MY IO PLAN

INTRODUCION OF GLOBAL ISSUE AND WORKS

 How does knowledge establish by religion and beliefs affects someone’s
psychology?
 It matters because, Religion is a universal human pursuit and gives
comprehension to a human’s orientation in the world and for some
individuals religion and cultures are all what restores their faith in life;
but tends to live by them, and somehow feels triggered when their
beliefs are remis en question then have lost in faith and a drastic change
in what they believe, and what they taught or lived for, changes
completely dis-orienting them causing depression, suicide or religious
anxiety and most likely death.
 My literary work depicts my G.I in chapters 24-25 of the novel Things
Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe from 40 lines, where it’s presented when
the protagonist Okonkwo, after an act of rebellion against a foreign
religion from the cultural and religious knowledge he possessed.
My non-literary work depicts my G.I in 40 lines of the website
psychologyToday.com where my IG is presented and backed up with secondary
sources evidences on the effects of religiosity or cultures on an individual’s
psychology
LITERARY WORK AND PASSAGES
 During Okonkwo’s murder
“The waiting black cloth...He wiped his machete on the sand ad went
away”. “He knew that Umuofia did not go to war”. Umuofia earlier, a village
which was known for their war successes carried by their religions and
traditions was now a memory in Okonkwo's head. He simply knew that what
was holding Umuofia strong was its numerous traditions and cultures
This, in the entire work contexts shows how weak Umuofia has become
and unconsciously Okonkwo new the Christian religion knew exactly what to
destroy. his dearest beliefs, cultures, traditions and religiosity his father (Unoka
when he was still able to sustain his family) taught him and all this, seeing his
village so deprived of what once made them who they were at his eyes, and
still in those same eyes, he saw his people’s betrayal to their village and to him
and couldn’t unconsciously, the manly Okonkwo couldn’t psychologically take
their “Why did he do that”

“Then they came to the tree from which Okonkwo's body was
hanging” (lines 39 and 40)
Okonkwo hanged himself as his father did. He knew this was a shameful way
to die according to the traditions but at the point where he was could he really
believe in that again? Or did he but didn’t care any ways; couldn’t care
anyways. At the time at which he was he knew those beliefs to which they
clung were at this time memories in the mind of this people. The knowledge
established by his beliefs at this point of time deceived him. Psychologically
that’s what he taught.
We could argue his death in so many ways either he died knowingly, as He was
powerless and did what he taught was right but later felt left by his people
after they all sort of didn’t agree nor understood what he did. He was broken.
The author presented us to him as being a wonderful warrior, The wrestler and
undefeated, the tough guy who got up after the worst season of the years of
his yams, the believer and the breaker of his father’s misfortune to at the end
miserably show him to us as a surrenderer quitter.
The link with my G.I is that Okonkwo has grew as a warrior and fighter and a
strong believer in his traditions and cultures and in all the Gods of his land. He
believed and knew These cultures were what his village always needed to be as
successful as it is. That’s what he believed. But everything came to a very end
when a foreign religion was introduced to them. Little by Little, he saw his
village stumbling down and his traditions fading away. He knew he was strong
physically but at this point not psychologically enough the simple fact that his
religion was dead. All what he knew, what he lived with was death and the
feeling of being betrayed by his people simply for doing what he always knew
and taught was right it was the water that overload the jar. He was broken and
couldn’t support rather that, he preferred to die.
NON-LITERARY WORK AND PASSAGES
 A website page called PsychologyToday the paragraph of “What do the
study says”
This paragraph explores the relationship between beliefs and mental health.
Some social scientists have made the distinction between public (or "extrinsic")
and private (or "intrinsic") religiosity. Public religiosity refers to active
participation in a religious congregation, whereas private religiosity refers to
religious belief and practice that occurs less ostensibly, often at home or
simply deep in the individual mind. Both forms of religiosity have been shown
to promote mental health.
For example, regular attendance at a place of worship embeds an individual
into a community of people who can offer material, moral, emotional, and
social support, all of which can foster good mental health. Similarly, many
people with mental illness report that private prayer, devotional readings, and
religious programming (on TV, the radio, or the internet) can provide solace
and comfort, which can enhance the recovery process.
All this is discussed in the fascinating short video below with Dr. Eric Jarvis
from Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital, a world authority on religion and
mental health.
As clearly stated by them. beliefs do influence someone’s psychology
CONCLUSION

 Both works were talking about my global issue and both, in a way or not
supported the fact that knowledge established by religion and beliefs
affects someone’s psychology. The literary one used a story to pass
across this message which made the issue even more realistic while the
non-literary one actually used lots of facts to convince and make the
global issue an actual reliable urge. In Things Fall Apart the authors
technique of writing easily portrayed my issue and made it easier to
actually draw controversial views on the issue while the Website
provided me with really deep informations about the issue and the style
of writing was easy to pass along a message to the reader.