Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on Hoarding. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
3 pages in length. Those who lived through the Great Depression understand the concept of hoarding, inasmuch as this single activity undoubtedly saved untold lives as people were forced to subsist very meagerly until the nation's economy was revived. This particular connotation means to squirrel away supplies such as food, money or any other commodity deemed necessary for the future. To hoard in this way is to be considered thrifty and prudent by being prepared. The opposing - and perhaps more recognizable - definition in today's society clearly stems from a mental imbalance and can cause extreme neglect and suffering to those being housed by a hoarder. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Page Count:
3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: LM1_TLChoard.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
connotation means to squirrel away supplies such as food, money or any other commodity deemed necessary for the future. To hoard in this way is to be considered thrifty
and prudent by being prepared. The opposing - and perhaps more recognizable - definition in todays society clearly stems from a mental imbalance and can cause extreme neglect and
suffering to those being housed by a hoarder. Animal collecting is a sickness whereby the individual believes she is the only person who can provide the necessary care and
love for what is most often dozens and even hundreds of dogs, cats, birds, rabbits or a whole host of other species. What defines this type of hoarding as
a mental illness is how the animals are far from being in a safe environment given how most hoarders live in squalor, have limited finances to buy enough food and
are incapable of providing veterinary care. This combination works synergistically to place the animals in harms way for malnutrition, disease and even death. The classic picture of the
compulsive hoarder is the individual who saves everything and can throw nothing away...The difference between people who hoard possessions and those who do not is that hoarders judge more possessions
to have these values. This may also be true for people who hoard animals. Their attachment to animals is, in all likelihood, similar to other peoples attachment, but
it is applied to a much larger number or wider array of animals (Frost, 2000). One of the most interesting of all potential psychiatric models to explain the compulsive
nature of pathological hoarding is that of attachment theory whereby the individual "suffers from early developmental deprivation of parental attachment and is unable to establish close human relationships in adulthood"
...