Insight

Have you ever wondered the side effects of hard contact hits in high impact sports like football? High impact hits are when you collide heads with another player while playing the sport. There should be more rules or equipment to prevent these hard hits because they can cause memory problems,severe headaches, and they can lead to depression. A couple of severe side effects of high impact hits can be bad headaches for the rest of a person’s life and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. The first…

James Russell’s Strategic Insights article addressed a few of the resources the United States uses towards WMD counter-proliferation efforts however a number were not highlighted. Counter-proliferation of WMD is nothing new; however the methods the U.S. has employed have changed and improved over the past 25 years. Initial counter-proliferation efforts by the U.S. began in 1970 with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NNPT) which “covers three mutually reinforcing pillars—disarmament,…

My Stroke of Insight is a book by Jill Bolte Taylor who was a neuroanatomist who spent most of her life researching the brain. In 1991, Taylor received her doctorate degree, and held a position at Harvard, Medical School in Department of Neuroscience (Taylor p.2). Being in her mid-thirties, the year 1996, Taylor discovered that she was having a stroke of her own. She describes how blood vessel exploded on the left side of her brain. Taylor was not able to read, write, talk, or recall any aspects…

Personal Insight Questions My dad crossed the border when I was only six months. He never finished middle school and my mom went only up to freshman year of high school. They had to drop out because they had to help and support their family. After I was born my parents realized that in Mexico there’s nothing for us. They knew that there isn’t big opportunities for us to prosper in life. My dad decided to cross the border and by his third try he actually made it. He was in the United States…

There are many different ways to treat psychological disorders. The two main types of therapies are insight therapy and behavior therapy (behavior modification). Insight therapists rely on trying to change the way people think and feel. Behavior therapists seek to understand how unwanted behaviors might have been learned and, even more important, how they can be eliminated and replaced by more effective patterns (Geller & Dula, 2015). Behavior therapy is the most compelling to me. Under behavior…

Josiah Royce was a professor of philosophy who wrote “The moral Insight”. Royce writes about how we view our selves as better than someone else, or that we perceive ourselves to be realer than other people. We also have this point of view where we view other people as objects. This is because we are self-centered, and selfish because we believe our feelings and everything else are more powerful or even realer compared to someone else’s. However, the meaning behind Royce’s writing was unfolded…

Viktor Frankl’s Insight into Meaning As Norman Cousins once preached, “The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.” Although just the thought to address positive outcomes of the indisputable tragedy of the Holocaust can be a gruesome notion to grasp, historians have acknowledged that some societal contributions can be traced back to the atrocious era, such as extreme medical advancements and significant scientific discoveries. However, one positive outcome…

Kai Wilkins Dr. Makin Criminal Justice 205 1 October 2015 Insight to The Criminal Justice System Guenther’s Views In a time before what the world has become today, Guenther had many philosophies and ideas on how the criminal justice system should be ran. Guenther believed in 1976 that the system was more “unfair, harsh, and biased” and could seen more as a criminal processing system. What he found was that it the system is just and true, there were several incidents he went through…

Insights in “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” Leo Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828 in Tula Province, Russia. Tolstoy wrote his first novel in the 1860s titled “War and Peace.” In 1873, Tolstoy set to work on the second of his best-known novels, “Anna Karenina.” He continued to write fiction throughout the 1880s and 1890s. One of his most successful later works was “The Death of Ivan Ilyich.” Tolstoy was the youngest of four boys. When his mom died in 1843 his cousin began to take care of them.…

Analysis of “My Stroke of Insight” The Ted talk “My Stroke of Insight” given by a Neuroanatomist, Jill Bolte Taylor, is about how humans have a left hemisphere and a right hemisphere and how humans have different perceptions of themselves because of it. In the right hemisphere people tend to think that they are “energy-beings connected to one another through the consciousness of our right hemispheres as one human family.” People who tend to think with their left hemisphere are responsible for…