Deep Water_William Douglas_XII_English
It had happened when I was ten or eleven years old. I had
decided to learn to swim. There was a pool at the Y.M.C.A.
in Yakima that offered exactly the opportunity. The Yakima
River was treacherous. Mother continually warned against
it, and kept fresh in my mind the details of each drowning
in the river. But the Y.M.C.A. pool was safe. It was only
two or three feet deep at the shallow end; and while it was
nine feet deep at the other, the drop was gradual. I got a
pair of water wings and went to the pool.
I hated to walk naked into it and show my skinny legs. But I subdued my
pride and did it.
From the beginning, however, I had an aversion to the
water when I was in it. This started when I was three or
four years old and father took me to the beach in California.
He and I stood together in the surf. I hung on to him, yet
the waves knocked me down and swept over me. I was
buried in water. My breath was gone. I was frightened.
Father laughed, but there was terror in my heart at the
overpowering force of the waves.
Deep Water_William Douglas_XII_English
It had happened when I was ten or eleven years old. I had
decided to learn to swim. There was a pool at the Y.M.C.A.
in Yakima that offered exactly the opportunity. The Yakima
River was treacherous. Mother continually warned against
it, and kept fresh in my mind the details of each drowning
in the river. But the Y.M.C.A. pool was safe. It was only
two or three feet deep at the shallow end; and while it was
nine feet deep at the other, the drop was gradual. I got a
pair of water wings and went to the pool.
I hated to walk naked into it and show my skinny legs. But I subdued my
pride and did it.
From the beginning, however, I had an aversion to the
water when I was in it. This started when I was three or
four years old and father took me to the beach in California.
He and I stood together in the surf. I hung on to him, yet
the waves knocked me down and swept over me. I was
buried in water. My breath was gone. I was frightened.
Father laughed, but there was terror in my heart at the
overpowering force of the waves.
Deep Water summary will assist you in understanding the meaning of this chapter. It is an extract from the book ‘Men and Mountains’ by William Douglas. Over here, the author tells us about how he overcomes the deep-rooted fear of water. We learn that the author develops fear of water following two very dreadful incidents. In this first one, he is four years old when a wave knocks him down. Similarly, in the second one, he is 11 years of age. A bully throws him in the deep end of the pool and almost drowns. Thus, having gone through such scary experiences, he fears water deeply. However, he does work really hard to overcome it. Finally, we learn about the measures he takes to overcome this fear. Moreover, he accomplishes in overcoming the fear and gives us all a great lesson of determination and will power.
Connotation for the meaning and effect questions for the reading for meaning ...javeriakhan123
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Hello, and welcome to Underwater Odyssey.
My name is Krista Dunlop. As a professional scuba diver since 1994, I have a unique perspective of the underwater world and the environmental crisis we adults have caused.
When I'm scuba diving and I see a turtle's face mutilated by a boat propeller, or see what was once a beautiful coloured coral reef now bleached white, or see a dolphin calf's tail that has fallen off because it had gotten so tightly wrapped up in a crab trap line ... all that comes to my mind is ... what have we done. Then I find myself clearing my mask ... to wash away my tears.
As a professional scuba diver, I believe it is my personal responsibility to be a guardian of our blue planet and to remind children and adults of all that the underwater world has given us ... human survival beauty and marine animal friendships. This is a case that I am personally and professionally passionate about.
Through my business communications company, Krista Dunlop & Associates Inc. (www.kdainc.ca), I decided to sponsor a Corporate Environmental Awarweness Educational Initiative - Underwater Odyssey (www.underwaterodyssey.ca), as a means to help preserve our blue planet.
Our vision is to shape the young reader's experience so that children can find order, meaning and beauty on our blue planet. We carefully nurture young children's imaginations, providing windows through which they can look into their world and empower them to voice their environmental concerns.
I invite you to join me on this exciting journey to create a Blue Planet Legacy, one we all can be proud of leaving to our children and generations to come, through corporate environmental awareness educational program fundraising initiatives.
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Theoretical Perspectives
Learning Activities
Compiled by Jinny Tesiik, M.A., Bereavement Counselor. Used with permission
Activity 2: The Creative Expressions and Descriptions of Grief and Loss
Directions: The sayings are separated with dashed lines. To prepare for the in-class activity,
print the pages and cut on the dashed lines to separate each saying.
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TNEEL-NE 2001 D.J. Wilkie & TNEEL Investigators Grief: Theoretical Perspectives
TNEEL-NE
Saying 1: Edgar N. Jackson “You and Your Grief”
GRIEF is...
