...throughout this semester. Issues have ranged from social injustices, colonialism, and women’s rights. Some included personal tragedies concerning women of Aboriginal descent living in British Columbia. It has been quite emotional at times to actually read about the struggles that have taken place right here in British Columbia regarding immigrants and Aboriginal people. We even got to meet the author of Mercenary English, Mercedes Eng, in person to make the words of her story really come to life. However, not all of the books we have studied convey negative outlooks of certain problems being faced. There have been positive social changes, personal victories and many moments that make the reader believe things can be made right if an effort is put into it. This research essay will focus on the positive view portrayed in three books studied this semester which include: Mercenary English, Active Geographies-Women and Struggles on the Left Coast and the Unnatural and Accidental Women. The positive themes discussed will display triumphs on a personal level, meaningful change on a social stage and a look at how social activism deeply connects people together. Firstly, Mercenary English has a very unique way of showing social injustice, believed to be carried out in the eyes of its author Mercedes Eng. She writes about personal problems she faced, the negative issues surrounding aboriginal people in Canada and historical injustice against minorities. Her writing is powerful, emotional...
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...reality, or your own version of it. The things we experience truly change you as a person. My experiences that I overcame motivate me and inspire me to change and succeed in life. Self-injury can be defined as the attempt to purposely cause harm to one's self and the injury is usually severe enough to cause physical damage. Self-harm can be considered a cry for attention by some people, a plea for anyone around to see that you aren’t alright. For me it was, and yet at the same time it wasn’t. I’ve done these things for my own personal reasons like self-hatred, pressure and the loneliness I felt. The feeling that no one understands you or even cares plays a big factor. Self-harm is a broad title and can be categorized into many different things. Cutting, also known as, self-mutilation was the one I fell into. I sometimes felt victimized. I was born into a society where everything I saw, every influence of culture or fashion, made me want to change myself but not for the right reasons. Cutting was something I had been doing for a while, and the issue of it never really hit me until my sophomore year of high school. That was the moment I went from rock bottom to the road of recovery. The things we experience shape you into who you are. Self-harm shaped the way I think of things now . When I first started receiving help from my teacher, I thought that there was no way any of this would help, but it did. I began to open up more and reveal the reasons behind my actions. I began to reflect...
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...When reviewing and discussing Williams situation from the perspective of traditional psychology, I can't help but be focused first, on improving the problems that exist in Williams daily life that cause him to feel that his life is pointless. In Williams' case just from the reading, it would be safe to say that William needs help in improving these symptoms. According to the reading, William suffers from many different symptoms. These symptoms include rarely seeing his two daughter due to a divorce, having issues with weight gain, and his appearance-which have caused decreased energy with no motivation to fix it on his own, he suffers from the lack of sleep due to worries about business problems, along with no social life outside of work. To top it all William has just recently been diagnosed with high blood pressure. As you can see William is at a very low point in his life and if I had to be the one to diagnose William, I would say that William suffers from a major depressive disorder along with an anxiety disorder. In my recommendations, I feel that it would be in Williams best interest if he were treated for his problems with some intensive therapy for his personal issues that he is battling along with some medication for the anxiety and sleepless nights. I further feel that maybe William could try some over the counter vitamins for his lack of energy. In doing so, I feel that William will begin to feel a lot more self-sufficient in his social life as well as his...
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...Aniyah Isham Med Pro 1 Ms. Mangan 5/12/2015 “Counselors to be at Corona Del Sol After Suicide” In the authors’ article, Counselors to be at Corona Del Sol After Suicide, they argue that kids in today’s society need to talk to people about their problems I order to get help for depression. The article also talks mostly about how a kid (Marcus Wheeler) from Corona committed suicide in the middle of school. They claim that kids need to talk about their sadness because you may never know if someone is feeling depressed or not. The authors support this claim by first stating that that the Marcus was seen by his peers as a happy and very likeable person. Then, another way the authors developed this claim is by affirming that one of his friends that saw him the morning he committed suicide, stated that Wheeler seemed fine that morning and didn’t look distraught. And finally, the authors’ purpose is to get family and friends to start to get kids to express how they feel. This will allow them to talk about their feelings without them being startled in order to prevent these suicides. They establish a critical yet formal tone for those that are having suicide thoughts or that are battling day-to-day with depression. This work is significant because it is a big deal that is happening in my community. This article is very relevant since I also know and have friends that deal with the same issues. I agree with mostly every part of this article and it was very interesting reading it compared...
