Essays on Emotions

Literature and poetry have frequently addressed unrequited love. It captures the heartbreak and desire one feels when their love is denied. Unrequited love poetry evokes strong emotions, rich imagery, and shared experiences. We’ll examine several poetry to understand unfulfilled desire and how it illuminates the …

Depression – Psychodynamic Theory I have been interested in the mechanics of depression since childhood, when my mother ‘suffered with her nerves’ – her explanation of what I now recognise as a very severe melancholia defined by Burton in 1621 as “a kind of dotage …

Quiz one Part I Multiple choices 25@3 1. What are the three primary determinants of behavior that organizational behavior focuses upon? a. profit structure, organizational complexity, job satisfaction b. individuals, profit structure, and job satisfaction c. individuals, groups, and job satisfaction d. groups, structure, and …

A recent study shows that people living on the continent of North America suffer 9 times more chronic fatigue and 31 times more chronic depression than do people living on the continent of Asia. Interestingly, Asians, on average, eat 20 grams of soy per day, …

Erik Erickson was a theorist whose work was greatly influenced by another famous theorist by the named of Sigmund Freud. Erikson’s Psychosocial Development Theory emphasized growth and development throughout the lifespan. Unlike Freud, Erickson believed that one is influenced by culture and society. Erikson proposes …

The greatest percentage of first time customers Is college students, Just Like he town of Blackburn, with a population of 40,000 people plus about 25,000 enrolled college students. Greensboro, North Carolina Is about 80 miles South of Janesville and most of the students don’t return …

Reeves & NAS (1996) showed that humans like to communicate with computers as they do with people. Software applications which include models of emotional processes are needed to model the social and emotional aspects of human-machine interaction. Extending classic AAA and logic by adding simulated …

It can leave you feeling you out of control, angry and unstable, unable to make clear decisions. Negative thoughts can creep up leaving you depressed or anxious, it may affect your self-esteem and you may cope by working longer hours, seeking escape In alcohol, drugs, …

There are five motivations concepts that psychologists use to factor motivation that energize and direct human behavior. The Instincts approach is said to be a set of skills, preprogrammed in people and animals. These skills are biological in nature and programmed into our DNA. Instinct …

Identifying and measuring our emotions is difficult because it is not easy to objectively assess what we are feeling at that specific situation for emotions are subjective experiences. To accurately identify the range of our emotions and to classify it correctly takes greater control and …

In these poems, the poets use a range of techniques to present feelings and emotion from the point of the speaker. Ghazal is in the style of a traditional Persian love poem, which puts forward powerful imagery and metaphors, in an attempt to summarise the …

Can early insecure attachment doom the child to psychopathology in later life? Shaffer, (1993) defines attachment as a “close emotional relationship between two people two persons, characterised by mutual affection and desire to maintain proximity”. According to Browby, (1969) attachment behaviours are formed in infancy …

i. Introduction Social Anxiety is a worldwide disorder that can affect anyone, no matter what ethnicity or gender they are. Social anxiety is an intense fear of social situations, especially when you are being judged or watched by others. Such as presentations, being the center …

Happy people become happier through kindness intervention. The relationship between the character strength of kindness and subjective happiness, and the effects of a counting kindnesses intervention on subjective happiness Happy people to perform on their motivation, recognition and enactment of kind behaviors. They have more …

The etymology of forgiveness comes from old English “for” meaning completely and “giefan” meaning to give or to receive. It is defined as to give up resentment against an offense. In psychology forgiveness is a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance …

In his book The Fault in Our Stars, John Green deals with the themes of death and love. The cancer-struck teenager Hazel Grace Lancaster is diagnosed with cancer at the young age of 13. As her mother forced her to attend a cancer support group, …

As we advance through life, it’s expected for one to face sorrow and hardships as life isn’t meant to be easy. These obstacles are expressed similarly in both “The Wanderer” and “The Wife’s Lament”, although the underlying plots are slightly different. Through the feelings of …

Agoraphobia is a state of having an intrinsic fright of attending crowded areas, civic places, or open spaces, and at times comes with anxiety assaults. However, the terminology is extensively misinterpreted. Its wordy meaning implies an apprehension of “open spaces”. Notwithstanding, it is not an …

Why Do People Fall In Love Many researchers actually consider falling in love to be a biologic event. And there are some researchers that can show brain changes using MRI tests to show that there are actual changes in our brain that we think of …

My friend and her boyfriend broke up months ago and I also got affected with the break-up because I’ve also become friends with the ex-boyfriend. My friend has started to see other guys and the ex-boyfriend is seeing other girls too. The thing is, the …

There are many different thoughts about dating, love and marriage. I had the pleasure of interviewing six co-workers from different lifestyle regarding their views on these matters. I will compare their thoughts with the theories of love and attachment. The social science theories that help …

Obsessive-compulsive disorder, OCD, as defined by the National Institute of Mental Health is an anxiety disorder that is distinguished by persistent, unwanted thoughts and/or compulsions (“NIMH,” 2007). OCD is one of the most expensive and persistent forms of psychopathology. Although OCD has been thought of …

Virtually all of our reading (Chapters 6, 7, and 8) has either a formal or informal power theme associated with them because in essence power is: intangible. Popular perspective is that power is considered a personal characteristic. Frequently people refer to power as the means …

Nowaday, in this merciless world, people tend to wear a mask to cover their true self because they fear of rejection and how people will judge what they believe in. However, in the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, where the setting is …

53% of office workers from all over the world are close to professional burnout (according to Regus research). In other sources, this figure ranges from 21% to 41%, depending on the nature of the work, age and professional level. Does it impress you? What are …

Much Ado About Nothing arguably features Shakespeare’s best and most dynamic romantic couple: Benedick and Beatrice. Act 3 scene 1 in this play is a climactic point in this pairings relationship, because Beatrice admits her true feelings and love for Benedick despite her prior apprehensions …

On Thursday of May 4th, 2017, I attended a preview performance of the classic play “You Can’t Take It with You” at the “Jeannette and L.M. George Theatre”. The presentation itself was produced by the “A.D. Players” of Houston, Texas. I went to the evening …

A single moment of patience in a heedless act of anger could have saved me one hundred moments of regret. If I had known then what I know now, the way my actions would spiral into something completely unintentional then I would have done things …

Esperanza’s dream world is an accumulation of hopes and dreams of independence due to a childhood plagued with poverty and family frustrations. In The House on Mango Street Esperanza dreams of having a place all her own one whose simply dcor would reflect her as …

Norval Morris and Stephen Morse offer two contrasting views as to the legitimacy of the insanity defense in criminal cases. Morris advocates reducing the weight of the insanity defense from one of special exemption to one of “diminished responsibility”. Morse offers a defense of the …