Post-realism

War Tragedies Tragedies are all over the world. It can leave you with a great suffering, destruction and distress. These tragedies can affect the people 's lives and change for good. Once these tragedies happen it is hard for people to come back to their normal lives. Some people do not even return back to their normal lives because the tragedy affected them really bad. With something huge that happens it is a difficult time because you may never be the same anymore. These tragedies can…

According to The Nebraska Department of Veteran’s Affair, estimated 7.8 percent of Americans had experienced PTSD, also known Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD is considered a psychiatric disorder and a mental health issue in the United States. They often develop depression, substance abuse, and anxiety. People that were diagnosed with PTSD had a serious accident, physical or sexual assaulted or a military combat. There three different symptoms, first symptoms is when you’re thinking about…

David Ackerman an academy graduate detective, who is carrying around a lot stress or emotional baggage, because he is the reason for his brother’s death and his father does not approve of his career choice, so they share a distance relationship. Ackerman is haunted by memories of his brother falling from a roof, and dying after he encouraged him to jump. David is a rookie detective who will be partnered up with a veteran police detective to bring down an infamous German car thief. The reason for…

who I previously worked with during my second-year practicum. She invited me to work with her on a research project that she is conducting in Rwanda. Her goal is to find a culturally appropriate intervention that will be therapeutic in reducing Post-Traumatic Stress symptoms in the women survivors of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Additionally, she is actively pursuing a new facility in Rwanda that will provide mental health services for women and provide a location to train others in treatment…

Closure in Lycidas What is the right response to death? How and to what extent should we mourn the ones we love? When John Milton's college friend, Edward King, drowned off of the Welsh coast 1, Milton wrote Lycidas in memoriam. A pastoral elegy, the poem represents King as the lost shepherd Lycidas and uses agricultural imagery to portray loss. The majority of the poem is spent highlighting the irrevocability and completeness of death, that is until lines 165-168: "Weep no more, woeful…

This year we watched the film Atonement by Joe Wright. In the film, the characters experience a type of trauma and we then see how it affected them. This led me to think how does childhood trauma affect people as adults? Through this inquiry I developed three key questions, what is the age or ages that a child is most affected? What are the causes of trauma? And, what are the long-term effects of trauma? My hypothesis is that through my research I will find that childhood trauma has both subtle…

Dreams can often have a strange way of altering our mind’s perception of what is real and what is illusory. A person can awake from a horrific nightmare about the loss of a loved one and immediately feel intense panic or sorrow. Minutes later, once the person recognizes that the tragic events did not actually occur, reality sinks in and relief replaces fear. In a way, this common human experience can be inversely used to explain what mentally ill patient, Andrew Laeddis, experiences in the novel…

The act of holding wild animals in captivity, specifically for the purpose of entertainment has led many people to associate their abnormal behaviors to psychological suffering. Local zoos and aquariums seem to draw most of the attention from the general public about captive wild animal rights and welfare; however, many forget that traveling circuses are just as much at fault. Coming into one’s hometown once or twice a year, the traditional circus puts on a ‘spectacular show’ using wild animals…

many ways, the most common that can cause post-traumatic stress disorder is family loss which is how the characters in the novel developed the disorder. (BS-3) Symptoms of the disorder are used in the book to affect Najmah and Nusrat to make them undergo character change. (TS) Post-traumatic stress disorder is a serious disorder that can change people's lives; the author added it to make the book and characters seem real and experience change. (MIP-1) Post-traumatic stress disorder is an effect…

Say the words soldier or veteran, and countless images come to mind. Children and teens imagine a hero, one who saves lives, and happily returns home as a knight in shining armor. Adults too, carry these images in their minds often forgetting that there is much more to a soldier's return to civilian life than this simplified, idealistic version that exists in our heads. Veterans go through more trauma than most people could ever imagine, they go into war without realizing that the faces of…