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...Psychology Name Course Tutor Institution Psychology Discuss the rationale why each disorder applies to the patient and each AXIS that goes with each disorder. Signs and symptoms indicate that Smith is suffering from clinical disorders. All the signs and symptoms she is positive and hence indicating that she is suffering from adjustment disorder, bipolar disorder, eating disorder, major depressive disorder, borderline personality disorder and the acute stress disorder. She suffered from some form of mental retardation when she was young, mainly when her mother was harsh. She could be pushed around and forced to babysit her younger sister and brother. She argued out that her mother was both physically and emotionally abusive. Everything was messed up and this actually affected her judgment and thing and that is when she started drinking. Smith’s condition was elevated by drug abuse. The use of recreational drugs and drinking added onto the psychological problems she had. Drinking and doing drugs are known to affect and individuals thinking and judgment. A person with sound and sober mind would not use a straight-edged razor to cut herself. This indicates that she had a lot of psychological issues. Her situation worsened when she attempted suicide by taking another person’s prescription medication. Smith went back to drugs after recovering rather than adhering to her outpatient counseling. The environment that Smith was living in contributed a lot to her situation....
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...Criminal Case Case: R v Gittany Facts: Lisa Cecilia Harnum’s body fell from her shared high-rise apartment in the Sydney CBD minutes after trying to leave her abusive fiancé Simon Gittany. Gittany has had a dark past being associated with violence, drugs, having an uncontrollable temper and committing several criminal offences which included biting off parts of a policemen’s ear and selling cocaine. Gittany claims Harnum either slipped or deliberately fell to her death. Gittany had ‘bugged’ Harnum’s cell phone reading all her text messages and emails as well as listening to all her calls. When he discovered his fiancé was seeing a councillor he physically threatened her that if she saw his fiancé again he will “harm [her].” The day of Harnum’s...
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...towards his service revolver .In an act of Private defense my clients caught hold of Mr. Satyavadi and beat him up, since there was no immediate help from any security personal’s would be possible within the given short time frame. Only necessary amount of physical force was used to knock Mr. Satyavadi unconscious, which was an obvious reaction from a sane human and the same would be done by any man in a life threatening situation like this. RIGHT TO PRIVATE DEFENCE (Indian Penal Code 1860) Section 100 When the right of private defense of the body extends to causing death - The right of private defense of the body extends, under the restrictions mentioned in the last preceding section, to the voluntary causing of death or of any other harm to the assailant, if the offence which occasions the exercise of the right be of any of the descriptions hereinafter enumerated, namely:- First. - Such an assault as may...
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...Self-Injury Self-injury is a topic that is being discussed more often in the news, on television shows, in school settings, and in the psychological and medical fields. In a survey conducted by McGill University, seventy-four percent of the teachers reported having a personal encounter with self-injury but only twenty percent felt knowledgeable about working with those students (see Heath, Toste, & Beettam, 2007, 73). If the results are similar for the larger population, then it would be beneficial to inform and educate people who may encounter the individuals who participate in self-injurious behavior. Because most people think of self-injury as a new topic of discussion, many people assume that it is not actually a problem but only a cry for attention. Consequently much more research has been conducted in the past decade to determine what self-injury actually is and how it can be recognized. The research has produced results that not only define self-injury but also identify the criteria for diagnosis, and patterns of behavior that assist in recognizing an individual who is engaging in the action. Further research is required due to the fact that most of the focus has been on Caucasian women and young adults; is it prevalent among other demographic populations? Are there disorders that are common among self-injurers? Because it is becoming a more common problem among young adults, educators would benefit from these findings. Individuals in a school setting have expressed...
