Alcoholism: Medical & Philosophical Dimensions

Introduction Unethical approach to alcoholism has deterred hundreds of people from admitting the problem and giving up drinking liquor. The news article considered in this paper is devoted to the changes on the way to which modern medicine is ethical in its aspirations. As stated in the article, scientists are...

Corrections and Rehabilitation of Criminals

Correctional institutions are state bodies of the penal and correctional system. They are charged with organizing the correction of convicts, preventing the commission of new crimes, ensuring law and order in their activities, and engaging convicts in work. Correctional institutions include: Penal colonies of the public, strict and special regimes;...

Aboriginal Youth’s Risks and Resilience

There is no arguing the fact that the socialization of people belonging to minorities occurs differently than that of their more privileged peers. It is also true for Aboriginal youth, as discussed in the paper Aboriginal Youth: Risk and Resilience by Paula Du Hamel (2003). The author believes that the...

The Consequences of High School Bullying

Armitage, Richard. “Bullying in Children: Impact on Child Health.” BMJ Pediatrics Open, vol. 5.1 e000939, 2021. doi:10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000939. Armitage distinguishes three large groups of consequences of bullying, including in the field of education, health, and adulthood. Armitage notes the appearance of the child as one of the main causes of bullying....

Prejudice and Discrimination Against Muslim Americans

Introduction Muslims in the United States believe that their fellow citizens do not view Islam as an integral part of mainstream American culture and that there is significant persecution against their religious community. At the same time, Muslim Americans indicate a continuous strain of optimism and good attitudes. They overwhelmingly...

Innovative Thinking in Modern World

The process of thinking is a complex and mysterious phenomenon because it is difficult to determine the line where thoughts turn into thinking. Often a person can register passing words, ideas, and concepts in their head, but this process occurs without intentional effort. On the contrary, a person can unconsciously...

“Single Stories” and “Stereotype Threat” Issue

Thesis Statement: “Single stories” pose a significant threat to the cultural integrity, identity, and freedom of oppressed groups of people through the generalization of their cultural characteristics. Thesis Statement #2: “Single stories” and “stereotype threat” are critical social issues that obstruct the freedom and identities of oppressed groups around the...

Poverty Among Seniors Age 65 and Above

Introduction Today, there are numerous social problems experienced in society. One of the social problems people experience is the high poverty rate among seniors age 65 and over. Currently, there are still millions of elderly who are living below the poverty line (Karger & Stoesz, 2018). To solve this problem,...

Violence as a Broad Spectrum of Actions and Attitudes

Introduction Violence is an act, attempt, or other action that one person commits against another with the intent to cause harm. The concept of harm is always viewed from the victim’s perspective, as violence is not always apparent to the one who commits it. The term violence refers to a...

The Alcohol Consumption Rate in Cambridgeshire

Introduction Alcohol consumption has health and social impacts borne by the individual, their families and the community. The number of patients admitted with health conditions linked with alcohol used in Cambridgeshire is rising. For example, in 2018, about 3,452 hospital admissions were caused by excessive alcohol use (Cliss, 2019). This...

Substance Abuse in Media: Godfather of Harlem

Introduction People, households, and communities are all impacted by substance abuse. Dependency on drugs has a cascading effect, resulting in many high-cost physical, emotional, social, and general health concerns. Apart from delighting the general audience, films can raise public consciousness about concerns that affect individuals worldwide. This post describes a...

Poverty and Homelessness in Jackson, Mississippi

Introduction Poverty and homelessness are two substantial factors that have an impact on the person’s life and ability to care for themselves and their families. In some cases, poverty is a result of historical events and a lack of policies and support systems that would allow a person to have...

Drug Addiction as Moral Failure

Introduction Michael Kuhar argues that addiction is a biological vulnerability that human beings share with other mammals. He states that addiction should not be viewed as a moral failure. According to him, the brain is greatly involved in addiction progression. He uses animal models to explain how the brain works...

Obesity From Sociological Imagination Viewpoint

Introduction Obesity is a global health problem; this problem of obesity in modern times is becoming more and more urgent. I believe that the relevance and social significance of the problem of obesity is determined by the threat of disability of young patients and a decrease in overall life expectancy...

Cyberbullying in Modern Society

Introduction Cyberbullying is one of the most important issues in modern society. It also remains to be the hardest to solve because it is perpetuated through the internet which is increasingly becoming part of people’s lives. Jun (2020) noted that the internet creates an illusion of impunity. In essence, Cyberbullying...

