Foods that pregnant women should avoid
Summary - 2 pages - Nutrition, alimentation and dietetic
Pregnancy is a time of rapid development, so mothers to be should be very careful when choosing what to eat, because some foods may harm them or their unborn baby. This research paper is written after reading several articles on the subject.
The concepts of accelerated learning and mind-body enhancements
Case study - 34 pages - Psychology
How did Bulgarian Ivan Barzakov bring the roots of Superlearning to America? Answer: Ivan Barzakov wanted to escape the yoke of the Communist oppression in Bulgaria and go to America. This entailed swimming for seven miles in the open, cold, shark-infested waters of the Adriatic sea and onto the...
Pedagogy with middle school students
Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies
Adolescences undergo a remarkable and rapid developmental change. Understanding and responding to the unique development characteristic is critical at the middle school level. The teacher education system should prepare all teachers for middle school students to face the challenges that emerge at...
Professional misconducts of teachers and way out
Essay - 10 pages - Educational studies
Teaching is regarded as a noble career just as teachers are considered as role models to pupils and students. These days, a lot of professional misconducts could be noticed among teachers. Many teachers are now disillusioned, lazy, uncommitted, and unpatriotic. This paper is an examination of the...
Towards effective management of pupils/students feeding in a boarding school: issues and strategies
Essay - 8 pages - Educational studies
One of the sensitive areas in a boarding school administration is the feeding of pupils/students. Although many advantages accrue to boarding over day school, some parents/guardians are still skeptical of enrolling their children in a boarding school because of the issue of inadequate and...
Theories explaining smoking
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Smoking is one of the most lethal forms of drug and substance abuse amongst people. People can be involved in the smoking of bhang, cigarettes, cocaine and other strong drugs that have very adverse and harmful effects to the health of the abusers. Drug and substance abuse has very many harmful...
Action research: definition, application, methods...
Essay - 13 pages - Educational studies
Recently, most researchers have cited that they incorporate action research in the problem solving initiatives (Groundwater - Smith, 2009; Dick, Stringer, & Huxham, 2009). As a result, this paper discusses what action research is and how it can be applied to produce actual solutions for actual...
The depressive state: eternal melancholia to deep despair
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
Mental and emotional health is a factor that is often ignored and overlooked in our society. It is seen as unimportant, when it is in fact one of the most important components to achieving and living a healthy life. Many people consider mental and emotional health to be an optional part of caring...
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages, Griffith
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
My immediate reaction to Intolerance is that of absolute wonder and amazement. Throughout the lengthy three-and-a-half-hour film, I remained consistently awestruck by the breathtaking beauty it portrayed. The massive detailed sets paired with Griffith's stunning wide shots, seemingly...
Globalization of adolescence
Essay - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The world-wide web has connected people in ways that we have never been connected before. It provides a means for media to sporadically spread all over the world, reaching all different cultures and countries. Media such as music, cinema, literature, art, etc.. have always connected people, and...
The beholder - Erotica and pornography
Essay - 1 pages - Psychology
Erotica and pornography are terms that are often used interchangeably. Their definitions are certainly similar; they are both materials which depict erotic behavior and are meant to cause sexual excitement. However, while they're defined as similar, the way they carry out these definitions...
The impact of an increase in university tuition fees on higher education participation rates
Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies
During the 1992-2007 period, the UK has witnessed great variances in the structure of Higher Education (HE) funding. Moving away from a period where taxpayers footed the entire costs incurred by HE, economic agents holding at least 2 A-levels have begun to contribute to their future HE prospects....
Oscar Wilde and Martin Luther King: "Life is never fair"
Essay - 1 pages - Educational studies
Oscar Wilde once wrote "Life is never fair... And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not." With this quote, Wilde meant to suggest that a life that is "fair" may become too boring, predictable, and simply bland. Often, the unfairness in life is what makes our blood boil, it...
Anti-abortion violence
Essay - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Whether or not anti-abortion extremism is a form of terrorism depends, at least in part, on our definition of terrorism. The purpose of terrorism is not only to kill innocent people, but also to frighten other people into doing or not doing something. If a terrorist blows up a federal building...
