ktmeng/mec huggingface dataset:
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In the third verse the poem reads, “Retreating…down the vast edges drear.” The vastness of the ocean is used with the word “drear”. The sea is now dark, dreary and cold. The “retreating” shows how the tide moves slowly but steadily away from the land; this is symbolic of how faith can move away slowly but steadily from a person until it is out of reach. In reality the tide always comes back yet in the poem it ends with the tide gone perhaps never to return as Arnold feels his faith will never return.
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The poem “I Am” by John Clare is about how he wants to escape all people and emotion and find solitude, he believed he would find this in nature, “I long for scenes where man hath never trod.” The poem was written was written just before he escaped his insane asylum, he felt confined there and needed wide open spaces which he managed to find. To Clare, nature is a friend as it offers what he needs and wants the most; solitude and simplicity similar to that which he experienced in childhood, “sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, untroubling and untroubled as I lie.” Clare also wanted to be with God and nature would connect him to God as nature is God’s creation as are people, “To abide with my Creator God.” Nature is a friend here as it was the only way that Clare was able to escape and be at peace.
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“Composed Upon Westminster Bridge” by William Wordsworth is another example of how nature is a friend to people. This poem is about the city of London and its beauty. Wordsworth sees nature as working together with the buildings to add to the view from the bridge. “The city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning.” There is also a sense of freedom as the river is allowed to go where it chooses, “The river doth glideth at his own sweet will. This poem is all about the positive things London city has to offer which are made more spectacular its combination with nature, “Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields, and to the sky.” Nature is a friend as it has worked with what humans have made and not been destroyed by it.
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Nature is not always seen as a friend, as in the poem “A Red Red Rose” by Robert Burns. Burns used the imagery of a red rose to symbolise his love, “O my luve’s like a red, red rose.” The rose appears to be initially a very good way to describe love as it is beautiful and natural; however, a rose has thorns which can hurt and is short lived. This suggests the love will not last and has hidden agendas as the rose hides its thorns until a person finds them by hurting themselves on them. Nature is an enemy here as it hurts people by deceiving them to think it is beautiful and harmless.
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In conclusion, nature can be seen as good or bad depending on the viewpoint of the poet. If nature has been influential in a good way, for example, Clare found safety and freedom in nature; they will have only positive views of nature. However, those who have had bad experiences, such as Arnold will not see nature as a friend. If nature is allowed to be free and is not completely confined nature will be a friend, when people try to go against it bad things occur and nature becomes the enemy.
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“Holes” shows the importance of friendship in times of trouble and danger. Discuss ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar is a phenomenal and superlative narrative. Entwining three remarkable stories from diverse generations and genres, Holes demonstrates immensely proficient writing dexterity, explicitly depicting the significance of earnest and genuine friendship in times of life’s trials and tribulations. This is exemplified when an averse and apprehensive Stanley and a despondent and barely conversant Zero develop a friendship. Founded on mutual solicitous understanding this friendship carries them through ominous and precarious times.
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Madame Zeroni and Elya Yelnats are two characters further used to demonstrate the ineffable importance of friendship in times of adversities. Their affiliation was based on virtuous guidance and assistance; even though this friendship is later blemished as Elya fails to honour an imperative promise. Friendship was the foundation of Sam and Kate’s illicit love story, their alliance helped them endure society’s condemnation of their obstinate love; they contentedly jeopardised their lives and stood by one another in catastrophic times, in spite of the ending.
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After suffering unremitting vindictive discrimination from everybody at Camp Green Lake, Zero liberated his discontent by absconding into the injurious desert after he struck the counsellor with a shovel and declared, “I’m not digging another hole,” (p. 38) Knowing the probable consequence of death and diminutive chance of survival a dissuaded Stanley ventured to find his inimitable friend, with destiny on his side he discovered his friend alive, “ … sunken eyes and a droopy smile,” (p. 154) Together they persisted into the desert, in search of God’s thumb, an alleged place of refuge, however in the final stages of their endeavour Zero grew emaciated and suddenly ‘Zero collapsed,’ (p162) Although Stanley was fatigued and frail he didn’t let Zero’s condition impede their voyage, Stanley dutifully carried a debilitated Zero up God’s Thumb.
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Once Stanley and Zero had reached and were recuperating on the mountain, images strangely of the site that he’d discovered the lipstick tube of Kiss’ n Kate and yarns of Kate’s concealed fortune flickered into Stanley’s thoughts. With an abrupt rush of exhilaration Stanley impulsively grabbed Zero and spontaneously said “You want to dig one more hole? ”(p. 188) After all the affliction had passed, Stanley was able to be reunited with his family, aware of Zero’s lonesomeness, Stanley tenaciously refused to leave Camp Green Lake without Zero.
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Stanley had anxiously said, “I can’t leave Hector,” (p. 219). After Stanley got his way and they had gone home together, with Stanley’s inherited treasure Stanley took the utmost courteous action and considerately divided his fortune with his impecunious and impoverished friend. Using the extremity of their adherence and philanthropy, the perilous conditions they endured, and sacrifices they made in order to shield, salvage and subsist one another Zero and Stanley are Holes most pertinent exhibits of the fathomless value of infallible and unfailing companionship in times of privation.
