Description of a Tramp Essay

A tramp, otherwise called a homeless person, is the term used to portray an individual, who carries on with a transient way of life and who normally vagrant and excess. Numerous tramps head out here and there, additionally searching for some type of safe house or a momentary activity to win cash to make due, then again some different tramps rely upon asking for cash to endure, some even hotel to rummaging. Numerous tramps have ventured out to look for work or to discover increasingly lovely and inviting networks where they may acquire help from beneficent associations, places of worship, or people. Tramps turned out to be extremely prominent all through the Great Depression, when numerous individuals were constrained into transient ways of life by the upset American economy. The picture of a tramp is typically perceived as grimy, tousled and sickening. Tramps are for the most part observed dwelling on lanes; on that they can be seen tanked, sleeping and absent to their environmental factors. A tramp lives on not very many garments and barely any cash (some of the time even none by any stretch of the imagination). Many are unclean; they don't shave, shower or have any difference in garments as they can not bear the cost of any of these assets. Notwithstanding that, they become much increasingly filthy as they resort to resting in the city as they don't have some other sanctuary, the soil on the boulevards doesn't support their cleanliness or wellbeing. Likewise it adds to their incredibly undesirable smell, as generally live outside regularly in the occupied, contaminated urban areas, this additionally impacts their cleanliness and above all wellbeing. As they have no difference in garments, the various seasons in the year can be hard for them, as in the mid year, when it is unimaginably hot they endure additionally in the profound winter, which again upsets their wellbeing. Numerous individuals become tramps and destitute for different number of reasons, the most well-known incorporate getting dependent on drugs, accordingly loosing cash, occupation, loved ones and being disregarded with nothing, this is additionally a comparable case with liquor and betting. On certain events it isn't really that people issue, it may be the case that the people family have been destitute previously, or in light of the fact that another person has bamboozled the individual making them lose everything and winding up in the city or they have been made repetitive by the administration. It could likewise be they are uneducated as they didn't have the chance to go to class. It could be monetary conditions, dysfunctional behavior and numerous different elements that they have wound up in such a terrible state. To endure, tramps typically resort to asking in the lanes or in occupied zones, for example, strip malls. Some additionally endeavor to attempt to secure transitory positions, for the most part employments that accompany cover. Numerous tramps likewise look for beneficent association which assist destitute with peopling and give food and solace. Others even search for food and garments in dumps and receptacles, most possibly do this on the off chance that they are exceedingly urgent. Be that as it may, when tramps ask on the boulevards numerous individuals don't generally wish to give cash or food to the tramps as their disagreeable appearance forestalls them, additionally they accept the tramps will abuse the cash on liquor and medications rather than spending it on material they need.

Picasso Essay -- essays research papers

Pablo Picasso. Self-Portrait. 1907. Oil on canvas.      The formal and visual components generally used, unmistakable, and unique in Pablo Picasso’s Self-Portrait 1907 are line, surface, time, and shading. To the extent principals of configuration go, accentuation on extent and size of specific highlights makes them stick out, consequently upgrading the demeanor of his face. I picked this craftsmanship in light of the fact that the effortlessness of the artwork, particularly the striking utilization of line, is engaging the eye and looks like something I’d draw.      It seems like Picasso began the canvas with an overwhelming layout portraying and overstating the state of the head and its highlights, at that point proceeded to fill in the body and foundation. The lines sketching out the eyes, cheekbones, and nose are a lot heavier than the lines making up the mouth. Maybe this is on the grounds that he considered himself to be more the eyewitness who communicates preferred through his craft over through his words. With the eyes and nose exaggerated, the articulation is one of interest and consistent mindfulness, just as positive thinking and pleasure. Picasso utilizes directional lines in this self picture. His brow inclines at a similar point as his jaw and ear, neckline, and lapel. His hair is brushed at a point that matches with the neck, left cheekbone and neckline. His correct cheekbone is a continuation of the line speaking to where his shirt ties down which likewise coordinates the line of his left lapel. It would appear tha t he...

