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- 3091: Sleeping Disorders
- ... Sleep Eating The causes of sleep-related eating are many. Most of them arise from a background of more conventional sleepwalking. In some cases, the sleep-related eating was brought on by medications prescribed for depression or insomnia. It may be a display of other sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea or periodic limb movements. The "sleep-related eating disorder" has only recently been described. Common concerns about this disorder ... be very weird, I did not know that until I wrote this paper. I was not aware that people could eat in their sleep, I thought that only happened in TV I have learned a great deal from this paper and I hope you did also.
- 3092: Eudora Welty: Her Life and Her Works
- ... the beach. The young boy who barely knows she exists constantly in her thoughts. "Welty has given, and will continue to give(For these works are soundly made and will stand) a literature that reaches great stature in it's theme of love"(Schlueter, 535). Eudora Welty captures the feelings of being in love and shows them brilliantly on paper. The reader immediately empathizes with the young girl who cannot stop ... The other two women emerge from the train to meet the gentleman. In all of the commotion one cannot be sure whether or not Lily has gotten off of the train. The story ends in great uncertainty. The reader cannot be sure whether or not Lily marries. "Miss Welty revels in working in terms of concious ambiguity, she leaves the last word unsaid, the ultimate action unconsummated"(Kramer, 327). Many of ... s work help it to be extremely believable. The feelings and expressions she catches on paper are profound. Love which is the most difficult emotion to define is clearly illustrated in Welty's works. Her great imagination and ability to look at ordinary human activity in a different light sets Miss Welty apart from many other writers, "She participates in life around her with such perception and fidelity that she ...
- 3093: House On Mango Street
- ... should know that knowledge takes you everywhere you ever wanted to go and without education, you won’t be able to go anywhere. From The House on Mango Street, I would like to share the great way the author showed what growing up is like. Since the story was written with the narrator as a child, the whole world was seen with a child’s eyes. Through a child’s eyes ... Through a child’s eyes, you see situations that are horrible. These situations don’t even faze the child because the physical abuse, discrimination, and poverty seem so normal to her. The author does a great job of showing what it is like for an innocent child to grown up in such a harsh neighborhood. I would want others to read this book because I feel it is important to see ... culture and perspective, while adding humor to keep the reader entertained. The story confronts disturbing issues, but through the eyes of an innocent child. Overall, this book is about growing up. This book does a great job of making the reader see what it’s like to grow up in a place like Mango Street. The House on Mango Street really makes the reader aware of the world around them ...
- 3094: Benjamin Franklin
- ... Parliament over the American colonies?" (Wright, page 205). At first Franklin wanted the colonies to be and independent free nation under the caring and protecting umbrella of the British Empire. "He had dream...of a great British Empire, gridding the globe, based upon a commonwealth of free nations, each with its own laws, its own government and freedoms, but bound together by compact with the Crown for mutual benefit, mutual defense ... of mother country and colonies, but he also warned that the colonist wanted liberty and would stop at nothing to achieve it.” (Ketcham, page 3). Not only did Benjamin Franklin love liberty, he also had great skill as a diplomat. In this role, Franklin and his two grandsons sailed from France in 1776. "He achieved an amazing personal triumph and gained critical French aid for the Revolutionary War." (Ketcham, page 4 ... against Britain. Finally, Benjamin Franklin portrays a man torn between his love of Britain and a desire for liberty for the people of the new world. His greatest hope was for Britain to be the great, caring mother country that protected a young free nation across the sea. He was each country benefiting the other. Of course, this could not happen so he made sure that the best for America ...
- 3095: Schizophrenia: Explained and Treatments
- ... psychosis (Chapman). Symptoms most commonly associated with schizophrenia include delusions, hallucinations, and thought disorder (Torrey 1). Delusions are irrational ideas, routinely absurd and outlandish. A patient may believe that he or she is possessed of great wealth, intellect, importance or power. Sometimes the patient may think he is George Washington or another great historical person (Chapman). Hallucinations are common, particularly auditory, as voices in the third person or commenting upon the patient's thoughts and actions (Arieti). Persons may also hear music or see nonexistent images (Sinclair). Schizophrenic ... of schizophrenia (Walsh 103-104). Since the late 1950's, schizophrenia has been treated primarily with medications. Most of these drugs block the action of dopamine in the brain (Chapman). These drugs can help a great deal in lessening hallucinations and delusions, and in helping to maintain coherent thoughts. But, they usually have serious side effects that contribute to people not taking their medication, and relapse (Long). Haldol is the ...