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For the duration of their friendship Madame Zeroni and Elya Yelnats had a candid and attentive correlation, from which they received advice, guidance, assistance and companionship. Madame Zeroni was elderly and lonesome, and Elya revelled in her stories and wisdom, accordingly he told her of his troubles though none were more perturbing to him than that of Myra Menke. When Elya had seen Myra he fell profoundly in love with her, despite the fact that Myra was beautiful she was also extremely imprudent but nevertheless Elya refused to acknowledge this. Elya had nothing to offer in exchange for her hand and was exceedingly distressed.
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When Madame Zeroni heard Elya speak of his love for Myra she was infuriated but even more so when she heard of Elya’s nuptial plans. Madame Zeroni had great hopes for him, she yearned for him to go to America and make something of himself. She had told him “Like my son. That’s where your future lies. Not with Myra Menke. ” (p. 30) Irritated, Madame Zeroni strived vigorously to convince Elya against marriage to Myra “… can she milk a cow? No… Can she have an intelligent conversation? No… Can she look after you when you are sick? No……… She is silly and foolish… So she is beautiful, so what? (p. 30). Madame Zeroni was exceptionally aggravated, she didn’t stop there with the defamations, she even told him Myra’s head was ‘as empty as a flower pot,’ (p. 29) but Myra’s futility was inconspicuous to Elya who was only fifteen, immature and naive. Madam Zeroni ostracized seeing Elya dejected and against her better judgement she decided to help him. She gave him a piglet and instructed him to carry the piglet up the mountain and sing to it a special song while it drank and she promised it will grow stronger and bigger but only on the condition that he does the same for her…
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Madame Zeroni was greatly apprehensive for Elya, she advised and warned him like a son but when she couldn’t withstand seeing him turbulent, she helped him in his time of constraint and desolation likewise if it hadn’t been for misfortunate circumstances Elya would have contentedly carried the disabled Madame Zeroni up the mountain. Louis Sachar has used Madame Zeroni’s admonition, guidance, and endowment to Elya and Elya’s initial inclination to help her and be her companion as patent proceedings to demonstrate the merit of a considerate and assiduous companionship in consternate times.
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Readiness Sam and Kate’s relationship begun as an affable friendship bartering onions for spiced peaches, the modest beginning of a newfound compassionate and amorous relationship that would see them suffer and endure a great deal. Their friendship intensified as they spent long afternoons together, Sam revamping the extremely dilapidated school house and Kate marking her students papers. Though Sam wasn’t permitted to attend classes, kiss white women and a list of other superfluous things because he was a negro, regardless he was permitted to restore the schoolhouse.
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Sam and Kate thrived on the modest conversations they had, it seemed they were the only two that understood each other. Sharing stories and poems they grew exceedingly fond of each other, before long the schoolhouse looked immaculate however for Sam and Kate this meant goodbye. Kate was distressed by the precincts imposed on their love by society, “My heart is breaking” she whimpered to Sam (p. 111). Sam held Kate’s hands and he kissed her, fervent to repair her broken heart but they soon found their stolen kiss wasn’t so stolen after all, by morning everyone knew of the forbidden kiss.
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A hanging was the reprimand but Kate couldn’t live without Sam. “If you hang him then you’ll have to hang me too, because I kissed him back,” Kate implored the sheriff, but he was drunk and irrational. She ran to Sam panted “… The sheriff said he’s going to hang you” (p. 114). With no further discussion they got in the boat and attempted to flee together… but all didn’t end well…. Sam was killed. For the remainder of her life Kate was filled with a hunger for vengeance. She lived out her days killing and stealing, her hatred and repugnance to society unrelenting, forever fighting for Sam.
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In the end Kate conceded herself to a slow and painful death to escape from the perpetual pain in her heart, to her she was already dead the day Sam had passed away, there was no life without Sam, just an existence. She was no longer normal, ‘she knew she was crazy’ (p. 20) Threatened by death her response was, “I’ve been wishing I was dead for the last twenty years,”(p. 122). From the very beginning Sam and Kate nurtured one another, trying to mitigate the quandaries in their lives.
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The author has used Sam and Kate as a paradigm of the dedication, diligence, love and affection that grows with friendship and the vital impact it can have when facing tumultuous times. The tent D boys weren’t primarily the greatest of friends but that didn’t deter them from collaborating to act as a team and become a prudent, consistent and adherent unit. The start of this receptive rapport was instigated by Stanley’s altruism after he ended up with a sack of Mr Sir’s sunflower seeds in his hole. Though they were stolen by Zig Zag Stanley took the culpability bluntly saying, “I stole them from your truck,” (p. 6) Not only did Stanley take the censure but he falsely admitted to the encroachment, well cognisant of the possible corollaries. More essentially Stanley and all the other boys of tent D were expected to confer any of their findings to X-ray, the longest sufferer and resident of Camp Green Lake. Consecutively X-ray would receive special treatment in following with CGL’s well established decree for making a discovery. “You can pretend you found it first thing in the morning. Then you get a whole day off, instead of just an hour or so this afternoon. Stanley had suggested to X-ray after he imparted his finding.
