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The paper shows how the two works, "Catcher in the Rye" and "Franny and Zooey" study the means by which the characters feign cynicism and detachment and pretend to not care at all about their relationships. The paper focuses on the characters' relationships with their siblings and shows how they learn to care for each other and respect the connection that they have, despite the conflicting self images that they carry.

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"Holden Caulfield, Franny, and Zooey are all immersed in a dynamic within their environments that teaches them or challenges them to have the proper connectedness, and the most efficient means of integrating and maturing into the world which they are destined to live in. The fact is, we are all born into the same world, and we must learn to co-exist in this world. The works are not so much about co-existence, as they are about the moment in people's lives where they make the conscious choice to learn to co-coexist, and be responsible for the relationships they are born into in this world thereof."

Tags:cynicism, siblings, rivalry, care, self, image

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The paper examines two Western novels, "Angle of Repose" and "Winter in the Blood", and highlights how they argue that coming to terms with one's past is the only way to truly embrace the present and look forward to the future. The paper points out, however, that Stegner implies that the key to understanding one's past, present and future lies in connecting to family history, while Welch believes it is more important to remain connected to the events in one's own past.

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"One of the images most commonly evoked by writers of Western fiction is that of distance. A typical piece of Western fiction is filled with descriptions of broad plains, endless mountain ranges, and sage-covered desert landscapes fading off into far away sunsets. The stereotypical Western hero is depicted as the embodiment of distance. He puts distance between himself and other Westerners, between himself and his vague and hazy past, and is at times distant even from himself. Generally such characteristics are portrayed as heroic; Americans admire the man who needs nothing and no one to hold onto, who can begin life midway through with a clean slate. Such an image reflects Americans' image of themselves: the image of the immigrant starting anew in a country with no history."

Tags:present, past, family, connections, roots, future

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This paper discusses Internalized Homophobia, Relationship Quality, Outness, GLBT Community Connectedness, Depression, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, David M. Frost, Ilan H. Meyer, Counseling Psychology, Psychology of Men and Masculinity, Fransisco J Sanchez, Eric Vilain, Stefanie T. Greenberg, William Ming Liu, Effects of Masculine Ideals on Gay Men, Homosexuality, Masculinity, Gender Roles, Femininity, Straight-Acting, Gender Identification, Sexual Identity, Gender Differences, Sexuality, Homophobia, Stereotypes, Prejudice, Adorno, Gregory M. Herek, Heterosexuals' Attitudes toward Lesbians and Gay Men, Unpacking the Gender Systems, Social Stratification, Deconstruction, Theoretical Perspective, Gender Beliefs, Social Relations, Cecilia L. Ridgeway, Shelley J. Correll, Gender Theory, Gender Inequality, Behavioral Effects of Sexuality Inequality, Sexual Minorities, Sexual Orientation, Hierarchical, Hierarchy, Patriarchy, Misogyny, Bigotry, Gender Bias, Antigay Prejudice, Gender Role Violation, Social Psychology, Psychology, Sociology, Queer Theory, Socialization, Socially Constructed Ideals, Social Theory, Internalized Stigma, Heterosexism, Self-Esteem, Sexual Stigma, Masculine Women, Effeminate Men, Religious Orthodoxy, Social Relational Contexts, Societal Relation, Gender System, Sexual Scripts, Religiosity, Traditional Family Ideals and Roles, Social Expectations, Sex Ideology, Feminism, Feminist Theory, Luce Irigaray, Homogeneity, Homogeneous, Difference and Similarity, In-Group and Out-Group Interpersonal Dynamics, Typology.

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Heterosexism Affects Everybody: Moving Away from Identification with Narrowly Constructed Gender Roles Our ideas about gender are not based in nature, but function as a sociological construct within our culture. Even though we may automatically view many behaviors or activities as gendered, most have nothing to do with biology and everything to do with stereotypes that are consistently reinforced, becoming to many cultural participants "second nature." Socially constructed gender norms influence how women and men judge each other, and these norms also influence the ways gay men and lesbians are perceived and perceive themselves against a heterosexual

Tags:gender, social, psychology

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In this article, the writer discusses existential psychotherapy, examining whether its goal is to assist people in the process of living with greater expertise and ease. Isolation versus connectedness is discussed.

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"Although assisting people in the process of living with greater expertise and ease is a noble undertaking it is not the goal of existential psychotherapy. Rather the goal of existential psychotherapy has been defined as setting clients on the hard road of freedom's constant struggle. Existential psychotherapy forces clients to face what they would otherwise try to avoid- existential guilt and anguish -and encourages them to assume responsibility for their symptoms by demonstrating that they have chosen their own ..."

Tags:existental, psychotherapy, Rollo May, freedom, isolation, connectedness

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The paper examines the article "Perceptions of Adult Patients on Hemodialysis Concerning Choice Among Renal Replacement Therapies" where the researchers look at what influences patients to make the choices that they do in regards to treatment for kidney failure. The paper looks at this study in regards to five different criteria: descriptive vividness, methodological congruence, analytical and interpretative preciseness, philosophical and theoretical connectedness and heuristic relevance.

