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  • Addictions - an Illness in Which a Person Seeks and Consumes a Substance

    Addictions - an Illness in Which a Person Seeks and Consumes a Substance

    Introduction Addiction is an illness in which a person seeks and consumes a substance, such as alcohol, tobacco or a drug, despite the fact that it causes harm. In order to fully understand addiction, we must first understand why or how one could become addicted. Peer pressure, curiosity, attraction, release of inhibitions and relaxation are some of the reason of addiction. There are many types of addictions, but the focus in this paper will be

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    Essay Length: 1,640 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Victor
  • Personal Statement

    Personal Statement

    While other children were listening to bedtime stories told by their parents, I enjoyed my dad’s business stories. My father is a prosperous businessman and he always shared his business experience with my sister and me since we were very young. Under his influence, I developed an interest in business. I have a dream that one day I will run my own investment bank. I am a big fan of Mr. Warren Buffet. What he

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    Essay Length: 367 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Janna
  • Most Hong Kong People Do Not Pay Tax. Thus one-Person-One-Vote Democracy?

    Most Hong Kong People Do Not Pay Tax. Thus one-Person-One-Vote Democracy?

    First of all, one person, one vote' system of democracy is universally recognized by an absolute majority of countries of the world as a viable and effective mechanism for the selection of government. Someone may argue that, in practice, non-taxpayers do not earn enough to be liable for taxation. In any case, the right to vote does not follow from the obligation to pay tax. In many countries, people start earning money and paying tax

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    Essay Length: 431 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Personal Research Essay

    Personal Research Essay

    When I saw the light Immediately, when I turned sixteen I woke up in the morning and saw a pair of shinny silver keys sitting on my desk. I jumped up with excitement and rushed out the door wearing only my boxers, with the keys dangling in my hand. There it was: my brand new GMC Envoy, dark hunter green with a wax that could blind you. I stared at the car with excitement and

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Top
  • Humanistic Personality

    Humanistic Personality

    The humanistic perspective on personality deals exclusively with human behavior. Humanistic psychologists believe that human nature includes a natural drive towards personal growth, that humans have the freedom to choose what they do regardless of environmental factors, and humans are mostly conscious beings and are not controlled by unconscious needs and conflicts. They also believe that a person's subjective view of the world is more important than objective reality. Two of the humanistic theorists that

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    Essay Length: 771 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Yan
  • The Personalization of History in “murder in the Cathedral”

    The Personalization of History in “murder in the Cathedral”

    The Personalization of History in “Murder in the Cathedral” T. S. Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He went to school at Harvard and, after graduating, lived in England. It was here that he was employed as a schoolmaster, a bank clerk, and a literary editor for a publishing house called Faber & Faber. After working there for a number of years he became a director. Eliot's poetry shows the growth of a poet

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    Essay Length: 1,245 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Edward
  • Am I a School Person?

    Am I a School Person?

    Slott 1 Erik Slott Doctor Linda Beckham English 1301 Composition 09 August 2006 Am I A School Person? Some people enjoy going to school. I enjoyed going to school, but for the wrong reasons. People go to school to receive an education, to come out at the end of their four year journey more mature and adult. I went to school to drink, party like it was going out of style, and then to get

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    Essay Length: 887 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Personal Narrative

    Personal Narrative

    Deven Crowell 1/25/06 1st block Ms. Todd Personal Narrative The wonderful gift of giving is more precious than any material item that is just used for simple amusement. There is no greater feeling than the one you get from knowing you personally affected someone. In the situation that I’m going speak about, I got a chance to see how one’s joyous gratitude can emotionally touch another. Experiences like these are the ones that gave me

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    Essay Length: 954 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • What Influences Have Made Me the Person I Am Today

    What Influences Have Made Me the Person I Am Today

    What influences have made me the person I am? It was a Tuesday afternoon and I was just getting to my psychology class and as usual I was chit chatting with my neighbors in class, Cpl Christie and Fausnight about the things that each of us did this weekend. Just when I had finished talking to Kara (Fausnight) about her weekend our psychology teacher Dr. Douglas walks in. As she is walking in I in

