Dreams and Latent Content

I have had a recurring dream of a fast, medium-sized dog that chases me and tries to attack. The website says that it means that I have people verbally abusing me who I thought were friends. These dreams happened when I was about five so I am pretty sure that it doesnt work in this situation. Also, when I was nine or ten I would have a dream about a large dinosaur and I was in Jurassic Park. I liked those movies around this time so that is probably why I was having them. Dream moods says that it means that you need to discard your old ways of thinking and get new ones. This could have been true, but considering that it happened nine years ago, I cannot remember. Lastly, I have had a dream earlier this week twice of being pulled over by a police officer in my car and being let go. The officer recognized me and let me go. The dream website says that it means that help is on the way and that you need intervention. Again, this doesnt seem fitting, but I'm sure that it fits for some people and some situations.

Bullying

I always knew that there was bullying in our school, but not as much. After Verboomen talked to us, I realized that there are way more cases of bullying and harrassment in this high school than I ever believed. I think there is a line between acceptable and unacceptable bullying. It is a very small line though. I believe that a lot of times people mistake joking for bullying and sometimes kids take it the wrong way. Although the bullies need to stop and are sometimes relentless, sometimes the victim needs to try and deal with problems themselves without always telling on the person, because when you enter the real world you have to deal with problems yourself and you will not have a teacher holding your hand the whole time. I dont think that I will stop being a bystander, but I will avoid bullying kids.

Twilight Zone Reactions

I was not really surprised at all about the ending. They never showed the faces of the doctor and nurses so that made me pretty suspicious and Derek predicted it halfway through. Also, the fact that it was the Twilight Zone meant something weird would happen sometime in the show. Beauty is somewhat subjective because you can choose what you think is beautiful and there can be different opinions on what is and what is not beautiful. At the same time though, there are certain looks that most people would agree on as good looking or not good looking. Beauty in today's world is a lot more on looks than personality. The main components are how you look, but it also involves how you interact with people and what your personality is.

Stanford Prison/Role Playing

I think that prisoner 416 had the biggest impact on the study. He actually refused to eat and had the other prisoners revolting against him. After only a few days of role play, everyone had embraced their roles too fully. When it got to the point where someone is starving themselves and prisoners are getting punished like they were real convicts, it had to end. Basically, the experiment had turned into real life and the attitudes from day 1 to day 6 changed greatly. On the first day everyone was laughing and taking it as a joke and by the sixth day the guards were punishing and publicly humiliating the prisoners in front of eachother.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

Your Type is
ESTJ
Extraverted Sensing Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
11 1 38 33


ESTJ type description by D.Keirsey
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ESTJ type description by J. Butt and M.M. Heiss




Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:
slightly expressed extravert

slightly expressed sensing personality

moderately expressed thinking personality

moderately expressed judging personality

The Big 5

Inventory Tests Openness to Experience/Intellect
	High scorers tend to be original, creative, curious, complex; Low scorers tend to be conventional, down to earth, narrow interests, uncreative.
		You are somewhat conventional.	(Your percentile: 20)
Conscientiousness
	High scorers tend to be reliable, well-organized, self-disciplined, careful; Low scorers tend to be disorganized, undependable, negligent.
		You are well-organized, and are reliable.	(Your percentile: 64)
Extraversion
	High scorers tend to be sociable, friendly, fun loving, talkative; Low scorers tend to be introverted, reserved, inhibited, quiet.
		You probably enjoy spending quiet time alone.	(Your percentile: 15)
Agreeableness
	High scorers tend to be good natured, sympathetic, forgiving, courteous; Low scorers tend to be critical, rude, harsh, callous.
		You find it easy to express irritation with others.	(Your percentile: 27)
Neuroticism
	High scorers tend to be nervous, high-strung, insecure, worrying; Low scorers tend to be calm, relaxed, secure, hardy.
		You aren't particularly nervous, nor calm.	(Your percentile: 49)

What do the scores tell me?

