Disconnection Essay -- essays research papers

When people are feeling down or there is something wrong with them they tend to disconnect from the world and go into one of their own. In this place they find comfort and safety and it is somewhere that no one can bother them for the time being. I myself find comfort just lying in my bed staring at the ceiling and drifting off in thought. For artists though, they are able to find this comforting place in music. Blink 182, Linkin Park, and NAS are some of the famous artists that are able to disconnect from the world through their songs. They are able to get all of there thoughts out through music and the world has a chance to hear them. In NAS’ song "Hate me Now" he feels disconnected because there are people in the world that hate him for what he has and they are jealous. This must affect him in such a way that he has to express it. "Don't hate me, hate the money I see, clothes that I buy, ice that I wear, clothes that I try, close your eyes†¦". He expresses in this lyric that he doesn’t feel the need for people to hate him as a person. He feels that just because he has a lot of money people don’t like him, but they do not even know him at all, just that he has money. Because of all these people hating him he feels the need to disconnect in lyrical form and express it to the world. Linkin Park is a group that is able to disconnect from the world as one. "I tried so hard and got so far, but i...

A Passage to India: A Few Observations

Edward Morgan Forster, a liberal humanist in his outlook ,shows in his novel A Passage to India the British imposing their order on this kaleidoscope of India .He also suggests   that theirs is an order that is unnatural , lacking in imaginative understanding of the Indian context. In their dealings with the Indians , the British as a class ,operate only at the level of political and social duty. In other words their relationships with the Indians are those of the political and social roles they play. Ronny Heaslop puts the case of the British rulers when he says, â€Å"We are out here to do justice and keep the peace..We are not pleasant in India and we don’t intend to be pleasant.We’ve something more important to do.†In so far as the fact goes , this is a convincing description of the venal and shifty ways of Indians in their contacts with the British.But all these flaws, Forster takes pains to show are the effects of the humiliating and undignified rule of t he British over the Indians. Unlike other critics of British rule, Forster does not question the right of the British to be in India. His main objection is that it is an order of force and will , not of love and understanding.  Mr. Fielding in many ways appears to resemble E.M.Forster.†The world he believed ,is a globe of men who are trying to reach one another and can best do so by the help of goodwill plus culture and intelligence.†Dr. Aziz who has suffered numerous slights and humiliations from the British , now at last feels that Fielding is a true friend of the Indians: â€Å"No Englishman understands us except Mr. Fielding.†Ã‚  The very first scene , where Dr. Aziz throws down his bicycle and enters a bitterly jocular discussion of â€Å"Is it possible to be friends with an Englishman?†, presents him as an animated, warm, impulsive, moody and somewhat childlike ,careless and sensitive gentleman.Sometimes he is kind, sometimes he is vindictive especi ally when he clamps brutal and revengeful demands upon hapless Adela after his release. Aziz, in MOSQUE section is somewhat conservative about his views on Islam.Lionel Trilling is right to say of him, â€Å"For good or bad he is human.†Adela Quested , right from the beginning ,is intelligent, intellectual, eager to understand new things and experiences:†She goes on,†Fielding says, â€Å"as if she’s at a lecture—trying hard to understand India and life and occasionally taking a note.†She cannot tolerate prejudice and borrowed opinions and feels indignant at the English for being so ruthless in their treatment with the native Indians. But Adela in her own opinion is as follows, â€Å"I can do his right and that right but when they are put together they come wrong.That’s the defect of my character.†Ã‚  E.M.Forster has manifold messages to disseminate, but the main is to deal with the Indians in an amiable humanistic way.   The si gnificance of the title of the first section is that like the ambience in the sanctum sanctorum [Mosque]it imbues the dialectic of positive affirmation.   

Snoezelen Therapy Dementia and Alzheimer´s Disease in...

In long term care homes in Canada, the Alzheimer Society states that there are more than 500,000 people who have been diagnosed with dementia. (Alzheimer, 2012, p,1) This is a disease that affects one’s brain and is characterized by â€Å"changes in the cognitive, psychomotor, emotional and behavioural domains† (Cruz, Marques, Barbosa, Figueiredo, Sousa, 2011, p.282) of the brain. There has been research done more recently that suggests that a new technology called multi-sensory therapy or Snoezelen therapy may be able to maintain or improve some of the remaining abilities in a patient suffering from dementia such as self-care or communication. Multi-sensory, or interchangeably Snoezelen therapy was developed in the 1970’s by therapists working to find treatments for those with mental illness. â€Å"Their intention was to provide people who had sensory and learning disabilities the opportunity for relaxation and leisure experience.† (Burns, Cox, Plant , 2000, p.120) The concept of Snoezelen aims to stimulate senses without the need for one to take part in intellectual activity. It also offers patients a ‘failure-free’ approach suggesting that there is no pressure to achieve or succeed. (Burns, et al., 2000, p. 120) To stimulate the senses, Snoezelen uses mixtures of light, smells, taste, and touch accessed through one’s sensory organs being the mouth, nose, eyes, ears, and skin. With the introduction of Snoezelen into the realm of long-term care and dementia, the aim is to