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Style and Substance: Analyzing the Film Scarface (1983)

Brian De Palma's film Scarface is analyzed in terms of aesthetics, narrative, cultural and historical contexts in 5 pages. The bi...

Substance use in the Boroughs

Drug abuse, regardless of the type of drug, has a very negative effect on the body and brain of the user and abuser. Chemicals fro...

An Article on Neonates and Substance Exposure Critiqued

al, 2002). Of these children, 3.8 million live with a parent who suffers form alcoholism, 2.1 million live with a parent who abuse...

3 Substance Types and Their Effects

addicted to the drug, they are less and less able to deal with the reality of everyday life and often hide away in the false secur...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

Major Psychological Theories

Cognitive behavior therapy is effective with a wide range of problems, including very complex and challenging life situations. Bu...

Biopsychology

infants learn the opposite lessons required for living within a civilized society, which ultimately causes him to display uncontro...

Achieving Sense of Well-Being

A relatively new branch in psychology is positive psychology. Maslow coined the name for this branch. It is a field that looks at ...

Psychology of Love v. Hate

a murderer sees the violence that he perpetrates as his only means of salvaging his sense of self, of maintaining his pride (Gilli...

The Importance Of Studying Psychology

the truly mentally imbalanced individuals with those who displayed antisocial behavior far different from their unstable counterpa...

Emotionally Abused Spouses

There is a great deal written about both physical and emotional spousal abuse. There are many empirical studies published about ef...

Self-Concept Maintenance

Self-esteem and self-concept have always been controversial in the fields of psychology and sociology but the self became an accep...

Defining Physiological Psychology

Banduras (1986) theory also addresses gender issues and how they span a significant range of behavioral concerns based upon perfor...

Overview, Educational Psychology

This research paper presents a short overview of educational psychology, what is is and the role that it plays in understanding th...

Traumatic Brain Injury - Job Coaching

negative emotions and maximize the positive emotions when faced with a task that is challenging. One of the issues with persons w...

Kahneman's Contribution to the Field of Economics

winning Nobel," 2002). What the pair did was to examine decision-making and judgment ("Kahneman gets warm reception after winning...

Holding Onto Youth: Going from Boys to Men Takes a ‘Whole Lotta Love’

externally convey the mixed messages their predominantly adolescent male audiences are grappling with internally. Defining Adolesc...

Comparing Structuralism, Functionalism and Evolutionism

A 3 page research paper that briefly contrasts and compares these three early psychological theories, which were formulated soon ...

Psychological Contribution of Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams

and assesses reality (1993). The ego is part unconscious but part preconscious and also performs thinking functions (1993). The Id...

Illness and Culture in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez

differences between cultures consist of variation in their main pattern in terms of these five dimensions and that these differenc...

4 Questions on the History of Psychology

In five pages this paper examines psychology and its history in a consideration of four questions pertaining to the ideas of Erik ...

Sociology, Psychology, and Foreign Policy

In five pages whether or not foreign policy is rooted in psychology and sociology is considered in terms of Bill Clinton's Bosnian...

Article Critique/Prospective Memory

v. time-based) and 2 level of cognitive load (low v. high). Minimal information processing was required for the low-cognitive load...

Experimental Social Psychology

of flawed findings that other methods might produce. It is a matter of personal opinion which data collection method a social psy...

Admission Essay

into society and gain the support of their family and friends, rather than suffer isolation. This was a key factor in my...

Abnormal Psychology: Amnesia

take place, which is within two distinct systems. One system is referred to as "declarative memory" and this system records "names...

Kurt Lewin: Understanding How To Lead Change

throughout the entire process of change if that process was going to be effective. The notion of change at any level is notorious...

General Psychology Questions

Aristotles views are valuable to modern psychology because they have overcome any attempts at disproval and still stand as viable ...

"Everyman," Theme of Death

This essay asserts that "Everyman," the fifteenth century morality play, offer a perspective on death that is very analogous to th...

Festinger's Theory

There have been many important contributions to social psychology. Many scholars state that the most important theory in the field...