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Happy and Healthy, 2007.
This paper explores the beneficial effects of optimism vs. the potential negative effects of pessimism on one's health.
1,889 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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The paper discusses how contemporary theorists are increasingly concerned with the potential health benefits of optimism and the potential consequences pessimistic behavior may have on an individual's long-term health and well-being. The paper examines a study by M. Kivimaki that shows how an optimistic attitude may help individuals cope with dramatic life events, including chronic illness or death among close family. The study proves that disposition may play a key role in one's health and recovery after a major and even minor illness. Further, the paper points out that the results of this study imply that attitude adjustments may significantly impact one's health and well-being in the long term.
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Overview
Summarize Features of Article
Hypothesis and Research Questions
Study Participants and Methods
Strengths, Weaknesses and Implications
Conclusions
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"In the article "Optimism and Pessimism as Predictors of Change in Health After Death or Onset of Severe Illness in Family" the authors examine changes occurring in health after a major life event including onset of a severe illness in the family or the death of a loved one or family member. The primary objective of the study is to predict whether optimistic attitudes will result in better coping ability and a more positive health outcome among study participants. The authors assume that this will occur, hypothesizing that optimism contributes to better outcomes among patients dealing with major life events or coping with the illness or death of a loved one."
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Family Relations and Poverty, 2002.
An analysis of how poverty hinders happy, healthy family "love" and relations.
2,505 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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This paper attempts to prove how, more often than not, poverty severely hampers and hinders the ability of most families to form happy and healthy relationships. It looks at how families growing up in a financially stable environment are much more likely to form happy and healthy love and relational bonds than families growing up in financially depressed circumstances. It shows how happy and healthy relationships are contingent on the ability of parents to role model similar behaviors to their children. It also looks at how, in order to combat the effects of poverty on the family, the integration of more social support systems is required and how families need help learning to effectively deal with the outside world, so they can better learn to form the healthy communication bonds necessary to help them deal with their family world.
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"Poverty is driven by many factors, one of which is single parenting. Almost 90% of single-parent families are ?headed by females? and single mothers in the United States have the highest poverty rate of all groups (Kirby 2002, Olson & Baynard, 1993). Among U. S. Children living with single mothers, more than 60% are impoverished, and the rate of poverty among minority children is even higher, particularly African-American single-parent homes (Kirby 2002, Lindblad-Goldberg, 1989). Of course many two parent family units living in poverty also exist. It is important when assessing love and health relations in the family unit however, to examine all of the contributors to emotional disturbance and a negative relational outcome."
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Why Forrest Gump is so Happy, 2001.
An analysis of Aristotle's view on happiness and why Forrest Gump is a happy man.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper examines Aristotle's philosophies, especially those about happiness and compares these to Forrest Gump, the character of the movie. The simple pleasures in life is what makes Forrest happy and this ties in to Aristotle's views.
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"Aristotle believes that goodness is accompanied by kindness, generosity, hopefulness, and also such traits as love of friends and fellow men, and love of what is noble. Forrest Gump was not a smart man by any means, but ignorant people often make better choices than more knowledgeable people. It does not take intelligence to do good. To constitute true happiness, good actions must persist with continuity throughout a lifetime. A person is defined as ?good? if his behavior is in accordance with what human nature was designed for. Happiness consists in fulfilling this function excellently. Even though Forrest Gump is handicapped, this does not stop him from displaying virtue, courage in danger, love for others, and generosity."
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"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", 2008.
An analysis of Ernest Hemingway's short story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" .
1,914 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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This paper relates that the theme in Ernest Hemingway's short story, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", is that it is better to live a short and happy life with authenticity than to live a long and unhappy life without authenticity. More specifically, the paper looks at how, the character of Macomber does not live a happy life until he proves himself. The paper further explains that Macomber begins his life innocent and spoiled in a protected society, then becomes awakened to reality in the dangers of Africa, and ends self-fulfilled by achieving authenticity and happiness in a fatal world.
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"In stage three of his initiation, Macomber achieves authenticity and happiness in a fatal world. He panics while shooting a large male, but the very fear that makes him run away from danger, teaches him, in less than twenty-four hours, how to face a charging buffalo with all the bravery of a seasoned hunter. When Macomber finds out that the buffalo is still alive, "for the first time in his life he really felt wholly without fear" for which "instead of fear he had a feeling of definite elation" (24). Ben Stoltzfus suggests that in choosing to face this challenge Macomber "asserts a new identity and, in putting cowardice behind him, he defines an authentic self". Macomber is no longer afraid; in fact he is eager to kill the buffalo. Hemingway describes Macomber's change as a "wild unreasonable happiness" which feels "like a dam bursting inside himself" (25). "
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Healthy People 2010, 2007.
