...MInd Related: Sleep Disorders, insomnia, sleep apnea, More Tags> 2 Florence Cardinal 1355 Monday, May 17, 2010 View All of Florence Cardinal's Posts You may not think of sleep disorders as a mental problem, but nothing can mess up the mind like a few sleepless nights. The fact is, not nearly enough is known about what goes on in our minds when we are asleep. Where do dreams come from? How about nightmares? Let's look at a few sleep disorders. Perhaps the most common is insomnia. Lying awake hour after hour, night after night. That sort of behavior can lead to all sorts of problems. Many times the problem is either stress or depression. Of course, the more sleep we lose, the more stress and depression dominate our lives. If the problem goes on long enough, it can lead to a fear of going to bed because sleep is so elusive. Sleep apnea is not only a destroyer of sleep; it's a destroyer of life. Imagine waking up in the night gasping for breath. Imagine this happening hundreds of times a night. The problem is, most of the time victims of sleep apnea don't come fully awake, but it's enough to cause broken sleep and sleep deprivation. Narcolepsy causes hallucinations. You see things that aren't there. If that's not enough to boggle the mind, narcoleptics also suffer from cataplexy. They're unable to express any strong emotion - fear, grief, anger, even laughter without falling to the floor, their muscles no longer under their control. Dreams, nightmares...
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...Colin Stein ENGL 3060 Mr. Daniel Larson April 18, 2014 Anarchy, Chaos, and Revolution in V for Vendetta Close Reading Panels: (Moore, 248) Throughout V for Vendetta, author Alan Moore emphasizes the significant line that V draws between anarchy and chaos, and the role that each concept plays in his revolution. Whereas V lives his life according to the precepts, or lack thereof, inherent to anarchism, he vehemently condemns the blind purposelessness, impropriety, and disorder of total chaos. Both concepts, however, are associated with V’s act of revolution; anarchy and chaos initiate the uprising, and it is up to Evey and the liberated citizenry of Great Britain to either stay the course with anarchy and rebuild their society or allow it to devolve into a state of chaos. A close reading analysis of the panels above reflect V’s beliefs regarding anarchy, chaos, and revolution, and their critical relationship to one another. This paper will argue that anarchy and chaos are bound to the concept of revolution, in that the society following a revolution faces structured anarchy or an unstructured chaos. Moore reinforces this theme in the panels through his symbolism and specific diction. Within these two panels, David Lloyd’s animation exhibits a number of symbolic images that reinforce Moore’s theme. One such example occurs in the first panel, on the image of V. In this scene, as the slain V’s words on revolution echo in Evey’s head, his body is symmetrically split into...
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...Chapter 27 Section 1 3. Adolf Hitler played on the publics fear of communists and exploited the shortcomings of the Weimar Republic including economic failure incurred by the Great Depression and inflation. 4. The Good Neighbor Policy terminated the US Marines occupation in Nicaragua in 1933 and occupation of Haiti in 1934, leading to the annulment of the Platt Amendment by the Treaty of Cuba in 1934 and the negotiation of foreign owned oil assets in 1938. Section 2 The Maginot Line dominated French military and worked as a system of defense. Phoney War was a phase in World War ll that was marked as a lack of major military operations. Winston Churchill was former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Thomas E. Dewey was the prime minister of New York. Wendell Wilkie was a lawyer. The Destroyers for Bases Deal transfer 50 u.s destroyers to the British in exchange for naval bases. The Atlantic Charter wS a pivotal policy statement. 3. Billy Mitchell became an advocate for air power between the two world wars. Being a military leader, he thought air power would be beneficial for wars. 4. FDR introduced the New Deal policy, economic programs. 5. ULTRA was used to decipher coded and encrypted messages that contained valuable info. This info was credited with winning the war. Section 3 1. Flying Fortresses was a four engine heavy bomber aircraft. V-1 and V-2 were both rockets that cost over 3 million dollars. Dwight Eisenhower was the 34th president. George...
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...The Vietnam war was one of the most brutal wars in history, leaving thousands dead and even more injured. The war took the lives of millions making its toll as one of the top ten bloodiest wars ever. America fought bravely against foreign powers trying their best to win the war. The politics behind the war are very black leaving people clueless to our initial involvement. However, the fear of communism was the reason America took a stand in the Vietnam war. Ho Chi Minh started Vietnamese nationalist movement which ultimately led to the capture of Northern Vietnam. After seizing rule over Northern Vietnam Ho wanted to create a conjoined Vietnam. Ho wanted a Communist nation and wanted to not be allied with the United States. Diem denied Hos...
