Sybil By Joseph Sargent

Generally, when innocence is thought of, the first speculation recalled to one’s mind is the thought of pureness and the idea that the specific individual is free from moral wrong. On the other end of the spectrum is the term known as guilt. Guilt is the emotional notion in which one feels that they have compromised his or her own standards in a negative way. In the novel Sarah’s Key, Sarah frequently proves to struggle with both guilt and innocence. These specific themes are put on display when Sarah realizes she is not going back home, the scenario in which Sarah boards the cattle car to the camps, and the tragic event in which Sarah takes her own life.

Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal is a strangely riveting play so filled with unlikable characters that it makes one want to scream and throttle which ever one is closest to hand without prejudice as to which persona it might be as they are all equally detestable in their own way. Unfortunately, the infuriating characters are exactly what make the play so fascinating. Each of the characters in the play, originally intended to display that life is an inescapable machine, exhibits many disturbing psychological qualities, and the main character suffers a slew of near textbook psychological misfortune. Whether Sophie Treadwell created her play with this facet intentionally or not is unknown, but the examples are so perfect it is difficult to think

Whilst reading Hal and Me, I've started to recall things that has similarly affected me in the past. When the author, Nicholas Carr, began to describe his story about his experience with the internet, I began to relate to it. First, I would like to say that I completely agree with his description of his brain being even more hungry for the net even after feeding it. Towards the end of the story, he mentions "..it was hungry. It was demnading to be fed the way the Net fed it- and the more it was fed, the hungrier it became." I was born in the generation of technology, maybe a bit earlier, yet it became a strong hold on American minds for as long as I remember. My experience with technology has overpowered my ability to do anything. It has also

Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb is a moving, heart-warming tale about a young woman, who suffers from insecurity and self-identity through a world where she is considered an outsider. The novel’s protagonist is Lilly Abdal, born to British vagabonds as she is left in the hands of the Great Sufi Abdal, who raises her to become a white, devout Muslim woman in East Morocco. The author seamlessly weaves in Dr. Aziz, an Ethiopian man who creates sparks in Lilly’s heart, only to be separated once Lilly’s embarks to London, England. Camilla Gibb takes the tale of an outcast, spun with religious beliefs and morals, to create a powerful story that challenges and uplights the reader’s mentality on religion and what it means to follow religious and cultural traditions.

Racial and gender stereotypes are vague assumptions that are generally negative in the novel, Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins. They are false beliefs abstracted by judgmental people based on a person’s gender or ethnicity. Each person has their respective thoughts, ambitions and passions despite their gender or race. These stereotypes are ignorant and do not define every single person. Most people realize that stereotypes are inaccurate, however they continue to make presumptions based on ethnicity or gender. The author of Forbidden, challenges racial and gender stereotypes by explaining how they are only crude generalizations which cause disruptions in society because of people’s belief that as long as they exist that they must follow them.

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier is a masterful mystery romance novel originally published in 1938. The story centers around the marriage of a young woman to Maxim de Winter, a brooding widower caught in the shadow of his deceased wife, Rebecca. Throughout the novel, we embark on a journey of self-discovery from the vantage point of the new Mrs. de Winter. Upon arrival at the expansive estate of her new husband, Manderley, Mrs. de Winter finds the idealistic life she’d hoped to live far from the stark reality of her new world. Through rising tensions, internal conflicts, and the self-imposed psychological stress, we watch as Mrs. de Winter transforms from an insecure young girl into a woman with a quiet, steadying strength.

Have you ever wondered about what techniques can be used in a story to describe a mood or an atmosphere? In the story “Lob’s Girl”, by Joan Aiken, Aiken uses three of the many techniques. The three techniques were Plot Events, Settings, and Word Choices. These techniques were used to express the mood in the beginning and at the end of the book.

Flowers” by Alice Walker is a story that takes place around the 1800’s and it is about a Myop, who is a ten year old girl that lives in the country. She seems to be a very curious and observant as it describes her journey from her family’s Sharecropper cabin to the woods behind her house. Myop roams around the woods with not a care in the world and admires the beauty of her surroundings such as the blue flowers she discovers. However as she is exploring the land she stumbles across the remains of a black man who was lynched. The story “Sweetness” by Toni Morrison takes place in the 1990’s is about a mother who gives birth to a dark-skinned baby and is a ashamed of the child because of how society frowns upon a situation like her own.

