Analysis : Silver Linings Playbook

Dolores has checked out her adult son from a court ordered mental health facility from beating his ex-wife lover almost to death in their home. Pat Jr., a young adult, was diagnosed with bipolar behavior and has been currently seeing a psychologist. Pat Sr. was not included in this decision Dolores made, which has made him feel excluded from any decision making process. Dolores has always been the one to be compassionate and supportive with both her son and husband’s behavior issues. Dolores appears to be the glue that holds the family together.

Bill McClary, male, is twenty-five years old. He is unemployed, single, and has been living with his sister, Colleen, for eighteen months. She has noticed he had been acting peculiar as well as isolating himself from others. He spent most of his time daydreaming, talking to himself, and saying things that did not make any sense. His sister forced him into psychological treatment, because he had not been able to fit in with her family and was also worried about his affect on her three children. Growing up Bill was the youngest of four children. He grew up in New York City with his mother and father. Most of his family lived in Ireland. His father was a firefighter, and came across as harsh and distant to Bill. He was very close to his mother

Although Twyla and Roberta both struggled with mother issues, they develop different reactions yet similar solutions to their troubles. During her stay at the youth shelter,

He knows his mother is having a hard time and tries his best to do all

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford is a book mostly about self-reliance and maintaining friendship. One theme is self reliance because in the book, Henry is able to do what he think is right and he is able to make decisions without others influencing them. In the novel, Henry's Dad does not approve of Keiko because she is Japanese and he is Chinese. The father does everything that he can do to stop Keiko and Henry from continuing their friendship and crush. He goes to Henry and straight up forbids him to see her. Henry defies his father and continues to be with Keiko, causing his father to practically disown him, and forcing his mother to do the same. They did not communicate with one another for years, and right up

In Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, there are multitudes of social occasions on which a character can be changed as a result. One of these social occasions is when An-Mei’s mother commits suicide and dies in front of the household. As a result of her mother’s death, An-Mei realizes that she needs not suppress her sorrows and remain reticent as her culture defines it, but should develop and assert her own convictions. This event reinforces the message that tradition is vital for people to connect with each other, it is just as necessary for individuals to develop free thought. Tradition is vital for the initial growth of objectives and beliefs, but having tradition as a sole perspective will only come to eliminate autonomy and limit the maturity of ideas.

He believes he’s awful at sports. He broke one of his fingers playing basketball at his school’s gym. A few other things I learned about him is that his mom died by driving him to school. He was affected by this.

In the movie, Silver Linings Playbook, Pat Solitano Jr. is emotionally unstable and exhibits many of the signs and symptoms of an individual who has borderline personality disorder(BPD). For a brief overview, his marriage ends in shambles and throughout the movie, he tries his best to control his issues to win back his ex-wife, but on multiple occasions, he fails to keep himself intact.

Jeannette and her dad started to grow apart. He was always leaving and not really there for Jeannette and his family. He would leave for days and wasn’t really working. Jeannette started to learn that his dad’s actions weren’t really smart. She started to see his lack of responsibility and what his actions are doing and what they lead to. She knew that her father had a drinking problem and would always go to the bar. Jeannette realizes that Rex keeps letting her down because he still continued to drink and gets drunk. Jeannette was at a breaking point and she asked her mom to leave her father. But her father still has his moments when they would still bond together when she is older .Every birthday he would give her a star and she would love it. But at the end of the day, Jeannette loved her

Similar to Ah-so is my father; he's very stubborn and hard to persuade. He believes that because of his experiences, hardships, and proud family legacy

The film I chose to analyze is Silver Linings Playbook because I was interested in the story when I read the synopsis of the movie. I thought that this would be a simple movie where the main characters would help each other because they had something in common. Reading the synopsis, I also thought that Pat would be back together with his wife, but at the end he found another love. In the next paragraphs I will show my knowledge on what I have learned this semester. On my analysis of Silver Linings, I will give examples that has the concept of language, nonverbal communication, listening, emotions, conflict, and close relationships.

When I had a basketball game I made 2 free through in a row and my game score was 6 points in one game and my mom was happy that I made 8 points in one game.Then the next game we won so that made my Team happy because we are 1-0 so that makes us Under feted and then we lost the next 3 games by 10 points.

These Happy Golden Years is a delightful book about Laura Ingalls Wilder and her life when she is fifteen and sixteen. Throughout the book she faces many obstacles that she has to overcome. In the beginning of the book, Laura is going to teach at the Brewster claim in a shanty that is cold and poorly built. While at the Brewster claim, she will meet Almanzo Wilder. Laura will have many struggles at the Brewster claim, but she overcomes them all.

Levy’s “When good teams go wrong” is a great example of the saying “show me a messed up team and I’ll show you a messed up leader.” There are a great deal of learning that can be done from this situation however the majority of the problem was not caused by mistakes, it was caused by ignorance. In my experience I have found that it is much easier to teach people, and teams to overcome mistakes than it is to teach ignorant people to do things right. The major issue that I noticed during the reading is that the supposed leaders, or managers in the big picture had a self-serving agenda, and were in positions with potentially high turnover rates (politicians). So my question is, why do we put organizations that require management to develop, understand, and implement an unending operation plan under the supervision of short term elected officials?

Some 82,000 individuals gathered at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on Sunday for Harvest America, an annual evangelistic event in which Pastor Greg Laurie of the Harvest Crusades speaks on the gospel. Hundreds of thousands more tuned into the event via livestream or radio / TV broadcasts, according to the organizers, and the event was remotely hosted in over 7,200 locations.