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    Conflict Management for the Jarrett’s The Academy Award winning film Ordinary People follows a family that just endured a tragic loss. The movie is focused around the Jarrett family of Beth‚ the mother‚ Calvin‚ the father‚ and Conrad the son. The Jarret family has recently lost their son Buck in a boating accident. The other son Conrad was with Buck and witnessed him being pulled away by the current. Conrad is deeply impacted by the death of his brother and even tries to commit suicide. The movie

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    movie Ordinary People describe the dysfunction of the Jarrett family after The oldest son‚ Buck‚ drowns in an accident and Conrad‚ the protagonist and brother of Buck‚ tries to kill himself. The movie starts with Conrad out of the hospital and trying to move on with his life. The communication in the household is disastrous‚ even hostile at times. Conrad and his parents‚ Beth and Calvin‚ engage in verbal silence and verbal abuse‚ which makes the household more dysfunctional. Using conflict management

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    Ordinary people can do extraordinary things. There are many people in history and present day who have made sacrifices and committed themselves to acts greater than themselves. For example‚ let’s take Martin Luther King Jr. He might not have been a president‚ but due to him‚ he placed an end to segregation among the whites and the blacks. Hence‚ this is why African Americans have more freedom today. Personal grit‚ character‚ and willingness to commit all contribute to the cause of creating something

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    Ordinary People” Term Paper I feel the most related toward Conrad. As he has problems with being social and has some built up anger from over the years. To me Conrad plays a roll of a person who fights and struggles. Not with just his friends and other people‚ but with his family. Conrad feels apart from his mom as do I‚ for me my mother neglected me when I was younger and paid more attention to my younger brothers. And I feel how Conrad felt when his mother didn’t visit him in the hospital. That

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    theories developed by qualified psychologists‚ when partaking in actions during vigorous conflicts‚ the avoidance of silence or violence is crucial for the positive outcome of the situation. By choosing to tackle the source of the contention and confront the opposing person in a controlled manner‚ one can overcome the hardships and tension caused by the feud. However‚ the award-winning film “Ordinary People” depicts a family of three‚ Conrad‚ Beth‚ and Calvin Jerrett‚ whose actions convey their

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    1.Brief Summary: Ordinary People is about the Jarrett family once a family of four –now of three- live a comfortable upper-mid-class lifestyle in suburban in Lake Forest‚ Illinois‚ during the 1970s. In good times‚ they can weather anything‚ but when a storm comes along‚ there are dangerous flaws that there are not aware of. Love‚ once a feeling‚ is now nothing more than an expectation or an obligation especially for the mother. After the death of Bucky‚ his older brother Conrad became deeply troubled

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    Ordinary People (1980) tells the story of the Jarrett’s‚ an upper-middle class family in Illinois‚ following the death of the eldest son‚ Buck‚ in a boating accident. It depicts what might happen to a family when a tragedy unexpectedly happens. The boating accident disrupted the Jarrett family’s normal developmental flow and inevitably produced relationship changes within the family system. While watching the film‚ the audience begins to understand that the boating accident was so disruptive and

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    families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” In essence‚ all unhappy families have their own unique reasons for feeling so. The extent to which they are unhappy varies as well. By analyzing individual conflict and struggles‚ the novel Ordinary People by Judith Guest‚ examines human nature and unique forms of “unhappiness.” Buck’s death is symbolic of the loss of stability for the Jarrett family. This loss is immediately expressed by Conrad’s clinical depression and attempted

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    The Jarrett family from the movie Ordinary People have a variety of issues. Complicating matters is the complex‚ tangled nature of these issues. To combat these issues we need a clear plan. In the absence of a clear plan there would be a great deal of floundering about. Floundering which would likely end in opening hurts we can not resolve. Therefore let us be clear about what we are setting out to accomplish. Step 1 – Access Causes First we must look for the root causes of the turmoil

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    * 12 Things Happy People Do Differently “I’d always believed that a life of quality‚ enjoyment‚ and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed. I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live - that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple‚ happy‚ uncomplicated life.” -Dan Millman (author of The Way of the Peaceful Warrior) Happiness and science. Did you know that

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