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From this instance forward the tent D boys made Stanley feel welcome and as Caveman walked into the wreck room “X-ray was full of life, laughing and waving his arms around as he talked. “Yo, Caveman, my man”… ” (p. 72). For the first time Stanley felt he was accepted and a part of X-rays entourage. Excited with the idea of having friends he even fantasised of a situation of his bullies yielding to the tent D boys, “Just what do you think you are doing? Asks Squid, as he slams his hands in Derrick Dune’s smug face. Caveman’s our friend,” says Armpit, grabbing him by the shirt collar. ”(p. 54) Furthermore, Stanley’s escape from camp green lake couldn’t have been a triumph without the encouraging cheers of his mates and Twitch who screamed ‘put it in gear! ’ in a very decisive moment when Stanley opted to flee using Mr Sir’s car. Ultimately, Stanley not only rescued Zero but the whole camp by divulging the menace they were in, ‘they’ll kill him’ he implored referring to Zero. In acknowledgement of Stanley’s statement the attorney general had said, “There’s going to be an investigation into everything that’s happened here.
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For the present, I am taking charge of the camp. ” The tent d boys repetitively established their commitment and consistency thus the tent D boys are one of Holes most manifest exemplars of the primacy of friendship’s eminences throughout disheartening and turbulent circumstances. Louis Sachar has numerously illustrated the prominence of friendship in adverse and treacherous situations, the fact that there was more than one story within Holes accentuated the vitality of friendship which is so typically for granted.
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Friends In life one may come across many people. Some will hate and while others will adore. The ones who hate can be referred to as enemies and theones who show adoration will be called friends. People may say the word friends is to broad. In the opinions of many, there are three types of friends. They are the aquaintinces he/she makes in school, the friends he/she looses as one grows, and bewt friends who may stray, but never too f ar away.
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One just talks to them and then they go on their merry way. These school aqquaintinces are the peopl who are talked to about different hoobies and class studies. Not ones personal life. School aquaitnices are the people that one will not see for the first time until the schools ten year reunion. Second, there are former friends. These are the ones taht grew up in ones neighborhood and moved away. These are the friends who will bring back memories that people thoght were forgotten.
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One might be embarassed at first about seeing their former friend, but as soon as conversation begins all the embarassement will be a thing of the past. Former friends are the ones that little secrets about meaqningless ideas were told to as a child, or the person who spent countlerss nights at ones house sleeping over. These are the people that knew ones parents very well, almost as well as the friend was known. Tehen all of a sudden out of nowhere this former friend is never spoken again to for years. Former friends give a sense of oldness to a person. In the long run they are good to have and to talk to. Finally, there are best friends who are the people that have been known all their lives or even just a few years. These friends regardless male or female can talk to a friend about anything on their mind. Many experiences have occured between two best friends or even a group of best friends. These kinds of friends share a common bnd that will last forever. Intimate secrets and special favors are all traits in which best friends can rely on each other for. All these examples are whypeople not only neebest friends, but should want them as well. These friends are future best men, bridesmaids, godfathers, and godmothers. They are the brothers and sisters ones parents never had. They are a part of oneself, if not all of that oneself. These friends mold the way of life one is going to live. Ones traits, beliefs, hobbies, jobs and even personality may come from the types of friends one encounters throughout life. Choosing friends wisely is a good habit to get into, for there are many bad influences in the world today. Friends come in many ways, but in the opinion of many the come as aquaintinces in school, the friends people wil lose as they grow older, and best friends who may stray, but never too far away.
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The taste of friendship is like a yummy cookie with its different colours and smells. It is difficult to describe how a friendship grows, for it often develops from seemingly contradictory roots: mutual needs, overlapping dependencies, and intense share of experience. But not only in that, there are various ingredients that will add to bake a complete, delicious and nutritious friendship. These ingredients and flavour stands for a different experiences, happy moments, worst times, and even in naught times. Milk stands for unsurpassed trust.
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It is the white and nutritious liquid that contains a significant amount of strength and extreme love. It is the primary source of trust and it can help to reduce conflict in friendship. Chocolate stands for a wonderful taste of experience and endless sharing. If we say chocolate we use to think its sweet, yes it’s sweet because of its delicious experiences that we cannot forget the feelings and taste. Your rich experience in creating flavours for your memories is where your passion meets yourselves.
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When we realize that the world is all come from a big lie, from beginning to end when you have a loyal friend by your side it will help you to find the great taste and complete ingredients and importance of friendship. Vanilla stands for deep and soulful secrets. Your secrets are confidential that no one can discover except both of you. Hidden mysteries are the factors that can help you to make your trust stronger. Cream stands for beautiful dreams. Your dreams are always a part of yourself. Seeing is deceiving and dreaming is believing.
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Don’t give up on your dreams continue to configure the stars, stars that will lead you to success. Creating dreams with friends are the best moments because you share your own insights, goals in life, thoughts, and you wanted to be in the future. These ingredients mixed with personality and a sense of humour can make a friendship lasts a lifetime. You open your heart, taste every moment and believe in the every ingredients and gift of a friend. Friendship does not exist where taste, flavour and ingredients are not similar. Your flavour ingredients are only limited by your own taste and imagination.
Topic: friendship