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The Lobotomist

I believe that although some of Walter Freeman's strategies were effective on patients, he still did many inhumane things and was a mad man. He would even perform surgeries on conscious patients with them feeling the pain, just so he could see there reaction. If you ask me, someone like that should be the one in the mental hospitals receiving a lobotomy. He got so arrogant and full of himself that he took it under his own command to perform lobotomies without having a surgeon's license or any permission to do it. It was true that he did help some people and his ideas were confirmed, but in the humane and moral sense of his experiments, they would make him a mad man. As he started his ice pick surgeries, he started to have more and more casualties which he didn't even feel remorse for. As one example in the movie stated, he was taking a picture of an ice pick in a man's eye and it fell too far down and killed him. He then proceeded to leave and not even pause for a second. It's pretty hard to respect a man like that. At least by the end, everyone began to realize how rediculous it was, and how the procedures didn't usually do much to the patients. The "Lobotomist" is basically a movie about a man named Walter Freeman who tries to make advances in the study of the human brain, by performing surgeries called lobotomies.

Outrageous Celebrity

Michael Vick is a professional football player who has done some crazy things.

Psychodynamic- Michael was born in a public housing project in Newport News, Virginia. His neighborhood was financially depressed and filled with crime. He was brought up in a bad situation where his parents basically lived off of welfare while his mother worked two jobs and his dad worked in the shipyards for hours and hours every day. This suggests that Michael's acts of violence were in response to exposure to violence in his childhood and possibly a way to get his emotions out.

Behavioral- Michael has done several inexcusable things such as his dog fighting ring near his home in Virginia. His actions were cruel and violent as he pitted dogs fighting against eachother until death, with people betting for money on the winners. He also has been caught with marijuana several times and has given the middle finger to a crowd of football fans at a 2007 game.

Cognitive- As for the dog fighting incidents, Michael has claimed that he did it primarily for the gambling part of it. He also says that he got no enjoyment out of seeing the dogs tear eachother apart, but that is very hard to believe considering the many other ways of gambling he could have used. Vick's mind was obviously tainted and he had saw things a small kid should not have which may have changed his thinking and outlook on life itself.

Social-Cultural- Michael was born into an area of Newport News and a neighborhood in which drug dealing was a normal day activity. This easily could have influenced him to not look at marijuana in such a negative way. When he was in high school he used it as a way to relieve his problems so as he was having trouble with the dog fighting investigation, he probably used it to forget about everything. His upbringing taught him that violence and drugs are normal, so it is only expected of him to think the same thing.

Humanistic- Michael's parents were not necessarily unloving and bad people, but with his parents working literally sunup to sundown, there was nobody at home to steer him in the right direction. He didn't get the attention and teaching that he needed to succeed in outgrowing his neighborhood problems. Vick may not have felt that he was loved enough so he didn't see how wrong it would be to hurt other creatures. It's not like he didn't see people hurt all the time in his neighborhood.

Neuroscience- Vick's brain has grown accustomed to violence and hurt. He may get the same hyper feeling that he recieves when he plays a football game, as when he sees two pitbulls fighting or a bag of marijuana. Violence and drugs are normal things for him. He has seen violence and he probably wants to try it out himself. His brain is telling him that it is alright and that there won't be any bad consequences. He didn't feel like he would be caught. Since he was in the NFL, he probably felt that he was invincible to the law because he was a sports celebrity.

Introduction

Hey I'm Willy. My favorite things to do include playing video games, sports, and hanging out with friends. I play football and basketball for the high school but I also enjoy doing other things like bowling and swimming. In my spare time I usually play NCAA Football 11 or other Xbox 360 games at a friend's house along with watching college and pro football games. I go up north a lot in the summer where I do some water sports and fishing, but not much in the winter. I was born in December of 1993 in Neenah and have lived in Oshkosh also. After high school I plan on going to college, probably somewhere in the state.