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...Self- Mutilation There are a number of different ways to define what self-mutilation entails. It is one of the most commonly used phrases, but researchers and mental health professionals have not been able to agree on one specific definition to explain self-inflicted injury. Hence, self-harm, self-injury and self-mutilation are the common phrases used to refer to this type of behavior ( Zila & Kiselica, 2001). Many people tend to associate self mutilation with suicide, when in fact they are very different. Therefore, when attempting to understand self-mutilation it is important to recognize the distinct differences between self mutilation and suicide. Suicide is an attempt to depart from pain through ending one’s life. While self mutilation is an effort to create relief from a negative affective incident, it differs for each person. It is used as a means for a person to temporarily deal with the pain, rather than abort it all together. In suicidal patients, pain is viewed as everlasting, which makes them feel hopeless. While, on the other hand self-injurers often portray an optimistic attitude (Walsh, 2006). Hence, there is a big difference between the behaviors and intent, which is why it is important to recognize these differences. Self-injurious behavior tends to be separated into two general categories: culturally sanctioned and deviant self mutilation. Culturally sanctioned rituals and practices comprise of ear piercing in the modern U.S culture, sacrament dances amongst...
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...How effective have harm reduction interventions been in reduction of Hepatitis C incidence among Injecting Drug Users in the UK? 1.0 Introduction The prevalence of Hepatitis C (HCV) internationally is largely unknown mainly due to the fact that most individuals have no symptoms in the early stages of the infection. The WHO estimates the figure at 170 million people infected with HCV and it is estimated that approximately 3-4 million people are newly infected each year . Injecting drug users (IDUs) are at greatest risk from HCV through the sharing of injecting paraphernalia. In the UK estimates from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) data has the number of people chronically infected with HCV at 216000 of which 90% are attributable to IDUs with over 40% of the IDU population being HCV antibody positive . Some estimates of numbers with HCV in the UK suggest about 500000 . In 2010, new HCV infections diagnosed in the UK was 10,381 of which there were 7384, 106, 2129, and 312 in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales respectively . There appears to be higher rate of transmission among IDU now than a decade ago; 23% compared to 12% in 2000 Although UK is classified as a low prevalence country for HCV; The HCV poses numerous challenges for public health in terms of potentially preventable mortality and morbidity. According to NICE guidance, it would cost the NHS about £1.6 billion to treat all Hepatitis C patients. The cost therefore of failing to diagnose and...
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...On John Stuart Mill’s production On Liberty has not only became one of the most widely known political and philosophical writing, but also produces one of the fundamental political questions on finding the balance in between liberty, democracy and authority. Although Mill’s writing was deeply influenced by Bentham’s Utilitarianism philosophy, Mill’s theory in On Liberty emphasized more around the value of individuality, equality and liberty (Donner, 1991; Skorupski, 1998). All three elements focused on by Mill, are closely connected in democratic society, Mill’s major fear was the emergence of dictatorship based on majoritarian and conformist behavior within a society (Skorupski, 2006). This essay will focus on examining Mill’s liberal ideas within On Liberty, his concept on the limitation of government’s authority, and will also suggest possible conditions where Mill’s ideas may apply in modern society. Liberty and authority are two factors that are constantly conflict. Liberty could not only mean the working of self-government and individuality, but also mean the right of freedom. Similarly, if a democratic society is lack of individuality; it could means the lack of freedom as well as the lack of what makes human. On the contrary, Skorupski (2006: p40) pointed out: “liberty meant ‘protection against the tyranny of political rulers’.” Indeed, limiting state’s authority could means preserving individuals’ rights, yet, at the same time society must give government enough power...