Emotions and genetic features work together to form personal identity and shape one’s actions. A person’s life from conception, infancy, childhood, and adolescence all have an impact on physical and emotional well-being. This paper will look at the diathesis-stress model, Dodge’s Social Information Processing and the factors that may affect depression and antisocial behaviors. The diathesis-stress model talks about the relationship between potential causes of depression, and the degree to which people may be vulnerable to react to those causes.
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The diathesis-stress model suggests that people have predispositions for developing depression. The vulnerabilities are referred to as diatheses. Some people may have more of these diatheses for developing depression than other people. However, having a predisposition towards developing depression alone is not enough to trigger the illness. An individual’s diathesis must interact with stressful life events in order to prompt the onset of the illness (Nemade, R. Ph. D. , Reiss, N. S. Ph. D. , Dombeck, M. Ph. D. , 2007).
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Following the diathesis-stress model, the difference in genetic predisposition along with the different life experiences accounts for why some adolescents become antisocial when others do not. Death or other losses such as job layoffs, relationship difficulties like divorce, normal milestones such as puberty, marriage, or retirement; alcoholism or drug abuse, neurochemical and hormonal imbalances, and infections can all be powerful enough to cause depressive symptoms in someone with a diathesis (Nemade et al, 2007). In some cases stress from the environment reacts with someone’s predisposition for depression resulting in a breakdown.
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Dodge’s Social Information-Processing Model helps to explain why people who feel attacked react aggressively. The model describes the cognitive steps that are necessary in order to react appropriately in a social setting. Dodge’s model says that, “at a young age people should learn to: (1) observe social cues, (2) interpret behavior, (3) generate responses, (4) choose appropriate response after evaluating potential consequences, and (5) perform the chosen response. ” (Dodge, K. A. , 1986, p. 72) People who are highly emotional but have low emotional control often have difficulty perceiving people’s intentions.
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The factors affecting depression and antisocial behavior are external and internal, biological and environmental. As seen throughout the text book, life is a delicate interaction of nature and nurture. Attachment, parenting, family, friendships, personality, self-esteem, and psychopathology all interrelate and depend on one another. In a secure, emotionally open mother-child relationship, children develop a more positive, less biased understanding of others, which then promotes more positive friendships (“University of Illinois,” 2009).
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Research shows that children who were securely attached at age three showed more open emotional communication with mothers and better language ability (“University of Illinois,” 2009). This finding suggests that the way children interpret other people’s behavior may begin to develop in the context of early relationships in the family, and these interpretations may be important for a child’s ability to get along with friends later on (“University of Illinois,” 2009). A child’s early attachment relationships are close and emotionally intense.
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For that reason, those relationships may be important in guiding children’s thinking about and functioning in other close relationships (“University of Illinois,” 2009). Significantly higher levels of antisocial behavior were found in seven-year-old children whose mothers were depressed during the child’s first five years of life (“Journal of American Medical,” 2005). “Children of depressed mothers have elevated conduct problems, presumably because maternal depression disrupts the care giving environment. (“Journal of American Medical,” 2005, para. 7) Researchers have identified three possible explanations for the association between a mother’s depression and antisocial behavior (ASB) in their children: (1) depressed women are likely to have antisocial personality traits related to depression, (2) are likely to bear children with antisocial men, (3) and the children of depressed mothers may inherit a genetic predisposition for antisocial disorders (“Journal of American Medical,” 2005).
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Maternal depression combined with symptoms of antisocial personality disorder in mothers is the greatest risk for children’s ASB (“Journal of American Medical,” 2005). “From birth, parents can nurture and help develop these social competencies by making eye contact with their babies, offering toys and playing with them, and encouraging them to interact with other children as soon as they are developmentally able to do so. ” (“Society for Research,” 2007, para. 1) Children who are consistently shy while growing up are particularly likely to be raised by stressed-out par ents, and to possess a genetic variant associated with stress sensitivity (“Association for Psychological Science,” 2007). Many studies show low income, having little education, and being a single parent lead to increases in parental stress (“Association for Psychological Science,” 2007). Home life has a huge impact on the child’s physical and mental health, relationships, and abilities.
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Malnutrition in the first few years of life leads to antisocial and aggressive behavior throughout childhood and late adolescence (“University of Southern California,” 2004). Effects of low income at an early age often present antisocial behavior, conduct such as bullying, being cruel, breaking things, cheating or telling lies persist as children get older while the effects of starting off in a low-income household on child depression lessen as time goes on, regardless of later income levels (“University of Alberta,” 2006). These findings might mean that antisocial behavior is an example of biological embedding–it is possible that poverty early in life helps to set into motion a consistent pattern of antisocial behaviors that are difficult to change once learned. ” (“University of Alberta,” 2006, p. 3) It appears there is a strong connection between closeness to at least one sibling during childhood and having a lower risk of depression in adulthood (“Brigham and Women’s Hospital,” 2007). Quality of relationships with siblings during childhood may be a predictor of depression later in life (“Brigham and Women’s Hospital,” 2007).
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Forming friendships is a very important life-long skill. Girls who were victimized in kindergarten were more likely to engage in antisocial behavior at home as they got older, while they acted more and more depressed at school if their victimization increased (“Center for the Advancement of Health,” 2003). “When kids feel comfortable talking about their emotions, especially their negative emotions, it increases their social competence with classmates and leads to closer friendships. ” (“University of Illinois,” 2009, para. 3) When early friendships are successful, young children get the chance to master difficult social and emotional skills (“Society for Research,” 2007). Early friendships also predict future capability in other sorts of relationships and in certain forms of personal well-being. For example, they have fewer behavior problems or less depression or anxiety later in life (“Society for Research,” 2007). Rejection contributes to the risk that children won’t have friends. Children who are rejected early in elementary school are more likely to not have friends later in elementary school (“Society for Research,” 2007).
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Girls’ antisocial behavior, on the other hand, made them more likely targets for victimization in the short and long term (“Center for the Advancement of Health,” 2003). Both rejection and a lack of friends in elementary school put children at risk for adjustment problems in adolescence. Children who are rejected in elementary school are more likely to be lonely as adolescents and depressed as teenagers (“Society for Research,” 2007). Behavior problems in early grades to lead to peer rejection and a lack of friends in elementary school.
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This leads to early adolescent depression and loneliness (“Society for Research,” 2007). Children who were disruptive in early childhood are more likely to be rejected and lack friends in elementary school. Anxious children also tend to have fewer friends, although they are not more likely to be rejected by their peers (“Society for Research,” 2007). “The brains of young that suffer from anxiety and severe shyness in social situations consistently respond more strongly to stress, and show signs of being anxious even in situations that others find safe. (“Association for Psychological Science,” 2007, para. 1) Parenting, family relationships, and friendships affect self-image or self-esteem. “There are several different sources of strength that the girls need to enable them to withstand the stress. These include having a greater say in one’s own everyday life and getting emotional support. ” (“Public Library of Science,” 2008, para. 5) Body weight affects children’s self esteem as does school performance (“Public Library of Science,” 2008).
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Recreational and cultural activities were also found to be important sources of strength (“Public Library of Science,” 2008). Perhaps the area where biological features and environment working together can be most closely observed would be in psychopathic disease. Children and teens of parents with disorders have an increased risk of early-onset disease, mood disorders and anxiety disorders (“Journal of American Medical,” 2005). Identifying the condition early may improve long-term outcomes, potentially preventing high psychosocial and medical costs (“Journal of American Medical,” 2005).
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Suicidal thoughts are more frequent in those aged 16 – 24. Most frequently people who are not married, cohabiting or who are widowed; people with low levels of social support or who have experienced several stressful life events; those from poor socio-economic backgrounds; and the unemployed are at the highest risk (“University of Bristol,” 2004). Suicidal thoughts and impulsive actions are an indicator of the rapid mood swings and changes in life circumstances that surround the move from childhood to young adulthood (“University of Bristol,” 2004).
Topic: friendship

