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    disorder is a common brain affliction‚ with many causes. Research about its effects on the brain and brain chemistry are still going on‚ and treatments are still being tested. Post-traumatic stress disorder affects multiple areas of the brain‚ and that‚ in turn‚ affects an individual’s ability to function. Learning about PTSD and its effects on the brain is important for researching and advancing its treatment and prevention. I will be researching PTSD’s affects on the brain physically and chemically

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    Writing a comparison of ‘Brothers’ and ‘Sister Maude’ In the exam‚ you will have a choice of two questions on the poems that you have studied from the ‘Relationships’ section of the anthology. They will be phrased like this: Compare the ways in which family relationships are portrayed in ‘Brothers’ and one other poem of your choice. Let’s say you chose ‘Sister Maude’ as the other poem‚ and decided to focus on sibling relationships. You would then need to write six paragraphs comparing the presentation

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    Sara Ridenour‚ in her chapter entitled "Facebook’s little sister‚ Twitter."‚ elaborates on several different facets of Twitter that‚ in her point of view‚ lead to the development of greater tolerance and empathy towards each other amongst its users. She explains that Twitter users are not that concerned about the information they share on the website being public as they are aware that every other user’s information is also available which leads to their expectance of more tolerance. I only partially

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    How to Watch Your Brother Die Michael Lassell portrays himself as a straight man in his poem “How to Watch your Brother Die.” In reality he is a 21st century gay poet. The poem tells the story of a man‚ this being the straight narrator‚ who is called across the country to visit his brother as he lies on his deathbed. Later in the poem we learn the dying brother is suffering from HIV‚ and had been disowned by his brother because of his homosexuality. As the poem goes on‚ the narrator creates a unique

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    woods‚ built himself a house‚ planted beans‚ and lived in nature. Thoreau wanted to live simply and enjoy life with the basic necessities. Thoreau said‚ “My greatest skill has been to want but little.” I never would be able to live like Thoreau did‚ to go without everything I’m used to and

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    few. Describe how you express your creative side. Creativity to me is when someone has the skills to make something beautiful or make nice stories. If you can turn something that is ugly and turn it around completely‚ then you are a creative person. I do have a creative skill because i learned how to use scratch and turn it around. With skill I always like to decorate my room because I watch many do-it-yourself videos. Whenever I get an empty glass lemonade bottle‚ I would paint the bottle

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    Using Basic Sentence Structure Within a Paragraph Abstract This paper displays basic sentence structure by the comparison and contrasting of two different style paragraphs. The first is the opening of a resume and the second the introduction of a web site. I will then go on to explain the difference of the two in regards to sentence length and style. Using Basic sentence structure within paragraphs RESUME PARAGRAPH Please accept

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    1. You are looking at a neuron under a microscope. You find many structures coming off the cell body. Some of these are relatively thick and branch many times. One of the structures‚ however‚ is very thin and very long. This latter structure is most likely the neuron’s __________ ‚ which carries the __________. a. dendrite; efferent signal b. dendrite; afferent signal c. axon; action potential d. axon; receptors 2. If the myelin sheathing on neurons is absent or removed in a given individual

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    the basic functions of our computers. The three things I learned are: 1. I’ve always known that our computers come preloaded with the operating system‚ although I didn’t know that the Microsoft applications I have on my computer are compatible on a MAC. For example‚ MS word‚ MS PowerPoint‚ and MS Excel. 2. One of the things I found important to share with others was the use of external storage devices. I learned the hard way my senior year of H.S. that it’s very important to back your computer

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    How the city hurts your brain The city life affects and hurts the human brain in many ways‚ and more than 50% of the world’s population‚ now lives in the cities. In the British newspaper Boston Globe‚ Jonah Lehrer poses these topics in his article “How the city hurts your brain.” Jonah Lehrer’s newspaper article is based on a scientific investigation on how the city hurts the brain‚ and also what experts think the solution is. Psychologists claim‚ according to Jonah Lehrer‚ the solution to the

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