The benefits of moderate alcohol consumption Adam Jones Psyc&100 Clark College Ron Lajoy‚ Ph.D. Alcohol contrary to what one may believe in moderation‚ loosely defined as 2-3 servings of alcohol for men and 1-2 servings for women‚ has a wide array of health benefits. One of the earliest studies of health benefits on moderate alcohol consumption was published in the American Medical Association in 1904. Alcohol benefits the blood lipid profile‚ increasing good cholesterol and decreasing
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Realities of Hedonistic Consumerism‚ by Jesse Arrington‚ expresses hedonistic consumerism goes farther in our lives than we think. Since we buy things that we need in order to live‚ this shows how consumerism plays a big part in our lives. However‚ the hedonism part proposes that most people are grasped up in consumerism that they rely on this to be their basic cause of their way of living. A study shows that the average American family has more than eight thousand dollars in credit-card debt. This results
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Why We Should Not Fear Death May 21‚ 2007 by Quincy Death is a common topic of speculation and frequently anxiety. In the time that Epicurus was laying out his way of life and sharing it with others this was the case. Epicurus‚ though‚ claimed that we should not fear death because‚ “Death‚ the most frightening of bad things‚ is nothing to us; since when we exist death is not yet present‚ and when death is present‚ then we do not exist” (Letter to Menoeceus‚ 125). Death is frightening to people
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Epicurus Epicurus (342.-270 B.C)‚ unlike Aristippus had a more intellectual view of pleasure‚ and he was mainly concerned with the pleasures of the mind. Epicurus felt that man’s insecurity could be partly traced to his false opinions regarding God: "First of all‚ believe that God is a being incorruptible and happy‚ as the common opinion of the world about God dictates; and attach to your idea of him nothing which is inconsistent with incorruptibility or with happiness; and think
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Moderate drinking can have beneficial effects on the heart‚ especially among those at greatest risk for heart attacks‚ such as men over the age of forty-five and women after menopause. But long-term heavy drinking increases the risk for high blood pressure‚ heart disease‚ and some kinds of stroke. According to findings published Jan. 29 in the journal Stroke. People who average more than two drinks a day have a thirty-nine percent higher risk of stroke compared to those whose daily average amounts
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simply gross. These intuitions are the result of our nature of purpose human beings i.e. we act purposely‚ and immediate pleasures are overridden for the sake of larger purposes also known as the paradox of hedonism. Therefore Nozick’s experience machine is not sufficient reason for abandoning hedonism in favour of preference
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lifespan development. | b. | was the first African-American psychologist. | c. | won three gold medals at the 2009 National Senior Games. | d. | was the first black soldier to serve in an all-white unit in World War II. | ANS: C DIF: Moderate REF: 1 OBJ: 1.1 2. Development is best defined as a. | individual differences in human behavior. | b. | systematic changes and continuities from conception to death. | c. | the way people change in positive ways across time. | d. |
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Extreme and Moderate Characters in Tartuffe In Moliére’s Tartuffe (Moiré 1664)‚ the reader is able to see a great contrast of Extreme and Moderate characters. Extreme characters being those who are seen as over the top‚ or very passionate people‚ and the moderate characters having a more calm and subtle approach to ideas. The extreme characters in this case would be Madam Pernelle‚ Orgon‚ Tartuffe‚ and Dorine. The moderate characters are seen as Cleante and Elmire. One of the characters that
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A Rhetorical Analysis of The Introduction to The Hedonism Handbook In the introduction to The Hedonism Handbook‚ the author Michael Flocker‚ tries to convey that the assumption: “If you avoid all things pleasurable‚ you will live a long and happy life‚” is a fallacy- that the reasons for this assumption are wrong. He states that working every day‚ steering clear of anything that many be construed as something pleasurable‚ is something that this generation has adopted as being ‘happy.’ However‚
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