Analysis Case

Throughout a person's life, every experience and encounter with others has a huge impact on who that person becomes, as well as how that person's life is changed a long the way. Change is a process rapid or slow; it is an inevitable experience, presenting diverse consequences, both negative and positive. The newspaper article " like a horror movie" presents the catastrophic impact of an earthquake on changing people's lives. Losing a member in the family, friends and colleagues or getting injured are major changes that will affect these people emotionally, physically and intellectually.

The article presents the impact of the earthquake and how it had different effects on people. A mother of two teenage kids was presumed dead, after an office tower collapsed while she was inside. The two teenage kids along with their father were devastated when they were informed about " this horrible news". It is traumatising for any adolescent to sustain such a loss; losing a parent means a loss of childhood, of innocence and a part of oneself. Those two teenage kids and their father will be affected emotionally as they will be left with feelings of loneliness, emptiness and grief, which in turn will affect them intellectually as they will find it hard to communicate and interact with other people either in school, work or within their community. In addition to emotional reactions, they will suffer from physical symptoms of grief. Physical symptoms experienced by both kids and their father include weakness, low energy, and other health problems that will affect their daily lives. This traumatic and irreparable disaster has changed their lives forever.

The earthquake had also physical impacts that changed the life of a man that had his leg pinned under concrete, this man lost his leg and became disabled, without the ability to independently perform daily functions such as walking and driving. He will have to rely on others, along with other forms of support such as a wheel chair. This will have a profound emotional as well as physical impact not only on the life of this man but also on his family members, who need help both supporting him, and adjusting to this change. The most significant costs might be the intellectual and emotional costs that he will undergo. This man will go through the same stages of grief as when losing a loved one: anger, denial, depression, and then acceptance. His life has been turned upside down as he lost an important part of his body that he won't be able to get back.

This is only two of hundreds of people that have been affected by the earthquake. Those people have been affected physically as they faced the destruction of their houses and town that was destroyed completely. Apart from the physical destruction of their town there is also the emotional turmoil of losing their loved ones and becoming disabled and, most importantly, the intellectual trauma of watching their