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Men define their masculinity by constructing cooking as a leisure activity rather than one of labour, and as a special event performed in their free time in a manner that is laidback and almost playful (Hollows, 2003: 239). Accordingly, men assert their masculinity by cooking as an occasion and as a form of creative leisure because it is distanced from domestic obligation and labour that are associated with women’s position in the gendered division of labour (Hollows, 2003: 243). This form of…

God (ilah).’ Devoted Muslims proclaim the oneness of God in the Shahadah, which must be spoken everyday in Arabic. La Ilaha illa Allah; Muhammad rasul Allah, which translates to; There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his Prophet (Goldberg, P., Blundell, P., Jordan, T., 2009). Islam translates to ‘submission’, and it is this attribute of submission the lies at the base of this religion. The person who has truly submitted, is one who has completely surrendered to Allah, and this surrender is…

Pop culture often illustrates different philosophical ideas. These ideas can be portrayed in movies, television shows, plays, music, etc. Deontology, which claims that the ethics and morality of one’s actions are based solely on those actions, not their consequences, is shown in Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hears a Who. Utilitarianism, which emphasizes that the best actions are the ones that benefit the greater good, is illustrated in The Last Supper. Finally, Virtue ethics, which says that, in regards…

scenes (Adams, p. 151). One scene shows the creation Adam and Eve up until their expulsion from Paradise (Adams, p. 151). In the Christian narrative, man was created in the perfect image of God; however, after falling to temptation they were then considered unclean and were exiled from Paradise. This is similar to Plotinus's concept of the moral virtues (Module 4, Session 11). Plotinus argued that the ugly soul is “dissolute, unrighteous... perverse in all its the friend of unclean pleasures;…

Freud’s Ego Defense Mechanisms “According to Freud, experiences that have been denied or repressed still have the power to affect a person’s behavior with undiminished intensity without being subject to conscious control” (Fadiman & Frager, p. 24). Freud’s Ego Defense Mechanisms As a result, the ego tries to defend against the repressed material in an effort to protect the person from feeling vulnerable or anxious. Freud’s Ego Defense Mechanisms It is important to note that although defense…

Major depression consist of at least one of the symptoms of either depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). The symptoms for major depression consist of depressed mood, loss of energy, significant weight differences such as more than 5% of body weight in a month, feelings of worthlessness, inability to concentrate, recurrent thoughts of death, insomnia or hypersomnia, and psychomotor agitation. The severity of the depression is determined by the…

your best self as you stated (Kinicki & Fugate, 2016, p.165). The Abraham Maslow’s Need Hierarchy Theory triggered an expression of self-determination to achieve that was lost at the time, your physiological need, need for safety, need for love, esteem,…

The First Rule of Freud Club Throughout the history of cinema, many films that have been created often relate to psychology in some way, shape, or form. More often than not, this relation is intended by the filmmaker in order to bring a further understanding of a particular topic to the audience. Cinema satisfies the basic human desire of escaping reality, as well as, exposing ourselves to many different ideas. These could be ideas that we never have thought about or ideas that we never have…

According to the Department of Education, Science, and Training (2005, p. 36) more than 74% of the children entering first grade who are at risk for reading failure will continue to have reading problems into adulthood. This means teachers have the large task of ensuring each student possesses a solid foundation built up with a range of strategies in order for them to learn how to read. One way reading skills can be taught is through the use of early, explicit and systematic phonics. Teaching…

In Zhen-Sheng Zhang, and coligue study;Pressure Makes Pleasure(39) ; in addition to achieving a uniform hydrostatic pressure to open up the external sphincter, they also asked patients to take a deep breath and comforted them by talking to reduce their pain when the scope was going to pass through the external urinary sphincter the and patient’s position during the procedure was dorsal lithotomy. The mean pain score on VAS was 2.95, 2.48, and 1.66 in group 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Compared to…