Ambivalence

Poems are a style of story-telling, of writing, but they are also an art form. The writers of these tales use many methods to add spectacular drama to every day experiences. Twisting the meaning of words allows the authors to vividly paint a portrait of the moment they’re capturing. In Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays”, Hayden uses simple words to paint a detailed picture in only a few lines. He shows us not only the bleakness of winter, but highlights how small, daily acts of love are easily

She is a drive theorist who influenced child psychology and is known as the mother of Object Relations. Melanie Klein believed that drives are object seeking, relational in their essence and not just meant for resolutions of tensions as Freud suggested. Klein postulated that internal object formation is integral to the psychic life of the infant and is based on powerful struggle between the internal forces of ‘life’ and death instincts’, child’s ‘phantasy’, ‘innate envy’ and ‘gratification and lack

Woman, Demon, Human is a film that explores woman’s dilemmas in her own lives. Such an exploration differs greatly from the PRC’s socialist-feminist tradition of using women for propaganda and focuses more on individuality, ambiguity, and women’s vulnerability in life. The film is a powerful allegory for the predicament of femininity: playing male roles on-stage empowers Qiuyun, the protagonist, while off-stage, she remains helpless and besieged by a sense of guilt for being a woman. The actor’s

Everyday nurses make many clinical judgements, nursing school and orientation educate nurses on disease processes, medication, and physical interventions, all in the best interest of returning the patient to optimal health. What happens then when decisions are made or orders placed that that nurse disagrees with ethically? How does a nurse react when a painful, unnecessary test is done on a patient? What long term impact will the nurse suffer from remaining silent when a family chooses to withhold

Cloning is the process of replicating biological tissue and cells, resulting in identical genetic copies. In recent years, the possibility of human cloning has led to many controversies; these controversies have become the focus of several novels that include imaginary characters as clones. Written by Kazuo Ishiguro, the novel Never Let Me Go portrays the life of human clones in a bleak world through the eyes of Kathy, where the sole purpose of the clones’ lives is to donate their organs. Clearly

could do about it. This outlook was known as fatalism. However, some had a much brighter hope for the future, and practiced the well known religion of Christianity. In the Anglo-Saxon epic, Beowulf, written by an anonymous author, this religious ambivalence of the times is a major theme. References to fatalism, or a fatalism-Christianity hybrid are often made, while at other times, Christianity is seen as the ultimate truth. To begin with, Beowulf often mentions a dying, but still relevant, spirituality

Identity: an inanimate belief everyone longs for, a form of reassurance in a tangible world full insecurities and ambivalence. Identity is defined as the qualities, beliefs, personality, or expressions that characterize a person. While these characteristics describe us, we are unable to place them ourselves. These identities and characteristics, although they make us human, are the cause of the disillusion within ourselves. We live in a society where the outside world is encouraged to label us with

Organizational assessments are appropriate tools to assist the consultant with providing an organization with support in realizing their maximum potential. The requirement for this assignment is to read the article “Organizational Assessment Models for Enterprise Transformation” and select the appropriate model for conducting a complete assessment of an organization. First, consider the consultant 's ability to make an accurate assessment. Given a problem of a purely technical nature, the consultant

Zautra et al. (2003) examined emotion regulation intervention against cognitive-behavioural therapy and a control condition. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis were provided with mindfullness and emotion regulation therapy (teaching skills to increase awareness, acceptance, and management of negative emotions, CBT for pain management, or health education (for control). Results showed that CBT outperformed mindfulness, but emotion regulation improved pain control, especially for patients with a history

According to William James, the psychological root of religious and spiritual belief is the pursuit of happiness. In his renowned book “The Varieties of Religious Experience” James poses the question: “If we were to ask: ‘What is human life’s chief concern?’ one of the answers would be ‘Happiness’” (James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures IV and V) James believes that healthy mindedness is key and that one may have to be ‘born twice’ to achieve proper happiness. In his fourth and