Girl‚ Interrupted Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious psychiatric illness. People that are diagnosed with this disorder suffer from an intense pattern of affective instability‚ extreme difficulties in interpersonal relationships‚ problems with behavioral or impulse control‚ and disrupted cognitive processes. The estimated prevalence of BPD in the general adult population is about 2%‚ mostly affecting young women. Susanna Kaysen was born on November 11‚ 1948 in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts
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Natasha Preston‚ the main character Summer was followed on her way to a nightclub‚ when a stranger from behind abducted her‚ and took her to the middle of the English country side. She later was awoken by three strangers all smiling at her as she lay on the cold linoleum floor. The strangers were dressed like dolls‚ each matching with long sweaters and matching pants‚ the only difference was the delicately embroidered flowers on each of the sweaters. The three girls all looked as if they were zombies
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Girl‚ Interrupted: Borderline Personality Disorder Girl‚ Interrupted is a thought-provoking film that accounts the struggles of a teenage girl‚ Susanna‚ who is trying to come-to-terms with her illness in the 1960s. She is committed to a mental hospital when she tried to commit suicide. The film portrays her relationships with her distant parents and intense relationships with other patients while she is hospitalized. She encounters many troubled
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Encountering Conflict – Conflict can both crush people and inspire people to greater heights. Conflict presents itself in various forms; it can occur in different places‚ can be intentional or unexpected and affect people in diverse ways. To survive people then need to develop coping mechanisms to overcome or at least begin their journey of recovery. If they cannot do this‚ then they will not be able to move on. Conflict is a subject that everyone in the world faces on a day to day basis‚ but
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Monstrosity and Celebrity Culture in Mean Girls Mean Girls‚ written by Tina Fey and directed by Mark Waters‚ takes its viewers through high school from the perspective of Cady Heron‚ a young girl who never known what “high school” genuinely meant. Upon arrival‚ she makes friends with Janis and Damian‚ who were in the stereotypical “unpopular” crowd. They warn her to stay away from “The Plastics”‚ an exclusive clique that includes three drama-filled girls who are superficial‚ spiteful‚ and have vicious
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Conflicts in Everyday Use The main conflict in the story Everyday Use is that Dee wants the quilt to show off with her friends‚ but her mother to give the quilt to Maggie‚ because she thinks Maggie will “use” it every day‚ and not just to show off their heritage every day. Another conflict was that Dee considered herself to be more worldly and educated and that the everyday things should be hanged up and admired as antiques. The basic conflict is based on the difference of values between Dee and
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Summer Reading Journals Walden Journal Language: A. “Why level down to our dullest perception always‚ and praise that as common sense?” -Humorous. Thoreau seems to be trying to imply that everyone views common sense in a different way. Why should we try to impress others with our own opinion of common sense‚ when common sense is viewed at a different perspective by each and every person. B. “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” According to this quote‚ I believe Thoreau was
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AP U.S History Tenochtitlan ID: The ancient Aztec capital in about the 1325 and was demolished by the Spaniards in 1521. SIG: Tenochtitlan was one of the largest cities in the world in 1521. It was a very wealthy city with powerful economics‚ politics‚ and religions. Matrilineal ID: The inheritance one receives through the female line of ancestors. SIG: The pattern of culture in Lenape or modern day Delaware were fishing and other types of farming which were matrilineal. Many Native American
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APPROACHING A GIRL Have you seen the movie the karate kid? In that movie Jackie Chan took the small kid with him to the temple so that he gains some wisdom. While they were in the temple the kid saw a man imitating the moves of a cobra exactly. The kid asked Jackie Chan why the man imitates the cobra and Jackie Chan replied saying that the Cobra is the one imitating the man because he has reached a very advanced level of mental control that allows him to control animals!! So you might be
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Introduction: Title: About a Girl Author: Joanne Horniman Genre: Teenage Romance • Story Outline: This follower the story of a girl called (protagonist) ‘Anna’. She moves to another town and is instantly attracted to this woman called ‘Flynn’ (Rosie). They have quite an intense relationship‚ but when Flynn is hiding a secret from her‚ Anna goes out of her way to find out what it might be. Anna is conflicted if Flynn will ever leave her and whether or not
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