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- 14501: Wicca
- ... into Wiccan religion. Sometimes I feel as if it is weird for people to practice Nature Religion, but after reading many things about Wicca, I thought their religion was actually very similar to those known world-wide. We cannot hold people's religions against them because we are afraid of it. It their way of living, it is their culture, thus we should respect their religions as they respect ours. There are many rituals that Wiccans perform in order to "worship" their Nature god. One would be dancing around naked to cleanse themselves of the impurities of the technological world. Another would be drinking of each other's blood to become one. Unlike many other religions, Wiccans' ceremonies are usually conducted by women, called Priesteses, but their men who perform these ceremonies as well. The ...
- 14502: Sturge Weber Syndrome
- ... for many people. Others are more severely affected. Social rejection and discrimination also complicate life for many of the more than two and a half million Americans with epilepsy. One hundred and twenty-five thousand new cases develop every year among people of all ages. In the majority of cases, the cause is unknown. Their are many treatments for such ailments, but no cure for any of them. For seizures anti ... fits that could not be controlled by drugs. In most situations surgeons are hesitant to operate in such a risky procedure. For epilepsy drugs are used to relieve the harshness, but their is a radical new process. Doctors from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston have transplanted about half a million fetal pig brain cells (about the si ze of two droplets of water) into the brain of a middle ...
- 14503: Noise Reduction In Hearing Aids
- ... users have tried, and failed, with recent approaches at signal processing for improving speech intelligibility in noise. These failures have led many hearing aid users, and their friends, to take a very cautious attitude toward new technology that claims to resolve some of these complaints. Some are convinced that the quality of the amplified signal provided by programmable hearing aids is not significantly better than their present nonprogrammable aids. (Sandlin 1994 ... developments in hearing aid technology promises to deliver a more naturalistic sound quality and unequaled performance in noise. Jonathan Spindel at the University of Virginia has shown advancing growth with a magnetic hearing aid. The new device uses a tiny implanted electromagnet attached to the round window of the inner ear to enhance hearing, reduce background noise, and eliminate feedback. (Source? 1998) Spindel believes that by leaving the human acoustic system ...
- 14504: Why is Being Able to Rebel Important?
- ... in life until you make changes. During the rebelling stage you are able to do whatever you want and get it out of your system early in life before you are thrown into the real world. Not ever going through a rebellious stage in my life I have found that today at age eighteen, while I feel grown up and mature I feel the need to act like a child, not ... through life wondering what if and rebelling can help you make those what ifs less apparent in life. Not rebelling has made me less open with others and has withdrawn me from what the real world holds and I am scared. No-one should have to feel that way.
- 14505: Aztec Religion
- ... thought was Huitzilopochtli, the Aztecs' own tribal god, and other deities associated with him in the national myths kept alive by Aztec pride. In later legends this god is associated with the creation of the world, occupying a space similar to that held by the traditional Toltec and Teotihuacan gods and by those gods worshiped by the people of the Valley of Mexico before the volcano Xitle covered their homes with ... lava, several centuries before Christ ( Caso, 1987 ). However, a very ancient school of philosophy held that the origin of all things was a single dual principle, masculine and feminine, that had created the gods, the world, and man. Nezahualcoyotl, the king of Texcoco, already preferred to worship an invisible god that could no longer be represented. He was called Tloque Nahuaque, or Ipalnemohuani, "the god of the immediate vicinity, that one ...
- 14506: The Great Gatsby
- ... soon makes it clear that they were spiritual or moral advantages. Nick wants the reader to know that his upbringing gave him the moral fiber with which to withstand and pass judgement on an amoral world, such as the one of East Egg which he had observed the previous summer. He says that as a result of such an upbringing he is "inclined to reserve all judgements" about other people, but ... romantic readiness". This is an exception that he will make for Gatsby and not anyone else in the novel. Nick overlooks Gatsbys bootlegging, and his association with Meyer Wolfshiem, the man Gatsby said fixed the world series in 1919. Yet he is contemptuous to Jordan Baker for cheating in a game of golf. Nick says that he is prepared to forgive this sort of behavior in a woman, "It made no ...
- 14507: Is Psychology a Science?
- ... the psychological aspects of learning. Analysis of behavior studies the conditions under which a behavior can be learned and the situations that cause that behavior to occur. Learning is an area of psychology exploring how new behaviors are learned and maintained. Clinical psychologists study ways to help individuals and groups of individuals change their behavior. Industrial and organizational psychologists are concerned with the physical and social aspects of people's work ... facts that psychology produces objective evidence that can be replicated (replicated with the same success as physics and chemistry experiments). That it unearths observable, objective evidence that either supports or refutes existing beliefs and creates new knowledge. And that psychology is open-minded about claims, even those that go against common sense and sceptical about ideas that, even though they make sense, have not been supported by any research evidence. If ...
- 14508: The Great Gatsby 14
- ... he creates to impress others but to mostly lure in Daisy so that he can meet her again and finally show off his social status to her. But before this could happen, Nick, Gatsby s new neighbor and cousin of Daisy, meets Nick. As they began to talk, Gatsby starts to discuss portions of his past to Nick and he seems the need to shows proof to back up his claims. For example when Nick was with Gatsby in his car heading toward New York, Gatsby boasts how he had gone to Oxford University and how he had been promoted to major and was given a momento from Montenegro. What was odd was that he had evidence to back ...
- 14509: US Policy on Isolation
- ... The United States tried to keep from contact with foreign nations, yet with the war of 1812 could not avoid it, and at the same time, had domestic affairs to attend to. With it's new found independance, the United States created a government which did not provide for raising internal revenue. The Articles of Confederation were basically put together to take care of foreign affairs, and didn't allow itself ... The public debt was very high, and Alexander Hamilton set out to rid the nation of this debt. With a duty on domestically produced whiskey, avid alcoholics revolted. The Whiskey Rebellion gave the government a new unspoken power among the nation, telling the populace that it would not stand for revolts and rebellions. In this manner, Thomas Jefferson took a stand in implementing his Embargo Act, to keep products and manufacturing ...
- 14510: Christianity: What Does God Mean?
- ... God Mean? People who or want to believe in Christianity, God is the sole Supreme Being, who is worshipped as the controller of some part of the universe or some aspect of life in the world. He is a Spirit (1), eternal (2), and unchangeable (3), in His being wisdom, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth (4). Christians said God is the king of this world, because God has created everything in the universe include human beings. In the Bible, it is said God created the first human beings by soil and dirt and said to them Have many children, so ...
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