Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Maslow’s hierarchy work
I havent started my book yet. But i chose to read the night trilogy. My book is about the holocaust and should include all of Maslow's hierachy. In real life, i've experienced all of Maslow's hierarchy. I've experienced belonging. Where you feel loved, and where you feel apart of something special. My friends and family make me feel like that everyday. My family also helps me feel safety, like they're protecting me from all danger.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
What drives humans to suicide?
The book i read was The Bell Jar. My big question is what drives humans to suicide. This book is about a girl who is depressed with her life. There are a great number of things that drive people to suicide. Theres pressure to society to be the certian image they think is best, like being a size 0. There's stress with many important things you have to worry about in your life, like maybe your job, money, family ect. In the bell jar, she was just overall depressed about her life. She was living on an all paid internship in New York, and she still wasent happy which isnt right, any girl would kill to be in her shoes. She didn't really have any reason to be depressed, sometimes you don't really need a reason to be sad. When you have depression, there's a certian chemical in the brain that doesent function right. Esther tried killing herself because she wasent happy with how her life was going, and she just wanted to end it all. She thought she was going to be alone for the rest of her life and never find love. Esther tried drowning herself, cutting herself and took a lot of pills which made her overdose, after trying to kill herself she had to stay at a mental institution. I think the pressure of life drives humans to suicide. Some people just can't take all of the responsibilities they have to worry about, and it overwelms them to the point where they just can't take it anymore.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Imagination was one of the romantic characteristics in the poem, aswell as intuition. The main theme of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is respect of nature
Sneeches!
In the story The Sneeches by Dr. Seuss, the sneeches represent the different kinds/ethnicities of people or insecure people. The salesman with all the machines represented the leader or dictator that made everything worse, kind of like a Hitler of the story. The sneeches with the stars on their bellies thought they were better than the sneeches with the bare bellies and wouldn’t even talk to them. No matter what the bare bellied sneeches did, they weren’t accepted with the other star sneeches and were still discriminated against. The star sneeches removed their stars because the other bare sneeches got stars on their bellies so they could be treated equal. This went on back and forth through the whole story, but in the end of the story the sneeches realized that they were all equal, and that they shouldn’t hate each other because of their appearance. They realized star or not, they are all the same and not one person is better than the other. The overall message of this story is that we are all equal and no one is better than the other. And that we should all get along and love each other for who we are as individuals.
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