Identifying a chronic liar can be a complicated process. The fact is most people want to believe in the people around them. We don’t like to assume our friends and family could be lying to us. It is too painful…
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Ras Josh is an eighteen year old Rastafarian, who if he strictly followed the beliefs of his father, would today, perhaps, be in a school of theology or bible school studying to be a priest. Born Joshua White, to a…
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The social self is a “distinct identity that sets us apart from others and we create our own designation; the self” (Schaefer, pg. 84, 2005). This uniqueness changes, makes adjustments, shapes, and evolves throughout ones life. There is a plethora…
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Surviving the World’s Perfect Storm A high percentage of souls in the world right now are angry, scared, and apprehensive about the future. Anger, fear, and other negative emotions abound everywhere. There seems to be an overwhelming amount of pressure…
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To claim that cyberbullying is as damaging as personal harassment is as absurd as claiming that watching a violent movie is the same thing as witnessing violence of equal caliber. Though some people seek to blame both of these things…
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Hoarding is often the most obvious outward sign of a an OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) that has a strangle hold on a persons life. One of the misconceptions about OCD is that the suffer is compulsively neat, and germ phobic….
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Dreaming of death can mean a variety of things depending on the dreamer and the circumstances surrounding them at that time in waking life. In some cases it indicates a fear of death. We may avoid discussing this fear and…
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My parents are working class and middle class, my children are middle class and I am one of those, like many of my generation, who find it difficult to slot themselves into any class. My parents bought a house on the…
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Sigmund Freud, a famous psychologist back in the day (1856-1939, to be more exact), was a revolutionary. He developed several psychological theories, including the theory of the unconscious mind, psychosexual development and numerous complexes. In all of his theories, one…
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The purpose of feminism differs between the feminist perspectives but most feminists strive to outline the inequality between men and women as well as increase the rights of women. The question is, have we reached a point where gender equailty…
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