Essays on Psychological Effects

In this paper, we will explore the psychological impacts of two human-made disasters. One that happened during the First World War, and the other one is a recent terrorist attack in Paris, in 2015. The Lusitania Disaster was an attack from the German army to a British ship liner coming from New York to Liverpool, UK. The terrorist attack in Paris however was not a war attack, so people were not expecting anything as such. However, it can be argued that we are on a war today, that begun by several attacks of radical Islamic groups against the West. ...

As a mental health worker, working with refugee children is a very critical assignment that requires careful considerations before taking up the task. In this case, the children have been relocated from a refugee camp in central Nigeria to live in my city with some foster families. The children include boys and girls, increasing the need to be sensitive in dealing with both genders. Coming from poor living conditions in the Nigerian refugee camps, the children have been exposed to food scarcity, brutal violence, diseases, and sexual assault. They have undergone traumatizing experiences such as seeing their families murdered ...

Elementary School-Aged Obesity

Introduction The topic of the study is about the elementary school-aged children who are identified as obese. The study was a review of the efficacy of school-based intervention and home-based strategies to address the underlying effects and issues in obesity. Furthermore, the study shows that school-based interventions may reduce the BMI score of the elementary school-aged children (between six and eleven years of age), but such approach serve as a short-term intervention. On the other hand, it was stated in the study that in home setting can provide significant strategies that can help in halting obesity among these children. ...

Invisibility of Women - Literature analyses of “The Women Men Don’t See” by James Tiptree Jr. in compare and contrast to “Invisibility in Academe” by Adrienne Rich

Introduction

The two literary texts analyzed in this essay are centered on the subject of feminine rights, power, and gender equality. James Tiptree expresses disdain for male domination in his story ‘The Women Men Don’t See’. He is concerned with the blatant disregard for feminine rights and identity flaunted by male dominance. On the other hand, Adrienne Rich writes an account of the feminine struggles in the 19th and 20th centuries. ...

Introduction

Child prostitution is considered a curse that affects every continent globally with the situation increasing every year all over the world. There are over three million children who become victims of child prostitution each year globally. Factors such as gender discrimination and inequality, poverty, child trafficking and immigration and child labor contribute to the high level of child prostitution as a form of juvenile delinquency. Gender discrimination has contributed to over 98% of child prostitution being girls and in every 6 out of 10 victims must have been due to trafficking. The vice of child prostitution violates the rights ...

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Introduction

The goal of therapies addressing weight loss is to decrease the risks for chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, but also to ultimately increase positive feelings of well-being from physical improvements. Significant weight loss is accompanied by both positive and negative emotions and if the decrease in body mass is accompanying by negative feelings, maintenance is difficult. Therefore, psychological aspects to weight loss programs are an important consideration when determining the success of the therapy. Previous research concerning the psychological aspects of significant weight loss has made ...

Introduction

Cancer is not a new disease. For many years, people had been suffering from it. While there are many clinical trials on their way, cancer remains to put people in misery and pain. As such, it is important to have a definitive knowledge of cancer. The knowledge of cancer should cover its diagnosis, treatment, complications, and how all of its physical and physiological consequences may be minimized. Furthermore, this paper will cover all of the aforementioned knowledge regarding cancer and describe the approach to the care of cancer patients.

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Approach to Care of Cancer Patients There are nearly 200 ...

Assignment 3: Persuasive Paper Part 1: A Problem Exists

Section One: title and interesting opening Abortion has had tremendous psychological effects on the lives of women who carry it out. Any psychological condition that occurs after abortion is generally informed by the general disposition and mindset of the female before the process is conducted on her. This paper seeks to concisely elucidate the salient psychological effects of abortion on women and whether and how such may be averted.

Definition of abortion

Abortion is the deliberate or intentional ending of the life of a baby, which is predominantly conducted in the first trimester of pregnancy

Section Two: thesis statement (Revised from Assignment 2)

Abortion generally has overarching effects on the ...

