Scarification

On February 23, I had to opportunity to see the new Black Panther Movie, and I thought it was good, with a really good line here and there, but it was not anything spectacular. I am sure, though, that it will be a better live action Lion King adaptation than the one coming out with Beyoncé in it, as the plot of Black Panther mirrors the original Lion King. The Acting was good, as good as we have come to except from a Marvel movie, but nothing ground breaking. Chadwick Boseman and Letitia Wright…

Aristotle once said, "The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet." Now it is thought that education should be made easy and comfortable, but that 's not how Aristotle seems to understand the concept, and it is a fair assumption that Socrates didn 't feel this way either. In his allegory of the cave when the prisoner is dragged out by his hair, is he greeted by a nice comfortable learning experience? No, he is blinded by the light and has to wait for his eyes to adjust, because…

these casualties are a result of cosmetic companies’ intensive experimentation methods. Additionally, the procedure of animal testing has many issues such as fallacious results, various limitations in the testing process, and most importantly, the scarifications of numerous animals. Not only does does it cause detrimental effects to the subjects, but it also affects mankind, the environment, and even our economy. However, there are a plethora of alternatives to animal testing, which are more…

Although bloodletting is now recognized as dangerous and misleading tradition, it carries a deep and interesting history that deserves to be acknowledged. Bloodletting is the purposeful draining of blood for various medical reasons. Throughout history, the practice has been advised for acne, asthma, cancer, cholera, coma, convulsions, diabetes, epilepsy, gangrene, gout, herpes, indigestion, inflammation prevention, insanity, jaundice, leprosy, plague, pneumonia, scurvy, smallpox, stroke, tetanus…

Which is normally what people think of when they think of acupuncture, with the needles poking into injured skin. But there's also utilizing friction (rubbing of heat on skin), suction or cupping (the process of drawing blood from the body by scarification and the application of cupping), application of heat (holding a heating pad to the injured part), pressure or acupressure (applying pressure to the injured area), or electromagnetic pulses (little shocks to the nerves and muscles in body). All…