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Introduction We cannot compare anything to breathing clean and fresh air. But today, are we breathing clean air? The gases you're taking up by our noise could be slowly killing us. World Health Organization says in their report, in every year about two million people die too early due to the effects of polluted air. Air pollution is a large problem and it is not a problem of people only, the problem of the world also, through such things as global warming and damage to the ozone layer, it has…

Rheumatoid Arthritis Evidence in Egyptian mummies having disfigured hands and feet suggests the ancient Egyptians were plagued with a modern disease known as rheumatoid arthritis (Mandal, nd). Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease affecting thousands of people. The disease commonly attacks the joints of hands and feet causing irreparable damage. Treating RA may be a challenge because the cause of the disease is still being studied. A person diagnosed with arthritis can expect a…

Sports Film: Concussion Imagine participating in an activity that is not only love by you, but my millions around the world. This sport captures the attention of the young and the old, and is played by the same. This game dominates the weeknight and weekend television during its season. So what is this game? Football, America’s favorite pastime. But what many beloved spectators didn’t know about the game, the movie Concussion brought to the silver screen in 2015. The movie Concussion, takes…

allowed the rest to create a stream. With tears rushing down my face, I could not do anything but sit across the crawling waves drenching the sand. I reached out for the golden sand and sifted a handful of small worthless stones through the gaps of each finger. The droplets of salty water stung my wounds in my bloody barefoot, as the waves slithered its way up. The pain was numbed by the exhaustion, acting as my anesthesia. Beyond those soothing waves were golden streaks that filled the canvas…

The house that was next to my house was a tarnished old house, which has been there before I was even born. The house had a giant garden that had many wilted plants that were surrounding the house. There are lots of rumors around the town that the house is haunted as, around midnight there is always a shriek with the lights flickering on the top floor and, that has always been a mystery. Nobody has ever lived or went into the house except for one woman who had lived and died there years ago.…

“Either acquit me or not; but whichever you do, understand that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times”, states Socrates during his trial; before his execution. The Death of Socrates, depicted in Plato’s Phaedo dialogue is widely considered one of the greatest tragedies in human history. Socrates, being convicted of undermining the state religion and corrupting the youth, is sentenced to death by drinking poisonous hemlock, in which he does; resulting in his death with…

Well it has been a little while since I have been able to talk to all of you. I have been busy making plans for 2017. The first and biggest of those plans have just recently feel into place. I have finally pulled the trigger, cut ties with LA Fitness and have taken the role of independent trainer. No more being employed by a big box gym, and even though I have no idea where this may ultimately lead me, I could not be happier with my decision. No longer do I have to worry about internal gym…

When tough decisions are brought up there is a thin line between right and wrong when it comes to morality. Morales are principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior. While we have been reading Richard Matheson’s novel, I Am Legend we have been discussing the morality of Robert Neville’s actions and decisions about his own survival. From one perspective, Neville must do whatever it takes to ensure his own survival and therefore his actions do not concern…

group of individuals. Also, from our lecture notes on consciousness, I learned that mental states have certain feelings that accompany them. When a person is conscious they are able to solve a math equation or experience the feeling of jamming a finger, for example. Dreaming can be viewed as an unconscious state, or simply, an altered state of consciousness. It doesn’t matter how the state of dreaming is defined though, because it is a known fact that we are not fully conscious when we are…

but also exemplifies narrators shock. The second stanza then answers all of these rhetorical questions so Owen then admits, ‘These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished’ to the readers to show how frustrated he felt about the war. ‘Memory fingers in their hair of murders, multitudinous murders they once witnessed’…