All Around the World Women Writers from Every Continent

All Around the World Women Writers from Every Continent This post is part of our International Womens Day celebration. See all the posts here. Whenever I get the bright idea to write lists of my favorite women writers, I quickly remember that it’s much more complicated than “I love Toni Morrison!” Who, to be clear, I dearly love, but she is one of the women writers who did not make my list. This list of women writers from all seven continents* was inspired by International Womens Day, but really came to life when I realized I was sorely deficient on reading books by Australian authors. (The * is for Antarctica. After some fun fact-checking and Wiki-history lessons, I realized that no one is currently from Antarctica, as in born and raisedâ€"they just visit, and write, and do science experiments. And freeze.) So my list comes to this: women writers from all seven continents whose books (mostly fiction, nonfiction and young adult) Ive read, and loved, and look forward to reading. Once I got to this down on paper I discovered I really like books of short stories/vignettes/tales from different points of view, so I’ve already learned something about my reading preferences.   North America When I think of lyrical I think Sandra Cisneros  and remember what it felt like as a young woman to read this extraordinary writer for the first time: it was like reading in a language I didn’t know that I knew. Her poetry is humanely sublime, and her stories make you feel like a character in her book.   For a taste of her fiction, try The House on Mango Street, vignettes of a young girl growing up in the urban side of Chicago. For the poetry, Loose Women and My Wicked, Wicked Ways bring out the Beyonce and electrify you. Cisneros released a new book in 2015, A House of My Own: Stories from My Life, that is currently waiting patiently on my TBR. Backlist: Mariah K. Young, Mashaallah and Other Stories. I admit a huge bias here: Young is the winner of the very first James D. Houston award “for fiction that captures an engagement with life and literary exploration of California and the West,” two of my favorite places to read about. (California love 4eva!)  Plus, I really love the way the word/title, Masha’allah, just rolls off my tongue, and its deeper meaning. (An Arabic phrase you use to express  joy, respect.) The short stories in Mashaallah revolve around undocumented immigrants and hustlers in Oaklandâ€"regular people just trying to scrape together a living, making it one day at a time. Its just so real life and well written, and I wait anxiously for more from Young. For more suggestions, check these lists of 100+ Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers,  7 Female Canadian Authors You Need to Read,  14 Aboriginal Women Writers to Read This Summer,  and Book Rioters  Lists of Our Favorite American Authors. South America Isabel Allende is my ultimate favorite in this category, someone whose books I pick up and read, and read, and read again.  Laura Esquivel (Like Water for Chocolate) comes in a very close second. But there are way too many countries and writers in South America to stop here, and most of you will likely know Allende Esquivel, so instead, try these two: Valeria Luiselli, born in Mexico, raised in South America and now living in Harlem, says wistfully, I would love to be considered a South-African-Indian-Mexican-American writer. A statement that’s also a clue to her writing style, which blurs through the regular categories: she’s described La historia de mis dientes (The Story of My Teeth   translated by  Christina MacSweeney)  as a “collective novel-essay.” Told from the POV of a self-described auctioneer relating the story of his life, Gustavo “Highway” Sánchez, his  chapters are titled/labeled to note when the story he tells veers off from what really happened. Such as “The Circulars,” “The Allegorics,” and “The Chronologic.” I love stories that you can read in order, out of order, one at a time or all together, and The Story of My Teeth hits the spot. Luiselli wrote it at an art space located on the property of a factory in Mexico City; it’s written for and with the assistance of the employees, so the b ook turns into a real collaboration of stories to make one long, not totally reliably narrated, bittersweet novel. It’s sublime. Also check out Luiselli’s first novel,  Los ingrávidos (Faces in the Crowd, also translated by MacSweeney),  where the protagonist works at a publishing house specializing in literary translationâ€"and makes up a famous translator in order to get her obscure poet’s work to sell more copies. As you do. Backlist: If you like Julio Cortázar, you’ll love fellow Argentinian Samanta Schweblin. She’s award-winning, translated into more than a dozen languages, and her stories are just weirdly awesome. Case in point: just when you think you’re reading a regular old story about divorced parents trying to deal with their young daughter, Schweblin inserts a twist. Little Sara, sweet young Catholic schoolgirl, eats birds. Not like, I’m gonna eat a chicken burrito. Nope. She sees live birds, in cages, and devours them, whole and still tweeting. Ew! And wow. You can check out a preview of the story Pájaros en la boca (Birds in the Mouth    translated by Joel Streicker)  from the book of the same name, here. Africa If you’re reading this on Book Riot, then you probably know of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a bookish household name.  