Essays on Adversity

In the captivating world of “House of the Dragon,” Rhaenyra Targaryen, initially played by the actress Milly Alcock, emerges as a formidable character, defying societal norms and challenging the traditional constraints imposed upon women in leadership roles. It is fascinating to explore the significance of Rhaenyra’s image for modern women aspiring to lead, showcasing her fierce ambition, resilience, and determination to claim the Iron Throne. As Rhaenyra’s journey is analyzed, it becomes apparent how her portrayal as a powerful and multifaceted leader not only empowers audiences but also serves as a compelling reminder of the potential and strength ...

Thesis Statement: War completely changes soldiers who participate in it. The experiences during war directly affect the mental, physical and emotional behavior of particular individuals who fight in it more so when loss of close friends is involved. Permanent and lasting scars occur to the personality of any soldier which may be relived through nightmares or worse still lose of limbs, faculty of speech or mental trauma. In the Three Day Road, this is exhibited when Xavier and Elijah who are best friends from childhood are separated by the cruelty of war with Elijah consumed as collateral damage in ...

King Solomon who wrote the “Book of Proverbs” and Lucius Annaeus Seneca, who is better known by his cognomen Seneca was the author of “The Moral Essays”. Solomon’s “Book of Proverbs” was a guide that told the Hebrew people how to live for over a thousand years. Proverbs addresses many areas that are important to being able to live peacefully with one another such as moral behavior, values of oneself, the family and the community. It also deals with the meaning of life and submission to the will of god. In “the Moral Essays” Seneca like Solomon gave ...

For an act to be courageous it must be an act which the individual must understand its danger completely.

For an act to be courageous, then it must be an act that the individual is afraid of but still goes ahead to perform it.

For an act to be courageous, then it must be a real life situation.

For an act to be courageous, it must be intentional. For an act to be courageous, it must be an act that is voluntarily decided upon. For an act to be courageous, then it must be an act that the individual clearly understands the dangers that they are supposed to face. For an act to be courageous, it must be an act that the person clearly knows the dangers that befall him in his ...

I believe NYU’s rigorous curriculum is necessary in order for me to become a knowledgeable dentist. NYU offers a great clinical experience, which is one of the main reasons I am applying to NYU. One of my goals is to serve those who are deprived. I believe that NYU’s diverse patient pool would help me attain this goal as I would be able to provide services to many that are medically underserved and from vulnerable populations. Ultimately, NYU would help me to not only grow as a dentist but as an individual. The robust city and NYU’ ...

When I was accepted into the program, I intended to work hard, get good grades and start my career. But my dreams were interrupted by devastating losses that ultimately cost me my financial aid. I am therefore appealing this decision, first, on the grounds of compassion since the loss of both my parents within a two-month span prompted me to drop a class and, second, due to the fact that the loss of financial aid will make it all but impossible for me to finish my studies. One of the things I have learned since suffering the loss of ...

Human Rights for Orphans and Abandoned Children without Adequate Care

The Convention on the Rights of the Child with its Protocols regulates issue of human rights of children. The protection of children and prohibition of child labor to name a few, are concerns said to be integral and important for any entity working to protect the dignity of children. One such issue is the the human rights of orphans and abandoned children who often are not given adequate care due to the fact that they are not well protected and in some cases not protected at all either by relatives or their parents. As a result these children need ...

Personal Statement

My experience and education have certainly shaped who I am today, and will define what I can bring to the table as I join the ranks of students at Texas State University. Whether one is talking about my academic success or simply my goals in life, admission to this university is very important to me. Though my life has been full of trials and tribulation, I am still currently employed and highly motivated to succeed. If anything, I am more motivated to succeed because of the difficulties that I have faced. I graduated from Clear Springs High School in ...

Human Rights for Orphans and Abandoned Children without Adequate Care

The issue of human rights of children is regulated by the Convention on the Rights of the Child with its Protocols. They refer to the protection of a child, prohibition of child labor and other issues that are fundamentally important and protect children’s dignity. However, some categories of children require special attention and care with this respect. The human rights of orphans and abandoned children constitute a specific issue, as they have fewer chances to be protected by parents and relatives. Therefore, as a violation of their rights may seem easier, these children need more legal protection. The ...

