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- 1111: Suicide
- ... There are several factors, which place individuals at a higher risk for suicide. Psychologic autopsy studies have shown that 90% of the completed suicides are related to psychiatric disorders, most commonly, major depression and alcohol abuse. The studies show the illness was not the cause, but in combination with a stressful event, such as divorce, loss of a job, or failure in school, led to the suicide. Risk factors include mental illness, substance abuse, previous suicide attempts, family history or suicide, sexual abuse, and impulsive or aggressive behaviors. A decreased level of serotonin in the brain is also found in some people, which may be associated with impulsive aggressiveness. Impulsiveness is linked to suicidal behavior because an ...
- 1112: Isadora Duncan
- ... her real education came on the nights when Isadora and her siblings would dance to her mother's music and learn about what they were interested in -- literature and music. Isadora was told as a child that she would have to learn to depend on herself to get what she needed in life. So as Isadora grew older, she began to understand her family's financial condition and was eager to ... they might otherwise not have. She was able to clothe, house, feed, and educate her students free of charge, by only having a group of twenty students at a time. When one left, a new child came in to replace her. There were only six students who stayed at the Grόnewald school for the entire time it was running. Later these six students were named the "Isadorables." It was at the ... son of actress Ellen Terry. They had a lot in common, and they fell in love immediately. After about three months of heart-felt love and teaching, Isadora found she was pregnant. Her first-born child was born on September 26, 1905. She and Craig named their baby Deirdre. As eager as Isadora was to get back to her dancing, she stayed at home with Deirdre for a few weeks ...
- 1113: Prepubescent Strength Training
- ... all the way down to negatively affect our youngest athletes - the prepubescent. The athletic world has forever been exploiting our youth as a source of athletic potential, sacrificing the health, safety and welfare of these child-athletes to satiate the intense nationalistic pride of the country and more dishearteningly in the name of the Almighty Dollar. This has caused coaches and athletes to take drastic measures which are sometimes illegal and ... such as body weight (i.e. pushups), free weights, isotonic and isokinetic machines utilized in an attempt to increase one s ability to exert or resist force (Cahill, 1995). Prepubescence will be defined as a child, male or female, typically no older than 16, who has not yet developed secondary sex characteristics. More simply put, the individual has not yet hit puberty (Buturusis 1994). Prepubescent strength training can be defined exactly ... and by properly increasing them they will markedly reduce the risk of injury in sport. Another benefit of understated importance stems from the immeasurable potential psychological boost that can gained through the improvement of a child s physical and self-image. Strength training serves as a means for sculpting one s own body to an image more compatible with their wants and dreams. Children who have participated in strength training ...
- 1114: The Power And The Glory
- ... I am proud, lustful, greedy man They deserve a martyr to care for them- not a man like me, who loves all the wrong things.'" (p.95) In a dangerous effort, he visits his bastard child from his old town. The priest begins to understand that, " one must love every soul as if it were one's own child. The passion to protect must extend itself over a world." (p.82) When he finally sees his daughter, he has a revelation about the interconnected essence of God in its connection with love and human ... deserve it, but let her live for ever.' This was the love he should have felt for every soul in the world: all the fear and the wish to save concentrated unjustly on the one child. He beagn to weep; it was as if he had to watch her from the shore drown slowly because he had forgotten how to swim. He thought: This is what I should feel all ...
- 1115: British Literature Women Of Lo
- ... when the shepherds come accusing Mak and looking for their sheep they will not find it. Gill will pretend to be recovering from childbirth and will feign that the covered lamb is re4ally their newborn child. Mak likes this idea and returns to the sleeping shepherds to lie back between them as though nothing has happened. When they arrived, Mak wakes to tell them that he has dreamt that his wife Gill has given birth to a child. He complains how poor they are and that his wife is always pregnant with another child. He leaves them to go and assist his wife. The shepherds split up but arrange to meet again later that afternoon. When they do meet they realize a sheep has been stolen and they ...
