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Laughter. It is universal and it is complex. There are many theories associated with laughing all trying to answer whether laughter an acquired social construct or is it an innate behavior that has been engineered from our biology? A drive is an “excitatory state produced by a homeostatic disturbance” (melon, 1996), an inherent demand that carries the potential of activating and forcing the behavior of the individual. The drive theory assumes that individual is innately programmed…

Introduction In this theory paper I will be talking about the self-efficacy in breastfeeding. According to the research the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children 's Fund (UNICEF) that breastfeeding is a cheap and unique method to feed a baby to infant that has money benefits for the mother, child, family and the entire society (Khobar, Saudi Arabia et. al., 2015 p.9) . In many other study 's they have noted that there are advantages and some disadvantages of…

from 2007 focuses on those long term behavioral affects of prenatal stress on children born to full-term and of normal gestational birth weight. These qualifiers assess for the affects of maternal stress on fetal and infant development without confounding affects of developmental disorders in preterm or low birth-weight children already at risk for neurodevelopmental problems. In this study of 247 women with singleton, full-term pregnancies of household income from $5,000-$100,000, education…

Westcott family was the enormous radio that Jim bought for his wife Irene. People that are high up on authority are usually well respected and are looked up upon those that are lower than them. The social hierarchy of today’s day and age is confounding, however. The upper class obviously has more authority than the lower classman, but research comes…

a very earnest mood between them both. Once the rain stopped, Gatsby and Daisy are less stiff, and there is more of a convivial mood between the two of them. “After half an hour, the sun shone again… there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding. He literally glowed” (88-89). When the rain stopped, Gatsby is relieved as he could finally enjoy his time with Daisy and show her how hard he worked the past five years. The scene uses rain to reinforce the varying tone of the interaction…

Beyond Reasonable Doubt Adnan Syed was found guilty of first degree murder in the death of Hae Min Lee, and sentenced to life in prison plus thirty years on February 25, 2000. But this story started a year earlier, when Hae Min Lee went missing on January 13, 1999. Her disappearance turned into a murder investigation when her strangled body was found February 9, buried in a shallow grave in Leakin Park, Baltimore. This case wasn’t a big news back then, but it was reignited when Serial’s host…

ZIKA VIRUS Zika virus is center of an ongoing pandemic and public health emergency with serious medical and economic consequences. (Plourde and Bloch, 2016). Zika virus belongs to the family of flavivirus which includes other mosquitoborn viruses like chikungunya virus, dengue virus, yellow fever virus and West Nile virus (Plourde and Bloch, 2016). Zika virus is transmitted to people primarily through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito (Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus), other Aedes…

In this study, neurobiological and psychological factors are discussed as to why exercise is useful and how. There is evidence that exercise protects against depression and is an effective intervention and associated intervention for the treatment of mild to moderate depression. Exercise provides some health and psychological benefits and an effective treatment in complex mental health problems such as alcohol and drug rehabilitation. Moreover, most of the depressed patients are physically…

Beckett, Murakami and Pynchon, then you need to get to a bookstore (or open Amazon in a tab if that’s your book-buying method of choice) because there are so many great books out right now that will make your mind melt. Between off-kilter realities, confounding characters and intricate word labyrinths, 2016 is shaping up to be “The Year of Strange Fiction” in the…

If bacterial diseases characterized most of the 20th century, today’s health problems are mainly due to the diseases of ease. Obesity is one example of a disease of ease. The National Institutes of Health defines obesity as having a very high amount of body fat in relation to lean body mass, or Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or higher. In this paper, a reductionist and complex system science approach to obesity will be addressed, as well as the pros and cons of each view. Reductionism science…