The Downward Spiral

ideas and beliefs, but they brought emotion, passion, and fire to the people as well. During this time, the people scattered all throughout the European countries were looking for a change after all of their economy’s had gone on a never ending downward spiral after the Stock Market crash on Wall Street in the United States of America. However, instead of just affecting America, it had affected the entire world as well.…

children, “as if she loved them very much.” Only she knew that in the center of her heart was a place that could not feel love, not for anybody. Following her example and teachings, her son, Paul equates love with “luck” and money and begins his downward spiral into destruction. With a profuse desire for luck he began to “furiously” ride his rocking-horse on a “mad little journey” slashing the horse on the neck, knowing it would take him to “luck”, or a winner, if he only forced it to.…

Dr. Flanagan’s risk assessment I would say it compares a lot to the reading assignment journal, “A tool for the culturally competent assessment of suicide: The Cultural Assessment of Risk for Suicide (CARS) measure. Psychological Assessment.” Dr. Flanagan’s risk assessment interview with Tommi is base on the depression assessment. I noticed that Dr. Flanagan started the evaluation confirming her culture. According to Chu (2013), The range of research on cultural suicide risk factors is…

As a society, we continue to choose words that essentially hold no substance. Orwell believes that as a direct repercussion, our society is on a downward spiral. In his famous work, 1984, he illustrates this by creating the dialect of Newspeak. Newspeak is a government initiative to limit the amount of ‘negative though words’ in their citizens vocabulary. Any word in Newspeak can serve as a different…

reassure everyone that there is no threat to the town and people. Nonetheless, he does not choose this route and continues as he was. Since Danforth is being downright obtuse to this entire situation, he ends up putting the town in more of a downward spiral than it already was. The beginning of this descent all started when Danforth started being utterly biased towards certain…

usually have a soda, I replaced it with water. At the beginning of my third week, I relapsed and drank soda. The reason I had soda was because my stomach was upset and I am use to drinking ginger ale when this occurs. From there, I went through a downward spiral, and continued to drink soda. I tried not to drink soda as much as I had in the past, nonetheless I was drinking soda every day. My personality contributes to my addiction to soda the most. I have a very addicting personality, which…

The tragedy is an ancient form of drama, found as far back as Roman rule. In the traditional arc, a man of good standing has fame, fortune, and wealth, until his downfall caused by a tragic flaw, or hubris. The protagonist then falls from grace, losing all he once had. This is the case in the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. The main character, Okonkwo, is a man of high standing in Igbo society who builds his way up from the low status he was raised in by his unreliable father. His hard…

Success is not a concrete definition. It can molded by many different actions. However success can be like a house of cards,it can fall. People often misjudge success as in wealth. My definition of success is different not based on wealth. It is based on happiness. I feel successful when I know I did the best I could. People are often times put into the bracket of success based on the thing they have. In my grandparents village they see the a person with a nice new Cadillac and think they are…

says that she is grateful for “fate” hitting her hard and also said that in her “former life” she never took “spiritual accomplishments seriously” (Frankle). At the beginning of Night, Elie is a firm believer in God, but as his life turns into a downward spiral, he loses faith. Wiesel demonstrates this many times throughout the novel. At first, he gives “thanks to God” after they arrived at their final destination in the beginning of the book (Wiesel 27). As it continues, he becomes angry with…

I am going to write my article on something that we all must face if we are fortunate to do so: Aging. What I am looking for is the history of ways people have gone to reach the fountain of youth. I will also research about the aging process. These things will be for a natural lifetime. What I am also interested in when it comes to aging, is future technologies that are to be introduced and experimentations on lengthening the life span, and reducing the physical ailments of aging. For those…