Grief is the intense emotion that floods life when a person’s inner security system is shattered by an acute loss,
usually associated with the death of someone important in his/her life.
In more personal terms, grief is a young widow who must find a way to bring up her three children, alone. Grief is
the angry reaction of a man so filled with shocked uncertainty and confusion that he strikes out at the nearest
person. Grief is the little old lady who goes to the funeral of a stranger and does some unfinished business of her
own feelings by crying her eyes out there; she is weeping for herself, for the event she is sure will come, and for
which she has so little help in preparing herself.
Grief is a mother walking daily to a nearby cemetery to stand quietly alone for a few moments before she goes on
about the tasks of the day; she knows that part of her is in the cemetery, just as part of her is in her daily work.
Grief is the deep sympathy one person has for another when he wants to do all he can to help resolve a tragic
experience. Grief is the silent, knifelike terror and sadness that comes a hundred times a day, when you start to
speak to someone who is no longer there.
Grief is the emptiness that comes when you eat alone after eating with another for years. Grief is the desperate
longing for another whose loss you cannot learn to endure. Grief is teaching yourself how to go to bed without
saying good night to the one who has died. Grief is the helpless wishing that things were different when you know
they are not and never will be again. Grief is a whole cluster of adjustments, apprehensions that strike life in its
forward progress and make it difficult to reorganize and redirect the energies of life.
Grief is always more than sorrow. Bereavement is the event in personal history that triggers the emotion of grief
Mourning is the process by which the powerful emotion is slowly and painfully brought under control. But when
doctors speak of grief they are focusing on the raw feelings that are at the center of a whole process that engages
the person in adjusting to changed circumstances. They are speaking of the deep fears of the mourner, of his
prospects of loneliness, and of the obstacles he must face as he finds a new way o ...
Deep Water summary will assist you in understanding the meaning of this chapter. It is an extract from the book ‘Men and Mountains’ by William Douglas. Over here, the author tells us about how he overcomes the deep-rooted fear of water. We learn that the author develops fear of water following two very dreadful incidents. In this first one, he is four years old when a wave knocks him down. Similarly, in the second one, he is 11 years of age. A bully throws him in the deep end of the pool and almost drowns. Thus, having gone through such scary experiences, he fears water deeply. However, he does work really hard to overcome it. Finally, we learn about the measures he takes to overcome this fear. Moreover, he accomplishes in overcoming the fear and gives us all a great lesson of determination and will power.
Connotation for the meaning and effect questions for the reading for meaning ...javeriakhan123
It deals with the meaning and effect questions given in paper 2 of CAIE English. It will help the students to answer the questions with the help of connotations and by giving a simple way to figure out what type of a question it is.
Hello, and welcome to Underwater Odyssey.
My name is Krista Dunlop. As a professional scuba diver since 1994, I have a unique perspective of the underwater world and the environmental crisis we adults have caused.
When I'm scuba diving and I see a turtle's face mutilated by a boat propeller, or see what was once a beautiful coloured coral reef now bleached white, or see a dolphin calf's tail that has fallen off because it had gotten so tightly wrapped up in a crab trap line ... all that comes to my mind is ... what have we done. Then I find myself clearing my mask ... to wash away my tears.
As a professional scuba diver, I believe it is my personal responsibility to be a guardian of our blue planet and to remind children and adults of all that the underwater world has given us ... human survival beauty and marine animal friendships. This is a case that I am personally and professionally passionate about.
Through my business communications company, Krista Dunlop & Associates Inc. (www.kdainc.ca), I decided to sponsor a Corporate Environmental Awarweness Educational Initiative - Underwater Odyssey (www.underwaterodyssey.ca), as a means to help preserve our blue planet.
Our vision is to shape the young reader's experience so that children can find order, meaning and beauty on our blue planet. We carefully nurture young children's imaginations, providing windows through which they can look into their world and empower them to voice their environmental concerns.
I invite you to join me on this exciting journey to create a Blue Planet Legacy, one we all can be proud of leaving to our children and generations to come, through corporate environmental awareness educational program fundraising initiatives.
For the Ocean ... and the Children!
TNEEL-NE
Theoretical Perspectives
Learning Activities
Compiled by Jinny Tesiik, M.A., Bereavement Counselor. Used with permission
Activity 2: The Creative Expressions and Descriptions of Grief and Loss
Directions: The sayings are separated with dashed lines. To prepare for the in-class activity,
print the pages and cut on the dashed lines to separate each saying.
