Personal Narrative-Traumatic Conflicts

self-reflecting papers during my college years, I have personally felt the positive outcomes that speaking and writing about oneself have as a beneficial coping mechanism. Psychologist James W. Pennebaker, proposed experiments and ideas of how to navigate the traumatic emotional rollercoasters one undergoes in a lifetime through expressive writing, and shows that expressive writing is beneficial to everyone. There have been numerous studies over time, attempting to support psychologist James W. Pennebaker’s idea

Garrett Chu Professor Mary Zanfini Expository Writing 101 28 November 2014 Paper 5 Narratives and story-telling act as entertaining, yet persuasive methods of conveying experiences that possess traits related to most people 's lives. A common trait shared among people during sessions of story-telling or narratives is trauma. Within stories, conflicts such as trauma attract listeners because intrinsically, people find comfort for themselves in empathizing or sympathizing. Along with vivid imagery

collective trauma, and traumatic incidents on a larger scale, such as the Kobe earthquake in "After the Quake". This focus insists upon the importance of the social and political context of events in shaping individual's lives. In "The God of Small Things", the construction of the narrative and personal lives of the characters attempt to represent trauma and its aftermath, in which sensations, memories, and scenes bleed into each other. Throughout the novel, a number of narrative threads weave in and

study of Shepard (2013), the author really takes a look at a organizational group of workers and the stress that they experience within this field. For example, Shepard (2013) looks at health care, harm reduction, and human services workers and the traumatic stress that they experience working with the pain and struggles of their clients. Within the human services field, workers can deal worth homelessness, drug uses, and people diagnosed with terminal illnesses. Shepard (2013) uses this study to review

that people were born as a blank sheet, and later society and the environment influence their characters and attitudes as good or bad. In Rousseau 's state of nature, people do not know each other to begin serious conflicts, and they have normal values. Kathe Callahan in "War Narratives: Framing Our Understanding of

Presented in an engaging and intensely graphic visual style, Waltz with Bashir uses the medium of fluid animation to present layers of history and effectively communicate concepts surrounding how we deal with trauma. Often referencing traumatic events that which current society did not encounter directly themselves, Waltz with Bashir triumphs in the struggle against ethical and visual implications of animated form, evoking a strong emotional response in its visual style. A vector based, frame by

and move forward, however, some children may experience more extreme traumatic events that can result in life difficulties due to serious trauma symptoms that are much harder to manage. Trauma-Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is an evidence based treatment model designed to help youth who have experienced a significantly traumatic life event. TF-CBT uses skills and strength based therapy to address symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and anxiety (Cohen et al, 2006).

subjective matter that involves the conflict between the preservation of historical authenticity and the author’s narrative techniques such as emplotment and figuration. Several theorists, including Hayden White, Barbara Foley, and Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, discuss this issue in relation to the Holocaust. They comment on the effectiveness of various narrative

It was 1963, eighteen years since the end of a conflict considered by many to be the deadliest in human history. The European continent, struggling to adapt to a postwar world, began experiencing shifts in the international balance of power; shifts that resulted in the seemingly invulnerable colonial system falling victim to numerous episodes of unrest and innumerable efforts at decolonization. One such effort took place in the French military colony of Algeria, beginning in 1954 with a socialist

Sarah Richards Post Traumatic Stress Disorder March 9, 2015 SW 612 Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that may develop after an exposure to a terrifying event in which physical harm occurred or was threatened. Usually, the anxiety may be brought on by an “exposure to an actual or threatened death, serious injury or sexual violence “(American Psychiatric Association, 2013, pg. 271). Only recently have children and youth been deemed to have experienced PTSD and