Comparison of Model Comparison of Model Paper Melanie Smith PCN 501 Grand Canyon University Kenneth Hall June 17, 2013 This comparison model paper is designed to look at both a psychological and neurobiological approach to addictions. Each model is designed to look at how a person can become or recover from addiction, and what are the underlying factors that cause the addiction. Learning Model The learning model dates back to Pavlov and Skinner, with a take on classical conditioning, and operant conditioning. Research shows that that with the use of psychoactive drugs produces a variety of learned behaviors (O'Brien, Childress, & McLellean, Ehrman, 1992). Clinical studies have shown that in “cocaine addicts produced evidence
Some people say that his childhood was normal up until he had a hernia surgery at the age of 6 and some say that is when he started to become distant and withdrawn from everything. There are also some accounts that say he was molested by a neighbor at a young age and that might be a reason of why he became so distant from everyone. When he was eight years old, he moved with his family to Bath, Ohio. Between the ages of 10 and 15 is when he really started showing little interest in any hobbies or social interactions. He would
My father was an alcoholic!” John’s says that he sort of listened but eventually forgot as time passed. He experimented with various drugs as well, some for personal exploration, some to see why others were doing it. Drugs were never John’s thing and by this thirties he was a regular, heavy drinker.
He survived, but was given 20 years for the stabbing. ❑ Finally, Clarence Norris was sentenced to death, but the sentence was revoked. Norris violated his parole in 1946 and fled to Brooklyn, New York where he stayed until 1976, when he came back to Alabama and received a pardon. What I want to know is why one boy can be set free and another can receive a death sentence for the same alleged crime. If they were white men, they would never have been accused for this crime.
Brian had no permanent home and no stable job to support himself. He had sex with people he did not know and did drugs at the same time. He stated that, “My life has been out of control and it hasn't been in control for a while.” Factors that might have triggered Brian's addiction could include the lack of success in his life and low self esteem. In the article I read about drug addiction it said that recent studies have shown methamphetamine abuses have shown that they perform poorly on decision making tasks that involve regions of the frontal cortex (Cobb, 2009). This explanation can be a possible trigger to his addiction to sex and his lack of decision making in terms of putting himself in danger for many risk for infections.
Why do we have to pay for other peoples mistakes? In the book “Flight” by Sherman Alexie Zits deals with many disappointments in life. One of his biggest disappointments is not having a father or someone that loves him like he wants to be love, “My father was a drunk, too more in love with beer and vodka than with my mother and me. He vanished like a cruel magician about two minutes after I was born” (Alexie4). This most of been hard for him to know that his dad didn’t care for him and that he only cared about his beer and vodka.
Sonny's brother wouldn't listen or understand to what Sonny wanted.Later in the story they have a better relationship and Sonny's brother realizes that music helped Sonny through all of his suffering and it also helped them both as brothers to finally bring them closer together. Suffering is another important them throughout Sonny's blues.Sonny suffered with an addiction to drugs, Sonny's brother suffered when his daughter died with Polio and their father suffered when he watched his brother died and didn't do anything.They all handled their suffering in a different way whether it was with music or the way they would present themselves.Baldwin uses darkness and light as the darkness is Sonny suffering to his addiction and light as his brother being the educated one that lived life as what he thought was the right way to live it. Sonny's blues by James Baldwin has several themes.The theme of music and the theme of suffering were very important in this story because they all suffered in life and with their relationships.Music helped Sonny with his addiction and it also helped the brothers with their
Assignment 2: Research Proposal Kristi Ord Professor Danny Meadows ENG 215 Research and Writing January 19, 2014 The topic I choose for my research paper is “Should changes be made to regulations for mental health drugs for minors?” One reason I chose this topic is personal. My ex-husband tried to get on of our boys diagnosed with ADHD and the other with Autism. He was raised to think that if a child is medicated they are easier to deal with. He felt that if they were on medication and zoned out that he did not have to watch them. I feel that there are too many parents this day that feel that way.
I was never touched by anyone but when I was in middle school and was growing into my womanly body, a boy who was 2 years older than me told me I had “milk jugs”. I didn’t know what he was talking about until I told my mom and she told me what he was talking about. The boy got in trouble but it just goes to show that middle school children may not understand the language used, especially in this book. I believe I should’ve never known what he was referring to at that
I lied to myself believing that Sonny was getting better and that he was making progress. But I could see in his eyes that he was unhappy and he was not getting better, and that it was taking every ounce of him not to use drugs again. The night that Sonny died, I went and looked in his room while he