Drugs Book Reviews Samples For Students

Introduction:

‘State of Wonder’ is a gripping tale of love and intrigue set in the depths of the Brazilian Amazon forest where there are also themes of morality and culture explored. Patchett’s writing is pretty gripping and very intriguing; here is a masterful writer of sorts who has also received substantial praise from the book’s reviewers. Here we observe that the book explores the themes of love and morality in various subtle ways. Science is also an important factor and is accordingly given importance although it appears to be less apparent during certain episodes. Patchett’s quotes about ...

The book, 'The journey of an Incorrigible Alcoholic: The Paths I chose and the Ones I Didn't Addiction, Depression, Suicide, Grief by Earl D. Erickson is a true life story of the author through addiction to alcohol, marijuana and other drugs leaving him miserable. It also reflects on the lifestyles of his older siblings and his friends. This book is published by iUniverse, Inc, New York, ISBN: 978-0-595-52583-6 (sc), 978-0-595-51327-7 (dj), 978-0-595-62637-3 (ebk). Erikson writes this book to encourage those enslaved to addiction. Many people, especially the young people are into alcoholism without control while some other older ...

Let me begin with explaining what Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is. In this condition, the upper chamber of the heart experiences irregular impulses, resulting in rapid and chaotic heart beats. The may case shortness of breath and intolerance to exercise. Its serious long-term consequences include; stroke; serious bleeding; cardiac arrest, and even death.
Traditionally treatment used to be started with medications. But, this approach had a limited effect. Since 1990s, hospitals had been performing a procedure, which does not require elaborate surgery or drugs. It focuses on the causes of atrial fibrillation. This procedure is called catheter ablation. In this procedure, a ...

The selected chapters in this book highlight the following subjects; teenage delinquency, crime, positive change and determination. They are themes which are evident in society.
Chapter five outlines how Wes had exhibited violent behavior towards people around him. He was sent to military school by his mother in a bid to shape his behavior. He tried to find a way to escape from the institution but failed. Some time back, Wes had impregnated a girl known as Alicia. He began seeing another girl who came from his locality. One evening a man known as Ray who appeared to be involved with this ...

Michael Moore believes that while it maybe morally wrong to ingest drugs, that a general principle of liberty should allow free citizens the political liberty to ingest them for recreational purposes. He believes this because he believes the freedom to harm oneself (using recreational drugs) is of a higher order than politically restricting that liberty to do so. He shows historically how t a general principle of liberty is elusive since “Anything that could be called a general right to liberty has proved elusive to the considerable number of philosophers who have pursue it” (Moore, 82). Moore distinguishes between legal rights that should ...

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. By Michelle Alexander (New York, The New Press, 2012) 1- 289 pp. Reviewed by (Name), November, 3, 2014>

Introduction

Michelle Alexander is a celebrated civil rights advocate who has been an active participant in the anti- racial profiling campaign in the United States. Born in 1967, Alexander has been persistently advocating reforms in the US criminal justice system. As a law professor and a writer, her name is hugely synonymous to the struggle for racial justice in the United States and has been fighting the war on racial segregation in law enforcement ...

Pharmaceutical companies are currently discouraging and barring access to generic drugs in the marketplace. The most affected are the big pharmaceutical companies as they all oppose the issue of marketing the generic drugs. They raise this issue because they have the ability to control the market place.
The big pharmaceutical companies in the United States are capable of producing popular drugs in the market place. These drugs have long term manifest of the business offering them exclusive privileges to sell and market their drugs. They are even privileged to hold the business for more than twenty years. Similarly, ...

The American black market tells a lot about our nation’s character, and it is not a pretty story either. In the United States, corn and soybeans rank with marijuana as one of the country’s biggest cash crops. Health conscious Americans devour berries, lettuce and other produce without realizing that they are handpicked by illegal immigrants who quite frankly live like feudal serfs. Of course, black markets are not something new in the United States, but there has been an explosion of black markets in America in the past 30 years. In his book, “Reefer Madness,” Eric Schlosser correctly asserts ...