Outline:
Introduction
Descriptive Vividness
Methodological Congruence
Analytical and Interpretative Preciseness
Philosophical and Theoretical Connectedness
Heuristic Relevance
Conclusion

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"The aim of this study was to explore what patients on Hemodialysis recognize concerning their choices in regards to the three types of renal replacement therapies: transplantation, Hemodialysis, and peritoneal dialysis (Landreneau and Ward-Smith, 2007). The loss of kidney function can lead to serious illness that can affect many aspects of a person's physical well-being. The kidneys filter by-products of body chemistry and adjust the amount of liquid that is needed in the bloodstream. When the kidneys fail completely, a person cannot live for long unless you have dialysis or a kidney transplant. A transplant that works can relieve a person of kidney failure. Transplants are not always the answer for everyone. Dialysis is the process of artificially replacing the main functions of the kidneys. Hemodialysis is the process of filtering the blood through a machine. All of these procedures can be used to sustain life for years, but each procedure has its complications (Concerns about kidney failure, 2009).
"Developing kidney failure means that a person has some decisions to make about their treatment. They may choose Hemodialysis, which requires a machine that is used to filter blood outside of the body; peritoneal dialysis, which uses the lining of a person's belly to filter blood inside the body; and kidney transplantation, in which a new kidney is placed in the body."

Tags:kidney, failure, dialysis, transplant, methodology, findings

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Poetry analysis of selected works of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath focusing on recurring themes of suicide and rebirth. Specifically, the paper analyzes the loss of self-worth experienced by aging women, fears related to predetermined gender roles and how these influences and expectations hinder spiritual connectedness.

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"Women writers often use suicide as a vehicle of escape for female characters who find themselves trapped within a restrictive and domineering masculine centered society. Tragically, many of these same writers materialize their fascination with freedom through suicide into the reality of their own lives. Although the confessional poetry of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton delivers successive examples of this terrifying fascination, the horrific reality of their repetitive attempts to take their own lives taints the eloquence of this body of work. Loss of societal worth and independence for aging women, reservations with predetermined domestic expectations and, most significantly, repetitive attempts at identification with the spiritual and natural world are all relevant themes in Plath and Sexton's poetry. Clearly, both authors were plagued with a variety of fears born in the conflicting expectations of a male dominated society."

Tags:american, baby, beauty, camellia, confession, dance, death, defeat, development, domesticity, dying, escape, expectations, female, fever, flower, flowers, gender, hope, housewife, humane, humanity, image, irony, life

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Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" and Martha Cooley's "The Archivist" explore the importance of connectedness, both to the individual and the larger culture. The paper shows how the main characters of each book struggle with the individual damage done by a failure to connect with others in their lives. It shows that, on a broader level, Morrison's Milkman struggles to find his place in a larger black culture and can only find connection and happiness once he discovers his connection to his familial and cultural roots. Similarly, Cooley's Judith is haunted by her family history, but without the help of family or her husband, Matthias, she can never find connection to her roots or reconcile her past. It is this failure to connect that ultimately leads to Judith's madness and destruction.

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"It is in the woods that Milkman finally finds an understanding of brotherhood, and finds a place for himself in the larger black community. As he leaves the woods he is "exhilarated by simply walking the earth. Walking like he belonged on it . . ." (Morrison, 281). His new connection is seen in his caring, mutually fulfilling interaction with a local woman named Sweet, and his understanding that his relationship with her is profoundly different than his earlier superficial relationships with the other women in his life. As he makes the bed and washes the breakfast dishes, Macon reflects on his relationship with his mother and Pilate, and that "he had never so much as made either of them a cup of tea" (Morrison, 331). As Milkman discovers his family's past, he discovers a connection to his peers and his larger community as a whole."

Tags:holocaust, judith, roberta

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The mentoring process bridges the gap between formal, theoretical knowledge and practical, real life experience. This paper explains how the mentoring relationship helps the learner apply knowledge by creating emotional connectedness to his or her career and by having a person who is as committed to his or her success as the learner. It states that, while knowledge is gained in the classroom, the nurse must be able to apply the knowledge in a high-pressure, fast-moving environment, in which the nurse?s decisions can make a significant positive or negative impact on the patient?s well-being. By establishing a mentoring relationship, the experience of successful nurses can be transferred to the novice, thus enriching the entire profession.

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"The concept of career mentoring has been quietly making its way back into the professional marketplace as a means to ensure the success of up and coming executives, and professionals in positions which require a high degree of skill training, and emotional adjustments to their careers. Mentoring has long been knows for it's positive benefits, but in the competitive based, and highly individualized American marketplace, mentoring had been slowly abandoned as a means of producing qualified candidates. The American culture is based on competition as the means of attaining success. As a result of our colure, the natural selection process, of possibly the law of attrition has been used to cultivate trained professionals. Throughout the last half of the 20th century, the terms "dog eat dog" and "survival of the fittest" have described the nature of the American career path in many, if not most professional fields."

Tags:medical, patient, knowledge, education

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This paper compares the stories of the protagonists in each novel about their personal search for meaning and connectedness between their own lives, their cultural heritage, and their place in their modern society. Because the characters' search for meaning is very similar in both books, the paper uses this similarity to evaluate the characters. It then applies Marxist criticism and myth criticism to the books to identify the social forces that drove these characters into their personal odyssey. Through these two common post-modern philosophies, this paper asks and attempts to answer questions about what the men hoped to find and what elements were included in their personal epiphanies.

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"Throughout time, the question that has nagged at the souls of men more than any other has nothing to do with how much money a person earns, or what place in the social strata of the day will be their final resting place. Our culture has based much of its existence on means to purchase an identity based on the size of a bank account, but this has not quenched the fire to discover a man's true identity. The engines which manufacture a society's identity, and stamp it in the pages of history turn without ceasing, These engines, although run by men seeking to make their mark on time, do not themselves give to men their identity, and purpose."

Tags:tayo, half, white, native, american, reservation, rocky, john, washington, history, professor, moses

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In this paper the writer discusses the Mayan and Aztec cultures in a comparative nature to reveal the similarities in their interrelation to each other. By understanding the connectedness of the two cultures, the writer shows why they are so closely related in their art. Further, the writer shows the way that they made their art for life and religion. The writer also demonstrates that through an understanding of the artistic history of these nations, there is a semblance of influence that can be found in both of them.