Above me the sea gulls saw‚ hovered and circled around me‚ diving occasionally‚ into the water catching the unsuspecting fishes. In the distance I could sense the rhythmic waves murmuring‚ thumping‚ and crashing; competing with the sounds of the seagulls. The cloudless blue sky surrounded a peaceful atmosphere at the beach. The baby waves nipped playfully at my toes‚ tempting‚ teasing and alluring me to enter the serene‚ expanse of inviting water. Waves of a deep sapphire blue crept towards me before
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DATA: Nina (middle-late 20’s) woman who is single is a professional ballet dancer at a dance company that lives at home with her single mother. PP/CC: Nina is having major stress after being selected the lead role. She is having delusions and hallucinations on a regular basis. She has the mindset that she has to be perfect for the performance. SS: Nina is having persecutory delusions‚ visual/auditory hallucinations‚ self-harm‚ and impulsive behavior. She reports seeing things almost daily. Constantly
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Swan (2010) is a film where Natalie Portman plays the character of Nina‚ a passionate ballet dancer in New York City. Though Nina is conservative and pure‚ suiting the role as the “White Swan‚” the production of “Swan Lake” also requires the role of a sensual‚ yet malicious “Black Swan‚” the opposite of Nina’s character. As Nina attempts to perfect the role of the “Black Swan‚” she suffers with major consequences. The character‚ Nina‚ in the Black Swan illustrates a clear example of schizophrenia because
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Throughout Anton Chekhov’s A Transgression and Raymond Carver’s Little Things‚ they show many examples of real life struggles that reflect on the world in which they live. Three of the main real life struggles seen in the text are guilt‚ tensions in the relationships‚ and loss. Guilt is the consequence of making mistakes‚ and is one of the real life issues‚ shown by the authors in these texts. Throughout Chekhov’s A Transgression we are shown how guilt is a real life struggle. The Collegiate Assessor
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(Black Swan). Black Swan is a 2010 film directed by Darren Aronofsky that tells the story of Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman)‚ a highly driven ballerina. Nina has been with her dance company for many years; and yet she has never managed to be anything more than a corps dancer. Nina is a twenty-something‚ painfully shy young woman who is living in a cramped apartment with her mother‚ a former ballerina. Nina finally gets the chance to prove herself and move up in the company when Thomas Leroy (Vincent
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Chekov wrote “The Cherry Orchard” and “Lady with the Dog” these two stories are different but also similar. There are two similar themes in these stories; love and society. The theme of love in the “Cherry Orchard” is represented by the fact that Lubov and Gaev loved the cherry orchard and the memories and did not want to sell‚ even to clear the family’s debt. When the idea of clearing the lot for summer homes is brought up they can’t even stomach the idea. Looking out at the orchard brings back
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protagonist are George and Nina. Nina is a social worker who owns the apartment George and her later share. She starts out in a relationship with Vince and we are told that it is an OK relationship
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Narrator: Hello welcome back to the Dr. Kostecki Show! Today we have some parents who are scared for their daughter‚ Nina ‚ for being a prescription drug abuser. She even tried killing herself with a drug overdose‚ and had to have her stomach pumped out. Here are her parents! Mr. and Mrs. Smith: We are scared for her life‚ as a parent you can just do so much. She started abusing when her boyfriend broke up with her and she was so depressed and started taking antidepressant pill. Till she hurt herself
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despondency. Nina Sayers shows signs of delusional disorder by her going out with another ballerina Lily for some drinks and her believing they went home together and had sex. She is unable to tell what is real and what was false. She also thinks her teacher Thomas wants her sexually as when she practices for the performance he forces her to try harder and make her feel sexual. Nina is delusional by seeing her teacher Thomas and friend Lily making out and about to have sex. Nina also believes that
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hold the main character‚ Nina‚ at a difficult crossroad. That crossroad is the wants and needs that Nina yearns for. "Comfort" illustrates a ride through what Nina experiences after the passing of her husband and her dire need to get what she wants or at least to obtain comfort. From the beginning of the story the reader is bombarded by the emphasis of different views of comfort. However‚ Munro develops a sense of what Nina believes her comfort should be and then Nina finds her comfort in an unsuspecting
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