Tupperware

her along her process. She found a portion control measurement that she began using as she preplanned her meals and snacks for the upcoming week. She packed her lunch, snacks, and dinner during the school days (Monday-Wednesday) in proportioned tupperware bowls and on other days she also used tupperwear bowls or a small salsa to eat on when eating breakfast lunch and dinner. When she was not eating full course meals, she used portion control charts to proportion snacks sizes if they were…

The goal of this paper is to introduce binge eating, as a behavior that will be modified. This paper will identify the definition of binge eating disorder (BED) and a literature review. For the purposes of this assignment, the researcher will acknowledge herself as the behaviorist as she confine herself to qualitative research on binge eating disorder and observable behaviors. The intervention that will be used is negative reinforcement, which comes from the cognitive behavior theory framework.…

The serial killer I chose to do a report on is Joseph Roy Metheny, also known as “The Cannibal Killer”. He was born on March 2, 1955 and died on August 5, 2017 (Blanco, n.d.). Despite what Joseph has said about his home life, it was pretty normal. He grew up in the North Point Boulevard area of Essex, in Maryland (Wynter, 2017). In an interview, his mother, Jean Metheny, openly spoke about his childhood. She said that when Joe was six, his father got in a car crash and left her a single mother…

The three components shared by most of the weapons of automatic influence described in the book are: the mechanical process in activating weapons, the exploitability of this power by those who know how to trigger them and the way the weapons of automatic influence lend their force to others (Cialdini 2007). Animal behaviorist M.W. Fox discusses how mothering turkeys are all triggered by one thing: the “cheep- One of the most recognizable weapons of influence in our everyday lives is the rule of…

In a world that is nearing its end, one must learn how to survive and remain resilient in the face of imminent danger. The Sunlight Pilgrims tells the story of two broken, yet interconnected families. Through an intrinsic need to work together, these families learn how to adapt and survive impending doom. Climate change is ravaging the small town of Clachan Fells in Jenni Fagan’s novel The Sunlight Pilgrims. Temperatures have dropped below zero and conditions are becoming unbearable. The…

In 1856, in the town of Birmingham, one of the biggest industrial revelations occurred. The first man made plastic had been constructed, and it was presented at the Great international exhibition six years later by none other that the man who made it Alexander Parkes. Soon after more information was collected and it had come to the conclusion that plastics were synthetic organic polymers, and the reaction plastic was formed came to be known as polymerization. The word itself derived from the…

In the novel "Things Fall Apart", Achebe expresses how the new colonizing community effectively suppressed the indigenous tribes in Africa through merciless and uncompromising methods. The oppression of the Ibo tribes did not consist of an immediate takeover, but was instead implemented through a subtle reworking of Ibo values. The colonizers began by introducing a counterculture and refusing to acknowledge Ibo beliefs. While initially creating a façade of peaceful missionary work, the…

Formulating an identity is something everyone goes through. Erik Erikson was a 20th century psychoanalyst who theorised that people go through eight different stages of development that helps determine their own identity (Woolfolk and Perry, 2012). Erikson’s eight different stages of development are 1) Trust versus mistrust, 2) autonomy versus shame and doubt, 3) initiative versus guilt, 4) industry versus inferiority, 5) identity versus role diffusion, 6) intimacy and solidarity versus…

Many diverse emotions and physical feelings were involved during my contrived experience. Before simulating monocular vision due to Arteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy (NAAION), I did not anticipate the increased level of difficulty that certain normal activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) would have on my day. My experience consisted of an eye-patch covering up my left eye for 12 hours. Some of the activities I found to be the more…

Introduction In the last ten to fifteen years, social media has permeated the lives of millions of people across the globe. From how we socialize to how we find exposure to new businesses, companies like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others have fundamentally changed the nature of modern life. Business too has found social media to be an important aspect of many facets of running a firm. For instance, businesses have increasingly adopted social media as a means to advertise and access new…