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She reported after moving to this country she realized the values of becoming a homeowner, which included having more control over her life. To conclude, during the last stage of life, one’s lifestyle can slow down physically and mentally. The lens in which they view their lives can impact their feelings of satisfaction for what was accomplished or regrets for what was not…

the Cadillac-Corning neighborhood and the Playboy Gangster Crips consisted of low income and people of color. Gang injunctions can be similar to a restraining order enforced to individual gang members and at times the whole gang, from coming into contact and participating activities within a specific bordered target are. Whether or not you were a gang member and meet the requirements that stereotyped one or had any type of connection or affiliation with any gang member you were still considered…

As social psychological theories are meant to explain phenomenon, it is relatively easy to identify these theories and concepts in daily life. Events in the news are also subject to social psychological analysis. In the CNN article “Could Grisly Murder of College Student Have Been Stopped?” by Scott Glover, Glover details the events surrounding the murder of a University of California, Los Angeles student. Sarah Muhr, a student at UCLA, called the police after she heard screams coming from…

cold and damp in turn aggravates circulatory diseases, which can lead to strokes and heart attacks or respiratory illnesses such as bronchitis or pneumonia. http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/briefings/briefing19/ Older people who maintain social contact have fewer health problems. For example, older people who are married tend to be in better health than those who live alone. When older people live alone they may have problems and symptoms but they may not report it because they do not…

supervisor at a large bank’s customer service center. Evidence of emotional dissonance presents itself daily. The bank has a set of core values that all employees are expected to portray. We have clear and emphasized display norms. Each of my bankers contacts averages between three and four minutes. Each call, no matter the length or reason, is expected to be used to enhance the customer relationship. This tight control over what can and cannot be displayed proves to be very frustrating at…

wound-dressing changes” (Virtual Reality, para 26). In the armed forces, “pilots are trained in complex virtual aircraft” (Virtual Reality, para 27). Virtual reality has also helped therapeutic patients get rid of phobias while not being directly in contact with them such as soldiers with PTSD or people anxiety disorders (Beidel, Bulik & Stanley, 2013, p. 155). Overall, none of the uses virtual reality has would be as advanced or reliable as it is today without the creation of Oculus. Marketing…

realization and says, “I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still”(Martel 177). Pi’s religious background allowed him to stay calm, even in these dire times, because he was able to look at the world through a wider lens. During his time on the boat, Pi performed certain religious rituals that reminded him of his faith, and he even reminded himself of religious beliefs by pointing at the objects around him and claiming them to be “God’s.” After doing this, Pi…

James Paul Gee, in “What is Literacy?”, expands on the definition of discourse by breaking it down into its two vital parts, primary and secondary. According to Gee, discourse provides us with identity kits, which vary based on cultural and socio-economic factors, and our abilities to participate and share meaning with others in the world. The distinction between primary and secondary discourses lies in the physical and abstract acts of being, belonging, absorbing, engaging, and producing, as…

melt into the floor and become oblivious to people, school, everything. I felt heat rising off my skin while I peeled myself off of the gym floor, red-faced. The day seemed to drag on as I strode quickly from classroom to classroom. I avoided eye contact. I clutched my books. I did my work. Finally, after the longest day in history of school days, I went home. Days passed and people began joking about my mishap amongst each other, as well as with me. I would politely dismiss the subject and…

reading process grants Mailer the freedom to play with the epistemological and aesthetic concerns of his own narrative. Thus, the implicit autobiographical traces in the narrative “attempt to move closer to the reality of an event by examining the lens through which that event is viewed” (Kraus 292). By narrating “the personal history” and communicating his own intersubjective experience of the historical event of the March, Mailer seeks to subvert the sense of objectivity and to foreground his…