- 1116: VIOLENCE IN TELEVISION, MOVIES, AND VIDEO GAMES:The Wrong Ex
- ... U.S. video game revenues totaled 10 billion dollars. Many children are spending one-third of their waking hours in front of a television screen and it is estimated that by seventh grade, the average child has seen seven thousand murders and 1 million acts of violence on television. Those numbers are staggering to think about, but what does seeing these images actually do to a child. More than 3 thousand reports on the issue have been made and most of the results of these studies have been inconclusive. Many studies simply conclude that seeing these images will make the child more aggressive for the time being. But, does that mean that as a result the child will go out and murder someone? Some people think so because they believe that aggression will make a ...
- 1117: Dolores Claiborne
- ... her control long before this fateful day, but she chooses this day to end her husbands life so she and her family can go on living. Steven King masterfully weaves this tale of love, abuse, and denial in his novel, Dolores Claiborne, which was later turned into a movie directed by Taylor Hackford. Although the movie adaptation of the novel follows the story line very closely, there are a few ... plays an important role in both the book and the movie, her roles in each are different. In the book, she is dependent on her mother until the point when her father begins to sexually abuse her. She then withdraws from everyone and tries to forget about the fact that it ever happened. In the movie, however, Salena has come back from New York to defend her mother after she has been accused of killing Vera Donovan. She has developed a drug abuse problem, just like her father. Salena is the reason for many of the scenes throughout the movie, as she is remembering them and discussing what really happened with her mother. In both the novel ...
- 1118: Psychoanalysis
- ... involve instinctual impulses, or drives, that originate in childhood. As the patient through analysis recognizes these unconscious conflicts, his or her adult mind can find solutions that were unattainable to the immature mind of the child The conflicts occurring in the earlier developmental stages are no less significant as a formative influence, because these problems represent the earliest prototypes of such basic human situations as dependency on others and relationship to authority. Also basic in molding the personality of the individual is the behavior of the parents toward the child during these stages of development. The fact that the child reacts, not only to objective reality, but also to fantasy distortions of reality, however, greatly complicates even the best-intentioned educational efforts. The effort to clarify the large number of interrelated observations uncovered by ...
- 1119: Working Mothers
- Working Mothers Many women today are facing choices that their mothers never had to face. One of these choices is whether or not to back to work after having a child. This was practically unheard of in the 1950's. In the 1990's it is not whether the mother will or will not go back to work, rather a question of when. When did the ... to work outside the home versus working in the home, much like their mothers did. When one thinks of the subject of working mothers, many differing opinions come to mind. What will happen to the child, will the mother have sufficient time to bond with the baby, how will household chores be divided, and so on. When thinking of working women, two models come to mind. One of which is paid ... For the working mothers, understanding is first and foremost needed in order for the psychological well being. They need to feel that their work is important, and necessary, and that they are not sacrificing their child's well being in order to benefit themselves. The danger involved is that the mothers could feel so guilty in working that they feel that they are abandoning their child to the caregivers that ...
- 1120: Theory Of Holden Essay
- ... What s he s doing is trying to save all these little kids from growing up and falling off the cliff into adulthood. He s scared for them and wants them forever to stay a child and enjoy the simple life of romping through the rye fields. Because he s already realized he can t save himself anymore, he wants to help all others. 4. Phoebe and Allie have both greatly ... What s he s doing is trying to save all these little kids from growing up and falling off the cliff into adulthood. He s scared for them and wants them forever to stay a child and enjoy the simple life of romping through the rye fields. Because he s already realized he can t save himself anymore, he wants to help all others. 4. Phoebe and Allie have both greatly ... What s he s doing is trying to save all these little kids from growing up and falling off the cliff into adulthood. He s scared for them and wants them forever to stay a child and enjoy the simple life of romping through the rye fields. Because he s already realized he can t save himself anymore, he wants to help all others. 4. Phoebe and Allie have both ...
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