Class and Race: Interconnection Analysis

Within society, there is a debate around the interconnection between class and race and how these factors affect people. This debate contributes to our understanding of race and racism because it explains how race can impact the class of an individual. This paper will focus on the connection between class...

The Gender Pay Gap in Australia

Executive Summary This paper tests the idea that a gender wage gap exists for the case study of Australian workers. The research methodology included simple and multiple linear regression models to detect differences in the significance of gender for the wage gap. Statistical analyses were conducted in MS Excel. In...

The Cross-Generational Discrimination

Harmful biases may present themselves in forms that not many people recognize. Ageism is one such discrimination that is widely accepted among many companies, with over 78% of older and many younger workers being subjected to it (Hasserot, 2021). I observed this phenomenon myself, as I have been deemed inexperienced...

Slave Resistance Strategies

It is well known that historically, many slaves were trying to resist their status. The multitude of ways enslaved people could oppose slavery ranged from the passive aggressive behavior to open revolts. Regardless of the method, one goal that slaves pursued in particular was the ability to sustain communities and...

Sex Worker Unionization: The Main Benefits

Introduction The legalization and unionization of individuals in the sex work industry is a critical issue. There are differing opinions on whether persons providing sex services should be granted the same benefits as workers in other industries. Lack of union representation can contribute to sex workers being underpaid and not...

Homelessness and Racial Disparities of African Americans

Introduction In the United States, there is a disproportionate share of the homeless population. African Americans are part of the minority groups experiencing higher rates of homelessness and racial disparities than the whites. The primary cause is America’s long-standing structural and historical racism. Racial inequality in homelessness cases among the...

“My Son Was a Columbine Shooter”: Video Description and Critique

The story My Son was a Columbine Shooter on TedTalk by Sue Klebold is based on Dylan Klebold, a student who committed suicide after involving himself in a Columbine Highschool massacre. The incident led to the death of 12 students and one teacher (Klebold). The purpose of this talk is...

How Colorism Has Affected African Americans in Today’s Society

Racism and historical beliefs that favor the light skin color of the White people over the darker skin tones have enabled colorism to persist in today’s society. The preferential treatment of light-skinned black people over the dark-skinned has created a lot of disparities among African Americans. Although the issue of...

Overcoming Racism in “The Blood of Jesus” Film

Belittling the status of a person based on his gender or race is impossible and terrible in modern society, but it is the tendency of the present time. For a long time, such a belief as racism existed and humiliated people. People belonging to racial minorities suffered because of prejudices...

Biology and Culture of Gender Color Stereotypes

It seems inadequate to assign a particular gender a stereotypical color in a developed modern society. Nevertheless, historically embedded patterns are quite difficult to eradicate, so carriers still spread them. One such stereotype is the assignment of blue to boys and pink to girls. This is a somewhat ingrained gender...

The Problem of Homelessness in Canada

Introduction Homelessness is a common societal issue in Canada and many other developing nations. Every year, about 235,000 people in Canada experience this aspect of homelessness and between 25,000 and 35,000 individuals might be homeless on any particular night. Homelessness is defined as multiple situations, like staying in unsuitable places...

“Race: The Power of an Illusion” Documentary

Episode 1 of the documentary Race: The Power of an Illusion dismantles the myth of race. According to this myth, race is an important characteristic rooted in biology or genetics. It accounts not only for visual differences among people, such as various skin colors but also for complex internal differences,...

The Sexual Abuse of Black Men Under American Slavery

Summary The thesis of this article is that violence has no face, race, or gender. The times of slavery left a large number of people disfigured and offended, including men. Strong social stigma about the shame of male sexual passivity and general weakness did not allow for deep and responsible...

Economic Inequality Between Genders

Discussions on the problems of gender inequality have been going on for decades. The difference in the earnings between men and women is called the gender pay gap. This gap is partly explained by different remuneration levels in traditionally female and male occupations, partly by education, positions held, and others....

Social Capital Disappearance in America

The reading revolves around the relevance of the main idea of Ithiel de Sola Polo’s piece, Technologies Without Borders. The discussed repercussions of a strong connection between society and technology are thoroughly analyzed to conclude their existence in the modern world (Putnam, 1995). In other words, the writing focuses on...

