Learned helplessness

1. LEARNING Learning is an act of getting new knowledge or modifying and reinforcing the existing knowledge, skills, preferences, behaviors, or values and may involve combining different types of information. Every humans possess the ability to learn and it does not happen all at once, but builds up and is affected by previous knowledge. To this effect learning can be seen as a process, instead of a collection of factual and procedural knowledge. Children may learn to identify objects at an…

twelve-year-old girl coming to an unfamiliar place to start a new life in America without her parent. The scariest thing in the world is the unknown because she doesn’t know what will happen in her life and she doesn’t control of it. The feeling of helplessness and loneliness is her first feeling in this new country not being able to understand English, struggling to do homework and failing the test. I can’t explain how I made it this far in the past 5 years, but my guardian has helped me…

blind man who climbed Mt. Everest. (Jonathan Epstein, Day Hab Without Walls, July 12th, 2015). People with disabilities are also often shown as pitiable people who need the general public to take care of them. This common depiction leads to learned helplessness. Care givers believe that people with disabilities are not capable of accomplishing anything on their own so they do everything for them. Therefore, people with disabilities never learn how to do anything on their own and begin to believe…

Just as the meatpacking industry utilizes every part of the slaughtered animals, the businesses also consume every useable part of the packer town employee through dictated long hours and dangerous work conditions. Upton Sinclair uses the theme of class struggle in The Jungle to illustrate the how the capitalistic economic system in America is a no win proposition for the workingman. The workers are portrayed as pawns in society to make the most money possible for the meat packing industry.…

Today I can overcome an obstacle, and I will learn industriousness, that is to say, that I will learn that I am capable of overpassing situations that seem impossible to overcome. If I would quit at the first problem that I face, I would learn helplessness, I would lose motivation and confidence within myself. My academic plans have only been solidified by the things that I have experienced this semester. For those students that want to take the challenge and those that wish to overcome their…

“Psychologists called it ‘learned helplessness’ when a person believes, as I did during my youth, that the choices I made had no effect on the outcomes in my life,” (237). J.D. Vance’s memoir, Hillybilly Elegy, focuses on social development and issues pertaining to his family and the society in which he grew up in. His writing focuses on chronological events from his childhood up into adulthood, each life stage sharing a similar situation; an undependable mother, a guiding grandmother (Mamaw)…

Women in the 1920s made a mark in history by the way they rebelled against stereotypes. As many say, women in the 20s were known as “new woman”. There were many things that changed for women during the 1920s. One of the biggest was the right to vote. The nineteenth amendment was passed during August 26, 1920. Many women didn 't actually want to vote they still thought that they couldn 't mix in with the roles of a man. Another law that was passed was the Cable Act in 1922, this act allowed…

Survival is about mental fortitude In Space on one can hear you scream. This is true for the novel 172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstand tells a tale of science fiction horror about three teens that have won a contest to spend 172 hours on the moon, however this journey becomes a fight for survival. Each of the Teens have their own reason for going and each have their own feelings. The are tested in the expanse of space with all of the mental and physical trials that they face. The fight for…

Introduction The purpose of the film “Sin by Silence” is to show the effects domestic violence has on women. Its main focus is helping educate everyone about the dangers of domestic violence, hoping to find more ways to protect and help women of domestic violence. Today women who are experiencing domestic violence might watch this film and seek help because of the stories of these women and their motivation for others get help. Also today there are many abuse shelters and mandatory arrest laws…

Battered Woman Syndrome is a term that is used when a woman, after long periods of abuse, whether physical, sexual, mental and/or emotional, kills her spouse without the act of self-defense because at the time of the homicide they were not attacking her. This was first used as a defense in the 1970’s and now it is connected with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Jury nullification is the occurrence when a jury declares that a defendant is guilty in regards to the law, but they, the jury,…