...Many people have heard of the Ouija Board. They have been used in teen horror movies and are usually depicted as a way to contact evil spirits. Movies like this exaggerate the outcome of using the Ouija Board and create stigma towards it. When I tell people I own one, they normally give me a weird look and ask why I would want something like that. I am writing this to explain why I own one, and my personal experience with mine. I had recently found a religion that matched my beliefs; Wicca. I was very excited to look into it more as I had never felt comfortable as Judaism being my religion. I am very spiritual and never had a way to bring it out, until I picked up a book on Wiccan Witchcraft. I began reading at the chapter named “Tools of...
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...to have some spirits as residents. Dane has investigated this theory and has personally never had any thing show up. A lot of people believe in spirits and a lot of people don’t. Dane was really honest about it and has never had a personal experience with a spirit but knows many people that have. Personal theories and beliefs on this topic vary from person to person. It was interesting to hear all the suspicion the class had at the end of his presentation. A lot of students shared personal information of weird things that has happened in the past. It is a very interesting topic and creates a spooky atmosphere when discussed. I have had some weird things happen with the Ouija board on many occasions. I am undecided in this area and enjoy the atmosphere that is created while using the Ouija board. Dane stated that when someone dies, the body loses 21 grams. So the weight lose is the spirit leaving the body. That is kind of creepy and it does make a lot of since. I enjoyed this guest speaker and it opened my mind a little bit to this subject of paranormal...
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...It is important to remember that oftentimes family has a great impact on who a child becomes as they age. Gary Gilmore was brought up by a dysfunctional family. His family had a rather corrupted history. Both his mother and father did not have the greatest life as young children, and this reflected when they had children of their own. As a younger child and as a young woman, Bessie would often make sure to violate the rules her parents had in their home by coming home late, kissing boys, and buying an Ouija Board. Bessie and her mother would continuously argue, and her father had a short temper himself (although he took a particular liking to Bessie). Also, Bessie’s parents did not approve of Frank as he was much older than she was. Frank,...
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...Dr. Malcolm Sayer is a compassionate and dedicated physician at a Bronx hospital in New York. Sayer worked with catatonic patients who survived the epidemic of encephalitis lethargica. After working with these patients, Sayer discovered that specific stimuli could reach beyond a patients' catatonic state. Leonard Lowe showed to be elusive, but Dr. Sayer quickly realized that Leonard could communicate using an Ouija board. After attending a conference on the success of Parkinson’s Disease patients, using the L-Dopa drug, Dr. Malcolm Sayer is convinced the drug will also offer a breakthrough for his patients. Leonard Lowe became a trial participant and produced remarkable results. Leonard awoke from his catatonic state. This result encouraged Dr. Sayer to request funding from donors so that catatonic patients may receive the LDopa drug and experience reality once again. Leonard began to adjust to his new life. He became interested in Paula who was the daughter of another patient. He spent time with her when she came to visit her father at the hospital. Leonard became frustrated with the limitations of being a patient of the hospital. He wanted the liberty to leave and return as he liked. He repeatedly argued his case to Dr. Malcolm Sayer and the hospital administration. Sayer noticed that Leonard began to show facial and body tics that he could not control as he grew more agitated about his confinement. Dr. Malcolm Sayer and the hospital staff gloated in the success of L-Dopa with...
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...demonic figures, the Ethiopian culture refers to them as some sort of evil spirit, and in the Chinese culture they are known as ghosts pressing down on the body. Because here in the United States, we have grown weary of the presence of demons, and demonic spirits, we tend to dismiss the beliefs of other cultures. This is not the case, because we can learn a lot from other cultures and their beliefs about sleep paralysis. According to Sleepparalysis.com, there are many reasons for this strange phenomenon, which can lead to sleep paralysis. Some causes and attacks, have been related to individuals opening doors to these evil spirits. Some ways of doing this, are by engaging in some sort of occult practices such as, tarot card readings, Ouija boards and channeling or meditation. There are many other ways that can open doors to these nightmares, some of them in which the person had no control of. For instance, it can be generational, if ones parents or grandparents have been involved in heavy occult rituals. This could be a father who has been initiated into the high Masonic arts, because of this, many people can experience sleep paralysis at an early age during childhood. During sleep paralysis, some people experience what is called astral projection or leaving the body. Although to the victim this may seem like he or she is doing this, but in fact it is the entity that is responsible. The entity itself is of a spiritual nature, which takes over your spiritual...