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...resulting in 3,500 Allied merchant ships and 175 Allied warships being destroyed in addition to over 72,000 Allied casualties (Syrett, 1994). In an attempt to obstruct the movement of merchant shipping, supplies, equipment, and forces into Britain, Admiral Karl Dönitz, German U-Boat Fleet Commander, deployed several U-Boats in “wolfpack” formations to inflict fear and destruction on Allied convoys....
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...Assignment: Hinduism Paper Write a 700- to 1000-word paper answering the following questions: o Considering that Hinduism lacks a uniting belief system, what makes up the Hindu religion? o What are the cultural and societal influences that have made Hinduism vital to the region in which it originated? o Explain the desire for liberation from earthly existence. Format your paper according to APA standards. Hinduism Hinduism Sanatana Dharma makes up the Hindu religion, which is also known as Hinduism. “The spiritual expressions of Sanatana Dharma range from extreme asceticism to the extreme sensuality, from the heights of personal devotion to a deity to the heights of abstract philosophy and the oneness behind the worship of a multiple of deities.” (Fisher, 2005, pg 69). Hindu’s do not view Hinduism as a religion but as a way of life. A person is a Hindu either by birth or chooses this form of worship. Hinduism is made up of beliefs that have changed through the centuries and the new additions to the belief system can be one of many reasons for its lacking a uniting belief system. According to Fisher (2005), there are “extreme variations within the Hinduism system of Santana Dharma which has been shown throughout time. Some scholars argue that there are no central traditions that can be called Hinduism proper” (pg 69). Forms of worship can be diverse depending on the village visited in India...
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...In Thomas L. Friedman’s columns, a writer for The New York Times, I found the central argument to be the world is headed toward a dangerous future caused by technology unless we(the citizens of America) change how we work. Many of Friedman’s columns begin with a rhetorical question. The question that stood out the most to me was “social media: destroyer or creator?” forcing the audience to think has social media been beneficial, or has it at all? Friedman extends his thoughts by calling the internet an “open sewer of untreated, unfiltered information...” I’ve come to the conclusion that while social media has done some good in the world and has the benefit of spreading “news” rapidly, social media tends to do more harm than good(ex. laziness,...
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...remember him, Socrates. But what is the charge which he brings against you? Soc. What is the charge? Well, a very serious charge, which shows a good deal of character in the young man, and for which he is certainly not to be despised. He says he knows how the youth are corrupted and who are their corruptors. I fancy that he must be a wise man, and seeing that I am the reverse of a wise man, he has found me out, and is going to accuse me of corrupting his young friends. And of this our mother the state is to be the judge. Of all our political men he is the only one who seems to me to begin in the right way, with the cultivation of virtue in youth; like a good husbandman, he makes the young shoots his first care, and clears away us who are the destroyers of them. This is only the first step; he will afterwards attend to the elder branches; and if he goes on as he has begun, he will be a very great public benefactor. Euth. I hope that he may; but I rather fear, Socrates, that the...
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...Dance and Destruction Hinduism art during the 11th century was filled a variety of divine aspects of philosophy and the worship of many gods. The most mysterious form of art from Hindu culture that caught my attention was that of the dancing Shiva. Shiva the Destroyer has many faces in Hindu culture but the one that I will focus on in this discussion is Shiva Nataraja. The dancing Shiva is one of the most classic and loved symbols that captured the essence of Hindu culture and still remains timeless. To understand why the dancing Shiva is iconic art form we will look at the history and properties that make the Shiva Nataraja symbolic. The word Nataraja refers to the dancing form of Shiva due to the fact that Shiva has many forms. Nataraja meaning Lord of Dance or King of Dancers refers to the specific representation of the four armed dancing Shiva surrounded by a ring of fire. Trying to understand the dancing Shiva is not easy concept because Shiva after all is the god of Destruction. The best way to understand this concept of Shiva Nataraja is not to think of him as a destroyer but as a transformer. The appealing aspect of this Nataraja is that explains a story about the transformation of life. In Hindu religion and culture we know that things must be created, preserved and destroyed, and they are represented by gods. The same can be said about energy or life itself and this is why it is such an interesting and appealing as art and as science. The dance of Shiva...
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...government started to feel threatened and was worried about the possibilities of Japanese spies in America. On February 19, 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. It ordered all people of Japanese descent to be arrested and placed in relocation camps. Executive Order 9066 gave the Secretary of war almost full power against Japanese Americans and anyone else who may be a threat. The U.S. Army was responsible for rounding up the Japanese and placing them in camps. More that 110,000 Japanese Americans were arrested and sent to relocation camps. Around sixty-two percent of them were U.S. citizens. In the fall of 1942 control over the Japanese Interment project had been turned over to a civilian agency call the War Relocation Agency. When people started to take the Japanese Citizens the Army would only give them less than seven days notice. It forced families to sell their properties and possessions at cheaper prices. Executive Order 9066 did not state that nay people of German or Italian descent were to be detained. In the court case Korematsu v. United States the Supreme Court applied “strict scrutiny” to the government orders. Basically, it accepted the military fears that Japanese Americans were all potential...
