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Bystander Effect in an Elevator Humans are unique in their social cognition because they make decisions based on their representations of reality. When trying to understand why people react or do not react, you must look at “the state of the world and the mental states (i. e, intentions, beliefs, desire)” (Buttelmann & Buttelmann, 2016, … Read more
Over the course of 20 years, there have been numerous school shootings, which has resulted in thousands of lives ending to quickly. Which leads me to my central focus of this ethnography project. I wanted to determine how students across the country attending different universities felt about implementing a safety course, which will allow a … Read more
My sister Jessica Dobb worked as a social worker for ______________. While working with there she came crossed countless hopeless situations with young children. One story that has stayed in her mind and this young girl’s name is Maddie. Maddie was a young four-year-old girl was when she was first sold into sex trafficking by … Read more
“There is only so much on Earth and it is a waste of time to continue your delusional ways” A common criticism against Jack Aron. The great adventurer who discovered nothing. In dreams he stood among the greatest adventures atop his own mountain in his own continent, however in reality he sat in a dirty … Read more
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), also known as attention deficit disorder (ADD), is a mental disorder that most often occurs in children. Symptoms of ADHD include trouble concentrating, paying attention, staying organized, and remembering details. With the insurmountable number of children that are being diagnosed and a continued increase in numbers, teachers need to be … Read more
Honestly, I don’t remember another year in which I lost so many friends. Oh, well. Not do death, oh no (although I’m certainly getting old enough for that): to Facebook. It all started in my native Brazil, where this was the time of a radical political turnover: The party in power for the last… hmm… … Read more
For many years, a popular question that people ask to those who follow a leader “How far would you go for them? ”. This question has been answered many times by not only the people in these situations, like those in Democratic Kampuchea (Pina et al. , 2010, p. 291), but also scientists like Stanley … Read more
Jobs are important for several reasons: they provide workers with personal feelings of self-worth and satisfaction and produce revenue, which in turn encourages spending and stimulates the larger economy. Jobs provide personal and economic benefits. Although the type of jobs Americans pursue varies widely, all workers benefit from having careers. Having a job produces wages, … Read more
In Control or Out of Control There is nothing scarier and threatening than a patriotic American with a shotgun. Since the constitution was created, it gave Americans the right to bare arms. However, many gun users are misusing weapons in an inappropriate manner and taking advantage of it for something really threatening for the population. … Read more
Endometrial cancer is the most prevalent gynecologic malignancy in the Unites States. Even though the cancer occurs most frequently in postmenopauasal women, 5% of the total number cases are found in women 40 years and younger. These women usually have specific risk factors such as morbid obesity, chronic anovulation, and hereditary syndromes (Schuiling & Likis, … Read more
The institution of marriage has long been a part of different societies and cultures. Each society has created a set of rules, which they believe define what a marriage should and should not be. In recent years, marriage has taken on a variety of definitions. In a majority of societies a marriage is no longer … Read more
Engaging in pleasure that does not entail the natural world has made westernized communities be completely removed from the surrounding ecosystems and ultimately eliminates humans from what it means to live in the environment. In other words, socioeconomically privileged humans chose to live in a world filled with pleasure, a term coined by Alaimo in … Read more
This video displayed how direct instruction is used in learning tasks like reading, pronunciation, and spelling. When the teacher asked the students to perform a task they could only participate when the teacher tapped on the desk. Students are only allowed to express what they know only when they are instructed to. When the students … Read more
During the Holocaust, more than 1. 5 million innocent children died. The Nazis supported the killing of the children because the Nazis thought of the children as “unwanted” or “dangerous. ” The Nazis used the children as subjects to their medical experiments and for forced labor. The Nazis thought of the killings as a “racial … Read more
This article gives you the run down on the different types of genetic engineering and how they can affect you and your future generations. The author mainly focuses on the moral aspect and how it could be seen as morally outrageous or acceptable. It explains that if genetic engineering and gene therapy become a normal … Read more
I am a 4th generation farmer. My great grandparents bought our farm from more distant relatives making it a dairy farm. My grandfather then took over the farm from his parents continuing with the dairy farming. My Uncle Nick mostly runs the farm now, a Holstein beef farm, with my grandfather doing little and myself … Read more
