The Ideal Society Reason vs. Emotions An ideal society is one in which people act together as one for the greater good of the society‚ rather than the individual. The question is: are people to look to their emotional or rational side in determining what to act upon? The obvious answer is reason. Where with reason‚ the answers are clear‚ emotions often cloud judgment. In a rational society‚ people know their place and their duty. For instance‚ a garbage collector may not enjoy the work
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Heather Dagley English 116-22 Professor L. Davis 22 April 2013 Discussion Paper Three In the short story “Volcano” (2012)‚ Lawrence Osborne argues the volcano parallels the life of the main character Martha. Osborne uses detail‚ emotion‚ and symbolism to support his claim. Throughout the story Osborne is descriptive when telling about Martha’s life and her surroundings. Martha see’s the color red many times like in her hotel room and in nature. The color red has many different
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experience of positive emotions. Life is hard‚ but experiencing positive emotions can become a stress-reducer‚ open our minds‚ build enduring resources‚ and improve our overall well-being. Negative emotions tend to narrow our thoughts to a limited set of possible actions that might be taken in response to an emotion-evoking situation (Baumgardner & Crothers‚ p41). Positive emotions contribute to enhancing our physical‚ psychological‚ and social resources. While negative emotions may compromise our
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than that. Invective poetry refers to vituperative or censoriously abusive poetry used to express blame or rebuke. "Sonnet 129" is a poem of mixed emotions and is not singularly invective. It expresses hate‚ but‚ underneath its loathing‚ lies layers of shame and madness. How the poem is set up is the main way the reader can see these underlying emotions. On the surface‚ Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 129" is an uniquely impersonal poem expressing a hate for lust. Though it is not explicitly sexual in this
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Simons feels powerful emotions and yet reaches a calm conclusion. The writer presents these in various ways. The writer starts off by two fairly long sentences‚ with a slow pace which reflects the calmness and tiredness felt by Simon. He uses words such as “grateful” which imply almost a pleasant tone in Simon. Both theses ways show the reader that Simon is clam‚ slow and not panicking‚ giving him a good mind to start with to make a serious decision. Simon is “suddenly” pulled several feel‚ just
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the whole family to die of shame. How could a brother kill his sister and feel no remorse? What emotions and feelings are involved in such a crime? How does society influence this type of behavior? There are many emotions‚ feelings‚ and moods involved in committing such an act; it is learned behavior from a collectivist society‚ doing what is best for the family as a whole‚ not the individual. Emotions are such feelings as fear‚ joy‚ anger‚ and guilt‚ with a physiological arousal component involved;
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This paper is on “Emotion Regulation and Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty” by Mircea Miclea‚ Andrei C. Miu‚ Renata M. Heilman‚ Liviu G. Crisan from Babes-Bolyai University‚ in Cluj-Napoca‚ Romania and Daniel Houser from George Mason University in Virginia‚ USA. The study was published in the American Psychological Association‚ 2010‚ Vol. 10‚ No. 2. It deals with emotion regulation (ER) tactics such as cognitive reappraisal and expression suppression and their effects on risk aversion and
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reasons below. People tend to bury their emotion because they do not believe that the others shall sympathize with them. In fact‚ humans usually have natural dread of revealing their deep psychological wounds since it is thought to make them become frail in eyes of other people. Some; thus‚ worry about being taken advantage as showing their sensitivity. Furthermore‚ a large number of folks also reckon the person they confide in can not understand their emotions; hence‚ they might be thought to be ridiculous
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assess and manage the emotions of one’s real self and of others. Our EQ‚ or ’Emotional Quotient’ ‚ is how one measures ’Emotional Intelligence’. Dealing with emotions is extremely important to our health. When we repress feelings‚ they will manifest‚ through illnesses such as depression‚ anxieties‚ panic and eating disorders‚ just to name a few. We must be honest about our feelings. Only then can we accept and manage them. Many people prefer to ignore their emotions‚ especially when it may
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said that having a successful life and a career will make you happy. Moreover‚ longitudinal studies shows that happiness precedes as well as follows success and many of the effects of positive emotions were parallel by experimental research that induced positive affect in well-controlled studies positive emotions seem to build people’s intellectual‚ psychological‚ and social resources that contribute to enhanced happiness‚ as well. Having success in life is an enjoyable thing when it is involving happiness
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