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Freddy Taylor is a former Residential School student also experienced abuse during his stay. Galen Eagle, author of article, Plucked from his family in Curve Lake, artist Freddy Taylor endured a life in a residential school, described Taylor’s situation “when he couldn’t recite the Lord’s Prayer, he was beaten; when he couldn’t spell an English…

Humans are social thinkers, and therefore, have actions that are influenced by their social situations. Social cognition is how people select, interpret, judge, and store the information they receive from other people. Basically, we remember the information we deem important and that means something to us, and use shortcuts to fill in the rest. We do this to converse mental effort, to save time and thought. One shortcut we use is going off of our current expectations, which can sometimes lead to…

Abstract The History Channel’s documentary, Hooked-Opium, Morphine, and Heroin discusses these illegal drugs and how they became that way. The poppy plant has a long history of relieving pain and producing a state of euphoria. Opium, Morphine, and Heroin are all derivatives of the Papaver Somniferum (the poppy plant). Though these drugs were once legal and thought to be a miracle used to treat symptoms of many diseases, you will find that they caused addiction, harmful side effects, and even…

falsely devised memories of success created to prove his worth in society as it was the only hope he had left to stay alive. It was unimaginable for him to “live with the realization that he [had] failed to live up to his unrealistic expectations” (Galens and Spampinato, eds). Not…

Animal experimentation is an important necessity for the science community, but because it is a controversial topic, there are many who believe that it shouldn’t be continued. At the same time, there is also a group who have deemed it a necessity in the advancement in medicine. Throughout the history of mankind, there have been a great number of breakthroughs that have saved many lives; in most cases, it was an animal that had to have been tested on first. Even though, animal experimentation was…

An Elizabethan understanding of mental health is quite unlike our conception of mental illness in the modern era. To the Elizabethan, the most accepted theory of madness was based on the Greek conception of the ‘humours’. The Greeks eliminated supernatural understandings of madness by a secular understanding based on the imbalances of bodily humours- sanguine humour(associated with air) was responsible for optimism and irresponsibility, choleric humour was responsible for short temper and…

which caused protests against animal cruelty and helped us find alternatives to animal testing, which should be used in place of the current practices. The three Greek physician-scientists who started animal testing were Aristotle, Erasistratus, and Galen. The practice of using animals for biomedical research has come under severe criticism by animal protection and animal rights groups. This practice has "started to cause debates on the ethics of animal testing have raged since the seventeenth…

Did you know that whenever you smell something, it triggers your senses, and the brain? There are five senses, and one is smell. The brain is a important organ in our body, it tells our body what to do, and what to not do. The person who studied the senses was Linda B. Buck, and the people who studied the brain was the Egyptians. Your senses let you know what is going on around you. The brain is the control center of the body. All information we have about prehistoric cultures comes from…

buyer, even if it’s for economical gain. To do so he took his client to Red Ruby Club, a strip club. Second, for Bob to create a relationship with the clients, Bob had to do something he never thought about it in the light of day. Bob responded to Galen idea of earning the relationship of the client, even though at first he thinks it’s unusual. Third, for Bob to promote the well being of others, landing these partnerships may help the overall of the company. This may prevent the company from…

One of those people being Claude Lévi-Strauss who gave us the idea of “social consensus” which he believed to be composed of “a mixture of existing ideas of antiquity,” (Medieval Medicine of Western Europe). Another individual named Galen was responsible for a lot of information available to medieval practitioners. He studied science, medicine, and the human body between the years of 129-216 AD. However, the people who played the biggest role in laying the foundation for medicine, and…