Disability Concepts, Perception and Values

Introduction Demographic Information Individuals with disabilities refer to all people with special needs, including long-term physiological, subjective, intelligent, or functional limitations. Disability is projected to affect over a billion people, equating to around 15% of the global population (Whittle et al., 2017). As per the American Community Survey, elderly individuals...

Criminal Justice System and the Problem of Racism

This essay discusses whether the criminal justice system in England and Wales is institutionally racist. This paper starts with an overview of the issue, then pivoting to how infrastructural biases influence crime analytics. It provides a display of problematic areas in the justice system and the possible solution to them...

Violence Against Indigenous Women

Introduction Abuse against Indigenous women is especially pronounced since Indigenous women are among the world’s most marginalized populations. Indigenous women face hugely disproportionate and severe levels of violence. Conventional interventions frequently attempt to address the issue of violence against women by establishing programs that focus the onus on the woman...

Poverty, Politics, and Profit as US Policy Issue

Summary Poverty remains one of the most intractable problems to deal with, both in the international community and in the United States. Poverty presents both socio-economic and political threats since it can seriously destabilize the domestic and – indirectly – international political situation. Acute problems of social inequalities have the...

Aspects of Cognitive Neuroscience

Introduction Cognitive levels are categorized into taxonomies based on the degree of generalization and class inclusion components or factors. The degree of generalization implies that the description of an object gets generalized as it moves up the taxonomy and gets more specific down the taxonomy. Class inclusion depicts the idea...

Researching of Life After Retirement

Introduction Retirement is a significant life event that is accompanied by changes in daily routines, social roles, social connections, and income in later adulthood. Older people are spending more time in retirement as their life expectancy increases. Pension and savings schemes have alleviated the financial demands of retirement in many...

Racial Identity and Racial Identification by Anthony Appiah

Appiah helps the readers see the more fundamental problems that stem from racism in the chapter ‘Racial Identity and Racial Identification’. These are the problems of the effect on people as they see themselves and consequently the paths of action that are open to them in life. Racism becomes the...

Domestic Violence: Justification Is Unacceptable

Introduction Violent acts committed against society occur for various reasons but are never justified. Finding a problem in a nonviolent way goes a long way toward developing and changing the collective consciousness about issues. More than 10 million people in the U.S. are believed to experience domestic violence –the mistreatment...

Social Inequality and Discrimination in the US

The United States is one of the most diverse countries in the world. However, it grapples with widespread social inequality and discrimination issues that occasionally threaten to tear it apart. The problem of social inequality in the country has continued to widen the gap between the rich and the poor...

“Miles of Aisles of Sexism” by Hoffman

The article Miles of Aisles of Sexism by Hoffman demonstrates how toy stores are resistant to change and entrenched within the sex-role stereotypes and the bold adoration of war. As a result, boys are crushing, blasting, striking, and destroying during their playtime, while girls are diapering, clearing, and grooming (Hoffman,...

Domestic Violence in the Military

Introduction Until August 31st, the United States had been in a constant state of war for twenty years. Currently, there are nineteen million veterans and 1.1 million military members on active duty. Roughly twenty million citizens are most likely suffering from extreme post-traumatic stress disorder, self-medicating with alcohol, and abusing...

Bulgaria’s Abandoned Children: Analysis of Film by BBC

This video covers a revisit on the state of Bulgaria’s abandoned children, which was done on October 20, 2009. It was done as a result of a previously aired video by the BBC documentary done in 2007 on Bulgaria’s abandoned children living with disabilities (Blewett, 2009). The BBC documentary led...

Intersection of Disability Justice, Race, and Gender

Brown, Robyn Lewis, and Mairead Eastin Moloney. “Intersectionality, Work, and Well-Being: The Effects of Gender and Disability.” Gender & Society, vol. 33, no. 1, 2019, pp. 94-122. During the last several decades, the intersectionality of such social concepts as race and gender has been significantly enlarged from the disability justice...

Teenage Pregnancy in the United Kingdom

Teenage pregnancies are a significant social and health issue in the U.K. due to the increase in various recorded cases. Adolescent females in the U.K. encounter optimal complications within the spectrum of health risks. This implies that teenage pregnancy within the U.K. has increased spontaneously hence resulting in the implementation...

Growing Family Diversity: The New Social Tendency

Growing family diversity refers to the increasing range of family types recognized in society in addition to the traditional nuclear family. According to Cohen (2020), there are different responses to the changing trends with regard to the family structure. As shown in Figure 13.5, young people are more tolerant of...

