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    the state of loss, and grief to the reaction to loss. According to Townsend (2008), “Grief is a subjective state of emotional, physical and social response to the loss of a valued entity.” (p.10). It is shown by someone who has had a sudden change in life such as a divorce or permanent separation of a spouse or someone that has lost someone or something they cherished deeply (Townsend, 2008). When an individual experiences grief their whole persona shifts and sometimes, they become unaware of…

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    In Eugéne Green’s “La Sapienza”, a zippy camera guides us through architectural views and details before introducing us to Alexandre Schmidt (Fabrizio Rongione), a respected French architect who's being awarded for a lifetime work. Lyrical music floats around and Alexander’s speech, which referenced the human progress and praised the environmental consciousness, despite routine, pleased his wife, Aliénor (Christelle Prot), a dispirited psychoanalyst who still suffers in silence with the early…

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    The Glass Castle Poverty

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    and cash. As a result, they had to constantly move from places to places such as Battle Mountain in Nevada, Phoenix in Arizona, Welch in West Virginia, New York City and so on in the search of the survival. Some places provided the better quality of life while some worsen it. Thus, the author and her family were living under the condition of the poverty, where they had to struggle for the basic needs such as food, clothing, and shelter because of not getting adequate resources to support the…

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    Confederate general, Robert E. Lee, in his letter, narrates his anguished thoughts pertaining to the conflicts between the North and South. Lee’s main objective is to express his extreme grief when seeing the Union in its current state of unease as well as to voice the plight of secession and ultimately civil war. He employs the uses of several rhetorical strategies including: doleful diction, hyperboles, and historical remembrance to efficaciously illustrate his feelings of melancholy towards…

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    by the day. Dialysis is a pain I would not wish on my greatest enemy. It did not only drain her blood, but her spirits as well. There is no greater pain than seeing a woman so strong begin to wither away. As time went on you didn’t see the lack of life in her pruning face, but in her words. She began to talk as if she was on her deathbed that last time I visited. She barely ate and the only solace I found was finding her food that she would be excited to eat. I remember running around the…

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    In the midst of my youth, perfection meant everything. The sense of inferiority creeped around every corner of my life, the social pressures, the culture pressures, the personal pressures. The issue of self-acceptance began from a young age, as I often used to sit alone in the vast woods behind my house, pondering on the inevitable, ominous thought, am I good enough for the world? With the ideal image of nature surrounding me, I wished I could hold as much beauty and perfection as the world…

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    Squatter Mistry

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    Mistry adopts an oral narrative pattern as an Indian storytelling device and also as a postmodernist narrative technique. ‘Squatter’ is a story in which Mistry uses his character Nariman Hansotia to narrate the stories in third person, allowing Mistry to use the audience of children as a tool to explore the complex themes and tones contained within the story and discuss them more in depth as it progresses. His stories deal with cultural collisions in a rich and imaginative way. Weaved into the…

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    1. Select either William Worden's "Tasks of Mourning" or Therese Rando's "Six R's" and describe them in your own words. Therese Rando's "Six R's" • Recognize the loss- this is when people can accept the reality of the loss and for some trying to understand the death. Sometimes this is difficult with sudden death/suicide. • React to the separation- to identify and express reactions to the loss. This is not just a reaction to the death of the person, but the secondary loss as well. Secondary…

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    things and these things will help me in every aspect of my life. The three most important lessons I learned were: everything is connected, The environment should be cherished, and that all things are good for something. Everything is connected was a saying used by the kyuquot people and I believe that it can be used a lot in life, in wildlife if we catch fish that will affect the predators of those fish and the chain keeps on going also in life if you treat someone well or poorly that might…

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    Bear Grylls was a very inspirational individual. Bear Grylls inspired a bunch of people to get outdoors more. Bear is known as one of the most skilled survivalist. He is number five in the world. Questions to be answered are… What obstacles has Bear overcome to be where he is now? What are Bear Grylls’s beliefs? What is Bear Grylls doing now to inspire others? Bear Grylls is a nickname his real name is Edward Michael Grylls. What obstacles has Bear overcome to be where he is now? Bear…

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