Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", is a powerful psychological study filled with philosophical themes. Exploring into the depths of human mind, the author grasps the true psychology of his characters, depicting them emotionally sick and spiritually corrupt. The main character in the novel, Raskolnikov is a poor former student who ... Read More
In Nathaniel Hawthorne's, "The Blithedale Romance", we see that Miles Coverdale is lost in his feelings for Zenobia, an exotic woman, Priscilla, a mysterious young girl, and Hollingsworth, a philanthropist. Coverdale moves to Blithedale feeling displaced and depressed. Throughout the novel, he explains to the reader things he likes and ... Read More
George Orwell wrote 1984 in a time of growing technology, and as he saw it, growing governmental power. Orwell predicted that the government was going to use, and perhaps had already begun, to use brainwashing techniques, to control populations. Orwell wrote 1984, filling it with methods of brainwashing. Modernly, Dick ... Read More
Robert Penn Warren The Book of Job and Oedipus the King A great man, by the name of Robert Penn Warren once said, "One of our deepest cravings is to find logic in experience, but in real life, how little of our experience comes to us in such manageable form. ... Read More
Cassius, being the very sly person that he is, uses all the tricks in the bag to get Brutus to join the conspiracy . Cassius wants to have Brutus become part of the conspiracy because Brutus is thought of highly and is liked by almost all of the common people. ... Read More
World War I Battle Sites The casualties suffered in the First World War were of a scale never before seen. Great Britain and its Empire lost over 1,000,000 combatants France, 1,300,000 Russia, 1,700,000 Germany and its allies, 3,500,000. Losses in life per day of the war exceeded 5,500. Although each ... Read More
Introduction I started this report on Mary Whiton Calkins. I was fascinated by the strides that she made in the fields of psychology, and how at every corner she was shot down because she was a woman. I went first to the library at PCC only to discover that I ... Read More
Wilhelm Wundt, The Father of Psychology Wilhelm Wundt was born on August 16, of the year 1832, in Baden, Germany. As a child, Wilhelm was tutored, which taught him to process information and develop a love for studying at an early age. Later he furthered his education at Tubingen University ... Read More
In the poem, "Out-Out" by Robert Frost the speaker has a somber, serious, regretful attitude, an ironic tone, and a vivid descriptive voice towards the events occurring throughout the poem. He (the speaker) is shown as a witness to the story that takes place. Frost uses this dramatic take on ... Read More
Disappointment A Powerful Emotion Most people have expectations of how something is going to turn out. When things do not turn out the way, we want them to turn out the feeling of disappointment takes over. Disappointment is the feeling people get when something or someone fails to live up ... Read More
The Psychological Effects of the Holocaust Death . . . Destruction . . . Genocide . . . Torture . . . Everlasting darkness . . . A black smoke rose up the chimney of the crematory and the essence of evil lingers around society. The Holocaust was a tragic ... Read More
The Iliad Good examples of the Homeric arming scene are those with Paris, Agamemnon, Patrklos, and Achilles. These scenes involved detailed accounts of each individual soldier suiting up for battle. Of the four extended descriptions that occur in the Iliad, the first, of Paris, is ten lines long Agamemnon takes ... Read More
The Catcher In The Rye, written by J.D. Salinger, is a fictional novel that was first published in 1965. The novel takes place in New York City and in Pennsylvania over a duration of four days. This novel tells the story of an emotionally disturbed teenager who has been kicked ... Read More
The battle opened at dawn on the 17th when Union General Joseph Hooker's artillery began a murderous fire on Jackson's men in the Miller cornfield north of town. "In the time I am writing," Hooker reported, "every stalk of corn in the northern and greater part of the field was ... Read More
Selfishness or Sacrifice at The Battle of Maldon Purpose shall be firmer, heart the keener, courage shall be more, as our might lessens.1 These famous lines from the poem The Battle of Maldon introduce a theme which depicts how Englishmen in the Middle Ages perceived life, death and what can ... Read More
