Our nation is in the midst of a chronic pain epidemic--according to a study released in 2011 by the Institute of Medicine, over 100 million people are living in pain. In the face of this crisis, how can psychological methods help with the treatment and prevention of chronic pain? No single panacea exists for chronic pain. Similarly, no single treatment method for chronic pain involving psychology exists. However, here are five psychologically-informed approaches to pain that have proven to be...
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Films and movies are incredible creations that can inspire people, make people laugh, make people cry, and change peoples lives. That is because movies reflect everyday life, and people. However, Mexican people have always gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to representation and portrayal in Hollywood. When Hollywood first made films about Mexican people, in the 1940s and 50s, Hollywood directors created the Mexican stereotypes by grouping together different cultures in Mexico to create âMexican cultureâ...
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The discussion of the ethics of war goes back to the Greeks and Romans, although neither civilisation behaved particularly well in war. In the Christian tradition war ethics were developed by St Augustine, and later by St Thomas Aquinas and others. Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), a Dutch philosopher and author of De Jure Belli Ac Pacis (The Rights of War and Peace), wrote down the conditions for a just war that are accepted today. Cicero argued that there was no acceptable...
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Offline and online retailing will soon become completely integrated into one. This will mean that one will not be able to do without the other. In the fast-moving world, Alibaba Group has been able to emerge as the biggest e-commerce company in the world. They made the shift to data company due to the integration of online and offline retailing. Data is a powerful tool used to help businesses understand their consumer preferences and to alter their products to make...
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'Thanatopsis' was written by William Cullen Bryantâprobably in 1813, when the poet was just 19. It is Bryant's most famous poem and has endured in popularity due its nuanced depiction of death and its expert control of meter, syntax, imagery, and other poetic devices. The poem gives voice to the despair people feel in contemplating death, then finds peace by viewing death as a harmonious part of nature. To put it bluntly, âThanatopsisâ is about death. The word thanatopsis itself...
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To most of us, Abraham Lincoln was one of the greatest presidents of US history. However, at the time he served, he was also one of the most controversial men to ever hold the office. Lincoln was a popular Republican who worked to eliminate slavery and keep the Union together during the Civil War. These efforts made many southerners angry and eventually led to his assassination on April 14, 1865. On this night, Lincoln was in Washington D.C watching the...
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Oral wellbeing and esthetics have become a major concern among the population for more systemic health and advancement. A standout amongst the most widely prevailing dental problems being malposition of teeth, a questionnaire survey was conducted to evaluate the awareness of orthodontic treatment among general dentist and non-orthodontic specialist. The questions asked in the questionnaire were 14 in number related to diagnosis and treatment planning in orthodontics. It was sent to 103 general dentist and non-orthodontic specialist. The scores where...
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According to the website, collegeexpress.com, they have collected data about students saying, âI want to get the grade, not the educationâ. The website replies to this common thought saying that even though the pressure of the school grading system can be stressful, and that pressure can lead up the thought of cheating, there is still a way to ace the test without relying on cheating. That way is to read to know more about the things that will be on...
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Introduction Organizational behavior is majorly a study of the way people act in their workplace. Public administrators and managers usually learn organizational behavior to help them understand employee motivation from different perspectives, such as engaging the staff members, managing bosses, and working with the public behind the scenes. Many theories of motivation have been formulated by theorists to create mechanisms for regulating the behavior of people working in organizations. Some major theorists studying this issue include Shafritz, Luddites, Hugo MĂŒnsterberg,...
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â The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.â- Albert Einstein. The extremely controversial topic of weather measurements of intelligence are precise or accurate is still greatly debated today. Researchers have suggested a variety of theories that display and explain the complexion of intelligence and some theories have emerged and become major in our world today. To mankind intelligence still a mystery that many are trying to solve. Some theories include Charles Spearmanâs general intelligence which is not widely...
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The causes of deforestation which is development of agriculture and economic pressure has lead to several effects which is not only affects the people, but plants, animals and environment. These effects has negative impacts especially on land and biodiversity. Deforestation has many effects toward every species on the earth and environment, and one of the impact is on land. The biggest problem will be faced by earth after deforestation is soil erosion (Lindsey, 2007). The soil was attached by the...
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The term 'Feminism' can be utilized to portray a political, social or financial development planned for setting up equivalent rights and legitimate insurance for ladies. Women's liberation includes political and sociological speculations and ways of thinking worried about issues of sex contrast, just as a development that backers sexual orientation uniformity for ladies and crusades for ladies' privileges and interests. In spite of the fact that the expressions 'women's liberation' and 'women's activist' didn't increase across the board use until...
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Letâs start by introducing capitalism; capitalism supports the idea of private property, believes society can do better when an individual is able to purchase and produce as they please. On the other hand, socialism is the theory that property ownership should be controlled by government, and that the government can do more with the assets than individuals are able to. I for one do not think society should run in a pure socialism or a pure capitalism, I believe that...
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Organization which need to develop a L&D strategy, requires to get involved with a range of organizationâs stakeholders to ensure the strategy is aligned with organizational objectives and priorities. When it comes to management and leadership development strategies, Organizations have a variety of choices to make which range from formal to the informal, and from those that are organization-directed to self-directed. It is generally accepted that the majority of management and leadership development activities in organizations are both formal and...
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Foreign Exchange is the process of conversion of one currency into another currency. For a country its currency becomes legal tender. For a foreign country it becomes the value as a commodity. Since the commodity has a value its relation with the other currency determines the exchange value of one currency with the other. For example, the US dollar in USA is the currency in USA but for India it is just like a commodity, which has a value which...
