Emotional Terrain: Grief – Exploring Absence
[Exploring Life] In the Time Magazine article New Ways to Think About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg explores some common misconceptions of grief. She proposes that Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’ five stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance – are in fact not stages. Kubler-Ross was focused on identifying the stages of grief each of [...]
Aging: Younger Next Year
[Exploring Life] Culture can not only be confining, it can be physically, emotionally, and mentally unhealthy. We live inside a set of cultural assumptions that often remain invisible to us. Sometimes, these subconscious assumptions can cause us to live in extreme circumstances. Revealing and exposing underlying assumptions and providing advice and methods to escape from [...]
Effects of Media: Writing – The Shifting Style of Elements
[Exploring Life] The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice in response to the release of the commemorative edition of Strunk and White’s famous The Elements of Style.[1] The article condemns Strunk and White’s advice as being detrimental to the correct use of language as well as the development of [...]
Effects of Media: The Technium
[Exploring Life] The word technology can be an illusive term. Technology originates in the Greek technologia which combines craft (techne) and saying (logia). A common understanding of technology refers to the physical tools and hardware hardware of an object that is designed to make work easier. In this sense, technology is a label that describes [...]