Let’s picture the scene: a bright sunny day in Spain, the captivating, irresistible villa, a stunning, remarkable lady with an outstanding figure walking in slow motion with a confident smile on her face- living the dream- or so we thought!!. Could you imagine this woman brutally ending her own life a year later? No? Me […]
Yoga is a relaxation technique that is becoming increasingly popular with today’s society. According to Garfinkel and Schumacher (2000), the term first appeared in ancient India where it was passed from teacher to student as an oral tradition. The term yoga is a Sanskrit word which was coined from the root yug meaning to unite. […]
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Get startedThe play Hamlet, written by William Shakesphere, is set in the late middle ages in Denmark and is a tragedy in which the main character, Prince Hamlet, seeks revenge against his uncle, Claudius. It is said that Claudius killed Hamlet’s father, the king of Denmark, in order to seize the throne and marry Hamlet’s mother, […]
Sleep is a biological need…a need that very few teenagers are able to fulfill. High school students should be getting around 8-10 hours of sleep (Otman). However, Mrs. Smith’s first block Honors English II class gets an average 6.947 hours of sleep per night. Many believe school start times greatly affect the amount of sleep […]
Everyone dreams of getting into high school. The drive for some might be getting to associate with the popular crowds. For others, it may be getting to experience another level of social interaction. However, my story is different but yet similar. I dreamed of going to high school but due to life circumstances my path […]
Imagine a person who is suffering from AIDS that is at the terminal stage, medication and treatments doesn’t affect their body anymore, and the only thing that can ease the pain is euthanasia. There are many terminal sicknesses on the planet, that there is a huge shot that you will sooner or later know somebody […]
Social Media Social media is a revolution in the word of communication. It is accessible in multiple languages and enables users to connect with friends and strangers across geographical, political or economic borders. Online social networks facilitate connections between people based on shared interests, values, friends, and professionals. There are many social networks like Snapchat, […]
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story first published in January 1892. The story covers themes such as gender roles, resting cure, freedom, society and class. The passage that I will be analyzing is “If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is […]
In June of 2018, a 25-year-old deputy in a county in Idaho made the mistake of driving while intoxicated. She wrecked into 2 parked vehicles in a driveway of a mobile home. One of the vehicles was pushed up against the home, making a hole in the owner’s bedroom. It was about 3am, so the […]
The media has changed the way beauty is seen, then the readers or watchers start to think differently of themselves. This bothers me because over the years that the media industry has grown, the more damage they cause instead of doing the opposite. I think this affects everyone, especially teens. Most reality tv shows, celebrities, […]
Teens, like me, go through depression everyday. Many of us don’t need to go through it, but so much goes on in our everyday lives. That sometimes we just get in the wrong state of mind. When they are in that state of mind, when they are feeling hopelessness and get into a hole of […]
The use of public shaming is not a new one, but with the increased use of social media public shaming has been on the rise. A positive thing about social media is that it gives people a voice and a way to be heard and voice their opinions. Unfortunately when it comes to online shaming […]
In this world, it is typical to have expectations to meet based on gender, race, religion, and many other things. It has become natural to act a certain way or to do certain things based on who you are. In the poem “Barbie Doll” and the short story “Flowers for Algernon,” Margie Piercy and Daniel […]
In the film “Good Will Hunting” a young 20 year old boy, Will Hunting, faces the struggle of who he is and what he is capable of in light of his traumatic past and economical class. Will started out as a janitor at MIT in Boston. He thought that he was just there for the […]
Will Hunting is a 20-year-old from South Boston who works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a janitor. With an undiscovered IQ level of a genius, he solves a complicated math problem left on a chalkboard by Professor Gerald Lambeau, who would eventually turn his life around. Given Will has had many run-ins with […]
One of the most crippling hurricanes to hit the U.S. struck the Gulf coast on August 29, 2005. “In an analysis of 971 fatalities and 15 additional deaths of storm evacuees, 40% of deaths were caused by drowning. 25% were caused by injury and trauma (CNN) and “more than one million people in the Gulf […]
Published in 1962, the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey is a defining work in the counterculture of the Beat Generation. Describing the story of a troublemaker attempting to throw into chaos a rigid system of oppression, the novel offers social commentary on the status quo through its themes of individuality […]
Socrates was a man who analyzed the world around him. Socrates famous words were, “The unexamined life is not worth living”, and he claimed others were “sleepwalking through life”. I believe that in order to truly live, we must learn consistently, create our own Divine Destiny, and live by our own choices. The unexamined life […]
Social justice has changed multiple times and throughout the years it has been a debate on what it should cover and how it should be covered amongst different individuals. Social workers often times have changed definitions or added things based on the Rawls theory on social justice (Banerjee, 2013). My definition on social justice is […]
The Windshield Survey takes place in Jacksonville, Florida. The city is by far the largest in the entire United States by land mass. The region’s population growth rate has been on the rise over the decades, with nearly a million residents living within the metro city or its immediate peripheries. A drive through the region […]
In his General Conference address “Songs Sung and Unsung”, Elder Jeffery R. Holland highlights how mental health struggles can be detrimental to one’s spirituality. We can look at what we can do as collective sons and daughters of God to help those around us who are suffering. We can use the sociological imagination to identify […]
Softball became a sport in 1887 on Thanksgiving Day. Since then, softball has increasingly become popular in the Unites States. Not many know how great this sport is. Millions of people receive benefits from softball each year. Softball is a beneficial sport because it promotes a healthy lifestyle, demonstrates teamwork and enlightens adversity. Softball is […]
In 2016, a girls attitude survey conducted 40% of girls in the UK, ages 7 to 21, were not happy with their body. Body size should not matter. Girls are pressured to have the perfect body from the media, boys they have interest in, and stress from home and from friends. Personality should be what […]
Pathways/Resources for human development (RHD) organization provides service to patients with severe and persistent mental disorders. Like every disease, mental illnesses are also shaped to a great extent by physical, social and economic environments: born, grow, live, work and age. Patients with severe mental illnesses generally live 25 years fewer than the general population. Thus, […]
Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” written in 1890, portrays the patriarchal structure of the 19th century and consequences it had, specifically for women’s mental health. Gilman tells a story of a woman with a “nervous condition” and slowly begins to lose sight of reality, but writing, something that is forbidden to her, is the only […]
“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a gothic psychological short story and appears to be a normal day to day journal about a young woman’s life struggling with mental health in the 1800s. Throughout the story, her husband, whom is also her physician claims that there is nothing else wrong with her besides her being diagnosed with […]
The Yellow Wallpaper outlines a story about a young woman who is diagnosed with a “temporary nervous depression” which is described as a slight hysterical tendency. She is told this by her husband and her brother who are both highly regarded as physicians and were very closely connected with her. She is truly cared for […]
In today’s society, more people are diagnosed with a bipolar disorder that in past generations. A bipolar disorder is when someone has mood swings that can range from very low or really high such as depression. In an online article it mentions, “More than two-thirds of people with bipolar disorder have at least one close […]
My friend Carrie was diagnosed with Bipolar I disorder the second year of high school. She does not like to talk about it very much so I will do my best with details. A person that would be more familiar to you with this disorder would be Jean-Claude Van Damme. A summary of the DSM […]
Bipolar disorder is a brain disorder that can cause an unusual shift in mood, activity levels, energy, and the ability to carry out simple tasks. There are many causes towards bipolar disorder such as an unhealthy relationships, school, job, etc. Bipolar disorder is a long-term disease that has to be carefully managed throughout your life. […]
