avoid activities‚ places‚ or people that might be associated with the trauma. 5. An inability to remember important aspects of the traumatic event. 6. Decreased interest or participation in certain activites. 7. Feelings of detachment or estrangement from others. 8. The inability to have certain feelings. 9. A sense that time is short‚ and there is no future. 10. Difficulty concentrating. 11. Hyper-vigliance. Who gets PTSD? PTSD can happen to anyone at any age. Children get PTSD
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Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy chronicles the life of the protagonist‚ Lucy‚ over her first year in America as an au pair. The author herself came to America as an au pair. Kincaid originally published the novel as installments in the New Yorker; the novel is arranged into five episodic chapters. Lucy narrates her story by interspersing flashbacks‚ dreams‚ and internal dialogue. The product is a nonlinear narrative that flows smoothly between past and present because of the strength of Lucy’s voice and Kincaid’s
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Modern Day Discrimination Gender inequality is the most important issue society faces today. This is the unfair difference in the way people are treated based on their gender. There are many places where this injustice occurs. The most detrimental is where people spend a large portion of their time‚ which is the workplace. The workplace must not be viewed as only a traditional job‚ but also things such as being a wife or a mother. Society must improve gender equality in the workplace in order for
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In a continuous essay of not more than 1‚000 words‚ analyse this passage‚ discussing how narrative voice and dialogue are important elements in the creation of meaning in the passage. Throughout the passage from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice‚ the author provides many ways to establish the creation of meaning through the use of dialogue and narrative voice. Austen allows the reader insight into the nature of the characters by us of dialogue‚ in which we see how the characters interact with
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Writing From/About the Exile: Joanna Russ’s Utopia The Female Man " Culture is male. This does not mean that every man in Western or Eastern) society can do exactly as he pleases‚ or that every man creates the culture solus‚ or that every man is luckier than every woman. What it does mean…is that the society we live in is a patriarchy. And patriarchies imagine or picture themselves from the male point of view. There is a female culture‚ but it is an underground‚ unofficial‚ minor culture‚ occupying
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of plagiarism. Like Laforgue‚ Eliot uses dialogue between men and women that doesn"t seem to communicate a thing. Other author"s had an influence on Eliot as well‚ like Henry James and Joseph Conrad. All of these poet"s had the common themes of estrangement from people and the world‚ isolationism‚ and the feeling that they were failing to articulate their thoughts (Bergonzi 7‚ 50‚ Cuddy 30‚ Mack 1743‚ Martin 41‚ Unger 8) . Henry James influence on Eliot"s poetry is evident in the Jamesian qualities
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SS 2029 Basic Sociology 2011-2012 (Semester A) Individual Term Paper CHEUNG Kai-HO (52596777) 7. According to Marx‚ how does capitalism alienate workers? How did Marx feel that workers could overcome their alienation? 1. Abstract Alienation‚ a term used to describe the feeling of no connection with others or the separation from former attachment. When it comes to sociologist aspect‚ especially on Marxism‚ this term describes the stage of losing one’s identity. To Karl Marx’s belief
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Operation Market Garden The date was September 17th 1944‚ America and allied forces decided to conduct a two stage operation called “Market Garden”. At the time this was to be the largest airborne attack with up to 34‚ 000 men to complete the attack. Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery was newly promoted on September first and believed that one big push was the way to end the war. He constructed a plan to have Soldiers from Lieutenant General Lewis Brereton’s First Allied Airborne Army to drop
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without the traditional feeling of mutual affection which could only be created by longtime apart. But several decades ago‚ people treasured their friends and maintained relatively close interpersonal relations‚ which is much more enjoyable than the estrangements we are experiencing. The last factor that has made our age so uncomfortable is the abusive use of technology. Although it brings much convenience‚ it essentially changes human – we are no longer the master of tools‚ but instead the slaves of
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phrases such as ‘dillybag’ and ‘corroboree” emphasise the barrier between ‘Then’ and ‘now’ – the traditional way and the ‘white way’ as many who read those words do not understand their importance furthering herself from modern society. While estrangement leads to a diminished sense of self‚ a true sense of belonging empowers an individual. On the contrary to these ideas of alienation‚ Noonuccal speaks emotively of her
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