Survivor

Continuing the Race In sport culture, many experts have studied the science behind athletes overcoming challenges. During the study of the Holocaust, survivors are seen to have PTSD and a lack of will to survive. Multiple historians realized that two of the survivors were different from the rest. Many people who survived the holocaust did not thrive during the rest of their lives, but Ben Helfgott and Alfred Nakache went on to become Olympic athletes. Athletes are often viewed specially…

In multiple world series including sex trafficking, through the eyes of a survivor, Politics of the Middle East, and Katy Preston surviving the Holocaust I found the common theme of survival and the strength it takes in order to survive. The people described throughout the different world series face obstacles such as kidnapping, the loss of emotion, and near death experiences but still continue on. Danielle is a survivor of sex trafficking and for her to first be able to escape is amazing…

The website states that their goal is to rebuild survivors’ self-esteem by teaching them life skills and job training. Not For Sale’s teams build shelters, schools, and clinics for the survivors all around the world. They have centers in the United States, The Netherlands, Peru, Romania, and Thailand. Since 2007, they have accomplished their goals by serving more than 10…

A Holocaust survivor named Eugene Black was sent to a Jewish camp in 1944 in Hungary. He worked where all the Nazi’s made their V1 and V2 rockets underground. He worked 12-14 hours without sleep or food. So he ended up getting pneumonia, luckily he got saved by a German doctor. He got out on April 15th afterwards he felt survivor’s guilt because he lost his whole family besides his older brother who was working for the Czech Army, this is an example of survivor’s guilt. Survivor's guilt exactly…

better understand the events that occurred at this time. Furthermore, in the video a reporter said “The military came in and separated the villages in groups and made one group kill the other. The children, they had to witness everything. Many of the survivors we have interviewed were kids at the time, and they described the pain of seeing their families, their mothers raped or their sisters killed.” This video is heavily opinion based and is biased towards the victims. This video will be useful…

As the 2016 Primary Election is nearing, the question on everybody's mind is, “Who should I vote for?” Hillary Clinton should be the obvious answer. Her stand on education is phenomenal, and something that all Americans can probably agree on is that this year’s presidential debate has contained a lot of name calling and pointing fingers. The one candidate that stands their ground, and instead of name calling and pointing out the other person's campaign flaws is Clinton, who just continues to…

There are serious long term effects of incest on a survivor, like the symptoms from the case study that I described above. Signs and symptoms include anxiety, PTSD, compulsion, memory impairment, depression, suicidal feeling, self-mutilation, denial and confusion, low self-esteem, dissociative symptoms, attachment issues, social withdraw, sexual acting out, and borderline and psychotic states. Research has also shown that in some survivors, their human anatomy was altered by long term abuse. In…

A story about a holocaust survivor named Hanna Szper who didn’t think she’d find a way out but survived by escaping with her mother. “Living Conditions were abysmal in the labor service and the Jewish conscripts were often brutally mistreated by their officers and guards”(Biefiel)…

There have been many ideas about zombies being this immortal undead creature who roams the earth for all of eternity with one purpose, which is to eat the humans. Which in turn, causes terror and chaos everywhere that they may roam which makes us fear about the end of the world. These simple thoughts about zombies are scary enough to think about which many movie makers rely on when they are making their own movies about this genre. Zack Snyder jumps into the zombie horror film genre by using…

sexually abusive relationships later in life (Harte, Hamilton, & Meston, 2013). Survivors of childhood abuse may benefit from therapeutic interventions that encourage them to write about their past trauma (Antal & Range, 2009). This can allow the survivor to emotionally confront and cognitively understand the abuse (Pennebaker & Beall, 1986). However, a portion of those that could benefit…