Short Essay The Vietnam War started in 1945‚ resulting in almost 60‚000 American deaths and nearly two million Vietnamese deaths‚ according to Mintze. Years after combat countless Vietnam veterans suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder in every aspect of their lives (Price). Posttraumatic stress disorder is an illness that can happen to anyone who has gone through a horrifying experience. It has been documented in all forms of literature and films the brutality of the war and the side
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I attended a soup kitchen for the homeless at a Hospitality Center located at the Charles Town Presbyterian Church and also a fundraiser event to benefit the Jefferson County Homeless Coalition. At the soup kitchen‚ I helped volunteer’s setup tables and chairs for prospective patrons to dine. Guests had formed a line outside the doors of the church and waited patiently to be admitted. Once dining hours commenced‚ volunteers welcomed guests to be seated. Upon entering the building and finding a seat
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LAND OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE HOMELESS In this article by Shaunna Miller‚ We learn about the American service members who have unfortunately committed suicide. Yearly‚ more than 6‚500 service members lose their lives due to suicide cases. What most individuals fail to realize is that the number by far exceeds that of those soldiers killed in both Afghanistan and Iraq combined over the last six years. Even those who are against the idea of committing suicide are at high risks of meeting another
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572 of those disabled are military men and women who have lost a major limb and are now amputees. I cannot imagine getting deployed to a foreign country to fight for my own only to return a double amputee without the capability to walk along with PTSD because of how traumatizing the whole experience was. The cost they pay is by far one of the most honorable sacrifices made to our
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“You felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road”; Diagnosing Holden with PTSD in Catcher in the Rye Lexie He lived everyday not knowing when his little brother’s time was going to come. He knew it was soon‚ but just not that soon. Holden Caulfield‚ the protagonist in “The Catcher in the Rye”‚ by J.D. Salinger‚ seemed to have an ordinary life‚ until he watched his little brother‚ Allie‚ suffer from Leukemia. This traumatic event heavily affected Holden’s life. Most people that
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The Homeless Billionaire Nicholas Berggruen is a businessman who chooses to live simple life‚ and he started out with a trust fund of $250‚000.00. According to his privately held holding company’s annual revenue of $5 billion throws off $250 million in earning each year. He has a personal worth of $2.5 billion. Not too simple in my opinion. Nicholas Berggruen spends his life turning companies around‚ donating and offering help to worthy projects. He travels the world in his private jet
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In the face of abrupt danger‚ it is common to want to escape from the surroundings. Today‚ the results of Vietnam have scared many loyal soldiers who now suffer from PTSD. The events of the Vietnam war are rarely spoken of by vets and still affect many individual’s views of America today. The way the soldiers were treated after the war has gone down in history as one of the most dishonorable acts against our troops
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PTSD is sometimes known as a normal reaction to abnormal events. It was not noticed by the medical community until the 1970s‚ during the Vietnam War. Originally diagnosed in veterans during 1955-1975 It was then first defined as a disorder in 1980. Post-traumatic stress disorder is now recognized in civilians of rape‚ or other criminal assaults‚ natural disasters‚ train collisions‚ aircraft crashes‚ or acts of terrorism such as child abuse. In the early nineteenth century‚ soldiers were diagnosed
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Introduction The main goal for our lesson plan was to educate the class on the treatment of war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental or psychological illnesses. We focused on how it was then to how it is now. As we did our research we found that all other mental or psychological illnesses that war veterans could possibly have all fall under the post-traumatic stress disorder category. Not a lot of people even know what post-traumatic stress disorder is‚ and those that do
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2012 Judging the Homeless Mother Teresa once stated‚ “We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry‚ naked‚ and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” People are progressively being victimized for being homeless. Anna Quindlen‚ 1992’s Pulitzer Prize winner‚ for her New York Times column‚ “Public and Private”‚ evaluates the life of a homeless woman in her essay‚ “Homeless” (1998). She
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