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    Depression: Informative Speech Template Speaker: Quoneshia Barker Speech Topic: Depression Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about Depression Central Idea: Depression is caused by many different things, has many symptoms and can also be treated in many ways. Introduction I. Attention Getter: Have you ever been down in the dumps? Always feeling helpless or worthless? No matter what you do you just can’t seem to be happy. Well if you have ever felt that way this could

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    anger is generated out of resentment. Lily later imparted on pages 421-422: “I knew he’d (Terrence) loved Deborah Fontanel, and when she’d left him, he’d sunk into bitterness.” Using a metaphor, the quote reveals Deborah’s death provoked Terrence’s sadness, and her death transformed him. On page 425, Terrence and Lily state: “‘You look like her,’ he (Terrence) said, and him saying that, I knew he'd said everything.” The part “I knew he'd said everything” tries to explain Terrence’s devotion to Deborah

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    depression became more widely employed around the world during the 1980’s, “...the experience of deep sadness and distress in Japan retained the characteristics of the premodern conception of the mid-twentieth century idealization typus melancholicus, the idea that overwhelming sadness was natural, quintessentially Japanese, and, in some ways, an enlightened state”(522). These feelings of overwhelming sadness were positively looked upon through the media since people held high regard for personal hardships

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    sings” or “the night is shattered and she is not with me”. The night is eerie and dark, full of sadness and pain, the same way his soul feels. His soul is not accepting that “it has lost her." In vast world full of people, his eyes and heart still search for her. Starry The speaker of “Tonight I can write” is Neruda. “I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.” A poem expressing feelings of love or sadness cannot be written from others feelings or thoughts. “Tonight I can write the saddest lines” He

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    having depression. Grieving is a natural process to each individual and some share the same feeling of depression. Both Depression and grief may involve the same intense withdrawal and sadness from the normal activities you do. In grief the feeling of pain comes in waves often mixed with both happiness and sadness. But with major depression the grieving process can last up to two weeks. For most people losing a loved one can bring on major depression, especially was someone was very close to you

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    just at the beginning of their life? Most adults underestimate the feelings of sadness that teenagers feel. They don’t understand what these teenagers are going through and they don’t see it as a real problem, but what they don’t know is that it’s actually a huge problem among a lot of teens right now. So what is teenage depression? “Teen depression is a serious medical problem that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest in activities. It affects how your teen thinks, feels and

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    illness has become a contagious phenomenon, eliciting stigmatisation towards anyone displaying depressive behaviour. Thus, the subject is whether individuals are unknowingly, due to their cultural milieu, confusing and labelling normal notions of sadness with depression. This particular ideology can be concluded through examining the effect of the placebo in juxtaposition to anti-depressants. Results from various studies have displayed how those who rate low on depressive scales, tend to benefit from

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    Eavan Boland’s ‘Fond Memory’ is a poem which is used to explore the poets past, acting as a vehicle for returning to the days of her childhood. This poem is written with the intent to confront a past memory and creates a relationship between Boland as a young girl and the woman she was when she wrote this. Through the use of literary techniques we become a part of the journey that Boland undertakes in order to go back to her child self and speak about her memories. This is a very personal poem as

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    When you think of winter what do you usually think about? I think about the freezing temperatures, the ice, and the snow. However, in literature winter can be symbolic of many things. The dark, sadness, old age, and death are just some of the things winter can symbolize in literature. The songs “California dreamin’” by the Mamas and Papas and “A hazy shade of winter” by Simon and Garfunkel are both about winter but mean very different things. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor will

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    What is neurodiversity? Neurodiversity was brought about by the autistic people in the US in the 1990s. Neurodiversity is where neurological differences are to be recognized and respected as any other human variation. The differences can range from dyspraxia, dyslexia, attention deficit, hyperactivity disorder, dyscalculia, autistic spectrum, tourette syndrome, and etc. It’s coming more of a social movement to advocate the different types of disease. Autistic people are aiming for people with atypical

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