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Badass U Articles Summary The Ultimate No More Using Soap Guide (and Never Stink) If you’ve seen my other post, you know soap is bad for your health. And, believe it or not, our bodies naturally keep odor away Our problem is when we do unnatural things…like wear clothes. But until we live in a nudist utopia, here is the ultimate guide to not using soap in our modern world. 1.) Keeping Your Clothes Clean Laundry probably seems like a no-brainer, but there is a twist here. Your skin, if you…

Question 1. Over the years humans have come to rely on our canine companions, not just as working dogs, but also as Service, and Therapy dogs. With diverse research and multiple studies on the subject of Canine abilities, we realise the additional benefits our relationship with dogs may be able to provide in the future. Man has used shepherd dogs, guard dogs, and hunting dogs for centuries, but their services to us are expanding daily. Guide dogs and Mobility dogs are no…

There are vast amount of things within our daily lives that have been a result of cultural diffusion. These can range from food, religion, economics, and even technology. Buddhism is a good example of religion cultural diffusion. It reached China, due to cultural diffusion as it was favoured by the merchants along the silk roads, and therefore, was able to extend into China. Buddhism would be met with its patrons, as well harsh critics. Some viewed Buddhism as an outside force that had no place…

Interreligious Dialogue Approach: “Doing Before Knowing” with James Fredericks Tension between Evangelization and Interreligious Dialogue Practicing interreligious dialogue invites the Christians to be aware of any triumphalism when investing their energies in the goal of Christianity’s “eschatological hope.” Fredericks observes that official teachings of the Church confuse us about the meaning of dialogue; for example, the two documents Dominus Iesus and Redemptoris Missio reads,…

In China the cultural golden age of philosophy was the spring and autumn period as well as the warring states period, many of Chinas most famous philosophies were conceived of in these periods, including; Confucianism, Taoism and Legalism. There are countless other schools of thought of this era hence why it is commonly known as the hundred schools of thought period, which includes both the times of the spring and autumn and warring states. The majority of Chinese Philosophies are concerned with…

Meditation is one of few practices today, that helps an individual focus their minds on a particular object, thought or activity to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state. Meditation is used to reduce stress, anxiety, depression and pain. There is many ways to do it but many people do it sitting and closing their eyes in a quiet environment. Athletes all over the world should perform meditation whether it be before a practice or the biggest game of their career because there is so…

Glaucoma, what is glaucoma? If you are like me, you think it has to do with the pressure in your head and that marijuana is the alternative drug that can make it better. I immediately think about the movie “How High” and see the little old lady sitting on her bed with a pipe saying that it helps with glaucoma too. But is any of this true? Yes and no. Glaucoma does not affect the pressure in your head known as intracranial pressure or ICP. What it does affect is the pressure that is put onto the…

Shannon, Richard J. Cohen, and Herbert Benson, Assessment of autonomic function in humans by heart rate spectral analysis 6. Caroline Peressutti, Juan M. Martín-González, Juan M. García-Manso , Denkô Mesa, Heart rate dynamics in different levels of Zen meditation, 2009 7. C.Barr Taylor, Heart rate related variables and cardiovascular diseases, International Journal of Psychophysiology 78(2010)…

Azar Nafisi and Maggie Nelson both address the issue of the ideology of art in their respective works, Reading Lolita in Tehran, and “Great to Watch.” Nafisi’s work focuses on whether or not one can use art as an escape to an imaginary world of their own ideologies. Nelson tries to show how art can let everyone have their own thoughts and ideas, without the presence of bias from the media. Ideology is best defined as an interconnected system of ideas, and both Nafisi and Nelson’s works…

FEEL like an American? Do you?” Andrew Pham replied “Yes, Yes! Yes, I do, I really do…” (Pham, 327). In the case of Pico Iyer, after his house burnt down and all his possessions turned into ash infront of him, he went to Kyoto to live a life in the Zen temple without possessions and without a home. He failed in that experience and came back to California. After all this, it was confirmed to him that home is something inward for an increased number of us people, after the fire he smiled and told…