Writing Assignment: Division & Classification (Summaries & Examples)
- DIVISION ESSAY
Summary
Division essay is an essay that is written for the purposes of discussing a more general or broad topic by dividing them into sub-group or sub-division, hence the name Division Essay. Usually, this essay tries to analyze functions and how the sub-group relates to each other and how it form the main or general subject of the topic. There are three elements in a division essay; The system, principle of analysis, and sub-system.
Bellow is the example of a Division Essay. The topic in the essay is about stages of desperation in people. The essay will try to divide it into 5 division or sub-system which will tell relationship between each other and in the end tell how the sub-systems form the topic subject.
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5 Stages of Despair
Despair is a situation which every human can experience. People are born with the ability to think and feel. Often we find someone who experience the moment of despair. This despairing moment is somewhat problematic, because sometimes, people don’t ever realize that they are actually in despair until it’s to late. The solution is to know more about this agonizing situation so that the one who suffers from it can do something about it. That is why there is a concept in the field of philosophy and psychology which is called 5 stages of despair which tries to divide into more identifiable sub-type so that we can easily understand it.
Confusion is usually the first stage -but not always the case- into despair. In this stage, people will be in a confused state when dealing a problem. The cause is mostly their lack of preparation, more often their mental state are not ready for the problem presented to them. If it’s the first-time for them to face the problem, the chance of getting caught in this stage is higher. When people can’t get out from this stage, they will fall into the next stage, caused directly by this stage.
Frustration comes after the confusion. In this stage, people who can’t handle the confusion caused by the problem will be frustrated because they can’t find the solution to the problem. In this stage, emotions are mostly concentrated in every negative ways. Mostly, this stage affect people mentally and physically, not so seldom people and their surrounding will directly or indirectly affected. Frustration at the highest level will lead into the next stage which is, subjectively, more despairing, Depression.
Depression is the third stage by order (for convenience sake) in the 5 stages of despair and can be said as the climax. This stage is the most difficult stage to get out of from. The confusion and the frustration that are left unchecked will drag people who are facing a problem into the state of depression. This state will indicate the exhaustion of mind and spirit, as it will be very hard to ‘uplift’ oneself without clear answer to the problem. The exhaustion will finally lead to next stage, the one where some people are the scariest stage of all.
Stagnation, as in stagnate meaning ceasing from any development or becoming inactive or dull. The word stagnation refers to the very life of the human who face a problem themselves. Lot of reports says that people who experience this stage are incapable of feeling anymore. In some rare cases, even their physical body is affected thus making them literally unable of feeling anything. At the end of the stage, there are only 2 things that can happen; Whether they choose to not prolong their suffering by picking the “easy option’ which some people considers it as running away. Or they move the next stage by some false hope or any kind of fake promises.
Deception is stage where people who suffers a problem, having experienced all the 4 stages above, are given a superficial way of believing that everything is okay when in fact it isn’t. As the name of the stage suggested, people are in the stage of deception and lies thinking that there might be a solution to their problem, WITHOUT any solid prove that they will actually get out of despair. Sometimes, some people choose deliberately to be deceived in some form of fake love for themselves. At the end of this final stage, people usually loop back into one of the 4 situation before this until eventually they return to this stage and the circle form itself again and again.
Knowing all the stages can help people to identify in which stage they are in so that they can act accordingly. Like it was mentioned before, Confusion might not be the stage people encounter first. They can feel frustration or even depression first, depending on the intensity of the problem faced. By learning each stage of the situation one can prepare themselves and try to get to 6th stage, which is called Acceptance stage. This 6th stage is the true solution of the situation as it stands outside of the circle of 5 stages of desperation. Only few people can achieve this stage, while many are often stuck in the 5 stages of despair.
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- CLASSIFICATION ESSAY
Summary
Just like Division Essay, Classification Essay also tries to discuss topic by making classification of a broader topic. The classification essay organizes supporting details into three or more groups with each group having its own identifying characteristics. For this reason, classification essays rely heavily on description and example as supporting details or evidence, description providing the means for identifying distinguishing characteristics and examples illustrating the members of each class.
Bellow is the example of a Classification Essay. The topic in the essay is about ranges of depression in psychology. The essay will try to classify it into 3 classes. Each class will be described by its own characteristic and it will give examples which will illustrate for the sake of details
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. Three “M” of Depression
Depression is big subject of study in the field of psychology when it involves human being. Very often people encounter some examples whether directly or indirectly in the seemingly peaceful daily lives. WHO, in their website, says that close to eight hundred thousand people die to suicide every year in which the main cause is depression. It means that even right now among and around us, there might be people who suffers from it and we just don’t notice it because we don’t know the severity of it. To help people aware of it, depression can be classified into 3 classes with its own identifiable characteristic and those 3 classes are Mild, Moderate, and Major.
Mild depression is the first class of depression where some symptoms are not seemingly showing or apparent. In this class, depression involves more than just feeling a little bit blue in a temporary manner. The state can go on for days without the people who suffers it realizing it. People will feel or exude some negative emotions which are considered small, so they themselves will sometimes ignore it. One example would be a feeling of irritability or anger that always come so sudden and hard to dismiss. Feeling hopelessness and despair would be another example, while in practice they will lose interest in doing anything. Psychical symptoms that are showing usually lose or gains of weight suddenly caused by lost of appetite or excessive hunger, body aches with no apparent reason and fatigue. Mild depression appear in most of people and always been mistreated poorly that it lead the sufferer into the second class of depression.
Moderate depression shows more intense symptoms than the typical mild depression. The smaller emotions such as hopelessness, irritability and lack of interest that shows in mild depression accumulate forming a bigger non-physical problem such as low self-esteem. This will turn into high sense of worthlessness in oneself because the increased sensitivity makes them worry excessively. The physical toll will be even bigger than the previous class. It’s been reported before that people who suffer from this class are also suffering inability to reproduce. Some have high level of incurable insomnia. Few were even suffer from loss of function of body organs caused by intense stress, such as blindness or numbness. In this class, people really need a medical and professional help because when not treated, they will fall to the last M of the depression.
Major, as the name suggested, is the biggest class of depression by intensity or severity. The urgency is shown by the increasing danger of the cause and symptoms this class shows. In this class, people will have an episode of delusion or hallucination in the most worrying manner. They will the sense of oneself and even lose all sense to recognize the world as it should be. Psychically, people who suffers major depression often lose consciousness because of the great fatigue their body have to endure. The worst-case scenario is that the people in this class will have suicidal behavior and thoughts. Unfortunately, some of them were even known to have ended their lives because they couldn’t handle the pressures. This is the last and the most dangerous class of depression.
People need to be more aware of this classification of depression. It’s not just the government's duty to care about the mental health of their citizen. Human are social beings as they can not live by themselves. That is why we as people need to be responsible as to not let people fall into the hole of depression. We should do as much as we can to help people around us by being there with them when they needed help. Who knows we even might save one life from ending meaninglessly. Ultimately, we might even save ourselves.
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