Angelina Jolie

What do you recommend when patients continue to relapse while taking buprenorphine? I recognize that opioid addiction is an illness, so I increase the intensity of treatment if a patient should relapse. However, repeated relapses signify a major problem. Medication-assisted treatment with buprenorphine requires a great deal of self-monitoring (self-policing). Patients who are unable to self-monitor are still in need of treatment, but at a higher intensity level. Options include treatment at an…

Society and media construct and influence the bases of what configures their ideal female, whether that equates to the physiological build of the Kim Kardashian, Angelina Jolie, or Taylor Swift types, it does not matter because it isn 't right. In addition, the slurry of mixed messages about what to eat and when to consume it, are the plaque of eating disorders. While third world countries such as Burundi, according…

The United States of America was founded on the principle of religious freedom. However, the American people are becoming less and less religious. According to the Religious Landscape Study, in the last seven years the number of religiously unaffiliated United States citizens has increased by nearly seven percent totaling 22.8% as of 2014 (Cooperman et al.). Fewer people are looking to religion as a source of direction. Instead, they look to the media for role models. One such role model is…

That when the severity of the illness sunk into her. She shattered when she saw the stands of charcoal black hair that were woven into the hairbrush. Radiation therapy uses high doses of radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors (“American Cancer Association”). One of the women I met at the walkathon had radiation therapy. They go through a machine that kills the cancer cells using radiation. Radiation therapy doesn’t only kill cancerous cells through. The woman that I met at the…

In his book The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History, American cultural historian Robert Darton argues that readers can access the “social dimension of thought” via folktales because stories are often influenced by the “surrounding world of significance” (6). He claims that folktales often evolve to reflect the social attitude at the time at which they are told. Thus, as Darton suggests, it is “…unwise to build an interpretation on a single version of a single tale…

The Past, Present, and Future of American Traditional Tattoos A robust, youthful gentleman waves a stoic goodbye to his lover as he embarks on the USS Midway navy ship. Attired in snowy sailor clothes, a pin-up tattoo peeks out of his sleeve as the cobalt, crisp ocean waves slap against the ship’s flanks. This is the origin of the American Traditional pin-up tattoo, an illustration depicting a flirtatious woman with bright red lips often found wearing flimsy lingerie. The pin-up tattoo is the…

Social media has been notorious for starting different trends or wars. From the ALS ice bucket challenge to the dress color war, people always hop on the bandwagon to be like everyone else that’s participating in the trend. Most social media trends tend to be lighthearted, fun challenges or trends; however, there are some occasional trends that tend to be more serious than others, such as Kony 2012. Kony 2012 was a film produced by Invisible Children (Nelson). The film's motivation was to…

Throughout the years, America has gone through a great revolution involving technology. With the technological revolution taking off news outlets have increased the various means by which they distribute information to the people. Increasingly a few media corporations took charge of a majority of the news the general public can access. As a result they controlled most of one’s ideas and imagination about the world. This control allows these conglomerates to influence the media they want the…

How does the work of Banksy illustrate the changing role of graffiti street art in a global society? Abstract Previously art used to be categorized by a small number of people, housed in homes of the rich or in museums sponsored by governments. Street art, in the past, was a vehicle by which the artist communicated his name by tagging, his message from his culture and his own viewpoint. The messages were often about their own environment. In the era of globalization and travel however, the…

Philip II, dies him taking the throne and making it a mission to be the most powerful ruler. The 2004 film Alexander: The Ultimate was directed by Oliver Stone. The movie portrayed many good actors such as Collin Farrel as Alexander, Alexander, Angelina Jolie as Queen Olympia, Val Kilmer as King Philip, Christopher Plummer as Aristotle and, Jared Leto as…