I have heard all of my life, time and time again, the endless rant that continues to be far from original. This particular rant hardly strikes the surface of any pride I might feel for the state of Utah, having grown up here all of my life. People seem to have this ongoing perception of Utah that it is in some kind of culturally suspended animation. Individuals with this particular distaste for Utah will sometimes go so far as to say that they are trapped here. I think, that if they were able to make the conscious decision to come here, they can make a similar decision to leave here. If I believe anything, it is that if you want something bad enough, you have to go find it. In Utah, nothing stands in the way of the people for expanding knowledge, intellectually, and culturally. Utah has an "underground" scene for just about everything anyone could be into. That is where I think that the "Culture Shock" for these people begins. They come from a familiar place where they have friends, and "fit in," as long as they were there. Once they arrive in Utah they must start over, and this brings a fear, associated possibly with loneliness or just plain boredom. Culture Shock, in short, is the process of initial adjustment to an unfamiliar environment. I think that culture shock can be an initial process only if dealt with in the right ways. Otherwise, you can be affected by culture shock for your entire life from one experience. I hope that with the studying and research that I have done for this paper I will be able to bring to light the causes and affects of culture shock, the different kinds of culture shock, and examples of studies that put people in situations that have a high potential for causing culture shock. .
Culture Shock affects people so badly in some cases that a person may be susceptible to carrying over that fear from the first experience to any that are to follow. People often do not realize that they are in fact in a state of shock.
Hitler was also a late bloomer. ... Adolf now took to politics somewhat. ... Hitler now began to vegetate even more. ... He was so convinced that he would be accepted that the rejection devastated him. ... Hitler refused to admit his rejection and became more and more detached from reality. ...
Gawain first shows his loyalty to the king by stepping in and accepting the Green Knight's challenge. ... Another heroic quality Gawain displays is his ability to admit his faults. ... He hand over all his power to his two daughters, who he later finds out were plotting against him the whole time. ... This makes Lear believe that the elements have joined forces with his daughters to try and defeat him. ... The once respected and noble King is now seen as a nutcase. ...
She admits temptation, but warns him of the consequences of her potential strength. ... When Gandalf seeks the White wizard's council, Saruman wholeheartedly admits his betrayal. ... After Isildur, a past King of Gondor, defeated Sauron, he claimed the Ring for his own. ... Thus ruling out Tom as a carrier of the Ring, Frodo accepts the burden. ... "Now, Sam, don't hinder me! ...
For instance, she is described as a "fallen monument- (Faulkner 74) symbolizing her former beauty and later ugliness. ... Later, she is described as obese and "bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water with eyes lost in the fatty ridges of her face- (Faulkner 75). ... In the same way, Miss Emily's refusal to accept the fact of her father's death suggests "the refusal of some aristocrats to accept the death of the South even when faced with the evidence of its corpse- (Madden 1988). ... As a result, the rose that symbolized the love she had for her father, now is repres...
Truthfully, Hester accepts her sin by the scarlet "A" rather than repenting it. ... Hester now has changed and is self-reliant in a sense that she has accepted herself, which is against the Puritan belief system. ... The second scaffold scene occurs late at night at the same scaffold on which Hester stood seven years earlier. ... This defeats the purpose of confessing his internal sin but foreshadows what has yet to happen. ... It also shows how he deals with the moral dilemma of choosing not to admit rather than to admit. ...
In the late 1600's, in a town named Salem, a tragic event shook its foundation, the Salem Witch Trials. ... Another argument one might use to disprove that it was Abigail's fault, would be to blame the courts, their misconceptions, and willingness to accept the plainly false statements of Abigail and the girls. ... She admits what she must at certain times, but her main goal is to save herself from hanging. ... Abigail instilled fear in these girls, so controlling them was no large feat, and bringing them to defeat her adversaries was simple. She now had the eyes, ears, and court of ...
Hall will reveal to the audience his method for madness, and when the time is right, Hal will accept his rightful possession of the throne. ... The true test will come later when he comes face to face with Hotspur. ... Hal brings the rivalry to an end by defeating Hotspur. ... Hall will reveal to the audience his method for madness, and when the time is right, Hal will accept his rightful possession of the throne. ... Hal admits to his father that he wasn't being his true self and from now on he will be the noble son he wants and is willing to redeem himself: This, in the name of Go...
Through his odyssey, these new acquired qualities helped him defeat the suitors and ultimately made him a better leader of Ithaca. ... Later in the book when Odysseus identifies himself to the Phaeacians, he says, "Men hold me formidable for guile in peace and war: this fame has gone abroad to the sky's rim" (145). ... In the book, Odysseus remains blind to the fact that his arrogance is getting him into more trouble and the book does not suggest that he accepts responsibility in the matter. ... Odysseus is learning from his mistakes in the past and although he doesn't ad...
Now picture this scene almost everyday, of every week, of all her young years. ... Joan did admit at her trials that the main topics of her visions from her three saints was that she would fight for her King Charles VII, and bring him to be crowned at Reims. ... As Mark Twain so simply put it, "Joan of Arc, who had never been defeated by the enemy, was defeated by her own King- (Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc 90). ... These 70 counts later dropped to twelve accusations that were used to convict her. ... It was reported that those witnesses that spoke kindly of Joan were not accepted la...
