The Failure to Develop
Many people stutter; however people usually outgrow stuttering. But it is not something that people just do for a short while to attract attention. People who do stutter are actually really embarrassed by it and the attention they receive from stuttering and fear the next time that it will happen. They will often avoid situations in which stuttering will be a problem. Stutterers have no control over when they stutter or don’t. Contrary to the therapist in the novel American Pastoral, stuttering is not an idea conjured up in ones head to gain attention. It is not a psychological problem that comes and goes as one needs it, or when it would be beneficial to a person. Because the truth is, a stutterer never finds it beneficial to have.
Research has shown that stuttering is one hundred percent physiological, and not at all psychological. The psychiatrist “got Merry thinking that the stutter was a choice she made, a way of being special that she had chosen and then locked into when she had realized how well it worked”(95). The belief that you will not stutter has no effect on your speech. The anticipation of stuttering does not cause stuttering (5). Stuttering is a developmental disorder that starts in the early childhood and nothing Merry did could change that. It develops at the same time as children learn “grammar, accents, and other fundamentals of speech and language”(1). When children fail to learn “speech breathing, vocal fold control, and how to articulate sounds”(1) that is when they develop disfluencies, which can turn into stuttering or stammering. If children do not learn these fundamentals at the right critical time, it is difficult or impossible to learn later. Children will develop these problems between the ages of two and six, when development is most crucial. Which is around the age that Merry developed the stutter in the novel. Usually people will not develop speech problems past the age of eleven. More boys than girls develop speech disorders. Which is why it was even more rare for Merry to have the stutter because it’s not as common in girls. Even then, the girls tend to outgrow their problems, up until their forties. . It is difficult to determine who will outgrow and who will not (4). Merry did eventually outgrow her stutter though. The first time her dad saw her again after the long absence, he couldn’t believe “she had attained control, mental and physical, over every sound she uttered”(246).
Blood, Blood, Maloney, Meyer, & Qualls (2007) examined the anxiety levels in adolescents who stutter to increase their understanding of the role of anxiety in stuttering across the lifespan. The participants were 36 students, chosen from public schools in Pennsylvania, who were in the 7th through 12th grade. However, only participants who have had treatment for their stuttering were included in the study. The control groups were chosen from public schools as well, and were chosen to match the stuttering participants in grade, gender, ethnicity and approximate age. To assess the stuttering severity of the participants, the Stuttering Severity Insturment-3 (SSI-3) was used. The outcomes classified the participants’ stuttering as either mild, moderate, severe, or very severe (profound). In measuring anxiety levels the researchers used the Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS)....
The attack on the farmhouse that resulted in the rape of his daughter and his near-immolation penetrate every part of his life, even in his work as he subconsciously writes the character of Byron’s daughter Allegra into his opera. A character who he had not intended to incorporate, the voice of Allegra cries ‘Why have you left me? Come and fetch me!’ , eerily paralleling the voice of nightmare-Lucy, and thus he is unable to ignore his grief any longer. In American Pastoral the reader begins to criticise the strength of the Swede, his fatal flaw being that he is too caring. An example of this is when Merry asks Swede to kiss her the way he kisses her mother and after an initial refusal, her father kisses her passionately on the mouth. This transgression is highlighted as a crucial factor debated in the Swede’s mind as to whether it is the cause of the subsequent grief suffered, ‘he wondered if the strange parental misstep was not collapse responsibility for which he paid for the rest of his life.’ This becomes the centre of his mental hell, in which he agonises over how he could have ‘wounded’ Merry. The aftermath of the kiss leads the Swede to become more wary of his emotions and affections toward Merry. This reclusive behaviour adds to the fragmented mind-set of the Swede.
A friendship relies on the goodness of both people; if goodness is not present the friendship will cease to exist. Cicero uses many different instances in his book Laelius: On Friendship to explain how a friendship relies on the goodness of both people to survive. First he starts by talking about the types of friendships that come to an end when goodness ceases to exist. He explains that some friendships rely on advantages, but these friendships never last. He states that “if advantages were what kept friendships together, the removal of that advantage would mean that the friendship itself would cease to exist” (194). A friendship should rely on the qualities of both people, and not on the advantages you get from them. Cicero explains that “when a man shows kindness and generosity, his motive in doing so is not just too exact repayment” (193). Next he talks about friendships that fail due to one person asking too much of the other. He brings in the example of Tiberius Gracchus, “As for Tiberius Gracchus, when he was disrupting the government, we saw how Quintus
...hese children were unfairly target for this research because they were institutionalized I believe that Johnson studied was to biased because he was so determine to find a cure that will help him in the long run instead of reviewing the facts. In reality, stuttering can caused by different things such as environmental, biological factor, or genetic. In Johnson, case he already had hypothesis in mind and he was too determine to prove his hypothesis instead of reviewing the facts.
For Aristotle there are three main qualities that defines if someone qualifies as a friend: Those types called Nicomachean Ethics and focuses on the three kinds of friendship one can have.The are pleasantness - Friendship between the young is thought to be grounded on pleasure, because the lives of the young are regulated by their feelings, and their chief interest is in their own pleasure and the opportunity of the moment. , excel-lence - Only the friendship of those who are good, and are similar in their goodness, is perfect. and usefulness . As from him point of view friends in this theory love each other for their usefulness “ not in his own right, but insofar as they gain some good for themselves from him” (Aristotle, 121 ) .
