Okay so for class we all got this assignment to pick out a book and write a review about it. Now I am a very indecisive person and I have a horrible time trying to pick between anything. When faced with the issue of picking between more than two things I can usually narrow it down to being between two of the items but to narrow it down to just one, is a seemingly impossible task for me. I usually just end up resorting to chance to decide my future. I know this seems like a particularly crappy way to choose between things, but it works for me because I am quite a flexible person and can work my way with any decision I make, no matter how stupid.
Okay so in relation to my book thing, I had this same problem. Early on in dealing with this assignment I was trying to choose between three books that sounded great and that I most likely could go many different directions with.
Okay the first book I had in mind was the Quiet Room, an autobiograhy written by Lori Schiller with the help of Amanda Bennett. This book dives into the life of Lori Schiller, a women deeply tortured by a mental disorder known as schizophrenia. She tells how her life was filled with the horror of voices taunting her, multiple suicide attempts, and traveling from half-way house to half-way house. I felt that I could go many different directions with this book, I could talk about schizophrenia itself, or psychologists opinions on dealing with schizophrenia. I could also have talked about many different treatments and possible solutions to the mental illness. The only problem with using this book was that it is kind of an older book so I would have had to find a way to relate the book, which was written back in 1994. I could think of a possible excuse for writing a book review of the book now when it was written such a long time ago.
The second book that was in the running was, a book of my friends, Rumspringa. He was also trying to decide between two books, this one and another. I decided to take a look at one of his books yet he told me that if he decided to use it I couldn't. Okay so Rumspringa is a book about the time period where the Amish youth are allowed to run free and experience the world before deciding whether to stay with the church or leave it forever. Okay so the next day after reading like one chapter of the book my friend decided he was going to use this book. I told him that's fine and thus I was officially left with my last option. One that was not entirely interesting to me but it was all I had left.
So the book I chose, or rather a series of events chose for me was Telling Lies, by Paul Ekman. It's a book talking about the research the Ekman did, over lies and the detecting signs of lies. Ekman talks about people feelings associated with lies and how ultimately no one can tell with out a question whether someone was lying or not. So the book was kind of interesting to me and before I started reading it I knew that there would be a number of ways I could take this book and write a paper about it. I knew I could talk about stuff like interogation methods or possibly torture, I could also have gone in a direction of changes with in the jucidial system due to research associated with Ekman.
"And so it goes in fashion"
15 years ago

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