The Dew Breaker Analysis

I. Introduction A. Attention Getter – Today, I am going to talk about something that is not talked about enough; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. For those of you who do not know, PTSD is defined by the Nebraska Department of Veterans Affairs as “a psychiatric disorder that can occur following the experience or witnessing of a life-threatening event such as military combat, natural disasters, terrorist incidents, serious accidents, or physical or sexual assault in adult or childhood.” (“What is PTSD?”) B. Tie to the Audience – I am sure that there are a few people in this class that have had a family member or friend suffer from PTSD.

Post-traumatic stress disorder abbreviated PTSD is a response to traumatic events in someone’s life. Traumatic events are events that provoke fear, helplessness or horror in response to a threat or extreme stressor (Yehuda, 2002). Soldiers and other military members are at a much higher risk to Post traumatic stress disorder due to combat and other stressful situations they are put into. People effected by Post-traumatic stress disorder will have symptoms including flashbacks, avoidance of things, people or places that remind them of the traumatic event. Also, hyper arousal which includes insomnia, irritability, impaired concentration and higher startle reactions. In this paper I will discuss post-traumatic stress disorder, its signs, symptom and effects on culture as portrayed in the movie, American Sniper.

Mrs. Rowlandson experienced a tremendous amount of trauma due to her captors as well as the events she witnessed during her captivity. In "A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson" Mrs. Rowlandson becomes subject to various events leading to symptoms of PTSD. While reading this story one come 's across a sentence causing

The article relates to the wide range of situations that can cause PTSD and to how people need to direct their attention toward familiarizing themselves with the disorder's symptoms and seriousness before attempting to deal with it.

Immigration is a very dangerous and risky journey. Everyday immigrants try so hard to make it to the United States. This journey involves parents trying to support kids back home, families trying to start over, or kids trying to get to their mom; but some do not make it through this hardship. Those individuals, who make it, try like never before to support themselves and the family they needed to leave behind. Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario is a well written novel that uses many pathos, logos, and ethos examples. Each one of them is used effectively because of the way students are persuaded in believing there true. Elements from the quotes can reveal that Sonia is knowledgeable and

She gives the reader very vivid memories from her childhood and how being raised poor affects her identity as a person. She discusses how Mexicans identify themselves; since there are many different ways to identify culture, they make up several different cultures (Indian, Black, and Mexican). By the end she talks about the fight that Mexicans put up to stand up for their culture and their identity.

(AGG) All around the world, there has been situations like PTSD affecting people’s daily lives, as the author uses it in a book. (BS-1) Millions of people have been affected by PTSD from what they have seen and it makes things harder to not forget about the event. (BS-2) PTSD affected Najmah, because her dealing with hard losses. (BS-3) Nusrat and Najmah struggles with themselves, showing an internal conflict of Man vs Self. (TS) Throughout the book, Under The Persimmon Tree, the author uses real life situations, like PTSD, to change and shape a character’s personality.

Firstly, the speech serves the significance of looking back to the past, learning from the traumatic experiences and revealing the horrifying outcome of the

Ha is trying to calm down and overcome what kids at school have done to her “Chant my child, breathe in, peaceful mind breathe out” Lai (148). This explains overcoming challenges because the author uses the phrase “Breathe in… Breathe out” which is a sign of trying to calm down from what just happened to her. MAny refugees have come to america and overcame their problems back in their home country, “America is giving us a chance for a better future than we could have in bosnia”Brice(4). In the article the author uses that evidence to explain how refugees have overcome and gone through things but overall have earned a better life. Ha has certain things that calm her and bring her back to how she used to feel back in Vietnam, “Nothing like floral wafts that once calmed me”Lai(174). Furthermore Ha has has gone through a lot in the U.S. but she also has overcome a lot, and she is just trying to stay calm about everything that is going on. Altogether refugees have to overcome a lot of things to feel like they are back home, but in the end they usually have a better future than they would

In both “Speaking of Courage” and “Notes” I notice that with war, brings avoidance. That avoidance is the idea in which we don’t want to talk about how a soldier, no but a man can be effected by the aftermath of war. I believe that post- traumatic is not only a mental disorder but a physical disorder because as the mind is taken over, the body follows. Some people think that post- traumatic disorder is something that one does not have to stress about but infact there is alot they should be stressing about. In definition PTSD is a mental health condition triggered by experiencing or seeing a terrifying event.

Jeanne was aware and scared at the time but overcame her fear living at a camp for almost four years of her life. The living situation for the Japanese families was horrendous, but Jeanne’s story was captivating and caused me to hope for the end to interment camps.

According to The National Institutes of Health, 20 percent of veterans from the Iraq war suffer from PTSD. The main character deals with the struggles associated with PTSD, which causes him hardship in social and emotional relationships. The struggles not only put pressure on Krebs but also his mother. The author wants to show people the major lasting effects that war can have on people. Krebs, the main character is dealing with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and this shows by the struggles he is having with transitioning from the war setting to the civilian world,being emotionally detached and when he comes home from the war he isolates himself.

Ha’s life as a refugee is a life experience is something that only the strong can go through, and her entire family made it. When refugees flee home, it is because of fear that their family will be torn apart by the war when they leave home, family, friends, memories, basically the perspective of the person is leaving what they desired. Then when they finally do find a home, (not all), they are greeted with new challenges, one of many is that acceptance in their new home, some people probably don’t want to make a living in their new home, “But life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not”. But when people turn “inside out” they feel empty inside and everything is useless, they have to start over from square one and become “back again”. When they become happy again and accept what has happened to them, so they can move forward in life. This book is mostly about a girl with her family who was in a war, so they left of fear of being torn apart by the war because they will be safer than where they are at in the moment, Saigon Vietnam, but are greeted with challenges in the Alamba U.S.A.

What I'm going to talk about is four major themes from the book, Borderlands La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa. The four major themes I chose to talk about are first, how you shouldn’t be ashamed of yourself, then how Anzaldúa shows deviant behavior throughout the book, also, how she found herself through poetry, and lastly, America’s melting pot.

In Judith Herman’s book, Trauma and Recovery, she discusses her research and work with trauma survivors. In her book, she writes that, “traumatic events are extraordinary, not because they occur rarely, but rather because they overwhelm the ordinary human adaptations to life” (Herman 24). She explores the idea that trauma is as individual as it is common, with reactions and the journey to the post-traumatic self similar despite differences in events. In the case of Barbara Gordon, while the event may vary, her physical and mental trauma can be compared to America’s fear of its forfeiture of power to terror and the loss of the towers after September 11, 2001. Trauma is about more than just the physical ramifications; when the physical aspect is fixed, Barbara’s legs and the building of the 1 World Trade Center, the mental and emotional trauma still remain.