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    themselves to think about horror movies. Most may experience the feeling of butterflies in their stomach for fear or just pure excitement‚ but where does that fear or excitement come from? One might say that it is the anti-social instincts of horror that we all have hidden and festering deep down inside. A great horror author Stephen King once said‚” that watching a horror movie helps us control the anti-social instincts we all have inside”. Some people might say that we are all a little crazy and

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    Why Do We Laugh

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    Why do we laugh? Where did laughter come from? Is laughter good for our health? These questions come out of my mind whenever I laugh or hear someone laughing. Laughter is to the heart. It raises spirits‚ eases life’s challenges‚ refreshes and heals. We may came from different countries‚ have different cultures and beliefs‚ but we are all human‚ and share the universal language of laughter. The magic of laughter is that it is contagious. We don’t need to know or understand what we are laughing about

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    Why Do We Do This?

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    Name___________________________________ Biology 2401 Quiz Fundamentals of the Nervous System Ch 11 MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) What is the role of acetylcholinesterase? A) amplify or enhance the effect of ACh B) destroy ACh a brief period after its release by the axon endings C) act as a transmitting agent D) stimulate the production of serotonin 1) 2) The term central nervous system refers to the ________

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    Why Do We Dream?

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    Why Do We Dream? No one knows the true answer as to why we humans dream. Probably no one ever will truly know but there are many theories concerning this topic. One theory brought about by famed psychologist Sigmund Freud is that dreams are secret wish fulfillments of the dreamer. Another is the information-processing theory. A third theory is called the activation-synthesis theory. All three are valid theories that deserved to be looked at and discussed with a little more detail. Sigmund Freud

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    Why Do We Age

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    How and why do we age? Ageing is ’The process of growing old’ [1]. This is known information to almost everyone that as we age‚ we show more signs of ageing such as wrinkles or age-related diseases. However‚ the reasons for this is still not fully known and consolidated‚ which is why many theories about ageing exist and scientists are still currently researching this topic. This essay will cover well known theories and biological phenomena on the topic of ageing with critical evaluation in answering

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    Why Do We Lie

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    find out the truth even if you don’t tell them straight up. So why do we lie? We all have done it and we know its not right

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    Why do we sleep

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    Why do we sleep? Time is money. But every day we spend 8 out of 24 hours to sleep. In such a busy world we live in‚ those precious 8 hours could be spend for a lot of things. However we are all acknowledge at some point that sleep makes us feel refresh. After a good night sleep‚ we are able to concentrate better and feel happier. The difference between sleep makes us feel better and not having sleep makes us feel terrible explain why sleep might be necessary. Until today‚ despite our advanced technology

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    Why Do We Dream?

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    Did you know that we consume one-third of our life sleeping? Or‚ that we change from periods of deep sleep to periods of light sleep about five times during the night? Or‚ that we only dream during the period of light sleep‚ which is usually around morning hours? Not even the most prestigious scientists know exactly why people dream but there are a few explanations in the works. Scientists have proven‚ though‚ that on average people dream three to five times during an eight hour sleep. There are

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    Why Do We Dream?

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    Why do we Dream? It has been said by researchers that everyone dreams during sleep and it is thought to be a universal psychical feature of our human lives. However‚ many of us are unable to recall vividly what happens throughout our dreams‚ if anything at all. Due to this clouded unique nature that is dreaming‚ most of the knowledge why we dream is largely inconclusive. Nonetheless‚ after many years of theoretical debate on the subject‚ three arguments have remained prominent of which I will

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    Why Do We Pretend?

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    Why Do We Pretend? Alison Gopnik reveals the core of human nature- our unique ability to use our brain for imagination‚ something she refers to as counterfactuals. In her essay‚ “Possible Worlds: Why Do Children Pretend?” Gopnik discusses “the woulda-coulda-shouldas of life”(163) in great detail expanding on her point “ human beings don’t live in the real world”(163). Her argument is that our lives are consumed by the alternate realities that run simultaneously with the real world events. Gregory

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