Stanford Prison experiment took place at Stanford University in the year 1971 and it was conducted by Philip Zimbardo to find out the influence of social roles on our behavior. It was one of the landmarks of the human psychological study in response to subjected to captivity and to reveal to the world on the real circumstances of the prison life (Konnikovaet al., 2015). The intention of the experiment was to examine captivity, but the results it generated have proven useful in demonstrating the impression people’s obedience especially if provided with an idea that is legitimized and support ...

Please explain with examples how a social networking site or applications, such as Facebook or Instagram, may include multiple levels of communication. Please mention at least two levels communications identify their definition as included in our textbook, and explain how the examples are connected to the two levels of communications. Social media can contain several levels of communication such as interpersonal communication and group communication. Interpersonal communication is “the intentional or accidental transmission of information through verbal or nonverbal message systems to another human being, (Hanson, 2014, p. 38). While group communication is when one communicates with an audience ...

The media is one of the most influential aspects of the modern world. The media has been the instrument used by businesses, politicians and other prominent figures to shape public discourse. This research, however, looks to a more personal effect of media. It looks into the psychological effects of media and especially violent media portrayed on television. The two researchers point out that violence can be seen from different perspectives. These are physical, spiritual, and sexual (Bhatti and Ul Hassan 296). They go on to argue that over 80% of the TV stations have violent content. The argument is ...

For most people, it is difficult to believe that a woman would rape a man. Contrary to most people’s beliefs most men fall victim to incidences of rape by women. Rape occurs when is made to engage in sexual activity unwillingly or without consent (Masho and Anderson 99). A man can fall victim to rape if he is; impaired by alcohol or drugs, physically limited or handicapped, below the age of consent which in most states is between 16 to 18 years of age and coerced or physically forced by a woman. According to the Bureau of Justice ...

Introduction

In the recent times, people have been exposed to the media than ever before. Most of our homes comprise of TV sets, internet connections, and newspapers amongst others. The internet, for instance, is perceived as a tool that makes life easier by providing essential information. Obviously, excessive exposure to violent media has detrimental effects on the behaviors of the child (Escobar-Chaves, Liliana, and Craig A, 2008). All-encompassing research has revealed that media violence develops aggressive behavior to children. Therefore, stakeholders must ensure they promote a safer media environment for the children during developing through media literacy. Throughout this paper ...

A drug is a substance that brings about physiological effects when introduced into the body of a human being. Drug analysis deals with the technical process of determining the presence or the absence of particular parent drugs or in other words their metabolites. Drugs are classified into various groups, and these include depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens. For an individual to use these types of drugs, various reasons may contribute to this and can be elaborated through specific theories. Depressants are drugs that when introduced to the body lowers the neural transmission levels thus depressing the stimulation or arousal in ...

Introduction

Childhood obesity is one of the major contemporary health and social, physical and psychological issue. Beside the most examined health issues also the psychological and social are very important that are derived from the obesity. Children are confronted with discrimination, which result in negative body image, low self-esteem, depressions and other which shows that the issue must be examined from different aspects. Obesity has severe impacts on the children with numerous social and health related concerns. Psychology as a discipline can help to decrease the alarming rates of obese children in the country. There have been various factors identified ...

Abstract

Television is a strong media form that can have significant influence to the minds of the minors. Behavioral and psychological effects of television have been documented in research studies, but what is most significant is how literature reviews demonstrated the impact of television shows in the communication of minors and their mindsets. Television, in its various media forms, has the ability to influence behavior and may result in persuasive effects in the use of words and other forms of communication in order to attract its viewers, especially the minors. As the young audience is exposed to television in its ...

<Institution> Every year, more than 4.5 million women experience physical violence from their partner (Vagianos, 2014). This number only presents the victims of one form of domestic violence. Although 15 percent of men also experience some form of domestic violence, women are still more likely to be victimized at 85 percent (Vagianos, 2014). This issue has been affecting the society for many years, and it continue to do so. In fact, in 2011, the number of American soldiers (6488) that were killed in the Afghanistan war was only half of the women who were killed by their partners ( ...

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Introduction

Bullying remains one of the biggest issues that restrict the educational outcome of children at school. According to research, 46% children and young individuals have been reported to be bullied at some point in life (Einarsen, 2011). While the issue receives little attention by schools and parents but its impact on life is enormous. Some of the most common kind of bullying include physical, verbal, and relational bullying. The physical may involve actions like hitting, punching, or slapping. The verbal bullying commonly occurs by name calling, while the relational bullying occurs by peers who hurt someone by ...

