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The Literary Traveler As A Metaphor Of A Human Psychological Cycle, Jeff Guga
The Literary Traveler As A Metaphor Of A Human Psychological Cycle, Jeff Guga
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Readers of literature are frequently exposed to principal characters who are travelers. The traveler and his adventure are metaphors of a human psychological cycle—a cycle driven by the need to come to terms with our forthcoming deaths and a cycle which ends, if successful, with a perceived understanding of his or her existence. In pursuing this thesis, an analysis is made of the following novels: Candide, Don Quixote, Gulliver’s Travels, and the Divine Comedy (three books).
Childhood Abuse, Assertiveness, And Date Rape : Uncovering Precursors To Future Victimization, Karen L. Wareham
Childhood Abuse, Assertiveness, And Date Rape : Uncovering Precursors To Future Victimization, Karen L. Wareham
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One-hundred-seventy-one undergraduate females completed three questionnaires concerning childhood abuse, assertiveness, and date rape in an attempt to uncover precursors to recidivism of abuse. As predicted, significant positive correlations were found between child abuse before and after age 13. However, no significant correlation was found between childhood abuse and date rape. In examining lack of assertiveness as a precursor, the mean assertiveness scores of child abuse and date rape survivors after age 13 were lower than the overall mean; however, the combined score of those abused as children either before or after 13 and the score of those abused before 13 …