Schizophrenia is a debilitating disease that causes its victim to experience symptoms that include but are not limited to, hearing and seeing things, delusions, disorganized behavior or speech. However, there are many different symptoms for this disease and they vary from person to person. Schizophrenia is all over the world (about 1% of the world to be exact) but it is defined differently from nation to nation (Shon W. Lewis, 1998, pp. 23-24). It also effects men and women almost equally, being…
The Middle Ages were a transitional period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the modern world. Medieval life centered around the church, in which worship services were held, the sick, poor, elderly, and orphaned could take refuge. Here, within the nunneries and convents men and women alike were taught to read and write literature and music. Unfortunately the knowledge was screened by the Church hierarchy, and many were only taught to read works provided to them. Only a…
For so long humankind has tried to find meaning for his existence. With all their vast knowledge of technology and infrastructure, human beings still question their existence; whether to believe the various creation theory from the various religion or not. Charles Darwin’s book, The Origin of Species, broke the ice by introducing the theory of natural selection. Darwin’s natural selection described evolution as how species develop from small and simple forms into large and complex forms of…
In the 1930s, a Australian archeologist, Gordon Childe coined the term ‘urban revolution” and identified a list of characteristics that defined a civilization. Childe also identified stages of human society until it had become a civilization, and in those stages Childe defines the Neolithic era as part of the barbarism stage. Gordon Childe had believed that the Bronze Age had brought an early phase of a civilized world, even though some villages and communities in the Neolithic era had shown…
We both reached a plateau of physical development. Our training routine had morphed away from building raw strength and agility. Although the workouts continue, our emphasis is now on sharpening weapons skills. Weapons are my forte, and I was in my element. I love the utility of a sabre, I am fair with archery and as for guns, well, let 's just say I 'm in favor of them. Guns are equalizers. Gun Control means having one in your hands when needed and hitting what you intend. I am not a weak…
Social Behavior Among Monkeys May Be More Nature Than Nurture ScienceDaily (Dec. 4, 2003) — An unusual experiment with monkeys who were switched between mothers shortly after birth has demonstrated the importance of nature over nurture in behavior. Rearing Young monkeys reared by a mother other than their own are more likely to exhibit the aggressive or friendly behavior of their birth mothers rather than the behavior of their foster mothers, a University of Chicago researcher has shown for…
sakis and uakaris) and the only nocturnal monkey (the aptly named night monkey) are all Atelids. All extant old world monkeys (guenons, baboons, macaques and leaf monkeys) are cercopithecoids, and in this classification, apes and humans share the hominid family. This latter grouping sits quite happily with primatologists who have long known that humans are just naked apes but anthropologists (a very influential bunch) always want to distance humans from non-human primates (NHP) and tend to…
CONTENTS: Chapter Page 1 Prologue 3 2. The Family 16 3. Leadership and its impacts 55 4. Social Constructs and Conspiracies 80 5. Professional Barbarism 122 6. Politics and Health 160 7. Race relations and Deception 178 8. Education and Employment 205 9. Economics and Globalisation 222 10. Religion and the Apocalypse 240 11. Change of global Culture 260 12.…