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    Essay Length: 1,442 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Classification: Help for Mental Disorders

    Classification: Help for Mental Disorders

    Help for Mental Disorders There are many different things that are the cause of mental disorders. Alcoholism, brain tumors, strokes, and damage to the brain are a few causes of mental disorders. Mental disorders can also result from birth. There are many health care services for mental disorders. Three occupations that help the symptoms of mental health are psychiatrist, neurologist, and a clinical psychologist. Each of these occupations, psychiatrist, neurologist, and a clinical psychologist, treat

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    Essay Length: 512 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Victor
  • Personality Assessment Inventory

    Personality Assessment Inventory

    Personality Assessment Inventory Introduction The Beck Depression Inventory is a testing tool which is used to evaluate the continuation and severity of the symptoms of depression, as recorded in the DSM-IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 2000). The test includes questions which asses the symptoms of serious depression, which may possibly call for hospitalization. The latest revised edition replaces the BDI and the BDI-1A, which includes items intending to indicate

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Victor
  • Bipolar Disorder

    Bipolar Disorder

    Bipolar disorder is a confusing and misunderstood illness. Bipolar disorder is also known as manic-depressive illness. It is a brain disorder causing unusual shifts in a person’s mood, attitude, and abilities to function. Despite popular belief, bipolar disorder is not a mental retardation but an imbalance in the brain which causes drastic behavioral and mood swings. Little is known about the causes of bipolar disorder. A popular belief is that bipolar disorder is biological

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    Essay Length: 654 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Yan
  • Eating Disorders

    Eating Disorders

    Eating disorders are not a lack of will or defect in behavior. They are a treatable mental condition that is usually due to a maladaptive order. The main types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, A third type, binge-eating disorder, has been suggested but has not yet been approved as a formal psychiatric diagnosis. Eating disorders frequently develop during adolescence or early adulthood, but some reports indicate their onset can occur during

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    Essay Length: 541 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Mike
  • Sybil: Shirley Mason’s Sixteen Personalities

    Sybil: Shirley Mason’s Sixteen Personalities

    Running header: Sybil: Shirley Mason’s Sixteen personalities Sybil: Shirley Mason’s Sixteen Personalities Abstract “Sybil” is the true story of a woman named Shirley Mason; whose life was documented in a movie and a book. Shirley was treated for Dissociative Identity Disorder, which was earlier named, Multiple Personality Disorder. Shirley is said to have had up to sixteen personalities two of whom were male, and is known for being the most famous psychiatric patient in history.

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: David
  • Hide & Seek and Dissociative Identity Disorder

    Hide & Seek and Dissociative Identity Disorder

    Hide & Seek and Dissociative Identity Disorder In the psycho thriller, Hide & Seek, a widower and his daughter struggle with a very scary, very extreme case of an “imaginary” friend. After losing his wife to suicide, David, played by Robert DeNiro, decides it would be best for him and his daughter Emily, played by Dakota Fanning, to move away from the city where his wife died and start their lives over fresh. The events

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Jack
  • Okonkwo’s Fear of His Father Made Him the Person He Is

    Okonkwo’s Fear of His Father Made Him the Person He Is

    Okonkwo was well known through out the nine villages because of his achievements in the tribe. Okonkwo had a great fear of becoming like his father. This had a rather large impact on his life and how his personality. Okonkwo’s father, Unoka, was a lazy man whereas Okonkwo was a hard worker, Okonkwo ruled his house with a heavy hand and he was a man of war. Okonkwo’s father was a man who was not

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    Essay Length: 655 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Discuss the Contribution of Physiological Approaches to Personality by Comparing This Approach with at Least Two Other Approaches to Personality.

    Discuss the Contribution of Physiological Approaches to Personality by Comparing This Approach with at Least Two Other Approaches to Personality.