Discussion of Healthy People 2010, an initiative undertaken by the US Department of Health and Human Services.
1,079 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper describes the initiative known as Healthy People 2010 undertaken by the US Department of Health and Human Services to promote healthy lifestyles. The paper emphasizes the goals of this program and why it was originally developed. The author states that Healthy People 2010 sets out the goals of the program, while its actual implementation is done through another program known as HealthierUS. The paper further explains that the program's' success depends on the support of local communities. The example of Madison, Wisconsin is used to show how this can be accomplished. The author concludes that this series of programs must be continually reinforced to guarantee their success.
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" Healthy People 2010 is a multi-faceted program developed to create self-awareness, responsibility, and overall healthy lifestyle choices for all Americans (Healthy People 2010 Homepage). There are two main goals set forth by the program, each containing several sub areas. Firstly, the United States Department of Health and Human Services wishes to extend both life expectancy and increase overall quality of life for all Americans. Secondly, the program aims to eliminate differences in health between the rich and the poor and the able and the disabled. The program aims to reach citizens of all economic levels, treating each person equally within the health care system."
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"The Healthy House: How to Buy One, How to Build One, How to Cure a Sick One" by John Bower, 2002.
A discussion of the reference book on what needs to be done to ensure a healthy house.
3,600 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 1 source, $ 127.95
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Discusses the reference book on what needs to be done to ensure a healthy house. Defines a healthy home as one with good indoor air quality. Subsystems of a building and its materials and components; health hazards of each. Examples of three healthy houses. Sources, symptoms & treatments of unhealthy elements (lead, asbestos, etc).
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"Introduction
The Healthy House (2001) by John Bower, is a very well organized reference work on almost everything that needs to be done to ensure a healthy home, i.e. a house with good indoor air quality, free of most gases, odors, particulates, or dust. This comprehensive work is good for anyone interested in living in a healthy home and is essential for anyone who is chemically sensitive or has suffered from sick building syndrome. First, John Bower introduces the reader to indoor air quality and other fundamentals. He then discusses the subsystems contained within a building and explains the different materials and components that go into building a house, specifically the health aspects of each. He follows up with detailed examples of three healthy houses along with a complete section of resource material..."
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A Healthy Family, 2002.
A description of what it takes to keep a family healthy.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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A paper on the subject of Curran's description of a healthy family. The paper explains that communicating with your family is vital in having a family and teaching family members to respect and trust are important in having a healthy family. The paper concludes with a personal account of a family and how they practice Curran's traits of a healthy family.
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Maintaining A Healthy Relationship, 2007.
This paper looks at what a healthy relationship involves.
2,734 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 81.95
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The paper discusses the components detrimental to the growth and maintenance of a healthy relationship. The paper explores intimate relationships and friendships. The paper shows that, to have a healthy relationship, two individuals have to "plant" seeds of love and commit to regularly "weed" out negatives, while at the same time nurture the positive points of their relationship. The paper includes true/false questions and plenty of resource material.
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"Even though these true/false questions appear to be relatively shallow, news headlines portraying an epidemic crop of unhealthy relationships, alongside the myriad of contemporary divorce rates, reflect that in regard to maintaining healthy relationships, many individuals repeatedly fail the "true/false" test. Perhaps, part of the reason so many fail at maintaining healthy relationships stems from the fact, as Levine, Aune, & Park note: "Love means different things to different people . . ." This research paper purports, albeit, contrary to the concept contributing to this contention: To maintain, a healthy relationship, it must be rooted in a common definition of love. In a healthy relationship, "Keeping love alive requires work. . . . to maintain a healthy relationship requires effort, time and energy,." Mosier (2003) argue. Most individuals do not know, however, what having a healthy relationship involves."
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Being Good & Being Happy, 2006.
A discussion regarding the connection between being good and being happy.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses the question "is there a necessary connection between 'being good' and being happy?" which might at first glance look fairly straightforward. However, in order to grasp the complexity of it, each of the important words in this sentence needs to be examined, i.e. Necessary, good, and happy. The paper shows that this is anything but a straightforward question and consequently, a simple answer is not possible. However, on balance, it argues that the answer to this question is no. The word "necessary" means essential or requisite.
