When The Alternative is Unthinkable Taking place in The Bronx‚ 1969 comes the film Awakenings‚ based on a true story and directed by Penny Marshall. In this film‚ a doctor with no previous work on an actual human being until receiving a position at the Bainbridge Hospital as a staff physician is assigned to a room full of catatonic patients. It doesn’t take long until he becomes uncomfortable with them in this state and finds a possible chemical cure he is given permission to try on one patient
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Cultural Use of Alternative Therapies S.D still uses ginger to comfort upset stomachs. She adds it to soups with clear broth when her stomach is feeling upset. Alternatively‚ she will drink ginger tea or suck on ginger candies when she is feeling nauseated. She still uses turmeric much as her mother did on a daily basis as well. She believes that this helps her to stay healthy and reduces the likely hood that she will become sick. Furthermore‚ S.D uses a lot of different types of teas to improve
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Universities have the responsibility of teaching students new material that they are not familiar to and the students’ responsibility is to learn and interpret those ideas. The alternative to speech codes is education. If students are taught and informed about matters like offensive language and controversial topics they would have an understanding of how it can affect others. However‚ what if the violence breaks out because there
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Alternate Nostril Breathing: Yes or No? Orrin Warner PSY101 General Psychology Argosy University I was very excited in the beginning to do this assignment because of my illness I deal with insomnia issues. I have taken medications for this problem and they were not very effective and the ones that were had so many side effects that I was afraid to take them. So the idea of a natural sleep aid seemed like the idea method of dealing with my sleep problems. During the first three nights of the
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ALTERNATIVE MARKET STRUCTURES It is traditional to divide industries to 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 many firms competing. Each firm is so small relative to the whole industry that it has no market 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
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Frankenstein: The Alternative Ending I hastily fled to my newest place of work. I had inhabited the world with a second creation. This demon‚ though a woman‚ was more terrifying and hideous than the first. A monstrous creature created only for longing of a new beginning. A world where I would forget this horrible deed I had bestowed upon the universe. I had only promised my first creation a companion‚ not a family. His companion would never get the chance to conceive‚ for no more demons will wreak
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Introduction Generally‚ PET can be produced in two steps by one of two ways‚ called the DMT and the TPA processes‚ or the transesterfication and direct esterification routes‚ respectively. Since its commercialization in the 1950’s by DuPont‚ PET was predominantly synthesized out of DMT due to the fact that this monomer‚ compared to TPA‚ was relatively easily purified by distillation. Yet‚ since the 1960’s‚ purified TPA became available by the development of new technologies and gained a lot of importance
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In one year‚ America will have exhausted 80% of her petroleum reserves. Will we then go to war with the Arabs for the privilege of driving our cars? Will we strip-mine our land for coal and poison the air we breathe to drive our autos an additional 100 years? Will we raze our forests for our energy needs? I certainly hope our country will never come to those conclusions. However‚ someone must make a conclusion hopefully toward an alternate fuel source. The fuel source I would propose is biomass
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The Efficiency of Ampalaya (Momordica charantia) Leaves Extract as Antibacterial Soap Source: Marie Grace C. Caiña Robel M. Evarola Hazel D. Clavano Abstract: Plants play a vital role in the production of most medicine and drugs. Extracts of different plants are known to have therapeutic effects. Synthetics and pharmaceuticals are based on natural compounds first found on plants‚ bacteria and fungi. About 40% of all prescribed drugs are derived from natural substances composed of scientifically
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Aztecs The original Aztec empire was peopled by a group that was once nomadic‚ the Mexicans. Their chroniclers told them that after their long journey from Aztlan‚ they found themselves to be outcasts‚ until they found the sign sent to them by their god Huitzilopochtli‚ and began to build their city. So the Mexican people continued and the Aztec Empire began. The city of Tenochitlan became one of the largest cities in the world. The power of the Mexican people became more consolidated‚ and they
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