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The Course of Action from the Utilitarian Perspective and from the Kantian Perspective (1234 words, 5 pages)

Question You are a streetcar driver. On one of your daily routes you roll on to a stretch of streetcar track that is bordered on both sides by steep hills that are not climbable. In front of you are five streetcar-track workers. You blow the whistle and slam on your ... Read More

The Opposing Ideas of the Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives in Dan Zahavi’s Essay About Ideas of Self (284 words, 1 pages)

Phenomenological ConventionI went to the convention and listened to Dan Zahavis essay about the ideas of self. He sought to describe the opposing ideas of the empirical perspectives and theoretical perspectives. To shorten up everything he said, I believe that Zahavi wanted to emphasize the idea of how the self ... Read More

Prejudice, Discrimination and Stereotyping in the Essay, Social Psychology (1285 words, 4 pages)

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGYIn the following essay I will give examples of prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping. I will do so by linking these actions to events that I have observed in my personal life. Each paragraph will begin with a short description of its given action, pertaining to the order of prejudice, ... Read More

The Differences Between Psychological Diagnosis and Therapy in Chapter IV of the Book The Common Ground (334 words, 2 pages)

Psychological DisordersJournal Entry on Chapter 4 of The Common GroundAfter reading The Common Ground I had many revelations about the differences between psychological diagnosis and therapy. First, I noticed the therapists ability to connect with the patient. Next, I saw that the patients were not as open to the idea ... Read More

My Understanding and Feelings Towards the Idea of Psychology as a Human Science (1147 words, 4 pages)

Reflective Essay on the First SectionThis essay will provide an example of my understanding and feelings towards the idea of psychology as a human science. The first section of the paper will lay out the positive aspects to human science insofar as it will provide some reasoning as to why ... Read More

The Concepts in Humanistic Psychology with Jane Bennett’s Vital Materialism in Her Book “Vibrant Matter” (1093 words, 5 pages)

Jane Bennett's work, Vibrant Matter, discusses how the world functions for the vital materialist. The following paper seeks to correlate prominent concepts in humanistic psychology with Jane Bennett's vital materialism. In doing so, a critical interpretation of humanistic psychology will emerge from the assertion of Bennett's philosophy. This is a ... Read More

The Concepts of Jean Piaget and Sigmund Freud on How Psychologically Develop from Birth to Adulthood (1536 words, 5 pages)

There are many different theories as to how we psychologically develop from birth to adulthood. The main focus of this paper will be on the concepts of Jean Piaget and Sigmund Freud. I will give correlations between these concepts (with reference to the psychologists who produced them) and my own ... Read More

Understanding Religious Healing from the Perspective of the Bible (924 words, 3 pages)

I had gone to church with my cousins only two or three times so when Iwent to observe the healing ritual in the chapel on Montgomery earlier, Ihad no idea as to what was going on. I felt like a fool half of the timebecause I didn't know the motions ... Read More

The Allusions of Death and Purgatory in the Psychological Thriller Film, Vanilla Sky (823 words, 3 pages)

Vanilla Sky offers an interpretation as to what purgatory or someparallel could be like. What first starts as a wealthy young man, DavidAames, life slowly starts to shift and change, unbeknownst to the viewerinto a disjointed psychological nightmare. Even at the end of the movie theviewer is left wondering 'what ... Read More

The Perspective on Psychology by Human Science Has Much to Offer to the Psychological Realm of thought (2682 words, 11 pages)

The human science perspective on psychology has much to offer to the psychological realm of thought. Human science can open many doors to psychology and therapy. The following essay will be a representation of my knowledge and understanding of the human science approach. To authenticate my understanding I will be ... Read More

The Story of The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky from the Perspective of Alexey Ivanovich (1277 words, 4 pages)

Roulettenburg Farce Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Gambler is told from a first person point ofview by Alexey Ivanovich, an unreliable narrator that presents the novelthrough a series of journal-like entries in which he attempts to recall theevents of his time in Roulettenburg and beyond. He travels as a tutor withthe family ... Read More

A Position Paper on the Topics of Obesity and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Bhutan (760 words, 2 pages)

A Position PaperCommittee World Health OrganizationRepresenting BhutanTopic 1 ObesityOne of todays most blatantly visible-yet most neglected-public health problems (WHO)obesity has been a topic of interest in health organizations for decades. Obese and overweight peoples are prone to major risk factors for various diseases and cancer, namely diabetes. Having previously been ... Read More

A Review of One Hour Photo, a Psychological Thriller Film Starring Robin Williams (303 words, 1 pages)

A Hidden Gem My Thoughts on One Hour PhotoThis film is not very well known, I only found out about it a few days ago when it popped up in my recommended section. If you haven't seen the film, it's about a man who processes film and turns them into ... Read More

A Report on The Shining, a Psychological Horror Film by Stanley Kubrick (1730 words, 5 pages)

Jack Torrance, The Coolest Dad AroundThe Shining takes place in Denver, Colorado sometime around the 1980s. The main characters of the movie include Jack Torrance, a writer and former teacher, Wendy Torrance, the wife of Jack, and Danny Torrance, the son of Jack and Wendy. The story begins as Jack ... Read More

A Novel Perspective to David O. Brink’s A Puzzle About the Rational Authority of Morality (1506 words, 6 pages)

