Positive youth development

It is clear that in society people are often incapable of forming profound relationships. Problems relating to someones home or family life, and the connections they find within that, can lead to people breaking away in order to seek, and form, more substantial connections elsewhere. This is portrayed within J.D. Salinger’s ‘Catcher In The Rye’, and Sean Penn’s ‘Into The Wild’. Holden and Christopher share similar triggers for the beginning of their journeys, namely the break down of…

a new narrative for the traumatic event’s meaning, which resonated at debilitating odds with the client’s personal schema on life and fractured their coping mechanisms. This has been successfully achieved and documented with PTSD clients through positive psychology and neurobiological theories of conditioning, cognitive theories, and emotional processes. Cognitive theories examine the reciprocal transaction between the memory imprint of the traumatic event on the client and the individual’s…

"Happy was the way we were meant to be" (McMahon, 2005). As simple and straightforward it might sound like, "happiness" is considerably one of the most debated and scandalous word that exists on the surface of Mother Earth. In the modern arena of this complicated world, filled with its convoluted individuals, defining happiness is a really breathtaking task. Surely, an extensive amount of regular people works every day like thirsty dogs to get a bit of markup in their salary which might allow…

volunteer. Drawing a conclusion from this information one can presume that there are still a lower amount of people demonstrating kindness with volunteering (Smith, C., & Davidson, H.2014). Mitchell, D., & Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (2013) show that the United States is more genuinely compassionate in voluntary private social expenditure measured in gross domestic product. Roughly 10.2 shares of GDP for the United States and 32.6 shares of GDP for 11 nations total.…

We humans need a lot to survive in this world, but we also really want a lot in this world. We all want to enjoy the good times and forget the bad times and that is why we think that it’s really important to play instead of doing anything else. Time goes by faster when you are doing something you love. You are driven every morning waking up to do some work, but without some hobbies to cool you down, you can really just break. My goal of this paper is to provide you with evidence that happiness…

happy in our lives. Some people compare happiness with factors like money, social status etc. while some mean satisfaction by happiness. I personally feel that it is our desires that control our happiness and these desires if controlled can lead to positive feelings like satisfaction. It has been rightly said, “Satisfaction is the death of desire.” Out of the four accounts that we covered, I would select the views of the Epicurean and the Stoic accounts for the description of happiness. Both…

Also, I don’t have a completely positive attitude and I also do not have an absolutely negative attitude. I am just me, I am an optimistic pessimist. As an optimistic pessimist, I can almost expect the unexpected. I am also honest to people even though it might hurt them. In a sense, you…

While religion appears to represent the faithful nature of the characters in Patrick Suskind’s novel, Perfume, the love the characters hold for their religion instead hides their selfish natures. With the knowledge that God offers forgiveness, the characters feel the ability to succumb to their own pleasures and God-like dreams. Throughout the novel Perfume, the main character, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, aspires to gain enough power to become greater than God. With the hope of gaining enough…

If Only He Knew "For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul." (KJV Bible, Mark 8:36) In “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller, Willy spends his entire life looking for the approval of men and chasing after a dream of success that he allows his brother Ben to define for him. He never realizes that he has everything he needs right at home. Willy has the love and approval from his wife and kids. All that is missing is his awareness of it and to embrace it. The…

The 2016 election has been quite a controversial and emotional election, leading to various debates and major shifts in people’s opinions. As a result, the professors at the University of Texas at Austin decided to provide critical insight to freshman students on how to become an active citizen in participating in this year’s presidential election. Mark Updegrove, Bethany Albertson, and Michael Stoff took the stage at Bass Concert Hall to provide freshman knowledge on voting, anxiety in politics…