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    I love going to my Nana and Papa’s house. The plentiful trees, smiling faces, and rope swing that hung in the yard were inviting, childish giggles and games always at my disposal. One day, as I galloped across the green grass, I gazed up at the tree. The tree that my older sister always climbed, my daring curiosity never as great as hers. I was a young kid at the time, maybe eight or nine years old. Imagine my point of view: a towering tree with scratchy limbs and insects attached to its leaves

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    In everyday communication, disability has been generalized by many individuals as some version of a biomedical perspective. According to this perspective, disability is about having functional limitations mostly caused by a health condition and some are caused by genetics. Disability can occur to anyone at any time, even some individuals are born with a disability. There are many kinds of disabilities, it can be difficulties in vision, hearing, physical, speech or language, learning, and much more

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    The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” (Mark Twain). This quote from the famous American writer is the basis for what became one of the hardest ideas to comprehend, death. Death has always been a complex term, causing one to struggle with what the true definition is. It is also hard to wrap your mind around what does it truly mean to die. These are the questions we long for the answer. Whether we acknowledge it or not, death has always

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    It’s so common for people to conflate stress and anxiety that the two terms are often considered synonyms for one another. Even so, experts say that these are actually not the same thing, and the differences are, perhaps, best enumerated in the panel discussion held at the Enloe Facebook Live event hosted Thursday, “Keep Holiday Stress at Bay.” Health professionals unpacked the differences between anxiety, stress and depression. Additionally, new studies suggest that stress is able to reprogram cells

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    Social media has become a huge part of people’s daily lives. Many people, especially teenagers, spend hours a day scrolling through multiple different social media platforms. The overused and over reliance on social media can be detrimental to people’s mental health. Media system dependency theory (MSD) provides that media is a powerful platform that can control people who are dependent on the media to achieve their goals. The more popular social media gets, the more it will effect people’s social

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    The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst is In the story Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst a older brother has a newborn younger brother who the doctors and family both though would die, but three months later they decided they should give the baby a name since it had not died yet. They gave him the name of Armstrong but the older brother thought that people would expect to much from him because if his name so he gave them the name Doodle. The unnamed brother in Scarlet Ibis rude to his younger brother because

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    of mental illness, in that it was understood that it was a malady of the mind and people needed constant medical treatment, thus federally mandated asylums were created. Since mental illness was not understood there was a lot of misconceptions and fear surrounding the field. It is no surprise that the master of macabre and the creator of Horror, Edgar Allen Poe, decided to explore themes of mental illness in his stories. Poe’s most famous story about mental illness was The Fall of the House of Usher

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    alone. Foreman skillfully highlights the loneliness that Kane feels when facing Miller and his gang. Near the end of the movie, Kane was standing in the street waiting for Miller to arrive. Sweat was pouring down his face, and he was shaking with fear. Then, the camera slowly zooms out and the rest of the street is desolate. There is nothing but silence as the people fearfully wait in hiding for Kane to face Miller. Similarly, other works of literature praise those who fight for what they believe

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    Fears play a very significant role in our lives. They alter our thoughts, behaviours, and reactions in different situations. Fears help you be more alert and aware of your surroundings, but sometimes fears can control us without our knowledge. In the novel Lord of the Flies, fear completely controls the characters’ actions and behaviours. Many of the children are not even aware of how their fears change them into a person they are not. This consequently leads to the loss of humane behaviours

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    Socrates Reflection

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    was preferable to life.” (pg.41). For instance, he offered other forms of punishments that could’ve fit the crime better in his opinion like getting free meals for life but the jury opted for death which is severe. He keeps his stance and doesn’t fear the outcome because in begging for his life would be cowardly which would lead to an inferior life he wouldn’t want to live. Socrates believes that perception is key to living a life of balance, to avoid being cowardly or pretentious. He simply is

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