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... Purge: Anarchy, was greenlit, with a budget of eleven million dollars. At the time of its release, the film received mediocre reception. A review from Rogerebert.com criticized the film, calling it "Just like its predecessor The Purge: Anarchy is so weak on a basic storytelling level that it makes you want to nitpick everything about it"; Notwithstanding the critical response, It grossed over one hundred million dollars at the box office. The film spawned another sequel, The Purge: Election Year, with the same budget as its predecessor, and it too managed to earn over a hundred million dollars; moreover, it outperformed the second film by seven million. This trend is not exclusive to the Purge; it is also prevalent in other franchises. Ouija, released in 2014, earned over a hundred million dollars, against a budget of five million; despite having a pathetic rating of six percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Due to the success of these franchises, It is difficult for a studio to take risks because the formula has been successful before; and is supported by the box office numbers. It has increasingly become rare to see a horror film that is not a sequel or is not plagued by unoriginality. Let’s have a look at a recent release, a movie called “Truth or Dare.” A review of the film from the Common Sense Media stated the following, “This horror film is unoriginal, pandering, and nondescript enough to be brushed off until the ending, which is so maddeningly foolish that it practically requires...
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...Research on Parapsychology and its impact on New Age Describe and evaluate a major scientific breakthrough of the past 10 years, discussing the challenges faced in developing it. Introduction Many events, phenomenon and concepts such as existence of alien and soul, channeling and telepathy, which are unexplainable, are considered to be supernatural origin. For that origin, parapsychology, which is a scientific study of paranormal behaviors and experiences, may provide the answer for us. Apart from that, new age movement, which is important for our future and started from the 1960s, is a spiritual development and relative to paranormality. Furthermore, the main concepts of new age are “We are all in one” and “our consciousnesses create our own realities”. In fact, parapsychology, which can be proven by quantum physics, makes the concept of new age more complete and persuadable. Thus, quantum physics and parapsychology, which have a strong relationship between them, make a great impact on new age. Nevertheless, the challenges are many people may think that paranormal phenomenon and these concepts are frauds and ridiculous. We will recognize these are possible and really amazing when we investigate more. This essay investigates what is parapsychology, evaluates the impact on new age and discusses the challenges faced. Background There are two main directions in parapsychology, which are Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. In the past, there were many famous scientists...
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...In the Roman Catholic Church, exorcism is used when the victims are suspected of demonic possession. It is the act of getting rid of the demon from people, objects, or places with the name of God. I actually have a personal story of an exorcism and it is BASED ON A TRUE STORY. It happened to my cousin, Vanessa that used to live in Washington, D.C.. She was only fourteen years when she got possessed. She was at a cemetery with a group of kids. They were not best influence on a fourteen year. They played the Ouija board and it was her first time ever communicating with a spirit. When she realized they were communicating with the spirit, she basically got scared and freaked out. When you do that type of stuff like communicating with a spirit, you must remain calm because you will never know if the spirit is truly good or evil. The spirit saw her as a weak human being and possessed her. You could not really tell in the beginning that she was possessed until later in the process. In the beginning, her actions and attitude changed towards school and life. She would not listen to her mom and did not care about school at all. Since her mother was the type to work all the time, and on her spare time she would go to parties so she did not pay attention to...
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...The Present, Future and Ethics of Nanotechnology Marlon Green Writing 122 Vincent E. Lasnik December 7, 2010 Word count: 1871 The world has embraced nanotechnology with open arms. What once was science fiction, something you watched on Star Trek is now a global reality. Majority of us have not even noticed. Whether you are a CEO of a multibillion dollar die cast company, a heart surgeon, an auto repair shop manager, a drug company representative, or even a house painter. Nanotechnology will impact you. This is not just a new range of technology but a new social force. The family of Nano scale technologies, like numerous other perilous issues of our time, stands at a stage of choices for human ethics. The concept of Nano scale technology begins with the boldly speculative nineteen fifty nine speech “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” by Nobel Prize winning Theoretical physicist Richard Feynman. In the speech he said he was not afraid to consider the question whether ultimately in the great future, we can arrange the atoms the way we want (Feynman, 1959). Scientists in the beginning had meant Nano machines of some sort that would be able to build desired entities atom by atom (Molecular manufacturing). Today nanotechnology can be more broadly viewed as the contemporary result of a natural downsizing progression in nearly all the sciences and there techniques. Nanotechnology is the study and control...
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...DIVINATION SYSTEMS Written by Nicole Yalsovac Additional sections contributed by Sean Michael Smith and Christine Breese, D.D. Ph.D. Introduction Nichole Yalsovac Prophetic revelation, or Divination, dates back to the earliest known times of human existence. The oldest of all Chinese texts, the I Ching, is a divination system older than recorded history. James Legge says in his translation of I Ching: Book Of Changes (1996), “The desire to seek answers and to predict the future is as old as civilization itself.” Mankind has always had a desire to know what the future holds. Evidence shows that methods of divination, also known as fortune telling, were used by the ancient Egyptians, Chinese, Babylonians and the Sumerians (who resided in what is now Iraq) as early as six‐thousand years ago. Divination was originally a device of royalty and has often been an essential part of religion and medicine. Significant leaders and royalty often employed priests, doctors, soothsayers and astrologers as advisers and consultants on what the future held. Every civilization has held a belief in at least some type of divination. The point of divination in the ancient world was to ascertain the will of the gods. In fact, divination is so called because it is assumed to be a gift of the divine, a gift from the gods. This gift of obtaining knowledge of the unknown uses a wide range of tools and an enormous variety of ...
