Paper 2: The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook Summary Dr. Bruce Perry, an incredible psychiatrist, describes some of his many experiences with extremely traumatized children in his novel, “The Boy who was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook”. Throughout this book, Dr. Perry presents just a slight insight into what children all over the world experience: violence, neglect, abuse, starvation. Due to the effects of
This paper is a book report of Benedict Anderson’s famous book Imagined community: Reflection on the Origin and spread of Nationalism. It was published by Verso in 1983 and had revisions in 1991 and 2006 with some additional chapters and it became one of the most read books on nationalism. Anderson explains that the concept of nationalism is a very new but a powerful concept, which has been neglected by many important thinkers. Nationalism according to him is connecting bound among the people of
Methamphetamine: A Love Story Reflection and Analysis SUMMARY Methamphetamine: A Love Story is a book documenting the lives of various people who were immersed in the culture of using, selling, and manufacturing methamphetamine. Through interviews with over 30 individuals, Rashi Shukla brings to light the drastic effects that manifested when this drug took over their lives. Shukla aims to “illuminate this dark world,” (Shukla 2016, p. 11), and to provide insight as to why methamphetamine becomes
Psychology 220 Online Psychology of Personality; Personal, Social, & Cultural Differences Three-Week Summer Session 2013 (06/17/13 – 07/03/13) Professor: Dr. Mark Akiyama Online Office Hours: Call/text @ 510-689-1383; email via WebCT or post in WebCT Discussion Section*** Please text messages only between 930am - 930pm Email: Please use the WebCT email- I check daily during the 3-week summer session Online Course Access All course materials can be accessed through DVC WebCT @: http://webct.dvc.edu/webct/public/home
BOOK REVIEW SUCCESS BUILT TO LAST: Creating A Life That Matters By Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson Summary Success Built to Last builds on over 200 interviews with highly successful people to discern patterns on how they define success and how they achieved it. The authors spoke to remarkable people that were trimmed down from initial thousand lists to hundreds who were able to sustain success for over a 20 year period. The interviewees were Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer, Grammy
several years of marriage and several failed pregnancies. Protagonist 2: Laila; Laila grows up on the opposite end of the social spectrum. An educated girl, Laila is a legitimate child, and beautiful. She grows up with her Babi and Mammy, but is neglected by her mother as she grieves over the loss of her sons to war, and then as she grieves their deaths. However, Laila has a friend throughout her struggles with Mammy, and that is Tariq. When she loses Tariq, and both of her parents to war, Laila too
political satire which was written to criticise totalitarian regimes and particularly Stalin's practices in Russia. In order to provide background information that would reveal causes led Orwell to write Animal Farm, Chapter one is devoted to a brief summary of the progress of author's life and significant events that had impact on his political convictions. Chapter one also presents background information about Animal Farm. Chapter two is devoted to satire. In this chapter, definition of satire is presented
Does the film Huang tudi (Yellow Earth) offer a critique of the Communist revolution? If so where and how? Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou’s Yellow Earth is a meaningful and controversial film that highlights the young and old, realist and idealist, as well as the ideal utopia and bounded bureaucracies – touching on the notion of fate. Set in early 1939 in China, Yellow Earth follows the story of Gu Qing, a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) soldier sent out among the peasants in Northern Shaanxi to collect
Text Title – We Need Talk About Kevin Text Type - Visual Author – Lynne Ramsay The movie is shoot in the past and present going back and forth, where Tilda is experiencing the aftermath of her family’s death, and the past, delving deeper into the way her son treated her. We need to talk about Kevin tells us the story about a fractious relationship between a mother and her son. Tilda goes through intense grief and violence after a homicidal massacre where Kevin had killed 15 people with this bow
Another interesting aspect of the story is the fact that while this book is in a way a history book looking at the past, Bugliosi actually experienced this history and provides his own emotional reactions to what happened. For example, when Bugliosi read Manson’s file to understand who he was about to prosecute he commented, “I was surprised