I was a normal girl when I was in elementary school, but after what I did, all my classmates worshiped me as a “hero.” I remember I was in grade five; my Chinese teacher was really cruel. If the students did not do their homework, he will punished the students by clapped their face. Not only the teacher could clap the students’ face, he also asked all the students in class to clap the punished student’s face. If anyone did not want to do that or clapped softly, he or she will be the one to be clapped next.
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Finally it’s my turn, but I could not do that because he was my best friend. I told the teacher “Sorry! I can’t.” The teacher answered me “Never mind, just be clapped 30 times, it’s not a big duel.” After that, I was standing in front of 30 people and waiting for them to clap my face. That was the most horrible time in my life; I was so scared and ran away. I just keep running to the principal’s room, I cried and told the principal everything that the teacher did.
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The principal was totally shocked and called the teacher to his room. However, the teacher denied all the truth. He said I was a bad girl and I was lying. Therefore, the principle asked the students in the class was that truth or not. All the students said “the teacher is lying” at the same time. The principle was so angry and fired him. The principle also reported the case to the police, but I don’t know was the teacher in the jail or not. That’s the only time I heroically performed.
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The Chocolate War sends the message that dehumanization occurred by blind obedience to power and authority. A secret society in Trinity is The Vigils. It has the inconceivable influence and power at the school. Archie Costello, the assigner of The Vigils, designs the cruel assignments for the helpless students in order to participate. No one will ever try to go against his ideas and no one wants to be an enemy of The Vigils. The spineless and cowardice for the students leads to Archie manipulating everyone to obey and carry out his wishes. “Tell me why you are here,” (The Chocolate War) Archie asked The Goober in order to show his powerful. When The Goober responded to his questions, he has to answer as “Yes sir” or “respect” the assigner of The Vigils, Archie. The Goober succumbs to the authority and power. He passively accepts and conforms to the assignment.
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For the students, the assignment is something inescapable and unable to fight against it. The purpose of The Vigils is to establish anonymity to “minimize each prisoner’s sense of uniqueness and prior identity.” In fact, the students mean nothing in the face of The Vigils’ power (Breakthrough Writer). Similar to the Milgram experiment, the “teachers” followed the order of the experimenters blindly for reinforcing actual electric shocks to the “learners” every time they answer the questions wrongly. They do completely what they are told, neglectful of their humanity and social morality. Like the Stanford experiment, the prisoners are forced to wear smocks that look like dresses to restrain their movement like a “feminine” manner. Then, the “guards” strip the “prisoners for the punishment of their masculinity for the clothes to be naked completely for representing the helplessness and powerlessness of the prisoners, like the students of Trinity. While not as extreme, The Vigils do take the students to their hideout where the students are rendered helpless and in a way are “naked.” The Vigils’ strip the students of their masculinity by the assignments, which are a reminder of who has all the power and who must be obedient. (Breakthrough Writer)
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Sadistic dynamics are the process of dehumanization that is taking their own pleasure by building painfully on the others. Brother Leon seeks for the Vigils support in the chocolate sale to cover for his illegally spending of the school money as an embezzler. He also knows that with The Vigils acting on his behalf, his power over the students and the sale is greater. It seems as if Brother Leon actually enjoys watching Archie Traumatize and controls the students. Similarly, Brother Leon taunts and controls the teachers and administrators, as well as the students. He defames Bailey as a cheater. He says, “Why do you find it necessary to cheat?” (The Chocolate War) When Bailey is facing Brother Leon’s questions, he is seeking to help of the class. However, the class is utterly silent; no one is willing to come out and defense of him. Brother Leon humiliates Bailey pleasing his own satisfaction for showing his power. Also, the sadism inside his soul scapegoats an innocent victim to make his subjects prove their loyalty like the chocolate sale. The corrupt and cowardly Leon underscores Archie’s nihilistic belief. He is as evil as Brother Leon.
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His own personal sense that he is lacking in humanity also feels a sense of “self-disgust,” especially when he is introducing a new assignment by interrogating a student. When he tells the Goober that the assignment is not anything personal, it is like the depersonalization or dehumanization of the subject performing the assignment. Moreover, The Vigils hold their conference in a windowless room with guards, comparable to a prison cell. The prison cell represents “close confinement” fosters the sadistic dynamics like the Stanford experiment. The guards are severely violating the rules of the experiment and their initial commitment. They beat up the learners who rebel against their orders. The action of their violence is becoming bloody gradually. The dehumanization process encourages people who desire power to become more cruel and ruthless in their imposition of purpose.
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Everyone has a different standard of morality. The doubtful moral standards for Brother Leon and Archie are worthy for us to probe into. In The Chocolate War Brother Leon and Archie allow the fight between Emile and Jerry, and continue another fight for boxing after school. It is because of the spite and revenge for punishing Jerry as he refuses the chocolate sale. Brother Leon is eager for power by the huge success of the chocolate sale. However, Jerry’s defiance becomes a significant symbol signs the students can have their own option to choose. Obviously, it obstructs the sale and the success for Brother Leon. Therefore, he selects to hear but pay no attention to the fight. He goes to every expedient to reach his purpose by reneging professional principles of being a teacher. One the other hand, Archie rationalizes his behavior with self-disgust that he plays the role just like everyone else do as populist fallacy.
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He does not feel any guilt of his behavior by saying “life is shit,” “everyone is a bastard.” He applies his talent to think about what will hurt a person most like what he is really doing like the assignment he gives to the Goober. In this incident, the Goober becomes less human and more like “Vigil bait.” He suffers his own guilty conscience due to Brother Eugene’s breakdown. The Vigils make the students perform tedious acts that remind the students that they are insignificant, less human and more animal (Breakthrough Writer). Similarly, it happens like treat the prisoners more like animals than humans in the Stanford experiment. The prisoners must obey the strict rules by making them ask permission for the most rudimentary activities. They abuse any prisoner as they want severely like strip the prisoners of their clothes to set up an example for others. The dehumanization develops evil inside the guards gradually. The doubtful human’s morality in the controversial the Stanford experiment is worth to think over.
Topic: friendship

