Ambivalence

Establishing a safe work environment is crucial to the accomplishment of any private or public workplace. Accident prevention and safety is one of the greatest ways to maintain dedicated staff and increase efficiency, while decreasing costs and liabilities. Although there are short term financial costs associated with implementing a safety plan and installing safety equipment, the effect of not taking action can be catastrophic. Furthermore, leaders need to ensure that the business they reside…

(2014), distressed or struggling individuals that have experienced a hardship and some form of deferment from a healthy emotional and physical lifestyle, such as addiction or drug abuse, typically adhere to an unproductive attachment style such as ambivalence or avoidance. In the field of healthcare in particular, it is important to have a level of understanding regarding the relationship between providers and clients, and the fragility of the bonds and trust that must be formed to accomplish…

Claude Bernard is recognized as an active participant of the laboratory revolution, having discovered the milieu intérieur, or what we today refer to as homeostasis, and is also renowned for his reductionist approach to medicine and its most efficient evidence. His famous book, An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, immediately makes evident, through its title, that he emphasizes the importance of experience as a method of gathering information. Consequently, the short excerpt…

The Female Characters in The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a historical novel. The author employs a narrator, Nick Carraway, to allow insight into the upper class society of New York during the early 1920s. Socially, women enjoyed enormous changes during this era as hemlines shortened replacing long skirts and corsets, hair was bobbed to resemble a more masculine style, and women attained the right to vote. Women, predictably, responded in a variety of ways to these…

Three distinct genders existed in Rome and proved to threaten the social norm. A prevalent dilemma Romans endured during antiquity, however, was the existence of the third gender, androgyny, which challenged several aspects of Rome. Furthermore, androgyny presented many issues in terms of appropriately creating a single phrase referring to the individual, as well as to how to define it. For the most part, because hermaphrodites presented such a significant problem, they were abhorred in society,…

After the first season of A Different World, the spin-off series from The Cosby Show, writers and produces made much needed changes to the sitcom in order to accurately represent black college life. It was after those changes in the characters and actual dialogue of the show that made the series the first of its kind and largely successful. Herman Gray poses these two questions, “why the show should be characterized as exemplary, even distinctive, for its representation of diversity and…

Also she stated, “Responses to a change initiative that are neither consistently negative nor consistently positive, which were previously ignored but are potentially the most prevalent type of initial response, can be analyzed as cross-dimension ambivalence in employees’ responses to change. In the majority of work on resistance to change, researchers have borrowed a view from physics to metaphorically define resistance as a restraining force moving in the direction of maintaining the status…

cunning, that's all'(WSS,11), only marks out what is not there and makes plain the impossibility of any appeal to the past against an equally feared future. It is a past only existing in the parenthesis; 'My father, visitors, horses, feeling safe in bed-all belonged to the past'(WSS,5). The novel's figure for its own narrative is Antionette's dream, with its twice delayed near the conclusion and its dreaded but inevitable forward propulsion. The dream in a sense suggests a subsuming of the…

W., Grabsch, B., Clarke, D. M., Christie, G., Clifton, D., Gold, S., et al. (2004). Supportive-expressive group therapy: The transformation of existential ambivalence into creative living while enhancing adherence to anti-cancer therapies. Psycho- Oncology, 13(11), 755–768. Tamagawa, R., Li, Y., Gravity, T., Piemme, K., DiMiceli, S., Collie, K., & Giese-Davis, J. (2014). Deconstructing therapeutic mechanisms…

The Oxford dictionary defines identity as “The characteristics of determining who or what a person or thing is”. The Hebrew word “Galut”, “initially referred to the setting of colonies of Jews outside Palestine after the Babylonian exile”, when translated into Greek leads us to the etymology of the term “diaspora”, based on “speiro” (to sow) and the preposition “dia (over)” and in Ancient Greece it referred to “colonization” and “migration.” (Shuval, 2003) Thus, diaspora refers to the…