Human Development Essays
Maternal Depression and Child Development
For my final research proposal, I selected the topic of childbearing depression and childhood aggression. This topic was of importance to me, as it remains underdiagnosed…
Mid-life crisis
IntroductionThe term midlife crisis was invented in the year 1965 by Elliott Jaques to represent the time adults’ start acknowledging that they have limited time to…
Self-assessment and a personal action plan
Self-assessment resultsAfter carrying out the self-analysis using the provided list of competencies in the appendices, it appears that I have some strength in some areas. However,…
SDG Goal 10: reduced inequality
World leaders came up with the Millennium development goals with the aim of fighting all the different dimensions of poverty worldwide. These goals targeted eight main…
Relationship between mind and body
IntroductionThe mind/body problem is one of the main questions in philosophy that defines the ideological viewpoints of several philosophers. The main contention point arises from the…
The grieving process
IntroductionThe natural response towards the loss of a loved is grief. Grief is actually suffered when a member of a family dies leaving emotional distress among…
Child anecdotal observation
At a tender age, children have very limited ability of knowing what is right from wrong, and to a large extent, they fail to know the…
Personal worldview inventory
Definition of termsSpirituality is a concept, which has many perspectives amongst them being the view that something that is transcendent which can explain the meaning of…
Sigmund Freud and the psychodynamic
IntroductionPsychodynamic psychology is an art that tries to get inside a human mind to understand the feelings, experiences, relationships, and people’s view of the world. As…
Desire: Freud, Russon, Plato
Desire is a word that is used to refer to a strong urge of attaining or possessing something. In human beings, desires rise, but other feelings…
Virtue ethics discussions
Discussion 1Someone who is greedy, deceitful or self-indulgent may be seen as enjoying great pleasure, but that does not mean that they are enjoying true happiness….
Sources of happiness
Happy is an easy word to say, most people want to achieve this goal in different forms. But how humans define happiness or happy and human…
Music and sexualized media
Kay Hymowitz uses the text on Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen to suggests that children these days are growing up fast. The marketers are calling them…
Argumentative essay on gender equality
In the year 2000 all the 189 members of the UN through the United Nations Millennium Declaration launched a total of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)…
Intelligence and general ability testing
What is assessed when intelligence and cognitive abilities are being measured?Cognitive and intelligence tests measures the critical thinking abilities of an individual. For example, the cognitive…
Evolution of a population under varying conditions
AbstractThe primary aim of this simulation project is to experimentally study the evolution of populations under varying natural selection conditions and environments using Unicorn Evolution Machine…
The theory of multiple intelligences
Most people are aware of the different categories under which every human being learns and they include visual ability, kinesthetic learning and auditory learning. An individual…
Mentoring women and minorities
IntroductionWomen and the minority are some of the major groups of people that have significantly suffered from underrepresentation in the various fields of life. In this…
April Raintree: self identity
“In search of April Raintree” is a story written by Beatrice Mosionier that explains the life of April and Cheryl, who grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba…
Human nature – Hamlet
The play Hamlet by Shakespeare expounds the different aspects of human nature as exhibited in the day to day activities. With regard to the plot, the…