Abstract

The conducted research is aimed at indicating the impact of the healthy food on life of individuals. In order to attain the relevant data with highest level of accuracy the resources written by well-known scientists were used. The up-to-date methods of analysis were applied for the purposes of the study. Basically the research is based on comparing the different visions concerning the thesis stated and evaluating the role of some ideas in making final conclusions. As the result of this study the influence of healthy food was defined. The strong interconnection between the consumed products and the quality of ...

Operating room noise: How noise affects patients during induction and/or emergence from anesthesia

Abstract The presence of noise is an inevitable occurrence for any Operation Room (OR). Noise in the OR emanates from diverse sources including equipment movements, music, beeping pages, conversations, surgical instruments, lasers, machines and phones. With these noise comes its effects to both the OR operators and also the patients. However, the most susceptible persons to noise are pre and or post-operative patients owing to the fact that they have a contracted capability to cope with stressful conditions such as noise. According to the World Health Organization OR noise levels need to be capped at 30 dB (WHO, 2010). ...

Chaplain Captain Career Course

Hybrid Phase 1 The Theory of Just War Angel L. Berrios Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras The Just War Theory Presenting the Issue ISIS War is Hell Theological Issues Genesis Man’s Bad Choice New Insights Evil and War Seven Rules Possible Solutions Killing – A Necessary Action Purpose of a Military In a periodical entitled, A Killing Mind: Understanding the Psychological Effects of Combat, Dave Grossman writes, “Killing is what we do in the military. We don’t want to kill anyone. We want our enemies to not commit terrorist acts. We want them to not commit criminal acts ...

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a common disorder that is related with difficulties in behaviour and academic life (Sherman). There are various treatment options that are available to the children with ADHD, for example, medication and behavioural therapy, nutritional supplements etc. However, there are many other factors that can have significant psychological effects for a child with ADHD. In this report, we are going to discuss the reasons for over diagnosis and over medicating of ADHD, the alternative treatment methods for ADHD and how educators and families can help with psychological effects of ADHD.

Reasons for over diagnosis and over medicating of ADHD

When patients are diagnosed with ...

Historical Roots

The adoption of the Constitution and enactment of the Bill of Rights was also the same period when death penalty became an accepted form of punishment in the United States. During such period, the correctional officers use the method of hanging the convicted criminal to carry out death sentences. This traditional method continued to be used until the mid 19th century. In the year 1890, The New York Legislature formed a commission and ordered them to discover the “most humane and practical method known to modern science of carrying into effect the sentence of death in capital cases.” (Justia Supreme ...

Sex is the origin of life and is historically deep rooted in all that is in human evolution. Sex is the key to the gift of life, pleasure, fulfillment and strong morality. Sexual encounters range from passionate love to no strings attached. In this paper, the positive benefits of sex will be discussed when sex is encountered on a moral and valued basis. Sex can also be painful, lonely and dark and this will not be the scope of determining the everlasting benefits of sex. When a strong moral foundation is present in the sacred act of sex, many immediate and long term ...

Abstract

Caffeine is a widely-used drug that modifies the psychological condition of the consumers. At high doses, it causes various caffeine-related symptoms such as agitation, as well as the restless legs syndrome. Since caffeine is a habit forming drug, it allows the development of tolerance and withdrawal symptoms. It also alters sleep patterns in accordance with the consumed daily caffeine dose. Although its arousal of the central nervous system can induce pleasant effects at relatively lower doses, caffeine can impair concentration and attention at increased doses. The present study, therefore, examines the various adverse effects of consuming caffeine at high doses. The ...

The article looks at a study carried out to ascertain the effect positive emotional variability has on mental health. It is looking at theories and previous researches that have associated emotional variability with either improved mental wellbeing or a deterioration and degeneration of someone’s mental health. However, this study narrows down to positive emotion variability rather than general emotional variability as has been the subject of study by previous researchers. Similar research on negative emotion variability indicates that it spawns depression and enhances vulnerability to mental illnesses. On the flip side, research also points to variability of emotions leading to ...

