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A mental illness is a medical condition that disrupts a person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily functioning. It is easy to forget that Bipolar Disorder, as we know it, is a recent construct. Bipolar Disorder is now recognized as a potentially treatable psychiatric illness that has substantial mortality and high economic impact. According to Swann (2006), every aspect of its definition, boundaries, mechanism, and treatment, however, is subject to debate. We need to understand Bipolar Disorder well enough that we will no longer wait for a manic episode before we can diagnose.

Bipolar Disorder

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Improving Learning in Museums for Young Individuals

Russo, Watkins, and Groundwater-Smith (2015) veered the spotlight on social media and its role in facilitating learning among young people in different institutions such as museums and galleries. Museums and galleries are informal learning environments unlike the formal classroom setting. Nevertheless, Russo, Watkins, and Groundwater-Smith argued that social media may be used to transform informal learning environments such as museums and galleries and create learning opportunities for young individuals. Including learning opportunities in museums and galleries is important to supplement young individuals’ learning while inside museums or galleries.
Russo, Watkins, and Groundwater-Smith (2015) cited examples on how social media Continue reading...

Introduction

Thesis: Based on recent research and study, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) such as herbal remedies and acupuncture have proven to be increasingly popular and well-regarded in the medical community.

- Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)
- used as a supplement or replacement for traditional medicine
- derived from homeopathic, holistic and spiritual remedies used historically by many cultures (Bystritsky et al., 2014).
- most CAM users are middle aged, educated women, used for depression, insomnia and back pain among other symptoms (Frass et al., 2012).
- US experiencing upsurge in CAM usage and acceptance (Xu & Chen, 2012), as Continue reading...

Two contrasting views emerge in discussion about the character of Hamlet in Shakespeare’s tragic play about a young son who seeks out to avenge his father’s most foul and unnatural murder. The first view is that Hamlet is just a deep thinker and concerned about the nature of humanity and the fate stemming from his impending mortality. The entire play is a dance to death. But what is the takeaway? To answer this question, some critics have tried to paint the story of the play as an illustration of mental illness. The second view is that Hamlet Continue reading...

Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker

Introduction
In Danticat’s ‘The Dew Breaker,’ the bitter history of corruption, violence and vengeance in Haiti stalks almost all of the characters in the novel. The dark history leads to their dreams being infected and their expectations to be circumscribed. Most of the characters are trying without much success to remember their history and to ultimately erase it from their minds. The author chooses her characters, words, and events wisely for a specific function: to show the long-time suffering of the Haitian people under the regime of the Duvaliers who were exceedingly corrupt. The wise choices arouse readers Continue reading...

Introduction

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was funded in 1933 by Abdulaziz Al Saud. In a few short decades, the Kingdom has turned itself from a desert nation to one of the most important countries around the world. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia plays an important role in the world economy these days. Different countries around the world have different set of beliefs, norms, cultures, practices. The behavior of people tends to be shaped by these factors. Many people from all the world view Saudi Arabia as this mysterious land of desert and camels, oil and Usama Bin Laden. However, both Continue reading...

The short story “Every Day Use” by Alice Walker narrates the story of a small broken family whose problems go way far back than we are told. The text is narrated in first person by the mother of this family, we are thoroughly described through the text the way this woman looks and thinks. She is a husky woman, not quite feminine:
I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day [] I can eat pork liver cooked over the open fire minutes Continue reading...

The human sciences have developed into the collection of mainstream professions in the recent years, and therefore, psychological and social interventions are necessary in order to maintain highest performing standards in the people who are either engaged professionally or domestically. However, the psychologists cannot extol about the power of medications, and they should avoid prescribing a lot of them to their patients as well. The mental scientists have to engage into their practice via following the model of evidence-mediated practice. The patients have to receive the empowerment of selecting what activities can help them in the process of attaining Continue reading...

In “We are Seven” by William Wordsworth, the narrator begins by asking if a young girl, that is so full of life, could possibly know anything about the hard realities of death, arguing she did not know death. The poet narrator asks the rustic “little cottage girl” about the size of her family and she tells him seven, even though two are dead and “buried in a churchyard near her home/ Their graves are green, they can be seen” (30-33). The poet is a realist, and is unwilling to accept her explanation. To him, there are alone five children, Continue reading...

Identity has been a major topic of Sherman Alexie’s writings since his first book was published. Alexie explores identity trough culture, ethnicity, and lifestyle, at the same time emphasizing that identity is built rather from internal factors than external. In his War Dances he explored human psychology with the focus on self-identity and a place of an individual in the society. In Blasphemy he broadens this topic concentrating on identity as a whole and the role the society plays in its shaping. Moreover, Alexie tries to understand how the society perceives one’s identity and what factors affect Continue reading...