Denial

After reading “The Salesman” by Arthur Miller, I perceive several key themes. The first theme that I perceive is the loss of identity and the lack of ability of Willy to accept change within himself and the world. Willy, who lived in the past, continued to talk about things in the past. Miller writes, “Remember, Christmas time, when you had a party here? / You said you’d try to think of some spot for me in town” (Qtd in Barnet, Burto, and Cain, p. 1600). In Act 2, we saw another example of Willy…

Languishly Waiting for a Loved One: A Perspective on the Denial of Subjectivity, Instrumentality, and Inertness in The Wife’s Lament “Woe unto him who languishing waits for a loved one.” This gonic wisdom attached to the end of “The Wife’s Lament,” an anglo-saxon poem, resonates with the suffrage one woman must face alone after being discarded from an early form of a patriarchal society. While much of the context behind the poem remains a mystery, four things are certain. The speaker is a woman…

Australia is a multicultural country renowned for its general openness to other cultures. Some believe the treatment of Indigenous Australians has often been discounted or simply not adequately addressed with racial and discrimination issues still prevalent (Pedersen, Walker, & Griffiths, 2004). Research has suggested there are two types of racism. ‘Old-fashioned’ racism is characterised by beliefs minority out-groups such as Indigenous Australians are inferior. Segregation and open prejudice…

Aggression, the ultimate drive. The goal to win, to thrive and even to kill, all stem from our aggressive, primitive nature. Psychoanalytic theory was first introduced in the late 1890 's, by an Austrian neurologist named, Sigmund Freud. His theories primarily focused on unconscious aspects of personality. His focus on sex and aggression was taboo for the time, but helped provide a foundation for the treatment of psychopathy. Despite most of his theories being discredited, they are prevalent in…

teenage boy and then one day your little brother gets sick. Really sick. In the novel, Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie, Steven went through the five stages. Denial, bargaining, anger, depression, and acceptance, those are the five stages of grief that Steven went through. The first stage of grief Steven went through was denial. Denial is the act of declaring something untrue and refusing to believe that it is true. An example is, “ I bet Jeffy’s down there in Philly, guzzling cheesesteaks,…

What I gathered from reading about this technique along with the false confession cases was that the detectives appear to be trained to enter an interrogation under the assumption that the person in question is guilty. The detective's job is to get a confession-- not actually question the subject and gather information. This technique is in absolute contrast to what directly follows in our court system: "everyone is innocent until proven guilty." If you've already essentially been "proven"…

The concept I found most valuable in Module 8, Effective Negotiations was the three forms of collusion: silence, denial, and active participation. I found this area most important because of the negative impact collusion can have on the work center. If I let this kind of behavior occur as a Military Training Instructor (MTI) I will not lead successful flights. I play a key role in stopping this before it starts. The first type of collusion is silence. Course 15 states that collusion is the…

The passage that stood out to me is the passage about managed care in the health care system. Manage care faces an ethical issue when it comes to “conflicts between patient autonomy, the overall benefit for managed care members, and profit margins” (Morrison, 2015). The example Morrison provides in the text book talks about how patient who needs services are being denied for coverage. By denying coverage, this can lead to premature deaths for patients. However, if uncovered services are provided…

Forcing someone into a completely alternative environment with no prior knowledge of the situation is a platform for confusion and sometimes even denial. Plato’s “Allegory of The Cave,” and The Matrix both contain instances of people who have experience with the process of learning entirely new concepts. In the “Allegory of the Cave,” prisoners are exposed to shadows for all of their lives. This lifelong exposure resulted in the belief that the displayed shadows are the actuality. Furthermore,…

Passing Over The Racial Mountain Ever since slavery was first embarked upon, there has been a constant struggle for African Americans to sever the ties between their racial identity and the standards set for them by white folk. It wasn’t until the Harlem Renaissance that artists creatively articulated the African American experience through writing and music. During this time, people wrote literature that would appeal to a mixed audience, but individuals such as Langston Hughes made it known…