Choose 5 topic and write paragraphs
You must pick any five (5) of the 17 short essays. Each essay is worth five (5) points for a total of 25 points. A short essay consists of a minimum of 7 well written sentences and you must submit your bibliography with each essay. Good Luck!
1. Discuss the spread of AIDS in the United States, and factors that can influence and prevent this spread.
2. Explain the differences between saturated fat and unsaturated fat, and the benefits or risks associated with each.
3. Describe characteristics of individuals who are voluntarily childless, and their long-term happiness with their lifestyle.
4. What is meant by the “social clock”? Describe evidence indicating that the social clock is a major source of personality change in adulthood.
5. Describe how the quality of creativity changes from early to middle adulthood.
6. Discuss the gender differences related to osteoporosis, and mortality rates associated with the disease.
7. Discuss the problems that middle-aged adults face when they become unemployed.
8. Ten percent of divorces occur after a marriage of 20 years or more. Which party typically initiates the divorce? Discuss the reasons given by men and women for their divorces.
9. Explain the benefits of continuing education for elders.
10. Explain how difficulties with working memory impact recall for older adults.
11. Explain why marital satisfaction is at its peak late in life.
12. Briefly describe the shifts in three personality characteristics that defy stereotypes of the elderly.
13. Explain why individuals in young and middle adulthood have a much harder time coping with the death of a spouse.
14. List the main features of the hospice approach.
15. Briefly discuss considerations to take into account when considering a person’s wish to die at home.
16. Explain the concept of “appropriate death”, and what most patients would like when asked about a good death.
17. Explain why some experts want to change the brain activity-related criteria that currently declares a person dead.
