Alternative rock

Many options are available today for people looking for alternatives to traditional methods of healthcare. Most people are not aware of the different approaches to health and healing that can be taken. The term alternative medicine is, “used simply to denote approaches to health and healing that do not rely on drugs, surgery, and/ or other conventional medical procedures for treating illness.” (Goldberg). When becoming involved in alternative medicine, a world of possibilities is introduced.…

The story goes that he was encouraged by his father, who had arthritis, to develop an alternative treatment to sodium salicylate which is juice from the willow tree bark that had been used for centuries as a painkiller and treatment for fever, but carried several unpleasant side effects, including nausea, gastro-intestinal irritation, tinnitus…

In Benjamin Barber’s text, The Educated Student, one controversial issue has been advertisements in the classroom. On page 25 Barber introduces a program named Channel One. Channel One goes into less fortunate high schools and lends them technology like computers, televisions, and satellite dishes. The rules Channel One lays out are simple. Each day, the teachers must have all the students watch a video. The first three minutes are advertisements. The main goal of Channel One is to sell their…

ethanol would be more suitable in terms of powering small engines such as mopeds and lawnmowers. Nevertheless, it is of immense importance that we further invest into environmental friendly renewable energy resources, such as solar energy, as an alternative to nonrenewable environmental hazarded energy…

For the Manitoba teenager Warren Pryor, the super hero of last week’s bank heist, had saved two children’s lives. But nobody knows that Warren Pryor lived an extremely frustrated, hopeless life. Warren, a 23-year-old banker who graduated with a master degree in finance had worked in BMO bank in Manitoba for few years. He born into a poor family, Warren grew up with a patriotic heart. Warren lived in a small town called George Town located in North Manitoba. People live in this town are mostly…

In his essay “Revisiting the Common Myths about Homeschooling,” Michael H. Romanowski, a professor at the Center for Teacher Education at Ohio Northern University, claims that there are four common myths that have been known to motivate individuals in relation to their perspective and understanding of the concept of homeschooling. Myth one is that homeschooling creates social misfits. Myth two is that homeschooling deprives children from the necessary interaction. Myth three is that without a…

“Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.” That is Paracelsus’s opinion on medicine. All medicines are drugs, but not all drugs are medicines. Medicines are used to cure, halt, or prevent diseases. And drugs are given to scientists following certain instructions to make drugs. Medicines have been discovered since back to fifth century B.C…

Wound is a case of injury that is often experienced by humans due to trauma with the occurrence of tissue damage. One type of injury is an injury caused by a sharp object such as a knife or a scalpel. Injuries can occur in diabetics. The Chinese castor plant (Jatropha multifida L.) has long been used to treat wounds. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of gel preparation and transdermal patch of ethyl acetate extract of J. multifida L. sticks to the length of wound closure, the…

In 2007, 1.5 million students were home-schooled in the United States, and that number continues to grow at a rapid rate even to this day. In just an eight-year time span from 1999 to 2007, there was a seventy-four percent increase of home-schooled children in the United States alone (Kunzman 2). This data corresponds with the rise of Americans who believe that parents should have the right to home-school their children; the approval rates for homeschooling jumped from just sixteen percent in…

Guest Speaker Response #1 1) Christopher’s presentation was very enlightening for me because his topic is something I am passionate about. I believe that there are so many other ways to cure ourselves than traditional medicines. I love that integrated medicine is patient-centered care and focuses on lifestyle and health. He said almost all chronic diseases are affected by lifestyle and health; this made me want to start going to the gym and eating healthier. I knew some things about CAM but…