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...Lay People Magistrates & Juries o You need to know: o Qualification; Appointment and Selection and Training; / Role (what they do) o Need to be able to comment upon: o Whether we have cross-representation of society as magistrates and juries o To what extent juries are randomly selected / how to improve selection o Advantages and disadvantages of using lay people in decision-making process. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ∑ “lay” meaning not legally qualified. ∑ Tradition of using non-legally qualified people in the decision-making process in our courts. This is cornerstone of our English legal system: o Fundamental right to trial "by one's peers" o Therefore, we need a cross-representation of society to be magistrates and juries. o [then justice is not only done, but seen to be done.] Selection (picked): Randomly selected from electoral register Selection(picked): Selected for their qualities Requirements: a) Formal requirements: Age: 18 — 65 years (retire at 70 years old) Residence: Within 15 miles of commission area of the court. Minimum Time per year: 26 half days b) Character requirements: [1988 Lord Chancellor guidelines] 6 key qualities good: character / understanding & communication / social awareness / maturity & sound temperament / sound judgement / commitment & reliability. INELIGIBLE: ∑ Those with serious criminal record ...
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...MSc. Information System Management Kyaw Khine Soe (3026039) Data Mining and Business Analytics Boston Housing Dataset Analysis. Table of Contents Introduction 3 Problem Statement 3 The associated data of Boston 5 Data pre-processing / Data preparation 8 Clustering Analysis 11 Cluster segment profile 17 Regression Analysis 18 Predictive analysis using neural network node 19 Decision tree node 21 Regression node analysis 23 Model Comparison 24 The recommendation and conclusion 26 Bibliography 27 Introduction This report included part of assignment for the Data Mining and Business Analytics. This report based on the Boston Housing Dataset to describe prediction, cluster analysis, neural networks and decision tree nodes. Boston Housing is a real estate related dataset from Boston Massachusetts. This is small dataset with 506 rows can show prediction of housing price and regressing using decision trees and neural networks over this dataset. This report shows analysis of the property price over the size, age of property, environment factor such as crime rate, near the river dummy, distanced to employment centers and pollution. Problem Statement In relation to housing intelligence, real estate are usually concerned with following common business concerns: 1. Which area are high rates of crime? How crimes rates effected on housing price? How can reduce the crime? 2. Which area is most/lease house price base on rooms in house/ area and...
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...jUJuries Questions June 2013 a) Describe the role of the juries and magistrates in criminal law cases (18 marks) Juries are used in less than 1% of criminal cases. In the Crown court, the jury decides whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty. They do not decide the type of sentence as that is the role of the judge. In order to make their decision they listen to the evidence and the summing up by the judge. They will decide questions of fact, whereas the judge will advise them on questions of law. At the end the end of the trial they retire to a jury room to discuss the case in secret. It is preferred of the jury to make a unanimous decision if possible, however a majority decision can also be accepted in circumstances only of 11:1 and 10:2. Although when the jury is of 9 members, the decision must be unanimous. The jury does not need to justify their decision when the foreman announces their decision in the court room. Magistrates’ Court tries 97% of all criminal cases from the start to finish, whereas the other 3% are dealt at a preliminary level with Early Administrative Hearings (remand hearings, bail applications and committal proceedings). The magistrates deal with all summary matters, including debts owed to utilities, non payments of council tax, non payments of TV licences ect... When dealing with these matters, they are instructed not only to decide whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty but the sentencing too. Furthermore, they also deal...
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...Discipleship Counseling Sharon Drexler Liberty University Abstract Neil Anderson’s book, entitled Discipleship Counseling is a complete guide to teach how to help those who are hurting. This book is a useful resource to counselors, pastors, church leaders, or anyone who needs a step by step guide to biblical counseling. Dr. Anderson gives readers a very strong foundation of counseling through Christ, the work of the Holy Spirit, truth, the counselee’s faith, and the support of the church and Christian community. He discusses the encourager’s role in discipleship counseling as well as the role of the person being counseled. Anderson makes it clear that both parties must be open to the Holy Spirit and his truth if one wishes to reach the road to recovery, and the healing and peace that can only be found through Jesus Christ. The book is broken into three distinct sections to help the reader better understand how to reach these goals. The first section gives a description of mental health. In the second section Dr. Anderson describes root issues and how to counsel the spiritually oppressed and in the third section he takes the reader step-by-step through the freedom appointment and the Steps to Freedom. Discipleship Counseling Christians who choose psychology as a career are often challenged with claims that are a direct contradiction to their own worldviews, doctrines, and theology. In their search to resolve these issues and to achieve the goal of integrating...
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