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    The Art of Distraction

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    Pain is necessary and important. In fact, it is an inborn drive, vital to our very existence (Hebb). Pain prompts us to change something, for instance, to move our hand off of a hot stove. It, therefore, prevents us from causing damage or even death to ourselves. It motivates us to protect an injured area, and the abatement of that pain lets us know when it is safe to use that area of our body again (Doctor's Surgery Center). While pain is a crucial sensation, required for our survival, it’s no secret

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    disorder. These models relate the cognitive problems with these patients with the changes in the brain structures that function in learning and memory. The first model is described as fear structure, whereby the brain of the affected individuals become programmed to process information associated with the threatening experience and subsequent physiological, physical and behavioral responses. Another information processing model is based on cognitive theory, with an assumption that the disorder progresses

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    theory is in a sense more encompassing than Marx's. Mill's theory, however, is fundamentally flawed in comparison to Marx's because of its ignorance of property as a danger against human liberty. Marx sees in the industrial age the death of the property-less class. This death is brought by the industrial age's five qualities: division of labor, accumulation of capital, competition, financial crisis, and monopoly. In this age, machineries and the division of labor reduce the skillful artisans to the proletariats

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    P1 – Physical, Intellectual, Emotional and Social Development of the Individual through the Life Stages In this assignment I will be looking at all the PIES in each life stage. The Pies are: Physical Intellectual Emotional Social Life Stage Age Key Features Conception 9 months before birth Egg and sperm fuse after sexual intercourse and create new living being Pregnancy (gestation) 9 months to birth Physical development of embryo and foetus Birth

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    Humanity’s advancements over the course of history have been due to major technological milestones. Of these milestones, arguably the most important has been the advent of agriculture. Agriculture has allowed humans to store food in surplus which frees them from slaving in fields and allows focus on more scholarly and artistic pursuits. As time has progressed, agriculture itself reach important advances, from selective breeding to artificial fertilizer. However, one of the most recent advances in

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    ------------------------------------------------- Discipline and Punish: a critical review ------------------------------------------------- This is a summary of Michel Foucault's seminal work on the history of criminal punishment and social discipline as it transformed from punitive to correctional models during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------

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    Obesity Epidemic Analysis

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    Obesity in the Pacific is a growing health concern and has been the primary cause of non-communicable diseases and avoidable deaths among several island nations. According to the United Kingdom’s Clinic Compare data, the Pacific in general has the highest rates of obesity globally (Mata et al, 2007). Proportionately, American Samoa is the most obese country in the world with 75% of the population being obese. Independent Samoa follows close behind with a level of 54% obesity among the population

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    Epidemiology of Hiv

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    pandemic remains one the most serious development crises in the world (WHO, 2006). Women and children bear a disproportionate share of the burden, and in many settings continue to experience high rates of new HIV infections and of HIV-related illness and death. In 2005 alone, an estimated 540 000 children were newly infected with HIV, with about 90% of these infections occurring in sub-Saharan Africa (UNAIDS, 2006) .UNAIDS estimates that approximately 370 000 children were infected with HIV in 2007[1].

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    Smartphones and Business

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    Smartphone The fastest growing sector of the mobile phone industry today is the Smartphones, but this isn’t to say that other phones are obsolete. There are commodities however between the so called smart phones that set them apart from the majority of cell phones on the market today. In broad terms, the farther away from the regular ‘phone’ the apparatus gets, the smarter a smart phone becomes. It is only in the last few years that the mobile phone

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    Brave New World revolves around the idea of totalitarianism and is set in a futuristic world where the State uses science and pleasure to form a controlled society. The novel argues that the most powerful totalitarian state would be one that doesn 't overwhelm and frighten its citizens, but instead manages to convince its citizens to love their slavery. In the novel, the Director uses that the Bokanovsky Process to help social stability because the clones (humans) it produces are made to do things

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