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...Severe Depression I. Severe Depression or Clinical depression is severe symptoms that interfere with your ability to work, sleep, study, eat, and enjoy life. Depression is rare and anyone can experiences it just like in case study#1 Joe who is suffering from depression. A. In case study #1 Joe is suffering from depression and his father, grandmother, and two uncles suffered with the same abnormal conditions. Depression normally makes people feel sad or empty inside at some point of time in their lives, particularly during their daily activities. One of Joe’s uncles committed suicide due to severe depression, soon after a trauma occurs in someone’s life such as death, losing a job, divorced, or anything that will put them in a depression mode. B. Depression is a common but somber illness and most people who suffer from it never seek treatment. But most that have it can get better with the proper treatment. II. Depression is most likely, caused by a combo of biological, genetic, environmental, and psychological factors. A. Depression illness effects ones brain were you can just about tell just by looking at a person with depression versus someone who isn’t experiences depression. Their mood, the way they think, their sleep habits, how well their appetite is, and definitely how their behavior is may all be different. Other types of depression may be caused by hereditary either on the mother side or father side or both just like in the case study on Joe’s...
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...Task Research and analyse debates on the current 'war against drugs' and its success or otherwise, globally and/or locally. Explain the debate and present an argument, supported by evidence, for either the continuation of a 'war against drugs' or for an alternative. Introduction The use of prohibited drugs has been predominant in Western society since the 19th century, with cannabis introduced to the United States in 1839, while opium was introduced to Europe and the United States through trade with China. These drugs were initially used for pharmaceutical benefits, but over time various legislatures introduced laws to administer, regulate and prohibit the use of various drugs. The declaration of ‘war on drugs’ took place in the United States of America (USA) in 1971. The historical response to the ‘war on drugs’ has been prohibition: the complete banning of drug use. This approach, which involves strict enforcement of illegal drug laws, has proven costly and ineffective (RCAP & RANZCP, 2004). This essay will focus on Australia’s current drug debate regarding the legalisation of certain prohibited illicit drugs. Whilst examining the Australian position, this essay will use international examples to illustrate how the current strategy fails and survey workable solutions. Firstly, this work examines the historical position of the ‘war on drugs’. It will outline the history of drug use in Australia and the nation’s current drug policy. This essay will then discuss the criminal...
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...Prohibition and Harm Reduction Bryon Wilson BEHS 364 August 5th 2014 There have been two different strategies of society dealing with alcohol; harm reduction and zero tolerance. The method of harm reduction is focused primarily on reducing the negative effect of alcohol society and the people who drink. This is usually implemented by our government. They create policies and social programs that can treat those afflicted with alcoholism. There are several ways that this can be accomplished, such as limiting access, and taxing the substance to reduce demand. There are also social programs put in place that can help educate, rehabilitate and help recover. This a strategy compared to zero tolerance carries a unique ability to be tailored to suit individual needs as opposed to a one size fits all blanket policy. The harm reduction policy stands on a principle that alcoholism will not be completely eliminated so it would be more benefit to address the negative harms. For instance as alcoholism can be a major problem at work, some companies provide someone as an advocate and counsel. These counselors can work with them to modify behavior and reduce alcohol related incidents and further harm to their self on the job and in their personal life. That is something prohibition policies cannot do for an individual person. The proponents of zero tolerance see the alcoholic epidemic as a disease and therefore cannot allow continued usage if the person is to be treated and recover. It...
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...actually hit Joe sense he actually hit his dog instead. When Sam hit Joe’s dog it made Joe become very emotionally distressed, which is the tort of infliction of emotional distress. Joe committed assault and battery when he broke Sam’s nose. Since Sam hit his dog, he could say that he was protecting his family. There are probably a few juries that allow protecting your pet a family member also, since Joe was emotional distressed. There could be money damages taken out for that too. I believe this is a good way of self defense to the battery. According to CNN’s law table from 2012, you are justified in using deadly force, with no duty to retreat, when you reasonably believe that such force is necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm to yourself or another or...
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