Anger Nothing can make friends, family and Christians scatter like the anger of grief. Anger is usually directed at those the griever feels closest to since it is safer than directing it at strangers. Anger typically stems from feeling that the loss is unfair and it comes wrapped in the “why” and “why me” questions. Consciously or unconsciously, this anger is ultimately directed at God. Like Job of the Bible, Christians need time to process their anger. Unlike Job’s friends, Christians need to…
Randy Pausch walks out on stage to deliver the “last lecture” smiling and joking, seemingly, without a care in the world. Little to the audience’s knowledge of the elephant in the room, he is dying. With only three to six months left of good health, Randy is dying of multiple tumors on his lever. Randy displays how people can react to death differently depending on where they are in life, their coping capabilities, and what they find their joy in. Another factor that comes into play is how…
William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, is a tragic story about the struggles of a prince named Hamlet who seeks to avenge his father’s death. Hamlet is so determined to sabotage his uncle, who has taken his father’s crown and is responsible for the crime, that Hamlet himself increasingly becomes insane. Family bonds and friendships are broken as death begins to claim their loved ones and vengeance becomes the primary mindset of the characters. As the play progresses, three prominent themes of death…
The most important theme in both Earl and Listen is loss and grief. In Earl, the loss of a seal is the main attraction and the human uses purpose and deceit to show the unavoidable loss. In Listen, the dog searched for the snow ball that his owner threw. The snowball was seen breaking apart and scattering with the other snow, but the dog did not understand what was going on, why was the ball no longer there? Any kind of loss is an unfortunate part of life which causes the person or animal who is…
Klüber-Ross Klüber-Ross proposes five stages which will be experienced when facing the imminent death; denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. She argues that if the individuals repressed the stages, they have risk to get stuck with the unresolved emotion caused by the death (Konigsberg 3). Therefore, it is suggested that the individuals are better to embrace each stage to avoid the unresolved emotion in the future. Additionally, through her book, Klüber-Ross…
Bereavement relates to the deprivation of someone by death. For an individual, the death of a love one can be considered one of the greatest losses one may have. Nonetheless, an individual may also have feelings of bereavement when having other losses, such as the loss of health, the end of an important relationship, or health loss by someone close to the individual. Another healthy response to loss is grief. All individuals have different feelings of grief, but there are some particular…
candidate, Bill Clinton, was full of energy and power, and the strongest third candidates since Theodore Roosevelt, Ross Perot divided Republican voters. All three candidates were quite different on their nation’s priorities and…
The 1992 Presidential Election was held on Tuesday, November 3rd. The fate of the American people was resting on three major candidates: Republican President George W Bush, Democrat Bill Clinton, and the Independent Ross Perot. During this election, Ross Perot, the third party candidate, obtained 19% of the vote, which was the highest percentage for an Independent party in American history. The race for the White House was on: Who was the stronger candidate? Who would convince the American…
In chapter two of Why the Electoral College is Bad for America George C. Edwards III discusses how political equality is hindered by the existence of the electoral college. Edwards very eloquently argues that the electoral college is a threat to American democracy. The author uses statistics from past elections to support his claim that the electoral college leads to political inequality. Edwards first defines why political equality is so crucial to democracy. Then he goes on to state how…
Ken Follett: Introduction Ken Follett is one of the top thriller writers of the present generation. Over a career spanning 3 decades Ken Follett has written some of the best books in the genre of historical fiction. Born in 1949, Ken Follett has sold over 100 million books worldwide. He is a writer with a worldwide following from the UK to India and USA to Australia. Follett’s “On Wings and Eagles” Ken Follett wrote ‘On Wings of Eagles’ a novel which has the background of the Iranian…