Barbara Literature Reviews Samples For Students

Introduction and background

Depression is a global health problem but which can be contained using non-pharmacological and pharmacological approaches (Dhingra and Parle, 2011). It is the leading cause of mental disability in the whole world and it remains one of the most undertreated health issues in old age (Barry, et al, 2012). In United States, a tenth of the adult population is affected by depression each year and it is estimated that by the end of this decade depression will be the second leading cause of health disability (Dhingra and Parle, 2011). According to Dhingra, in 2011, depression was the fourth most costly disease ...

Part I

C. Discuss Cherlin’s argument for why Americans have both high rates of marriage and high rates of divorce compared to other industrialized nations.
Andrew Cherlin reviewed the historical changes while noting that marriage still remained the most common and effective living arrangement for bringing up of children. However, children are more likely to grow up in single-parent families, and to experience instability of families especially minority and poor children. His view why the US has high marriage and divorce rates, which is called family metabolism, is attributed to cultural and economic forces that have continually transformed family ...

The growing plethora on the debate regarding the act of compensating collegiate student athletes has interest not only sports aficionados, the academe but the society in general. Many people question the practice as somewhat inappropriate and a precursor to encouraging the youth to lose focus on their academics and their primary purpose for education. Many believe that students are being lured to participate in sports because of the financial reward that they can get from becoming a student athlete. Thus, students’ priorities are divided because of this practice. In addition, many assumes that when a student deemed that the rewards of athletic ...

Edith Wharton’s two short stories “Roman Fever” and “The Fullness of Life” are two very different types of stories. Roman Fever is a realist, but fictional account of two women who have known each other from the days of the youth. “The Fullness of Life” is a transcendent, story of mythical proportions which lends itself to tracing it’s influence back to Greek and Roman mythical stories. Despite the diverging nature of the stories, both of them have similar characters in one sense. This essay analyzes the similarities of character and difference in setting, and the similarity of theme running ...

Introduction

Aggression is hostile behavior aimed at causing physical or psychological harm. Aggression can be indirect or direct, verbal or physical and active or passive.
There are several social factors that cause aggression. These factors include media violence, Stereotype and social identity, threat Collective narcissism, Status, competition and mating motives personal characteristics, cultural factors direct provocation and frustration among others.

When an individual watches media, observational learning takes place. This brings the indication that excessive exposure to media violence increases probability of any individual to behave aggressively. (Barbara etal, 2010). Metaanalysis and reviews have indicated that this effect is ...