Man's Search for Meaning

Seligman’s self-talk appraisal, or the ABCDE’s of positive psychology, is a general guideline to positive self-talk and self-image. The ABCDE’s of positive psychology stand for adversity, beliefs, consequences, dispute, and energy. Carl Roger’s I am vs I should can be loosely described as a fully functional vs. maladjusted theory. Being fully functional means being open, creative, having the will to change, having an internal locus of control, and being free and open to new experiences. In…

so closed minded as they once may have been. It can help understand the concept of gender and the factors that impact its creation and expression and interpret and apply theoretical approaches to gender studies. This fits into Philippe Bourgois, In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio, because you can get the idea of how this culture approaches and understands…

attempt to survive in a dilapidated world where “nights [are] dark beyond darkness” (1). As the man and the boy journey upon the godforsaken road, it becomes evident that “the boy [is] all that [stands] between [the man] and death”(29) fostering the man's deep devotion and care for his child. Despite the dismal conditions, the man finds ways to bring the boy joy and educate him about the past world. As they stumble upon the ruins of a supermarket, the father uncovers a "Coca-Cola" (23) and…

reference his credibility as well as appeal to the readers emotions. Frankl talks about how both his parents and his expecting wife perished in the camp and how he struggled to find meaning there. He also talks about his two suicidal inmates there as well and how he tried to help them find the motivation and meaning to go on, which they did. Frankl writes in his book: “everything can be taken from a man but one thing, the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given…

During the scene where Ron struggled up the hill, Ron was given new meaning in his life with his new experiences. This was shown through imagery, non-diegetic and diegetic sound. His courage to climb this hill was supported with the light, airy background music and the constant direct dialogue of Chris. The repetition of the man’s dialogue saying, “sitting on my butt” and “stubborn old man” gave the audience a sense of his confidence and courage.…

As I sit next to the window in this empty, small Parisian flat, I ponder the meaning of freedom. What is freedom? Is it free to be chased and pursued for taking a stance against something one deemed to be wrong? To take away a man’s life and thus connected freedom is not something any man should have neither the power nor the right to do. Through the fight for equality among our society, society itself became the scale which one was to be measured by. Citizens had questions for a King who was…

At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was a century ago at Appomattox. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama. There, long-suffering men and women peacefully protested the denial of their rights as Americans. Many were brutally assaulted. One good man, a man of God, was killed. There is no cause for pride in what has happened in Selma. There is no cause for…

deeper into the concept of happiness and shed light on the idea that life is all about finding meaning not finding happiness. Smith’s article works to emphasize “the difference between the pursuit of meaning and the pursuit of happiness in life” within today’s society (Smith 2013). Smith effectively uses rhetoric to persuade her audience that there is a concrete side to the abstract idea of happiness and meaning. The rhetorical device of ethos is used by Smith to create the sense of credibility…

times by making tradition applicable. For Kaplan, it is not enough to blindly accept the culture in which we live, rather we must question and evolve. To evolve with our values is not to say that the values themselves are changing in their essential meaning. Evolving with our values specifically points to the idea that we must have an eternal concern with relating our understanding of our values with the values of society, and choosing our actions based on this interaction. It is not enough to…

are delegated to present the good side of humanity like love and triumph but also dark sides like failure and greed. “The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man’s proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit- for gallantry in defeat - for courage, compassion and love” (nobelprize.org). It is the failure of man’s character that leads to greatness.…