Essays on Anger

In this written analysis I will initially provide a description of the group and individual contracts made, and give a brief outline of the model of counselling employed. Following this I will provide a description of and explanation for the section of the interview I have chosen to analyse. Presented next will be an overview…

In the first stanza of ‘Hitcher’ shows the reader that the narrator is seeking a more relaxed lifestyle, and is unable to deal with the arduous tasks of everyday life. He states that he had been ‘tired, under/the weather’, but not especially ill, and therefore should not be taking time off work. He ignores all…

Inzy lets things flow over him This is not just the story of a man who has risen to be one of Pakistan’s icons. It is also a more human tale, one of two friends and a friendship that has stood for nearly 20 years, despite the differences caused by distance, status and money. On…

The Case of Eric Smith      Eric Smith was 13 years old in 1993 when he brutally murdered 4 year-old Derrick Robie.  The nature of the crime was horrific, which included battering Robie with rocks and sodomizing him with a fallen tree branch. Smith’s continued and strangely joyful involvement in the investigation eventually led him…

Hope Edelman a women who longs for a co-parenting relationship with her husband residing in a big happy family who spends heaps of time together; but is wrongfully mistaken when she realizes that she has to pick up all the responsibly for her husband by being both mommy and daddy. Then there is Eric Bartels…

Loving God and Other Sins As Friedrich Nietzsche, the revolutionary existentialist once said, “The Christian resolve to find the world evil and ugly has made the world evil and ugly.” William H. Faulkner’s Light in August, a novel in which the various protagonists’ struggles with Christianity soil their relationships with the people around them and…

Today is a day of great sadness in the literary world. While I was not a personal friend of Amy Bender, she touched me on a personal and emotional level. Her death came unexpectedly and as I watched the story unfold on the news I felt a deep sense of grief. She was an author…

Jerry’s: White-Collar Scholar to Blue-Collar Waitress Creamy carrion, pizza barf, decomposing lemon wedges, and water-logged toast crusts; sounds like the typical garbage can. Would anyone believe that these phrases apply to a run-down restaurant in the middle of Florida? Barbara Ehrenreich goes undercover at a local fast food diner known as Jerry’s to investigate life…

            A popular concern of parents over their children’s safety has been the rising number of gang membership in most cities in the country as well as the large number of violence-related behaviors of these gangs. Previous studies on gang violence had focused on the crimes committed by gangs, what caused gang violence and the…

The number of vehicles on freeways and streets is increasing at an alarming rate. This influx of motor vehicles is creating hazardous conditions. Moreover, drivers are in such a rush to get to their destinations that many become angry or impatient with other motorists who are too slow or who are in their way. Aggressive…