Facelift, by Dr. Kassir in NYC © 2013. parkavesurgeon.com. 29 Feb. 2014. Plastic surgery is known to have been used as early as 4000 years ago. According to various sources the reconstructive surgeries including skin grafting were conducted back in 600-800 BC in India; these are among the first surgeries to be officially documented (“The History of Plastic Surgery | American Society of Plastic Surgeons”). Additionally, many resources report plastic surgery to be worth the benefit in self-esteem. The reasons for resorting to reshape one’s body can be different: either a person wants to make a disfigured body beautiful ...

Psychology

Introduction Historically, putting a person into prison means that he or she committed an act in which the law prohibits. Ideally, imprisonment against a law offender is the way to give justice for those who were victimized or just a mere sanction because of their actions. Long ago, imprisonment was a form of punishment for those who did wrong against the society. Prisons were locked up inside the jail and being inflicted with sufferings on their bodies and in some cases, prisoners were tortured to death. However, the imprisonment concepts in our time are in contrast of what the old imprisonment concepts ...

Hepatitis B Vaccination to Infants

Introduction Hepatitis B is considered to be very common in the United States. A study that was conducted shows that over one million Americans are considered to be infected by Hepatitis B and over half of them have no idea they are infected (London, 2011). It is an illness that is very infectious. The virus responsible for Hepatitis B is called Hepatitis B virus. It spreads when un-infected person comes in contact with the semen, body fluids and blood of infected person and it founds itself inside his immune system. This mostly happens through sharing of needles during ...

Law

Executive Summary This essay will present recommendations on how to improve the present policies and programs for children with incarcerated parents in Florida. One of the major program types for incarcerated parents is the Special Parent-Child Visits. This special type of program will provide opportunities for the parents to spend extended time with their children on-site inside the prison grounds. These types of visits may be in the form of overnight or special occasion visits which cover special programming efforts, meals and crafts, camping in a structured and well-supervised area inside the prison (Ferro, 2007, p. 27). This report ...

September 11 attacks

September 11 attacks, also referred to as 9/11, is a series of commercial airplanes hijacking and suicide attack committed by 19 terrorists associated with the Islamic extremist group, Al-Qaeda against the United States (Pandya, 2013). The planes were carrying 11, 4000 gallons of jet fuel, which experts claim that the objective of the militants was to take control of the planes once they were airborne and turn them into weapons of mass destruction (Pandya, 2013). The attack targeting the U.S. was one of the deadliest terrorist attacks on the American soil in the history of the world. The attacks against ...

Psychology

Pedophiles are increasingly becoming more prominent in mainstream society and their methods are ever getting more devious and more deadly with each passing day. Pedophilia is however a condition with proven genetic inclinations and as such can be considered as a condition which one is born with as opposed to developmental characteristics which are entirely dependent on a person’s lifestyle. This research questionnaire is based on pedophilia as a condition as well as pedophiles and their activities in main stream society. The paper also focuses on the perceptions of society on pedophilia and how different people relate to this condition. The thesis ...

- Harry and Reasons for escapes. - Types of magic tricks and escapes. Harry Houdini performed magic tricks in which he escaped from bondage by different objects. It included chains and handcuffs through which he would be tied first before he could manage to get off the chains and escape. He also performed magic tricks in which he was buried, but still managed to get him out of the coffins and the soil hence cheating death. His escapes were from different objects that were tied around his body or in the hands and legs only (Phillips). ...

Abortion is one of the most controversial topics in our popular culture. It crosses racial, religious, socio-economic, and gender lines. Since the Roe v. Wade decision in the 1970s, abortion has been a hot button issue everywhere from the dinner table to the race to the White House. It seems as if opinions on this topic are split right down the center. If you asked fifty random people about the subject, it is quite possible you would have 25 for abortion and 25 against it. Abortion is both unethical and immoral as a means of birth control. There are three reasons ...

