The Downward Spiral

The Downward Spiral, talks about Dylan and Eric’s past. They try to find the motive to the killings they committed at Columbine. Dylan was more of the depressive one out of the two. He even went to say “I have always been hated, by everyone and everything…” Dylan had in his mind that nobody liked him at his school. It depressed him very much and it lead to these killings him and Eric committed at Columbine. Dylan was prone to depressive moods a lot. He felt tremendously rejected by everyone They hated the teachers, students, and administrators, that lead them to come up with a master plan to go on a killing spree and murder everybody. Eric on the other hand, he was considered the psychopath of the two. Eric said very many statements about blame and the responsibility he had on the attacks, noting his frequent changes he had made, and trying to…

What is a downward spiral conversation? To explain this concept, it is necessary to give a little of my background. This had affected my life because it explains who I am and why am I a musician. My mom was a clarinet teacher who studied at the Tchaikovsky conservatory. She went back to Costa Rica to teach and she became very well known as a teacher. I grew up with music as an everyday routine, and eventually I chose to play the clarinet. I ended up enrolling in the same school where she was…

Flaubert demonstrates Emma’s downward spiral through her posture and movements along with those imposed on her by others. Throughout Madame Bovary, Flaubert chooses and employs Emma’s specific positioning to serve as a lucid expression of the descending entrapment of her life’s decisions. Emma’s positioning refers to any bodily movement, expression or posture. These positionings reveal her various feelings of fear, desperation, seduction, and insecurity. These feelings appear through decisions…

19th century family of mixed heritage who was able to “pass” as a white family, despite being seen as “Negro” in the eyes of the law. The head of the Vesper family, Abram Vesper, was formerly a slave in Brazil who later become a navigator, merchant, and came to own a small shipping company. He lost his only son during a war, and so he relies on establishing his legacy through his three fair-skinned daughters. He hopes to marry his youngest to the son of a shipping magnate before it’s discovered…

When confronted with change, for some it provides a constructive, life-changing opportunity. For others, however, change brings about a downward spiral with potentially lethal consequences. In the novel Beloved, the author Toni Morrison explored the impact of an enormously unsettling change on an already emotionally scarred African American mother and daughter, just after the Civil War. Denver, the 18-year-old daughter, was crippled by fear of life both inside her house of terror, as well as…

human-rights groups and the United Nations, the Somali government is using hundreds of children, some as young as 9, on the front lines.”. Commanders and chiefs want to recruit adolescents this young because they can easily be manipulated. They will not know what these men are trying to do to them and they will not know that they are not on their side. Once the child soldiers grow old enough to realize that what they are doing is bad, they will be brainwashed enough that they’ll think what…

strong and steady to stay on course in the storm of negative thinking. Just as I pull my body back to proper position to make a technical correction, I can pull my mind back the same way by using an anchor. An anchor is a series of thoughts or actions that will pull someone 's mind back to focus and doubtfulness. A person 's anchor will be strong "comebacks" to negative thoughts. Helping your mind return to focus, fearlessness, and doubtless. Examples of strong anchors I will include in my…

Gambia is. From the confidence that I have built I am able to represent who I am, and where I am from. I have a great understanding now about the person I am. Which will send me down a great path in the future. This obstacles that I faced I learned many things. I learned to believe in myself, to have faith in my abilities, and where I am from because without a humble but reasonable confidence in my own powers and characteristics I cannot be successful or happy. From the words of Charles Stanley…

Often time’s things happen in life that we do not expect. Many turning points in life happen and we have to, somehow, learn to deal with this new “problem.” Sometimes, the issue is so life changing, we tend to lose our minds and become lost on this path of greatness. When life has its difficulties, we often frown upon the things that have blessed us in the past. We forget about all the things that have leaded us to that point of our life, that when that moment comes, we become selfish. Some…

effective shape in order to store the most amount of honey while using the less amount of wax. Circles, triangles or any other figures on the other hand, if repeated, would leave too big of a gap in between each cell and therefore, require extra wax. (www.planetdolan.com/15-beautiful-examples-of-mathematics-in-nature/2/) Figure C- Honeycomb As brought out earlier, mathematical patterns are present here on earth, but they also appear in outer space too. The Milky Way Galaxy, for example,…