Her novel Americanah  describes in flashback and forward Ifemelu’s journey from Nigeria to the U.S. and back. A writer herself, Ifemelu shares in lol detail her observances of the peculiarities of Africans and African Americans and their interactions, customs and airs. Americanah is a page turner, a critique of culture clashes and a modern day trans-continental love story. But then there is We Need New Names  by NoViolet Bulawayo, whose stream-of conscious prose is like a punch in the gut after  the smooth flow of Adichie, and for good reason. We Need New Names is narrated by Darling, a young girl in a shantytown in Zimbabwe, who watched as her community was bulldozed, the men (and teachers) all leaving for better jobs and lives in South Africa, the women staying at home under tin-plated-roofs to scrape for food and watch the children, all in the name of revolution. Darling and her friendsâ€"including Bastard, Godknows, and 11 year old, pregnant by her grandfather Chipoâ€"spend their days stealing fruit from the neighborhoods with mansions, avoiding all adults, and preening for the cameras when the well-intentioned folks from NGO come to snap pictures of native Africans living in the bush for the folks back in the states. Darling doesn’t give a shit about anything except eventually making it to America to join her aunt, and living a better life. So h er words and the writing is blunt, to the point, and bleak. The children congregating, having adventures and trying to survive on their own gives a Lost Boys/Peter Pan feel. But these children do grow up, and must figure out what to do with their fractured lives. Backlist: Round out your African novels with Ghana Must Go  by Taiye Selasi. Explore Ghana, London and New York through the stories of the Sai family, whose patriarch, Kweku Saiâ€"world renowned for his surgeon skills, not as well loved by his own familyâ€" has just died. The family comes together to mourn, and everyone has stories, secrets and love to share. Described as “a portrait of a modern family” Ghana Must Go will leave you in tears. For further reading, check out our own Swapna’s African Reading List, including writers of all genders, Valerie’s What To Read if You Loved Americanah,  7 Great Novels by African Women Writers, and A New Generation of African Women Writers Make New Waves. Asia You might recall Arundhati Roy, Indian author who is best known for her novel The God of Small Things.  I loved that bookâ€"and not just because it’s about twins. It’s about the the small things that make you go crazy and affect your life in ways you never expected; about the rules we create to decide “who can be loved, and how much; it’s about a multi-generational family torn apart and coming back together. But my heart belongs to Nayomi Munaweera, whose debut novel, Island of A Thousand Mirrors,  a passionate tale of two families living through Sri Lankas civil war, won me over with its lush, vibrant wartime story, told through the trials of a Romeo-and-Juliet couple whose families hail from opposing sides of of the war. It is just breathtaking and heartbreaking and makes me think of cool, dark rooms and people escaping from hot, sultry summers. Bonus, you get to learn a bit about the civil war, through characters you really care about. Munaweera’s second novel, What Lies Between Us, takes advantage of her Sri Lankan roots and current San Francisco residence, and explores the story of a young woman who grew up happy and carefree in Sri Lanka, until tragedy strikes and turns her world upside down. In the aftermath,  Ganga and her mother are ostracized in Sri Lanka, and seek comfort and a new home in the U.S. It’s about trauma, family, faith and the ties that bind us to people, and home. Backlist: Bangladeshi Tahmima Anam’s stunning debut novel (the first in a proposed series) is about the rise of Islamic radicalism in Bangladesh. The Golden Age  follows Rehana Haque, a widow, mother and student who is suddenly caught up in the Bangladesh war for independence in 1971. Rehana lost her children for a time when they were young (first line of the story: Dear Husband, I lost our children today) and she was a new widow, unable to take care of them; so when her son joins the guerilla fighting, Rehana too is caught up in the resistance, hiding guns and supplies at home, taking care of injured fighters, and trying to protect her family and keep them together. Sequel