Major Arcana

Strike Three! At ninety-eight miles per hour, Jennie Finch pitches all strikes for every game. But that is what you may have seen if you had been lucky enough to witness one of the games that Finch was the pitcher in: She stunned the softball world with her amazing performance. At age five Jennie Finch started playing softball, and became a pitcher at eight years old(Team). She played for the Arizona Wildcats, and the Chicago Bandits, and she has won two Olympic medals and seven world…

Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia on the date of January 3, 1919. Breaking the color barrier, Jackie Robinson turned into the first ever African-American to play in Major League Baseball. The most youthful of five youngsters, Robinson was brought up in relative destitution by a single parent. He went to John Muir High School and after he attended Pasadena Junior College, where he showed his skills playing four sports: baseball, track, football, and basketball. In 1938 he was…

‘What’s that awful ticking noise?’ ‘Who’s tapping their feet on the floor?’ ‘Why can’t people eat without making that annoying chomping sound?’ ‘You sip your drink, you don’t slurp it.’ ‘I’ll punch that person so hard. I’ll kill him.’ ‘Shut up.’ ‘Shut up!’ ‘SHUT UP!’ Too intense for you? Well, this is what a person suffering from Misophonia is thinking nearly all the time. But what is Misophonia? Misophonia, literally “hatred of sound”, is a usually self-diagnosable disorder in which negative…

Psychodrama and CBT for Depression. The Hamamci (2006) study compared the effects of a psychodrama program that was integrated with cognitive behavioral group therapy for the treatment of depression. Psychodrama is a method of exploring psychological and interpersonal challenges by having participants enact the related events in their lives instead of only talking about them. Psychodrama techniques are especially helpful in situations where irrational beliefs cannot be detected by writing them…

Dental anxiety is a prevalent problem among many people which every dental practitioner will face, it may cause difficulties in the treatment for the practitioner, as well as severe consequences for the patient. The anxiety response is almost identical to the fear response, both having a physiologic, a cognitive and a behavioral component. The main difference is the nature of the stimulus which will trigger the reaction, and how powerful the reaction is to the given threat. An anxious person…

The kindling effect was first discovered when research was done on epilepsy and is used to describe some forms of epilepsy that get more severe over time. While epilepsy is caused by different processes in the brain than bipolar disorder is, the kindling effect can apply to them. Bipolar episodes are initially triggered by stressors, but over time they happen even without the triggers because the brain becomes “kindled” or sensitized. Oliver explains that the term kindling comes from the…

Frozen shoulder, otherwise known as adhesive capsulitis, is a condition in the shoulder characterized by stiffness, pain, and limitation of motion. It is typical in frozen shoulder to involve only one, although, few cases affect both shoulders. Causes: Frozen shoulder usually happen after a recent injury or after a medical procedure or from a medical condition such as stroke, diabetes, or mastectomy. The inability of moving the shoulder into its full range of motion because of pain results to…

Do pro athletes deserve high salaries? Yes, because professionals have to do what they do for a long period of time to get to where they are. You can't just decide to pick up a baseball one day and the next you be in the major leagues. Interests like that take time and building up to become successful. Some may say that athletes have too much of a salary. But you're there in the upper level to entertain a specific crowd that interests your hobby. Say that you are to play sports all…

Suicide is a topic that is not often talked about. Suicide is the third leading cause of death ages 15-24 year olds. In 2012, suicides among teens between 15 and 24 were accounted for 10.9%. Thousands of teenagers in the United States commit suicide. At least twenty-five attempts are made for every completed teen suicide. According to kidshealth.org nearly 60% of all suicides in the United States are committed with a gun. Teenagers normally commit suicide because of bullying, sexual abuse…

Blindness is defined in the dictionary in a word, sightless. The blind people’s life is extremely hard. They have to cope and adjust to be a part of the society. They have to depend on their other senses to explore the world around them. The good thing about it is they learn to use their other sense better than other people. Raymond Carver’s Cathedral is set in the days when the switch from black and white to color television was in its early stages, and when cassette tapes were a cutting edge…