Overview: For my project I chose to take a closer looked at Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) due to sexual trauma. I found interest in this topic because my mother has been diagnosed with PTSD and she suffers from the symptoms of it daily. I also have two friends who are twins who I believe suffer from PTSD but are not diagnosed. For this project I will be using my mother‚ one of my friends and my cousin who works for the Coalition Against Rape and Abuse (CARA) to thoroughly explore this topic
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Summary ..7 There are hundreds of different kinds of psychiatric disorders listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders‚ 4th ed. (DSM-IV). One of them is called Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Based on the research‚ post-traumatic disorder usually occurs following the experience or witnessing of life-threatening events such as military combat‚ natural disasters‚ terrorist incidents‚ serious accidents‚ or violent personal assaults like
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When looking at the term ex-post facto one must understand that it is the use of the law that makes the law retroactive from the time that a law is passed from a governmental body (Brody and Acker‚ 2010). This meaning that the if an action has been committed by a person and was not a criminal offense at the time‚ but later after a law was passed making the same action a criminal offense with the law punishing any person that had committed the crime before the law was passed. When the writers of the
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Post-war Australia 1945-75; consequently saw the development of more state schools to accommodate the rapidly growing population. Education was becoming more available‚ and was seen as a key means to achieve equality in society (Welch‚ 2010‚ p. 244). The government commitment to extending education opportunities was mainly due to the increased population due to migration and increased fertility in Australia (Welch‚ 2010‚ p. 243-44). However‚ 1985 brought an end of this development commitment by the
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change that paved the way for a more independent American woman. The argument of a woman’s property rights became a hot topic in the court systems of post-Revolution America. Women we key in raising productive members of society and the idea of Republican motherhood was born. In order to raise educated children‚ women had to be educated as well and post-Revolution America saw a boom in school specifically for women. The Revolution did more to improve the lives of unmarried women than those who were
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are that they show a warrior with post-war trauma‚ a great distance from home‚ and is mentally loyal to his family. In The Odyssey‚ Odysseus is portrayed as someone mentally distant from his family‚ misses the idea of home‚ and is distressed about the war. While in “Odysseus to Telemachus”‚ Odysseus is described as someone only focused only on Telemachus‚ given up on going home‚ and conflicted about war. Even though both depictions of Odysseus has to face post-war trauma‚ Homer’s Odysseus is more
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states were dealing with similar issues on how to deal with the Native Americans‚ as the nation expanded westward. In response to the conflicts that ensued both were dealt with in different ways but the underlying racial themes remained. In the South‚ post-civil war‚ there were around 4 million slaves freed. This meant that the South
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In 1980‚ the APA which is the American Psychiatric Association added Post Traumatic Disorder to DSM-III. PTSD is very unique disorder because of the great important placed on the traumatic stressor‚ an etiological agent. PTSD was a psychological condition of Veterans who were unable to face their experiences on the battlefield. PTSD is an anxiety disorder where some people develop after living or seeing event that caused or threatened serious death of a person or serious harm. PTSD is related to
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were attacked by hundreds of enraged Muslims who accused them of ripping out pages from a Quran. The Christian couple tried to escape the mob but they were later beaten and burned alive inside the same brick kiln they were working at‚ The Christian Post recounts. Although reports say the lynching of the Christian couple stemmed from a blasphemy accusation‚ the Anglican Communion News Service presented a different angle in the story. Church of Pakistan member Raheel Sharoon said they were killed after
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LIBERALISM IN POST COLD WAR SCENARIO: ROLE OF NON-STATE ACTORS By: M.Sc Student Jawad Falak Course Title: International Relations Since 1945 Roll No: 2013 Semester: 2nd Submitted to: Sir Aleem Gillani Department of International Relations National Defence University Islamabad Abstract In the contemporary world‚ the battle for dominance for the political systems to govern International Relations is still raging. The end of the Cold war and the fall of the Soviet Union
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