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Addiction Transfer Disorder & Gastric Bypass Surgery

addicted to something else such as alcohol, gambling or compulsive shopping (Spencer, 2006). The realization that this is a proble...

Prejudice against the Obese

to get thin, by whatever means necessary" (Hale-Evans and McGhee, 1999, p. 91). The authors argue that overweight people are stere...

Heart of Darkness & Social Expectations

darkest impulses are given free reign. Through the eyes of Marlow, Conrad makes it clear that Kurtzs nineteenth century notions of...

Childhood Obesity/Focus on Kaneohe, HI

Melnyk, 2001, p. 606). Children today live in a social and cultural climate that "idealizes thinness," and also "stigmatizes being...

Motives for Crime

or perhaps he decides that he will inject his victim with enough heroin to kill. These ideas do not require much time to implement...

Bioidentical Hormones

are grand variances in price throughout the country, the standard scale is between $250 and $395 and half that much for subsequent...

Seltzer's Serial Killers

that society, or the perpetrators parents, should not be blamed for any horrific acts. The offender is the only one that someone s...

Children Who Murder

of youthful homicide perpetrators present with a history of adverse familial factors," such as "physical abuse, sexual abuse, inst...

Prevention And Treatment Programs For Alcohol Abuse

prevention of alcohol abuse from a community perspective has made Sacramento, California a precedent setting city whereby extended...

Ethical Egoism

"the agent ought to promote the self above other values" (Moseley, 2006). This is not as ugly as it sounds: it goes all the way ba...

The Development of “Scout” Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird

a giant step forward for the town, because many of its white citizens are beginning to understand that racism is wrong. It will ta...

Terrorists' Interrogation

several of them were personally subjected to in the waning days of Vietnam? Or should interrogators acknowledge above all that th...

Adultery in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"other woman" because she wears the "A but the reality is that in this day and age, Hester would be any woman. That she has an aff...

Issues of Colorblindness

college class in which the students were supposed to do a study of color as used in supermarket packaging; when the assignment was...

Behavioral and Cognitive Schools of Psychology

of mind" (Wilder Dom, 2003). Boeree (2000) reports the roots of the cognitive movement began in the mid-1900s: "the advent of th...

The APA Citation Style

heading is the name of an article and is to be centered in uppercase type. The Level 1 heading is centered in title case, which c...

Various Factors That Contribute to Obesity

care physician (Ridings, Rapp, Boosalis, and Pomeroy, 1998). Millions of Americans, in fact, can be classified as obese. Obesity...

Overview of Sleep Apnea

symptoms (Zepf, 2003). The "gold standard" for diagnosing sleep apnea is to use polysomnography in a sleep laboratory (Zepf, 2003)...

The Notebook Film Psychosocial Analysis

Clearly, the leaders are Noah and Allie, who refuse to surrender their cause (love) despite the diversity that frequently forces t...

Justice, Murderers, Susan Glaspell's Trifles and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

Identity and African American Males in the Rural South

will result in them believing it. Similarly, keeping African-Americans in the degrading conditions of slavery has instilled a bel...

Theories of Abraham Maslow, Albert Bandura, Erik Erikson, and Sigmund Freud

to the concept (Boeree, 2000). Freud talked about three layers of the mind: the conscious mind is that which we are aware of at an...

A Look at the BDIS-2

The Theoretical Base The theoretical base for this test is linked to the belief that behavioral and emotional problems often go h...

Analysis of 'Type A Behavior and Social Support' Article

it would seem, an actual problem or argument, but a metaphor for the way in which Type A people live their lives: always under str...

Children Who are Physically Abused, Depression, and Suicide

(Nester, 1998). The physical harm a child incurs as a result of child abuse, of course, is inextricably coupled with the...

Case Study of 2 Sisters of 2 Different Fathers Raised by an Uneducated Unwed Mother

who truly do possess free will (Klein, 1932). While the psychological impact of these sisters individual upbringing plays an inte...

Theoretical Models on Personal Identity

subject. There is a great deal of argument as to what constitutes personal identity. Is identity ones mind or body, or is it, rath...

Modern Practices in Human Resource Management and Inherent Conflict with Bureaucratic Models

by company policy. It may be argued that it is an out of date structure as unlike other areas of business it has not changed as...

Crime and Substance Abuse

the increased propensity of our nations youth to use drugs can be traced back to the same root reasons as the other problems which...

Parenting and Psychology

suggests that thoughts create a program in ones head and that self-talk can either be destructive or constructive. In Piagets mind...