In the short story “ The Little Boy” author, Sadie Roth, describes that people can not always be trustworthy. The story begins when George and Lisa go out of town to a bar. They meet people at the bar and have drinks, too many drinks, with them. These people have an idea to go to into the woods to show their new friends the stream that they found earlier. Once in the woods, George and Lisa’s new friends turn on them, cut out their tongues, and lock them in a cellar under ground. While this is all going on, Jamie, George and Lisa’s son, is back at home waiting for his parents to tuck him in because it’s their nightly routine. Jamie realizes that they are not coming home because they are having too much fun, so he goes to bed anyways. Once his

Sybil (2007) is a movie that is based on a book and a girl named Shirley Ardell Mason. To guard Mason’s identity, she is named Sybil Dorsett in the film. Dorsett, played by Tammy Blanchard, was an art student that had a condition called Multiple Personality Disorder or, what we call today, Dissociative Identity Disorder. This disorder was very rare, which caused people to speculate about it, especially in the movie.

Matthew Archer Mrs. White November 20, 2014 Introduction to Psychology Sybil and Dissociative Identity Disorder Sybil is a pseudonym for Shirley Ardell Mason who is one of the first documented cases of Dissociative Identity Disorder, and one of the most extreme cases recorded. There is still controversy as to was this all a hoax but for the sake of the late Shirley Mason we will trust she was completely factual. In Sybil (2007), Tammy Blanchard plays the role of Sybil who is said to have 16 completely different personalities. She starts off as a seemingly sweet character with no more than a mild stress condition, that is until she enters a fugue state and begins to awaken in rooms she doesn’t remember renting, glass/crystal that she claims

What is a city? A city is an urban site where people inhabitant. There is not a right or wrong answer, due to, the fact that his own inhabitants are in charge of define it. Human perceptions is ambiguous; our perception about what make a city a city will keep on evolving due to our needs and modernisms. According to, Gordon Childe a city or state is supposed to have 20,000 inhabitants and great infrastructure because it must meet the high demand of his people. He include in his list that city must have monumental architecture, foreign trade, taxes, public transpiration, a sense of religious base and a ruler. if we take those subjection into consideration the “Maya” acquired all the necessary characteristics to be view as well

In the novel This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman, published in 2011, a central theme is explored. Money surely cannot buy happiness. A picture perfect world is conveyed by the Bergamots and other families within the book. With further examination, the royal flush of life is quickly piled into a sad house of cards when the assumption is made that money can purchase happiness. It becomes a vehicle to the incognizant search for a distraction from their in actuality, somber life.

The novel, Sybil (1972) written by Flora Schreiber tells the story of a woman born in the 1920s and who, for majority of her life had been possessed by sixteen personalities. Her psychoanalyst and close friend Dr. Cornelia Wilbur had joined her through this journey for eleven years (468) and the pair had gone through several trials in attempting to get to the root of the surfacing of the other personalities (refer to UM for specific word) as well as try to successfully integrate the personalities into one “Self” (UM learn). This “Self” was the “walking self”, as Sybil often had “blank spells” and would note in the book that she had “lost time”--sometimes days (book at the beginning apa) with no recollection of what had happened in that “lost time”. These “blank spells”as Sybil called it, were a symptom of Multiple Personality Disorder

I chose the movie Arrival because I was interested in the movie itself, and also I wanted to dig deeper into its own connection with philosophy. Arrival is about a linguistics professor, Louise Banks, who helps find the reason why 12 spaceships have landed in different locations around the world. It is her task to learn their language, help them learn our language, and determine their purpose. But, she isn’t working alone, she has the help from Ian Donnelly, a theoretical physicist, and from the 12 other countries in which the spaceships have landed. She and her team, had the chance to enter the ship and have first hand communication with the aliens. It was difficult at first since these aliens not only did not speak English, they wrote in a completely different language. They come a place where time does not appear to exist, so therefore they can write a sentence simultaneously. Banks, in order to figure out the alien’s purpose here, was obligated to open her mind to their way of life. Hence, she commenced to view the earth without time. Banks was able to not