Maruja Pachon de Villamizar and her husband Alberto approached their friend Gabriel Garcia Marquez to write about Maruja’s abduction. However, after realizing that he could combine the episodes and encounters of the nine other hostages that were held alongside Maruja, Gabriel decided to take more time on the project and write a comprehensive book on the kidnapping that took about six Months. The News of a kidnapping reveals the recurrent drug problems of the United States and Columbia that have existed to date (Neuman, 2012). In this book, the head of the Medellin cartel Pablo Escobar ordered for the Kidnappings ...

Project DARE has been developed in the nation as a school-based drug-education program that receives an annual funding of over $200 million, with the aim of equipping elementary school children with skills for resisting peer pressure to experiment with tobacco, drugs, and alcohol. In my opinion the idea is great, and is effective for the first two years but then wears off and hence is not effective with high school and college where peer pressure and contact with drugs is seen amongst juveniles, this is explained in the book “Juvenile Delinquency”, Eighth Edition, by Clemens Bartollas and Frank Schmalleger. They ...

Critical Review Respect, by Philippe Bourgois

Synopsis
Anthropologist Professor, Philippe Bourgois's journey in this book is to recognize how ethnic segregation and poverty seems be extremely predictable in one of the most luxurious cities in the world, which is New York City. With the goal of doing his three and a half year ethnographic investigation, Bourgois makes the decision to move himself and his wife to East Harlem which is considered to be one of the allegedly 'roughest ghetto' regions in America. On the other hand, what Bourgois finds out in El Barrio is a supportive loving community of people whose normal lives seem to be ...

Book Review: Newman & O'Brien(2013).
In their book, Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, David Newman and Jodi O’Brien bring out the idea of the structuralism of society. The dual are of the view that the world is highly architectural and structural. Society is stratified into different classes, races, gender among other units of social stratification (Newman & O’Brien 255). Newman and O’Brien describe these architectural stratifications of society as being nest boxes in which various members of society find them in. the different stratifications or nest boxes of society are put together by a commonality ...

Summaries of Articles

Tutorial Two
Introduction
One of the landmarks of the 20th century was the unprecedented growth in the field of Psychology. However, some pertinent issues (which remain unresolved) threaten the credibility of this noble profession. For example, there is little data to support the classification of “mental illnesses” and use of drugs to treat nonmedical conditions.

Article Summary

Psychology and the Status Quo by Isaac Prilleltensky
Prilleltensky (1989) argues that the rise of Psychology has been immune to skeptical ideology. In some way, Psychologists learn not deviate from contemporary ideology. As a result, no questions have been raised about some ...

The book revolves around two young men both with the same name Wes and who happen to share the same challenges of growing up in a poor neighbourhood, the people they interact during their growing stage and how those people shaped their lives in contributing on the decisions that they made that changed their fate.The book is divided into eight chapters, each chapter discussing the development stages and the changes that the two Wes encounter in life as they grew up. For the purpose of his paper I will consider two of the concepts which we can learn from this ...

The demand and supply of illicit drugs has increased to such levels, which have warranted the federal to have several approaches characterized of a myriad of avenues to the same. This includes legislation, as well as criminal penalties, prevention and education of potential users, users’ treatment, and research on how to have effective treatment plans. Safety is a key consideration, which has been evidenced by the existence of drug education in America for almost a century. Drug education uses a myriad of approaches. However, these approaches keep on receiving challenges since it becomes complex to know, which approach is most effective (Inciardi, & McElrath, ...

United States has faced a challenge of substance abuse and dependence, which has being evidenced in more than twenty million individual cases (Inciardi, & McElrath, 2009). Of this population, one-third is women. Men and women depict differences in addiction based on the pathways and precursors to addition, as well as the process of addiction. Substance abuse leads to loss of life. Scientific studies on women and drugs indicate that substance-abusing women are vulnerable and highly marginalized population. They are identified in terms of mental illness, homelessness, poverty, and intimate partner violence (Inciardi, & McElrath, 2009). As such, the most effective ...

People have been using drugs in social rituals since the dawn of history; the only change is in the type of drug, the route of delivery, and the social context. This study reviews three drugs known as “club drugs,” that are used by youths to enhance their party experiences. Two of them, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA/ecstasy) and ketamine are widely at raves, or all-night dance parties. Salvia divinorum is a new social drug that found its way into college campuses through the Internet.