In the past, individuals demonstrating the symptoms of schizophrenia were thought to be possessed by demons. Banishment, imprisonment, and torture were the only forms of treatment available. Fear of the perceived possession dictated responses to the behavior. The inappropriate ideas, hallucinations, and strange behavior remains as difficult to understand today as it was in medieval times. The medical profession struggles to address the presence of schizophrenia in society. McGrath, Saha, Chant, and Welham (2008) state the psychopathology affects 1% of the worldwide population and incurs substantial costs to families, society, and the patient. In addition, evidence points to a ...

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Thesis on: The detrimental effects of drinking alcohol

Alcoholism is an addictive disease, which is characterized by increased and regular drinking of alcohol. It is a detrimental disease, and causes many harmful effects over the mind and body of the individual afflicted with it. His friends, family, and even in extreme cases, the society suffers from the detrimental effects of alcohol. The signs that a person is suffering from alcohol are an increasing consumption of alcohol intake, sole interest in drinking, denial that alcohol is a problem, etc. He may hide alcohol bottles, finish an entire rink in a few gulps, have an immense longing for drinking, and lose control ...

Cannabis is a naturally-occurring substance that originates from the plant Cannabis sativa. The active compound in cannabis is the Delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) that has a mind-altering effect upon its use (Haerens, 28). As a result of its popularity across the world, cannabis has got many names such as weed, marijuana, and bhang. It is one of the leading illegal drugs that are highly consumed across the world. Use of cannabis has different effects on the human body that range from physiological to psychological. However, the main effects that its users pursue are the mental or psychological effects of the drug. Depending on ...

The time period surrounding the years of World War Two are widely recognized as one of the most violent periods in human history. 1939 to 1945 have been marred as a global conflict that involved most of the world. Though the fighting during the previous World War One was restricted to European soil, World War Two saw battles extending out of Europe and into Africa Asia, and America. The global effort of defeating the Axis nations left devastation in its aftermath. Some of the aftermath issues including financial, social and infrastructure damage for many of the countries that were involved ...

In the arenas of both amateur and professional sports, particularly high contact sports such as American football and hockey, athletes are significantly at risk of receiving a variety of severe injuries which can lead to physiological complications that persist for decades or entire lifetimes. One such injury that is especially prevalent yet routinely underrepresented among athletes in high contact sports is the concussion, which has the potential to cause a myriad of psychological and cognitive complications that can range from depression to dementia. Concussions among athletes such as hockey and football players are especially prevalent at both the college and professional ...

Beauty pageants have long been a part of the multibillion entertainment industry, serving as a platform, where participants can show their talents, earn money and recognition and acquire certain social status. While adult participants can take full responsibility for their actions and choices during the competition, children are usually dependent on the decision of their parents, whose irresponsibility can lead to a range of negative outcomes, such as the deprivation of normal childhood in healthy environment, sexualization of young participants, which may cause sexual abuse or the instilment of wrong moral values, according to which appearance is the main prerequisite for a successful ...

Introduction

US Department of justice (2013), define domestic violence as a sequence and pattern of abusive behavior present in a relationship. Domestic violence can appear in forms of physical, psychological, emotional, economic, or even sexual actions. Vocalized threats are also considered as domestic violence. The behaviors that produce damaging effects on the victim are acknowledged as violent. Which includes threatening, controlling, degrading, isolating, terrifying, terrorizing, forcing, fragmenting, bullying, blaming, hurting, harming, or wounding someone in a relationship (Siemieniuk, Krentz, Gish, Gill, 2010).The motive behind abusive position is attributed to the perpetrator’s need for power and control over one’s partner. ...

Communication and Decision Making

Communication and Decision Making 1.0 Introduction The organization is facing downsizing in which the number of employees will be reduced. This is different from lay off as in it the employees are reduced temporarily and can be hired, whereas the downsizing is permanent reduction in employees (Bouyssou, Dubois, Prade&Pirlot, 2013). Thus, it is important to adequately communicate the downsizing that is being taken place within the organization. It is important to mention that employees will not be informed about the employees whose contract will be terminated. However, the following is the breakdown of downsizing where the information ...