As far as American social issues go, marijuana has frequently been seen as an antagonist, from the terror of drug cartels, to the health effects of the drug itself. Discussions about legalization of cannabis use, and moral justification resurface time and time again, prompting people to wonder: Would legalization solve these issues, or continue to … Read more
Steve Carroll is not your average special event manager; he is so much more than pulling of the perfect festival or charity event. Steve grew up in Charleston, South Carolina and began working in a restaurant as a busboy at a restaurant by the name of “Serena’s” when he was fifteen. From there he moved … Read more
The results of the study were that those who used CBT had more reduction in their Schizophrenic symptoms than the BF intervention. This may be due to a variety of influential factors. For example, the “therapists” (nurses) may have been more experienced in their field of nursing than BF; however, they both received training prior … Read more
As long as humans have been on this earth there has been war. The idea of world peace is a dead theory if you look deeply into the past of civilization. It’s almost as if death and destruction follows the human race. The land of the free, or the United States, wasn’t always this free, … Read more
Senior year is all about preparing for your future. You have to make some difficult decisions that you may not be ready to make. Having a class dedicated to giving all the resources and help to make those decisions a little easier is a huge advantage. The whole semester was dedicated to giving us information … Read more
The scope of this report is to analyze the control and use of music by the Nazi party from 1933 to 1945. The first point to be considered is the motive and logic behind the control of music in the Third Reich. The second subject to be discussed is the various ways in which the … Read more
Over time there have been people who have impacted the world and changed the way we live. Many have created new technology that has made our lives easier, and others have advanced medical technology to make our lives last longer and make us healthier. One person who impacted society in a positive way is named … Read more
Optimism is defined as the belief that good ultimately predominates over evil in the world. Everyone has the ability to be optimistic, but it is up to those to chose if they will be, or not. In “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie, Junior is a Spokane Indian who was … Read more
There’s a war going on, and you have broken your best friend’s leg. How will you escape the consuming war, and cope with crippling your best friend? In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, this is what character Gene Forrester is going through. At the Devon school in New England, World War II is coming, … Read more
The Statue of Liberty is a lie. She stands tall and proud, asking for the world’s tired, poor, and “huddled masses”; and yet the Immigration Acts passed between 1875 and 2005 have told a different story. Time and time again only certain people, ironically dependent on their wealth and ethnicity have been welcome. “Undesirables”, which … Read more
What does one gain from murdering a family? Capote wrote, “Then I aimed my gun. The room just exploded. Went blue. Just blazed up” (244). In Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood,” four shots to four heads occurred in the Clutter home in the isolated city of Holcomb, Kansas on November 15, 1959. The main characters … Read more
One man comprised a book of over three hundred poems with nine editions that he wrote from 1855 to his death in 1892. This man was Walt Whitman. He was an inspirational and influential writer who wrote many poems along with several books. Whitman got his start in literature working as an editor and journalist … Read more
In world literature Gilgamesh and the Book of Job are considered to be masterpieces. These stories are two of the oldest epics literature written, however they appear to be more of a myth or a dream of great leaders. Both stories cover pain and suffering in the eyes of humans who wish they were Gods. … Read more
75 years ago, 120,000 Japanese Americans went from living peacefully in their homes, to living in constant fear and misery in prison camps. Their crime? Being of Japanese descent. Words will never be able to fully explain the horrors that the Japanese American internees went through, but in this essay, their experiences will be explained … Read more
The first mass shooting was in Austin, Texas in 1966 by Charles Whitman at the University of Texas. He snipped fourteen people and wounded thirty-two others in less than ninety minutes. Students used their weapons from their vehicles and helped police take him down. Democratic parties are scared to bring up the topic of gun … Read more
Everyone is born into this world with a set of characteristics, proclivities, and personalities, simply, an identity. When we look in the mirror, we have a set of beliefs about ourselves that makes up our self-consciousnessness-this is what makes us human, being self-conscious. We go about our lives believing what we are told based on … Read more
There were 23,000 casualties between the union soldiers in the Battle of Gettysburg. This battle was the only one his regiment fought in during his time apart of the the Union army. Some could say Daniel was lucky because he became ill shortly before the battle, because of this, he missed out on one of … Read more
FACTS: The plaintiffs, five abortion clinics, a class of physicians who provided abortion services, and one physician representing himself independently, challenged provisions of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1982 which they argued were unconstitutional under Roe v. Wade, in which it was decided that abortion is a fundamental right protected by the Due Process … Read more