Keywords: ecstasy, ketamine, Salvia divinorum

The Rave-EDM Scene and Solidarity

Kavanaugh analyzed the impact of ecstasy (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine/MDMA) on solidarity within the context ...

The Cocaine and Crack chapter provides information on how the drug first entered America as well as reporting on the country’s first cocaine epidemic. Despite stringent policing, people still continue to take cocaine and crack.
Interestingly, the practice of chewing coca leaves has long been popular in South America. However, it wasn’t part of the culture for other areas in the world. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the first coca shrub was brought to America and, following this, matters changed. The first use for the shrub was to create a special type of wine. ...

The text looks into narcotics and prescription drugs as a common problem today. Narcotics such as morphine and heroin and prescription drugs like hydrocodone are most prone to diversion and abuse. The text looks into why drug networks arise, the changes that come with drug use and the risk behaviors involved.
According to the text, most narcotic addicts fall victim to use of the drug due to close association with other addicts and personal curiosity. Harsh living conditions and poor backgrounds predispose most people to use of narcotics such as heroin. Most addicts suffer loss of employment and stigmatization. ...

In their book, The American Drug Scene: An Anthology, published in 2009, writers J. Inciardi and K. McElrath discuss the question of drug use and abuse in the United States. They discuss, among other things, the evolution of drug taking in America, why people take drugs, types of drug users, sociological theory of addiction, social impact of drugs and the war on drugs.

They contend that drug users fall in four different categories – experimenters, social-recreational users, involved users and dysfunctional users - and that the drug problem, in the context that we know it today, is relatively new – about ...

Abstract

This paper summarizes the story of the Motley Crew as narrated in the book “the dirt confession of the world’s most notorious rock band’’. The essay chronicles their lifestyles from formation, rise to power, moral decadency, and distinct highs and lows among other aspects. It concentrates on most remarkable events of the group as demonstrated in the autobiography. The work goes further to depict frightening scenarios of the Crew events taking place on and out of stage.

Introduction

The Motley crew depicts a group of hardcore Rock Music heroes who begun life at the very center of poverty. The most ...

Marijuana is a native Indian drug which is extracted from Cannabis sativa shrub. This shrub hardly grows beyond ten feet in height. The shrub is used in extraction of two other drugs alongside marijuana. The drugs all contain a stimulant which is a complex organic compound simply abbreviated as SHM. This compound usually affects the nervous system and the brain.

The concentration of SHM in marijuana varies according to the place the plant is found. The confirmed range of concentration is 1 – 16 % depending on the location on the globe (Inciardi 2009). The original use of marijuana and the other cannabis based ...

Book review: In search of respect by Philippe Bourgois

About the author

Philippe Bourgois is an experienced writer and researcher. He is also a professor and the chairman in the anthropology, history and social medicine department at the University of California. He mainly focuses his research on political mobilization of the ethnic communities in central and north America, political violence, labour relations in this region and the general life of the marginalized communities within America and especially the street families in the inner city dwellings of North America. He has also done research about the violence and the HIV prevalence in such dwellings, bringing out the suffering that is ...

Question 1:

Kennedy and his team have created a data-driven approach. They aren’t just guessing or using their best judgment about what makes sense. Explain how Kennedy and his team use and rely on data in designing the violence and drug intervention programs and – once the programs are functioning – to evaluate whether they are working.
Kennedy’s team are very much data driven in their approach as they tend to focus on the rude statistics which indicate that criminals have a lot of avenues to choose when it comes to rooting out the causes and effects of crime in the various ...

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In Translated Woman: the person being studied is a woman named Esperanza, a street-peddler who lives in Mexico. Unlike most ethnographic studies, the author does not focus as much on an entire population as she does on one person. However, the relationship between the sample and the population (the whole of Mexico) is made clear in several respects. It is implied that much of Esperanza's story, both as a woman and as a poor person in Mexico, is indicative of the whole of the Mexican experience. In the final chapter of the book, Behar herself is studied as an ethnographic figure, ...