Health policy analysis

Introduction Unquestionably, health is an essential part of life without which human existence is under threat of extinction. According to McLaughlin & McLaughlin (2007), maintenance of mental wellness is fundamental to achieving mental sobriety among the members of the society. Unfortunately, the number of people with mental disorders is growing almost in every society (Walt et al., 2008). In America, adult population with mental illness is over 60 million, the majority of who are Africans Americans. The main barrier to access proper mental health care is the soaring costs and people’s perceptions of mental health (America’s Health, 2016). ...

Abstract.

Crisis Counseling is an activity that is directed at restoring normalcy to human psychological feeling. Crises are numerous and they are experienced frequently in everyday life. Since it’s something that is part of human life, finding out a plan that will minimize effects is the most modest thing for people to do. Furthermore, crisis may arise from natural disasters over which human beings have no control over. Perfecting the skills and procedures of reducing the effects of crisis will bring more benefits to humanity.

Introduction

A crisis, if looked at from a wider perspective, does not only refer to ...

Overall observations

The quest for leadership and a good head of a group is enshrined in the various sets of virtues that Graham calls the underlying principles. Numerous aspects of leadership make one become a good leader as well as being considered a bad leader. In the view of the speaker, it is critical for an individual in the leadership position to show resilience in the face of adversity and accept to be kicked around a little. While it remains critical to the general character of the leader to stand out in any given role as a leader, the individual takes ...

The greatest success in life happens when an individual completely embraces any failure. Those who endure the most difficult event of their lives will receive the sweetest victory. In order to achieve success, it is necessary to face the reality that failure is part of it. Being successful does not require a hero, all is needed is a heart that is strong enough to embrace challenges and a heart that accepts pain from failing. Failure is the way to victory; nobody rewards any defeat and failure is a step towards success (Estrem, 2010). No individual is free from any ...

Nurse Practitioner Advocacy in families with a Child with a chronic illness ADHD

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has been attracting much public attention during the past three decades. This disorder is related to the children, young people, and the adults who exhibit a lack of persistence in their activities which need their cognitive participation. The ADHD patients show tendency to shift from one activity to another before completing it. Most often, these activities are disorganized, and are excessive. The chronic difficulties in controlling the impulses, attention, and moderate activities are observable in social contexts, such as homes and schools. The ADHD was extensively researched, with a wide range of topics relating ...

Managers play a pivotal role in organizations and a managerial roles gap analysis reveals the need for leadership training, as it is evident in the twenty-first century business organizations (Mintzberg,1990). Although management and leadership require different set of skills depending on the expected outcome both are needed and it works like a “trim-tab”, that steers the rudder of the organization in the right direction! While managements primary function is to maintain and improve the existing status quo, the role of leadership and mastering business leadership skills calls for the characteristic traits of courage and commitment to move beyond ...

According to the Mind map, several emotional and social traits or characteristics prevails from gifted students. The main characteristics include perfection, self-actualization, internal motivation or locus control, empathy, developed sense of humor, sensitivity, resilience, and Advanced levels of Moral maturity with consistency between values and actions. Perfectionism, also considered as the high expectation of self and others is when the gifted individuals referred to anything that does not achieve perfection as unacceptable. This characteristic is defined by striving for excellence, also known as healthy perfectionism and constant striving for unattainable and unrealistic goals, also known as neurotic perfectionism. As ...

Introduction

Leadership endures relevance in virtually every field of life, and it cannot be overstated in the business world. The success and failure of every firm or organization rest on its leadership. This immense importance of leadership has garnered many interests around it for years, and this explains exhaustive researches in various fields and disciplines such as management, psychology, sociology, political science, educational and public administration (Yukl, 1989). Due to its importance and immense relevance, a lot of theories have been proposed which attempt to describe leadership based on several schools of thoughts. Each theory attempts to shed light on ...