Sport psychology, according to the AAASP (Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology), is the study of psychological and mental factors that influence and are influenced by participation and performance in sport, exercise, and physical activity. Furthermore, it is the application of the knowledge gained through this study to ... Read More
Emotions, no matter how hard you try, you cannot control your emotions, only attempt to hide them. Emotions influence every aspect of our lives, what we do, what we say, how we behave and et cetera. All of our emotions, from happiness to sadness are influenced by several factors, just ... Read More
Behavior Therapies There are many therapies that are used in the treatment of psychological disorders although one stands above the rest, behavioral therapy. Behavioral therapies "focus only on changing a person's specific behavior in the present day" (Nolen-Hoeksema, 2004, pg. 146). "Research clearly indicates that the behavior of humans is ... Read More
Psychology in 2008 The roots of psychology can be traced back through centuries. Cave men and cave women probably wondered why each behaved as they did. Since at least the time of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in ancient Greece, psychological topics have inspired lively curiosity (Bernstein, 6). In 1879, founded ... Read More
Exam The paper wrote by Vanessa Pupavac, "Therapeutic Governance Psychosocial Intervention and Trauma Risk Management, opened my eyes about psychosocial intervention and its consequences on the people. It made clear that, there are many ways for international organizations to help people affected with PTSDs caused by war and violence. Some ... Read More
The Single Emotional "Poeffect" Essay written by Henry George When reviewing Nathaniel Hawthornes Tales, Edgar Allen Poe pronounced that the short story, if skillfully written, should deliver a single preconceived effect- an effect upon which incidents be fashioned to accommodate that effect. Edgar Allen Poe was indeed a skillful writer. ... Read More
Civil War - Monitor vs. Merrimack The battle on March 9, 1862, between the USS Monitor and the CSS Merrimack, officially the CSS Virginia, is one of the most revolutionary naval battles in world history. Up until that point, all battles had been waged between wooden ships. This was the ... Read More
As the world's technological capabilities reach an impressive new height we are faced with new problems caused by these new technological capabilities. Along with these newfound problems, such as Y2K, comes the world's damnation due to the new technologies. We as humans will ultimately destroy ourselves over a technology race. ... Read More
The last time that I cried was on this past New Year's Eve. I had planned on making this New Year's Eve the best ever since for the past three years, I've unfortunately had a rotten night to bring in the New Year, which I think jinxes my chances of ... Read More
King Lears Emotional Stages Throughout the play King Lear, Shakespeare portrays King Lear as a normal human being with a very complex and fragile character. In this very sentimental play, Shakespeare places Lear through the worst anguish of his life (Bruhl 312). The anguish Lear goes through helps him finally ... Read More
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), world famous Russian physiologist became second to Freud as the most influential psychologist of our century. Pavlov was a follower of "The father of Russian psychology," Sechenov, whose theory was that the reflex is the essence of all reactions. Pavlov went further and discovered that the ... Read More
When traditional religion is pitted against modern society, it is a clash of the titans, a clash between Science and Religion. Everyone has their own interpretation of what religion means to themselves and the people around them. Traditional religion is an organized community of many different types of groups that ... Read More
Psychology is the scientific study of human and animal behavior. It is made of theories and tries to prove why we behave the way we do, our mental processes, our emotions, and our actions. In this writing assignment I will discuss why some people choose to behave so outrageous that ... Read More
Human Psychology in Literature In literature, authors reflect on aspects of life through use of symbolism and characterization. The human psyche is an aspect of life that receives much attention. Famous psychologist Sigmund Freud classifies the human psyche into three categories the Id, the Ego, and the Superego. Each category ... Read More
Child and adolescent developmental Psychology There are many theories that have been developed over the years in order to help us understand how and why we develop as we do. While some aspects may appear odd and limited by today's standards there are undeniably at least some parts of these ... Read More