Isolation tank

Isolation is a powerful force. To be separated from humanity can disorient and debilitate oneself, unless they have hope. In John Valliant’s literary work The Jaguar’s Children, the protagonist, Hector, significantly grows, as he becomes an optimistic individual in order to survive, a more selfless person by taking care of Cesar and becomes a faithful believer in God. The isolation he faces changes his moral beliefs and attitude, ultimately giving him the willpower and hope to stay alive long…

While they are in captivity, they have very little space and cannot behave naturally (Captivity); living in a small tank is very different from living in the sea. This change in environment could affect the whales to having odd behavior. Since they are trained creatures that live in smaller tanks, this could cause them to misbehave and disobey the trainer’s orders. “Captive whales and dolphins have been trained to perform tricks, day after day, for food…

When you live in such a harsh and remote place, it is difficult to find the wonder and beauty around you. This is true until the snow starts to melt and you experience the two month stretch of warmth that all Alaskans live for. Fluorescent purple and red blooms cover the gravel-spotted ground. Weeds are the first thing to bloom. Dark green crabgrass quickly follows. The mountains in the distance start to peak from the clouds as the first day comes around. The summers are short but the days are…

Through an understanding and appreciation of visual imagery, the responder can come to a deeper appreciation of the perspective of the composer. The short story writer Henry Lawson and the artist Frederick McCubbin convey a distinctive impression of the hardship involved in living in the Australian outback. This is clearly shown in the short stories “The Drover’s Wife”, “In A Dry Season” and ‘The Loaded Dog” as well as the painting ‘On The Wallaby Track’. These texts allow the responder to…

joining with think tanks to research and raise awareness to the innumerable issues in the American penal system. Activists are not limited to sympathetic citizens but include politicians, philanthropic institutions, even former and current prisoners (Bryan, 2015). Politician Newt Gingrich is pushing the social media driven movement #cut50 which pushes the agenda of reducing prison population be half within the decade. Former and current prisoners experienced the horrors of isolation firsthand…

As the Angel of Death, Josef Mengele performed many experiments on the victims that were passing through Auschwitz. He would do “experimental surgeries performed without anesthesia, transfusions of blood from one twin to the other, isolation endurance, reaction to various stimuli. He made injections with lethal germs, sex change operations, the removal of organs and limbs, incestuous impregnations” (Megele, para 18). He was so well known and infamous due to the fact that he was able to convince…

Isolation is the lack of contact with people. It can be presented in various forms which have given humanity different types of thinkers and philosophers which have imposed greatness upon the world. Unfortunately, this greatness doesn’t come without a price. Isolation is a single powerful entity which deliberated humans from the things in which they cherish. This type of isolation is best seen in Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein” through the main character “Victor Frankenstein”…

On December 29, 1940, the thirty-second President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, delivered a speech via radio entitled "The Great Arsenal of Democracy." The announcement was made a year before the Attack on Pearl Harbor, at a time when Germany had occupied much of Europe and threatened Britain. This speech 's purpose was to promise of the United States ' indirect support of the countries fighting for democracy and freedom in the Second World War, like Britain, against the Nazis…

outweighs the benefits. The animals that experience the most dastardly effects are that of the orca whales. The largest of the captive marine animals and possibly the most unpredictable. Their lives at SeaWorld are spent lifelessly floating around in tanks proportionally the size of a bath tub. Former whale trainer, John Hargrove, once said: Unfortunately, after all the years of experience that I had, I saw the psychological and physical trauma that…

sound or sight. Methods to create situations where subjects were deprived of sensory input varied widely throughout the years; with subjects placed in barren rooms with no light, sound or human contact to the more modern use of sensory deprivation tanks…