The Holocaust was a terrible event that can often be compared to the horrific practice of slavery. Both events dealt with lowering human beings to a status of dehumanization. Slavery and the Holocaust created social and racial hierarchies that destroyed human rights and races as a whole. The Holocaust can be compared and contrasted to … Read more
Adoptable health care system for the older population confront the challenge of long term health care needs. Adoptable health care system help the pay health care cost, housing, and living requirements like food. The programs and policies were created under the OAA (Older Americans Act). In 1965, the Older American Act was designed to meet … Read more
How does the extreme hardship and conflict of war affect an individual? War always takes a toll on the individual and leaves drastic changes to the human soul; this loss of innocence is a recurring motif and major theme throughout the novel. Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest … Read more
Separated by society from experience. Leaving as a boy, changing into a soldier, returning as a man, who has seen and experienced more than words can explain or understand. Some by force, others by choice, yet all who were there understand and relate to one another through a bond that not one else can begin … Read more
Road to the Revolution thRichelle BaumanParagraph #1 Introduction A huge “bang” overcasted the sky, war was coming and we all knew it. It’s really amazing to think about how all of the ten acts influenced America’s to start the Revolutionary War. The ten acts that lead to the the Revolutionary War are Navigation Act, French … Read more
“His” Story: Jamaica Kincaid’s Finding of History’s True Definition in “In History” In “In History,” Jamaica Kincaid tells the readers two stories of historically significant figures, Christopher Columbus and Carl Linnaeus. She first explains the discovery of New World and then describes how Linnaeus created the modern version of binominal nomenclature. In between these two … Read more
The famous novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, is a renown piece of American literature. This novel revolves around a rich, hopeful man by the name of Jay Gatsby who desires nothing more than to get back together with his old lover, Daisy. Daisy though, is already married to a wealthy man named … Read more
The Ovidian opinion of human nature is that humans will always do something wrong. When this wrong-doing offends one or more of the gods, the punishment typically results in negative changes in the person’s life, and often their ruin or death. In the myths Ovid presents in his Metamorphoses, the wrong-doing is brought about in … Read more
Some people make decisions based on racism and sexism. Racism is when people judge others based on their skin color. Sexism is when people judge others because of their gender. Both racism and sexism are mostly based on stereotypes. A good example that show this is the Bike Thief video. In the Bike Thief video, … Read more
1a. In this trial I would argue that Eratosthenes is fact non guilty. Section 11 of the Laws of Athens provide for the lawful killing of a seducer? Though it can be argued that Eratosthenes broke the law as he was seen in bed with Euphiletos’ wife there some things that are important to consider. … Read more
This semester, we have read a myriad of pieces of writing that mingled the argument of immigrants. In the selective, “Do Immigrants Actually Hurt the U. S. Economy? ” the author, Adam Davidson, explains how immigrants help the economy of the united States to grow and how it is a disadvantage for the wealth and … Read more
Tim O’Brien’s short story “The Things They Carried” is set in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and describes a soldier’s burden by listing what they carried and portraying scenes in a war. Critics have debated over the classification of O’Brien’s story. The major dispute is over whether “The Things They Carried” is appropriately classified as … Read more
In today’s society, if asked what values individuals admire, the majority would say kindness and humbleness. On the other hand, in the 1920’s the word “kind” would associate with something different from today. The depiction of respect has dramatically changed over time. For example the 1920’s is an exemplar of moral and social corruption. In … Read more
Rain on the Scarecrow, Light on the Farmers Plight In 1900, 41% of the workforce were employed in agriculture, 100 years later this diminished to 1. 9%; astonishingly, during this timeframe, the U. S. population exploded from 71 million to 273 million. In the 1980s, the American family farmer once the backbone of the U. … Read more
In the Euthyphro dilemma, Socrates questions how Euthyphro can be so certain of what actions are considered pious. Socrates asks Euthyphro the important question if “Gods love piety because it is pious, or is it pious because they love it? ” (Timmons 27) Put simply, are God’s commands right because God commanded them or did … Read more
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape: The Reality of Happiness In 1993 the film “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” was released by Paramount Pictures. The movie was directed by Lasse Hallstrom, and starred actors such as Leonardo Dicaprio, Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, John C. Reilly, and many more. This was an award winning film that showed life from … Read more