The Goldbergs

The “whys of conformity” demonstrate why the Church of Scientology has been so successful in gaining new members and keeping indoctrinated members. Specifically, they help explain why people are motivated to conform to the church’s ideals. The group locomotive hypothesis, consistency theory, and the hedonistic hypothesis provide reasoning to understand how the church gains and keeps its members. I will examine how each of these theories/hypotheses play a role in “Going Clear”. The group…

Quality Progressions- A lens view of the organization Quality Progressions is a non-profit Supports Coordination agency founded by CEO Joel Goldberg in 2004 to support and provide services to individuals with intellectual disabilities and families throughout eastern Pennsylvania. Quality Progressions has two offices located in Philadelphia and Bethlehem. This agency’s mission is to empower individuals by providing them the tools to live a meaningful and fulfilling life through person centered…

The novel, Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan is about a girl named Willow Chance. Willow is different than most people her age. She is surpassingly smart; in fact, some would call her a genius, and is obsessed with plants and medical conditions. Willow doesn’t have many friends besides Mai Nguyen, who is a few years older than her. Shortly after Willow met Mai, she lost both of her parents in a car accident. Willow was devastated and stopped doing everything she used to love.…

Schizophrenia John Nash was known as a patient of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder characterized by major disturbances in thought, emotion and behavior: disordered thinking in which ideas are not logically related, faulty perception and attention, flat or inappropriate affect, and bizarre disturbances in motor activity (Flett, Kocovski, & Blankstein, 2017). Schizophrenia is one of the most common and severe mental illness all over the world (Willison & Buss, 2008). One of the…

Channel gives communicators various avenues with which to share their ideas. It was expressed through the examples of the TV show The Goldbergs sharing the experience of the jewish family, the social media discussion of pop culture figure Kanye West’s breakdown, and meeting a young professional from Germany face-to-face and sharing her experience of assimilating to American culture. The…

Parella 1 James Parella Mrs. McGuinness ILA 8 April 11, 2017 THE VERRAZANO-NARROWS BRIDGE Just over 58 years ago, one of the world’s most iconic bridges was just being born. After five long years, it grew up and became the world’s longest bridge at the time it opened. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is one of the greatest and largest bridges in the entire world. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, or more well-known as the Verrazano Bridge, is the longest suspension bridge in the United States and is now…

early 20th century. The novel moves forward with letters written by the protagonist, Celie, to God, describing her perils, trials, tribulations, payers and hopes. The book won the Pulitzer Prize of 1983 and was adapted into a movie starring Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey in 1985 by Steven Spielberg. Of the many themes that the novel deals with in detail, feminism is quite possibly the most important and visible theme in the novel. In addition, two key concepts of the feminist movement are…

firearms were first created there was problems with regulations and crimes involving guns, and these numbers keep raising as more guns are produced and sold legally and illegally. The problem started when people were using guns for the purpose of malice rather than defending themselves, leaving the people in fear of being threatened, assaulted, robbed, or murdered. Nowadays we have many laws that defend the proper use and ownership of guns, but most of these laws have loopholes or are not…

Recently, there is an increasing interest in psychotic-like experiences (PLEs), such as delusional ideation, hallucinatory experiences in general population within the scientific community. Psychotic symptoms, especially in the context of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders are traditionally viewed as categorical phenomena which may either be present or not in an individual. However, through previous literature it is found that PLEs are present in general population, even in childhood which makes…

Many people have debated that competitive sports are a great way to stay healthy and learn team work, but other people believe that there are different ways to do these things. I believe that competitive sports are bad for children because they could develop stress and anxiety related disorders due to their parent and coach pushers, also they could get serious mental and physical injuries that could last a lifetime, and because competitive sports can cost more than a parent can give. One…