Khan‚ Prince‚ and James Brown who all broke barriers and made fantastic music in their eras‚ and wonder what went wrong. Although the

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    explain‚ or identify. Robert Louis Stevenson uses a mysterious mood In the book Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In order for the book to display this mood in his writing he uses imagery‚ diction‚ and details. Stevenson thought the theme up for this book in a nightmare and it certainly is one. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde could be described as mysterious‚ dark‚ dreary‚ and scary. This book uses imagery to create a very dark and mysterious mood. “lamp-lighted city‚ and at every street corner‚ crush a child and

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    Jack London’s short story “To Build a Fire” is an illustration of the mood loneliness. This mood is conveyed throughout the story by the dark and gloomy setting of the Yukon in the extreme cold temperatures. When the man is walking along the Yukon trail he stops at the top of the hill and examines the darkness in the sky‚ “there seemed to be an indescribable darkness over the face of things. That was because the sun was absent from the sky” (London‚ 64). The image of darkness canvassing the

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