Social justice warrior (SJW). Advocate. Organizer. Protester. Legal Aid Lawyer. Bleeding hearts. These are all terms I’ve heard applied to those who work in the access to justice (A2J) field, whether because that is their actual role, or they are the focus of ridicule. If someone does adopt one of these labels, it is safe […]
For one to live transcendentally is completely up to themselves, under the control of no one else but their own, something many of the boys in Dead Poets Society understood. The act of living transcendentally is not easy, in fact it is very difficult. To live this way one has to be their own person; […]
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Get startedFor over twenty years, many different people have speculated on the reasoning behind Chris McCandless’ actions – particularly his trip to Alaska where he, unfortunately, met his demise. McCandless, the subject of Job Krakauer’s nonfictional book Into the Wild, was a young man at the time of his death – only 24 years old. It […]
The Stanford Prison Experiment was part of a hands on experiment that Phillip Zimbardo wanted to conduct. This experiment sheds some light on how the prison system is, how prisoners feel, and how they deal with emotions. The goal however of the Stanford experiment was to see what happens when good people are placed in […]
After reading this article it one my eyes to new information about corrections and how it was developed. And how psychology and corrections work together and how it affects the human mind and body and the effect between guards and prisoners. Watching videos and reading about the experiment it really shows that a person being […]
I believe my most important contribution to the field of psychology is the findings from the Stanford Prison Experiment. The goal was to focus on how ordinary people can deindividualize, dehumanize, and vandalize generally due to group identity, situational validation of behavior, and power of roles. In this experiment, 40 male college students were randomly […]
At the end of 2016, an average of 2.2 million people were incarcerated in the United States. That’s 2.2 million people waking up on the same hard bed, eating the same old disgusting food, and having to live through the same routine every single day. The condition of a jail cell can tell a lot […]
Structure and agency are the two determinants of social outcomes. Agency is related to the individual free will, it is how we choose to maneuver within the structure. The person can exercise choice in maintaining personal and social realities. The structure of the environment greatly influences an individual’s thought and behavior. Behaviors are affected by […]
Case study after case study have shown a long history of Stockholm Syndrome situations. This psychological response to being held captive with a threat of physical harm is puzzling. A captor should elicit a negative feeling to the point of hatred from the victim. When the victim responds with feelings of loyalty, sympathy, supportiveness, gratitude, […]
“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind”, said Mahatma Gandhi. Zimbardo disagrees with the statement as guards can manipulate their power to imprison the prisoners brain. Day one began for the guards in the Stanford experiment with the guards receiving their […]
Making money is not for everyone to accomplish, but in Bill Gates case it was simple to achieve. Bill Gates is the founder of the world’s largest software business, Microsoft Windows. Bill Gates was born in Seattle Washington on October 28, 1955. Gates was born in a middle class family, with his sister, Kristianne, younger […]
Power does corrupt an individual’s perception of realities because people who are wealthy, think that certain things cannot happen to them like getting sick, going to jail or not being happy because they can have anything they want by means of command because of all the money and power they have. People think that money […]
Edgar Allan Poe was an American author known for his short stories that left readers stunned with the mystery he chose to remain. At a young age, Poe was left with no mother due to tuberculosis and soon it would cause the rest of his loved ones to depart in that same way. With the […]
Boom! One minute you’re perfectly fine sitting on the couch the next moment you’re reliving your most traumatic experience. PTSD can make you relive dreadful experiences and imagine strange events. In Slaughterhouse five the main character Billy Pilgrim suffers from an unpleasant case of PTSD. Slaughterhouse-five reflects PTSD’s frightful effects in unfortunate soldiers exposed to […]
Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slaughterhouse-Five Show postmodernism by doing this, particularly planning sporadic structures in which the narratives are told, just as setting a contention of thoughts between the peruser or watcher. The work distinctly questions what the primary hero is confronting, doing, and thinking; this strategy prompts a conceptualization that scopes a long ways past […]
Slaughterhouse-five is the story of Billy Pilgrim, a World War Two prisoner who suffers the bombing of Dresden. Billy is later on abducted by aliens and taken on a time travel where he sees his own past, present, and future. The story leads you on a wild journey in which Billy becomes unstuck in time. […]
Teen pregnancy is when a teen, nineteen or younger, has a child. This can lead to numerous problems, as it is a child having a child. Most teenage moms don’t graduate high school and have a harder time supporting themselves. Teen pregnancy negatively affects teen moms because it leads to health issues, a lower chance […]
Introduction A worth life living comes from the individual’s own perspective of how the set of minor and major goals are achieved. It defines how people are contented with great satisfaction of what they had done to life. Success may varied like to the set of standards or culture that the life-bearer where lives. The […]
Looking into the past, there are many things that come to mind both good and bad. Starting from our childhood to teenagers and until now. However, there will be one of them that you will remember for the rest of your life. No one is perfect and making mistake is part of us and it’s […]
Underage drinking continues to rise across all nations, and parents and adults appear to be more accepting of teenagers drinking at home, where they are supposedly safer and chaperoned. Additionally, it can be stated that in today’s world we have more young adults, middle-aged and elderly people that are consuming more alcohol then historically, brought […]
According to the CDC, more than 88,000 people die annually from alcohol related deaths in the United States. Many of these deaths are from college students or those that may have started drinking heavily in college. Alcohol abuse on college campuses is extremely prevalent and can be very detrimental to the overall health to the […]
We the children are tomorrow’s future. Everyone in this room could possibly be tomorrow’s future athletes, politicians, musicians, teachers or maybe even the next big Reality TV Star because as you know that could make you the next president or the next hottest rapper. Speaker Credibility: Full disclosure– I’m a reality TV junkie, I’ve been […]
Everyone starts watching television when they are young and the odds are that the shows were reality TV. Many grew up on it, but is reality TV beneficial or detrimental to the lives of young adults in the real world? Reality TV teaches self-reliance and inspires young adults to be bold and confident in the […]
The research titled as “Reality of TV shows: Entertainment or Ethics” examines the ethical issues rising because of the reality TV shows. Reality TV shows only takes care about the entertainment which is the cause of rising in ethical issues. The theoretical framework includes of Social Responsibility Theory and Cogitative Dissonance Theory. Now-a-days TV plays […]
In our generation reality tv showes are one extensive entertainment throughout the world. And this entertainment has given different meaning and view to different people. So, on my review I intended to demonstrate how most reality tv showes appear with gender stereotyping, how one race presented than the others, and how most reality tv showes […]
“Life is a journey with problems to solve, lessons to learn, but most of all, experiences to enjoy.” In the novel, Tuesdays with Morrie, the author Mitch Albom spent every Tuesday with his old professor, Morrie, who was suffering from ALS. Morrie was a huge inspiration to Mitch and Mitch took every word Morrie said […]
What might most people on this earth value? You guessed it right, it’s Life! Life brings a lot of meaning and purpose that is I feel is an ideal answer to the society and lets just face it, what could someone value other than life? For starters, have you ever heard the greatest talents are […]
Before reading Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, many of us may have already pondered the question of what the meaning of life essentially is. While reading Frankl’s piece, some of us may have come up with additional questions of our own, disagreeing with Frankl’s view; others, may agree with him and feel a sense […]
I have read the article “Happiness and Meaning: Two Aspects of the good life” by Susan Wolf. The author believes that the meaning of life is difficult to define, because everyone has their own standards, which is a subjective judgment. Some people may feel that physical health is a success. Some people think that they […]
I believe that the meaning of life is to explore in order to find our truths and being able to learn from them. As we continue to live, we tend to long for the truth as we are all curious of our lives and the world around it. In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”, he […]