Importance of privacy policies in a fusion center

Information is the key goal for a Fusion Center. A Fusion Center collects and analyzes data from various sources to determine the likelihood of potential threats from domestic and foreign origin against the US. The information from government and private sources contribute largely to a Fusion Center’s database (Regan and Monahan, 2013). The most potent information often originates from the general population. The case of the Lackawanna Six is a testament to that. The people who provided the anonymous tip believed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation works to safeguard the nation. The FBI, with a long history ...

People do not normally find it very comfortable to deliberately put themselves into situations that cause difficulty, troubles, anxiety, or adversity. But sometimes it happens. How can a person ever become used to vicious, or inadvertent remarks, which lead to a reevaluation of decisions of character in the first place? Thinking about a defining moment when my character was tested really made me drink in what it means to be human. I was born in Florida, in the South and I suppose a product of the culture to a degree. As a gangly kid, quite tall and ...

It is true that life is full of challenges, and each and every individual encounters the same at one point in life. Whereas some people have economic difficulties, others are faced with health complications. Therefore, the only difference is the nature and magnitude of the challenges that we face. Besides, it is evident that these challenges define our future depending on how we perceive them. Whereas some people get discouraged and lose hope because of the challenges the face in life, others take them as a motivation, learning from every bit, and the end attains success in life. The story ...

Every American will forever feel the impact of the September 11, 2001 attacks. It is a hallow feeling that still resides in the hearts of us all. In the brief moments it took to execute the attacks, our lives changed forever; we realized our country was not impervious to outsiders, nor were we impervious to pain. It was a day that shook us to our core so deeply that we still hear echoes of the screams in the streets. The tragedy was insurmountable; in a matter of hours all of our lives changed forever. Though nothing will ever be the same, we ...

Assignment 1

In my previous paper, I outlined some of the encounters that I can describe as defining moments. As a matter of fact, a defining moment is any instance that in one way or another affects the life course of a person. Apparently, the defining moments as narrated before were the meeting with the motivational speaker, and the unfortunate squabble between my best friend and me in our adolescent days. Clearly, of these encounters the former was quite inspiring and constructive. On the contrary, the latter was characterized by adversity because after the encounter, I was regretful, stressed out and shamefaced. These feelings ...

Introduction

The 9/11 attacks were unpredictable, and they shook the entire country. Two planes came out of nowhere, and struck the twin towers in order to demise them forever. The hallmark constructions of the New York City became pile of dust in matter of a few hours. The implications of the attacks were far reaching to say the least, and the culture of locality dramatically changed after terrorist attacks in New York. Before the attacks, New York was a hub for socialization, entertainment, and sports, but after the attacks, life in the City became dull. People experience fear while on the road. ...

Instructors:

Section one

Georges (2012) carried out a research to establish relationship between varieties of religious experiences and manifest hate. In his article which was published in journal of religion and society data was collected in different states of USA. The data on level of religiosity was collected and grouped into three categories i.e. high religiosity, moderate religiosity and low religiosity. In determining whether one belongs to any of the group the researcher considered person’s belief on existence of supernatural being. Then manifest of hate index in each state was calculated. A regression analysis which was carried out showed: moderate strong ...

Professional athletes in the United States have demonstrated a clear ability to play sports at a very high level. There is no doubt that professional athletes in the United States are among the best in the world at their respective sports—however, being very good at sports does not necessarily make one a good person or a good role model for children. This is not to say that there are not professional athletes that are good role models for children; horeswever, the American public treats professional athletes as though they are much more suited to the role of “role model” than they actually ...

The Broader Context of Disaster Recovery

The Broader Context of Disaster Recovery

Introduction

Recovering from a disaster is one of the greatest challenges for communities in many parts of the world. People perceive it as a struggle against the adverse forces of nature, often condemned for the occurrence of disasters and the destruction associated with their occurrence. The stages of disaster recovery are often two. The first one occurs prior to the happening of the disaster of the disaster and measures the level of preparedness in the community with respect to absorbing the shocks associated with the occurrence of the disaster. On the other, the second stage defines ...