The Good Muslim  was published in 2011 and I’m still waiting for number three to drop…. For further reading, see “There aren’t a lot of you out there”: What? Let’s fix our female Asian-American writer blind spot now and for a contemporary list featuring male and female authors, 32 Essential Asian-American Writers You Need To Be Reading. Australia Here’s where I started checking my bookshelves and college reading lists and came to a full stop as I realized I just do not know about Australian writers! But luckily the Book Riot Bat Channel is always on hand in case of emergency, so I got some excellent recommendations from “a very readerly Australian,” Keryn Stewart. So, a personal thanks to Keryn from me, and a groan from my TBR list, which is now just totally out of control. I seem to be on a theme of short stories that can be read together or singly, and the book that immediately captured my attention and made me want it right now is Six Bedrooms  by Tegan Bennett Daylight, which is on the 2016 Stella Prize shortlist. Described as “a mesmerising collection of moments from adolescence through adulthood,” these ten stories are all about falling in love, losing your virginity, your first home away from home, dealing with cancerâ€"what it means to be a coming of age, with a nice Australian backdrop. The fact that it sounds like or could be a YA-ish collection just made me want it all the more. To get a glimpse of the history of Australia through its citizens, Keryn suggested an historical fiction from Kate Grenville: The Secret River. Part of a trilogy about early Australia (along with The Lieutenant and Sarah Thornhill) The Secret River is set in the nineteenth century on the Australian frontier just outside of Sydney. In England, William Thornhill steals a load of timber and as punishment for the crime is sent to New South Wales, like many other convicts at the time. After a time he’s pardoned, gets himself some prime riverfront land and starts to dream bigâ€"until he realizes the land is already owned by original inhabitants of Australia. WHAT WILL HE DO?? (To my U.S. history-steeped mind, boy does this sound familiar.)  Keryn notes that the book is “outstanding and one of the best explorations of colonial Australia I think youll ever read. But is also a beautifully written page-turner. If you are just going to read one Australian book, Id put this high on the list .” My Backlist: Am I Black Enough for You?  by Anita Heiss. Because this could  be my anthem. I’m dying to read the Australian/Aboriginal woman’s memoir on stuff like the color of your skin as identity, stereotypical notions regarding race/ethnicity, and mostly, how Heiss coped with it all. Keeping up with Keryn’s Backlist: Charlotte Woods new novel The Natural Way of Things,  highly lauded young novelist Tara June Winch’s Tara June Winch’s Swallow the Air,  Sally Morgan’s autobiographical work My Place, a classic about rediscovering her heritage through the lives of her mother and grandmother. In YA, Melina Marchettas Looking for Alibrandi  is “one of the defining books of my adolescence,” and in scifi/fantasy, Margo Lanagan’s “beautiful and dark and slightly twisted” Sea Hearts  aka The Brides of Rollrock Island, a novel about selkies. And for more excellent recommendations, try the Australian Women Writers Challenge,  then check out the winners of The Stella Prize, “a major literary award celebrating Australian women’s writing, and championing diversity and cultural change.” Antarctica So again, no one truly lives in Antarctica, or claims it as a homeland. It is a place of exploration, scientific experiments and research, and artists retreats. The Antarctic Artists Writers Program “provides opportunities for scholars in the humanities (painting, photography, writing, history, and other liberal arts) to work in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.” Which sounds pretty cool to me. Except the cold. I’m from California, I don’t do cold well.   But that means there is a good chunk of writing from/about Antarctica by women. Including Chasing the Light: A Novel of Antarctica  by Jesse Blackadder, based on the quiet-as-it’s-kept true story of the first woman to set foot on Antarctica in the 1930s. After three women work their way onto a Norwegian ship, they have to keep it together long enough to beat each other to claim the “first woman here!” prize. There are vivid, dramatic accounts of whaling, the ship voyage over icy seas, and struggles with the menfolk to even get to the Southern tip of the world. Interesting note: Blackadder (real last name) is an Australian writer, who won the 2011/12 Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship and got to travel to Antarctica, where she researched the details for her novel. I honestly can’t think of a better way to be introduced to writing about Antarctica. And I have to give an honorable mention to Kathleen Keeley’s Molly Finn and the Southern Ocean, the fourth book