Abstract
This paper describes, analyzes and studies the Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) commonly known as Winter Depression.

Tags:seasonal, affective, disorder

Abstract
A personal reflection on how sociology has affected the student's life.

From the Paper
"Inequality has affected my own life in that I have experienced it first hand and in those I know and care about. I consider my own social class to be middle class, my gender is male and my ethnicity is white. While I have enjoyed many advantages due to being from a white, middle class background, I have experienced feeling less equal to those in a higher class who are the owners of the jobs, businesses and houses..."

Tags:How, Sociology, Affects, Our, Lives

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In this article, the writer looks at how stuttering affects language. Specifically, the paper looks at the role phonetic complexity plays in the frequency of stuttering amongst individuals. Moving forward, the paper also looks at the role that speed appears to play in how poorly (or how well) individuals who have a propensity for stuttering articulate themselves. Finally, the paper concludes by examining how factors like spontaneity shape a person's tendency to stutter while speaking.

From the Paper
"In the end, stuttering appears to limit an individual's ability to express phonetically complex sentences or phrases, limits the ability of an individual to express him or herself when the rate of verbal exchange is accelerated, and makes extemporaneous verbal exchange difficult, maybe even almost impossible, in some instances."

Tags:stuttering, affects, language

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This paper offers some information of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) which is a depressive condition, seasonal in onset and occurs primarily throughout winter periods. The paper includes a review of the current literature and a proposal for an Australian study. High latitude locations, such as Norway, sport a high prevalence of winter SAD with mid-latitude locations such as China and Japan, experiencing reverse SAD, due to severity of symptoms occurring throughout summer periods rather than winter periods. Such review of the literature leaves methodology for a study within the mid-latitude location of Australia to concentrate upon hypotheses concerning the prevalence of both winter and summer SAD, with a higher prevalence of summer SAD anticipated.

From the Paper
""Seasonal Affective Disorder is a debilitating psychiatric disorder, which has only been formally recognized throughout the last two decades. SAD is a "course specifier" for Major Depressive Disorder or Bipolar Disorder within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 4th edition (DSM-IV). This specification denotes that depressive episodes must be present within two consecutive years throughout specific seasons (ie. primarily winter however autumn episodes have been documented) with remission occurring, as long as psychosocial stressors are absent, throughout spring and summer periods (Lam and Levitan, 2000). Besides symptoms typically characteristic of depression such as loss of energy, irritability, fatigue, tendency to oversleep, daytime drowsiness, and social withdrawal; carbohydrate craving and resulting weight gain are atypical symptoms of SAD."

Tags:affective, disorder, prevalence, seasonal

Abstract
This paper use attachment theory as a conceptual framework for linking affect Regulation and Impulse control. The paper explains how the theory has been used, the origins of the theory as well as attachment relationship functions. The paper also discusses the adverse consequences of inadequate parent-child attachment.

From the Paper
"This theoretical paper presents a focus on the relationship between affect regulation and impulse control, utilizing attachment theory as an explanatory conceptual framework. An introduction to the topic is followed by the origins of attachment theory, attachment relationship functions, insecure attachment defenses, attachment and regulation of affect and impulse attachment, organization and affect regulation attachment, organization and impulse control and summary and conclusions."

Tags:Attachment, Theory, to, Link, Affect, Regulation, and, Impulse, Control

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In this article, the writer explains that schizo affective disorder is a mental illness characterized by a combination of symptoms of thought disorder (schizophrenia component) and mood disorder (manic or depressive component). The writer points out that there may be two subtypes of schizo affective disorder, namely, depressive subtype, characterized by schizophrenic symptoms plus major depressive episodes only, and bipolar subtype, characterized by schizophrenic symptoms accompanied by manic episodes with or without depressive symptoms. This paper gives an overview of the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of schizo affective disorder with particular focus on its treatment. The paper also includes information on the environmental factors that may affect people with the disease and whether the illness discriminates on the basis of age, race, or gender.

Outline:
Symptoms
Diagnosis
Does the Illness Discriminate on the Basis of Age, Race, or Gender?
Environmental Factors
Treatment
Effective Measurement Tool/ How Does One Know if the Treatment is working?

