Ursa Major

On “Day 6005” in the book Everyday, A wakes up in the body of Kelsea Cook, a teenage girl with severe depression. This chapter provides a small crack in the wall that people with depression must hide behind. What goes unseen to most people, including Kelsea’s father, is the darkness and pain that sufferers, like Kelsea, must endure. David Levithan not only shows how depression affects its victims, but how it affects them from the inside. A is able to understand and describe what it is truly like…

Baseball and Gambling have been corresponding with each other ever since the late 19th Century. For the most part, the relationship would be best described as a commensalism one where baseball was solely changed while gambling maintained its status. Eric Rolfe Greenburg, author of The Celebrant, does a great job in portraying this relationship early on. Analyzing the association of the two in the novel, it is clearly seen that gambling has helped raise the popularity of baseball, affect the…

I am a 20 year old man and I absolutely love talking about sports to everyone and anyone whether they are willing to listen or not. I even enjoy talking to those who don’t really care at all about sports. Many people have told me multiple times that they don’t care to hear it. But, if you asked me what my favorite sport to watch is I would tell you that I love watching all of them equally. If you ask me what sport was on television or who was playing, I could most likely tell you. If you told…

Bibliotherapy is the use of books in a therapeutic setting to influence the way individuals feel, think, and solve problems (Mendel, M. R., Harris, J., & Carson, N., 2016). This is crucial for children’s books because it helps the young clients understand their world a bit clearer. Nowadays, a number of clinicians recommend children’s books or databases would further the progress of the clients. Moreover, using bibliotherapy through children’s books will in the future help a child of younger age…

Abraham Lincoln once said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” The religious figure Abraham is one of the most polarizing figures in the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. These religions are all founded with the belief that Abraham is their common ancestor. However, these religions have a rift in beliefs surrounding the decision of which son of Abraham, Ishmael or Isaac, is the legitimate heir to Abraham’s everlasting covenant with God. The painting of “Hagar’s…

Jennifer is a 25 year-old young woman, who lives with her current boyfriend, Mark. Jennifer’s biological father died when she was 2 years old. During the majority of her childhood, she and her brother were raised by her mother and stepfather. Jennifer’s life, from infancy to adulthood has been a tumultuous one- fraught with circumstances that have deeply affected her through to her core being. Never knowing her biological father, being witness to her family’s explosive arguments, domestic…

After the death of her younger sister, Valeria had become noticeably withdrawn from both her family and friends in the past few months and had become less interested in her appearance. Valeria stopped participating at clubs and other activities she did outside of school, and her grades dropped at school. She was now moody and had become pessimistic in her outlook towards life and complained of feeling worthless at points. Valeria’s closes friends started saying that they’ve seen Valeria drinking…

used an NPU shock model that measured predictable and unpredictable threat. This had three conditions: a no shock condition, where no shocks were given; a predictable shock, where a shock could only be given when a stimulus appeared; and an unpredictable shock condition, where a shock could be given at any time. The reward task used a computerized slot machine game, which had two possible outcomes: a reward condition (in order to induce reward anticipation), where a monetary reward was…

As the days become longer, the leaves change hues, and snowflakes hit your nose it becomes obvious that the seasons are changing. While some of us welcome the change with open arms, five percent of Americans are dreading just one season, winter (Kurlanski, 2012, para 2). More common in women than men, Seasonal Affective Disorder is a proven depression encountered only during winter months and can sometimes end in hospitalization (Kurlanski, 2012, pg 2). Gloomy weather has a significant impact on…

According to the Department of Health and Human Services, more than three million adolescents aged 12-17 reported at least one major depressive episode in the past year, and more than two million reported have severe depression that impeded their daily functioning. Studies shows that anxiety and depression are affecting kids behavior, their ability to learn, their social life, their…