Essays on Compulsion

Addiction refers to the state or condition of repeating a particular behavior where the need or compulsion is strong compared to the habituation such as drug-taking. Thus the definition of addiction has been formalized and extended to include: a strong compulsion, the habit of increasing dose, and the production of physical dependence. While addiction is often equated with drugs abuse and other ordinary addictions, the concepts is often used in reference to an ever-increasing range of activities, hence addictive behaviors which often don’t involve substances at all such as sex, the internet, gambling and even anorexia nervosa. Until ...

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1. Explain how tourism can contribute towards socio-cultural conservation Tourists are generally interested, apart from sight-seeing, in exploring the social and cultural peculiarities of the locations they visit. They are interested in the local food habits, dance and cultural forms. In many parts of the world cultural forms have been resurrected and revived mainly for entertaining tourists. Tourists are willing to pay good money to watch dance, rituals and other performing arts which are unique to the town or village that they are visiting and this creates a demand for the local artists who can ...

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This paper will discuss an issue of drug abuse. This problem has become very common in the modern society. People abuse all types of the drugs. However, there is a great number of side effects to such behavior. It is necessary to remember that drug abuse creates a big number of psychological and physiological problems. The reason for medication misuse is not completely known but rather likely incorporate hereditary inclination, co-happening conditions and natural circumstances. Drug use and experimentation is normal in pre-youths and teenagers, however just a little rate of those clients will go ahead to mishandle drugs. ...

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The principal objective of the essay is to illustrate that people are subject to same obsessions and compulsion regardless of whether it happens obvious or latent. This is best illustrated by Sedari’s case, which features a lifetime dominated by case of obsessive compulsive disorder. In order to achieve the objective, various instances depicting effects of compulsive disorder are articulated through the life of David Sedaris especially during childhood. The use of irony, hyperbole and stereotypes makes Sedaris to bring up an interesting lifetime that is dominated by tics. In the first instance, it comes out that his state ...

Facts of the Case: A suspect caught in driving under the influence of alcohol underwent a blood sample analysis and the result was used against the suspect. Schmerber was found guilty of driving while under the influence of alcohol. The evidence was found on the result of the chemical examination that showed intoxication. Extraction of blood happened at the order of a police authority where the petitioner was taken following the accident. The extraction of blood was taken despite Schmerber’s refusal.

How would you have ruled: According to the Fifth Amendment which contains the person’s right against self-incrimination, a ...

Synopsis

The case is about the Lufthansa Airline which is going to buy 20 new 737 Boeing airplanes for $500 million. The plane is ordered in January 1985, and the payment is to be made on January 1986. The need for this deal was because of its increasing passenger volume as well the revenue of Lufthansa was increasing at a rate sufficient to afford the deal. However, the main issue in the case was the problem caused due to the appreciating value of dollars as compared to Deutsche marks. Heinz Ruhnau, the chairperson of the board of Lufthansa, was worried ...

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder or OCD is a mental health illness that affects both the young and adult population. A condition that used to be considered as normal, this is now considered as a chronic disease that is characterized by symptoms of obsession and compulsion. In DSM-5, OCD was recently given a separate section together with other related diseases, such as the body dysmorphic disorder, trichotillomania or hair-pulling disorder, hoarding disorder, and excoriation disorder (skin-picking disorder). Although the process of assessing a patient for OCD faces many challenges, some types of assessments are proven to be more effective and accurate, like the Children’s Yale-Brown ...

Anastasia Gvozdeva

Dr. Diane Watson Kwantlen Politechnic University 26.06.2015

Introduction

Introductory statement: Many observers have come up with various viewpoints in light of the examination of the two ideas of addiction and loneliness.

Thesis statement: There are similarities and differences between the causes and symptoms of both addiction and loneliness.

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First Supporting Idea (Topic Sentence): In terms of similarity, some causes of addiction and loneliness relate to neurobiology. Scientific evidence shows that addictive tendencies occur in the parts of human brains that govern some of the most fundamental and life-sustaining requirements and functions.

Brain develops new circuitry all through the lifespan of people

The causes of both compulsion and loneliness differ significantly in light of their neurological causes. Second Supporting Idea (Topic Sentence): ...

