The Ego and Despair in Ordinary People
Ordinary People by Judith Guest is the story of a dysfunctional family who relate to one another through a series of extensive defense mechanisms, i.e. an unconscious process whereby reality is distorted to reduce or prevent anxiety. The book opens with seventeen year old Conrad, son of upper middle-class Beth and Calvin Jarrett, home after eight months in a psychiatric hospital, there because he had attempted suicide by slashing his wrists. His mother is a meticulously orderly person who, Jared, through projection, feels despises him. She does all the right things; attending to Jared's physical needs, keeping a spotless home, plays golf and bridge with other women in her social circle, but, in her own words "is an emotional cripple". Jared's father, raised in an orphanage, seems anxious to please everyone, a commonplace reaction of individuals who, as children, experienced parental indifference or inconsistency. Though a successful tax attorney, he is jumpy around Conrad, and, according to his wife, drinks too many martinis. Conrad seems consumed with despair. A return to normalcy, school and home-life, appear to be more than Conrad can handle. Chalk-faced, hair-hacked Conrad seems bent on perpetuating the family myth that all is well in the world. His family, after all, "are people of good taste. They do not discuss a problem in the face of the problem. And, besides, there is no problem." Yet, there is not one problem in this family but two - Conrad's suicide and the death by drowning of Conrad's older brother, Buck. Conrad eventually contacts a psychiatrist, Dr. Berger, because he feels the "air is full of flying glass" and wants to feel in control. Their initial ses...
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I would recommend this book to a friend because the reader is able to comprehend different aspects of the war. This novel is written in an upfront style, which makes it easy for the reader to follow along. I am thinking about including something about how war gives soldiers mental disorders for my thesis argument. I would like to write about the mental health of our troops for my research paper. I intend to focus on psychological disorders and mental illness.
This experiment designed to analyze the phylogenetic of four unknown different fish muscles samples in order to predict the type of the aquatic creature. In this study, actin and myosin proteins were analyzed on account of their fairly high and constant expression in the animal muscles. Since the actin and myosin proteins are the two major...
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This essay addresses the criticism firstly by clarifying the concept of democratic legitimacy and democratic deficit. It also introduces pertinent theories with a focus on the constructive and ideological complexity of the EU. Then it explains the contextual and normative relation between the EU and democracy from its history and some of the major treaties. The essay continues to the debates between advocates and critics of the EU’s democratic legitimacy, yet with a focus on the latter, further dealing with two main dimensions of institutional flaws affecting the legislative process and the insignificance of European citizens to the EU regime. After remarking conventional and possible measures to alleviate the deficiency, it draws a conclusion that the de...
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Stress on our rational mind can lead to risky decisions when spending our money. Almost every day, Americans spend most of the time in school or work, exerting self-control on miserable tasks. According to Kahneman’s work, “Baumeister’s group has repeatedly found that an effort of will or self-control is tiring; if you had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around” (41). This is described by Kahneman as the lazy system 2. After a long day of hard work, our brains refuse to make judgments, and instead rely on our emotions and instincts, rather than our rational. The reliance on emotions and instincts leads to impulsive decisions that can be risky. This lack of good judgment when we are ego-depleted can be seen in the experiment done with the judges who would review parole requests. When they were ego-depleted, the “tired and hungry judges [would] tend to fall back on the easier default position of denying requests for parole” (Kahneman 44). This portrays how lazy our system 2 really is and how ego-depletion leads to a lack of self-control, not allowing us to make good judgments by using our rational minds. Since we lack discipline to control ourselves, we tend to make impulsive decisions that can be risky. These impulsive decisions impact the economy dramatically, either helping it prosper or sending it into shambles.
Before we examine if there is a democratic deficit in the EU it is important to present what is democracy. The word democracy came from the Greek word dimokratia, which came from the words demos-people and kratos-governments Generally, democracy is when people can audit or influence on government’s policy-making (Coultrap 1999). According to Lord (2008:316), democracy has five requirements. Firstly, “citizens should be able to understand themselves as authoring their own laws through representatives”, because only then citizens self-govern themselves. Secondly, as saw above, citizens should control governments. Thirdly, democracy requires equality and mainly political equality, which means voting equality and voice equality. Fourthly, “democracy entails a right of justification”.
This essay by Jonathan Swift is a brutal satire in which he suggests that the poor Irish families should kill their young children and eat them in order to eliminate the growing number of starving citizens. At this time is Ireland, there was extreme poverty and wide gap between the poor and the rich, the tenements and the landlords, respectively. Throughout the essay Swift uses satire and irony as a way to attack the indifference between classes. Swift is not seriously suggesting cannibalism, he is trying to make known the desperate state of the lower class and the need for a social and moral reform in Ireland.
During the eighteenth century, Jonathan Swift was distributing pamphlets around Ireland in hopes of promoting intellectual growth in his homeland. As he noticed this was not making an impact, he decided to address the problems in Ireland with a different approach. Jonathan Swift took to paper and constructed “A Modest Proposal”, a satirical piece that proposes a humorous solution to the social, economic, and political problems in Ireland. Swift’s proposal suggests that babies who are born to poor families become a source of food for public, which benefits Ireland by reducing the overpopulation and adding to the food supply. In “A Modest Proposal”, Jonathan Swift uses satire to draw attention to his argument that the problems in Ireland are greatly affecting his homeland; in doing so, he portrays the themes of class division, suffering, and greed.
In “A Modest Proposal” several forms of satire are demonstrated throughout the story. Satire is defined as the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose or criticize people’s stupidity or vices. (Google) In "A Modest Proposal" Swift uses parody which is a form of satire. Parody is primarily making fun of something to create a humorous feel for it. In “A Modest Proposal,” Swift uses parody to make fun of the people and children of Ireland, expressing the children as delicious food to be eaten.
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...ith her charismatic brother who constantly looks out for her, supports her and believes in her when no one else does. This affects her attitude towards men positively. Years later, however, her mother’s boyfriend molests and rapes her thus changing her perspective of men or rather widening her understanding of them. She sees Mr. Freeman as a pedophile that he actually is. Nonetheless, while on the verge of adulthood, she develops curiosity towards men and at some point considers them as objects for her pleasure. She also grows to love and respect her mother’s husband to the point of trusting him while her mother is away on business.
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