Abstract:

This is a review of the book Monster – The Autobiography of an LA Gang member in which the principal character Monster Cody relates his experiences as part of a gang in Los Angeles in the 1970’s and 80’s

Summary:

The book is a classic firsthand account of a gang member called ‘Monster Cody’ who was active in of the notorious black gangs in Los Angeles. He was active in the gang from the tender age of 11 to 27 and some of the experiences he recounts are pretty harrowing. Naturally some of the narration is rather gruesome as Kody relates several instances ...

Brave New World is one of the novels written by Aldous Huxley and talks much about genetics and soma as a significant scientific issue. The discussion of the novel looks forward to progress in technology advancement that has contributed greatly towards changing today’s society. According to the author of the novel, he believes that the book serves like a satire from the place where he lived. Besides, it serves like a caution and a warning for the upcoming generation once the government is given the control and mandate over the new emerging technologies. Through the use of new technology humans have had ...

Drug addiction and brotherly love. Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin.
Drug addiction and brotherly love. Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin.
African American literature frequently reveals the suffering of people who live in the world full of racism. The Western society used to put African American people in unfavorable conditions throughout the whole history and life in this condition may lead to tragic circumstances. The following essay concerns the story named “Sonny’s Blues” which was written by James Baldwin. It will discuss the main themes of the story which are struggling of people who live in the ...

Introduction

The Chinese government adopted free market economy in early 1990 and since then the country has experienced enormous economic growth. The rate of urbanization has also been increasing and this has brought new forms of crimes which the government must devise new ways of handling. The increased crime rate across the country is attributable to increasing economic inequality, disruption of traditional social control mechanism, massive rural urban migration, and introduction of western values, change in demographic features and decreased social interaction. In Caribbean countries the authorities have been unable to tame the increased criminality fueled by increased drug and ...

ABSTRACT

This paper will discuss an in depth look at Corrections and the Criminal Institution. I will discuss what exactly crime is? I will also discuss how a criminal gets from being a criminal to being in a criminal Institution. This paper will discuss the repayment of victims by criminals. This paper will also discuss the sentencing of criminals. I will discuss the rights of a criminal. I will discuss the employment that is offered inside the criminal institution. This paper will also show the different types of abuse that happens inside the criminal institution. This paper will discuss the Juvenile Justice Detention Center. ...

Book Review: Allen, Catherine J. 2002 The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community. Washington, D.C

Book Review: Allen, Catherine J. 2002 The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community. Washington, D.C.
Introduction
The book “The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community” is an idiosyncratic ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes. The book brings the story of this group of people into present and hubs mainly on the very real problems of cultural continuity in a dynamic world. The author manages to discover demonstrates that the hold life has in 2002 is not the same as it was 1985. This ethnography is very ...

9-2) Beer and marijuana are substitute goods, i.e. when the demand for one goes up, it is expected that the demand for the other is likely to go down, as most people would consume either of the two products. When marijuana gets legalized, the distributors would fear that their sales would decline. So beer distributors are likely to oppose the legislation regarding legalizing marijuana.
On the other hand, snack food and marijuana are generally considered to be complementary products, i.e. the demand for one of them increases the demand for the other. This way, when marijuana gets legalized, snack ...

The book titled ‘Random Family,’ written by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc gives an account of the lives of four youngsters for a period of ten years, from 1993 to 2003. The author spent time with four people in the city of Bronx, including their families, trials, friendships, love affairs, joyful moments, struggles and despair . The book falls in the genre of nonfiction and impresses the readers who have a special interest in the prison life of the American fabric. The four youngsters namely, Jessica, a beautiful teenager, Boy George, a drug dealer, Cesar, Jessica’s younger brother and Coco, Cesar’s lover, who belong ...

Background

Thinking Strategically by Dixit and Nalebuff is a book that aims to give strategies to help the reader increase their IQ while not necessarily providing solutions to all problems. The book is subtitled "The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life." The book is a worldwide bestseller because of the timeless advice, strategies and case examples given throughout its pages. The book was originally written in 1993 but is still listed as one of the best business books around.

Overview

The first chapter of any book usually sets the tone for the rest of the work. In this book, ...