From the Paper
"The exact cause of schizoaffective disorder is not known but genetics and brain chemistry appear to play a role. Environmental factors may also contribute to its development in people who have inherited a tendency to develop the disorder, and may include viral infection, poor social interactions or highly stressful situations."
"Treatment: Treatment of schizoaffective disorder usually consists of a combination of medications and psychotherapy or counseling. The exact regimen depends on the type and severity of symptoms, and whether the disorder is of depressive or bipolar type. Medications are usually prescribed to alleviate psychotic symptoms, stabilize mood and treat depression, while psychotherapy can help curb distorted thoughts, teach social skills and diminish social isolation."

Tags:diagnosis, symptoms, psychiatric, mood

Abstract
This paper analyzes and examines organizational and environmental factors affecting human resource management. Part II discusses organizational factors affecting human resource management. In Part III, environmental factors affecting human resource management. Lastly, this paper concludes with recommendations for addressing the organizational and environmental factors affecting human resource management.

From the Paper
"Human resource managers are like jugglers and tightrope walkers in some respect, i.e., they must balance the need to hire, retain, and train the employees who are the best qualified for the job while ensuring corporate profits steadily rise and corporate expenses hold steady at a reasonable level. As today's workforce becomes increasingly diverse, human resource managers are being faced with increasingly complex organizational and environmental factors that affect human resource management. These organizational and environmental factors have resulted in human resource managers evolving from old school sideline coaches to front-line fighters. Employees are crucial to an organization's success and human resources managers must ensure that they are maximizing every individual's abilities, knowledge, qualifications, and skills."

Tags:employer, employee, workforce, management, human, resource

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This paper explains that the affective approach to psychotherapy focuses on what goes on inside the individual and how his experience affects his behavior and perspectives of life. The paper then explains that the Adlerian approach to psychotherapy takes into account behavior as governed by the client's lifestyle and manner of dealing with personal problems. The paper contrasts these two approaches by applying them to a specific case. The author expresses a preference for the affective approach.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Discussion
The Client and the Client's Problems
Goals
The Process of Therapy
Overall Comment
Preferred Approach
Conclusion

From the Paper
"The treatment of goals in each of these approaches affects its process of therapy as well as perspectives on client treatment. Both approaches take into account of the fact that the presentation of goals is critical for counseling clients. However, the perspectives on goals differ in each case. For example, in Adlerian approach, the client's well being is at the center of the treatment yet at the same time the therapist develops the fictional goal of well-being to bring the client into focus to alter his/her attitudes, thinking and behavior towards life. On the other hand, the affective approach treats goals as responsibilities which must be given or unburdened from the client to resolve his/her problems."

Tags:client-centered, lifestyle, disorientation, family, environment

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This paper explores the ways that American society and culture was affected by the Holocaust. It explains how at first the Americans thought they would be spared the horrors of this war, but how towards the end they were as deeply involved in witnessing the atrocities as the other Allies. It explains how the American public received the news of the concentration camps, how the war affected American-Jewish relationships and its relationship with Germany after the war.

From the Paper
"Nazi Germany's rule led to the death of millions of European Jews. While World War II began as a European War, American eventually got into the act as an ally. By the end of the War, America was rolling its tanks into the concentration camps of the Nazis, all across Eastern Europe, freeing concentration camp prisoners and experiencing firsthand eyewitness accounts that were indescribable and utterly inhumane."

Tags:nazi, germany, jewish

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The following paper examines how fossil fuels affect climate and contribute to global warming as well as the way in which acid rain and oil spills affect local wildlife. The writer also discusses the effects of mining waste, farming and pharmaceutical waste.

From the Paper
"Fossil fuels have become a major factor in our lives, they are used to power cars, ships, aircraft's and entire economies but at an ecological price. From the combustion of fossil fuels is water and carbon dioxides. This the major waste gases. Others include nitrous oxides, carbon monoxides and sulfur oxides. These contribute vastly to global warming. When the sun radiates electromagnetic radiation through our atmosphere it hits the earth and then the earth reflect this back in the form of longer wavelengths as infra red radiation. "

Tags:algal, bloom, co2, conservation, dioxide, eutophication, fossil, fuels, global, metal, mining, nitrogen, ocean