The Primal Urge

Killing Us Softly: Reflection Paper Jennifer R. Livingston Utah State University Killing Us Softly: A Reflection Paper In our modern world, advertising is always present. Marketers use every possible source of media to get their message through – internet, television, print, radio, mail, product packaging, sponsorships, etc. With consumers being constantly bombarded by advertisements, how does a company ensure that their message is the one that sticks? What makes an advertisement successful?…

A Smile From a Villain Hamlet, created from the mind of William Shakespeare in his honourable play Hamlet, illustrates the ideal image of a tragic hero. He is known to be loyal, brave and noble. But as every piece of literature has shown, a hero is made from a villain. The archetypal villain is often portrayed to be driven to fulfill their desire of success by any means possible, self-centered, and evil. In the realm of Hamlet, Claudius clearly demonstrates all aspects of the archetypal…

The first is referred to as first order desires. These are the very basic and primal thoughts that one experiences. Such as, “I want food” or “I need to use the bathroom”. After these desires they are executed quite quickly. They are the desire to preform a specific task. In contrast, a second order desire is the want to have or…

Jekyll and Hyde have been recreated. The protagonist Tom Jackman is a family man, which differs from Stevenson’s Jekyll who isn’t portrayed with any family, only having his friends and servants. Unlike the original, Hyde isn’t the villain, he is the primal part of Jackman’s brain that controls basic human primitive instinct, the instinct to protect his loved ones. The villain is the shadowy corporation Klein and Utterson, which is a recreation of the character Utterson, whose role was to control…

off at this theory and all of the following psychologists took his theory and either added or took away from his theory. Psychodynamics is where the human being unconsciously motivated are seeking to obtain and balance their sexual and aggressive urges. This is a personality and form…

The id is centered on primal impulses, pleasures, desires, unchecked urges and wish fulfillment. Ego deals with the rational, the conscious, the moral and the self-aware aspect of the mind. Superego censors the id, and has the responsibility of enforcing the moral codes of the ego. When a dreamer…

a scaffold with infant Pearl where she is being judged for her crimes, at this point the readers aren’t sure why she is here. However, Arthur Dimmesdale is one of her persecutors and speaks positively on her behalf. Because he is Pearl’s father he urges Hester to say the name of her fellow sinner, she, however, refuses. After public humiliation, which she accepts without complaint, she goes back to her prison cell. This is where she meets her husband,…

from the beginning. Zillmann argues “because consensually accepted programs of sexual education are lacking, erotica have come to serve as a primary agent of sexual socialization” (41). This inevitably leads children to learn about their own “strange urges” through alternative means, such as their dad’s Playboy magazines or the internet, as per modern advancements in technology and internet…

Introduction Stigma is generally counterproductive in society. By definition it is the perception of disgrace associated with a circumstance, quality, or person. By manifest, it is often the complete and impulsive dismission of a “circumstance, quality, or person”, with no after thought as to the origins of this gut-reaction. Throughout history we have seen many instances of these taboo-like topics. During the 1980’s, people suffering from HIV/AIDS took the brunt of the disapproving glances and…

necessity due to the circumstances of the war. People could not follow idealist standards because of the constant military threats to the poleis (3.82). The collapse of Greek values in the face of conflict demonstrated the conflict between law and primal nature that Thucydides implicitly established. In ancient Greece, human nature drove men to embrace passion, ignore justice, and act on envy at the expense of morality. It pushed men to engage in grotesque acts of violence for the sake of…