Discretionary justice can be defined as a measure of leniency considering the background and the records of the victim before deciding their punishments. In the essay, Gladwell talks about how a young American physicist almost poisoned his tutor because he was mindlessly doing experiments due to his family problems. He was forced to work in the lab, and thus making mistake is understandable considering that he was young. Besides, utilizing discretionary justice can provide more options on the punishments. Instead of sending the young physicist to the police, set him on probation which will not damage his reputation as a scientist.
However due to actual risk of Vioxx, Merck & Co. voluntarily withdrew the drug from the market in 2004 (Wolsing Jennifer, p.214). In August 2005, Merck & Co. lost a lawsuit where it was accused for the death of Robert C. Ernst who died of taking Vioxx (Kaufman Marc, p.A.01). Throughout the Vioxx issue, most researchers have focused on the side effects of Vioxx and what consequences it brought, rather than the significance and validity of the evidence used in court. This paper will carefully examine if the scientific evidences used in the Vioxx litigation, including
History and Theory: Freud and Rogers PSYCH/504 May 13, 2013 Nancy Lees History and Theory: Freud and Rogers The article, “Using the Delay Discounting Task to Test for Failures in Ego Control in Substance Abuse” in the Psychoanalytic Psychology Journal talks about the study done on the self-medication hypothesis of substance use disorders (SUDs). It says that individuals use substances to mask un-pleasurable feelings or experiences. As a society we see this daily. People who have experienced tough times and do not want to feel pain any longer; emotional or physical, are more likely to abuse substances. Individuals do this to make the pain go away which ultimately they really just defense mechanisms (Gottdiener, Murawski, & Kucharski, 2008).
Critique Essay Should Soldier’s Still be On the Frontline While on Antidepressants/Anxiety Medications? The article America’s Medicated Army from Time magazine discusses the trauma that war can cause to soldiers who experience depression, anxiety, and sleep problems while fighting overseas. This article is negatively biased against the military and questions the decisions the military makes concerning war trauma and prescription pills. The author’s tone conveys remorse and anger and believes that the government is unethical with treatment methods. The military’s solution is to prescribe pills to alleviate the symptoms caused by war, which is not a solution, but a way of masking the problem.
It is through the understanding of the past that we may move forward into the future. In this paper we will examine more closely the origins of abnormal psychology; its limitations, challenges and its evolution. We will also examine the three main theoretical models used in the development of Abnormal psychology into a growing science. Historical Perspectives of Abnormal Psychology “The blunt realities of mental illness shatter our most deeply held convictions about the nature of human consciousness and behavior. The mentally ill are more different than us than we can imagine and more like us than we care to admit.” (Valentine, 2011) This quote paints a poignant and provocative picture of Abnormal Psychology.
The Secret Weapon: Effects of Sleep Deprivation in Students Around a college campus, it is common to hear students talk of having to “pull an all-nighter” in order to study for a test or write a paper. Little do many students know, however, sleep is the secret for success and is highly necessary. According to a recent survey by the National Sleep Foundation, sixty-three percent of college students do not get enough sleep. Sleep deprivation has become a huge problem among many college campuses, although many do not address it as a problem. Rather, they focus on alcohol abuse and what they see as larger issues.
Years ago my marriage failed and I learned from the mistakes I made during that relationship how to approach future relationships. Same applies to when I attended college in 2004 and dropped out versus attending now and putting for 110% effort. Environmental health: One of the least important dimensions of health to me, but one of the most important to overall society. If everyone shared my belief that it wasn’t important, then years down the road our planet would likely end up barren and toxic. I do not intentionally sabotage the environment but also do not do anything specific to help protect it.
Further research by Shapiro et al studies runners sleeping patterns and found that they slept one hour more after a marathon race. This supports this theory because the more damage we do to our body the more restoration or repair is needed at night, which according to Oswald occurs in NREM sleep. On the other hand Horne challenges this view. He believed that not all sleep was necessary. He believes that REM sleep repairs and restores the body and brain, however NREM sleep (stages 1-4) is ‘optional’ sleep.
Eggers also answered a simple question from an interview in well over two pages (214-216). In this paragraph, Eggers would go off into tangents that have nothing to do with what he was actually trying to say. A simple question about his parents turned into Eggers sharing that he masturbates once a day in the shower. Instances like these might have discouraged readers from actually reading the content and as a result readers might have skimmed through them, thus making the read even more confusing. Eggers had conversations that were also hard to follow.
The University claimed that the photo is inappropriate for a teacher teaching under-age students which would be considered as promoting drinking. In old days if a person wants to start a new life, because he wants to forget his past terrible life mistake, he just had to move to another city or country where he can start from zero. There, no one knows him and his mistake would be forgotten. But today, due to social network sites like Google, Face book and Twitter, your past mistakes and life cannot be forgotten wherever you go. The Right to be forgotten is one of the controversial issues in our digital age.