Suicide bombing

Throughout the novel The Catcher in the Rye, Holden shows symptoms of Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, many times during his journey. This has a large impact on his life and personality. Holden showing these symptoms added the effect of realism throughout the novel. The fact that Holden has PTSD is never formally announced, but it can be inferred from many of his actions. The possible cause of this disorder might be the death of Holden’s trusted brother, Allie. Post-Traumatic Stress…

Counselor Impairment Counselor impairment has become an issue that has affected counselor’s personal and professional lives. The ACA Code of ethics acknowledges the subject of counselor impairment and expands on the issue. It is the counselors need to become aware of their physical, mental, and emotional state when counseling. Counselors need to be educated on impairment and become aware of the signs and symptoms. It is essential for counselors who become impaired to cease counseling services,…

Benchmark Assignment: Ethical Dilemmas When faced with ethical dilemmas, our belief system gets put to the ultimate test, as it is what we rely upon to guide us through these difficult decisions. Our upbringing, morals, spirituality, and environment all affect our beliefs and outlook on life, dictating how we react under these circumstances. Certain choices that seem suitable to one may seem atrocious to another. This paper will focus on a specific ethical dilemma regarding euthanasia,…

According to Gottman (1999), "Current estimates of the chances of first marriages in the U.S. ending in divorce (within a 40-year period) range between 50% and 67%" (p. 3). Some couples seek marital therapy before they get to that point. Jake and Ann are a couple that did just that. They felt that their marriage was in trouble and decided to get professional help in hopes of improving their marriage. The case of Jake and Ann is examined in this paper, including the therapist's theoretical…

Depression is a mood disorder that causes significant loss in interests and intense feelings of sadness. This disorder is crushing, and next to impossible to deal with on your own. Medication may be needed to fight off the mood disorder. It is not uncommon for a person to be prescribed antidepressant medication. In fact, one in ten Americans take an antidepressant. Plenty of Americans take these pills as a part of their morning routine. These pills are a lifeline for someone who is clinically…

Walter Annenberg once said “ Adversity tests us from time to time and it's inevitable that the testing continues during life”.We all face adversity throughout our lives. Whether we let adversity promote us or devastate us remains unforeseen until the adversity occurs. After reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, I found out that Ponyboy, the main character from The Outsiders, and I struggle with the same adversity. Unlike others we let it promote us, not devastate us. The main character,…

Paranoid Schizophrenia Indtroduction “At time of piece the mind will wander, the mind will falter. Why so fixed on the end? At times of rest dreaming is violent, the imagination is restless. Why so fixed on destruction? At times of love the heart bleeds, the soul stays scarred. Why stay chained to agony? At times of understanding the soul withes and wrestles for a new answer, the journey stays uncompleted. Why run from completion”? (Charles Hickey) This was a poem called The End from…

Holden Caulfield's Sanity Holden Caulfield is a classic literary character, but was he actually insane the entire time? Throughout the novel he makes irrational and foolish decisions that aren't in his best interest. Plus, at times his line between reality and fantasy becomes muddled. Despite that, for most much of the story Holden's ramblings are sound and justified. Holden may just be an emotional teenager coming to fruition with the problems in the world. His level of sanity is difficult to…

If a person is on the line of death in a long and slow way, they should have the right to end their suffrage and life in a comfortable way. This can be done by something known as mercy killing and sometimes known as euthanasia. Mercy killing is when a doctor directly ends with their patient’s life, this is done in order to put the patient out of its suffrage and relieve them from an incurable and terminal condition. It creates an enormous controversy if mercy killing should be allowed to any…

Judith Jarvis Thomson wrote the article Turning the Trolley in order to refute Philippa Foot’s principle about killing and letting die. In Foot’s point of view, there are two duties, one of which is negative duty of noninterference, and the other duty is positive duty of goods and services. According to Foot, when there is a conflict between two duties, the negative duty of noninterference can overrule the positive duty of goods and services. In her example, letting five people die is…