The Urges

Rosa Parks and James Blake (bus driver) enter the scene. Many whites sit toward the front of the bus while blacks take the back due to laws supporting segregation. Because of this, quite a few Negros don’t ride the bus; they find it demeaning since the front of the bus has much more space and less heat compared to the back. Rosa is sitting down in her seat located in the fifth row, the “Colored section,” of the bus alongside three other Negros when a white man gets on, looking for an open seat.…

Does the violence portrayed by the media influence the way people behave in today’s modern society? The contemporary world of today has been consumed by violence, and the media plays a significant factor in this consumption. Media violence is a growing phenomenon that has negative effects on people’s daily lives in modern society. Today, violence in media is witnessed on the internet, newspapers, television, or heard on the radio, and so forth. As a result, the violence portrayed by the media…

The idea of Kantianism states that an individual does what they want they are acting on a physiological and neurochemical urge. A person acts on the urge although they did not choose to have the urge. In Gerald’s situation, this formulation is used by considering Gerald’s desire to die were determined by his current state due to the prior events of the car accident. When applying Kantianism and the universal…

The Wicked Witch of the Obese Children Scientists say drinking apple juice before bed can increase our chance of having a happy, vivid dream. Obviously, our dreamer didn’t hear about this research. A poor woodcutter with a wife and two children struggles to provide enough food for his family. The children, Hansel and Gretel, are abandoned in the woods by their parents, to fend for themselves. They face starvation and get captured by an evil witch in the woods. The witch gives them plenty of food…

The Analysis of About Marriage The article “About Marriage’’ written by Danielle Crittenden objects to the views feminist have with traditional marriage from the selection What Our Mothers Didn’t Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman (1999). In this article Crittenden talks about the impact the feminist movement had on marriage. Crittenden blatantly disagrees with the feminist view on traditional marriage. Danielle Crittenden is a former columnist for the New York Post; Crittenden is…

In Henrik Ibsen’s play, Hedda Gabler, the title character states that more than anything in life, she wants control over another human being; this desire reveals Hedda’s challenge of the mandate promulgated by patriarchy that control is the purview of males, not of females. Hedda Gabler challenges the patriarchal paradigm of control in three specific ways; her pure love of control is verified throughout the novel as she plots the lives of the people surrounding her. It is also demonstrated by…

people can agree with the fact that smartphones make the interactions bland and empty. In the article by Mandy Oaklander, How Your Smartphone is Ruining Your Relationship, she states that “ real-life interactions are dulled when a person feels the urge to check their phone, and the distraction an phone afford one partner doesn’t make the other person feel good”. That is why some can say that smartphones damage a relationship. My stance on the issue of smartphones and relationships is that…

something other behavior and prevent relapse. The process of breaking client's problems down into its separate parts, identifying the client's patterns of thoughts, emotions, bodily trigger cues, feelings as to what triggers and reinforce the client urge to act out the addictive behavior (Theory and Practice of counseling and Psychotherapy, 2013). Cognitive behavioral therapy is said to be the most success rate treatment in addiction where the clients can practice what they learn from…

The individualism dimension demonstrates the relationship between an individual and a group, in terms of someone’s self-image through “I” ness and “we” ness. Also known as interdependence, it creates the standing of either self-sufficient or needing someone else’s help . Canada scores an 80 on the individualism dimension, which means that they support the aspect of “I” ness as opposed to “we” ness. Citizens of this society tend to care for themselves and relatives primarily and have their own…

This poem is one of my favorites from the ones I picked, due to the touchy subject it is on. The subject even though it is very touchy is a very important and meaningful subject. Part of it is the truth of it, from any one that joined the military and fought in the war. What is still left, what has left you. Was is it overall worth it or if you could would you undo the past choice to join the military and change your life completely. The other question is why and this is also brought up in…