Group Therapy on Chemically Dependent Women's Self-Efficacy" The specific purpose for the study is to determine the effects of both cognitive group therapy and experiential group therapy on the self-efficacy of women that are chemically dependent. Continue Reading...
Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member Street gangs have been a menace in the United States for the better part of the century, and this has prompted researchers to attempt to identify the specific factors that drive youths, some as young as ten, to Continue Reading...
Here we see Richard is learning the importance of priorities. He is learning what it means to sacrifice. These choices, however, help him reach an ideal he has in his mind of who he wants to be. He wants to understand things because he feels he has Continue Reading...
Jose Ortega y Gasset, once a "Liberal" legislator in the doomed Spanish Republic, wrote Revolt of the Masses 70 years too soon. This elitist book, although seriously flawed, makes numerous excellent points, demands to be read in these opening years o Continue Reading...
Images, and Metaphors of Lightness and Darkness within Michael Ondaatje's Novel in the Skin of a Lion. Motifs of lightness vs. darkness, in physical and emotional as well as metaphorical respects, run throughout Canadian emigre author Michael Ondaa Continue Reading...
gender discrepancies in regards to African-American education. There has been a noticeable, growing increase of the presence of African-American women in undergraduate and graduate education while the gap between African-American males and females h Continue Reading...
Learning a language: Gaining fluency in a language to be free The acquisition of language is never a culturally neutral process. When someone learns his or her first or even a second language, that individual also acquires a status in the eyes of th Continue Reading...
Childhood Obesity and Its Affects on Self-Esteem, Learning and Development Childhood obesity has reached alarming proportions in developed nations of the world and its prevalence is continuously rising from 1971. In the Scandinavian countries, child Continue Reading...
Raymond Carver's short story "Cathedral" explores a number of different social and psychological issues including stereotyping and prejudice. When the blind male friend of the narrator's wife enters their home, issues related to self-esteem, sexualit Continue Reading...
Dopamine is a pleasure inducing chemical that is secreted whenever an individual engages his/her mind in the playing f video games. The New brain research that was conducted years back (Bartholow, Bushman & Sestir, 2006) was the first to show t Continue Reading...
Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt, by Aida D. Donald Aida D. Donald's biography of the 26th American president of the United States is one of several projects to come out recently indicating a resurgence in the popularity and re Continue Reading...
Lesbian Health Care Lesbian Health Issues in a Heterosexual Society The additional burdens placed on the lives of minorities as a result of social exclusion can lead to health disparities. Social exclusion theory has been used in previous research Continue Reading...
Pedagogic Model for Teaching of Technology to Special Education Students Almost thirty years ago, the American federal government passed an act mandating the availability of a free and appropriate public education for all handicapped children. In 19 Continue Reading...
Crime Understanding why crime occurs requires an appreciation for the complexity of human behavior. Behavior is not determined by one factor, but rather influenced by a host of interrelated factors. Modern biological theories in criminology differ f Continue Reading...
Little is known about abnormal cervical cancer screening results of women who are behind bars. The test was conducted by using data from two cross-sectional surveys of women in jails and community corrections about their history of abnormal pap test Continue Reading...
Female Sexuality and Self Development in Chicana Culture Eysturoy (1996) points out that studies of women's sexuality related to Chicana culture have focused on the quest "for authentic female self development." She notes that this process involve Continue Reading...
Storytelling Review of Literature For hundreds of years, stories have been used to teach children about morality and ethics. Indeed, many of the same myths, legends and fairy tales have been handed down from generation to generation, remaining large Continue Reading...
Student Affairs as Both A Field of Study and a Profession What is Student Affairs? Tyrell (2014) believes student affairs professionals have a continually expanding and evolving role in community colleges, with recognition of increasingly complex s Continue Reading...
"Culturally different clients are clients who racial, ethnic, gender, socioeconomic, and/or religious backgrounds and/or identities are different from the healthcare professional or student…[healthcare students must learn cultural competence] Continue Reading...
All participants will be clinically diagnosed with an addiction problem to alcohol and/or another controlled substance. Those that are addicted to prescription medicine alone will be excluded from the study as they are suspected to represent a diff Continue Reading...
Poverty and Health More than half a century ago, the World Health Organization defined health as "a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (Ustun & Jakob 2005)." There were ob Continue Reading...
In this sense, during the First World War, because of the fact that the governments of the belligerent countries had to have the public support for the waging of the war, they acted in a propagandistic manner. More precisely, "under the name of prop Continue Reading...
g. A Police Office in a large metropolitan area like New York will have different duties and dangers than a County Sheriff in a rural Oklahoma area) (Barlow, 2000). Rightly so, modern society has a certain level of expectations for its military and Continue Reading...
For the children who were being bullied, there were no differences by race found for where it occurred, or the likelihood of getting help (2008). However, the researchers found a dramatic difference by race for racist name-calling with one-half of t Continue Reading...
Ethnic Minorities and ConflictIntroductionHow are ethnic minorities depicted in a popular TV show compared to the white characters? The question of how ethnic minorities are depicted in popular TV shows is sociologically important because it can help Continue Reading...
Cold War Qs1To say that the Cold War was won is to speak simplistically about what the Cold War was. Yes, the Soviet Union collapsed, but the animosity between the US and Russia persists even to today. There is still conflict between Russia, the US a Continue Reading...
Clinical Question: Why is mental health important in the lower socioeconomic class? Mental health problems are common in every socioeconomic class. However, when mental health problems occur in the lower socioeconomic class, the people affected often Continue Reading...
Business Ethics When the Truth Takes a Stretching Class Maria Bailey clearly and blatantly misrepresented the size of her start-up business, but shrugged it off saying she knew what she was "capable of doing" and just wanted to show potential clien Continue Reading...
Workplace Diversity Cultural diversification is a term that has become very popular in the recent years, especially among the people working in various organizations. A lot of concerns have arisen due to the flow of the immigrants into the major cit Continue Reading...
Cosmopolitan Modernism1: Case StudyThe article The Cosmopolitan Modernism of the Harlem Renaissance from The Nation, by Rachel Hunter Himes, published on April 15, 2024, discusses the Harlem Renaissance as a cosmopolitan reflection of modernism. It d Continue Reading...
Ethics Case: The Chokehold DeathIntroductionThe Daniel Penny trial is a big ethical dilemma for the city of New York; for the prosecution Penny represents unchecked aggression and tyranny; for the defense Penny is a public hero who was trying to prot Continue Reading...
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in "Piaf," Pam Gems provides a view into the life of the great French singer and arguably the greatest singer of her generation -- Edith Piaf. (Fildier and Primack, 1981), the slices that the playwright provides, more than adequately trace Continue Reading...
Racial Profiling If seen from the perspective of law enforcement, racial profiling can be described as "government action that relies on the race, ethnicity, or national origin rather than the behavior of an individual or information that leads the Continue Reading...
Race Matters Cornel West (ISBN: 978-0-679-74986-8) Afrocentric Perspectives? Some fairly prominent similarities exist between Molefe Kete Asante's The Afrocentric Idea, and Cornel West's Race Matters. Both manuscripts were published within a year Continue Reading...
Cheesman (2002) conducted a study on Karen identity in the Union of Myanmar with regards to historical and social conditions. The study found that Karen identity is a relatively difficult identity because individuals from this ethnic background do no Continue Reading...
Self Carl Jung's archetypes and the collective unconscious This is a mythology concept based on the Freud's personal unconscious. Freud was in a quest to understand the reason behind some behaviors that were expressed by some individuals. He sough Continue Reading...