Alex Kotlowitz follows the lives of two young boys, Lafeyette Rivers and Pharaoh Rivers, in their Chicago neighborhood, living in the Henry Horner Project, a housing scheme for underclass black people. The boys grow up in a rough neighborhood, where the only option is to join a gang once they enter adolescence. Their mother is 35 years old, and she had eight children, among whom, one is serving a jail term and the second born, an eighteen-year-old, has been arrested for a record forty-six times, making him a strong candidate to serving jail terms like his elder brother. When ...

Analysis of the Book "The Medicalization of Society" By Peter Conrad

The Main Author's Arguments
Peter Conrad, the author of the book "The Medicalization of Society," conducts a study of the most common problems of the modern society, which essence and nature have changed and obtained a medical character over the past 10-20 years. In other words, the author examines the social problems that have become the diagnoses at the beginning of the 21st century, though they were not related to medicine even a decade ago. At the very beginning of the book, Conrad emphasizes the investigated phenomenon, claiming that his analysis is connected only with the social connotations of ...

Jeffrey Reiman published his book, The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class and Criminal Justice, in 2003. Jeffrey Reiman has written this book as if it is a text book for students studying Criminology, citing numerous sources and taking a teaching approach. From the very first chapter, it becomes obvious that Reiman has written this book to educate. It seems as though Reiman gained a deeper insight into the American culture, at the roots, and this prompted him to share the information with the public. In the first chapter of the book, Reiman emphasizes on four complex issues; ...

Patrick Murphy’s leadership style focused greatly on accountability; he wanted to make sure people were held responsible for their actions and those under them. (p. 33). When Murphy took over the police force, he “considered himself a reform agent,” deciding he needed to clean house to get rid of the ghosts that were rampant in Leary’s tenure as commissioner. Believing that there was too much splintering and division within the department, he sought to bring everyone back together and eliminate this sort of waste.

Murphy also took special effort to curb corruption any way he could; he opted ...

Introduction

Richard Hoffman wrote Half the House: Memoir, and it was first published in the year 1995. The book was then republished in 2005 with an afterword added to the memoir in 1996. Hoffman claimed that the book was nonfiction and the scenes described by the book were experiences he underwent in his childhood life. However, the names of the characters had been altered safe for the name of the football coach that had sexually molested him in his childhood. The book describes the hardships Hoffman faced in the hands of the ruthless society, his poor family, and an abusive ...

Book report; The jungle and business

Setting of the novel “The Jungle” published by Upton Sinclair in 1900s is in Chicago and revolves around the industry of meat production in the town. The industry seemed to represent the social difficulties of all the Americans living in poverty. Upton was only twenty-six years old when he moved to Chicago in his bid to participate in exposing the evils in the meat industry (Sparknotes.com).
Upton's book The Jungle was initially published in early 1900s and turned into a real sensation for American book readers. From one viewpoint, it depicted the incredible practices of meatpacking industry overwhelming at ...

Introduction

The jungle was written in the year 1906 by an American journalist and novelist by the name Upton Sinclair. The author wrote this novel to be able to portray the lives that immigrants lived in the United States especially Chicago and other similar industrialized cities .Most of his readers were mainly concerned with his exposure to especially health violations and unsanitary practices that had for a long time been in the American meat packing industry. This was during the 20th century when he did this investigation for a socialist newspaper. The book also tries to depict about the working ...

- Welfare recipients and culture of poverty
- In the chapters 2 and 7 of the book Flat Broke with Children, Sharon Hays tells us the story of U.S welfare from the inside of the welfare office, and also from the inside of mothers involved in welfare. She aptly describes the challenges that recipients of welfare face in the management of their families, work. Moreover, she tells the regulations and rules that pertain to welfare reform. Her research is hands on because it involves one on one interaction with the welfare recipients. The hands-on approach she takes makes ...

“The Jungle” is a novel by Upton Sinclair, an American Socialist with the intention to address the plight of meat packers in the hands of the beef trust. The setting of the novel is in Chicago; a town where Upton traveled while he was just twenty-six years old with the grand vision to help in sensitizing and pushing for better working conditions of the meat workers. The meat industry seemed to weave together all the misfortunes experienced by all other workers in the American society in the early 1900s.
Upton's novel The Jungle was first published in 1906 and became a ...

