We all have fears.Some of them are reasonable enough,such as the fear of losing one's job or having a disease during an outbreak.Other fears,however,are not reasonable,such as the fear of snakes,or enclosed spaces.Doctors call the latter claustrophobia(幽闭恐惧症). ...
LEANNA JAMES BLACKWELL is a professor of creative writing and director of the Bay Path University MFA in Creative Nonfiction. An essayist, theatre director, and playwright, she is a member of the Northampton Playwrights Lab, former artistic director and playwright-in-residence of TKO Theatre and ...
fear influences the way people behave with regard to public spaces. In particular, women and the elderly are more likely to use avoidance strategies that keep them away from problematic areas and situations. They tend to restrict their own activities because of the fear of crime. This ...
It’s like a very large hostel with rooms and a shared bathroom on each floor, a kitchen on the top floor. I believe there were four separate parts of the building set up like this. It was very accessible, though – near to Bláa Kannan where I spent my evenings using their new ...
The authors don’t say much about these large disparities between the study groups, or how they are consistent with their premise that the groups have comparable levels of athleticism. They hint that some of the trans-ID men may have overdone it on the estrogen supplements, leading to high ...
Replicating the pattern of responses seen in conditioning studies, subjects showed a large startle potentiation during the threat cue in the predictable condition. They also showed a linear increase in startle reactivity during the inter-trial interval that reflected the progressive increase in reactivity...
The bedrooms frequently lack detail or individuality: they are recognisable as bedroom spaces but are sufficiently generic to be occupied by any child. They do not tend to reflect the child’s gender: Molly and Dora for example have rooms which have no particular objects or indications that ...
contained like the other rooms some rubbish which had once been furniture. It lay on the second story, on the southeast corner of the house, and had an immense east window and narrow south window, both devoid of panes or shutters. Opposite the large window was an enormous Dutch fireplace ...
among many rooms full of art objects, one was devoted to oil pictures in the European manner. Among these only one represented a nude figure, a Psyche, or Truth. It was the first time such a picture had been seen. Men and women crowded around it. After they had gazed at it for a ...
With the arrival of the foreign health professionals and the operationalization of Ebola treatment units (ETUs), the usual settings of care were replaced by sanitized spaces and communal care wards with different sets of rules for treatment and care. Patients were denied traditional ritualistic ...