Defamiliarization and whether humans can act rationally
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The Durkheimian perspective is particularly interesting in its ground-breaking suggestions and novel ideas. Usually, when we consider the behavior of humans, especially humans living in "Western" society, we usually associate the behavior with actions that are "rational" and based on some sort of...
The controversy surrounding abortion
Thesis - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Abortion is an age old question that has caused a great rift in society. While it is legal in the United States, abortion is also a question of morality and the values a person has. To what extent can or should law regulate morality, and to what extent should the state encroach on the personal...
Eating disorders, self-image, and the female body in modern society
Thesis - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In today's society, looks are everything. The female body is used in various ways, whether by the media or advertisers trying to sell a product. With such importance placed on how a female looks, it is not surprising that many young women today are suffering from low self esteem and body...
Are we ready for the end of faith? A response to Sam Harris
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Sam Harris gives voice to the shared opinions of a great many agnostics and atheists throughout our culture who feel, like him, that religion "is doing such mad work in our society" (Harris). Certainly to many of us it is horrifying, if true, that "44 percent of Americans think Jesus is going to...
Musical savagery: masculinity in contemporary music videos
Case study - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Music videos in general, it is true, are usually intentional exaggerations of tropes or clichés. The worn-out images make easy shortcuts for listeners and viewers looking for a quick visual accompaniment for a song and don't demand much more. However, these intentional exaggerations help to...
The right way to study - From a psychological point of view
Essay - 2 pages - Educational studies
There are many different ways of studying, and some methods are more effective than others. The method I described here is effective for students who are learning just about any subject, and if they follow the steps correctly, they will be able to do well in the given subject. This method of...
The overemphasis on love
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In our culture, love and romance tend to be a very important focus of everyday life. Almost everywhere we look, we run into ads that promote love and sex, we watch movies in which the prime themes are love and romance, and we are pressured in various ways by friends and family to find someone and...
Nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in America - Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001
Book review - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In Nickel-And-Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich attempts to live in poverty voluntarily. She decides that in order to really understand the plight of the poor and actually analyze how difficult it is to get by, she must try it out herself. Her experience was very interesting, very disappointing, but I...
Arranged marriages: the differences between American and Indian marriages
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Marriage, which is the bonding of two individuals usually for the rest of their lives, can occur in many ways. In some cultures, such as that of the United States, men and women decide on their own whom they would like to marry. This type of system is representative of American culture in...
Sign language and overcoming deafness
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Anybody that has traveled to a foreign country can appreciate the feelings of helplessness when no one speaks your language. We all take for granted the fact that when we want or need something, we can make strange sounds with our mouth to make it happen. However, not even the hardiest of world...
A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry, 1959 - Racism, an inherent theme throughout our times
Book review - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
One of the most important themes in "A Raisin in the Sun" is the unity of the family in overcoming racism. The plot essentially deals with the plight of one family to overcome their personal differences and strive together towards a common dream. The book is about the Youngers, a poor black...
The nazi scientific experiments - Unethical experiments?
Essay - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
During World War II, the Nazis were responsible for some of the worst crimes that humanity has ever witnessed. Their actions were so horrendous that this period was called the Holocaust, or the "killing of the whole". The Nazis not only killed millions of innocent Jews with abandon, but they...
The Ghetto - Louis Wirth, 1928 - Chap XI, The Jewish ghettos of Chicago
Book review - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The Jewish ghetto of Chicago is home to a way of life that is markedly different from those of surrounding communities. The inhabitants of the ghetto carry on their day to day activities much in the same way that they did in Europe for hundreds of years. In Chicago, as in other major cities...
Civil rights and race relations
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
It seems as if in America there is always some kind of race-related strain. There are various incidents of racism that makes a person wonder about the state of our society, not only in the past but throughout the twentieth century. Many literary works have been written in respect to race...
Adolescence and drug abuse
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Adolescence is a very important time during the course of one's life. It is a time of change, a time of self-realization. While the body undergoes many changes, adolescence is also the time when kids grow up and mature into adulthood. Because adolescence is such a difficult period in life,...
How education reproduces inequalities and social difference
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Inequalities in the society have historically been based on stratification and the creation of classes within the society. The struggle for achievement and the existence of the society based on the individual achievements has led to the differences between different classes in the society. Class...