The New Jim Crow is a book written by Michelle Alexander that gives a brief history of the past caste systems that have troubled African-Americans and suggests that currently there is a different caste system. Michelle Alexander is a highly educated civil lawyer, legal scholar, and advocate. The author clearly advocates that today’s caste system is created by the American criminal justice system by aiming black men and imprisoning them. In her book, Michelle debates the legal systems that appear to be doing their work perfectly well. However, according to the author, it is evident that these legal systems have only replaced ...

Summary

A Coach's Influence: Beyond the Game is a book written by Grant Teaff. Teaff is a coach, a player and an executive director of the American Football Coach Association. Teaff’s book contains three parts; the introduction, part one and part two. The book talks about the power of influence from the coach. It is a book that discusses issues affecting the youth and solutions to these issues. The book celebrates how football coaches learn from each other through the life of Teaff. Teaff’s book gives coaches and teachers knowledge, experience and techniques to use in solving social issues facing the youth.
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My work is devoted to the book “Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town” by Jon Krakauer. It is devoted to the series of sexual rapes which happened at the University of Montana, in the town of Missoula. Missoula is an ordinary college town, which has a state university with its own football team, the Grizzlies. Between years 2008 and 2012 there were over 300 sexual assaults reported to the local police station. Most of these cases were settled by the university or local authority. The author of the book examines several cases more deeply and ...

1. The Social Miracle
T. R. Reid moved to Tokyo, Japan, with his family – composed of his wife and their two daughters – where he lived for five years, as an expatriate employee for the Washington Post. He posits that some Asian nations (such as Japan, South Korea, and Singapore ) have built modern societies within the safest environment, providing the best education for the children, and with probably the most stable families on Earth. In Reid’s opinion, this accomplishment is due to the widespread acceptance by Far East countries of the ethical values of Chinese philosopher Confucius. He pointed ...

The main idea in the book “Pray for Sheetrock” by Melissa Fay Greene is the racial and social movement. In her nonfiction work, Green elaborates the issues that faced McIntosh, a small town in Gorgias. For a long time, the town was ruled by a white sheriff who seemed to care very little about the skin color (Greene 3). However, he used his political tactics to rule the town like a monarchy. No black was allowed in any political position. The people of the McIntosh town accepted the status quo of racial discrimination and segregation. The blacks had no ...

The idea of having a collective government in place has curtailed a number of freedoms that people should have. The enactment of laws, the cropping up of government agencies and the proponents of regulation have brought about limitation to what individuals and bright minds can deliver to the world. Prosperity in the world is limited by the presence of governments that tend to stand in the way of innovation and the freedom to conquer more ground in science, the economy, socialism and even education. The presence of the government system has therefore hindered the prosperity of ideas, concepts and ...

Part 1

The actor used the words to refer to the reaction that the public had after he published his novel. The nation reacted in horror. The president at the time ordered an immediate investigation in the meat industry. However, he privately informed the author that he had no love for the socialist polemic, at the end of the novel. The words used by the author describe the activities that took place after the publishing of the book. Two months after publication of the book, the country created two legislations. These include the pure food and drug act and the meat ...

Chapter 11 Review

On the issue of the size of federal service, the author provide figure to demonstrate that the size has been declining for the last 35 years, contrary to views expressed by politicians. Consequently, the fear that bureaucracies are expanding is misplaced because the number of people working for these agencies have been reducing. According to the author, the last time the public service was very large was in 1968 when there were 3.0 million civilian employees plus 6.0 military officers. The number declined to 2.8 million in 2010. Besides, the author argues that the ratio of federal employment to ...

Introduction 5

Literary Background 6
Core Points of Review 7
Factual Presentation from the Book 9
Example of Religious Paradox in the Book 9
Special Message of the Book 11
Conclusion 11
Personal Suggestion 11

References 13

What the Buddha Never Taught by Tim Ward
Introduction
Religion forms the core of human existence and our lives, principles, values, ethics are highly influenced by the religions we follow; however, man has been questioning the essence of religion ever since he came into being. No matter whether you follow Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, or Jainism, one never ...

