Escape In The Gulag

Anxiety is defined as the body’s natural response to danger, an automatic alarm that goes off when you feel threatened, under pressure, or are facing a stressful situation. A little bit of anxiety can actually help a person stay attentive and on track. If we did not feel a certain level of pressure at a job or school, then perhaps we wouldn’t care about it as much. We might slack or leave a few loose ends that may cause us to fall behind. A little bit is actually beneficial, but unfortunately there are people who have to deal with anxiety as part of a mental illness or disorder. There are different types of anxiety which include: general anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and social phobia.

The Great Terror was one of the single greatest loss of lives in the history of the world. It was a crusade of political tyranny in the Soviet Union that transpired during the late 1930’s. The Terrors implicated a wide spread cleansing of the Communist Party and government officials, control of peasants and the Red Army headship, extensive police over watch, suspicion of saboteurs, counter-revolutionaries, and illogical slayings. Opportunely, some good did come from the terrors nonetheless. Two of those goods being Sofia Petrovna and Requiem. Both works allow history to peer back into the Stalin Era and bear witness to the travesties that came with it. Through the use of fictional story telling and thematic devises Sofia Petrovna and Requiem, respectively, paint a grim yet descriptive picture in a very efficient manner.

Anxiety: The inward fear of a pending danger which is associated with phobia, and could be exhibited physiologically (Increased; Blood Pressure, Respiratory rate) and/or psychologically (agitation, insomnia, confusion). As humans, we suffer mild anxiety once awhile when we encounter a stressor and that does not require any attention but it becomes a problem when it turns chronic.

The definition of anxiety are a group of mental illness that cause people to feel excessively frightened, distressed, or uneasy. If it’s not treated within a person, it can lead to an affect on daily activities such as shopping, or going outside can be extremely difficult. In the past,

One of the most brutal mistakes made by Stalin was the creation of a GULAG. It is difficult to give a precise characterization of its purpose. The aim of this work is to answer the question, “Can we generalize why certain people were able to survive the Gulag more than others?” To survive the Gulag, many prisoners had to fight with others for food, shelter, and simple medical care. Certain prisoners went into religious and intellectual meditations to preserve at least the appearance of intelligence. The survival required willpower, strength of mind, skills, mercilessness, and a lot of luck.

Anxiety is losing yourself from reality and being disconnected from the present moment,other people, and yourself. It can keep you from doing things you want to accomplish in life. Achieving your goals is tough enough, but if you suffer from anxiety it becomes even more difficult. I was spending every day worried about how

Traumatic life experiences can have a variety of effects on a person, like constant flashbacks, PTSD, or depression. But very difficult life or death experiences can also seriously change a person’s personality. In Maus, Art Spiegelman explores how living through the Holocaust affects his father’s personality and personal relationships. By showing us Vladek’s story in both the past and the present, we get to see his experiences in the Holocaust changed who he is as a person thirty years later. On the surface, modern-day Vladek appears to be an uptight, miserly, crotchety old man, but by examining how his experiences in the Holocaust and what he had to in order to survive, we can see how they continue

Life for citizens under Stalin’s rule was ruthless. Stalin’s policies and ideas proved that he probably was not a competent leader, which is why he resorted to full-blown communism or “Stalinsm.” Freedom was an idea dangled in front of citizens, but never was a real option. Stalin relied on fear and empty promises. Life under Stalin is interpreted different for everyone due to status and the classes they were divided into, but it was all about censoring them. Multiple sources support that life under Stalin’s rule was not the idea life style and the people did not always agree with Stalin himself, unless they benefited from his rule, but that is debatable as well.

The prisons we typically think of in modern American society are distinctly and majorly different from the Stalinist labor camp Ivan Denisovich Shukhov presides in the book, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, but all prisons have four major purposes. These purposes are retribution, incapacitation, deterrence, and rehabilitation. By rating the prison camp that Shukhov resided in for 3,653 days, a greater understanding of the negative impact placed on Shukhov can be granted. Before stating how well the specific prison camp followed each of these purposes, I will first go into further detail into what each of these purposes includes in order to provide a rubric when grading the Stalinist prison camp.

