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    trill that makes their heart race. But for others they start freaking out‚ and they freeze up. Not everyone enjoys fear like others. In the story “ Why Do Some Brains Enjoy Fear?” it says‚ “No one wants to experience a truly life- threatening situation. ( Ringo 91)” If different people react to fear in different ways you never know what you might do. If you would run? Freeze up? Your reaction could be critical in the situation and that’s why people don’t enjoy it. Fear is something dangerous that caused

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    focused on the depiction of older characters within animated films to see just how influential they are on a younger audience. The findings shown post experiment told that even though many characters in the movies were shown as positively influential‚ some were shown with a negative influential ability on younger audiences specifically. Those involved lean towards the side stating that these movies do have a powerful influence on children and their research explain why such an occurrence happens. First

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    1. Explain the role of neurotransmitters in formation of drug addiction. As we can see from the video assigned to us this week‚ dopamine is a neurotransmitter that plays a role in the brain’s response to the presence of drug abuse. Dopamine is responsible for movement‚ regulation of heart rate‚ motivation and how a person perceives an experience either being painful or pleasurable. Pain causes for dopamine levels to drop whereas pleasurable responses increase dopamine levels. All drugs that become

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    from drawing a quadrant in the beginning‚ and winds-up having designed an entire universe with toys‚ helps the understanding of how this story obviously bears a resemblance to the religious genesis. Basically the story presents a regular kid’s heavily armed abilities’ of creating planets and solar systems. One can also say that the story deals with a boy’s creation of what only appears to be a small universe. Now here can the cited religious story of creation easily be connected to this higher scale

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    listening to‚ and probably being a part of the use of music‚ although the music we know today may not necessarily be what they used long ago. Music way back from our ancestors may have entailed the use of rocks‚ sticks etc. Drums were later introduced and as time went on we have the pleasure of having instruments like guitars‚ violins‚ piano‚ flutes and many more included so that what we hear today sounds like heaven on earth. One thing‚ for sure in which scholars believe‚ is that the purpose music

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    different parts called organs. All of the parts are controlled by an organ called the brain‚ which is located in the head. The brain weighs about 2.75 pounds‚ and has a whitish-pink appearance. The brain is made up of many cells‚ and is the control centre of the body. The brain flashes messages out to all the other parts of the body. The messages travel in very fine threads called nerves. The nerves and the brain make up a system somewhat like telephone poles carrying wires across the city. This is

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    Male Brain vs. Female Brain: Is one Better than the Other? Differences between males and females have been an issue affecting our society for thousands of years. Why are we so different? Why are we so similar? Several scientists have attempted to explain these variations‚ all using different methods and approaches. A very controversial study by psychologist J. Philippe Rushton suggested that men are innately more intelligent than women. This study gave arousal to several studies that oppose it

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    What is a Country to Do? In recent times‚ the throne of Scotland has been filled with very small men. These so-called sovereigns have abused their God given power to their own pitiful ends instead of using it the way it was meant to. They spend our taxes foolishly so that they can live in splendor‚ chase their enemies to the grave‚ and insure that the common man cannot rise against them. They live in fear of falling from power to the point where any who question them are imprisoned‚ killed

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    Functions and graphing functions Basics: A function is a rule that changes input into output A relation is any set of ordered pairs A function is defined as a set of ordered pairs in which no two ordered pairs have the same element A function must give exactly one unique output for each input Also called a mapping or simply a map The set of input numbers is called the domain The set of output numbers is called the range The set of all possible outputs is called the co-domain The range is generally

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    HOW HUMAN BRAIN WORKS IN SAVING NEW WORDS By: Mitsalina Ardini 1. Introduction We are learning about the brain at an unprecedented rate. Jeri Janowsky‚ a top learning and memory neuroscientist at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland‚ says‚ “Anything you learned two years ago is already old information. . . . . Neuroscience is exploding”. In the coming years‚ we can expect new and more accurate technologies to further illuminate the brain’s mysteries. For now‚ the following are the

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