A Novel Perspective to the Puzzle About the Rational Authority of MoralityDavid O. Brinks A Puzzle About the Rational Authority of Morality accentuates the tension between moral obligations and consequences that contradict the agents pursuit of his own interest after following moral obligations. Brink presents the tension as a puzzle ... Read More

The Court Trial Perspective in The Crucible, a Play by Arthur MIller (611 words, 2 pages)

The Crucible Court Trial PerspectiveHi! I am John Proctor, farmer and wife of Elizabeth Proctor. I am an honest man and I despise hypocrisy however, I am the reason my wife and the accused are convicted, I put these victims into Abigails crosshair. Although I am a reputable man for ... Read More

A Perspective on Persistence in Hawthorne’s Wakefield and Birthmark and Melville’s Bartleby, the Scivener (1867 words, 5 pages)

A perspective on persistence Perspective changes everything. Imagine being told a story about a man who was thought to be stubborn and refused to help an injured stranger, and then hearing the same story told from a different point of view. One might say the man was being perverse, but ... Read More

The Importance of Sociological Perspectives to Understanding Economy (2899 words, 11 pages)

This essay will discuss how sociological perspectives are fundamental to understanding of how the economy operates and what it means for understanding human action. The first aspect it will consider it symbolic interactionism and that through its microanalytical lenses highlights how the economy changes social bonds, shapes norms and values ... Read More

The Three Different Perspectives on The Battle of Thermopylae (603 words, 1 pages)

The Battle of Thermopylae in Three Perspectives The Battle of Thermopylae was a famous battle fought between theinvading Persians, and the defending Greek city-state alliance. Thisbattle was recorded many historians, including Herodotus and Diodorus, andis even being continued to be written about in modern times through themovie "300". Because each ... Read More

Solomon O. Iyasere’s New Critical Perspective on Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (934 words, 4 pages)

Solomon O. Iyasere, New Criticism, and Things Fall ApartIn order to better make use of the work of literary critics and to better understand the arguments they propose and the insights they reveal it can be helpful to understand works of criticism with the structures of Theory. It is not ... Read More

Jane Austen’s Emma: An Analysis from a Feminist Perspective (1040 words, 5 pages)

To read Jane Austens Emma from a Feminist perspectivethat is, to assume that Emma is in some sense a Feminist novelposes more than a few challenges to the reader. Does Emmas unique situation, most of all defined by her financial independence from men, allow her to subvert the traditional role ... Read More

Evaluating Tobin’s Marxist Perspective on Jane Austen’s Emma (1062 words, 4 pages)

Evaluating Tobins Marxist Perspective of Emma In the Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series edition of Emma, Beth Fawkes Tobins Essay Aiding Impoverished Gentlewomen Power and Class in Emma is presented as an example of Marxist literary criticism. So, we must ask ourselves why was this particular essay chosen? How ... Read More

The Problem of Obesity in the United States (921 words, 4 pages)

Currently one-third of adults and one-fifth of children in the United States are obese. Minorities make a large amount of this total, as 47.8 of obese adults are African-American. Children nowadays are only getting fatter because of the poor examples their parents are setting and enabling their unhealthy habits by ... Read More

The Chosen by Chaim Potok: Danny Malter and Psychology (481 words, 2 pages)

Becoming Your Own PsychologistIn the novel The Chosen by Chaim Potok, Danny Malter is raised in such a way that he is to take his fathers position as tzaddik and lead his Hasidic community. As Danny matures, he is able to create his own judgment about becoming the tzaddik while ... Read More

The Acute Psychology in Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting (1408 words, 4 pages)

For my Acute Psychology class in nursing school, I was asked to attend an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting so that we would be able to see what our clients could experience. I had never seen an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and I tried to keep an open mind about what the experience ... Read More

The Psychology Behind the Hollywood Films (706 words, 3 pages)

Micro-Essay 4Hollywood films convey the OedipalPsychoanalytic ideals of Sigmund Freud and Barbara Creed. Freud developed the Oedipus Complex which is the desire for sexual involvement with the parent of the opposite sex thus creating a rivalry with the parent of the same sex. The moment at which the subject realizes ... Read More

The Learning Process and Discussion Regarding the Societal Role of Gender Through an Anthropological Perspective (1715 words, 6 pages)

Over the past six weeks, our class has been learning about and discussing the societal role of gender through an anthropological perspective. Like anthropologists, we have been trying our best to objectively understand how gender affects the everyday life of other cultures. When we are able to understand another culture ... Read More

Clinical and Counseling Psychology: A Report on My Listening on the Podcasts Episode 107: Freud, Positive Tests … and Poetry and Episode 182: Gamification (838 words, 2 pages)

The fields of clinical and counseling psychology are very appealing to me.This is mainly the area that I would like to work since I would get to workwith people. Working as an administrator or in program development andevaluation is not as appealing to me because they sound more like desk ... Read More

The Issues of Child’s Obesity in the United States (661 words, 3 pages)

Obesity is an extremely prevalent problem in American society, and it is now starting at younger ages. According to the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, the United States is experiencing levels of child overweight and obesity that are among the highest recorded in any country in the world (Lobstrin and ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of Psychology and Obtaining a Degree in Psychology (1537 words, 5 pages)

When thinking of psychology most people focus on one of two areas, theclinical area that involves sitting in an office and listening to clientswhile analyzing their problems, or the experimental aspect where oneimagines scientists in a lab running controlled studies to figure out howthe brain works and how people become ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013