Psychological thriller

Kink “Kinky” is a word I only heard in high school among teenage boys messing around with their friends. Kink almost always has a negative connotation. It is only supposed to happen in porn, all kinksters have a foot fetish, and at least one person needs to be restrained or gagged at all times. Because kink is such an unmentionable issue, I have never gotten to speak to someone about the realities of the topic. In spite of this, Ethan Grier’s lecture on kink, controversy, and consent was a very…

Outline: Learning to be Depressed Martin Seligman is a behavioral psychologist who hypothesized that the way people view power and control is learned from previous experiences. He proposed that those who fail at controlling their own life stop attempting to exercise any control of their own altogether. After repeated attempts of control and repeated failures, people start to attribute these failures to a lack of control and generalize lack of control to all situations, even if those situations…

People are pretty selfish and independent huh? Damn, then there's people that puts others first. Individualistic society is comprised of a group of independent people that prioritize furthering one’s own self-interests. On the other hand, collectivist societies put society’s well-being over an individuals’. In the novel “Animal Farm” by George Orwell there is a farm taken control by animals and where animals believe they were equal. The two main character’s of “Animal Farm” are two pigs named…

In The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, one theme wove its way throughout the entire story: friendship. It shaped Danny and Reuven’s life, and even affected both of their fathers’ lives as well. Friendship played a tremendous role when Danny felt depressed because of his experimental phycology class, as Reuven’s father had a heart attack needed hospitalization, and most of all, as Danny and his father overcame their silence. The story has the idea of friendship all through it, yet friendship affects…

Sylar Boike-Thompson Argumentative Essay Do you know how many women are victims of assault by their partners? It's 35% that's 1.3 million girls that are being assaulted. Only because women are treated differently. Some famous people have done it and got away with it like Thiago Silva he was a UFC fighter he hit his wife and charges were dropped he would hold a gun in her mouth and send her threatening text because he thought she was cheating on him and he was bragging to his UFC fighter buddies…

prominent negative psychological impact on not only the bullies and the bullied but also the bystanders, ijime in Japanese schools was marked as a serious social problem after several suicide cases in 1984 and 1985 (Treml, 2001). This problem…

The word feral is defined as something wild. When we think about the word wild, we tend to think of something that is untamed, or not cultivated. A feral child, on the other hand, is a label for those human children who grew up in isolation, and had no human contact from a very young age. These children are seen being raised up by animals because they were left abandoned and as a result, they have little or no experience of human care, behavior, or of human language. Many assume that writers…

Globally around 24 million people are refugees or displaced persons fleeing war, conflict and discrimination. Around one third of these are children and adolescents, and 10% are less than 5 years of age. Infants and children are amongst the most vulnerable in situations of war and conflict. Children are both direct and indirect victims of war and conflict and are particularly vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. In order to discuss the issues of recovery from losses and trauma caused by…

Manipulation. Whether you know it or not, it happens all around us. It can be created by means of guilt tripping, threatening, and even through attacking and/or appraising one’s self esteem. Who’s to tell you aren’t being manipulated in this very instance? The amount of power one has while exploiting a situation can easily be construed into doing what a person wants. A notable con artist named, Frank Abagnale, did exactly that in his earlier life. Through the use of his quick thinking & problem…

The interview I completed was with Cindy Dikmen, who is an emergency room registered nurse and a certified sexual assault nurse examiner at a local hospital. In order to be a certified sexual assault nurse examiner, a registered nurse must complete 40 hours of certification training. In addition to the training, shadowing experienced sexual assault examiner, is also recommended in order to build skills. Training also teaches how to interview victims in order to record an accurate statement. The…