Like the old saying goes, “Cleanliness is next to godliness,” but at what point does cleaning and being tidy cross the line into mental illness? Likewise, while a large percentage of the population may admit to being a little superstitious and many hotels don’t include a 13th floor, at what point does certain superstitious beliefs and behaviors turn into compulsions or behaviors that must be carried out or else the individual is unable to proceed throughout his or her day? To an outsider, it may appear like a nonsense disease with behaviors that should be easy to curtail by just stopping the ...

Introduction

Learning in high schools and colleges is becoming continually dynamic, with an increased globalization of life before, in and after college becoming more and more salient. This means that there is an augmented educational interaction among people from different parts of the world, and this interaction is enhanced by effective communication, which in turn depends on the language. For this reason, the introduction of foreign language classes in high schools and colleges has become an area attracting societal attention. However, this practice raises varied opinions, with some feeling that the foreign language studies should be mandatorily introduced in these ...

Introduction

Obsessive compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder of the brain and behavior which causes severe anxiety and involves both obsessions and compulsions which may interfere with the normal activities of a person. People with OCD fall into different categories. They maybe washers, checkers, doubters and sinners, counters and arrangers and hoarders. According to Robinson et al. (2014), washers are those who are afraid of contamination while checkers are those who repeatedly check things associated with danger like gas stoves. Doubters and sinners are those who think that they will be punished if they do not do things right. Counters and ...

Introduction to the Review

Clinical Psychology is the diagnoses, assessment, prevention and treatments of psychological diseases. Individuals who specialize in this field are called psychotherapists and are involved in a number of jobs like psychotherapy of clients, functioning of public administration programs and carrying out research projects. Lots of clinical psychologists have done extensive research on the diagnoses and treatments of hundreds of mental illnesses. Amongst them, the most prominent psychological disorder is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) on which a huge amount of research is done to find the most convenient and successful strategies to solve it. It is one of the anxiety disorders ...

There are several psychiatric disorders that disturb the mood, thought and behavior, known as mental illness. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is one such illness which leads to anxious and irrational thoughts. Individuals suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder experience intrusive thoughts and ideas that generate distress, and repetitive behaviors that become compulsions . Individuals show patterns of irrational behavior, which provides temporary relief from anxiety, distress and fear. While all obsessions are mental events, compulsions are both mental and behavioral. Individuals are aware of their obsessions or compulsions as senseless and excessive; however, when confronted with a fearful situation, they lose their insight. The ...

Freud thinks human beings can never be happy for a number of reasons. Unhappiness is a peculiar feeling that is present in millions of individuals around the world. It is a feeling that has no limit and is subjective. Freud says that it is not easy to deal with the feelings scientifically. He says that the feeling is oceanic, and it is an intellectual perception present in every other human being. It is not possible to enter into people’s minds that have the feeling to be able to understand it and thus, we cannot tell if the feeling is correctly interpreted. ...

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Sexual dependence, which is additionally called sexual reliance, hyper-sexuality, nymphomania (females), impulsive sexual conduct and sexual compulsivity, alludes to the wonder in which individuals can't deal with their sexual conduct. The unique is fixated on sexual considerations - contemplations that meddle with their capability to work legitimately, have connections, and go about their everyday exercises. Numerous scientists say that a sexual habit is a manifestation of obsessive enthusiastic conduct. An individual with sexual enslavement fixated on sex or has a strangely powerful sex drive. Their lives are overwhelmed with sex and the possibility of sex; to such an extent that different exercises ...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Introduction An obsession is a thought that recurs despite all efforts to forget or curb it. A compulsion is an extremely strong and uncontrollable urge to perform an action. The term obsessive compulsive has often been used to describe an extremely meticulous person or a perfectionist. Such people are often fixated on certain ideas or actions. For example they may be religious fanatics or they may want their things kept in a particular order. You may find them continually arranging things on the mantel or shelf or making sure the door is closed. In fact this a psychological disorder which stems from anxiety. ...

Introduction

The terms leisure and recreation mean different things to different people from different social backgrounds. Therefore, it is not easy to come up with a universal definition that is acceptable to all people. As a result, the best means to look at leisure and recreation is through the different conceptions that express different perspectives of the two terms. Nevertheless, it would not be wrong to say that leisure and recreation occupy a crucial point in every society, at least in almost all the cultures in the world. For the young children, leisure can be conceptualized as play, while, for the adults, leisure ...

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This essay is going to concur with Cesaire's statement that the act of colonizing dehumanizes the colonizer. This paper will deal with the conceptualization of the thesis statement with reference to the course materials with an aim of justifying this inclination. According to Cesaire, we note the process of colonization influences the person who undertakes it. Where the individual fails to accord the fellow human beings the respective dignity and on the contrary view them as animals. This act of looking down upon other human beings degrades the colonizer. Ethnocentrism explains ...