in the Molly Finn YA series. Molly  is a (wait for it…) MERGIRL!!! (Side note: I’m calling mermaid’s as the next YA craze, following in the esteemed line of vampires, werewolves, and zombies.) Through the Molly Finn books, Keeley strives to get young readers to understand issues like our impact on the environment, the ebb and flow of life under the sea, and how sea creatures struggle to survive in our changing ocean world. This fourth book in the series isn’t out yet, but till it comes you can catch up with Molly Finn and the Seven Seas Fountain. And for young readers, or people like me who enjoy a good picture book, The Island That Moved  is written by NSF-sponsored Meredith Hooper  and illustrated by Lucia deLeiris, and tells the story of a little island traveling over millions of years to its current resting place as the Antarctic peninsula. Learn about plate tectonics! Enjoy the awesome illustrations! Backlist: Sarah Andrews’ forensic geology mystery novel, In Cold Pursuit, about a woman who arrives in Antarctica for a masters thesis, and finds her professor dead; Jennifer Armstrong’s Jennifer Armstrong’s Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance. Europe My all time favorite in this corner of the globe is A.S. Byatt, and we don’t talk about her enough anymore so she’s making my list. She writes wonderfully long family-portrait style books that feature the English countryside as a character in a way that Sex the City fans will appreciate. Start with Possession, one of my favorite books of all time, combining the story of two academics researching their way towards true love. And Byatts teeny tiny books of short stories are just art pieces, inside and out. Check one out to get a short, sweet taste of Byatts stuff. French writer Marie NDiaye is a hero of mine for publishing her first novel at 18. Essayist, playwright, and children’s novelist as well as a fiction writer, NDiaye’s Trois Femmes puissantes (Three Strong Women,  translated by John Fletcher) took the book world by storm and won France’s most prestigious book award. Moving between France and Senegal, the novel tells stories of immigrants and survival, facing and coming to terms with festering familial wounds and surviving, and resilience in the face of a world that keeps throwing crap at you. It’s also a testament to finally putting your foot down and saying no: to an abusive father, a selfish boyfriend, to anything standing in your way. Her 2013 novel All My Friends  (translated by Jordan Stump)  offers the same unflinching examination of human narcissism through relationships, and how they can disappoint when the real thing doesn’t meet our lofty expectations. You don’t want to read NDaiye if you need to feel uplifted about our interactions with others you read her to get a reality check and remember that you don’t have it so bad, after all. Backlist: British Sara Wheeler is a double entry, as the book of hers I’m most in love with is a product of the The Antarctic Artists Writers Program: Terra Incognita  recounts  this biography/travel writer’s adventures in the deep South, and almost makes me want to see it for myself. And Austrian Nobel winning playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek, who I’ve always wanted to read due to her reputation for writing lyrical novels (she’s got a background in music) that irritate readers with their obscenity and sarcasm. The heroine of  The Piano Teacher  (translated by  Joachim Neugroschel) is a 38 year old woman who lives with her mother, but visits peep shows at night and takes a 17 year old student as a lover, in a dark twisted fantasy relationship. Better than reality TV.   So thats my suggestions for women writers all over the world, and its by no means all inclusive. Who are your favorites? Also In This Story Stream The Women in Science We Don’t Write About Terry Tempest Williams on Women and Books Feminist-Friendly Comic Books Lauren Beukes On Writers and Their Cats Fatima Mernissi, Morocco’s Feminist Icon Sonali Dev on Why She Writes The Heroines She Writes On Worldviews and Reading Widely 50 of the Best Heroines from Middle Grade Books Between Worlds: Finding Home in Fantasy How to Raise a Well-Read Woman View all international women's day posts-->

Concerns of Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources - 1141 Words

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Praying Habits Through A Multicultural Church Gathering

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Writing Your Wrong’s Free Essays