Entrails torn from the body with bare hands, eyes gouged out with razor blades, battery cables, rats borrowing inside the human body, power drills to the face, cannibalism, credit cards, business cards, Dorsia, Testoni, Armani, Wall Street; all of these things are Patrick Bateman’s world. The only difference between Bateman and anybody else is what is repulsive to Bateman and what is repulsive to the rest of the world. Bateman has great interest in the upper class life, fashions, and social existence, but at the same time he is, at times, sickened by the constant struggle to be one up on everybody else. On the other hand Bateman’s nightlife reveals a side of him never seen during the day. Bateman is relaxed, impulsive, and confident while torturing and killing. He doesn’t have to worry about being better than anyone else. The only competition he has is his last victim. Torture and murder are the two true loves of Patrick Bateman.
Alfred Hitchcock’s film North by Northwest (1959) is famed as a classic man-on-the-run thriller, following protagonist Roger Thornhill as he flees across state lines in a mad dash to save his life and unravel the mystery to his extraordinary predicament. However, mid-way through the film Thornhill’s quandary is further complicated by the introduction of Eve Kendall, a beautiful yet mysterious woman he encounters on a train during his escape from the authorities and people trying to kill him. During the dining room scene on the train, Hitchcock expertly uses the camera to convey the characters thoughts and feelings. Interestingly, in a film that has several sequences with complicated cinematography and editing, the dining car scene is rather reserved in comparison. Hitchcock uses nominal mise-en-scène elements and instead elects to focus the camera largely on the subtleties in the performances of the actors.
Emily Grierson, a woman of stature and nobility of the once proud South; transformed to a mere peasant, through the fall of the Confederacy and the changes that ensued. Tragic in a sense, the story of her life as told from the author; William Faulkner, in his short story - "A Rose for Emily." (Faulkner 74-79). First published in the popular magazine of his time in 1930, The Forum; Faulkner tries to maintain her self image throughout the story through the narrators eyes as being repressed in nature through her upbringing in society prior to the war and the circumstances of the times as they unfold - while struggling to fill a void of emptiness inside.
The Arden production of The Arabian Nights should have included a story or two about a Demon like those included in the novel by Husain Haddawy. By including these types of stories they could incorporate magic and demons into the play. There are many interesting ways that they adapter could portray magic and the appearance of demons.
Stuttering is a neurological disorder of communication, from which the normal flow of speech is disrupted by repetitions (neu-neu-neuro), prolongations (biiiii-ol-ooogy), or abnormal stoppages (no sound) of sounds and syllables. Rapid eye blinking, tremors of the lips and/or jaw, or other struggle behaviors of the face or upper body may accompany speech disruptions ((3)). Why does stuttering worsen in situations that involve speaking before a group of people or talking on the phone, whereas fluency of speech improves in situations such as whispering, acting, talking to pets, speaking alone, or singing ((1))? In ancient times, physicians believed that the stutterer's tongue was either too long or too short, too wet or too dry. Therefore, practitioners from the mid-1800s tried surgical remedies such as drilling holes into the skull or cutting pieces of the tongue out to eliminate stuttering ((1) ).
Upon observing a typical friendship it becomes clear to us that this relationship is actually devoid of true love; the love in which Cicero speaks of. A genuine friendship is a rare and beautiful thing; a mutual relationship formed between two virtuous people of the same sex in which both individuals love the other as much if not more than themselves. “In the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self.” To love another person as much as you love yourself, to give without the expectation of receiving something in return is indeed an amazing concept. It is sometimes hard to comprehend its existence in this world where friendship is more for utility; “serve for particular ends - riches for use, power for securing homage, office for reputation, pleasure for enjoyment, health for freedom from pain and the full use of the functions of the body. But friendship embraces innumerable advantages.”
The proposition that there is a qualification in the virtuous friendship is that individuals of virtuous similarity are benefitting off each-other through an egoistic manner. It is evident that the virtuous friendship entails the concepts of egocentrism, because Aristotle quotes, “the friend is another himself” (142 Section 5, line 33). The ideal Aristotelian friendship is where friends resemble each other through similar modes of thinking. Significantly, the concept of egocentrism would mean it is unlikely that friends who are like one-another will disagree with each other. In effect, friendships based on similarity are enduring, because the agents whom think alike will avoid conflict. Insofar the similar individuals agree with each other
Stuttering, as a disorder, has been around ever since man could speak. It is said that the ancient Egyptians, through the use of hieroglyphics, were the first to form a definition of stuttering. Two hieroglyphics were found and deciphered, their phonetic transcriptions being /ket ket/ and /nit nit/, which respectively mean “to quake” and “to hesitate.” Combined with the Egyptian symbol indicative of the mouth, these hieroglyphics carry the meaning of “to stutter.” This definition of stuttering has been revised a bit since the time of the ancient Egyptians. Stuttering is now defined as a speech disorder which involves the disruption of the fluency, timing, and rhythm of speech. The prim...
He rights that no one would choose to live without friends even if the individual had all of the other good things in life. According to Aristotle, there are three kinds of friendships: friendships of utility, friendships of pleasure, and friendships of the good/virtue. In philosophical discussions of friendship, in distinctive three kinds of friendship. Though it is a bit uncertain how to understand these distinctions, the basic idea seems to be that pleasure, utility, and virtue are the reasons we have in these various kinds of relationships for loving our
Ever have seen the type of “friends” that someone thought would always be there for them, but ended up only being their friend for their sake? Aristotle illustrates “those who wish well to their friends for their sake are most truly friends” (23). I believe this quote that Aristotle has explained can compare too many friendships today. He is truly right and if everyone looked at their “friends” to see how many real friends, they have; there won’t be many friendships that last. There are a lot of commitments put into good relationships; if friends work together and go through life obstacles, friends are most likely remaining together for a lifetime. Only true friends will last your whole life while others lasted maybe a couple months.