Peyton is brought into the story as a family man who is wrongly being executed by the Federal Army. ... From the beginning of the short story emotions of courage, family, and love seem to connect Farquhar to the everyday man. ... The ideal of courage for one's country and faith and commitment in one's family are what ties the realistic aspect of Farquhar to the reader. One critic expressed it in this manner: Bierce portrays Farquhar as a sympathetic character who we can identify with "a man who takes care of his family and home. His attempt to burn down the bridge may be seen a...

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With that said, showing love, attention, and affection to children during difficult times, especially times with financial imbalance within the family, can help prevent potential emotional development problems. ... This includes the amount of love they receive from their parents, the noise levels that are in the household, whether or not they are being challenged intellectually, and if the financial state that the family is in is healthy, or the opposite. ...

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Psychology Final Chapter 13 - Stress, Coping, and Health * The biopsychosocial model holds that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors * Health psychology is concerned with how psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness * Stress is any circumstance that threaten or are perceived to threaten one's well being and that thereby tax one's coping abilities * Frustration occurs in situations where the pursuit of some goal is t...

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It can be argued that Medea seals the certainty of her children's death from her opening cries: after passing through a momentary response of suicidal helplessness (lines 95-96) to Jason's divorce, she immediately wishes the destruction of every remaining trace of their love, including the two boys (lines 110-114). ... Euripides also carefully reveals the elements of Medea's past that demonstrate her readiness to sacrifice family to pursue her intractable will; Jason and Medea's original tryst, for example, required that she kill her own brother. ... Her only loyalty is to ...

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In the article from the "Journal of Divorce and Remarriage," Michelle Moon states, "Much of the divorce literature indicates that children from intact, never divorced families exhibit fewer behavioral problems and evidence greater psychological adjustment than children from divorced or remarried families" (Moon 2011). ... Most important, "understanding divorce, strategic withdrawal, dealing with loss, accepting the permanence of divorce, and taking a chance on love" (Wallerstein & Blakeslee 1989). ... The need to be loved by both parent and tend to experience conf...

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When his girlfriend, Skylar, presses to know about his past and family, Will becomes infuriated and violent. ... This five-stage model can be divided into fundamental necessities (e.g. physiological, safety, love and belonging, and esteem) and growth needs (self-actualization). ... According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs pyramid, love and belonging comes before esteem and self-actualization. In the movie, Will had only established a small fragment of his love and belonging needs. ... His friends were such that they never questioned Will about his childhood or his family and were merely t...

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There are different kinds of happiness, such as someone can have an overwhelmingly happy due to the love they from their family and friends even though they have a crappy job as to someone who is the same level of happiness with no family or love but lots of money and wealth. ... I would love to see how his training took place and wouldn't mind trying to take it myself....

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Frankensteins full engagement towards his studies and efforts to bring an inhuman being to life, caused his interaction with family and loved ones from home to be taken away. Without love from those who he truly cared for most, Frankenstein fell into deep misery. ... Not only did interaction with his loved ones become distant, however it becomes lost, as his monster in which Victor's image was to be perfect, became that of a murderer. Feeling faulted for many deaths of his family, Victor mourned, "Nothing is more painful to the human mind after the feelings have been worked up by a q...

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The movie, "Good Will Hunting," revolves around an intelligent, yet rebellious, twenty year old MIT janitor, Will Hunting, who underestimated the power of love as well as his purpose. ... Will was an abused foster child who was continually being transferred to many different foster families his entire childhood. ... A child's family environment, family composition, choices and friends, along with the genes that the parents have been passed along, will all affect his behavior and temperament. ... Family size has an effect on a child's personality as a child who spends a lot of time wi...

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Effects of Birth Order on Personality There are no formulas to help us understand our friends and family. ... This essay aims to outline the differences between personalities of the first-born, middle-born and last-born child within families where siblings are blood relations, giving reasons to the trends found. ... As the number of siblings in a family increases, academic development of the younger siblings decreases (Parcel & Menaghan cited in Steelman, Powell, Werum, & Carter, 2002). ... Sulloway (1996) notes this as the need to secure parental favour and respect when it is perceived the...

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When young Hispanic-Americans enter an elementary classroom for the first time, they face numerous Psychological and educational barriers. Immediately, they recognize that the language spoken by the teacher and classmates is completely unfamiliar to them.. While other students are laughing and conve...

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Ultimately the situation is worsened by the pervasive culture of denial, silence, negativity and stigmatization of the patient and the families they come from, in turn largely impeding their treatment. ... Families with patients suffering from mental health often felt like they had been cursed and most of them dropped the patients off at the gate and left, never to be seen again, and others opting to take their loved ones to witch doctors to get rid of the "evil spirit" or curse. ... By studying Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology in Anna Maria College, I will be able gain knowle...

