The video on emotions, stress and health helps to better understand the consequences of prolonged stress on health, which include physical, psychological, behavioral and social consequences. The authors use effective animated diagrams that demonstrate the brain releasing hormones, as well as the role-playing situation, which illustrates the effects of on-the-job stress. Low-level stress may result […]
Stress in psychology means emotional or mental tension caused by the reaction to the circumstances. Most commonly, people perceive demanding situations and situations with personally important outcomes as stressful. Human organism responds to stress by increased alertness, increased blood pressure; when someone is in stress, the digestive systems also slows down, pulse increases and the […]
The video on famous people with mental illness demonstrates that many actors, authors, musicians, sportsmen and other public figures suffer from different mental and behavioral disorders. The video gave two main sources, one of which is National Alliance on Mental Illness website and another is Centers of Disease Control and Prevention webpage. They present reliable […]
Black students’ sit-ins have direct relation to the beginnings of the so-called student-phase of Civil Rights Movement after February 1960. Taking into consideration the presented materials, it is possible to explore the role of student activism in achieving the established goals, namely establishing the civil rights, which prohibit racial discrimination. The sit-in tactic used before […]
One of important healthcare issues in the American society is the tendency to prescribe psychotropic drugs to children who are diagnosed with mental illnesses. This is a complex and ambiguous problem; on one hand, mentally ill children can harm themselves or other people and in such cases medications help to reduce health risks and to […]
Historically, the Supreme Court personified one of the three branches of power separated by the US Constitution to maintain the democratic order in the country. In such a context, the elimination of the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review would be apparently the excessive measure, while the strict limitation of this power would raise the […]
The provision of the US President with the right to detain enemies without the definite time and opportunity of judicial review raises the problem of the violation of their basic human rights and liberties as was the case of Guantanamo. In such a case, even individuals detained as prisoners of war have the right to […]
The recent developments in several states enacting voter ID laws have led to different points of view of the public (Pintor et al., 2002; Malone & Fredericks, 2012). The enactment of restrictive voter ID laws has led to the “disproportionate impact on the poor, elderly and communities of color; the undermining of collective bargaining by […]
One issue area that I want to investigate is the abortion conflict. Gathering information about the goals and proposals, in that issue area, of three political parties (the Democratic Party, the Republican Party and the third party – Libertarian Party), I have found that each of the three parties has developed its specific policy goals […]
Marriott Hotels is a renowned international brand operating in the hospitality industry that focuses on the international market expansion and attempts to gain the positive brand image through the formation of the positive perception of the brand by the public. The perception of the brand is quite positive at the moment. At the moment, Marriott […]