How Racism Makes Us Sick

Summary From this week’s readings and the TED Talk video, I have learned that racism has a plethora of implicit effects, including the way people of different ethnicities are treated within the healthcare system. For example, David R. Williams discusses an example of a comparison of the life expectancy for...

The Dabbawalas and the COVID-19 Pandemic

The global COVID-19 pandemic cannot go unnoticed for the dabbawalas, which is a system of lunchbox delivery and return services for India’s employees. Before the pandemic and lockdown policies, thousands of dabbawalas served Mumbai citizens due to their well-considered system of order picking, color coding, and bicycle/train delivery (Sadhana Centre...

Divorce Rates and Causes of Their Rising

Divorce has been a major challenge to family norms in the United States for more than 40 years, with social policies increasingly focusing on the problem. At the same time, there are different findings that indicate the stabilization and even a decline in divorce rates in recent years. Discussing unilateral...

Peripheral, Semi-Peripheral, and Core Nations

A country can either be a peripheral, semi-peripheral, or a core nation. A nation can be referred to as a peripheral if it is underdeveloped in terms of its political and economic structure. This can be seen in the living standard of its citizens, life expectancy, and adult literacy. Peripheral...

“Campus Response to a Student Gunman” by Asmussen & Creswell

Various research projects explore the topic of school incidents in the United States, articles are published, and conferences are held. They address the motives and predictors of attacks and finding ways to prevent such behavior. However, there is a small number of works that talk about campus reactions. This important...

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A drug can fit in various descriptions depending on the function intended in the body, mode of delivery, and the form taken. Generally, when drugs are taken they modify the normal biological homeostasis of the body anatomy. For a drug to be considered so, it has to be introduced from...

The 13th Amendment Influence in Shaping Modern America

Introduction The 13th Amendment was passed by the House of Representatives on January 31, 1865. Twenty- seven out of 36 states ratified and proclaimed the rule by the end of December the same year. This constitution aimed at abolishing the slave trade, and involuntary servitude, except during punishment for breaking...

“A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement” by Alicia Garza

The widespread social inequality and injustice towards African Americans have become the inspiration for various groups and organizations intending to protect their inherent rights. In A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement, Alicia Garza (2014) provides valuable insights, determining the origins of this action group, its primary objectives, and pressing issues....

‘Sex Under Pressure: Jerks, Boorish Behavior, and Gender Hierarchy’ by S. A. Anderson

Scott Anderson’s work raises issues for the discussion related to forcing one person by another to have sex. There are many gradations of this problem, the most extreme of which is rape. However, Andreson focuses his reasoning on more subtle activities, such as coercion, seduction, and gender oppression. Moreover, seduction...

Southern Civil Rights and the Black Power Movements

Realizing a political change takes a lot of time, effort, and resilience. African Americans were on the receiving end of racial prejudice and injustice over 100 years following the Emancipation Act of 1863 (Healey, 2012). They were subjected to race-induced violence and would always be economically and politically oppressed, including...

American Women Struggle in the 20th Century

Gender equality can be assessed as a relatively new phenomenon, and some of the fears of women of the past are still relevant. In the past century, American women conducted a long and grueling fight for their rights and status. Sexual liberation, career, material, and psychological independence became part of...

Slavery and Human Rights Violation

For many years in its history, humanity has not opposed slavery and human trafficking. Slavery has not always been economically effective, but it has always been beneficial to slaveholders and slave traders – that is why it has existed for so many centuries and exists to this day. The struggle...

Sexual Deviance and Challenges: Kinsey Reports

The Issue of Sexual Deviance Kinsey Reports gathered their samples through the stratified sampling method. In the stratified sampling method, subjects are chosen according to their behavior relatedness, a massive sign of subject bias. According to Goode (2016), Kinsey’s study failed to address representativeness, skewing the research. In Kinsey’s sex...

Do Private Schools in the United States Discriminate Based on Race?

Racial issues have always been a major problem in the US due to the historical origins of the nation’s establishment. Therefore, its presence in educational facilities is inevitable, especially because of economic disparities, which result in private schools becoming more expensive than public ones. The main reason is the fact...

Why Obeying the Speed Limit Is Essential

Violating speed limits is a common practice for drivers in most countries. With the increased quality and safety of modern vehicles, there is a high demand for raising speed limits. While many people argue against a speed limit, some believe it is better to follow general roadway guidelines to reduce...

