publishing board that publishes reviews of books and audiovisual works—found in the Literature Resource Center in the Opposing Viewpoints database, takes a professional evaluation approach. Jones refrains from using personal
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interdisciplinary theory in the care of aboriginal women’s mental health” because it discusses mental health and global health, both of which is a field I am interested in working in. I chose this article because it focuses on teaching nurses to learn about cultures other than their own to care for people. This article also takes a multidisciplinary approach to nursing. Encompassing physiology and sociology in nursing practice to understand aboriginal women, the world they live in, and their mental health
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and American history with the Civil Rights Act in 1964. But we think of it, mainly as history. And that, according to Tim Wise, an anti-racism activist and American writer, is the biggest self-deception of the modern American world. Throughout an article posted on his own webpage, concerning school shootings, Tim Wise discusses the general American attitude towards this relatively new phenomenon in American society. With the use of especially pathos Wise argues that the most concerning thing about
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Critical Review Essay Sustainable and Systems Thinking (7920IBA) Critical Review of “The Norm of Self-Interest” Introduction Miller’s (2001) article “The Norm of Self-Interest” discusses that the average person is a self-interest theorist, self-interest and behavior, self-interest and accounts of behavior, self-interest predict behavior better than attitudes and Incentives having impact on charitable donations. This paper will discuss the particular norm that pertains to beliefs about
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will be exploring topics in greater detail and moving to wider issues concerning society and the world around you. Some are very broad, for example, environmental issues, world disasters and the rise of new political powers. Other topics will remain personal in nature, such as healthy living, marriage, relationships and young people’s attitudes. How will your work be different? You will be expected to work more independently and take responsibility for your own learning. This will require you to
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in her article, “Effect of Mandatory Parental Notification on Adolescent Girls’ Use of Sexual Health Care Services,” tells that 11% of girls said they would delay discontinue the use of STD testing as well as contraceptive use if parental notification were required. I believe this has to do with the fear factor in these girls parents finding out about their personal life and their sexual habits; after all, parents view children differently than they view themselves. Rachel Jones’ article, “Adolescents’
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In this article the author talks about how gay and lesbian life has been perceived and treated in America over the past century. The author explains the choice of many homosexuals to remain ‘closeted’ which means to downplay their homosexuality as an identity to increase their public acceptance and treat it as a secondary part of them. A good point made by the author was that the struggle for rights for homosexuals is not a desire to mimic straight life but is an effort to eradicate the heterosexual
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Writing a Short Literature Review William Ashton, Ph.D. York College, CUNY A student began a short literature review on the stigma of the mentally ill and perceptions of dangerousness. Working through PsychArticles she found three likely articles. When she read each, she wrote a paragraph description of each: Alexander, L.A., & Link, B.G. (2003). The impact of contact on stigmatizing attitudes towards people with mental illness. Journal of Mental Health, 12, 271-289. Alexander and Link
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An article published both in the Sunday Times and the Wall Street Journal in May of 2006 entitled, “Don’t blame me, I’m just the junkie”, written by Theodore Dalrymple, purposes that criminality is more likely to cause heroin addiction than heroin addiction is to cause criminality. The author of this article, in my opinion, clearly has an unrealistic view of addiction and has obviously never experienced withdrawal. Mr. Dalrymple begins this article in a disturbing tone when he states that most
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This writing piece is about my thoughts on the article discussing how depression in teens and how much of an impact they have on their lives. The article starts off by citing a story about a girl by the name of Faith-Ann and talks about the first time she had done self-harm to herself, afterward (Susanna Schrobsdorff), when the introductory story ended, I then read about something that had stirred open a reaction out of me, the sentence reads “Adolescents today have a reputation for being more fragile
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