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...Both 9/11 and Pearl Harbor were two incredibly tragic events, both of them resulting in heartbreak and sadness all across The United States. While both equally tragic, they still each have their differences. Whether the differences are the number of lives lost, or the impact on America, the differences are still devastating. Here we are now going to discuss the major differences between both 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. First to talk about, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. This attack happened on December 7th, 1941, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. It was 7:55 a.m. when the attack had started. The Japanese had brought not only planes, but also carriers, submarines, battleships, cruisers, and destroyers as well. The attack was orchestrated by Japanese...
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...In the winter of 1945 the peak of the war for the pacific reached its height. After several military campaigns the U.S marines had to face one of the most stubborn and cruel enemies the U.S have ever fought, Japan. In the distance loomed one of the bloodiest battles that man has ever fought a battle of courage, fear, anguish but above all the sense of patriotism and unity that the American people and soldiers felt when the battle was over and the faint glimmer of peace finally ignited. In the pacific Iwo Jima is quite an insignificant little six mile wide island covered in volcanic ash and hardly any vegetation with mount Suribachi a dormant volcano towering over the rest of the island. Its military vantage in 1944: none. It was originally a deserted island where ample smuggling took place for many centuries, but in 1917 the Japanese decide to set up on Iwo Jima a radio station, 5 soldiers, and 1 weatherman besides that no other major improvement took place until starting of WWII when Japan was being threatened by the U.S strategy of “island hopping”, strategy of attacking each separate island and trying to demolish it before the Japanese knew what was happening. It was a U.S type blitzkrieg using the same lightning speed the only difference was it attacked each little island in the pacific which was slow and quite gruesome. With the American invasion of the Marshalls in early February 1945, following the crippling strikes against the Truk Islands that same month, the Japanese...
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...yourself from it”. In the background, beautiful snowflakes fall, representing the nuclear ash that falls after an atomic blast. The scene fades to white, then transitions into a blast, accompanied by a black plume of smoke that reaches the clouds (Defense, 1955). Images like this could sum up the fears and emotions after World War II; the beginning of the Cold War. At the end of World War II, America was the most powerful country in the World. America’s intervention in the war effectively ended it. A major turning point of the war was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This marked the end of the Japanese Empire and the beginning of a new age in the history of Planet Earth. It was the age of the Atomic Bomb. In 1965, American Theoretical Physicist Robert Oppenheimer was quoted on national television saying, “We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one...
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...The land of Pacen. A land that was once full of peace and happiness now turned into a land full of fear and terror. A land where people constantly live their lives in fear of what might become of them. This is all due to the bane of the people’s existence. A creature so terrible that it gives even the bravest of knights nightmares. The creature that turned the once peaceful land of Pacen into a land of ash and fire. The creature known as “Exitium the Destroyer”. A dragon so large that it blots out the sun. With wings powerful enough to create hurricanes, claws sharper than daggers, teeth that shine like white lightning, and enough fire to scorch a thousand cities. Nearly every day he attacks, spewing fire out of his mouth like a living volcano and destroying everything in sight. The king at the time was King Regium. He was a man of good virtues, a kind and fair type of man. The type of man you would want your son to grow up to be like. However, this all changed when Exitium showed up. The King could no longer sleep...
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...American Foreign Policy Leading to the Vietnam War American involvement in the Vietnam War is one of the most controversial issues in our history. However, the United States foreign policies had been dictating our involvement in Vietnam long before the initial deployment of troops into Vietnam. The fear of communism and developments of the policy of containment and the domino theory set the stage for the eventual escalation of the Vietnam Conflict into a war which would claim the lives of thousands of Americans. United States' involvement in Vietnam began as early as World War II, when American forces of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor of the CIA, parachuted into the mountains in the northern region of Vietnam. Led by Major Allison Thomas, their mission, "Deer," was to rendezvous with and train a small group of Vietnamese soldiers that were fighting Japanese occupation troops, and were rescuing downed pilots, this group of Vietnamese were known as the Vietminh. This group of Vietnamese soldiers would soon be the communist leaders of North Vietnam, however, at the time American forces were not concerned that Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nguyen Giap were communists because America was still allied with the Soviet Union, a communist state, at that point during World War II (Westheider 2). The Vietminh under leadership of Ho Chi Minh and with training from American OSS forces were simultaneously fighting the Japanese, while at the same time gaining more political...
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