‘Medea is about extremes in human emotion.’ Discuss. It is within the very nature of humans to be captivated by extreme emotions, yet within his Greek tragedy Medea, Euripides also demonstrates the extent to which we are bound by idyllic values of social order. This disjunction founded upon passion and reason is best contextualised by the gripping antithesis between Medea and Jason respectively. While Medea is the embodiment of barbaric excess, Jason is the unadulterated archetype of Greek culture and its civilised laws.…
In the article “Logical Choice” Gary Belsky writes about decisions and how hard they can be no matter what the circumstance is. He wrote this article to show people that it is not easy making a decisions without feeling a little guilt about the choice they made. Belsky gives a few real common life examples of choices people have to make and some they make in their daily life. A few years ago I lived with my mom and was going through some tough situations while I was there. We had financial, housing, and family problems.…
Throughout Adeline’s life the concept of affectivity and affective neutrality took precedent within her family, she couldn’t rely on receiving emotional gratification from a relationship. Most often Adeline was subject to verbal abuse from her step mother, as well as physical abuse. Adeline won class president at her school one year, to celebrate her friends showing up uninvited to her house to celebrate her victory. However no victory was to ensue but instead humiliation by Niang for all to hear, and a brutal beating in private (p.68-69). Once the torment was over she was to return downstairs and dismiss her friends, therefore her parents could open the gifts left for her, and then force Adeline to throw them away.…
Hey Boomer, I think I am going to request to be removed from being a mod. This pains me but I can't handle the fact that there are so many people that don't understand what a joke is vs what an attack or bullying is. I feel honestly that with that much of a struggle to identify that simple thing, the mods and admins are going to be at odds forever moving forward. My two bits that I want to say was said perfectly by Kuro "you can make a joke with out attacking someone.…
Interesting articles, I was not aware of the term "smiling depression". This could definitely be the issue for some people on social media. The article highlighted some important facts tied to social media and the need to make one self seem happy. It is scary to think that most of these teens live for the attention they receive on social media. You make a great point that "If their value system is based solely on likes, and affirmation from masses of people that do not really know them, the risk of taking negative remarks or experiences that they have online to heart will reflect more profound statistics in terms of depression and suicide that we are seeing today.…
The Controversy of Obesity Obesity is a major problem in America. The numbers of obese people in the United States have steadily increased since the 1970’s. Over a fourth of the population in America is obese, leading it to be the among the most obese countries in the world. Obesity can be solved.…
In, “The New Science of Happiness,” Claudia Wells discusses 3 great ways to become more happy. By getting more pleasure out of life, becoming more engaged in what you’re doing, and finding ways to make your life more meaningful, Wells explains these actions can greatly influence your happiness levels. Savoring each and every sensory drop from any given moment will increase your gratitude towards life's seemingly mundane interactions. Which brings us to the large topic of gratitude which Wells, in conjunction with studies by psychologist Robert Emmons, explains that “Gratitude exercises can do more than life one’s mood… they improve physical health, raise energy levels, and, for patients with neuromuscular disease, relieve pain and fatigue.”…
The Science of Happiness The video “The Surprising Science of Happiness,” narrated by Dan Gilbert, is about the scientific view and experiment about how people, or human beings in general, handle their happiness, their emotions. As human beings have made a great evolution in over two million years, the brain also has significantly increased in mass and size and gained new structures. One of the new structures that the brain has developed is a part called the frontal lobe, or in particularly, pre-frontal cortex. One of the most crucial activities that pre-frontal cortex does is act as an experience simulator, whereas we can experience certain things in our head before trying them.…
Emotional intelligence can play a major role in the success of failure of a group activity (Cardon, 2013). Emotional intelligence is important because it effectively manages the emotions of the group. For instance, if each member of the group isn't capable of setting aside personal emotions it would be impossible to resolve any type of conflict within the group. Therefore, the group or project would not produce the necessary results. Groups that consist of members with high emotional intelligence typically produce superior outcomes.…
We will only discuss the major subcortical structures of our mammalian animal brain. Our ancestral brain is not nearly as simple as the following short discussions might imply. In Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions (1998), referring to the instinctual emotional processing that goes on in our subcortical brain structures, Jaak Panksepp notes the likelihood that, "in a deep evolutionary sense, many of the complex information-processing potentials of the cortex are servants (often unconscious, automatized servants) to the dictates of the affective forces that ruled behavior prior to cortical…
Many women are affected by breast cancer physically and psychologically. This study from Spain, illustrates the psychological aspects of coping with an illness like breast cancer. Utilizing positive psychology in those who are affected by breast cancer gives individuals the strength to persevere through this battle. Researchers of this study; M. Victoria Cerezo, Margarita Ortiz-Tallo, Violeta Cardenal, and Alejandro de la Torre-Luque had studied the work of Seligman, Csikszentmihalyi, and many other positive psychology researchers over the past decade. Through research done on other studies it is apparent that there is a correlation between better physical and mental health with the incorporation of positive psychology.…
As stated by Yuuki Asuna, “Life isn’t just doing things for yourself. It’s possible to live in such a way that other people’s happiness, makes you happy too.” Doing something for oneself is selfish and pointless. Happiness has been pursued by the people who come to America, wanting the American dream, to be happy and get what they want. Not being happy even have a negative connotation to it.…
The Essentiality of Feelings in Relation to Emotions For most people, the words “feeling” and “emotion” have virtually no difference, but ask someone who specializes in philosophy, and more specifically, who specializes in the study of human emotion, and you’ll get a variety of answers, ranging from the stance that the body’s reactions are what causes emotions to the stance that emotions are simply impulses. Having thoroughly studied several different emotional theories, I believe that, first and most importantly, that feelings and emotions are separate entities and that feelings are not the essential element to emotions. In fact, I believe that the objects of the emotion, both material and formal, are the critically essential components,…
An Emotional Ride I felt determined to rid myself of the aging coupe. The mounting repair bills at Speedy’s Garage were a heavy burden and the metallic knocking under the hood filled me with dread. The winter wind buffeted my face as I climbed out of the failing car for the last time and stood alone in the used car lot. I pulled my Carolina Panthers jacket close and took a deep breath.…
Emotions are always difficult to describe by words. Happiness, angry, joy, and fear are some examples of feelings that are challenged to express. Nevertheless, every people born with it, and indeed sentiments are essentials to form people’s personalities. They are the first steps in life which help us to create our characters. In addition, culture and family are other factors that interfere in the development of our personalities.…