Hysteria defined (Webster ’s): "A psychiatric condition variously characterized by emotional excitability‚ excessive anxiety‚ sensory and motor disturbances‚ or the unconscious simulation of organic disorders." Freud will concentrate on what we today call "psychosomatic" illnesses‚ that is‚ seemingly organic symptoms that in fact have a purely psychological origin. The term hysteria was once used to define a medical condition that was assumed only to be caught only by women. Characteristics of
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Journal Topics for The Crucible As you read the play over the next few days‚ choose any 3 of the following topics and respond to them in a google document or on paper. Each response must be at least 250 words. You must include references to the text and provide support for all of your claims. Please use your best writing- no grammatical/spelling/capitalization errors- divide ideas using paragraphs etc. Each journal entry is 20 pts. You may do one more extra credit. Again‚ we are working on
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The proliferation of knowledge around the prevalence of arctic hysteria among Native Inuhuit of Northwestern Greenland‚ led to a massive rise in psychoanalytical literature‚ monographs‚ and scientific hypotheses. This illness continues to perplex researchers to this day‚ the striking feature of this mystery is that it only occurs among indigenous women residing in circumpolar regions. The term “pibloktoq”‚ was translated as arctic hysteria through the cultural perspectives
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Davion Mandeville Mrs. Hostetler English 11 8 November 2012 The Crucible: #3 In the book The Crucible‚ there were many displays of courage‚ weakness‚ and truth. Many characters showed these signs‚ but only a few stood out to me. I believe John Proctor showed the most courage. As of weakness‚ I think that I would have to say that both John and Elizabeth Proctor showed a lot of this. Finally for truth‚ I would give it to Danforth. One way John Proctor showed courage was by speaking up to Reverend
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The Crucible The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a drama about a small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem‚ Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others’ land and one young woman infatuated with a married man and determined to get rid
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people brought certain of hysteria‚which made people go insane. The life was very hard. The june bug epidemic serves as a classical example of hysterical contagion.A word of a bug cause them to develop the symptoms quickly spread. Social contagion involves social meanings negotiated at the level of persons and groups that are uncharacteristic to the spread the diseases.A similar situation occurs in the play crucible the june bug is that people were ill. People were lying about the situations and their
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Hiro Mashima is my top influential person of all time. His quotes are powerful to my heart i would love to meet him .he is an influential person and is a very hopeful person anyway also here are some of his quotes. Number one “If peace can only come through killing someone‚ then I don’t want it.” Number two All I need is the power to be able to protect my comrades. So long as I can have the strength to do that‚ I don’t care if I’m weaker than everyone in the world.” Number three“Being alive is sign
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Miller’s The Crucible‚ depicts the consequences that come from the hysteria associated with accusations made against one’s neighbor and in some cases friend. From the play‚ one can gather that guilt in society is destructive to communal relationships. The evidence that supports this truism is embedded many times throughout the play and certainly strengthens the play’s central theme. Beginning in act one‚ the conflict is set as Parris first becomes involved in the impending hysteria. Parris cannot
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Mass Hysteria during the 1690s and 1950s. As examples of mass hysteria‚ both the Salem Witch Trials and the Cold War caused turmoil during their respective time period. Although very different time periods‚ the 1690s Salem Witch Trials and the 1950s Cold War were both dramatic examples of mass hysteria (Campbell). The Salem Witch Trials were one of the nation’s most dramatic examples of hysteria as close to 20 people were killed because of pure hype and chaos in the region (Campbell). The cold war
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The Crucible Essay Hysteria overshadowed logic and enabled the townspeople to think that their neighbors were acting out senseless and unbelievable crimes like dealing with the devil & murdering babies. In The Crucible‚ the townsfolk accepted and became active in the hysterical outbreak not only out of religious loyalty‚ but also because it gave them a chance to express repressed attitudes & to act on long-held grudges. The most obvious case was Abigail‚ who used the circumstances to call out
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