Why Do Music Get Stuck In Our Head? Songs‚ jingles‚ melodies and tunes that get stuck inside your head? Sounds familiar? We call these earworms. Studies by marketing professor James J. Kellaris show that nearly 98% of people have had songs stuck in their head. His studies demonstrated that different people have varying susceptibilities to earworms. Even though‚ almost everybody has been afflicted with one at some time or another. Each person tends to be haunted by his own demon tunes. These earworms
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And what we shun‚ we fear. And what we fear controls us" (Acosta). This controlling fear of death is seen in almost all of present-day popular culture. A reoccurring theme for season three of the popular anthology series American Horror Story titled Coven is the fixation of
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not we as conscious beings have control over our own actions. French philosopher Paul Henri Thiry‚ Baron d ’Holbach argues that all acts are caused by past events and conditions‚ a belief known as determinism. Physical laws shows us that all events in time are determined by prior events‚ but the belief in free will implies that our actions are results from what we perceive as choice‚ are undetermined random events in time. Therefore‚ I argue that there can not be free will because if our actions
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Why did Hitler hate the Jews? Adolf Hitler‚ ruler of Germany from 1933-1945‚ and his Nazi Party murdered more than half of Europe’s 11 million Jews in the Holocaust. The vast majority of these murders took place in just 4 years from 1941 to 1945. Hitler was able to do this because of his feelings of hatred towards the Jews (known as anti-Semitism) were shared by many other Germans and people in Europe. Anti-Semitism was not invented by Hitler or the Germans. It existed everywhere in Europe and
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One of the most important jobs that us dog owners have‚ is the feeding of our furry friends. There are always many different views on what we should feed our dogs such as wet food‚ dry food or a raw diet. There is no right or wrong answer‚ you need to find what suits both you and your dog best. A couple of things to bear in mind is the cost‚ some food is more expensive such as the raw diet and dry food tends to be cheaper. Some dogs can be fussy‚ so the palatability of the food may be more important
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Should we replenish our organs? From the start of time‚ humankind has tried to find solutions to live longer and healthier lives. This has lead to great innovations in the field of medicine. One of our most recent quests for this near immortality is related to the field of regenerative medicine. Regenerative medicine is moving towards replacing worn out cell‚ tissue‚ and organs in order to restore full functionality. While this may sound very assuring; there are a few complications and concerns
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My parents came to New York City to make their fortune when I was a baby. Irresponsible and dreamy and in their early 20s‚ they didn’t think things through when their visa expired; they decided to stay just a bit longer to build up a nest egg. But our stay got progressively longer‚ until‚ when I was 6‚ my grandfather died in South America. My father decided my mother and I should go to the funeral and‚ with assurances that he would handle everything‚ sat me down and told me I’d have a nice visit
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Feelings how do they define us and why do we have them? We are taught in school that our arms‚ legs‚ and other body parts move because our brain send waves to make them do what we want them to do‚ if the brain couldn’t send these signals we would be immobile. As a scientific fact the heart actually sends messages to the brain not the other way around for once. Another fact is everyone has a opinion but those opinions could be chosen by how we feel‚ for example if a person has committed a crime a
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Lily hates chemistry‚ in fact‚ it is her least favorite class. Not only does Lily hate chemistry but she has a pretty interesting family. She has three other siblings‚ two of which are her younger brothers. Money is sometimes tight because her mom makes jewelry (which isn’t exactly steady)‚ and her dad makes furniture (which also isn’t always steady). Lily’s best friend‚ Isabel‚ has been trying to get her to talk to her crush Lucas‚ but last time she did that she froze. Not only was she embarrassed
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When our country’s founding fathers created the constitution‚ they gave us the second amendment declaring that we had the right to bear arms. Lately‚ our modern government has been attempting to deprive us of this right by creating and/or passing laws that make it more difficult to purchase and carry firearms. With the recent outrage of shootings and murders in the US‚ many of our citizens have been rallying and protesting‚ demanding more gun control laws to protect us. However‚ will that really
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