Solving Problems Caused by Homelessness

The problem of homelessness has been a serious issue for a very long time According to the reported data more than half a million people have been experiencing homelessness in U.S. in 2014 (National Alliance to End Homelessness, 2015, par. 3). The problem hits both large cities and small local...

Gender Stigmas: From the Past to the Present

In the context of the 21st century, gender has become a construct, bringing together various elements of the puzzle that creates one’s identity. However, decades ago, the history of gender roles and their social perception underwent the phase of set rules predetermined for each gender, the violation of which caused...

Community Analysis and Assessment

Introduction The community selected for the analysis is located in Miami, Florida, in the southern United States. It contains 440,000 individuals with an average age of 39.7 years (“Miami, Florida population 2018,”2018). At first glance, the area seems prosperous. The streets are clean, with positive people moving across them. The...

The Relations Between Drug Abuse and Criminal Justice

Sociodemographic factors such as race, class, and gender have a huge impact on human behavior. Conflict theory sees these factors as evidence of inequality and the reasons for offenses. This sociological perspective searches for the relationship between sociodemographic background with drug use and crime rates. With the help of the...

Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s “Mob Rules in New Orleans”

Introduction Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an African American journalist, abolitionist, and leader in a civil rights movement in the late 19th century. One of her notable publications named Mob Rules in New Orleans was issued in 1900 and paid attention to many acute problems so that many readers found it...

Racism in the Poem “Black Judgment” by Giovanni, Nikki

The main theme of the poem is how conventionality cannot relate to the issues of minorities. Nikki Giovanni was an African American revolutionist writer who illustrated that the surrounding environment plays a critical role in the creative aspect of a writer. The given piece wants to show that one cannot...

Legal Age of Drinking and Debates Worldwide

The legal age of drinking is the minimum legally allowed age that a person is permitted to get access to or purchase an alcoholic beverage (a drink containing ethanol). These beverages include beers, wines, and spirits. It however differs from that age that one may be allowed to drink alcohol....

“Twentieth Century Crisis of Belief” by Marheine

The article by Marheine titled “Twentieth Century Crisis of Belief” summarizes many ideas and social phenomena that distinguished 20th-century ideology, philosophy, and art. The main trends discussed by the author in the compilation of famous artists’ abstracts are the disgusting wartime pictures in literature and reflection of despair and exhaustion...

Australian Aborigines and Racial Discrimination

Aborigines is the term used to describe the class of people defined by the law as being members of the race that originally settled the Australian continent before the arrival of Europeans. In legal terms, an Australian Aborigine has been defined as “a group of people who share, in common,...

Evolution of Beauty: The Transformation of Beauty Throughout History

Introduction Beauty is a feature or quality of a person that gives a perceptual understanding of delight, significance, or fulfillment. Beauty is a subject that is premeditated as a component of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology, and culture. The ideal beauty is an individual who is well-liked or holds skin texture...

Media Violence and Children

Abstract Studies, surveys, and common sense dictate the obvious, exposure to violent media forms by impressionable children beget violent behaviors. Television violence has evolved well beyond the Roadrunner/Coyote cartoon that many parents of today watched. Popular video games such as Mortal Kombat and Doom aren’t your father’s pong and space...

Pakistan Aging Profile: Increase in Old People’s Population

Introduction The world’s population has grown very fast. Early developments indicated that developed countries had the fastest-growing number of older people. However, the trend has picked up in less developed countries of the world as well. By the year 2050, it is estimated that one billion two hundred thousand people...

Aging Population: Contemporary Issue

With changing and evolving time, human demographics such as age, gender, population density, mortality rates and even birth rates have changed. Some of these changes have been for the benefit on the society, while some can prove to be extremely harmful. The fluctuation in itself can become an issue. The...

Urban Sociology: Chicago School Contribution

Introduction Chicago school has been contributing to the development of the sociology field for years. The principal focus of specialists has lied in thorough research of cultural and population diversity making the city a kind of search laboratory. It should be noted that the area of urban sociology was developed...

Age Discrimination in the Work Place

Abstract In the recent days the phenomenon of discrimination should be considered to be a peril of the employment. In this age of cultural diversity, economic development and modernization the age discrimination in labour market is a stigma to the corporate world. It is found in every corner of this...

