The Downward Spiral

them. Depression has no predetermined end like the healing of a broken bone. The mind can be clotted four months or even years. This makes the sufferer feel even more hopeless about their situation. The uncertainty can bring the depression in a downward spiral and cause suicidal thoughts to end the…

The female malady. This term has been used to describe the affliction of being a woman. According to Elaine Showalter’s aptly named The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980, “Women, within our dualistic systems of language and representation, are typically situated on the side of irrationality, silence, nature, and body, while men are situated on the side of reason, discourse, culture, and mind” (Showalter 3-4). Henry James’s governess in The Turn of the Screw…

Throughout Crime and Punishment (CP), the protagonist Raskolnikov battles with a variety of different philosophical beliefs and follows a somewhat unanticipated mental and emotional arc. Such beliefs that he embodies, like the coldness of Utilitarianism and the positivity of Christian faith, mirror the common beliefs of nineteenth century Russia and his reactions mirror how citizens of the time responded to the changes in societal beliefs. More specifically, the author of Crime and Punishment,…

Health cares just trying to make profit. As a child we are told do something in life that makes you happy, if not you will be miserable your whole life. As a student planning on going in to the medical field I know I have a love for helping others. For me the job isn’t about the money, it's about the ability to help those are unable to do it themselves. I realize from these two articles that not everyone has the goal of helping others, but instead they are just wanting to make a profit for…

The world underwent many changes between 200 C. E. and 1000 C. E. In the region of the Americas, Teotihuacan fell in 750, while the Anasazi culture flourished and grew from 700 onwards. The Tiwanaku and Wari controlled the Peruvian Highlands in the Andes between 600 and 1000. Between 800 and 900, the Mayan centers were abandoned in the Yucatan Peninsula, and the Mississippian cultures began to develop in the 900’s in North America. The Toltec founded their capital of Tula in 968. In India,…

The source is a speech given by Aung San Suu Kyi from Burma in August 1988. Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese opposition politician and also the leader of the National League of Democracy in Burma. Ms. Suu Kyi’s speech was held at the Shwedagon Pagoda and it was the first and only speech she had written and planned out beforehand. A few days before her speech at the mass rally in Shwedagon Pagoda, she visited the Rangoon General Hospital to announce her purpose of delivering the speech: to address…

In Joy Kogawa’s novel Obasan, the reader follows a young woman named Naomi on a search for answers to questions she has had trouble facing throughout her life. Specifically regarding the disappearance of her mother when she was a child. In Obasan the mother-daughter relationship being portrayed is fractured because of Naomi’s mother abrupt departure with no explanation, leaving Naomi constantly searching to fill the void of a protective mother figure. Growing up Naomi’s mother played a very…

What Beloved by Toni Morrison really ignited in me is a gratitude for my own name. I was named by my parents, who love and care for me, and I have a birth certificate and legal documents with this name inscribed on them. And when I die, I will have this “beloved” name carved on my headstone. What a luxury this must seem to the millions of slaves who did not even have this simple joy. In fact, they owned nothing – their identities were stolen, their humanity was stolen. The problem with having…

Rhetoric Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” This statement is proven time and time again by David Rothkopf in his Ted Talk about how fear drives America. He describes how fear can motivate a country to make positive changes or cause the country to self-destruct. David’s well thought out claims, intelligent elaboration, knowledge of himself and his audience, and use of rhetoric strategies causes him to be a very successful presenter. TS: David…

depressed because Holden is the type of person who feels obligated to help and protect the vulnerable things in the world and he felt like he was unable to protect Allie and faults himself for the death of his brother. This starts Holden on a downward spiral where he becomes more and more depressed. For example, Holden thought back to his childhood, while Allie was still alive and remembers one day when him and his friend were riding their bikes somewhere and when Allie asked if he could go with…