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left side from compensating for my left side 's atrophy and weakness. The pressure of walking, even cane -assisted, causes extreme tenderness from the onset. When I walk about 100 feet, the stabbing pain in my lower left back and sometimes the shock in my left leg, debilitate me to the point where I must sit down, even though sitting violates workplace policy. Sometimes when I walk, my left hip pains me as if the hip will slip out of joint. When this occurs, I will freeze in place to calm down

Obedience You have to make choices whether to follow the rules of not. To be obedient means to comply with an order, request, or submission to another’s authority. This authority has the power to make an individual obey in ways that go against their personal and moral values. Because of this the authority can make individuals commit terrible acts without question. An example of this can be the abhorrent and inhumane acts carried out by German soldiers in WWII. All the German troops’ orders were

nervousness. Though shell-shock was a new phenomenon, it was not the first war related nervousness. Indeed, 1.2 million soldiers were wounded or sick, a quarter of which were admitted to hospitals as psychiatric casualties . These numbers are immense and when put in perspective with a general public, demand to be spoken about. With the wide spread introduction of neurasthenia, disordered action of the heart and, what we now know as, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) , shell-shock became an umbrella

Failure to Escape Traumatic Shock by Seligman and Maier The purpose of this study was to determine the type of learning acquisition in dogs that were subjected to three different styles of electric shock. They wanted to determine what method of learning worked the best to avoid a shock for an extended period of time. Each of the three groups of dogs learned escape/avoidance training, however the "escape" group and the "yoked" group gained more training than the normal control group. The "escape"

Slavery was abolished in the year 1864 when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. This was the end of the possibility of human beings owning one another in the United States. Unfortunately this mentality remained in some shape and form, as women were often only considered an extension of their husbands. In 1919 women were granted the right to vote, and in 1960 women decided they wanted to be treated as equals. They subsequently initiated a civil rights movement to fight for workplace

stages of grief. In Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, Oskar goes through the seven stages of grief after his dad dies on September 11th, 2001. Throughout the novel, Oskar goes through all of the seven stages. In stage one, ‘Shock and Denial’ people will react to the loss with disbelief. They will deny the reality of the loss in order to avoid the pain. People will use this as a shield to block out the fact of their loss and not want to talk about the situation and/or person

Why did Milgram decide to study this topic? What was the motivating factor/event that inspired Milgram to research obedience? • The main reason that Milgram decided to study the topic of obedience was to better understand the extreme inhumane conditions that Jews faced during the holocaust at the hands of German soldiers. Over the 12 year period between the early 1930’s through the mid 1940’s millions of Jews died in death camps run by Germans. Since Milgram himself was of Jewish descent, Milgram

All throughout history, people have faced different types of oppression. During the Holocaust, Jewish citizens were forced into internment camps because of their religion. In the 1960s, African Americans faced daily prejudice from their white counterparts. Even today, in places like, modern-day Iran, people are tortured and killed because of their sexual orientation. Societal standards and social norms forced these people into a corner, preventing the majority from being able to express their opinions

there were people in the water, but the panicking crowd staring intently made it evident that something was wrong. After further examination we were able to spot two men struggling for life in the unforgiving waters while dozens of people watched in shock. None of us knew what to do in this situation, so we did the one thing that we knew how to do; pray. Tobermory, is located in the Bruce Peninsula of Ontario. Its aqua waters and breathtaking views have made it a natural tourist attraction. This past

In the short story “A&P,” John Updike emphasises the overall theme of to be an individual is to face social consequences. In the beginning of the story, John Updike used the three girls’ swimsuits to symbolize their disregard for social norms. The base of the entire story is about the girls being dressed indecently in a grocery store. These girls are in their teen to young adult years, so they all must be aware that it is not acceptable to wear bikinis into a grocery store. Therefore, the only other