    Discuss the contribution of physiological approaches to personality by comparing this approach with at least TWO other approaches to personality. Personality can be defined as, “...the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that are organised and relatively enduring and that influence his or her interactions with, and adaptations to, the intrapsychic, physical, and social environments.” (Larson & Buss, 2007, p.6). “Personality is the organized, developing system within the individual that represents the

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    Essay Length: 1,818 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Edward
  • Analysis of Achilles’ Personality Growth in Homer’s the Iliad

    Analysis of Achilles’ Personality Growth in Homer’s the Iliad

    Achilles, the famous mythological war hero, is the central character in The Iliad. It is his storyline that creates the essence of the epic war written by Homer. Although it may seem that the main theme is about the dominance, gruesomeness, and destruction of Troy when the poem is first read, this is not the main focus. It is in The Iliad, that we see how Achilles transforms from youth to maturity; and grows through

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    Essay Length: 1,500 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Birth Order and Its Efects on Personality

    Birth Order and Its Efects on Personality

    Birth order Have you ever wondered why you and your siblings never get along, or why you are so different? I wondered the same thing until I read an article about birth orders effects on personality. This had to be why she had never spent an hour away from my parents and I haven’t willingly been within thirty feet of them since I was six, Why I love to read well above my grade level

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Obesity - What Characterizes Obesity? Is It a Disease or a Disorder?

    Obesity - What Characterizes Obesity? Is It a Disease or a Disorder?

    Unhealthy, overweight, fat, and lazy are some of the many descriptions people tend to associate with people who are obese. Is this an accurate assumption or portrayal of someone who is obese? What characterizes obesity? Is it a disease or a disorder? Is it both? There are many categories in which obesity can be placed in. Many people misunderstand and misuse the word. They tend to use this word with negative connotations attached, with out

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Personal Values Development

    Personal Values Development

    Personal Values Development Personal Values Development In this paper I will be discussing my own personal ethics and values. Although values and ethics start being imposed to one at an early age the previously mentioned tend to change to accommodate the situation and the circumstances that one is being presented with. After careful thought it is my belief that ethics influence our values in many ways. The reason for this is because ones values are

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    Essay Length: 798 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Jon
  • Sleeping Disorders

    Sleeping Disorders

    A little less than half of the United States population has a sleeping disorder. There are numerous types of sleeping disorders. The two most common are sleep apnea and insomnia. Up to half of the population suffers from insomnia and approximately 18 million people suffer from sleep apnea. One of the least common is narcolepsy. About 200,000 people suffer from that disorder. (SleepNet, 2004) Insomnia is the most common sleeping disorder in the United States.

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Victor
  • Personal Profile

    Personal Profile

    In the 1990s computer graphics were becoming more and more advanced, from animated movies like “Toy Story,” to the explosions and action in traditional movies, the technology was fast becoming something people marveled at. While other people sat back and watched, Nicolas Brown was dreaming about creating them. Today, Nicolas owns his own animation studio which he opened in 2003 with his friend Ryan Diggs. The studio is located in the small town of Young

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Artur
  • Impact of Skinny Models on Eating Disorders and Women’s Purchasing Behaviour

    Impact of Skinny Models on Eating Disorders and Women’s Purchasing Behaviour

    The Impact of skinny models on Eating Disorders and Women’s Purchasing Behaviour Literature Review The literature review focuses on literature regarding the links between the use of skinny models in advertising, the purchase decision, women’s feelings of self worth, dissatisfaction with their own body and eating disorders. Models and the Ideal Body Shape Research in an article by Fay and Price (entitled “Female Body-shape in Advertisements”) found that the body shape of contemporary models in

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    Essay Length: 595 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Edward
  • Bipolar Disorder

    Bipolar Disorder

    Abstract Bipolar disorder is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in a person’s mood, energy and ability to function. It is also known as manic-depressive illness. The symptoms of bipolar disorder are severe and very different from the normal ups and downs that everyone goes through. It is the third most common mood disorder after major depression and dysthymic disorder. It affects about 1% of adults during their lifetime. The symptoms of bipolar disorder

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Jack

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