United States V. Virginia

518 U.S. 515 (1996) Factual background: Virginia Military Institute, also known as “VMI” became one of the fifteen (15) sole single-sexed public institutions situated in the state of Virginia. The mission and objective of VMI is to be able to train male citizen soldiers who shall become the leaders in the future. The training inside the institution adheres to the adversative method, where the trainees are required to undergo physical tests, mental stress, absence of privacy among others. During the trial, the District Court admitted that there are females who miss out on the educational opportunity and training ...

In his book “Outliers”, Malcolm Gladwell mentions: “The outlier, finally, is not an outlier at all.” (285). That particular statement assumes those who achieve success have no evident differences compared with the ordinary people in the sense of being more intelligent and wisdom. In other words, the author tries to convince readers persevering and creating opportunities to be the most important ways to succeed. If a person relies on intelligence and wisdom only, they can’t climb higher than pyramid first level. In my opinion talent or fortune cannot predestinate your success. People have to progress continually and keep ...

Introduction

It has been documented by many researches that various forms of adversity are at the heart of many mental illnesses. Indeed, even the term mental health recasts a social problem as a psychological and medical one. And, as would be expected, people addressing multiple forms of adversity, poverty and disability and social exclusion adversity, for instance, are likely than others to seek, or be sent to mental health services. While violence is the most common experience for people with severe and long-term mental illnesses, it is far the only adversity at issue. This can be addressed through open dialogue. Open dialogue ...

Re: General Election Strategy

The purpose of this memo is to present a general election strategy for the 2016 Presidential campaign between Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, and Republican nominee, Chris Christie. In addition, this proposed strategy is presented to fulfill the application requirements for job title Campaign Strategist. This strategy will address Clinton’s political platforms, discuss her strengths and weaknesses, provide an electoral strategy, and deliver descriptive examples of biography, issue-oriented, and attack literature advertisements. 2016 General Election Strategy: Hillary Clinton vs. Chris Christie As we are aware, Clinton lost the Democratic nomination to President Obama in 2008, even after securing ...

Ice T, Taylor Swift, and How Cultural Considerations Inform Their Music

“Fuck the police” chants Ice T, in his hit “Cop Killer,” “tonight we get even.” These are the some of the lyrics to one of his most successful, and most controversial, songs. Released in 1992, this song was written partially in protest of the acquittal of two police officers who beat Rodney King in LA. Conversely, almost twenty years later, we have another pop star, Taylor Swift, singing “Drew walks by me, can he tell that I can’t breathe?” She continues, “He’s the reason for the teardrops on my guitar. The only thing that keeps me wishing ...

Abstract

This paper reviews current knowledge about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adults. For many years ADHD was thought to only affect children, but now it is clear that almost all children with ADHD still have symptoms as adults that impair their functioning in all aspects of life. This paper reviews how these symptoms are manifested in adults, and how ADHD affects their lives. Also, this paper reviews contributing reasons that most children do not grow out of ADHD, and contributing factors to adult ADHD. Last this paper reviews how ADHD is diagnosed in adults, the importance of correct ...

Resilience is defined as the ability to conform to adversity, stress, tragedy or trauma. In essence, it is one’s ability to remain strong, stable and still be able to maintain healthy levels of physical functioning and be psychologically sound even in the face of chaos or disruption. On the other hand, wellness as a concept is defined as the overall balance of one’s physical, occupational, spiritual, social, intellectual, and environmental wellbeing. Wellness involves a number of life skills that seek to promote wellbeing and also help prevent the outbreak of disease. This paper takes a look at ways in which we ...

Analysis of Historical Place of 9/11 Attacks

Analysis of Historical Place of 9/11 Attacks The 9/11 attacks were unpredictable, and they shook the entire country. Two planes came out of nowhere, and struck the twin towers in order to demise them forever. The hallmark constructions of the New York City became pile of dust in matter of a few hours. The implications of the attacks were far reaching to say the least, and the culture of locality dramatically changed after terrorist attacks in New York. Before the attacks, New York was a hub for socialization, entertainment, and sports, but after the attacks, life in the City became ...

Learning about management, in theory and practice, drives the quest to be better leaders. Good management practices go hand in hand with good leadership. This paper looks at the basic summary of the book entitled, ‘Leadership and the Art of Struggle – How Great Leaders Grow through Challenge and Adversity’ written by author Steven Snyder. Every organization, company, and institution needs good management. However, every company or organization does not have good leadership or management. Steven Snyder’s book looks at different ways how to develop good leadership skills. The book is divided in to three parts. The first section ...

