Community

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This paper examines how we come to recognize more readily the value of the community when we are faced with a crisis or a forced change in our situation. It analyzes how this can be seen through the personal accounts of "Still Me" by Christopher Reeve, "Man's Search for Meaning" by Victor E. Frankl and the film "Strive". It looks at how "Still Me" shows how we turn to a new community and a new structure when tragedy strikes and how Frankl lost the community he knew when the Nazis destroyed it and sent Frankl a new community in a death camp. It also examines how in "Strive" people who have lost their jobs and who have often been deemed unemployable by society have thus been excluded from the normal community to which we are all accustomed and to which they were once accustomed as well.

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"We all have a desire toward structure in our lives, and we may create it when we cannot find it naturally. The story told by Viktor E. Frankl illustrates this fact. Frankl lost the community he knew when the Nazis destroyed it and sent Frankl and millions of others to death camps. Frankl lost most of his family in these camps and was left very much on his own, and to fill the void, he developed a love of beauty to give him an anchor. After the war, he developed a psychological therapy called logotherapy which also recognized that people do not do well without structure and that people tend toward structure. Frankl describes logotherapy in terms showing his view of it as a way of viewing oneself and finding a place in the larger universe."

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