Twelve-tone technique

“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” In Buddhism it’s believe that you must suffer in order to be happy. It kind of connects to the story , “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” but in this case one children suffer in order for the rest to be happy. In the story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, by Ursula Le Guin reveals the following message to his audience that in order to be happy what is the prices that society needs to pay in order to be happy. In this society one of the idea was…

his external climate with other addicts and ex-addicts. One of the best ways most addicts can recover from their addictive behavior is enrolling in a twelve-step program. To see how a twelve-step is like, I visited a Narcotic Anonymous (NA) candlelight meeting. The twelve-step meeting researched contradicts Mate’s twelve-step journal. The twelve-step meeting was located at the YMCA hotel in Glendale. The meeting was held in room two, which was in the basement of the YMCA hotel. The initial…

I recently went to an AA meeting at the Lamb Center in Fairfax, Virginia. It is a small center and by approaching the center I could tell that the meeting would be held in a smaller circle than what my classmates told me from their experiences. Even though I am a very relaxed person, when it comes to meeting total strangers I had my reservation on what to expect. We were instructed to be sitting in the back and basically just observe; yet I could see that “hiding” in the back at this place was…

Types of Treatment Available for Drug Addictions Once you have arrived at the place in your life where you have accepted the fact that you have a drug addiction problem, your next step is to get help. There are different Levels of Care for Drug Treatment Centers as well as different types of treatment. Patient have various needs that depend upon the extent of their addiction and the type of drug that is being abused. The following is an overview of what is available, and the needs that are met…

The idea of a perfect world is very complex and often confusing to understand; it becomes simpler to imagine such world if suffering existed within it. However, if a perfect world contains suffering, it then becomes flawed. In Ursula Le Guin’s The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, the narrator struggles with the problem of creating a realistic ‘perfect world’, and as a solution she has created two contradictory worlds in which the existence of one is dependant on the other. the narrator provides…

Introduction I was introduced to Susan, from a local homeless shelter. She is a 25-year-old Native American female who is currently homeless. The shelter she is staying at contacted me when they realized she was using drugs in their facility’s bathroom which is a violation of the shelter’s rules. The shelter did not want to call the authorities because they know she is on probation for possession of methamphetamines. Susan has two other arrests for possession of drugs in addition to the one she…

two poems, we gain a glimpse of the reality between the differences of immigrant and non-immigrant laborers, and how those differences affect them. Author Erica Funkhouser’s speaker, the child of the farmer in her poem, sets the tone in “My Father’s Lunch.” The tone is set in place through their narrative recount of the lunch traditions they share with their father. These lunch traditions set by their father are a reward of sorts, for their father’s hard days’ worth of work. The lunch hour…

Nic attended twelve-step meetings in the past so the behavioral, spiritual and cognitive aspects will be familiar to him if he joins a TSF outpatient program. TSF helps people in their early recovery abstain from alcohol or drug abuse. The counselor assesses each client…

Omelas is a smaller town beyond the darkness of the fields where the people live with happiness flowing through the air. There are green meadows, tall buildings, red roofs, painted walls and avenues of trees but no such thing as rules or judgment only purely joy. Without any rules can this exist? Within the city in the basement of a public building there is a room which holds a child, no windows, no light and only one door where small a small amount of light peaks through. Sometimes the door is…

It is with definite grief that we have to realize that our society is not prospering as well as it should. Crimes are still being continuously committed, be it by cruel acts of violence or mass killings, and they need to be stopped. Yet although the culprits may be caught, they will eventually be released into our communities once more. They don't necessarily receive the adequate treatment to appease their psychotic desires. The same goes for individuals afflicted with a drug addiction. Too…