What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is one the anxiety disorder in which an individual have unnecessary and repetitive thoughts, ideas, feelings, obsessions or behaviors that let them or drive them to do something (Stein & Hollander, 1993). They feel being compelled to do something. An obsession is defined as an unnecessary disturbing thought, illustration or urge, which constantly enters the mind of an individual. Compulsions are recurring behaviours or cerebral acts that the individual feels driven to execute. A compulsion may either be observable and overt by others, for example checking a door lock, or a secret mind act that cannot be viewed ...

Book VII - On Shadows and Realities in Education

SOCRATES - GLAUCON AND now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: --Behold! human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads. Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will ...

Introduction

Modern market economy is a complex social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production that includes a large number of diverse industrial, commercial, financial and information structures that interact on the common legal principles. In this system every person acts for his own good; but everybody’s actions collaborate and are aimed at the satisfaction of other people’s wants and needs as well as at the satisfaction of own. Every individual serves and is being served by the others; all people are both means for production and consumers at the same time. ...

Binge Eating Disorder

Food is always considered a right that all people are entitled to have alongside clean water. Some nations thrive in food producing lands and livestock while there are nations that have scarce means to produce food. For those who could access food, there are people who would eat only a few due to their physical weight and people who would keep eating despite the consequences of too much food in the body. While many note that people who eat too much would become obese, they do not realize that there are many reasons as to why a person becomes obese and it ...

The first successful powered flight was carried out by Orville and Wilbur Wright in 1903. However, there was human flight before the Wright brothers made their accomplishments. These pre-twentieth century fliers were not foolish dreamers, since their desire for human flight was usually more often than not informed by what were then valid scientific principles. Those who attempted flight before the twentieth century actually formed the basis on which the developers of human flight in later centuries applied (Crouch, 2004).

One of the pre-twentieth century fliers was Leonardo da Vinci, who seems to have developed many of the initial ...

Given my cultural background, I always believed in the equality of genders. I come from a country where gender discrimination against employees is a punishable offense by law. The freedom and rights that women have in the United States, Europe as well as developed countries, although often debated by feminists, is considered by most to be quite liberal. Hence, I grew up taking the rights of women for granted and believing that they enjoyed the same treatment across the globe. I was aware of Islam as a major world religion but had never studied its tenets, particularly with regards to women. I ...

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The conflicting American and Muslim view of women in Muslim societies

Over the years, the image of a Muslim woman has been changing. From the completely covered one, to the college going, educated woman, Muslim women have seen radical changes in last few decades. However, even though the Muslim world has revolutionized in its own manner, a conflicting image is still seen in the eyes of American women with respect to Muslim women. The ‘Hijab’ or the veil that is sacred to Muslims has been a topic of discussion lately. The recent ban of the headscarf in France and Britain has stirred a ...

Summary

The Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a type of anxiety disorder which is mainly associated with obsessions and compulsions in the patient’s mind. The obsessions that linger in the patients mind include thoughts, images and impulses that repeatedly preoccupy the mind and make the individual feel out of control. The patient on the other hand does not find the ideas pleasant but finds them intrusive and realizes that they do not make sense. Karen was obsessed with ideas that some calamities might have befallen her children. However, when the children came back home, she realizes that nothing had befell her ...

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In the Carl Sagan novel, Contact, we encounter a young woman character by the name, Ellie Arroway. In the beginning, of the novel we find Ellie questioning whether there was a possibility of teaching the ants about the alphabet. This became the genesis about discussion on the Great Chain of Beijing. This gives an opportunity for the introduction to the role of a young human as a learner and one who utilize knowledge and experiences (Sagan 30). Ellie does not consider herself as a theist and or atheist. She is agnostic. As the main character with another character prepares the audience for Sagan’s ...

There is an immense difference between ideological theories and their practical implementations. Often, even the most brilliant ideas become complete failures. So was the case with communism and national approaches to its implementation. Depending on country’s specifics and initial people’s needs, communism had various interpretations from “the human face socialism” in Tito’s Yugoslavia to Cultural Revolution in Mao’s China. The topic of the present essay is the analysis of whether some communist theories and their institutional embodiments were somehow successful. The central thesis is that both communist theory and practice had some initial positive results, ...