Challenges That Multicultural Children Face In the United States

Over the recent past, there have been several attempts to integrate the challenges that multicultural families face in the direction of equal openings or opportunities in society, particularly in America. Multicultural families around the world have encountered many opportunities, conflicts, and adjustments at the turn of the twentieth century. This...

“The Power Elite” by C. Wright Mills

The book The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills discusses the relations between the wealthy social class of rulers and their impact on global political and economic power. The author vividly portrays that a strong sense of tradition, an abiding respect for the common ways, will frequently serve to deter...

Teen Promiscuity: Understanding the Issues

Teen promiscuity is a term which no one really talks about in the media until something has already happened and is news worthy. I believe if the media was more proactive on giving information to their society to help in preventing teen promiscuity and the issues that come with it....

Drugs and Drug Related Crimes

Introduction It is appalling to know that drug manifestation starts at a very stage and our children are exposed to them. Children are naïve and had impressionable minds thus when they tend to get attracted to everything that goes around them. In today’s society where children enroll in schools, an...

The Great Debaters – Film Synopsis

Produced by Oprah Winfrey and starring a two-time Academy Award winner, Denzel Washington, The Great Debaters is a 2007 American biopic period film chronicling the success of the 1935 Wiley College Debate Team. Located in Marshal, Texas, Wiley is a historically black, private liberal arts college and was founded by...

Conflict Theory in the Society

Antisocial behavior can be found regardless of culture. Delinquency is a normal response by youth to the social conditions created by capitalist society (Siegel & Welsh, 2008). Social conflict theory asserts, that individual behavior is connected to conflicts within the group and between the groups. It is common in contemporary...

Interracial Relationships and Marriage in the USA

Introduction Interracial marriage was an illegal social practice in the US until as recently as the 1960s when the Supreme Court abolished laws prohibiting interracial marriage; an issue that the same court had avoided for several years, fearing racial intermarriage to be a controversial issue. In recent years, the number...

Age Discrimination in the United States

Introduction Age discrimination refers to the prejudicial treatment or denial of rights based on age. It may occur directly or sometimes in an indirect manner. When a person hears statements such as these from an employer or prospective employer : “You are overqualified for this job”; “This is an entry...

Equal Rights: Struggling Toward Fairness

Introduction The debate on rights has been raging for some time, and is still a topic of discussion in many social forums. Every country now seems to be moving towards establishing a society ruled by justice and fairness, and for those who find it difficult to instill justice in their...

Substance Abuse Prevention and Effective Prevention Programs

The discussion on substance use should be based on three distinctions made between use, abuse, and dependence. Substance use is taking of alcohol and drugs. Substance abuse is a maladaptive pattern of drug or alcohol use that leads to clinical impairment or distress. Substance abuse is manifested in failure to...

The Poor Will Always Be With Us

Poverty is one of the main social problems affected society since ancient times. Some researchers suppose that poverty can be illuminated by hard work and better education, increased wages and stable economic development. In the book, Nickel and Dimed B. Ehrenreich describes her investigation of poor working class conditions and...

The Addictions That Have Effects on Marriage

Introduction Marriage is the basis on which a family is grounded. It is a natural social system that occurs in heterogeneous forms today and represents a diversity of cultural heritage. The addictions that have effects on marriage can be classified into two groups: substance addiction and process addiction. Prominently ranked...

‘Beauty is Skin Deep’: Empty Words for Women

Society puts way too much emphasis on outward physical appearance. Women especially are impacted by this societal flaw. Women throughout history have dealt with significant barriers to their well-being and restrictions on their abilities. Although society has come a long way in terms of providing women with chances to express...

Crisis Intervention: The Problem of School Shooting

Introduction Despite multiple attempts at reducing the levels of the school shooting and prevent the exposure of vulnerable groups to the phenomenon in question, it remains a large concern in the modern sociocultural context. Addressing the needs of victims of a school shooting is especially difficult due to their increased...

Modern-Day Berlin City in the “Run Lola Run” Film

Run Lola Run is a 1998 German movie telling a story of a young woman who needs to get a significant sum of money before her boyfriend robs a supermarket. To change the course of events and save Manny’s life, Lola has to run to the beat. The movie is...

Youth Violence in Georgia: Causes and Prevention

Introduction Young people are expected to be the “future” of the modern world’s science, economics, politics, and often the society requires drastic changes in different fields of life. However, sometimes adolescents may not be as reliable as they should be in the eyes of society due to youth violence, which...