AA: It is really difficult to imagine what the Joad family went through in our own time. We really don’t have anything happening in the twenty-first century that mirrors what they went through. SA: What do you mean? There are people who are homeless and unemployed today. There are also people who get their homes foreclosed by the bank when they can’t pay their loans and they end up having to move out and often have nowhere to go. AA: You’re right, but there are so many more social structures in place to help ...

Univeristy Name

Abstract This paper extensively reviews the purchase decision differences among various countries that differ in culture. The analytic accoutrement accepting from the plan of abounding acclaimed intercultural consultants, as able as Hofstede, Hall, Kluckholn, Strodtbeck, and Carbaugh. (1983). It should be fatigued that there's bare acclimatized accepting to negotiations. There aboveboard admeasurement alone able and beneath able approaches , and these acclimatize in cast with several address factors. As Bargainers apperceive that their counterparts could as well be seeing things clumsily . Otherwise, they'll be beneath accessible to accomplish abrogating judgments and added accessibly to accomplish advanced in bargaining. ...

Adversity and advantage is a story about a small country, which makes a remarkable difference by rebranding the Jewish state in living rooms of America as an innovative, ethical nation that works industriously and tirelessly to solve national and global problems. The Israel inside is a savvy and smart documentary approach to public diplomacy as it does not advocate arguing, advocacy or convincing whatsoever. Politics has not been majorly discussed in the film. Rather, the documentary creates an emotional, inspiring perception that places Israel at a better level in terms of financial and technological advancement over the last 60 years. Indeed, the ...

Introduction

The case study Nike the art of selling air, taken from 100 great businesses and minds behind them is in essence the story of an organization which changes the course of the sneakers industry and started a journey which is still ongoing with great success. Nike Inc. has been the face of the sneakers industry for the last five decades, the story starting in 1962 by Phil Knight who in collaboration with his coach Bill Bowerman, laid the bricks for a revolution in the footwear industry. Ever since the launch the achievements of Nike in terms of creating a brand ...

The Life of Pi is a fiction novel by Yann Martel that narrates the adventure experienced by the main character, Pi Patel, who survived in a shipwreck and found himself stranded in a lifeboat with a tiger named Richard Parker. I found this story unbelievable when I read of how Pi survived for a period that seemed like eternity with a wild tiger in a small lifeboat. What struck me most however is the main character`s ability to adapt to the harsh environmental conditions that were in existence at sea. For instance, Pi, who was a strict vegetarian had to adapt to a different kind of lifestyle ...

The traditional Buddhist practices of compassion are a way of helping people undergoing traumatic and terrorizing event to integrate and accept their emotions into their lives. These practices include tantric visualization, mind awareness, and calming relaxation. In many spiritual traditions, it is said that in times of great difficulty and adversity, people have the most potential. Adversity offers a perfect opportunity for attaining enlightenment, but difficult times do not always lead to enlightenment. In fact, when things get really difficult, it leads to a big mess and a lot of neurosis. This is because people get squeezed. A single event like the ...

Introduction

Our daily existence is an uphill fight to acquire that which we need. Failure to do so means a threatened existence and imminent death. However, the situation may not be as grim as that because of the organized nature of the contemporary society, especially for someone with a livelihood. The novel by Ernest Hemmingway tells tale of a man who has to find to feed. It narrates of a man who has to fight opposing forces in order to hold on to his dear life, lest he be consumed by hunger. Even in the sorry state that the old man in the novel ...

Introduction

The book Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is a book based on themes surrounding war. Betrayal, separation, heroism and hope are some of the enduring themes throughout the book. The setting of the book, Greek island of Cephalonia, a previously un-adulterated island, primes the book on exposing the atrocities war and tragedy are capable of on the human condition. It soon becomes apparent that in the face of adversity, the human condition is frail and is prone to cave in under pressure. The author exposes these vulnerabilities through some extra-ordinary happenings such as the betrayal of Mandras by Pelagia, the in-expressible love ...