Most moral filled people have the inner desire to make up for the mistake of their past and this desire is magnified when those mistakes have a negative effect on the lives of others. There is a painful guilt that motivates a person to right his or her wrongs and throughout the redemption process a person’s perception of one’s self can be completely different from reality. The human psyche may only allow you to see what you want to see and not necessarily the facts or truth. We will write a custom essay sample on Writing Your Wrong’s or any similar topic only for you Order Now Filmmaker, M. Night Shyamalan, portrays this perfectly through the character Malcolm Crowe in the movie The Sixth Sense. Malcolm is a brilliant and successful child psychologist who struggles with his failed attempts to help a former patient and the neglect of his own marriage throughout his career. Driven by guilt, Malcolm pours all of his time and energy into a new patient, Cole Sears, whose symptoms are parallel to those of his very disturbed former patient. Cole is a scared, anxiety stricken, and haunted young boy with a supernatural ability to see and communicate with dead people or ghosts. Due to Malcolm’s deep commitment and extensive time spent with Cole, he alienates his wife who seeks comfort and companionship from a male employee. Malcolm’s desperate need to help Cole clouds his ability to perceive his true reality. It is through the journey of helping Cole that finally opens Malcolm’s eyes to the realization and acceptance of his own death. As a result, he attains closure with his wife, redeems himself for past failures and is able to move on to the afterlife with a sense of inner peace. Malcolm and his wife appear to share a deep love for one another even though she makes a comment early on in the movie that she is runner up to his career. Nonetheless, it is evident they have love and mutual respect for one another. Unfortunately, their happiness is abruptly disrupted when Malcolm is shot by his former patient, a boy whom he could not help. He does this because he feels as though Malcolm failed him and blames him for being a freak. Following the shooting, we see Malcolm try to interact with his wife without success and her repeated failure to respond to him or acknowledge his presence in a room. She appears to ignore him and he views this lack of communication as anger and resentment that stems from marital neglect. This is shown in a scene where his wife is waiting for Malcolm at a restaurant to celebrate their anniversary and he arrives late because he is in a session with Cole- his new patient. His apology is futile and his wife leaves angry and hurt. Malcolm’s perception of the situation is inaccurate because of his inability to acknowledge that he is actually dead. Until this is revealed to Malcolm, he will continue to falsely interpret his wife’s behavior and actions. This point is proven when we see Malcolm find his wife’s bottle of antidepressants and his assumption that her depression is due to marital problems and not grief from his tragic demise. At the suggestion of Cole, Malcom expresses his love to his wife while she sleeps and in that moment his true reality is finally realized – he his dead! It is abundantly clear that Malcolm’s sessions and relationship with Cole are paramount in his ability to evolve and eventually say goodbye to his wife and have closure in their marriage. Malcolm believes he is Cole’s hired psychologist and desperately wants to help him. His motivation for doing so is fueled by his guilty conscience resulting from his failed attempt to help his former patient who ultimately shot him. Malcolm sees the similarities between the boys and wants the opportunity to get it right. At first, it is unclear if Malcolm can help Cole, but through a bedtime story everything changes. He narrates this to Cole as a bedtime story that revolves around a character named Malcolm, â€Å"Malcolm who works with children and. although he loves his job, he makes a mistake when he is unable to help a young boy. That mistake changed his life forever. He thinks about him all the time and cannot get the boy out of his mind. He then meets a new boy that reminds him of the other boy he was unable to help. This new boy is awesome and Malcolm wants to help him. If he helps this new little boy, it will be like helping the other one too†. From this bedtime story, Cole discerns that Malcolm is talking about himself and this makes Cole more open towards accepting Malcolm’s help. This breakthrough with Cole is the turning point in their relationship. Malcolm suggests that Cole help the ghosts that haunt him. This proves to be therapeutic and we begin to see spiritual growth and improved quality of life for Cole, which directly affects Malcolm. Malcolm’s guilt for failing his past patient lessens every day as he witnesses the positive changes in Cole. As a result of Malcolm’s persistence and success in helping Cole, he is redeemed and closer to the eternal piece that awaits him. When a person has unresolved conflict or lack of closure in a relationship it can inhibit his or her ability to move on to the afterlife upon their death. Initially, Malcom’s perception of his mortality is suppressed by the desire for redemption and marital peace. His extreme guilt over the inability to help his former patient and his decaying marriage hold him prisoner