Eric Bartels, a feature writer for the Portland Tribune, explains what it is like to live with spousal anger in the essay “My Problem with Her Anger.” Bartels starts his essay with him cleaning dishes when he realizes the grill top had been in the sink soaking for an extended period of time. It is then when he finds the white line between men and women. The white line is doing the work when it needs to be done versus putting it off. He says how he has little energy as usual after a work day, but he knows that he should still wash the grills.…
When news media outlets report about violent crimes throughout the nation, many people have become de-sensitized to the fact that violence has become a part of everyday life. But how do people feel when a child escalates to a level of unthinkable violence? In August of 1993, Eric Smith was accused, tried, and convicted for the murder of 4 year old Derrick Robie. The community of Steuben County, New York were in shock and disgusted but were unaware that Eric Smith, who was 13 at the time, committed this heinous crime.…
Have you ever been angry? Have you done something you regret or look back on while you were angry? Can you recall what made you angry? In Touching Spirit Bear Ben Mikaelsen demonstrates that there are many ways to deal with anger. However, you can only control anger if you accept people to help you.…
Greg Harris, a young boy in high school with a hot temper and an amazing jump shot on the court. Throughout the story the reader becomes more intrigued in the story with the way that Walter Dean Myers tells the story through Greg's eyes. As the story begins the reader learns about Greg, his schooling, sports, and family. The reader quickly learns that prefers the name Slam over his real name and that he is having trouble in school.…
Ed Welch’s A Small Book About A Big Problem packs a massive punch about the dangers of unmortified anger in our lives. The book itself is very small in size, and its nearly 200 pages are divided into 50 days of devotions which can each be read in 5 or 10 short minutes. Be forewarned; you will walk away convicted on most days! If you haven’t discovered that anger is a sin struggle in your life, Welch may help you discover the ways this deceitfully hidden sin takes root in your life.…
The “...anger must ultimately be genuine in order to be useful…
Since the Fall, mankind has struggled with countless character problems, including the inability to handle anger. Everyday life presents us with difficult and frustrating situations. As free-willed individuals, we have the choice to either respond in a calm, collected manner, or to lash out impulsively. Although blind rage may seem preferable in the moment, it almost always yields negative results. After all, the ability to reason and reflect separates humanity from wild animals.…
On January 20th thousands of women’s voices were heard. However, in the article “Women’s March Baffles Women Attending Trump’s Inauguration” written by Vera Bergengruen, we hear the quiet voices of the opposing view. Bergengruen interviewed 15 women, all of which had no part in the women’s march. She then puts together the article by capturing the important viewpoints of the women that are not in agreeance with the march. Believing that Bergengruen’s skepticism of the march led her to the interviews she finds thoughts of anger, confusion, and ambivalent.…
Tessman states that what makes anger problematic is that anger become an emotion with multiple tasks. People use anger to promote change against injustice; others will use anger as an excuse to hold grudges or seek vengeance against people. The question is how can people express their anger or reason for being angry when they do not address the problem from the…
Brittany Cooper in her article also states the necessity of rage in the following way. “Rage must be expressed. If not it will tear you up from the inside out or make you tear other people up”. I certainly agree with this statement because the only way people won’t takeout their anger and rage on other people, is by rioting and destroying their own communities. In addition to this many individuals ask themselves, why do they destroy their own community?…
masculinity highly plays into this. Like I stated earlier, these men just wanted to show how powerful they were. They didn’t gain anything from this act of hatred. This girl didn’t ask for this to happen, she was forced to cooperate. Toxic masculinity continues to be shown with Stephen Asma’s article “Humiliations and Rage: How Toxic Masculinity Fuels Mass Shooting.”…
Anger has the capability to serve a positive function, but only when it is kept under control through the use of reasoning. For the purposes of this argument, anger is defined as a strong emotion caused by an injustice or a wronging, which motivates the wronged person to react in either a constructive or destructive way, depending on their level of self control and reasoning. With regards to anger serving a “constructive” function, this may mean in some way beneficial to the self or to society, as the two are connected; constructive anger refers to a situation where harm is either reduced or eliminated in order to produce a better outcome than that which would have come about from not staying one’s anger. “Destructive” anger, in this context,…
Moreover, it is seen clearly that anger comes from the feeling of unfairness, it is the perspective in which someone looks at a situation and makes a decision whether it is good or…
Schools have an important role in raising healthy children by fostering both their cognitive development and socioemotional development. Developmental studies indicate that the effective mastery of social-emotional competencies is associated with greater well-being and better school performance, whereas the ineffective mastery of social-emotional competencies can lead to a variety of personal, social, and academic difficulties, such as aggressive behavior and bullying. Expressed anger and aggressive behavior are associated with social skills deficits, poor anger management, and…
Anger is a form of communication that discloses important information about the obstacles oppressed people meet. For romantic period writers, anger was a cross of rational justice and irrational savagery, and determining its position in society and in their own work as a tool or weapon tackles them as a vital task (Stauffer 2). Anger often plays as a tool of truth, pointing out injustices, betrayals and false states of affairs and seeking to even scores. To this point, the romantic poets, angry satire was a highly rhetorical art and also a test of honesty, a theatrical act meant to remove masks and see behind it (Stauffer 6). Anger was an important political tool to women envisioning a new America in the 70s.…