Essays on Disapproval

Summary of Unethical Behavior

Joe has exhibited unethical behavior by letting his personal opinions and feelings interfere with his work as a counselor to Jill. Accordingly, he used his religious background in judging Jill’s same-sex attraction. He also allowed his own untested opinion on the effectiveness and applicability of the European technique for erasing memories govern his judgment on whether it would be applicable for Jill or not. He also wanted to test the technique even if Jill did not give him her consent. Also, Joe is not sensitive to the cultural background of Jill during the counseling process. Moreover, he let ...

Essay #2

Humanities 4501: 9/11 Literature and Film Introduction There are different portrayals of Mohamed Atta, one of the terrorists who participated in the 9/11 attacks, in the story “The Last Days of Muhammad Atta,” written by Martin Amis, and the film The Hamburg Cell, directed by Antonia Bird. This paper examines both the story and the film and provides a comprehensive comparison of their portrayals of Mohamed Atta. It is clear that there are significant differences and similarities between how the story and the film portray Atta. In particular, this paper compares how the two narratives portray Atta’s feelings ...

The following literature review evaluates scholarly research on the challenges of entrepreneurship, project management and sustainable development in Africa. Based on the discussion meaningful implications and suggestions are mentioned towards the end. Africa is a land of magnificent natural sceneries and resources but even in the 21st century it is still considered the Dark Continent, bearing metaphorical meaning. It is the least developed continent in the world. Despite major efforts in improving the lives of Africans there are many challenges that face the continent.

Sustainable Development in Africa

Africa has immense natural resources and precious minerals. For decades the practice of finding energy ...

Introduction

The United States of America has operated with democratic, republican representative government for more than a century and it has been one of the reasons for the success and growth as a country. The representative form of government has made America the global leader, but in recent years, several threats have raised that challenge the future existence of the much celebrated representative form of government. These threats come in the form of external and internal threats that are capable of breaking the duopoly of the representative form of government. The main threats that are affecting representative form of government ...

"Sorta Mom" is a commercial advertising insurance services of Esurance company. It was released during the Super Bowl championship season in 2015 on several social media platforms, including YouTube video-sharing platform. It can be found by following this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIey1MTsS9w . There has been much discussion about this commercial as it touches upon the issue of gender and stereotyping on the basis of gender. It portrays a careless and even reckless woman who stops by a school to pick up a child (see figure 1). However, she does not even care that this is not her child, stating that, "I ...

Body Language

The term ‘body language’ speaks for itself. It conveys the following meaning: your body can speak without words. In fact, it is a kind of non-verbal communication, which sometimes tells more than words. That is why it is important to learn body language, in order to understand it and to know how to apply this knowledge in practice.

Psychologists unanimously agree that emotions can be understood with the help of face expressions. The Facial Expression Program is aimed at making emotions easier to understand (Russell and Fernández Dols 3-4). It is composed of assumptions, methods and theories. The ...

What is God? How do we understand God? Should we praise God? All these questions were being posed by humanity countless times throughout history. And there indeed always were more answer than questions. Some said that God is omnipotent, transcendent entity, others told that God is the reason for everything, the third suggested that God watches all of us, rewards the good and punishes the bad. And that is only a tiny bit of the explanations offered by different individuals, teaching, and religions. Indeed, such variety may be troublesome because it makes the task of deciding the true explanation. ...

Introduction

A sitcom is short for a situational comedy. It is a genre in film that involves a comedy performance where recurring characters in the show play out funny storylines. The main element of a sitcom is that it happens in a common environment such as a home or a school or workplace involving relatable characters. Sitcoms are tailored to depict everyday life situations in a humorous way to entertain the audience. When sitcoms were first introduced they were presented over the radio, but today they are predominantly on television. Most of the sitcoms are recorded in front of a ...

Observation Sheet

Researcher: NAME Confederate: Steven (friend) Observational time period: approximately 35 minutes Norm Broken: reading an erotic magazine in a public transport Page #_________ Assumptions – hypothesis – research question “Norms serve a basic human social function, helping us distinguish who is in the group and who is an outsider” (Wang). Because norm breaking behavior threatens the society, it was assumed that during the observation and because of its’ sexual content, there would be several people, who would be willing to express their anger. The general mass was expected to keep silent, but to initiate visible responses; and approximately 10% of the ...

Nowadays a lot of problematic issues and controversies about people’s social, religious, racial and gender identity have been discussed. Equality of human rights, recognition of basic moral and ethical principles, tolerance and respect towards people with different background are the main conditions of real freedom and democracy. Although, people have started realizing new progressive ideals and there has been a significant decrease in the race discrimination rates, the problem of transgender identity still remains unsolved and public offense or misunderstandings still very frequently occur in different mass media sources. Many people wonder, why one should change his or ...

America is known as the melting pot of the world, a place where people from any part of the world who wishes to get equal opportunities in life go to. In a land where peole are recognized for what they can do, people have flocked and continue to migrate to America to get a taste of freedom to do whatever one wants and be successful in whichever way one wants to be. Truly, these promises of the United States had people dreaming of getting there someday and see what the most progressive country in the world has to offer. ...

U.S has a high number of adolescents hooked to illicit drug use and the percentage of drug abusers is increasing at an alarming rate. There are several reasons for an adolescent to indulge into drug abuse. Factors such as anxiety, depression, getting bored of many things in life, believing that drugs relieves stress, or to forget the painful memories of the past, and building a faith that drugs will help them fit into all situations are few causes that attract the drug abusers. Hundreds of drugs are available in the market depending on the user preference, categorized as hard ...

Question 1

In his extension of labeling theory, John Braithwaite explores the nature and impact of shaming. He distinguishes two different types of shaming namely the disintegrative shaming and reintegrative shaming. Disintegrative Shaming refers to a type of negative labeling by the system of juvenile justice that is consistent with traditional labeling notions, and that is consistent with traditional labeling notions, and that assume stigmatize forms and eliminate targeted youths (Braithwaite 32). For a juvenile who is marked as either delinquent or pre-delinquent, legitimate avenues to conventional membership society become severely restricted. As a result, the juvenile will likely turn to ...