Murray Essays

  • Henry A. Murray: Personology

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    A. Murray: Personology Personology is the science of people. It is used to interpret and organize the lives of humans. The central ideas of the science must be to “understanding of what we mean by the concept “person,” and for development of methods of understanding the lives of persons as the “long unit for psychology”” (Barresi & Juckes 1988 pg 1). It is important to take accounts when studying personology from first person perspective instead of a third person perspective. Henry A. Murray believed

  • Murray Shisgals The Typists

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    The play by Murray Shisgal, The Typists, is about two people who work during their lifetime at a firm, typing the addresses of prospective customers. Through their speeches we see that the play talks about hopelessness, routine and fear of change. Most of the character’s motives are explained through the Freudian concept of superego, or, in other words, the part of people’s psique which is related to discipline, judgment of the society, guilt, pride, self-discipline and self- punishment. In this

  • Interview Essay - Murray Meisels

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    Interview Essay - Murray Meisels Murray Meisels was born on April 19, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in New York City and came to California in 1941 to attend college at USC. After graduating from USC, he attended the University of Oregon Dental School and the University of Buffalo Dental School. Murray served in the military during WWII and the Korean War. In 1948, he married Francis and they made their home in Buffalo, New York. They raised two children, and Murray owned a dental practice

  • Murray Siskind: Wise Man Or Raving Mad?

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    Is Murray Siskind a raving lunatic or a wise, but somewhat eccentric man? Does he ever have a point, or is he just mindlessly rambling? He’s neither of those things. The first impression he gives is of someone who’s in between, but that proves not to be the case. He’s actually a very cunning man, one who has become the “devil” voice of Jack Gladney’s conscience. Eventually he’d like to become Jack. He covets not only his position and standing in the university, but also his wife, Babette, and he

  • Murray Bowen's Family Emotional Systems

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    Murray Bowen theorizes specifically about family relationships, the interactions between the members, and emotions that arise during the interactions (Knauth, 2003). Bowen’s family emotional system theory proposes the concept of a nuclear family emotional system. “This concept describes the patterns of emotional functioning in a family in a single generation” (Guerin, 1976). The concept of a nuclear family emotional system can be broken down into two basic areas: the nuclear family and the emotional

  • Salinity in the Murray Darling-Basin

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    one of our main sources of water in South Australia, The Murray Darling-Basin, becomes unusable then we would need to find the problem and do everything possible to stop it or counteract it. This report investigates on salinity in the Murray Darling-Basin, using the issue question “Is there enough being done to counteract the effects of salinity in the Murray?” as the focus. Salinity is a key significant environmental challenge which the Murray faces and if left unmanaged it could cause serious implications

  • From Fact To Fallacy Margret Alice Murray Analysis

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    Fallacy: The Evolution of Margaret Alice Murray’s Witch-Cult,” however she does not completely discredit her work. Noble gives credit to Murray in that she increased the awareness and popularity of witchcraft. Nonetheless, most of Murray’s ideals are flawed on the basic principle of her generalization. Noble is able to pinpoint Murray’s inconsistencies through other

  • Murray Bowen's Family Systems Theory In The Television Show

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    According to Murray Bowen’s family systems theory, the family subsists in a system where as the individuals are inseparable from their network of relationships, but continue to strive to be individualized. Consequently, various forms of these networks are grounded in the domestic structure and the “normal” or “ideal” family and development derives from the interaction of the family members when they remain differentiated, unease is minimal, and partners have beneficial emotional communication with

  • The Political Battle between Patty Murray and Linda Smith

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    The Political Battle between Patty Murray and Linda Smith In a state known for its apples, and nicknamed the “Evergreen State” looms a bitter battle between Democrat Incumbent Senator Patty Murray and Representative Linda Smith (Republican) for the only U.S. Senate seat open in the state of Washington. Washington has been historically Democratic for years. But changes in the state’s economy and a low amount of challengers have led to political instability in the Evergreen State. In recent

  • What Is Murray Bowen's Family Systems Theory

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    F1. Theoretical Framework for Understanding the Case Murray Bowen’s family systems theory can be applied to understanding the client’s situation and presenting problem. When Ms. Egger was twelve years old her mother was abusing drugs and alcohol, and her mother and father separated when Ms. Egger was 5 years old. As a result of her mother’s drug and alcohol abuse, Ms. Egger was removed from her mother’s care and placed into foster care. Family systems theory says that an event affecting one family