- 3096: Schizophrenia
- ... strategic planning has been made to reduce costs. “The political decision made to deinstitutionalize chronic mental patients started with the appearance of phenothiazine medications. Dramatically reducing the instability influenced by psychosis, these medications were of great significance to many individuals with serious mental disorders. At both the state and federal levels, legislators looked at the high cost of long-term psychiatric hospitalization. Social scientists guaranteed them that community-based care would ... mood, or emotional tone in a person with a psychotic disorder is immensely different from that of normal affect. In the mood disorders, one observes the exaggeration of sadness and cheerfulness in the form of depression and mania. In the schizophrenic disorders, affect may be exaggerated, flat, or inappropriate. In psychotic disorders, the intellect is involved in the actual psychotic process, resulting in derangement of language, thought, and judgment. Schizophrenia is ...
- 3097: Kublai Khan
- Kublai Khan Kublai Khan was born in 1216, he was the grandson of the great conqueror Genghis Khan. Kublai founded the Mongol or Yuan Dynasty that ruled China from 1279 to 1368. He began to play a major role in the consolidation of Mongol power in 1251. Kublai was the son of Tolui and brother of the fourth Great- Khan , Manghu. He conquered Yunnan and Annam, but when Manghu died he became ruler of the Mongol empire. He was also known as being a great Mongol military leader. Between 1260 and 1279 he was successful in driving the Kin Tatars out of northern China. In 1264 Kublai established his own capital in Cambulac which is now known as Beijing. ...
- 3098: Honor Killings
- ... condemnation of war? Well, he does sort of both. It can be cosidered the greatest of ironies. It is at one time both glorious an heinous. On the one hand, war brings out one's great courage and utter glory on the field of battle, and on the other hand, it also brigs out the extreme brutality and grave inhumanity on the battlefields of ancient Greece. These two opposing aspects of ... shrink aside from the fighting; and the spirit will not let me, since I have learned to be valiant and to fight always amongst the foremost ranks of the Trojans, winning for my own self great glory, and for my father. (6.440-446)" Thus in the Illiad, Homer conveys to us the inherent and intrinsic contradiction of warefare. It elevates and dignifies men and then demolishes and devastates them. It ... to smother his existence entirely. It portrays the greatest of human virtues and destroys those men who personify these virtues. Just as the battle begins, however, we see a change in the composure of these great warriors from respectable and honourable men into ones who are savages and beasts. The belligerants attack each other like animals of prey. Our noble, marvellously tempered, valiant gladiators have instantly developed into raging, reeling, ...
- 3099: Gilgamesh
- ... same ancient stories can be found in different cultures. Each story differs in a small way, but the general idea remains synonymous. One story that is paralleled in several cultures is the legend of a great flood. The epic of Gilgamesh resembles the Bible’s story of Noah’s Ark, but specific details differ in several aspects. The story of Gilgamesh originates from twelve fire-hardened, mud tablets, written in cuneiform ... are born evil (Genesis, 6), they do not become evil. Their wrongdoings originate from their heart and not from the decisive mind, (Genesis, 9). The fact that many ancient civilizations have a story with a great flood could mean that there really was a world wide catastrophe. Since the majority of the world’s population lived on the oceanic planes where the land was fertile and travel by boat was easiest ... to flow backwards towards the sea. Then the ocean water rose very high and salt water rushed back into the empty sea, (Lecture, 9/7/1999). With so many different cultures trying to explain a great flood, there are bound to be differences in each account. The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Biblical story of Noah’s Ark are different in small details. The fact that the two stories are ...
- 3100: Yugoslavia 2
- ... ressited until 1915. In 1915 Germany committed troops to the region, and Serbia fell. After the war with the defeat of Germany, and Austria, the Slavs could once again try to form a united country. Great Britian mediated the talks between the different factions in the region, Serbian, Croatian, Slovevian, Montenegran, and Macedonain. The mediator found that the Serbs just wanted control of everyhting, espeacially other Serbs, and if the Croats ... by Tio's actions. He wantred Yugoslavia to become a grain farm for the Soviet Union. In 1948 Yugoslavia was expelled from the Soviet Union, and left to flounder. Tito, was a leader an had great ambitions for his kinsmen. After Yugoslavias expelltion from the union Tito went to the west for help. The west gave him loans, new trade allainces, and armaments. With the loans , and new trade Tito could ... would calm the waters of the past. He invisioned that Serbs, Croats, macedonias would think themselevs not by their ethnicity, but as consumers. During the 1970's Yugoslavias econmy baegan to falter. In Tito's great equalised Yugoslavia, Croats, and Slovenes earned twice the wages of a Serb, and three times as much as a Macedonian, and Montenegran. The Slovenenians, and Croats became resentfull of the fact that they had ...
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