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More time is taken to respond to a volcano eruption and this depends on the distance from the volcano. In the same perspective, fewer dangers are encountered when people are located further from the area of the volcano. Around the volcano area, the potential and immediate dangers include damage from a volcano, heat blast, flying rocks, mudslides, floods and lava. (Cutter, 1996, 529-539). The potential dangers result from the fact that rocks are thrown more than 20 miles from the...
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Park City is attacked by a ManBearPig beast that kills and destroys anything in its path. Stan, Cartman, Kyle, and Kenny set-out to stop ManBearPig. With the insights and help from Al Gore and his spirit, Stanâs grandpa and Satan, the boys realize that ManBearPig is too powerful to stop. On behalf of all Park City, the boys negotiate with ManBearPig, which demands that everyone stops using soy sauce and Red Dead Redemption in exchange for peace; however, the citizens...
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The idea of Economics is present everywhere in our society. Through our lives, the things around us directly relate to our economy. Music is one of the many areas that play a large role in our lives. For me, the song âOpportunity Costâ by G-Eazy is solely about economics and the way that we need to learn how to balance our everyday lives. The first three lines go like this: âEverything costs something bro, when itâs somewhere⊠somewhere else you...
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The Phaedo stands alongside the Republic as the most philosophically dense dialogue of Plato's middle period. It contains the first extended discussion of the Theory of Forms, four arguments for the immortality of the soul, and strong arguments in favor of the philosophical life. It also contains Plato's moving account of Socrates' final hours and his compelling myth about the fate of the soul after death. More than most of Plato's other writings, the Phaedo is in constant dialogue with...
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Introduction The events of Hurricane Katrina that hit the Gulf Coast in August of 2005 are best described as the most devastating. Lives were lost, homes were destroyed and property worth millions ruined in this natural catastrophe which is described as the worst ever in Americaâs history. The few who were lucky to survive lost all they owned and this started a tough recovery journey that saw some move on while others lacked the strength to try (CNN 1). Hurricane...
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It is extremely hard to avoid the attractions of worldly pleasures in todayâs world. There are many distractions that can deviate us from our goal of happiness. According to Aristotle, temperance is necessary for happiness because balance indulgence and insensibility. I intend to explain why temperance is problematic, and extremely hard to achieve in terms of Aristotleâs definition. Throughout the course of this paper, I will analyze some of the key concepts Aristotle believes are necessary for temperance. Furthermore, there...
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Egypt and Mesopotamia were two civilizations that bore as many similarities as did differences. Mesopotamia was originally concentrated in Tigris and Euphrates rivers valleys though it gradually spread to other areas. The effects of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers largely impacted the Mesopotamian culture more so about its frequent and destructive floods. This is unlike the Egyptian scenarios where the Nile was predictable and its peopleâs civilization centered on its activities. It was viewed by Egyptians as an unending blessing...
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There, on the dusty floorboards, was a piece of paper, folded neatly. A newspaper article from 1941, written in German, alongside a faded picture of two men in Nazi uniforms staring at the camera. I was about to place it back in the box of forgotten things when something in the text jumped out at me. My breath caught in my chest. I know that name. London, present day. Isla has grown up hearing her beloved grandadâs stories about his...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman should be understood within the context of the Enlightenment as a movement containing complex and often contradictory political, religious, and philosophical implications. The most famous definition of the Enlightenment, though very late in the movement, comes in Immanuel Kantâs essay, âWhat is Enlightenment?â: âEnlightenment is manâs emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use oneâs own understanding without the guidance of anotherâ. For Kant, whose work Wollstonecraft very likely knew...
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The Holocaust did not start with gas chambers, it started with hate-filled words. When somebody reads stories about the Holocaust it completely gives a whole new perspective, the reader can feel the pain that the survivors had, sometimes their stories can just stab the readerâs heart, But most of all the holocaust survivors went through something so, appalling, horrific, and terrorizing , at the age around 14-17. It was hard for these young children to sustain an ideal state of...
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When English writer D. H. Lawrenceâs novel, The Rainbow, was first published in 1915, it was hailed as obscene and Lawrence himself was labeled a pornographer. The book was banned in many quarters while the righteous of the day took great pleasure in making a public display of burning it. It wasnât available in England and the United States for many years after its publication, except in an âexpurgatedâ version, meaning that somebody went through the book and took out...
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Floods are caused by many things. Many times it rains too much, other times a dam breaks; however, the effects of floods devastating. Floods can cause environmental losses as well and economical losses, land is washed away, homes are ruined, and people sometimes even die. This essay is about the causes and effects that flood have on our world. Floods are caused by many things. One cause of a flood is when water exceeds the capacity of the area it...
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His neighbors called Thomas Jefferson the worst farmer in Virginia, and yet Jefferson dedicated himself to agrarian exploration with a devotion akin to worship. Which meant many, many failures. Jefferson, you see, was on a mission to bring upland rice to the American south. Grown in dry soil, it could supplant, he hoped, the lowland rice that Georgia and the Carolinas depended on â âa plant,â he wrote, âwhich sows life and death with almost equal hand,â because the cropâs...
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The question of whether genetics have a role in the development of mental disorders remains a big concern to various researchers and scholars. Various researches have been conducted to verify the ability of genes in influencing mental illness. Various authors have contributed a significant amount of information concerning the subject. Understanding the relationship between genetics and mental illness requires a credible analysis of the available data and the various methods used in collecting and synthesizing the data. The article 'Common...
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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is regarded as one of the largest environmental disasters in American history. On 20 April 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico, 205.8 million gallons of oil contaminated the gulf of Mexico. A total of 11 people killed and 17 injured. According to the Center for Biological Diversity âthe spill likely harmed or killed about 82,000 birds of 102 species; about 6,165 sea turtles; as many as 25,900 marine mammals.â Even though oil spills can have...
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