What is the relationship between emotion and positive psychology? Positive psychology constitutes of two entities, the subjective entity, and an individual entity. At a subjective level, positive psychology entails valued subjective experiences such as wellbeing, satisfaction in the past, the flow of happiness in the present, and hope and optimism for the future (Fredrickson, 2001). On the individual entity, it comprises positive personal traits such as forgiveness, love, kindness, perseverance, originality, compassion, spirituality, courage, and interpersonal skills. Positive psychology can also be achieved in group levels to nurture civic values towards the betterment of citizenship and responsibilities among individuals. Emotions, on the other hand, are the multiple states of feelings that result in physical changes that influence an individual’s behavior and thoughts. Emotions may be positive or negative, thus affect the psychological nature of an individual in different ways. Positive emotions have physical resources, intellectual resources, social, and mental resources. Positive emotions engage individuals to explore novel people, situations, and ideas by encouraging approach behavior (Fredrickson, 2001). Emotions are related to psychological phenomena such as moods, motivations, temperaments, and personalities.…

love and family The two topics notable from the course are love and family. Love is one of the terms that people often confuse. A researcher Robert Sternberg as shown in the course, explains that love involves intimacy, commitment, and passion. Love is more than just friendship because of its runs deeper, stakes higher, and comprise of more interpersonal difficulties that those involved must strive to overcome. Commitment is having some cognitive attachment to another person, which takes time to grow. It calls for people in love to remain faithful to one another regardless of the situation. On the other hand, intimacy implies openly sharing feelings and being available to provide physical, emotional, and psychological support to one another. While intimacy can be felt in the very first instance, it becomes stronger as closeness deepens. Lastly, passion is more of a physiological aspect of the body; the act of romance or engaging in some sexual or any element of erotic love and involves kissing, hugging, and others. Individuals can invest one, two, or all the three, which often comes involuntarily…

Rotary Project The Rotary Club of San Nicolás de Los Garza, Mexico, in partnership with the Rotary Club of Austin, Texas, USA, engages in a project aimed at fighting diseases in Mexico. The clubs mobilized rural medical care to the rural communities in Mexico, where the people had no access to medical care (Garcia par 7). The Rotarians donated mobile health clinics with dental and medical supplies through some global grants. Most of the clinics in some parts of Mexico are miles away, and the underprivileged lack the resources to visit clinics where they can access medical care. The mobile clinics provided by the Rotary clubs brought health care services close to the people benefiting thousands. Through a global grant from the Rotary Foundation of $50,000, which allowed the club to add more fleet equipped with dental, vision, and hearing supplies (Garcia par 9). The project addresses all the questions of the four-way test. The rotary clubs provided services genuinely (Truthfully) without wanting anything in return through determining the needs of the community. The rotary clubs offered services equally and…

Alcoholism: Nature vs Nurture Abstract Alcoholism is currently one of the significant socio-cultural aspects of modern society. The primary debate, however, is the factors that lead to an individual’s drinking behavior. Existing pieces of literature are classified into two: the first category states that alcoholism is by nature, where the child inherits the traits from the biological parent. The other type of literature indicates that alcoholism is by nurture, where the environment shapes the behavior of an individual. Based on human behavior theories such as the self-determinant theory and biological concepts, alcoholism is a trait that is impacted or learned from the environment, rather than being inherited from the biological parent. The aim of this research, therefore, is to describe how the environment affects the behavior of an individual towards alcohol intake. The study employs both qualitative and quantitative data that is obtained from secondary sources such as journals and reports. All the sources are from Academic Search Premier (Ebsco), PSYCHarticles, and SocINDEX, which contains peer-reviewed articles that eliminates bias and increases the credibility of the data obtained. To increase…

Social Network Introduction Currently, social networks have gained different view and opinion from different people based on their perspectives on social network life. Most people believe social networking has a positive impact on their lives. Social networking help people connect with distanced friends and families and reduce loneliness. Other people view the negative side of social network such as wasting times while one should be actively engaging with others, causes cyberbullying, and distraction to working or learning environment. This paper provides the view of the various author concerning social network as well as my point of view. Summary Scholarly Article According to Bruine de Bruin et al. (2020), the social network is formed by either neighbour, family member or close friends with a specific relationship or activities that bring them together. The authors focus on how the social network is created based on different age group and geographical location. According to Bruine de Bruin et al. (2020), the social network wellbeing of the group depends mostly on what brings the group together and their age restrictions in the group. The…