Page 1
C:\Documents and Settings\gregory.fiero\My Documents\UTA\N3325 Holistic Care of Older
Adults\Resources\Grief Activity Sayings_TNEEL.doc
TNEEL-NE 2001 D.J. Wilkie & TNEEL Investigators Grief: Theoretical Perspectives
TNEEL-NE
Saying 1: Edgar N. Jackson “You and Your Grief”
GRIEF is...
Grief is the intense emotion that floods life when a person’s inner security system is shattered by an acute loss,
usually associated with the death of someone important in his/her life.
In more personal terms, grief is a young widow who must find a way to bring up her three children, alone. Grief is
the angry reaction of a man so filled with shocked uncertainty and confusion that he strikes out at the nearest
person. Grief is the little old lady who goes to the funeral of a stranger and does some unfinished business of her
own feelings by crying her eyes out there; she is weeping for herself, for the event she is sure will come, and for
which she has so little help in preparing herself.
Grief is a mother walking daily to a nearby cemetery to stand quietly alone for a few moments before she goes on
about the tasks of the day; she knows that part of her is in the cemetery, just as part of her is in her daily work.
Grief is the deep sympathy one person has for another when he wants to do all he can to help resolve a tragic
experience. Grief is the silent, knifelike terror and sadness that comes a hundred times a day, when you start to
speak to someone who is no longer there.
Grief is the emptiness that comes when you eat alone after eating with another for years. Grief is the desperate
longing for another whose loss you cannot learn to endure. Grief is teaching yourself how to go to bed without
saying good night to the one who has died. Grief is the helpless wishing that things were different when you know
they are not and never will be again. Grief is a whole cluster of adjustments, apprehensions that strike life in its
forward progress and make it difficult to reorganize and redirect the energies of life.
Grief is always more than sorrow. Bereavement is the event in personal history that triggers the emotion of grief
Mourning is the process by which the powerful emotion is slowly and painfully brought under control. But when
doctors speak of grief they are focusing on the raw feelings that are at the center of a whole process that engages
the person in adjusting to changed circumstances. They are speaking of the deep fears of the mourner, of his
prospects of loneliness, and of the obstacles he must face as he finds a new way o ...
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3. You will probably say one or more of the following.
• Fear of failure
• Fear of public speaking
• Fear of exams
• Fear of driving
• Fear of flying
• Fear of heights
• Fear of drowning
• Fear of darkness
4. What should be our reaction to fears?
Avoid them? Avoid walking into a painful experience?
Avoid emotions that scare us?
Can we hide from potential challenges that can lead us to growth and joy?
Can we hide forever from fear?
Remember that it is waiting to strike us despite our best efforts to
suppress it.
5. Face your fear : Overcome it
…. but how?
• Re-experience the fear in order to extinguish it
• Researches have found that repeated exposure to the events
that created the trauma can help the anxiety subside.
• Treat yourself with an exposure therapy that involves slowly and
repeatedly being exposed to the object/situation that is feared in
a controlled environment.
6. Think about a possible cure to these fears
• Fear of public speaking/stage fright
• Fear of flying
8. William O Douglas
Birth: October 16, 1898 , Maine, Minnesota, US
Death :January 19, 1980, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Career: public official, legal educator, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court,
Best known for his consistent and outspoken defense of civil liberties.
36 1/2 years of service on the Supreme Court constituted the longest tenure in U.S. history.
His books
Of Men and Mountains,
The Court Years
Go East Young Man
My Wilderness
Beyond the High Himalayas
9. contracted polio as a youth,
escaped permanent paralysis
and developed a lifelong love of the outdoors through his self-
imposed regimen of exercise during recovery.
10. How and when did Douglas develop fear of water?
1. The incident at California Beach
When he was three or four years old,
his father took him to the beach in
California. He and his father stood
together in the surf. The waves
knocked him down and he was buried
in water. Though his father was
holding him, he was frightened and
terrified by the overpowering force of
the waves
11. 2. Continual Warning by his mother.
Details of each drowning in the Yakima River stayed fresh in his
mind
12. 3. His introduction to Y.M.C.A swimming pool, the safer place for swimming
The sight of the swimming pool brought back his unpleasant memories
and roused his childish fears. But he tried to learn by paddling with new
water wings, and by watching and imitating other boys.
But then the unfortunate thing happened
13. 4. The misadventure
While sitting alone and waiting for others at the Y.M C.A Pool,
big boy came and threw Douglas into the deep end of the pool
14. Douglas drowning
• He faced it with courage.