“The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs” by Ilardi (2009) is a self-help book for people who suffer from depression that helps them make lifestyle changes associated with improvements in depression scores. The book is divided into three sections, which include understanding depression, therapeutic lifestyle change, and making the change. In understanding depression, the author begins with describing a case study of a patient he had personally treated for depression. Of course, it is noted that names throughout the books were changed to protect the patient-therapist privacy while allowing the author to build trust and expertise by writing ...

- ABSTRACT.
According to Deborah Pegues, confrontation is a normal aspect of life and cannot be avoided, even though many Christians certainly prefer to do so. They believe in unity and harmony, turning the other cheek and following Paul’s admonition “as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.” Yet all people experience problems and conflicts in life, especially those who have been treated unjustly or believe they have been. Pegues is quick to emphasize that confrontation should never be confused with revenge or retaliation, which are evils and forbidden to Christians. Even David refused to ...

“Name”

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Abstract
In one of his address to the American Medical Association, President Barack Obama stated, “Make no mistake: the cost of our healthcare is a threat to our economy. It is an escalating burden on our families and businesses. And it is unsustainable for the United States of America.” Following these lines, ‘Mama Might Be Better off Dead ‘, by Laurie Kay Abraham, presents a disconcerting and an insightful look into the American health care system. This book offers a very unsettling, at the same time enlightening, view of the status of urban Medicare facilities, through the example ...

A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill

A saint on death row is a story that was written by an Irish-American author Thomas Cahill. In this tragic and heart wrenching story of a death row inmate known as Dominique Green, Thomas brings out the injustices and flaws that surround the American legal system. The issue of racism also comes up because the death row inmate (Dominique Green) was African American.

About the Author

Thomas Cahill is an American scholar born in New York in 1940 to Irish- American parents. Cahill grew up in Queens and the Bronx. He studied at Greek and Latin Literature, scripture and theology as well as medieval ...

Book Review: Rez Life by David Treuer

This review of Rez Life by David Treuer focuses much on its substance as a model piece of cultural protection of Indians living in reservations in the US. Victimization and involvement of Indians in criminal activities have emerged due to lack of protection within their reservations and the consequence negative influence coming from mainstream US. At the same time, the ambiguity expressed by Treuer in the last part of the story could possibly signify a practical response to the problems raised in the review.

Introduction

Indian reservations are among the most protected territories within the United States (US). The US extends its ...

Introduction

Edward Conlon is the author of this award winning book. “Blue Blood” covers his years in NYPD, the law enforcement background in his family, his work of conducting the street level narcotics enforcement in Housing Bureau, and a number of anecdotes concerning policing history. He is in fact a stereotype who has doggedly endured in the popular culture. Portly, flush-faced and very possibly crooked, Conlon continues cropping up everywhere from The Simpsons to The Departed. Even while real life in New York streets is policed by the boys in blue of all the colors, their fictitious counterparts inflexibly retain their ruddy ...

Introduction

Rape is an act of violence against the will of the victim. It is defined as “forcing the victim to submit to genital, anal and/or oral sexual acts (SECASA, 2012).” The attacker uses physical force, intimidation and threats to control the situation. The victim fears for her life and obeys the commands of the attacker, as her survival depends on the submission and compliance to the demands of the offender. Rape is an arbitrary event in the lifestyle of the victim. It’s unpredictable, sudden, and unexpected (SECASA, 2012). It is a tragic experience that comes with a devastating burden of ...

Personal and societal impacts of the double standard on U.S. teenage girls

There are several conflicting issues affecting the lives of American teenage girls. Teenage girls are not able to make a clear cut for instance between being sexy and being sexual. In an attempt to impress and fit into society, they dress and behave in a manner that affirms the latter rather than the former. Teenage girls receive a barrage of “advice” from movies, magazines and music that leaves them confused and unable to make decipher what upholds their femininity and what does not. Culture demands that girls should dress decently and not exude slutty tendencies.

Deborah Tolman subverts the debate about sex ...