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    subject may be to you, there is no excuse for failing to get your medical concerns addressed by your physician. Here is your guide to talking with your family doctor about your most sensitive healthcare issues. Practice first One way to kill the embarrassment before it prevents you from approaching your doctor about these sensitive topics is to simply get some practice asking those embarrassing questions. Whether you are talking about bodily functions, or specific aches and pains in some of…

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    only caused physical conflicts, but internal conflicts as well. O’Brien and his comrades all have one thing in common: they all carry things that help them get through the hardships of war. Tim O’Brien shows the emotional conflicts, such fear and embarrassment, which result from the pressures and experiences at war. The things the soldiers carried represented their emotional conflicts, such as fear and distress, during and after war. The objects not only represent the soldiers’ fears, but are a…

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    shame, guilt, or embarrassment. Some soldiers are ashamed of themselves because they are weak and are unable to perform like others. Other soldiers carry the burden, a heavy load of guilt with them caused by the death of their comrades. In the chapter “ The Dentist “ from The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, uses negative diction and descriptive imagery to portray that even if a person can handle immeasurable pain, they struggle to handle the feeling of shame and embarrassment. The author…

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    Ambrose Bierce: A Strange Writer Ambrose Bierce was born on June 24, 1842 and died in the year of 1914 in Mexico. He was an American writer, poet, and journalist. His death is a mystery. The people in his time period reported that he disappeared without a trace. All investigations were proven wrong and people at that time period came up with many stories that other people found incredible and false. Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio, OH. At one point, he lived in San Francisco. Bierce’s…

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    her memoir “Fish Cheeks” Amy Tan uses the relating feeling of embarrassment to express how a 14 year old is trying so hard to fit in with society , and loose the embarrassment her family makes her feel. Tan beings with introducing herself to the readers she also introduces the guy she had the biggest crush on when she was younger , Robert he is the reason she wants to fit in with society, she used the mutual feeling of embarrassment that everyone has felt in some part of their lives so they…

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    Grandmother registered her mistake but chooses not to speak up due to her embarrassment. The use of this phrase foreshadows that due to her inaccuracy, something horrible might happen. In the story the grandmother is described as having her “eyes dilated and feet jumped up”, when she remembered the true location of the house.This phrase reveals the theme of the story because it shows the grandmother’s embarrassment. She was embarrassed by her mistake of saying the house was in Georgia…

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    In this study Bartholomew, Gundel and Kantamneni (2015) aimed at identifying the meanings ascribed to pre-resettlement stress among relocated Karen refugees. To identify participants, researchers used purposeful sampling, and interviewed with 6 refugees. Through phenomenological analysis, the authors identified 286 meaning units, which were categorized into four themes. The themes included loss from oppression, resignation and acceptance in a context of regular violence, ongoing insecurity while…

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    of embarrassment to show the extent by which we are forced to follow social rules in order to act appropriate in given situations. In addition, Goffman’s work has been criticized for highlighting societies complexities without finding plausible solutions (Manning, 1992, p. 6). While, Goffman 's theory may be considered…

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    community want him to join the war. It a pressure for him it just feels like the entire town and the universe are putting lots of pressure on him. The way his communities put a pressure on him if he didn’t join the Vietnam war, it would just be an embarrassment. As well as, the way he expresses that feeling by “It was as if there were an audience to…

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    Soldiers felt forced to participate in the war to avoid the shame and embarrassment from friends, family, and others familiar with them. They each are embarrassed for different reasons. One isn’t brave enough, while one isn’t smart enough. One isn’t tough enough, while one isn’t satisfied enough. O’Brien demonstrates that he is…

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