Apathy

While Marcello’s work in the secret police will brings him guilt at the films conclusion, Harry Caul’s work as a surveillance expert brings him guilt from, the very outset of The Conversation. Harry expresses a pointed apathy towards the lives of others, especially those of his surveillance targets. The reason for this pointed disinterest becomes clear during Harry’s own confession. Harry like Marcello is shown making his confession in a close-up profile shot. However Harry trembles as he…

other people have for him. This leads to his rejection to feel love and pursue a selfish path that leads to the destruction of others. Ovid, through Queen Dido’s speech, specifically mentions not only Queen Dido’s death but his wife’s death due to his apathy. According to Queen Dido, “If you ask, where is the mother of lovely Iulus-- / She died, left alone by her harsh husband.” (Ovid, Heroides 82-83) She also condemns his actions as selfish ones, stating “It is not good for an impious hand to…

Money in politics has been a topic of interest throughout the history of the United States Government, especially in the more recent decades. There are arguments on both sides of the issue. Those Who want to eliminate money in politics by implementing campaign finance reform argue that wealthy donors and corporations hold too much power in elections and as a result they can corrupt campaigns. Those who favor less regulation say that campaign donations are a form of free speech, so it’s protected…

Learned Helplessness Any animal which has realized it has no control over its own actions after dealing with pain or abuse with no escape for an extended amount of time a person or other animal has learned to be helpless. Through no fault of ones own inescapable punishments encircle ones life and flight from that inevitable punishment soon permeates ones mind resulting in no escape and no way to decipher between good and bad actions and in most cases learning is severely impaired.. They can…

It is one of the main factors in the area of morality. Whether you do good or evil, will endure on a good way or because of apathy or something else, you give it up and succumb - depends on us, on our will. Therefore, the will become a very important factor in the education and moral achievements. Without will nothing can, and with it will increasingly become mainstream. Islam…

This type of criticism explores the issues of gender roles, power, sexuality, and masculinity. In "Paul's Case", Willa Cather establishes a male character who tests the accepted norms for men and women in America; Paul's sexual orientation results in apathy for his community, contempt for his teachers, and an overall alienation. Christianity plays a key role in the stigmatization of non-reproductive sexual practices and the development of derogatory perspectives of homosexuality. At Paul's…

TNI versus Polri TNI (Indonesian Army) and Polri (Indonesian police) are two institutions that responsible in national defense and security in Indonesia. But one more incident in Batam shows us that their psychology relationship becomes worse. This incident happened in Brimob Command Headquarters Kepulauan Riau, Tembesi, Batuaji, Batam on November 19th 2014. Before we talk about the best solution for them, we should know the reasons or backgrounds of conflict TNI versus Polri. Why do they need a…

Melito of Sardis is thought to have penned a homily called “A Homily on the Passover,” or Peri Pascha. This piece elucidates a christology with several important facets. First, Melito centers Christ as both fully human and fully divine. He writes at length that Jesus, in his christological role, was both temporal and atemporal, finite and infinite, the embodiment of the Father [sic] and the Son [sic]. Further, Jesus, as the Christ, is understood to be a mold-breaker. The mold was the Law to…

Based off the 1993 novel by Lois Lowery, The Giver (2014) is a movie about a perfect utopian world, where there is no color, religion, race, and war. The utopian was put in place in order for there to be a representation of a perfect society, one where everyone is equal and there is no such thing as deceit and pain. But, although this city is supposed to be a utopia, it is everything but. The citizens see no color, have no intense feeling, have no real freedom, and also are not aware of death.…

Man’s Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl’s memoir and logotherapy novel Man’s Search for Meaning is a hugely successful, influential book for modern psychology and to all readers. The haunting recounting of Frankl’s life inside Nazi concentration camps, his explanation and support of the practice along with the benefits of logotherapy, and because of his Case for Tragic Optimism makes this book truly a genre of its own between memoir and psychology. This novel has been counted as one of the top…