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You literally fell down drunk and died. Not quite what the study had in mind. Last fall, I spent about a month in the file room of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, hoping to learn the secrets of the good life. The project is one of the longest-running—and probably the most exhaustive—longitudinal studies of mental and physical well-being in history. Begun in 1937 as a study of healthy, well-adjusted Harvard sophomores (all male), it has followed its subjects for more than 70 years.…

The United States is a country flourishing with culture and diversity from all over the globe. Many recognize the “Home of The Brave” as a “melting pot” meaning that all of the different cultures are thrown into a fictitious pot and are “melted” together to create a new and unique experience. That experience, which is referred to as American Culture. The diversity of American culture is evident in a multitude of ways. From our apparel and what we eat, to how we pray and the language we use to…

Dark Romanticism Romanticism took over American literature for a brief time, but changed the country in a significant way. Romantic literature gave Americans insight, imagination, and individualism. Within the works of this genre interest in the common man, strong emotions, love of nature, imagination, and celebration of the individual can be found. Romanticism can be sorted into two groups: dark romantic and transcendentalism. Transcendentalism influenced many dark romantics, but when…

Name: Chiagozie Harry Okeke University of Massachusetts at Boston Africana Studies Department AFRSTY 101 Introduction to Africana Studies Class activity: After Viewing the documentary on Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood, please complete the following exercise. 1. What did you know about Marcus Garvey before watching the documentary? How did this video change your previous views? Marcus Garvey was born in Jamaica at the year 1887-1940. He became a Black Nationalist movement by applying the…

Evolution of nursing from a socio-economic stand point “In the context of health care, the idea of care has two principal meanings: (1) taking care of the sick person, which emphasizes the delivery of technical care, and (2) caring for or caring about the sick person, which suggests a virtue of devotion or concern for the other as a person. At times these two aspects of care have been united; at other times, they have been in conflict.” (Reich, 2014, Vol. 2, pp. 489-495). This point emphasizes…

Salinger The Great Is J.D Salinger possibly the best author to come out of the Beat Generation? The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger was one of the most famous book in the early 1950’s when it came out. (Need help on intro paragraph) Jerome David Salinger, also known as J.D Salinger was an American born author, born on January 1, 1919 in Manhattan, New York. He later died of natural causes on January 29, 2010 in Cornish, New Hampshire. He was the second child and only boy of…

In the 1700’s the level of women’s education in colonial America was immensely dependent on race class and location. The main purpose of education for women in the Colonial Time was to learn how to become skilled at household duties. These household duties were meant to assist the young woman in finding a suitable husband. Although, some women did have education, having one was looked down upon in the Colonial Times. In the South, only the necessary subjects were taught to the women. Those…

This model of mass incarceration has become too trendy, especially for the state of California. In the past decade the state of California has spent more money on building prisons than it spent for school and university funding. We should rely on alternatives modes that prove more effective in deterring crime. Introducing more effective modes of rehabilitation and possibly excarceration altogether serves as a much better strategy. Amongst many others, some of these goals include the following:…

Growing up, I was constantly told, “drugs are not okay”, or rather “drugs will kill you”. Because I was younger, I did not particularly understand what was meant by this, because I was, “just too young to understand”. As I got older, I began to understand why my elders reiterated this point numerous times. Because drugs can indeed terminate in death, but not every drug. The drug I am specifically referring to is marijuana. Now that I am old enough I am able to comprehend what effect drugs can…

which is also a part of Digital Nations Consortium of the Media Labs of MIT and International Development Center for Harvard was recently launched or deployed on January 25, 2001. Various other important partners of this project are IIT, Madras, and Boston (Capital Corporation of Internet…