Thesis

Robert Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken’ and Eudora Welty’s ‘A Worn Path’ are contrastingly different yet similar in some ways. While one is a poem, the other is a short story; however, they both seem to reveal a similar sentiment and expression of the protagonists. In ‘The Road Not Taken,’ the narrator, while waking on a road reaches a point where the road splits in two different directions. He stops to ponder which road to take and opts for the road less travelled. He was far from the madding crowd and close to nature. In ‘A Worn Path,’ the story revolves around ...

The story written by Hwang is very interesting and moving. It is told in a non-structural and non-linear way, which is something that most people are not used to reading. Besides this structural characteristic of the novel, it tells a story of the history of Korea, before Communism spread in North Korea. I do not agree with the thesis statement which claims that the characters Pak Hun and Ojaknyo reject the old and feel that the new is unjust. However, I do believe that they think that there is much improvement to be done in modern times. The characters in the ...

English

Thesis Facing adversity in life changes one profoundly and significantly, and this is amply reflected through the writing of James Thomas Jackson (1993) in ‘Waiting in Line at the Drugstore.’ People go through a host of changes when faced with adversity, like overcoming fear, become witty, become wiser after learning from experience and so on. An autobiography, ‘Waiting in Line at the Drugstore’ reminiscence the young Jackson’s life and how his experience with dealing with adversaries transformed him into a well-read and knowledgeable man.

Introduction

“What changes occur to a person facing adversity in life?” is a question most of us would ...

Mention of military often focuses attention to the U.S military due to their capability being the best trained, often most dedicated and most respected soldiers in the world today. They are entrusted with the protection of the United States’ freedom both at home and away. This secure the homeland and in most cases aid in defending of the democracy worldwide. These soldiers, at least in the U.S army are entrusted with the physical strength, strength of purpose and also emotional strength. They are expected to serve the country from all corners, from wherever, whenever as they are needed to ...

Introduction

Human beings exhibit different traits and react to different situation in as varied ways as there are people. It is hard to describe anyone into a category of human behavior as everyone tends to exhibit varying degrees of each of the big five traits in their behavior. The big five behavior traits, Agreeableness, Extraversion, emotional stability, Conscientiousness, Openness to experience occur in my personality in varying degrees.

Question 1

Extroversion - I would describe myself as extroverted since I like to be assertive on my viewpoints on a majority of issues. I also tend to be talkative and able to start a conversation on ...

Executive summary

The incessant emergence of corporate scandals impacts’ tremendously on the holdings of individuals and institutional investors, there is unique aspect projected by the recent number of scandals from the past occurrences. This is stipulated by the fact that the recent occurrences of scandals involve facets of businesses, these ranges from individual firms and corporate companies. This is in contrast with the past scandal aspects which projected associations relating to specific sectors within the market. The current or recent scandals involve corporate officers, the accounting industry and investment banking houses. The large and diversity of the scope of the recent ...

Social entrepreneurship is defined by the University of Oxford Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship as “the practice of combining innovation, resourcefulness and opportunity to address critical social and environmental challenges. Social entrepreneurs focus on transforming systems and practices that are the root causes of poverty, marginalization, environmental deterioration and accompanying loss of human dignity” (Saïd Business School, 2013). Skoll Centre explains further that social entrepreneurship is composed of three main components namely sociality, innovation and market orientation (Saïd Business School, 2013). This means that social entrepreneurship benefits the public through new concepts and ideas that aims to ...

Edward Luttwak, the Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third

At its peak, the Roman Empire was based on the following key components; security, stability, and prosperity for all. This is the reason why Luttwak believes that the Roman Empire’s grand strategy is by far the most superior in history and years of advancement in technology, strategy and as well as human behaviour will not get even close to unsettling the aforementioned fact. Before getting into the author’s argument, it is important to understand why Luttwak chose this subject matter. ...

Life Changing Experience.

There Is No Education Like Adversity After they left, my mother told me “the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested your father for his alleged role in obtaining telecom licenses for his company but I know your father is innocent of any wrong way.” Tears rolled down my cheek as she spoke. I hugged my mother tightly and cried for the next few minutes. By the time I regained composure, it was already 12:30 a.m. I went to my mother's room. By this time, my sister had woken up, she was crying profusely and my mother was ...

