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Major depressive disorder, or MDD, may affect up to twenty percent of the adult population. The recognition of depression as a serious and common mental disorder has been vital in the identification and treatment of…

After three decades of legalized abortion in the United States, it is still a controversial topic (Earll, 2003). Many abortion supporters do not understand why the nation is still divided on the topic after all this time.

Dear Katharine: It's been too long since our last meeting, though it was good to see you then and how quickly the afternoon passed. You were indeed a generous host; the ginger tea cakes you made were divine and the orange pekoe tea was a delightful treat. However, I as we were dining and coming up to speed with the current events in each other's lives, I could not shake the feeling that you were haunted by an unshakeable sadness. There was a profound and apparent melancholy which pervaded your actions and made it difficult for you to make eye contact with me. You spoke in a monotone fashion and often stared straight down into your teacup. You sighed frequently. I don't even think you were aware of doing it. It saddened me deeply to see you like that and I wondered if I should ask you about your present state. However, I feared putting you on the spot and I was afraid that you would despise me for doing so. I decided that I would write you a letter instead, expressing my dismay and sincere concern. My darling Katharine: you've been a tremendous friend to me since we were little girls and I would be no friend to you if I turned my back pretended that all was fine with you. It clearly is not. You've clearly become consumed by a deep and debilitating depression. Your depression is of course understandable. You lost your younger sister, Lilly, nine months ago and still are clearly haunted by it. Lilly was a brilliant and charming little girl and her death in the boating pond was an absolute tragedy. It also wasn't your fault; you weren't even there. In fact, had you been there the tragedy still might have occurred, so you really should be grateful that you spared the experience. But Katharine, this isn't what I mean to say. Dearest Katharine, what concerns me even more than your apparent guilt over this death is the fact that you appear to be obsessed with death. Friends have told me that you've been plagued by nightmares where you envision relatives and dear contacts being consumed by raging fires or in floods. Your parents

One of the great ongoing debates in American society involves when, if ever, abortion is permissible. A common argument made in favor of abortion has been that a woman has the right to determine what happens with her…

Andrei Codrescu is a writer currently living in New Orleans. He is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist who has adopted English as his medium, though he was born in Romania in 1946 end emigrated to the United States in…

McPhee, John. The Control of Nature. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.

¶ … person I interviewed will be called Chiun Lai for the purpose of this report. Chiun is a young Chinese-American, who is also of a homosexual orientation. I began the interview by asking questions related to his…

¶ … bonds that an infant forms with its caregivers, and particularly its mother, have been long standing and well-known hallmarks of humanity from time immemorial. It is only relatively recently in the course of human…

There are critics that blame feminists -- the movement for women's liberation -- for spoiling the institution of marriage in the U.S. However, notwithstanding those positions, and notwithstanding the high divorce rate, there are other dynamics at work regarding the reasons that marriage is not held in high regard as it once was. this paper provides scholarly responses to the blame handed to feminists and clarifies the fact that there is not one monolithic feminist viewpoint but rather there are several viewpoints among women seeking social change.

A popular scientific debate asks whether we are more likely shaped by 'nature' or 'nurture.' In other words, how much of our individuality and personality comes from our genetic makeup and how much of it comes from the…