Human advances within the realm of knowledge and technology, including travel and public transportation on a national and global scale, are changing the way individuals are living and communicating on a societal and cultural level (Sison, 2017). Sison reports that “The United Nations reported 244 million international migrants living worldwide in 2015, up by 41 […]
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 […]
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Get startedIn 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 […]
That almost personal confrontation is especially evident in John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978). Drawing heavily upon the conventions of the genre, Carpenter created what seems to be, despite its dark, threatening surface, one of the most lucid of horror films, a tale whose most telling effects derive not so much from our forced encounter with its […]
What is a hate crime? By definition a hate crime is, “A crime motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudices, typically one involving violence,” In other words, someone commits a violent crime against another simply because they do not like the color of their skin, their sexual orientation, their religion, or their political views. It’s […]
The photo I choose is that of a Victoria Islamic Center mosque in Victoria, Texas, taken on January 29, 2017. The mosque was part of a hate crime act committed against the Muslim community who resided in and around the small city of Victoria. The photo shows the aftermath of the fire and investigators inspecting […]
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible […]
Craftsman’s 1894 tract Homogenic Love, and its Place in a Free Society might be an eminent takeoff from the pervasive showed and pathologising talks of homosexuality in battle on the hour of its production. Craftsman expresses that the ‘overmastering man or woman’ of same-sex want, which he phrases ‘homogenic’ love, ‘might qualifies it for rank […]
Homosexuality is surely a hot-button topic these days. It has caught the attention of almost everyone throughout the world today. A large percentage of the world’s population is spilt on whether or not homosexuality is acceptable. Those that believe that sexual orientation can not be controlled feel that gay people should not be treated any […]
The play Angels in America written by Tony Kushner depicts the harsh reality that homosexual men faced during the 1980s: the peak of the AIDS epidemic. The play follows the journey of two distraught relationships: one which involves a closeted gay Mormon named Joseph and his wife Harper, and the other a gay man named […]
Homosexuality has been around for a very long time but the term “homosexual” was actually invented in the 19th century. Social arrogances towards same sex relationships have changed over time, from expecting all males to engage in same sex relationships, to casual integration, through acceptance, to seeing the practice as a minor sin, repressing it […]
Doctors and researchers have been studying sexual orientation and human behavior since the 1950s. The research looks at the factors that can cause someone who carries homosexual genes to differ from someone who carries heterosexual genes. The data validates points regarding DNA, social background, and environmental change factors. This explains how the first medical researcher to […]
It is simply impossible for people to be moral without religion or God. —Laura Schlessinger (quoted in Zuckerman, 2008) Religion in the Caribbean is as unique as its people. Like its culture, religion within the Caribbean region has been profoundly influenced by its colonization by European countries. This influence or infiltration was not only concentrated […]
Introduction Learning is the most important mental function for people, and any other living being. Learning builds new abilities, ideals and understandings. Learning is one thing that we as living beings will never stop doing. We are constantly learning new things. Learning does not just happen when you are in school or reading a book, […]
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 […]
A natural disaster such as hurricane Katrina devastated a region of the country that is still recovering even years later. With that much death and destruction, it’s hard not to imagine that psychological scarring wasn’t wide spread with adults as well as children. One can only imagine the horror and feeling of helplessness each of […]
This podcast presents an ethical dilemma regarding an MD who was assigned the duty of triage in catastrophic events such as Hurricane Katrina. Her duties were to treat critically care patients and disregard the chronic ones. In the case of Katrina, babies were priority patients. DNR patients were held back and their care was postponed. […]
This paper is about Jeffrey Dahmer and how his life was altered in a way that caused severe psychological issues. With little to no support from his family or peers at school, Jeffrey was isolated and confused. He ruminated all his stress from past traumas and developed strange urges to inflict pain and suffering among […]
Have you ever listened to music as you did your homework? Have you ever wondered why we do this? Many believe music keeps you focused during homework. ‘How?’ you may ask, well you do this by tuning it out and making it into background music. After a couple minutes into the homework your attention completely […]
Felman (1975) defines madness as essentially a phenomenon of thought, of thought which claims to denounce, in another’s thought, the Other of thought: that which thought is not. Being a phenomenon in which patients present abnormal behavioural patterns, Mrs Dalloway’s concern with insanity is reflected through certain characters’ attachment to suicide and melancholy. This paper […]
One of the preeminent components in the text Never Let Me Go coincides in the concept of self-identity. From the opening scene of Ishiguro’s Never Let me Go we are ambiguously introduced to the narrator and protagonist of the text who goes by the name of Kathy H. This introduction prompts us to directly conceive […]
Peer pressure is a big problem that lots of people find themselves dealing with. Peer pressure affects the people with an insecure image of themselves. They feel the need to “fit in” and be “popular” . To fit in they will do things that their friends are doing because it seems cool or their friends […]
In today’s society, social influence can impact a person’s behavior immensely. As adults, we are less impressionable and more capable of paving our own paths, but is this the case for children? Research shows that due to the fact that their minds are still developing, children can tend to conform and allow outside peer influences […]
The authors of procrastination, Jane and Lenora have said: “Procrastination is not primarily a time management problem or a moral failing but a complex psychological issue. At its core, problem procrastination is a problem with one’s relationship to oneself, reflecting a shaky sense of self-esteem.” Do you have the experience that cramming for tests or […]
Procrastination is one of the biggest problems in our generation and for students in higher education it is even worse. College students need to organize work, school, and family activities and any delaying behavior from within can cause a disturbance such as social media. This action is called procrastination and it can make issues in […]
One of the biggest time killers is procrastination. When it comes to doing homework it is like my mind dazes off to Wonderland and Netflix calls out my name. According to Whitebourne, The Paradox of Procrastination, “About twenty percent of adults have regular bouts of procrastination, but as many as perhaps seventy to ninety percent […]
The significance of this study is to bring awareness and emotional regulations single mother’s face when obtaining a college degree, essential to their lives such as welfare, child care and social support while trying to raise a family. The world we live in today, the economy has produced higher unemployment rates, and higher well fare […]
My Question The question whether or not sleep deprivation can affect us physically and mentally? There are millions of people who suffer from a lack of sleep. Sleep deprivation is very common disorder I happen to suffer from it too. One of my questions was how being deprived of sleep affects teenagers academic performance? Another […]
Sleep and anxiety are two important psychological processes that are heavily dependent on each other. While the two have very different purposes – sleep helps calm one down while stress emerges when one feels nervous – both processes interact with each other in many different ways, and both can be very different in importance depending […]
