Ambivalence

Meena Alexander, using rhetoric, creates a paradox with stark contrast to underline her ambivalence towards her identity. Conflicted between her present identity and her old identity she has left in India, Alexander portrays each with different and opposing rhetorical devices. She begins with extended metaphors to illustrate her conflictions, comparing her new identity to that of glass; using such words as splintered, shards, and fractured to connotate glass and all of its frailty. She sees…

freshman and sophomore years were nerve wracking, of course, yet an underlying excitement to see friendly faces had maintained my spirits. However, as a junior, my classmates were now off in their AP and honors classrooms, and I, in a state of ambivalence, was embarking on a new challenge: the International Baccalaureate (IB) Programme. My integration into this community, honestly, took a prolonged amount of time. The rigorous classes consumed the interests of the other students and I proved to…

No progress was made in this dimension. The client’s social system remains non-supportive of his recovery and appears to have a high risk of returning to addictive behavior as evidenced by the lack of commitment for his recovery and disengaging from treatment. Client’s living environment does not appear to be supportive of addiction recovery as he has little social interactions. Client did report that he attends church, but he lacks contact with and a connection to the 12-stap sober support…

American foreign policy is a fundamental aspect of American politics. Not only does it need expertise to ensure international relationships are maintained, but thought-out planning, because each decision made may have a direct impact on Americans. Impacts such as trade deals that increase business between nations, cyber security threats against private information, and much more. American safety and quality of life is at risk with every deal negotiated and every treaty signed. Despite this,…

Corruption in policing is using valid discretion for the wrong reasons such as personal or financial gain. Breaking the law in order to uphold the law is also corruption. Several possible explanations to why corruption occurs have been identified. One of these explanations is police personality. Pursuing a career in law enforcement can be attractive to individuals with common socioeconomic backgrounds. On the job experiences can lead to a cynical authoritarian personality common among police…

threatened by the existence of incestuous desires. Furthermore, Forker claims that dramatists’ portrayal of incest is in some cases positive, which they achieve by opposing it to the possibility of an even worse scenario (21). This scenario creates ambivalence and transforms the idea of incest to something even desirable (Forker 21). In particular, Forker claims that this happens with Middleton and Ford’s female characters, Isabella and Annabella, who are victims of enforced marriages…

wedding. Following the deployment of Othello and his soldiers, the antagonist Iago plots and puts into action his quest for revenge against Othello. The tragedy of Othello when analyzed from a post-colonial perspective can be identified by the ambivalence, exoticism, and magical realism found throughout the play in regards to Othello. During the time in which Shakespeare wrote Othello, European imperialism and colonialization was at its prime which inspired him to incorporate its effects…

their dishware. Next she discusses a friend’s account of poor service at a dry cleaner. Lastly, she speaks directly to members of the service industry calling for respect and decency for those paying for the service. This article fills me with ambivalence. While I can remember times in which I personally was frustrated with the…

Throughout history, in the majority of families, a bond between the parent and child is evident. This bond can be considered what scholars refer to as “attachment”. The theory of attachment has undergone much research among scholars and a large amount of them have agreed that there are four types of attachment. An example of this research is the “Strange Situation”. To begin, I will describe each of the four types and provide examples to help better one’s understanding. Later, I will…

directly correlate to not only the meaning of the word sympathy, but also to who Hawthorne persuades the reader to feel sympathetic for. Hawthorne uses the term thirty-five times throughout The Scarlet Letter, and associates a vagueness and an ambivalence with the term. Frequently, it implies a deep, dual meaning, where both sympathy and antipathy are present, at other times it suggests…