When Vladek goes to the camps he is loses complete controlled. He is given a uniform. He is taken to shower. He lost all control in this camp. But again, he tries to regain control. He becomes a language teacher to one of the guards. he gets fed great. The guard allows him to get new clothes that fit him. he no longer must wear what is getting thrown at him. He is allowed to get his friend new shoes. One of the best perks of the job is that he gets to know where to stand in line when they pick up who they are taking to kill. These little things make a big difference for him. This makes him feel like he has control. Even though he in all reality has very little control by him doing these little things and being able to make his life and the people he cares about lives better make him feel like he has control over the tragic camps.

Pierce took her diary entries and letters and created the book: Trapped in “Black Russia” , explains the side of the war about being American in the Soviet Union during the months of June to November of 1915. Pierce explained her horrors of seeing the death in the streets, the Jewish detention camp, and seeing the Governor of Kiev send his things away before his people, in the rush to get away from the advancing German lines. Peter, who was a significant other in Pierce's life, helped her during her time of her arrest. Pierce managed to keep her humanity, feeling sympathy to all no matter their religion or race, as her time in Kiev grew longer. When on the train going away fro Kiev, Pierce did not feel relief or joy, just contemp, knowing her

Vladek and Anja, their family member almost dead during the Holocaust, they were the lucky people. Their life should be happiness, but Anja suicided ten years later because she can’t stand the psychological shadow of the Holocaust. Anja’s death made him feel lonely and helpless. Later, he had the second marriage with Mala. But he always thinks Mala never love him, the reason that made her married with him was just for getting money from Vladek. It is shown that Vladek doesn't trust people, he thought that people approach him just for his money. He became to questioning life. This psychological effect from the life during the Holocaust, the people who helped him hide was just for his money. “Such traumatic experiences can lead to difficulty with social adjustment and difficulty trusting others”(Kaplan). And he didn’t believe that he can’t trust anyone after the Holocaust, his suspicious made Mala tried to leave him. As a survivor, Vladek very treasures the food, he likes to save food although it already goes bad. Because during the life in the Auschwitz, and on the way to back to Germany, Vladek can’t get enough food to eat, he even ate snow to keep alive. After he got to another camp, the Jews were too sick, they can’t get up. They got food and ate so fast, Vladek was too weak to eat, so he saved it because he knew that food is very precious, he must save it for his later life. The starvation during the

In Psychopathology of Concentration Camp Survivors, Trautman discusses how the manifestations of the “survivor’s syndrome” are related to the “immediate effects and adaptive reactions the victims manifested in the original situation of acute stress and terror.” (124) One of these manifestations is anxiety, which manifests itself in the form of panic, distrust, social isolation, obsessive compulsion, and irritability in response to events that could be seen as “an imaginary reproduction of the persecution memories.” (126) Artie illustrates some of these irritabilities in an attempt to understand from what perspective Vladek has, as opposed to himself. Comparing to other survivors, he even notices that “lots of the people [at the resort] are survivors—like those Karps—if they’re whacked up it’s in a different way from Vladek.” (Maus II, 22) Before the war, it may have been possible that Vladek was already having problems, such as when he noticed Anja’s pills. (Maus I, 19) In this manner, it is completely possible for obsessive-compulsive disorder to be amplified by catastrophe, but what series of events could cause this? What could cause Vladek to be concerned about counting

Vengeance is another problem, and it is the enemy of forgiveness because it cannot protect you and your way toward justice. Likewise, hatred is a snowball running down the hill, spins, and freezes everything inside. In any case, I think that forgiveness is a goodness break to stop the forth and back of any hate crime. However, the Gulag camps is an ideology crime, but there are numerous direct culprits involved. Many of them are following the orders because they are poor and not educated. Close to the Gulag camps, all the victims and direct perpetrators are in one barbarity machine. Although inside the camp, the position of the culprits may be better than the victims, many agree that all of them adequately suffer. But, anyhow, I think understanding

Anxiety can be a very serious (disease/disorder) it is simply defined as an abnormal fear or tension which can occur without any obvious trigger or session; a recurrence, unwelcome and intrusive thought. Anxiety can also be defined as a subjective state of fear or tension. There are two types of anxiety, anxiety can provide signals that alert the body to trigger it to improve mental and physical performance