Alternative Medicine Throughout recorded history‚ people of various cultures have relied on what Western medical practitioners today call alternative medicine. The term alternative medicine covers a broad range of healing philosophies‚ approaches‚ and therapies. It generally describes those treatments and health care practices that are outside mainstream Western health care. People use these treatments and therapies in a variety of ways. Alternative therapies used
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Alternative Energy Sources [pic] Alternative energy is no longer a secret. Most of the world’s energy needs are fulfilled by fossil fuels including gasoline and coal. It cannot be denied‚ however‚ that their supply is no longer in a stable state‚ their prices have gone up and they have been found to cause damage to the environment. The negative effects of the use of fossil fuels are taking its toll on Mother Earth and mankind. Pollution mainly from the burning of fuels has long been pointed
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Alternative Medicine vs. Conventional Medicine Abstract The paper discusses the differences and similarities between conventional medicine and alternative medicine. The major differences concern the educational level‚ attitude to diseases‚ theoretical support and researches‚ patient participation‚ time‚ and cost. The main similarities include healing purpose‚ the human factor‚ and some common methods used. Keywords: alternative medicine‚ conventional medicine‚
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Alternative medicine is a medical practice that is generally founded on metaphysical beliefs. Many a times‚ alternative medicine is found to be antiscientific. The practice of alternative medicine has progressively become popular in the recent past decades with more and more patients preferring alternative medicine to modern scientific medicine (Skeptic dictionary‚ 2009). Alternative medicine practice falls into five main categories as classified by National Center for Complementary and Alternative
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Alternatives to Animal Testing Throughout history‚ animal testing has been used for a variety of research and tests‚ but we never stop to realize the cruelty and inhumanity of their environments. Gandhi once said‚ “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated” (qtd. in Hajar). Animal testing is unnecessary and irrational because we have the technology to replace the inhumane testing‚ which proves to be even more accurate and precise with its
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For the centuries of mankind’s existence‚ there have always been people in the population that are attracted to the same sex. That does not mean‚ however‚ that anybody with these types of feelings in times before ever told other people about it or felt like being open about it. It was looked upon as a burden and a fault‚ even a curse among society. It wasn’t even until the 1900s that any kind of movements for the homosexual community even started. When you sit back and think about the kind of embarrassment
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It is traditional to divide industries into categories according to the degree of competition that exists between the firms within the industry. There are four such categories. At one extreme is perfect competition‚ where there are very many firms competing. Each firm is so small relative to the whole industry that it has no power to influence price. It is a price taker. At the other extreme is monopoly‚ where there is just one firm in the industry‚ and hence no competition from within the industry
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Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) France Pascal was an outstanding genius who studied geometry as a child. At the age of sixteen he stated and proved Pascal’s Theorem‚ a fact relating any six points on any conic section. The Theorem is sometimes called the "Cat’s Cradle" or the "Mystic Hexagram." Pascal followed up this result by showing that each of Apollonius’ famous theorems about conic sections was a corollary of the Mystic Hexagram; along with Gérard Desargues (1591-1661)‚ he was a key pioneer
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Alternatives to Violence History 12 “Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.” John F. Kennedy September 25‚ 1961 The Cold War‚ which took place between 1945 and 1989‚ has been the event in which the two superpowers‚ the United States and the Soviet Union directly threatened each other with nuclear weapons‚ almost bringing “an end to mankind”. All those that offered explanations during and after the Cold War have been classified
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Strategic Management » Manage Decisions 03/12/2013 17:12 Home About Manage Decisions Compete‚ Thrive & Sustain with better business decisions Strategic Management Archived Posts from this Category Wed 27 Oct 2010 Google & Innovation Culture – Challenges ahead Posted by anil under Academic‚ Innovation‚ MBA‚ Strategic Management No Comments As Google gets bigger‚ it is going to be difficult to manage and keep up the innovation culture as it keeps marching on its path to success
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