Word: angers
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...last day, you know what you're in for before you even crack the spine of What Happened, Scott McClellan's memoir of his nearly three years as George W. Bush's press secretary. It's not necessarily surprising that McClellan critiques his former co-workers. But the candor, anger and overall disappointment with which McClellan discusses President Bush and his policies is particularly surprising from someone previously presumed to be the most faithful of aides. On the fifth page of the preface McClellan bluntly writes, "History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided - that the decision...
Whether the goings-on at Telekom were criminal or not, the disclosure has caused a uproar in Germany and further soiled the already tarnished image of the country's corporate leaders. Public anger is growing over the widening gap between the mega-salaries of top corporate executives and the falling purchasing power of workers. That is fueling a political shift to the left that could have an impact on national elections next year...
...what extent can the anger of adolescence be traced to changes going on in the brain at this stage of life? There's a lot of explanations that circle about as to why adolescents are angry. There's the neurological argument, the hereditary argument. Some parents look at their teenage son and say, What have I done? There must be something that I really stuffed up in his childhood for him to be acting this way. The problem with all these explanations is that, while they might have some validity, all of them render the parents powerless to do anything...
...Withdrawal, lack of motivation, apathy - are these other manifestations of teenage anger? Yes. There's no doubt about that. Parents can get abused one moment, then the next the adolescent withdraws and doesn't want to talk...
...What's going on in the head of the angry boy? What have most parents forgotten about adolescence? Adolescent anger is an assertion, and the assertion is: I am not wrong about myself. Boys are busy building an image or an identity of themselves, and this is vulnerable to being smashed and destroyed. That is a threat that causes anger, and the accompanying act to anger can be aggression...