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banned awhile on earth, But by dead commended; and with them I shall abide for ever. As for thee, Scorn, if thou wilt, the eternal laws of Heaven” (Antigone p.8)…

Kriss, 2014, p. 28). These disagreements led to the emergence of a psychoanalytic-type therapy without certain characteristics that define psychoanalysis, including the extensive time spent in therapy and the traditional on-the-couch model (Safran & Kriss, 2014, p. 35). In psychodynamic…

The most influential writers of the sex manuals claim that the best way to learn about sex is through the bible, itself. (DeRogatis p.99) The topic of sex has always been taboo and commonly people shied away from talking about sex openly. Living in a country that is gradually beginning to talk about sex and sexuality gives a writer an easier platform to approach the topic of sexual…

depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities for more than two weeks (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). It can have a big impact on a person’s whole being: feelings, thoughts, behaviour, and physical functioning. "Depression is the leading cause of disability in the world" that can happen at any age (Halter, 2014, p. 233). However, the most common time of onset of major depressive disorder is between 15 and 45 years of age (Patten et al., 2009, p. S9). According to…

judgement of an individual to pursue righteous actions that maintain the integrity, well-being and happiness of oneself and others. Act utilitarianism promotes universal hedonism, impartiality and judges the utility of deeds through the calculation of pleasure and pain. Virtue ethics accentuates that proper habituation leads to good ethical and practical reasoning and that virtues are the guidelines to human flourishing and a nurturing society. Ethical theories should consider the entire…

children are not school teachers or university professors but filmmakers, advertising executives and pop culture purveyors. Stanford, MTV trumps MIT. It is not from their schools that children learn to obsess over the President’s private sexual conduct” (p. 63). I do not completely agree with this quote; I believe that educators are political agents and opinion leaders of…

Imagine sitting at home, watching the news on your T.V. The first news story that you hear is on the capture of a person who killed a large amount of people at an event. Our first instinct might be to refer to this person as a serial killer. With the given knowledge, we cannot accurately classify this person as a serial killer. A more accurate description would be a mass murderer, or possibly a spree killer. Serial killers, mass murderers, and spree killers share common elements amongst each…

services (McConnell, 2000, p. G-17) Money is a utility used in several ways. First, money is a Medium of Exchange. Each day we exchange money for some form of good or service. Our economic growth stimulates from the exchange of money. When money is exchanged, bartering is eliminated. Money is a social invention with which resource suppliers and producers can be paid and that can be used to buy any of the full range of items available in the marketplace. (McConnell, p. 630) Second, money is…

Carolyn Strange’s novel Toronto’s girl problem: the perils and pleasures of the city, 1880-1930 is essentially one of the few texts that study young single working women historically. In this text she aims to assess the struggles and views of single women historically, in being able to achieve the freedom they have today to work outside of the domestic sector through industrialization in the late 19th and early 20th century in Toronto. Strange examines many different aspects of the notion in…

public viewed the empire and what Tacitus wrote offered to the reader a stark contrast of moral and immoral. In the Agricola, a writing about Tacitus’s father-in-law, the story opens in a digression of life in the time period compared to the past. (P.3 Tacitus) People of the past had a path in life from the beginning that were defined for them due to societal necessity. However, as time progressed the necessity of the peasantry working to support life was not as demanding of the people as it…