benefits of youths who joins gangs Status chasing is among the perceived benefits of youths joining gangs. One being part gang group is perceived as a pathway for one to get to manhood. It is said to offer the youth social status. The youth valued several experiences from gang-membership. It is believed that women are attracted also excited by the “bad boy” perceived image that strengthened perceptions that joining gangs facilitate masculine ideals. Motives driving youths in joining groups are so complicated and no doubt of marginalization and few opportunities leaving the teens with very few choices. Being “bad” is another perceived benefit of youths who joins gangs.  Identifying oneself as a member of the group and adopting the black dress-code. The expectation of meeting with members and scheduling criminal or antisocial acts, the complaint of the action, and the ecstasy of getting path with it. These rudiments combine to form very high emotional experiences, which may be further enhanced as a result of some extents of success via either material gain, drug deal, robbery, or theft. People do have…

Faith and Friendship Abstract From “A Prayer for Owen Meany” novel, major themes presented are faith and friendship. The author John Irving uses several characters in the story to illustrate these themes.  Faith being one of the themes represented is through Owen, who lives a miraculous life. He also believes that God is using him as an instrument. He is also aware of his death, and he also gives evidence that proves God exists.  John, who is Owen’s friend, also illustrates this theme, where he invests his faith in him. Friendship is also another theme that is evident in this novel, where the narrator has used John and Owen to illustrate this theme. Despite the difficult situations they go through, they have chosen to remain as friends. The novel has shown greatly on the significance of both faith and friendship. This paper will discuss depth on both faith and friendship and how they impact individuals’ lives based on the characters in the story. Discussion Faith is one of the prevalent messages that the author wants to pass in the novel.…

Gran Torino Movie Essay Question 1: Walt’s process of adapting to cultural diversity and the difference between Walt’s culture and the Hmong people. Walt embraces an American-based low-context culture in which language is mainly applied to convey feelings, ideas, and notions as precisely as possible. He is guided in a culture that appreciates individualism, and powerful language use that sees him speak with openness and with even a unique sense of vulgarity and sarcasm. This is shown when he uses vulgar language while speaking to Martin, the barber and the priest. From the initial encounter with his Hmong neighbors, his dissatisfaction and racism could be quickly perceived. This cultural perception puts Walt at a point he is viewed as an ethnocentric, taking his culture as superior that makes him exhibit prejudice attitudes, considering others to belong to an outgroup (Eastwood et al., 2009). However, Walt eventually learns to more about Hmong culture through an after-time developed friendship between him, Thao and Sue that makes him ultimately accept them as equals. He develops competence in inter-cultural communication, resulting from an exchange…

Stereotyping Essay Prompt             The story of a twenty-two-year-old man who is sent to jail to serve a life sentence and additional years is intriguing no matter how the story goes. However, when the story includes the fact that the man was wrongfully convicted of a crime, it is painful to imagine how one’s youth can be wasted in prison. This is what happened to twenty-two-year-old Ronald Cotton in 1984 when charged with assault and rape (The New York Times, para.5). The alleged victim, Jennifer Thompson, was also twenty-two years old and was a college student at the time. Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint in her apartment one morning in 1984 (The New York Times, para.1). The assaulter then moved to another apartment and committed the same crime. When Jennifer Thompson went to the police, she was asked to sketch the person as much as she could remember. The sketch did not look like Cotton, but when asked to identify her assaulter, she identified Cotton. Cotton was charged with two rapes, which resulted in life imprisonment at Jennifer’s testimony.…

Legalization of Gay Marriage in all the US States Over the last decade, the issue regarding gay marriage contributed to the rise of vigorous debates across all the states in the US. Many of the religious leaders believed that allowing the marriage of same sex is morally erroneous and ought not to be signed into law. However, in June 2015, the Supreme Court lifted the prohibition on same-sex weddings paving the way for the gay couples to tie the knot, acquire marriage licenses and establish families despite the moral concern raised by some members of the society. The legalization of gay marriage across all the 50 states played an important role in ascertaining equal rights, reduction on the cases of teen suicide and divorce, ease the process of child adoption as well as foster societal acceptance. Consequently, the paper set to critically elucidate the substantial contribution of gay matrimonies legalization across all states in the US. Since the change is inevitable, the legalization of gay marriage has contributed to the reduction on cases of divorce among couples. In the United…