... external, like a miracle, has more to do with accomplishing their goals. In an empowerment-based therapy, the clinician must relate to the client in a certain way. He/She treats the client as being able to make his/her own decisions, and he/she forms a good relationship with the client. The clinician's use of questions is also important in this process. Empowerment-based practice is tied with solution-focused therapy. Something used quite often in this practice is called “the miracle question.” The clinician asks his/her client this question, allowing them to visualize their future, and realize that their lives can change. The miracle question is as follows ...
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... course could settle for a diploma in general studies and afterward find a job with decent pay. Now that possiblity scarcely exists, so many poorly prepared students feel compelled to try college. Getting accepted by some schools isn't difficult. Once in, though, the student who has taken nothing beyond general mathematics, English, and science faces serious trouble when confronted with college algebra, first-year compostion, and biological or physical science. Most colleges do offer remedial courses and other asistance that my help some weaker students to survive. In spite of everything, however, many others find themselves facing ever-worsening grade-point a ...
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... and, in particular, those aspects of nature that touch most closely upon human life. This I think Macbeth attains. However, Aristotle adds a few conditions. According to Aristotle, a tragedy must have six parts: plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle, and song. Most important is the plot, the structure of the incidents. Tragedy is not an imitation of men, but of action and life. It is by men's actions that they acquire happiness or sadness. Aristotle stated, in response to Plato, that tragedy produces a healthful effect on the human character through a katharsis, a "proper purgation" of "pity and terror." A successful tragedy, then, exploits and appeals ...
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... to Portsmouth and think no more about her”( Rowson 11 ). Montraville went against his judgment. He knew that her parents would be angry if they knew that their daughter was having a relationship with a man! He was supposed to be a responsible soldier: an honorable man that would not do this kind of thing! But he would continue to see her. He even paid her guardian so she would keep bringing her to see him. “ He soon pund means to ingratiate himself with her companion, who was a French teacher at the school, and, at parting, slipped a letter he had written into Charlotte’s hand, and five guineas into that of Mademoiselle, who promised ...
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... the boys abandon the fire which is symbolic of Ralph’s hope of getting saved, Ralph faces an internal conflict that makes him fear about their future; perhaps they will not be rescued at all. By insisting that the children should keep the fire going, he creates an external conflict with Jack whose values are different. Jack is enjoying life as a leader of the savages, and he fears that fire will possibly end his authoritarian rule over the savages. Both conflicts are resolved when Ralph finally meets the naval officer. Ralph is one of the few boys who realize that the only way to survive is through peace and order. Because he summons the boys at the beginnin ...
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... will be sold, she takes him and runs away to Canada. On the way, she is reunited with her husband, a fellow slave from another plantation who had already run away. George Harris - A slave on an estate near the Shelby’s. He is Eliza’s husband. As well, he is intelligent and has learned to read and write. He heads for Canada without his wife and son, hoping to earn the money to redeem them as soon as possible. He does not like white folks until the end when they help him. He ends up going to Liberia to live, where there is no slavery. Mr. and Mrs. Shelby- A very nice couple who own some of the slaves. They treat them like actual people. Little Harry- Eliza’s ...
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... had thought that since Tom was black he was automatically guilty. This strong lawyer takes up the case saying ".. If I didn't I couldn't even hold up my own head in town, I couldn't even represent the legislature,.. every lawyer gets at least one case that affects him personally. This one's mine,"(page 76) and still defends Tom no matter what the town was saying about him and his family. Atticus' sister, Aunt Alexandra, keeps telling him that he shouldn't take up the case because he is disgracing the family by defending a lowly Negro. He will by far receive the greatest amount of pressure because he is defending Tom, but he is a strong man and won't stoop down to ...
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... has one duty: he must fight and win. If he succeeds, he is a hero; if he fails he is simply a failure (except when he fails at defeating the dragon because he has already proved himself and goes with honor, which is different from initially failing). In the last lines of the story the author clearly acknowledges Beowulf’s overall triumph, “Telling stories of their dead king and his greatness, his glory, praising him for heroic deeds, for a life as noble as his name.” Sir Gawain on the other hand is deemed a hero but seems to lack something that Beowulf simply does not. This is because he is a passive hero. Sir Gawain appears to be incapable and ...
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... he feels that his life has no significant meaning. If there is nothing to believe in, then life is nothing. The older waiter in the story recognizes the existence of nothing: “Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y pues nada y pues nada” (202). As existentialists, men are forced to make all decisions in their lives for themselves, with nothing to believe in except for the positive result of their choices. Existentialists are plagued with dread over their potential confrontation with nothingness, an anxiety that comes with the impossibility of finding ultimate justification for the choices they must make. In contrast, men ...
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... abused by the father and siblings. She is clearly suffering from depression and low self esteem which is evident right from the beginning of the film. Muriel's siblings are unemployed and show no desire for a better future and the father, Bill reinforces his families' low self esteem by constant negativity. Muriel's desire to get married is at some level her opportunity to escape this environment. Throughout the film, Muriel demonstrates avoidance behaviour. Music plays a large part of this process and becomes a symbol of freedom from her environment. She allies herself with a group of "trendy" and popular girls in an effort to disassociate from her ...
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