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Evidence Based Paper III Bridgewater State University Fred O'Connor Results Introduction Several forms of treatment have been used in helping alcoholics to recover from the disease of alcoholism. Several of the available options have been found to be effective including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Social Support/Group Therapy, Drug Counseling, and Family Therapy, among other methods. Although each has had positive effects for individuals struggling with alcoholism; the most effective…

Polygamy is one of the most thought about and controversial issues in this day in age. It’s specifically controversial in religions that do not practice polygamy, but still notorious in religious where it once was practiced like in Islam and Mormon societies. These two religious groups are very controversial due to their history and societies acceptance of them. Mormons and Islamic people are subjected to a lot of criticism in today’s society. In order to fully understand their arguments, you…

to experience it. She points out that Jesus is a prophet to Muslims so they want to celebrate his birthday. Frank speaks about the Muslim owned shop from where he lives and states that they sell Christian Christmas cards. Shazia takes us back to her days in school, her experiences with integration then, ‘On Wednesday you went to the church or the minister came to school, you sang the hymns, you just took part in all that’. They chat about going to the same churches but praying to your individual…

world of human art as we know it. Painters which paint with perfection in mind, with the idea of painting what they see how it is, and then there are painters who paint not what they see, but how they see it. Two of the most famous painters in the latter category is the infamous Vincent van Gogh, and the Cubism creator, Pablo Picasso. These two painters shaped human art history as we know it, with their art work being valued at millions, and their creativity being priceless. It is important to…

A Realistic Depiction: A Magical Experience In So Far From God, Ana Castillo attempts to make the traditional Chicano community more accessible to the American society. Castillo delves into a small conservative town where Sofi, a mother who struggles to find her inner strength, lives with her four daughters. In her depiction, Castillo uses magical realism to blur the lines between the real and the unreal in order to enable her characters to challenge the political and religious…

considers Silence as the only effective means of neutralizing the tendency towards sins of the tongue. There is an ongoing dialogue between the Benedictines and the Cistercians which juxtaposes a "monastic archetype" characterized by peace and Silence 11. A spring of water does not bubble out first with fresh water and then with bitter water. 12. One cannot pick olives from a fig tree or figs from a grape vine. Similarly one cannot draw fresh water from a salty pool. Although speech is morally…

homosexuals. Labels do not mean identity; they refer to “clout” (Kushner 45). Roy learns this from the nuclear environment he grows up in. He is a youth in the 30’s through 50’s when American society was strengthening the reigns on divergence. There was a movement to go enforce archaic, strict gender and sexuality norms. In an article for The New York Times titled “A Gay World, Vibrant and Forgotten,” George Chauncey talks about the oppression and silencing of gay men that occurred in the 30’s…

This paper investigates the issue of syntactic deviation: word order (fronting, postponement, and discontinuity) from stylistic point of view. The construction here exemplified by clauses in T.S Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land”. Biber et al (1999:900) pointed out; “fronting has to do with placing core elements which tend to appear after the verb in pre-verbal position”. The purpose of the study is to examine obligatory adjunct, optional adjunct, and direct object and object complement fronting…

Gun control, gay marriage, legal marijuana, prostitution, illegal immigration; this is only a partial list of the large number of controversies that plague America. Included in this large list of controversies is a big one that has been dividing Americans, the topic of abortion. This has been an ongoing debate for many years, covering the morality and legality of permitting induced abortions. There are two major sides involved in the debate. One side is known as "pro-choice". They advocate…

For the follower of King Messiah there comes some many forthright questions which need to be answered in the regards of revelation of the Bible, how the Bible was inspired,and what is the authority of the Bible. In other words: is the Bible speaking to me? How do I know the Bible is not just another document? Why should this old book have authority over me? These are valid questions which many believers today take for granted. Yet, the importance of these questions infect the life of the…