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Basic Tips To Create Better Characters With Tragic & Traumatic Backstories First, ask yourself why you're giving your character a tragic or traumatic backstory. Are you giving your character this backstory to build up/explain what kind of person your character is now? Or are you doing it mainly to make readers or other characters feel sorry for your character, or to make your character seem more badass/tough for having survived the ordeal? Or are you doing it mainly to give your character a reason to run away from home and/or have nobody to be attached to so xe can go hang out with the cool characters with nothing to pull xir away? The first one is a legitimate reason to give your character a tragic/traumatic backstory. The rest are spurious at best. Even worse, trauma/tragedy often is used as little more than a device to give an intended love interest a reason to want to lavish care and affection on xir. Benjamin Linus from Lost is a good example of a tragic/traumatic backstory used to good effect. The trauma/tragedy should make sense in-universe.
The Circle of the Dragon - Dragon and Serpent History and Mystery figures of speech Like wildflower seeds tossed on fertile ground, the figures of speech, sometimes called the "flowers of rhetoric" (flores rhetoricae), have multiplied into a garden of enormous variety over time. As the right frame of this web resource illustrates, the number of figures of speech can seem quite imposing. And indeed, the number, names, and groupings of figures have been the most variable aspect of rhetoric over its history. Naming the Figures The figures first acquired their names from the Greeks and Romans who catalogued them. Categorizing the Figures Over time these figures have been organized in a variety of different ways in order to make sense of them and to learn their various qualities —much as a scientist might classify the flora of a forest, grouping like species into families. Situating the Figures within Rhetoric As rich and interesting as the figures are, they do not constitute the whole of rhetoric, as some have mistakenly surmised. Figures of Thought / Topics of Invention
Les dragons - La terre, ses mystères, son histoire et plus encore Introduction Depuis la nuit des temps, les mythes et les légendes ont été peuplées de monstres enchantés, à la force surnaturelle. Les plus puissants étaient les dragons : des créatures au corps de serpent, aux pattes de lézards, les griffes d'aigles, la gueule d'un crocodile, les dents d'un lion, les ailes d'une chauve-souris. Les dragons ont toujours été décrits comme des créatures semblables à d'énormes serpents, avec de grands membres postérieurs et antérieurs, dotés de gueules énormes et de griffes coupantes. Normalement ils étaient décrits avec un corps plein d'écailles protectrices et capables dans la plupart des cas de cracher du feu et de voler grâce à de grandes et puissantes ailes. Dans les légendes, les dragons sont vus comme des créatures prodigieuses : on pensait que leurs os, ainsi que leur sang, pouvaient avoir de grandes propriétés curatives. Pourquoi donc en est-on arrivé à l'idée du dragon comme incarnation du chaos, comme une créature qui détruit mais qui ne crée pas ?
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) : DSM-IV Diagnostic Criteria What is a personality disorder? A personality disorder is a pattern of deviant or abnormal behavior that the person doesn't change even though it causes emotional upsets and trouble with other people at work and in personal relationships. It is not limited to episodes of mental illness, and it is not caused by drug or alcohol use, head injury, or illness. There are about a dozen different behavior patterns classified as personality disorders by DSM-IV. All the personality disorders show up as deviations from normal in one or more of the following: (1) cognition -- i.e., perception, thinking, and interpretation of oneself, other people, and events; (2) affectivity -- i.e., emotional responses (range, intensity, lability, appropriateness); (3) interpersonal functions; (4) impulsivity. Narcissistic Personality Disorder Translation: Grandiosity is the hallmark of narcissism. Translation: Narcissists think that everyone who is not special and superior is worthless.
Enuma Elish Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Enuma Elish ( en akkadien) est l'épopée babylonienne de la création du monde. Signifiant littéralement Lorsqu'en haut, selon ses premiers mots, l'Enuma Elish célèbre à travers sept tablettes la gloire du dieu Mardouk et raconte son ascension vers la souveraineté du panthéon babylonien. Le texte fut découvert au XIXe siècle sous forme de fragments dans les ruines de la bibliothèque d'Assurbanipal à Ninive, ville proche de l'actuelle Mossoul, en Irak. Le poème a probablement été composé à la fin du XIIe siècle av. L'épopée décrit les origines du cosmos, le combats des premiers dieux contre les forces du chaos et l'élévation de Mardouk, dieu tutélaire de Babylone, au-dessus des autres divinités mésopotamiennes ainsi que la création du monde et de l'homme. Le récit[modifier | modifier le code] L'épopée commence au début des temps, alors que l'univers n'est qu'un tout indifférencié rempli par l'eau originelle. Babylone est donc une ville mystique.
Antisocial Personality Disorder Symptoms Antisocial personality disorder is characterized by a long-standing pattern of a disregard for other people’s rights, often crossing the line and violating those rights. It usually begins in childhood or as a teen and continues into their adult lives. Antisocial personality disorder is often referred to as psychopathy or sociopathy in popular culture. Individuals with Antisocial Personality Disorder frequently lack empathy and tend to be callous, cynical, and contemptuous of the feelings, rights, and sufferings of others. Lack of empathy, inflated self-appraisal, and superficial charm are features that have been commonly included in traditional conceptions of psychopathy and may be particularly distinguishing of Antisocial Personality Disorder in prison or forensic settings where criminal, delinquent, or aggressive acts are likely to be nonspecific. A personality disorder is an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates from the norm of the individual’s culture.