Hypnotic

American culture will diminish their own culture and traditions. This is understandable, mainly because infiltrating their culture is not the only negative impact American culture has on other countries. Apart from invading other cultures, America’s hypnotic trends and the glamours of Hollywood have also portrayed exceedingly negative stereotypes, which have the potential to influence extremism, and give the entire country a bad reputation and a negative self-image towards other nations.…

destructive to a free society. In much of his work, he emphasized control by propaganda, surveillance, and misinformation. A reoccurring theme in Orwell’s work is that language shapes our thoughts into a state of cognitive dissonance. This being a hypnotic state where one’s personal thoughts and beliefs are inconsistent with one’s actions.…

World Wars involve shock, strain, and screen trauma, with cumulative individual and group traumatization” (Blum, 67). Proceeding the events, denial and shock are common responses from survivors. The term trauma has been explained as “an experience of hypnotic imitation and identification…

We have all had a song in our lives that we heard at an early age, and it has just stuck with us ever since. It’s the kind of song that you can never get yourself to delete off your playlist, even though it is no longer your favorite song. So, when it begins to play out of your phone speakers, you never skip it. You would never actively look for that song, but it still gave you a feeling of content every time you heard it. That is the feeling I get when I hear “Firefly” by Owl City. Even though…

Born on December 6, 1950 in Nakano, Japan, Joe Hisaishi is a Japanese composer and musical director known famously for his scores in animated films from his professional partnership with Studio Ghibli's co-founder, Hayao Miyazaki. (Brightwell) Although known professionally under the name of Joe Hisaishi, or Hisaishi Jo, his real name is Mamoru Fujisawa. His work consists of different works such as European classical, Japanese classical, film scores, experimental electronic, minimalist, and…

An idealistic lifestyle has a wide variety of definitions, but for many, that involves being perpetually surrounded by models in minimal clothing. Hugh Hefner is the ‘perfect’ ladies man— an individual flocked by women living in an extravagant home. While some believe Hefner’s lifestyle is the pure manifestation of heaven, others see his unprecedented behavior as absolutely sickening. In Ross Douthat’s, “Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner” he is thoroughly described as a repulsive human-being. Douthat…

laying on my cot, listening to my one of my favourite songs. Whatever grievances I was still holding onto now seems like an insignificant speck; whether it be homework, exams or even my social life. The absolutely captivating words of Billy Joel are hypnotic, and before I know it I slowly drift asleep falling under the Piano Man’s trance. I opened my eyes, disoriented and dazed; with no idea where I am or the people I am with. Each of my sense tells me their own interpretation of the story.…

INTRODUCTION On October 21, 2014, a former McHenry County Sheriff’s Officer Gregory Pyle was sentenced 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated sexual abuse on a 12-year-old boy. Pyle sexually abused the 12-year-old for multiple years, both at Pyles home and at a hotel in Wisconsin in 2008. Pyle also shot a video of the sexual abuse and shared it online with others. For over five years, Pyle was entrusted with the efforts of the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office to protect children…

The moon hung high in the sky. A perfect silver disk, bleaching the land into a ghost-like replica of daytime. Its supine rays endowing the island with an eerie glow, it seemed to radiate a cold majesty, its beauty bordering hypnotic. The name Ariel sprang unbidden to mind, she seemed to resemble the moon in every way possible. Her eyes cold and distant. Her skin pale, almost devoid of colour. I stared at the long winding stairs, the polished wood shone in the soft light of the chandelier above,…

Victoria Farrell Sravana Borkataky-Varma PAR 232-800 10 October 2017 Chinese Religions in Therapy In the 1950s, cognitive psychology emerged with George Kelly spearheading the new school of thought. Kelly is especially famous for developing the Personal Construct Theory in which individuals create constructs. Constructs are defined as how people take in their surroundings and events occurring and use that information to further predict phenomena. Constructs are often compared to lens or glasses…