African studies

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The psycho-discursive approach is defined as the way things such as gender identities are constructed or interpreted because the society has created a particular discourse about them (Wetherell & Edley, 1999). In the lines of gender violence, women may construct their abuse as a sign of love and affection from their partner or may see it as harmful and wrong. This suggests that everyone constructs their nature or discourse of their situations differently because they are psychologically invested…

Case Examples of Music therapy for Survivors of Abuse by Kenneth E. Bruscia is a collection of case studies in which the clients discussed have been affected negatively by emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. The emotions manifested by each study aided me as a reader to understand what everyone had to face physically and emotionally. Physical wounds heal on their own, but psychological symptoms often worsen over time without the proper treatment because these traumatic experiences infest…

he third successful volunteer for my research study was Mr. Noah (a pseudonym). Mr. Noah who identified his , name , age and affiliated institution in the optional fields of the informed consent form is a professor holding a PHD and has been teaching for more than 25 years. However, he was selected for the study because he spent significant years teaching in city college of Chicago (CCC). He also has a good experience in dealing with student from multicultural backgrounds in different…

Central African Republic, Chad, Sierra Leone, Eritrea, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Guinea, and Mozambique. All of these countries have one common denominator. They are developing African nations. On the contrary, the top five, Norway, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands and United States are all developed nations with large stable economies. These inequalities have detrimental effects on the economies of countries with low global parity index numbers. Countries such as Central African…

organizations, there are a set of rules spelled out in the company’s code of ethics in which behavior should be based upon. The ethics are to be followed by the employees and also govern the behavior towards clients (Lopez & Fornes, 2015). Using the case study of the Bank of America, the report gives a summary of the ethics of the bank and some of the ethical dilemmas the bank has faced in recent times. The The Bank of America like other agencies has a set of rules that govern the conduct of…

the paper, the authors acknowledge this issue. Their sample consisted of predominantly European and African-American boys from an urban community, identified at risk of developing behavioural problems. Furthermore, the fact that all the participants were male, means the findings of this study cannot be generalised to the population at large (Supplee et al., 2011). But as the authors state, this study provides a platform for future research, setting a precedent, not only for further longitudinal…

West and Zimmerman (1987) argue that the complex, socially guided activities that express masculine and feminine natures can be revealed in scholarly methods such as ethnomethodology and symbolic interactionism. West and Zimmerman (1987) indicate that the major argument of the doing gender theory presumes that social interactions and interpretations make social realities. Furthermore, social actors construct these realities and the realities later become accepted and are not questioned.…

journal article is a longitudinal study of 1,214 children and 888 adolescents. The longitudinal study was done to research the children’s relationship between early child care and adolescent functioning. It was experienced that children in center-type care were linked to higher class rank and had a higher academic standing. Higher quality child care predicted higher academic grades. Fewer hours in child care was related to behavior problems in kindergarten. The studies suggest long-term benefits…

Relationships Article 1: Mack, Kristin Y. (2004). The Effects of Early Parental Death on Sibling Relationships in Later Life, Journal of Death and Dying, 49(2), 131-148 1. Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), this article studies whether adults who have experienced parental death at an early age are closer and have more contact with their siblings compared to adults who were fortunate not to experience such mishap and raised in intact families. Also, this…