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Technology and Healthy Eating, 2007.
This paper offers a critique of the article: 'Using technology to promote self-efficacy for healthy eating in adolescents' by J.D. Long & K.R. Stevens.
2,910 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 86.95
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In this article, the writer notes that the ability to critically assess a journal article is central to the skills required for advanced nursing. This paper presents a detailed critique of the nursing article "Using Technology to Promote Self-Efficacy for Healthy Eating in Adolescents", by nursing professors JoAnne D. Long and Kathleen R. Stevens. Critique details are broken down into the following sections: introduction, methodology and results.
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Literature review and theoretical framework
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Threats to internal and external validity
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Data collection methods/instrumentation
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"Threats to internal validity normally are perceived as selection, history, maturation, testing, and instrumentation. Selection threats suggest that those who participated in the control or intervention group have characteristics that differ from those who were not included in the study. There is a possible selection bias given that student were from a school in an undisclosed area of the country, it is unknown whether these were rural or urban youth, from a public or private school or what other variables might affect their level of nutritional, health or independence awareness. History, or the events that happen to students during the course of the study which might affect results, could not be accounted for as all intervention took place in the school setting. Researchers acknowledged they were unable to control for social or family interventions that might run counter to their study goals. Instrumentation, maturation, dropout, and order effects were controlled by researchers directly or through statistical analysis for variance."
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?Happy Endings?, 2002.
A gay and lesbian literary criticism of ?Happy Endings? by Margaret Atwood.
931 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper analyzes ?Happy Endings? a short story by Canadian feminist Margaret Atwood with the effect on the story if one of the characters had been involved in a gay or lesbian relationship.
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"Further, Atwood rallies against the traditional fairly tale, where the boy and girl meet, fall in love, get married, have children, and live happily after until they die. She presents many interesting possible variations of Mary?s life, all culminating in her death. Atwood almost seems to mock the traditional fairy tale (Wilson).
"This story would have been much more interesting and effective if one of the characters had been involved in a gay or lesbian relationship. Certainly, Atwood?s presumed aim of shocking the audience would have been made, much more effectively. Further, the story would have provided a much richer and broader experience of the entire human romantic experience. In addition, showcasing a gay or lesbian relationship in this story would have further exposed heterosexual individuals to other romantic possibilities."
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Healthy Childhood Eating Habits, 2004.
This paper discusses the responsibilities of parents and child caretakers have to teach and to ensure that their children have healthy eating habits.
1,230 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper stresses that something is going wrong in the way our children are being taught to eat, and something is not right with the foods that are being offered to them. The author points out that children learn a surprising amount from watching the world around them and following the examples set by their parents, siblings, and other people in their lives; therefore, the entire family should agree about helping the child learn how to be healthy. The paper states that children cannot be expected to eat the same size portions as adults because their bodies are smaller; children must be allowed to decide when they are full.
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"Additionally, in order for children to truly be able to develop healthy food-related habits, they must be allowed to help make decisions about what they eat. Many children are not allowed to decide what kinds of food they eat, when they eat, and how much they eat. It is common for parents to scold their children and tell them to ?clean their plate? when the child feels they are done eating. ?Years ago, food was very hard to come by especially during The Great Depression and after World War II. When people have to deal with this sort of situation for years, they develop a certain mindset. Now we don't have that problem."
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"Happy Hour", 2003.
An analysis of Alison Baker's "Happy Hour".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper looks at Alison Baker's "Happy Hour" as an evocation of the absurdity of the human condition. It discusses Baker's use of irony and the story's focus on end- of -life family dynamics in an institutional setting.
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"Reinforced by a context of narrative irony, Happy Hour presents numerous closely observed details about end-of-life family dynamics in an institutional setting. The irony is not laden with humor or smugness rather taking on attributes of an absurdity ..."
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Nutrition and Healthy Eating, 2002.
A look at the importance of a balanced and healthy diet.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper is on nutrition and staying healthy. A lack of suitable nutrients can cause vitamin deficiencies, lowered immunity responses, weak muscles, osteoporosis, anemia, and slower wound healing, amongst other conditions. While eating the wrong things can lead to overweight, obesity, and raised cholesterol levels, with all the problems that these bring. There is ample information on how to ensure good nutrition.
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