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    Miners- Wilfred Owen

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    whispering in my hearth‚ A sigh of the coal‚ Grown wistful of a former earth It might recall. I listened for a tale of leaves And smothered ferns‚ Frond-forests‚ and the low sly lives Before the fawns. My fire might show steam-phantoms simmer From Time’s old cauldron‚ Before the birds made nests in summer‚ Or men had children. But the coals were murmuring of their mine‚ And moans down there Of boys that slept wry sleep‚ and men Writhing for air. I saw white

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    Slumdog Millionaire

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    burns out in sports arena so stimulation can be over-done‚ causing shock or confusion. o Too sudden or changes with too much contrast. o Too bright or too many colors. o Too many angles or changes in direction. 6. Phantom

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    Cuvade Syndrome

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    #1 Misconception: Men suffer from phantom pregnancy (SLO 1 & 2) I have never thought that men may suffer the same symptoms of their pregnancy partners. Fact: According to BBC NEWS it is based on a study in the United Kingdom where 282 fathers were evaluated and showed that they were suffering from a phantom pregnancy.Parents felt the same symptoms that they partners have during their pregnancy. For example‚ they suffered back pain‚ foot cramps‚ fainting‚ depression‚anxiety to eating a lot‚ and nausea

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    Sunrise over Fallujah

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    “If we actually get to the combat phase the third infantry division and fourth marine[sic] division would spearhead the attack” (Myers 6). This quote is saying that the fourth marines and third infantry lead the invasion into Iraq. Walter Dean Myers wrote the book and it is called “Sunrise over Fallujah.” It is about a military unit before‚ during‚ and after the battle of Fallujah‚ the Iraqi war included the genocide of Saddam Hussein‚ invasion of Kuwait‚ WMD’s‚ the battle of Baghdad‚ and the battle

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    even directing she continues to dazzle us with her outstanding performances‚ incredible voice‚ and humble attitude towards fame. She is best known for her role as Fiona Gallagher in the show Shameless and for her role in the 2004 film version of Phantom of the Opera. She’s also appeared in movies such as Songcatcher‚ The Day After Tomorrow‚ Mystic River‚ American Rhapsody‚ Passionada‚ Poseidon‚ Dare‚ Beautiful Creatures‚ Comet‚ and You’re Not There. Not bad for someone who just celebrated her 31st

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    wearing a robe as white as a dove. The specter had a luminous light that was on top of its head which symbolized truth and knowledge. The phantom escorted Scrooge to his days as a schoolboy where he was forced to be in school

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    propped on his knees‚ stared at nothing‚ in an intolerable and appalling manner‚ his brother (phantom) rested its forehead‚ as if overcome with a great weariness; and all about others were scattered in every pose of contorted collapse‚ as in some picture of a massacre of a pestilence. While I stood horror-struck‚ one of these (creatures) rose to his hands and knees” (40-41) he calls the Africans bundles‚ phantoms and creatures showing how even Marlow himself does not see them as

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    Gate Control Theory

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    Analgesia - the selective suppression of pain without effects on consciousness or other sensations. * Nociceptors - sensory receptor whose stimulation causes pain * Pain threshold: the point at which a stimulus is perceived as painful. * Phantom limb pain – feelings of pain in a limb that is no longer there and has no functioning nerves. * Sensation – the process of receiving‚ converting‚ and transmitting information from the external and internal world to the brain. Major Concepts www

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    to burst. We can understand the narrator’s possible dislike of domestic chores from her depiction of how ‘a sudden wind funnels at me/Slapping its phantom laundry in my face.’ The personification of the wind makes it come alive and the word ‘slapping’ is particularly explosive. It suggests that the wind is being harsh towards her. The word phantom shows death imagery. The ‘sudden wind could refer to the death of her father or perhaps the sudden discovery of her husband’s affair. This abruptness

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    In cognitive psychology‚ the Activation/ Monitoring Theory (AMT) and the Fuzzy Trace Theory (FTT) are framework’s which account for the false memory findings in the DRM paradigm. Roediger & McDermott (1995) define false memories as “...either remembering events that never happened‚ or remembering them quite differently from the way they happened...”. The Activation Monitoring Theory is a well used theoretical explanation of the DRM paradigm. According to Roediger et al‚ 2001 (as cited in Sergi‚ Senese

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