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    pain‚ which are called analgesics. Hypnoanalgesia is the use of hypnotherapy to block pain and‚ used alongside orthodox medicine‚ it can be a very valuable tool in alleviating symptoms such as physical pain within cancer sufferers. It can also be used for enhancing coping strategies and increasing relaxation‚ which is particularly useful for reducing anxiety. Pain can be categorized into two types‚ acute pain and chronic pain. Acute pain usually results from disease‚ inflammation or injury and will

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    Loss of Forest

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    Environment issues affect life on this planet from the smallest parasite to the human race. We‚ as human beings‚ may not understand the severity of the possible consequences that deforestation poses. Since deforestation has had no severe effect on us yet‚ we ignore the problem; however‚ deforestation can cause a major problem for our environment. Some of the problems are carbon dioxide‚ wasting paper‚ climate change and logging. Deforestation increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

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    Sufferings of a Female Slave “Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women. Superadded to the burden common to all‚ they have wrongs‚ and sufferings‚ and mortifications peculiarly of their own” (Gates and McKay 294). Although male narrators like Frederick Douglas had touched on what slave women went through‚ the public had yet to hear it come from the mouth of a woman. Harriet Jacobs tells her story in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and brings attention to the problems

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    Brett Brazier EG462: Contemporary World Culture Week 4 Question: How and when do cultural items become "glocal” 7/12/2013 First‚ I wanted to get a better grasp of the term “glocal”. I understand it is a hybrid of global and local. I wanted to get a better knowledge of what it means. After doing some research‚ I found that “Glocal” is a combination of the word of global and local. It basically means globalization that is aided by a strong concentration on local elements. A company that operates

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    The Trickster in Myth

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    The Trickster in Myth Trickster myths‚ a significant part of most cultures if not all‚ have permeated the legends and folklore of peoples since the early days of civilized man. The ancient Greeks had Hermes‚ the Chinese the Monkey King‚ and the Native American Indians the coyote. These diverse tricksters found within cultures often have many commonalities with each other‚ and then‚ often they do not. But this illustrates the very nature of the trickster; ever changing‚ shifting‚ shaping‚ disguising

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    Exploiting Loss

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    amazing thing. One can view and put out almost any type of information or material they wish. Because of that‚ the Internet has become a place for people to share and deal with their experiences with grief and death. This gives researchers alternate means of researching how death and grief is dealt with. However‚ with these new means of interaction‚ come new concerns. In the article Exploiting Loss?: Ethical Considerations‚ Boundaries‚ and Opportunities for the Study of Death and Grief Online by

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    The Myth of Inferiority

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    Need Extra Help Stated in “The Myth of Inferiority” by T. Allen Culpepper‚ students who have hard lives are justified to having late papers‚ excessive absences‚ rewrite opportunities‚ but never plagiarized work. Throughout the article many examples are stated to support why. Students deal with financial instability‚ cope with economic hardships‚ and are always competing with obligations between family‚ work and school. College students are newcomers and beginners to the world of being adults. We

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    Sorry for the Loss

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    for the Loss Dealing with death and the loss of someone you love is possible one of the most difficult emotions to deal with‚ even though death is something that happens all the time‚ all over the world; death is actually the only certain thing in life. When someone we love die‚ we‚ as relatives‚ are put in a difficult situation in which we are expected to react a certain way. Unfortunately delivering the terrible news is sometimes almost as bad as getting them‚ it is never easy being the relative

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    Creation Myths

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    MYTHICAL EXPLANATIONS – the creation myth Creation myths evolve in nearly as many ways as there are cultures. Sometimes they are used to solidify political power‚ as when Egypt moved back and forth from the gods Aten and Amen. More frequently they are used to explain the unknown. Some cultures used the familiar (animals‚ clay‚ mud‚ etc) to explain their existence‚ while others used the sun and moon‚ which were IN their lives‚ but not OF them. The Inuit creation myth turns the emergence tradition upside

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    and Rudolf Hess‚ who were Nazi Party leaders and officials and were related to Adolf Hitler. I will also discuss who these people were and what they did‚ why they did these things‚ when they did these things‚ where they did these things‚ and perhaps how they did these things. The first of these officers was Heinrich Himmler. Himmler was the head of the Gestapo (German State Police) and the Waffen-SS (militarized units of SS‚ which stands for Schutzstaffel‚ a group of Hitler’s personal body guards)

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