Being a Leader

Discussion Question In the modern business world, successful leaders are capable of responding and shifting swiftly to traumatic events while determining a new course of action in given emerging realities. Such leaders understand the scope and range of crisis and the levels of impact and control they have in a particular situation. In reference to articles by Conklin and Weill (1997), Margolis and Stoltz (2010), and Pye (2005), this article guide CE on the best approach of dealing with emerging issues in an organization in a resilient manner. It provides a reflexive strategy of addressing hardships while maximizing organizational outcomes.

Resilience questioning by Margolis and Stoltz

Margolis and ...

Personality Disorders are a type of mental illness that includes a wide range of problems dealing with the world at large, and a number of perception problems that make living an ordinary modern life very difficult for the sufferers. There is a certain stigma attached to these kinds of disorders that often keeps sufferers from seeking treatment. The name applied to this group of disorders is misleading, since "personality," in common usage, tends to connote some kind of control or willfulness on the part of the sufferer – this leads many people to think that the sufferer is somehow at fault for the illness. ...

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a new environment for creativity as expatriates in Europe, Williams lived a remarkably conventional life. A doctor for more than forty years serving the New Jersey town of Rutherford, he relied on his patients, the America around him, and his own ebullient imagination to create a distinctively American verse. Often domestic in focus and "remarkable for its empathy, sympathy, its muscular and emotional identification with its subjects," Williams's poetry is also characteristically honest: "There ...

Mental Health Issues Mental Health Issues In the 1997 film As Good as It Gets, several of the characters have mental health issues that would benefit from treatment. The three main characters, Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson), Carol Connelly (Helen Hunt), and Simon Bishop (Greg Kinnear) each have different mental health issues that affect their work, well-being, and relationships with others. Melvin appears to have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and social anxiety, Carol has stress and anxiety, and Simon has depression and anxiety. All three of these characters would benefit from appropriate treatment for these mental health problems ...

Chapter I

The stereotypes and micro-aggressions suffered by a Black woman in a toxic workplace leads to deleterious effects. The effects reported here include oppression, shame, and isolation. Internalizing these feelings of isolation systematically caused the body, mind, and spirit to suffer physiologically and psychologically. The overall strategy is termed disconnection; this concept is reinforced by the “power over” (Jordan, 2010) by a dominant group who wantonly exercise shame and isolation to discourage mutually empowerment relationships (Jordan, 2010, p. 105). This Black woman is me. The terms Black and African American are used interchangeably. It is my preference to identify with the Black ...

Chapter I

The stereotypes and micro-aggressions suffered by a Black woman in a toxic workplace leads to deleterious effects. The effects reported here include oppression, shame, and isolation. Internalizing these feelings of isolation systematically caused the body, mind, and spirit to suffer physiologically and psychologically. The overall strategy is termed disconnection; this concept is reinforced by the “power over” (Jordan, 2010) by a dominant group who wantonly exercise shame and isolation to discourage mutually empowerment relationships (Jordan, 2010, p. 105). This Black woman is me. The terms Black and African American are used interchangeably. It is my preference to identify with the Black ...

Life is what we make it. No matter what happens today or tomorrow, the world will turn, the sun will set and rise, and the earth will still be round. These clichéd lines come to mind when faced with a difficult situation, where one wonders if there will ever be a better time. Yes, bad times and bad situations do come into our lives. However, it is up to us, if these situations where we seem to feel bad and unable to break free from will have a positive effect in our lives, or we’ll let it remain as a burden ...

First and foremost the original inhabitants of America before the invasion by other people were the Native Americans. They are an indigenous people whose culture and religion was sacred to them. However they have been thought of as savages, violent and stubborn people due to the stories that have been told to us. Secondly the true thanks giving story dates back to 1614; some English explorers sailing to England and aboard the ship were Indians captured for slavery left behind small pox. The disease swept a whole population of escaped slaves; on arrival at the Massachusetts Bay the pilgrims ...