Teen Pregnancy

American society is facing many problems; among them one major problem is teenage pregnancy. In the America about 75,000 girls of the ages 15-19 become pregnant every year (Kost and Henshaw). Among them, about 82% of the pregnancies are, however, unplanned (Frost). Further, the psychological effects of such pregnancies can be severe. Most of these psychological effects are cyclical as well as related. This can be justified by the fact that in the population living in lower socioeconomic class set-up, they are less concerned about becoming pregnant in the teenage. This is because they are trapped in the ...

- Introduction The question on whether adoptees should be allowed to have the knowledge on their birthrights has remained a food for thought and has been debated at different capacities. The debate has not only taken political direction but also psychological, emotional and social spheres, as well. The existing laws do not allow the adoptees to have access on information that pertain to their birthrights. Therefore, various groups and individuals have been concerned about this matter and have expressed their contempt towards such laws. The question that many have asked is, why should adopted children not be given access ...

Introduction

Nutrition refers to the practice of balancing the value aspect of food ingested into the body. It focuses on the qualitative aspect of the food where the value of what is taken is weighed on how well it stimulates the metabolic processes of the human body. In this age and era, information spreads far and wide and therefore any complaints by scholars on their nutrition can be easily passed on to all quarters of the society. For instance, there are online videos showing many school going children complaining about the kind of food they eat. The quality of bad ...

Solitary confinement of inmates is a special form of imprisonment of a prisoner in a lone cell all day with limited social interaction and environmental stimulation. The confined prisoner is not around to interact with human except for the prison staff. Also known as the hotbox in the US, confinement is used as a form of severe punishment and is employed as a security measure for the inmate (Grassian, 327). The solitary confinement involves supermax prisons and segregation cells which lack windows, poor air quality, dull colors and temper-proof furniture. Current design comprises of electric doors which are intended to eliminate the inmate interaction ...

Marijuana is one of the widely used prohibited drugs, with millions of users throughout the globe. Various policies have been put in place in various countries to deal with use of marijuana, but still the number of users continue rising over time (Thomas, Kloner and Rezkalla, 2014). The United States is among the leading countries with most marijuana users throughout the globe; a problem that has spread to its neighboring countries, especially Canada. It has been proposed that legalization of marijuana could have positive effects; but then, this is a controversial issue. On one hand, it is argued that marijuana should ...

Abstract

Racial and ethnic stereotyping often links individuals and certain groups of persons from the public with suspicious activities most of which are criminal related. Hence, there will be profiling of individuals linked to such activities. For example, after the September 11 terrorist bombing in the United States, there was profiling of virtually all the Arabs and Muslims living, working, and immigrating to America. This is because the suspects were of Muslim and Arab origin (Bjerk; American Civil Liberties Union). Persons and institutions charged with the responsibility of ensuring public security and safety mostly do racial profiling. However, as ( ...

Beloved is a lyrical masterpiece authored by renowned and award-winning American writer, Toni Morrison. American has a long and complicated history. Since its inception, the country has undergone metamorphosis from one epoch to another. Some of these epochsare more significant to an American than others. The Civil War of 1861-1865 was one of the critical ones. The institution of slavery was still prevalent and acceptable within the American society. Moreover, women were viewed as inferior to men and the society held the view that a woman place was in the kitchen. In is in this historical context that Morrison decided to tell a ...

Drug Abuse or Substance Abuse also called chemical abuse leads to disorder which is characterized with vicious pattern of substance usage leading to distress and significant problems. Over 7% of the population is affected by Drug abuse in their lifetime. These days, many teenagers engage themselves in drug abuse especially Narcotics (Drug prescribed for severe pain relief) and stimulating medications for treating disorder like attention deficit and narcolepsy (“Dryden-Edwards”).

Drugs Abuse and Types of Drugs

If ingesting a substance causes feeling of euphoria (high) then that substance can be abused. There are many legal and illegal drugs which people are well aware of but there are ...

The academia community around the world consists mostly of people who are young and frankly looking good and performing well physically is very important to them. With the rising case in the use of performance, enhancing drugs by athletes all over the world members of the academia community find themselves under constant temptation to partake in the performance enhancing drugs. Athletes who take performance-enhancing drugs perform extremely better than their counterparts who do not. This has a pull factor on the academia community whose majority studies have shown are sports enthusiasts. With the hope of performing as well or even ...

