Mental Health Essays

Scepticism is the ‘belief that some or all human knowledge is impossible. Since even our best methods for learning about the world sometimes fall short of perfect certainty, skeptics argue, it is better to suspend belief than to rely on the dubitable products of reason.’1 Descartes, in ‘Meditations on First …

The first thought when hearing “biotechnology” is stem-cell research or cloning; however, medications, especially those that increase an individual’s academic or athletic performance like Ritalin, Adderall, or Prozac, are also seen as examples of biotechnology. In J. M. Stolzer’s article, “The ADHD Epidemic in America,” she focuses on the ethics …

In Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening the death scenes of both novels are one of the most essential scenes. There are, in these scenes many major similarities and differences. Both suicides arise from related circumstances. Emma from Madame Bovary, and Edna from The Awakening are two …

Sonnets were traditionally written as love poems meant to praise a lady, and I am going to look at two very different sonnets, “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun.” and Thomas Lodge’s sonnet to Phillis. In these poems we see all the different things that a woman can …

Using persuasive and powerful imagery and language, Andrew Marvell writes a highly emotional poem of love. The person in the poem seems to be trying to court the love of a lady. The highly descriptive, at times even horrific detailing and imagery are his attempt to convince this lady that …

In this essay I am going to compare two poems, ‘Valentine’ written by Carol Ann Duffy and ‘To His Coy Mistress’, written by Andrew Marvell. The poem ‘Valentine’ was written in the twentieth century and the poem ‘To His Coy Mistress’ was written in the seventeenth century which developed many …

Stress nowadays has become a part of everyday life for a percentage of the working population. Arnold et al. (1997) as cited in Maund [2001 p.298] define stress as: ‘any force that pushes a psychological or physical factor beyond its range of stability, producing a strain within the individual’. According …

On the one hand, Hoover’s interventions mitigated the depression. Hoover has historically said to have “stepped up federal construction, urged state and local governments to accelerate spending”, this indicates that he did try and ease the depression and that he did not lead America into a further and dire situation. …

Durkheim’s 1897 theory on suicide was the leading and most dominant in sociology up until the 1960’s. Durkheim attempted to prove that sociology could provide an explanation for an act that seemed to be the opposite of what was considered ‘social’. Durkheim provided a scientific approach on suicide and his …

Tennyson and Sassoon both had different approaches to war. By studying their poems we discovered that Tennyson had never experienced war and was a normal poet. This maybe the reason why he had different views on war, and what actually happened during a war battle. Sassoon was an official war …