• He went down and down with a hope to reach the bottom to
make a big leap upward.
• Three times he went down and on the third time, he lost
consciousness and almost died.
15. Description of drowning graphic and vivid
When Douglas went down the water with a yellow glow, it was a nightmarish
experience for him. Although frightened, he thought of a trick to come up to
the surface but couldn’t execute it successfully. He panicked and felt
suffocated by the water. His sense-perceptions gave way, his heart pounded
loudly, his limbs became paralyzed with fear, his mind became dizzy and his
lungs ached as he gulped water while making desperate attempts to come
out of the water. Finally, he lost all his strength and willingness to keep
struggling and blacked out.
16. His emotions while drowning
Drowning Stage 1 Drowning Stage 2 drowning stage 3
Frightened, but not yet frightened
out of his wits.
His plan: make a big jump: come to
the surface, lie flat on it, and paddle
to the edge of the pool.
Nine feet were more like ninety.
His lungs were ready to burst.
Though made a great spring
upwards, he came up slowly
When he opened his eyes, he saw
only water with a yellow tinge to it.
He grew panicky. He was
suffocating. He tried to yell but no
sound came. His eyes and nose
came out of the water – but not his
mouth. His legs were paralysed and
rigid. A great force pulled him under.
He started his long journey back to
the bottom: struck at the water; used
up his energy fighting an irresistible
force as if in a nightmare: lost his
breath; his lungs ached; his head
throbbed: was dizzy: remembered
the strategy- the journey was
endless: water with yellow glow
around him – sheer, stark terror
seized him-shrieked under water –
paralysed – stiff, rigid with fear-
remembered the strategy-but made
no difference- stark terror took even
a deeper hold like a great charge of
electricity- shook and trembled with
fright – tried to call for help – call for
mother
Started down the third time.
Sucked for air and got water
All effort ceased. He relaxed:
blackness swept over his brain – it
wiped out terror – no more panic –
he was carried away lightly-
Lost his consciousness
17. The impact
Though he was ultimately saved, a terror of water developed in
him . It made him fear water permanently.
18. Fighting fear
For many years that incident, he stayed away from water but the
desire to go fishing and swimming in nature was strong enough to
motivate him to overcome his fear. His fear of water ruined his fishing
trips. It deprived him of the joy of canoeing, boating, and swimming.
Douglas used every way he knew to overcome this fear he had
developed since childhood. He was determined to get an instructor
and learn swimming to get over this fear of water.
19. Learning it in a controlled environment with
the help of a professional
• He hired an instructor. The instructor built a swimmer out of Douglas
piece by piece.
• For three months he held him high on a rope attached to his belt. He
went back and forth across the pool.
• Panic seized the author every time his head went under water. The
instructor taught Douglas to put his face under water and exhale and
to raise his nose and inhale. Then Douglas had to kick with his legs for
many weeks till these relaxed.
20. Mastering the individual steps of swimming
Then, he moved on to master individual steps of swimming which
were, finally, integrated into a complete experience of swimming by his
instructor. After about six months, Douglas could not only swim the
length of the pool well but was free of his fear to a great extent.
21. How
How he made himself completely free from
all the terror.
Douglas still felt terror-stricken when he was alone in the pool. The
remnants of the old terror would return, but he would rebuke it and go
for another length of the pool.
He was still not satisfied. So, he went to Lake Wentworth in New
Hampshire, dived off a dock at Triggs Island and swam two miles across
the lake.
He had his residual doubts. So, he went to Meade Glacier, dived into
Warm Lake and swam across to the other shore and back. Thus, he
made sure that he had conquered the old terror.
22. The deep meaning
• The experience of terror was a handicap Douglas suffered from his
childhood. His conquering of it shows his determination, will power,
and development of his personality.
• He drew a larger meaning from this experience. “In death there is
peace.” “There is terror only in the fear of death.” He had
experienced both the sensation of dying and the terror that fear of it
can produce. So, the will to live somehow grew in intensity. He felt
released- free to walk the mountain paths, climb the peaks, and
brush aside fear.
24. The Essence of Gandhi’s Teaching
Non-violent struggle was the choice of the brave, not of the weak
25. Our march to freedom is irreversible.
We must not allow fear to stand in our way.
- Nelson Mandela
"Dangers and difficulties have not
deterred us in the past, they will not
frighten us now. But we must be
prepared for them like men in business
who do not waste energy in vain talk and
idle action.
Nelson Mandela