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The experience of major depression is not solely a personal event especially when discussing young children- families are affected, school life is effected and certainly young children do not understand why it is they are feeling the way they are. When the sufferer is a child, the family is ultimately involved in all aspects of the experience from onset diagnosis, to remission and recovery. ... If a child be prescribed any sort of medication, other treatment plans should be used parallel with the medication such as family therapy, or cognitive-behavioral therapy (Evans 310-316). ... Jeannne B...

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However, possible causes include biological, family, school, and cultural factors. ... Family factors (such as domestic violence) are also considered to be strong contributing factors to emotional disturbance. ... Although various factors such as heredity, brain disorder, diet, tress and family functioning have been suggested as possible causes, but research has not shown any of these factors to be direct causes of behaviour or emotional disturbance. ...

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However, he had little adoration for his father who was unattached, verbally abusive man to the entire family. ... Ed then ran the family's 160-acre farm by himself. ... However, he still missed his family and in his solitude, Gein began to withdraw from reality. ... But he still loved her and made sure she was comforted according to her standards (Ed Gein). ... Expressed emotion is a definition for certain levels of criticism, hostility, and emotional involvement in an afflicted individuals life by the individual's family. ...

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The findings of an annual study done by the Colorado Department of Human Services on October 23, 2001 reports that families currently make up 65% of homeless people in Metro Denver. The percentage of homeless families is up from 50% in 1998 and 25% in 1989. ... Whether that is the family moving frequently, living in a shelter, or the youth shuttling between the homes of several different relatives and friends, homelessness is a usually a process, not an event. ... Neglecting and uninvolved parenting styles that are also often present in homeless families are lax, inconsistent, and also use ...

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After fleeing from riots in his home town, the family moved and settled in Vienna. ... Freud explained anxiety as the fear of abandonment by or the loss of the loved one (the object), the risk of losing the object's love, the danger of retaliation and punishment, and the danger of reprimand by the superego. ...

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In Edgar Allen Poe's The Cask of Amontillado, the narrator, Montressor, lures a man named Fortunado down into his family's crypt to kill him. ... The main character of the story, Emily Grierson, was raised by her father, who was a very controlling man; he chased away all of her potential suitors when she was young because they were not wealthy enough; the irony being that her family had lost their money and were no longer as highly regarded as they once were. ... Rather than spending her life alone, she resorted to killing a man she loved and sleeping next to his corpse for comfort. ...

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Armand rejects the baby because he feels hurt or betrayed by the baby, which he put his faith and love in the baby, and the baby, through no fault of its own, hurt him and humiliated him. He also put his faith into Desiree, this may sound like it is unemotional but its not, by marrying lower down the relative hierarchy and then, in his mind, she brought "unclean- blood into the family. ...

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The birth order theory, as its name shows, focuses on a pattern of traits that develop for a child, based on its order of birth, ie, the first-born child is supposed to be responsible, dependable, competitive etc, due to the fact that siblings born after the firstborn "dethrone" him or her, the siblings halve almost everything the firstborn has, the parents attention, love and so on. ... This is because the parents spend even less attention to the youngest child than the middle one, and hence, he/she receives very little discipline, but follows others as the rest of the members of the family b...

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Malchiodi, '' And the more recent research of Professor Semir Zeki, University of London, connects the mere viewing of art with an increase in dopamine and activity in the brain's frontal cortex, resulting in feelings of pleasure that are similar to being the throws of romantic love. ... Paint a loss of your love in life helps you accept the past, remember and recover from it. ...

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Animals are a vital part of advertising. Businesses in every market utilize animals in their advertisements to help promote their goods, service, or reputation. According to Forbes, in the 2011 Super Bowl, when compared to advertisements with animals, the average non animal Super Bowl ad was 14% les...

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The creature's emotional and rational development truly begins in the time he spends living in a hovel outside of the DeLacy family cabin. ... Eventually, the creature's naiveté and burning desire for reciprocated love overpower his reason, as he convinces himself that "once they should become acquainted with my admiration of their virtues, they would compassionate me and overlook my personal deformity.... The creature then reiterates that the denial of his request would initiate fierce violence, as he states that "if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear.... Howe...

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In the 1950's, sociologist Talcott Parsons concluded that in the middle-class suburban family the masculine personality tends to be goal-oriented interests, needs and functions, presumably in whatever social system both sexes are involved, while the feminine personality tends more to the primacy of expressive interests, needs and functions. ... Women are naturally suited to be "acted upon" rather than to take action, and the reward for passivity is love. ... Garnets and Kimmel prefer the terms homophilia and heterophilia because they emphasize love (philia) and suggest that these are tw...

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These levels are, in order, the psychological needs, safety, love and care and esteem needs. ... Then comes the need for safety and protection for one's family" these needs include safe shelter, security, protection from both mental and physical damage, and others. Thirdly is the need for love and care, which is the need for affection, friends and relationships in general. ...

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