Tribalism is a sigh of symbiosis that it cannot stand by its own. It always has someone giving order and someone compromising. The Vigils give the assignments to the students, and the students follow blindly. Some of them will never think of resistance or rebellion; some of them will love to enjoy watching the assignment proceed and maintain. Besides, as Brother Leon takes over management of the school, it is his decision to double the quota and the price in the chocolate sale. The students do not complain but accept the deal acquiescently. Their relationship is like “captors and captives” mutual dependent on each other. Moreover, his financial foolhardiness of the project won’t be successful without Archie’s help. Archie applies his intellect scheme for affecting and encouraging the students to work hard for the sale. Without, if the assignment carries without students obey, it is hardly to accomplish.
Topic: friendship

Without Archie’s idea, Brother Leon is probably distressed for covering his corruption. Also, without The Vigils’ power, he won’t fool with other’s pain taken to be his “enjoyment” arbitrarily. Resembling neither the Stanford experiment nor the Milgram experiment, both of the experiments cannot be accomplished without any character. The prisoners’ disobedience provokes the guard’s evil lead to raise a disturbance of the tragedy. The stratification of the Milgram experiment is the experimenter gives an order and the teachers follow blindly. Without the experimenter’s instruction, the teachers won’t do it by violating the “conscientiousness.” Also, without the teachers’ submission, the experiment won’t be carried out.
Topic: friendship