  • R. Murray Scchafer And The Poetic Environment Of The Natural World

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    R. Murray Schafer and the Preservation of the Sonic Environment of the Natural World Jonathan Yeoh 10100149 MUSI 333 Dr. Friedeman Sallis R. Murray Schafer and the Preservation of the Sonic Environment of the Natural World R. Murray Schafer (1933-) is arguably one of the most influential living composers in the world today, and has developed extremely pertinent thoughts regarding the link between music, sound, and environmentalism. Through his music, writing, and pedagogy

  • Lost in translation

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    there. It is skillfully written, well directed and it boasts of a solid cast not very spectacular but full of good actors. Jointly, this eventually results in an enjoyable and interesting movie. The important thing is that it has a message to it. Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson play two individuals lost in the new and unfamiliar surroundings, restlessly moving around a Tokyo hotel in the middle of the night, who fall into talk about their marriages, their pleasure and the significance of it all. What

  • Arizona SnowBowl

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    can deliver. With all the advantages that a snow machine could bring to Northern Arizona, there are some people who do not want to see the Arizona SnowBowl join the ninety-one percent of ski areas who make their own snow on National Forest land (Murray, p.3). These people have raised great controversy in Northern Arizona because they would like to see the mountain stay as pristine as possible. The only problem with their point of view is that there are more advantages than disadvantages to installing

  • A Wrinkle In Time

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    This love takes the characters on the trip of a lifetime, for the sole purpose of finding her father. This love in the background is not known by the reader until the last few pages, and ends up encompassing and explaining the whole novel. Meg Murray, the protagonist and the person from whom the reader gets their point of view, is the main character. She has a little brother, Charles Wallace, and two twin brothers, Sandy and Denny. Her mother is a guiding figure within the story, and serves as

  • Hypertext as a Rhizome

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    comparing hypertext to a rhizome system is to understand just what a rhizome is. The philosopher Gilles Deleuze came up with the idea and Janet Murray applied to hypertext. A rhizome is a tuber root system in which any point may be connected to another point. “Deleuze used the rhizome root system as a model of connectivity in systems of ideas” (Murray 132). One simplified example of this is the prewriting technique of making a web. There is one central idea and then several thoughts that branch

  • Love and Lust in Play-By-Play, Sex without Love, and Junior Year Abroad

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    is the main idea behind the poem "Play-By-Play" by Joan Murray. The tale being told is of older women well past their sixties admiring much younger men playing softball from up on a terrace over-looking the field. The women are gawking at the flex of a batter's hips before his missed swing, the wide-spread stride of a man picked off his base, the intensity on the new man's face as he waits on deck and fans the air. (Murray 837) The poem goes on to tell of the women, who "

  • Ken Wolf's Personalities and Problems

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    Ken Wolf's Personalities and Problems Ken Wolf, a professor of history at Murray Sate University and author of Personalities and Problems, wrote with the intent to illustrate the varied richness of human history over the past five centuries. He took various personalities such as adventurers, princes, political leaders, and writers and categorized them in a way for readers to draw lines between them to create a clearer view of world history for himself. Beginning each new chapter with a specific

  • Nelly Concert

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    girlfriend, and I traveled to Murray State University to watch a concert performed by Nelly and the St. Lunatics. It was a terrible night to go anywhere because it was raining and storming the whole way, but there was nothing that was going to stop us from going to the concert. We where all so hyped up about it and couldn’t wait to head out. My brother, who attends Murray State, had gotten us excellent seats about seventy-five feet away from the stage. We got to the Murray about twenty minutes before

  • Dracula

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    SLITS THE COUNT’S THROAT. IMMEDIATELY AFTER THIS, QUINCEY DRIVES A BOWIE KNIFE INTO THE VAMPIRE’S HEART. THIS NOVEL PORTRAYED MANY CONFLICTS BOTH MINOR AND MAJOR. ONE OF THE MINOR CONFLICTS IS WHEN JONATHAN SECRETLY PASSES A LETTER TO HIS LOVE MINA MURRAY OUT THE WINDOW TO ONE OF THE THREE GYPSIES WHILE THEY WERE LEAVING THE CASTLE. THE GYPSY WHO RECEIVED THE LETTER BROUGHT IT STRAIGHT TO THE COUNT. AS A RESULT THE COUNT HAS A TALK WITH JONATHAN. HE SAYS, “A VILE THING, AN OUT RAGE UPON FRIENDSHIP

  • Structure in Sophocles' Antigone

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    this essay will reveal. Gilbert Murray, professor at Oxford University in England, cites structure as one of the reasons why he chose Sophocles to translate. Then he elaborates on this structure: ?But Sophocles worked by blurring his structural outlines just as he blurs the ends of his verses. In him the traditional divisions are all made less distinct, all worked over the direction of greater naturalness. . . .This was a very great gain. . . .? (107). Murray here refers to Sophocles? modification