Essays on Leavy

Identification of the Article and Its Methodology

The article upon which this paper is based is the Responses to bullying and use of social support among pupils with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) in mainstream schools: a qualitative study which is authored by Neil Humphrey and Wendy Symes. The article was published in the 10th Volume, number 2 of the Journal of Research in Special Education Needs in 2010. The article is based increased mainstreaming of children who are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. While the authors laud the efforts towards mainstreaming, they still recognize the insurmountable challenges and barriers that may serve as impediments to children ...

The Arabs Portrayal in American Cinema

Introduction The problem in the development of misconceptions about the Arabs can be traced largely on how they were portrayed in western movies. As people do not generally meet Arabs in their everyday lives, the films play an important role in providing conceptions about them. Unfortunately, stereotypes and other factors proved to have shaped the way that the Arab images are depicted in cinemas. According to Michalack, it is the American popular culture that offered the lushest and most comprehensive perception of American stereotype about the Arabs, and this started as early as the 20th century until today (Michalak, ...

The great plague that devastated England in the mid-14th century wiped out entire villages and filled the streets of London with cartloads of bloated corpses. The relevant statistics are difficult to gauge accurately, but estimates are that from a population of about 6 million people in 1300, as many as four million are thought to have died from the outbreak of bubonic plague that hit England in the 1340s (Borsch, 2005). All of Europe was similarly affected, with as much as 45 percent of the continent’s population dying from the Black Death in less than a decade (Borsch). There were ...