When I was 16 years old, all my friends were smokers. They always smoked around me, and tried to make me became one of them. At first, I really hate smoking, and I will stop them if they smoked. However, they keep convincing me and told me they won’t be my friends if I did not smoke, so I listened to them. After one month, my mother saw me in the street and I was smoking with them. My mother asked me to quit, but I did not agree. I told my mother: “They are my friends, if I don’t smoke, they won’t be my friends anymore.” My mother said: “If they are your good friends, they won’t let you to smoke. They know the bad effects of smoking, but they still teach you to do that.” After that day, I stopped smoking. Now, I know that if all the people around me are doing one thing but I am not, it makes me become a “special person”. However, I am who I am; I don’t have to change myself by peer pressure to become one of them.
Topic: friendship

Modern playwrights have continued to create characters whose tragic flaws lead to tragedy, but these are not usually heroes in the classical sense. Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” for example, tells the story of a man whose character’s defect leads to tragedy and the suffering of others. Death of a Salesman, is a gripping drama written by Arthur Miller, illustrating the suffering and hardships experienced by an ordinary 60-year old salesman who is on an unusual journey to achieve the American dream.
Topic: friendship

Some insist on ignoring the problem as long as possible as is the case with our hero, while some attack the problem to get it out of the way. This technique of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman, leads to very severe consequences. He never really does anything to help the situation, he just escapes into the past, whether intentionally or not, to happier times were problems were scarce. He uses this escape as if it were a narcotic, and as the play progresses, the reader learns that it can be a dangerous drug, because of it’s addictiveness and it’s deadliness.
Topic: friendship

After failing to deal adequately with his feelings, he escapes into a time when things were better for his family. It is not uncommon for one to think of better times at low points in their life in order to cheer themselves up so that they are able to deal with the problems they encounter, but Willy Lowman takes it one stepfurther. His refusal to accept reality is so strong that in his mind he is transported back in time to relive one of the happier days . A time when no one argued,he and his were younger, the financial situation was less of a burden, and his sons enthusiastically welcomed him back home from a long road trip.
Topic: friendship

Willy is not good with people, he is good with his hands,he is not a good salesman and he chooses the wrong career. Willy often makes up stories or changes the stories he knows because he cannot face the truth of his life that he has not accomplished as much as he has planned. Willy’s downfall is his own doing which is brought about by his unrealistic dreams, his pride ,his career choice and his failure to manage life’s problems. Willy, at a young age, noticed an old salesman who worked at an age of 80 and made a lot of money.
Topic: friendship

