Essays on Befriending

1) Both Carol and Ruether require changes of Christian behaviours toward the environment. Which has the strongest arguments? Why?

Ruether states that the Christianity proclaims that human beings, men in chief, are the embodiment of Jesus or God and hence follows the eco-feministic view of the issue. Nature is only a creation by god that was meant for usage by humans. Moreover, in the ancient times, it was never imagined that humans would ever have more power than the nature itself. Nature was deemed to be the ever powerful and domineering source with no interference from humans. So in its not addressing the issue of present human power being so great that it threatens the very existence of the ...

When a person is diagnosed having a psychotic disorder, especially schizophrenia, the first choice of therapy is to give antipsychotic drugs. Of course, for decades the antipsychotics have helped the schizophrenics to come out of distress and disability (Frank, E. & Judge, R. (2001). It is one of the reliable methods of controlling the chronic and distressing symptoms of schizophrenia. But it has various challenges associated with it. The side effects, aversion of the patients to take medications, drug resistance, etc. are issues that challenge the therapy by antipsychotics. A metanalysis is carried out to find out the current status of antipsychotics ...

Article review

Introduction The article “A Facebook ‘friend’ request from the boss: Too close for comfort?” by Peluchette, Karl, and Fertig (2013) discusses what might be the employees’ reactions and responses to Facebook friend requests from their supervisors and/or bosses. The authors’ are interested in the employees’ viewpoints rather than their supervisors’/bosses’. They base their arguments on the issues of self-presentation, leader-member exchange (LMX), and developmental networks.

Summary

The first issue the authors discuss is the change of Facebook users from young adults to the older generation, businesses, and organizations. Their argument is that the original intended Facebook use has ...

Introduction

Frederick Douglass in ‘Learning to Read and Write’ writes about the dedication with which he learnt to read and write, and the difficulties that he faced because he was a slave for life. He recounts how his Master disliked that his wife was teaching letters and alphabets to Douglass, and forbade her from instructing him. Obeying her husband, she not only stopped teaching him but also ensured that he did not get time or resources to read at all. However, Douglass persisted in his pursuit of learning and used every opportunity to learn to read. He learnt to read with ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Throughout my life, it has become clear to me that many people decide once they completed their formal education, they believe that they are done learning. They receive their certificate, or degree, and they no longer have the desire to learn. From a young age, this appeared very sad to me, and I always wondered how I could avoid being this way. It is my wish to continue learning throughout my life, but in order to do this, there are many things that I need to understand. For instance, I need to be informed that I must be my own ...

Introduction

Islam, official religion of Saudi Arabia, does not welcome or encourage friendship between men and women. Saudi Arabia is very conservative society where any kind of closeness between men and women is considered against the cultural traditions of Saudi Arabia. Religious rigidity puts more restrictions on women and they are kept under the supervision of male members of family. This paper intends to discuss friendship of men and women in society of Saudi Arabia and examines how lifting bans from Saudi women will promote friendship between men and women.

Background

Sex segregation is one common thing in Islamic societies and ...

The book “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins takes place in a dystopian fantasy world. This genre is adventure fantasy. While reading one quickly realizes that things are not as we now know them. There is a great gap between the poor and the rich. The rich take advantage of the poor by using their children for entertainment is a televised event called “The Hunger Games”. Children are thrown into a generated environment and forced to fight to the death. The brutality of this treatment eventually leads to need to change the current political system. The setting of this book takes place ...