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Ruby finds a Worry
A young girl's sense of adventure and exploration vanishes when she discovers a Worry that grows and grows until she learns how to get rid of it.
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Necessary connections: ‘Feelings photographs’ in criminal justice research
Visual representations of prisons and their inmates are common in the news and social media, with stories about riots, squalor, drugs, self-harm and suicide hitting the headlines. Prisoners’ families are left to worry about the implications of such events on their kin, while those incarcerated and less able to understand social cues, norms and rules, are vulnerable to deteriorating mental health at best, to death at worst. As part of the life-story method in my research with offenders who are on the autism spectrum, have mental health problems and/or have learning difficulties, and prisoner’s mothers, I asked participants to take photographs, reflecting upon their experiences. Photographs, in this case, were primarily used to help respondents consider and articulate their feelings in follow-up interviews. Notably, seeing (and imagining) is often how we make a connection to something (object or feeling), or someone (relationships), such that images in fiction, news/social media, drama, art, film and photographs can shape the way people think and behave – indeed feel about things and people. Images and representations ought to be taken seriously in researching social life, as how we interpret photographs, paintings, stories and television shows is based on our own imaginings, biography, culture and history. Therefore, we look at and process an image before words escape, by ‘seeing’ and imagining. How my participants and I ‘collaborate’ in doing visual methods and then how we make meaning of the photographs in storying their feelings, is insightful. As it is, I wanted to enable my participants to make and create their own stories via their photographs and narratives, while connecting to them, along with my own interpretation and subjectivities.
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Justin Case : shells, smells, and the horrible flip-flops of doom
\"Justin is going to start fourth grade-but first, he has to survive the summer. He \"gets\" to go to camp every day on a bus. He \"gets\" to experience all sorts of new things: Bugs. Mess hall food. Flip-flops (they hurt the space between his toes and they're hard to walk in). And (gulp!) swimming. Justin's little sister, Elizabeth, seems to deal with camp just fine. So do his friends. Justin is trying very hard not to be a worried kid anymore, especially when it comes to making friends at camp, including a new kid who is kind of ... rough. After all, Justin is going to be in fourth grade. It's time to be brave. Right?\"--Jacket.
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Superintelligence and Mental Anxiety from Mary Shelley to Ted Chiang
The study, as paraphrased by Christian Jarrett for the British Psychological Society, explained these 'two seemingly contradictory correlations' by concluding that 'more verbally intelligent individuals are able to consider past and future events in greater detail, leading to more intense rumination and worry' (Jarrett 2014). Many of the ideas surrounding the concept are similar, but due to the definition of it as a 'future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed' (Kurtzweil 2006: 7), it operates as a warning of future superintelligences, rather than an exploration of the anxieties surrounding intelligence and intellect, which is what this article will explore. Frankenstein's Creature, and his mental development in both an intellectual and emotional sense, is markedly alienated by his augmented intelligence - a trend that develops in subsequent sf, particularly in the form of Isaac Asimov's robots, and Charlie in Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon (1966). [...]the emotional effectiveness of Keyes's writing style tragically reflects this, as Charlie's 'progris riport's' transition from very observational statements about his life in the bakery to lexically dense reflections on the nature of existence, before regressing back to simpler language and looser grammar as Charlie's mental capacity deteriorates.
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What if...?
Joe has lost the address for the location of his first big party, and he and his mother must find the correct house.
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Anxiety in Mosaic
Anxiety In Mosaic is a sum up of a man?s fears and hopes into a volume of poetry; anxieties that span a cross section of the human phenomena of greed (in ramifications) and the resultant socio-political, economic and environmental consequences; the repercussions of worsted governance, feminist, ecological, emigrational and imperialist concerns, presented from the perspective of a philosophical questioning. The charm of these thoroughly vocal, finely-crafted poems not only lie in the quasi-compendious multiplicity of subject matter but also in their creative and innovative re-chartings.
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Lion is worried
Its normal to feel worried sometimes, but its good to recognize when our worries keep us from enjoying fun experiences. Readers discover this valuable life lesson as they learn along with Lion, whose worries nearly ruin his field trip to an amusement park. Age-appropriate text allows young readers to learn for themselves how to deal with feeling worried in a healthy way. Questions are also included to help readers relate the content of Lions story to their own lives. Each page is filled with colorful illustrations of fun animal characters, creating a reading experience children are sure to enjoy.
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Game-day jitters
With help from his older brother Larry, nine-year-old Ben learns to cope with his nervousness about the Kickers League playoffs. Includes \"Ben's top ten tips for soccer players.\"
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The Emotional Dominant of Fear in Neo-Gothic Novel Via Opposition “Familiar - Alien” (on the Material of Neo-Gothic Novel I. Murdoch “The Unicorn”)
The article dwells on the emotional dominant of fear in the text of neo-gothic fiction. This text type is popular with the readership and viewed as a manifestation of the socalled \"culture of fear\" (F. Furedi). The author analyzes the emotional dominant of fear in terms of the universal opposition \"familiar - alien\" that reflects the principles of dialogism, relevant for modern science. This opposition is localized in mind and determines man's emotional and aesthetic segmentation of the world in the process of its cognition. The universality of the opposition is seen in a treatment of its members: \"familiar\" – good; \"alien\" – bad. These members are usually associated with the category of space modeled in a text as a secondary modeling system (Y. M. Lotman). The author identifies the opposition by means of revealing opposite linguistic interdependences that are emotionally colored in a character's mind according to a writer's intention. It helps to distinguish correlative links between the structure of the emotional dominant of fear and the cyclicity of a plot of neo-gothic texts. \"The familiar space\" arouses positive emotions in a character but approaching, being in and moving off \"the alien space\" arouse predominant emotions (e.g. solitude, worry, foreboding), the dominating emotion proper (fear) and postdominant emotions (e.g. joy, nostalgia, love) respectively. The proposed approach to the analysis of the emotional dominant of fear, that is a subject-matter of the article, lets one arrange a complex emotive semantics of the neo-gothic text, make necessary emotional stresses that represent the emotional dynamics of a character (quasisubject) and provide its systemic linguistic analysis.
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