The old salesman took orders from no one, he made his own orders and everyone did as the old man said. When the old salesman, Dave Singleman dies, all the buyers came to his funeral. All the people Dave ever knew came. There were thousands mourning his death. From that point, Willy Loman found an awesome dream which he followed the rest of his life. Willy became a salesman in spite of being the most unqualified salesman ever! He never sold a thing. Willy stops seeing the truth at one point of his life and he relies on his own lies to numb his pain. The pain of knowing he cannot and will not be able to become Dave Singleman.
Topic: friendship

He is Willy Loman, who is good at fixing the house. He is not cut out for travelling from city to city and selling goods to people he has never met before. Willy dramatically dies living out his dream, the dream that never suited Willy Loman. Willy does not allow people to tell him what to do. He believes that he cannot be bossed around and that he is too important to fall under anyone’s authority but his own. Willy’s relationship with his wife is clearly a cause of his collapse. Willy neglects to demonstrate honesty in his relationship with his wife.
Topic: friendship

The reader is told of Willy’s past and how on business trips he would deceivingly find himself a woman to spend the night with. When Willy is no longer able to make a living he borrows money from his friend, Charley, and claims that it is money that he had made. As Willy’s condition slowly deteriorates, he sets up tubing, which he plans to hook up in a fashion with intent of suicide. He neglects to tell Linda how he feels. Due to Willy’s lack of honesty with Linda, she too is not honest with him. She is aware that Willy is borrowing money from a friend, but doesn’t say anything about it.
Topic: friendship

After Willy is unable to complete a drive to New England, due to his obviously deteriorating condition, Linda avoids reality and makes excuses for Willy. Linda always puts Willy on a pedestal and refuses to see any fault in him. Willy teaches Biff and Happy not to take orders from anyone. He thinks this will make Biff, Happy and himself successful, but he is once again wrong and suffers in his life because of that. As a father Willy fails, he is not a good father for many reasons. First and foremost, he makes his occupation his number one priority.
Topic: friendship

For years, he travelled for his business so frequently that he never got the opportunity to truly get to know his own sons. As a result, he could not give them both his love and time as a father. Biff catches his father with the women he is in love with, this not only breaks his heart but he can never trust his father again. As a father, Willy Loman offers his sons terrible advice. For example, this is what the old salesman tells teenage Biff about women: WILLY: Just wanna be careful with those girls, Biff, that’s all. Don’t make any promises. No promises of any kind. Because a girl, y’know, they always believe what you tell ’em.
Topic: friendship

The two sitcoms I’m going to compare are ‘Friends’ and ‘Seinfeld’. Both are American sitcoms based in glamorous city, New York, this is done because the state is filled with cars, people and their famous yellow taxis, as there are more than 11 million people that live there, this simply adds to the busy, fast paced, hectic style of both sitcoms. For instance, if they where set in a remote, quite setting the situations would be half as animated and lively, this type of social setting is not uncommon for American sitcoms, for instance
Topic: friendship

However, even though Monica is the dominant character in the relationship with Chandler, she still fulfills the role of housekeeper and cook, even though she works and her husband doesn’t, for instance in this episode she stills cleans all the dishes, tidies up etc she is still the ‘housewife’. This is done to add a sense of familiarity and a sense of homeliness to the episode and overall sitcom. This differs from Elaine’s character in Seinfeld’s ‘the contest’; she attacks the typical gender roles and shows how social context has changed.
Topic: friendship

For instance, in this episode she fully partakes in ‘The Contest’ in which the person who survives the longest without masturbating wins, although she eventually masturbates and no-one wins. The males initially fear that the contest will not pose a challenge to Elaine due to her gender: “It’s easier for a woman not to do than a man! ” For Jerry, George, and Kramer, Elaine’s gender will disrupt the balance of the challenge and endanger their chances for dominance. In the end, the men allow Elaine to participate, but this suggestion only meets approval after George raises the stakes by increasing Elaine’s financial contribution.
Topic: friendship

Elaine accepts an action which symbolizes payment of membership dues for entry into this private boys club, or this “community of men. ” She highlights the societal change in the way women are perceived as she differs from the strong representation of control associated with women. She is more in line with Rachel’s character who is a career women trying to break the mould. George’s character is similar to that of Chandlers, a self-doubting and insecure person, for instance in this episode when everyone doubts his promise to stop masturbating he jumps at them, ‘… you don’t think I can?… you think you could?… This is almost an carbon copy of Chandlers reaction ‘… well what is wrong with me? am I .. am I incompetent?… ‘
Topic: friendship

Another stereotypical character is represented in Joey, he’s the typical male slob; his laziness, and forgetfulness often leads to him missing his auditions. For instance, in this episode he forgets to go to the parade with the rest of the ‘Days of our Lives’ cast, this could lead to him getting fired. He is a talented actor but he is stereotypically not able to achieve his full potential because of the lack of professionalism, his male qualities often hold him back. He is represented as almost childlike.