Introduction.

The home video industry has been in existence for over three decades now. The promise of video games and computers as teachers gained recognition in the 1980s during the push of computers and teaching of technology into the modern classrooms (Bushman and Anderson, 2002). After the introduction, researchers found out that educational software also provided games that could have several positive and negative effects on the academic lives of learners. Over time, parents introduced computers into their homes, and this meant introduction of video games. Children begun spending most of their time on these games and this led to ...

Abstract

Child abuse includes all the maltreatment that is done to a child. The abuse may take the form of physical, emotional, psychological, and sexual abuse. The effects of this abuse may result in short-term effects such as injuries, as well as long term effects. The long term effects may include physical health effects, societal effects, emotional effects, psychological effects and others such as homelessness, involvement in risky sexual behaviors among others. These effects are usually dependent on the circumstances that lead to the abuse, child’s personal characteristics and the environment in which the child is living. Since the costs ...

Domestic Violence

Domestic violence refers to the pattern of behaviors that involve the abuse from one partner to another with whom there is an intimate relationship such as cohabitation, marriage, dating as well as in a family. It is a pattern of behaviors that happen in a relationship and is used by a partner to maintain or gain power or control over the other partner. The violence may either be sexual, physical, emotional, psychological, economic or even threats through actions that may influence another individual. These actions include those behaviors that intimidate, frighten, terrorize, manipulate, hurt, blame, injure, humiliate or wound an individual. It is ...

Chapter 14

Question 2 I think the reason why labor force participation of women is lower than that of men in the United States is because the policies that have been in existence have been favoring men more than women. This means that women have been discriminated when it comes to labor force participation. However, in modern time there has been a dramatic increase in the labor force participation of women. Many factors have contributed to this increase. There has been numerous legislations such as the Equal Pay Act of 1963 that have been formulated to help in diminishing sexual discrimination ...

INTRODUCTION

Depression and depression are examples of mental disorders that are usually common in women. Women usually find it difficult to balance between home duties and work. They are conditions common in developing countries where women earn low income, are exposed to health risks, and undergo domestic violence. Through advancement in technology, there are new diagnostic tools that are used to screen the population and detect those experiencing the common mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, and stress in the community. Research has shown that anxiety and stress relate in so many ways and they have been proved to ...

Approach to cancer care

Introduction Cancer is a group of diseases that are characterized by unregulated cellular growth. The uncontrolled cellular division leads to malignant tumors that invade and destroy surrounding organs and tissues. It may eventually spread to other far parts of the body from where it started through the bloodstream and the lymphatic system. Basically, there are three forms of cancer depending on the affected body parts: carcinomas (surface tissues such as the breast), sarcomas (soft tissue or bone) and lymphomas that affect the bone marrow or the lymph nodes (Pories, 2009). The disease accounts for 25% of total mortality annually ...

The decision that the Supreme Court made on May 17, 1954 is considered one of the most one of the most awe-inspiring and impressive decisions that the Supreme Court has ever rendered. The decision also marked a turning point in race relations that have taken place throughout the history of the United States. On one side were those who were in support of a social system on the basis of racial inferiority, and on the other side were those in support of a society that struggles to recognize the archetype of equal opportunity. Since our society is so complex and diverse, it ...

Child soldiers in Uganda

Introduction Children in Uganda are facing a tremendous problem that has, and will affect their lives because of the war that has been ongoing in their country for the past 25 years. The children are being used as soldiers despite their young and tender ages while children in other parts of the world of the same age are enjoying and spending their childhoods in a more peaceful and creative way. Moreover, these children are fighting a war that should be fought by adults and not them. This child soldiers are affected in a number of ways but to be specific my focus ...

Arguably, there are many ways of extracting some confessions from individuals. As a matter of fact, some nations or even groups inflict pain in order to extract information that they require. During interrogation, torture entails all sorts of methods that do not exactly cause physical pain, but entails tremendous psychological suffering and pain that profoundly causes disruption in the victim's personality. Governments sometime use torture as an indispensable tool of interrogation for collecting strategic intelligence. In most cases, torture is among the most extreme forms of human violence that lead to psychological and physical consequences. In fact, this method of ...