Weingarten, Kaethe. Common shock; witnessing violence every day.WEINGARTEN, Kaethe. Common shock; witnessing violence every day. Penguin penguin, originally the common name for the now extinct great auk of the N Atlantic and now used (since the 19th cent.) for the unrelated antarctic diving birds. , NAL NAL National Agricultural Library (Agricultural Research Service; US Department of Agriculture) NAL New American Library NAL National Accelerator Laboratory NAL National Aerospace Laboratory (Japan) . 385p. notes. bibliog. index. c2003. 0-451-21291-6. $14.95. SA Dr. Weingarten has studied the effect of witnessing traumatic or "shocking" events and the impact of this witnessing on people who are seemingly seem·ing adj. Apparent; ostensible. n. Outward appearance; semblance. seem  ing·ly adv. unaffected. The number of murders and crimes that our
children and ourselves see on television in a year is far greater than
we would ever actually witness in real life, and the effect of seeing
all this violence has not been scientifically measured. Most of us
perceive our world as far more dangerous than it is statistically, and
we change our behavior and lifestyle to accommodate dangers that do not
exist. We were all witnesses to the September 11, 2001 attacks and it is
still not clear how our lives have changed, in spite of in opposition to all efforts of; in defiance or contempt of; notwithstanding.See also: Spite the fact that only a small number of us were directly touched. Even as we witness natural disasters like the great tsunami of Christmas, 2004, we often don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how to react and experts don't know the effect such events have on individuals or society in general. Weingarten looks at why and how we respond to shock, how we pass it on to others and what we can do about it. Reading this book will change the way the reader views the world with its real and perceived dangers. Nola Theiss, Sanibel, FL S--Recommended for senior high school students. A--Recommended for advanced students and adults. This code will help librarians This is a list of people who have practised as a librarian and are well-known, either for their contributions to the library profession or primarily in some other field. and teachers working in high schools where there are honors and advanced placement students. This also will help extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. |
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