Monday, October 18, 2010

NELSON MANDELA


Nelson Mandela is very different from so many African leaders because of his personal commitment to reconciliation, his moral authority, integrity and intense compassion. Furthermore, Mandela is sensitive to criticism from certain African leaders that he has leaned onto whites for conciliation and forgiveness.



His long humiliating jail experience have a positive effect on him because he became the first South African's first democratically elected (black) president in 1994 and became a world's famous person and regarded as a particular person whom people admire and see him as a symbol of what a true leader should be after he spent nearly three decades of his life as a political prisoner.



Thursday, October 14, 2010

FEAR...

The grandfather's fear was death when he saw a star falling down and was abnormal because he was exaggerating and being unrealistic about the falling star. The old man's fear also developed into a phobia that became a strong, persistent and irrational fear of a falling star(s) that poses little or no actual danger. The grandfather was making mountains out of molehills.


MUSOPHOBIA
Musophobia is a fear of mice or rats. It is created by the unconscious as a protective mechanism.

This mechanism was probably created at some point in the person's past when they had a traumatic experience with a mice or rat. Examples of this could be having your house or room invaded by them, finding them eating your food, being surprised when they jump from a trash can, touching them while getting up as they run from under furniture, smelling them, or getting sick from them,e.t.c...

Monday, October 4, 2010

CREATING MY BLOG!!!

At first I didn't know what a blog was and how to create it, until Ms Juliet gave us tips and guidelines on how to create a blog. It was so interesting creating my blog and it even took me almost a week creating it. I'm really enjoying BLOGGER.COM now that I created my own blog and I never thought having a blog was this fun... THANKS TO MS J. EISEB !!!!