in a purgatory type state. Ultimately, through his gifted ability to help a disturbed child his eyes are opened and his soul is set free. Free from the guilt of failing a boy and his marital shortcomings, but filled with inner peace. This inner peace can be seen when he tells Cole he will see him tomorrow knowing tomorrow will never come and later that evening when he expresses his love and final goodbye to his wife allowing them both to move on. In the end, Malcolm’s spirit is free of guilt, redeemed, and living in eternal life. Through his character’s portrayal we learn the importance of living a moral, regret free and family filled life. An important lesson much needed by many in our world today. Work Cited The Sixth Sense. M. Night Shyamalan, Hollywood Pictures, 1999. How to cite Writing Your Wrong’s, Papers

Repression Essays - Freudian Psychology, Mental Processes

Repression When forming a memory, the brain takes what we see, hear, smell, feel, and or taste, and fills in the blank spots with information that we have perceived from common knowledge and stores it as a memory. But sometimes something happens that is so shocking that the mind grabs hold of the memory and pushes it underground, into some inaccessible corner of the unconscious. There it sleeps for years, or even decades, or even forever- isolated from the rest of mental life. Then, one day it may rise up and emerge into consciousness. When the unconscious tucks away a memory, to hopefully be forgotten, it is called Repression. Repression is a defense mechanism derived from Sigmund Freud near the beginning of the century (Gay 18-19). But if a person cannot recall a memory, was it ever really a memory? Did it ever really happen? If so, can the conscious be manipulated and made to think that, through controversial methods such as hypnosis or a truth serum called sodium pentathol, a false event ac tually happened? (Accused) And if these false events are believed, then can the manipulated mind be used in court cases to sue the people who caused the traumatic experience? When Freud discovered the idea behind repressed memories he then had to come up with a way to recover then. A process known as psychoanalysis was formed. The theory of repression and recovery became a ?corner stone? to understanding some of our own neurosis (Gay 18-19). When Freud began to use this method frequently, he did not know what psychologists would do with the theory today, nor did he realize that people would ever use this as a method of fraud. In 1990 a case went to trial against a man accused of murder 20 years earlier. He was accused of killing his daughters' best friend. The daughter, now an adult, began to remember slowly events that occurred and pieced together enough information to convict her father. He was the first man to ever go to trial and be convicted of murder of the grounds of a recovered memory (repressed memories). In this particular case, was the daughter beginning to remember these events before she began therapy or was this such a traumatic event that in order to settle it within her own mind, she had to come up with her own solution? When a memory becomes locked away, it can be permanent or temporary depending on the severity of the traumatic experience. Through psychoanalysis, the memory can be brought back. The process is a detailed inquiry of the persons past and past relations and events, which are recorded and analyzed. (Gay 479) Through this process, the psychologist then can determine whether or not there is more there to be ?brought out?. This is where hypnosis and other controversial methods can come into play. When you are under hypnosis, you are completely vulnerable and susceptible to influence. Memories can then be implanted by use of ?descriptive details, inserted characters and fictitious plot elaboration.? (Accused) There are also three ways in which memory can be affected: when it is stored, while it is being stored and when it is retrieved. During each of these times something could be misunderstood, or implanted. Psychologists are not the only influences our brain has. Recollections of horror movies, comic books, nightmares, anything on TV are liable to get garbled in our memories and tossed around to confuse us. Possibilities of retrieval of lost memories are plentiful. Memories of these things can come out in the hypnosis therapy and therapists think it to be true and valid information. But not only is it up to the techniques reliability, but it is also up to the mind and soul of the person to distinguish these other influences and recapture the true event. Knowing that evidence exists that memories can be implanted and that the mind is so easily mislead, it makes you wonder about your own past. It makes you almost want to remember things that your not even sure existed. It also makes you wonder why people would want to dredge up memories if they are not real. There is no easy answer or explanation to the theory of