...You have four stages: 1- Theta waves (high amplitude, slow waves) for 5-10 minutes, transition between awake and asleep 2- Sleep spindles for 20 minutes, body temp goes down and heart slows 3- Delta waves emerge (deep slow brain waves) this is the transition between light and heavy sleep 4- "Delta sleep", you're definitely having delta waves, you're in deep sleep and might sleepwalk, bed wet etc...30 minutes - REM...Rapid eye movement, increased breathing, and increased brain activity...here you'll dream you cycle through these five stages 4-5 times a night like this 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2 THEN REM (where you dream etc.), then back up and down. Common problems include sleep apnea (usually overweight males), sleepwalking, bedwetting, insomnia, chronic fatigue, restless leg syndrome, and narcolepsy Narcolepsy- daytime uncontrollable sleepiness, may fall asleep...caused by dysfunction of the brain mechanism that controls sleeping and waking Sleep apnea- disorder in which you’re breathing temporarily stops throughout the night. Can be caused by being overweight or any kind of blockage of the upper airways Sleepwalking - complex behavior accomplished while asleep, you can talk, even have your eyes open. Have a lot of causes like genetic predisposition or environmental causes like sleep deprivation or stress. Rapid eye movement is the stage in which we dream every night. There are 5 stages of sleep. The first stage is a transition phase called Alpha Theta, eyes roll slightly, only lasts...
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...sleep, REM sleep and slow wave to each other in cycles of about 90 minutes. Early in the evening, non-REM sleep is longer cycles, but as time passes, the REM cycles dominate. non-REM sleep involves minimal brain activity, EEG high amplitude and low frequency oscillations. REM sleep, on the other hand, involves a high amount of brain activity paradoxically and equally low amount of motor skills, with low amplitude and high frequency oscillations in the EEG. In the elderly, length and intensity of these cycles' occur in shorter periods. REM sleep occurs just and slow wave sleep occurs in shorter cycles. 1b REM sleep usually awakens the genitals in men and women. This effect is usually more deeply experienced in youth, with young men who have erection for a period of time that men and older. 1c When a person is awake and excited, high-frequency beta waves are observed. When a person is awake and relaxed, the low-frequency alpha waves are observed. In both REM and non-REM sleep-1, the waves are high frequency, low amplitude, and erratic. In non-REM-2 sleep, brain waves are a bit slower and less erratic, with brief bouts of high frequency brain activity. After REM-3 begins not sleep, the brain constantly emits high amplitude, low frequency delta waves predictable. In the elderly, sleep architecture is often deteriorated and sleep efficiency is reduced. REM sleep is usually preserved, but over time, the time between stages of sleep (sleep latency) and slow wave sleep time is reduced. Brain...
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...in the seventies was the use of unfamiliar electronic sounds through synthesizers, which were often used in the music of bands such as The Cure, Depeche Mode, and the Talking Heads. These bands as well as many others (The Police, Blondie, etc.) produced music known as New Wave. Pop also dominated this period, but mainly by two artists, which were Michael Jackson and Madonna. These two artists had a very strong understanding of this genre, and were able make a great amount of money out of it. To this day, Michael Jackson’s 1982 hit album “Thriller” is still the best-selling album of all time. Heavy Rock and Metal also had their places in this decade. Rock and metal were dominated by Metallica, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, and Black Sabbath, and many albums, which were the fundamentals of this genre, were released, such as “Master of Puppets” by Metallica, “Back in Black” by AC/DC, and “The Number of The Beast” by Iron Maiden. One of the finest genres of this era was surely punk music. Behind all the shouting, punk had something very special to it, despite the fact that theoretically, punk music was very simple and ordinary. It consists of very basic chord progressions, and the majority of punk songs consist of only 5th chords, which are only two notes. Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, and many other punk bands proved that simplicity in music could be great. For example, Jazz music is not favored by most people because it consists of such complex chords that are not easy on the listener’s...
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...Asiatic region in general; and secondly, specifically to the Singapore market only: A) Across Asia: i. The Growth, Charge and Impact of the Kawaii Concept: Kawaii is a key concept that characterizes the modern Japanese culture. Literary translated as “cute” in English or figuratively as “things that are desired”, this culture originated with the 15 to 18 year old girls in Japan. Soon, marketers and advertisers in the fashion, publishing and the cute-little-gadgets industries recognizing the wide potential and appeal of this niche segment began to leverage on it. As this market segment is typified by the characteristic “not how much they spend” but “it’s that they all buy the same things”, hot items (like Hello Kitty) when caught by the wave can easily reach 100% market penetration in weeks! In short, kawaii became a complementary force in proliferating the Kitty mania. This culture actually grew beyond the original 15-18 year olds and also extended beyond the Japanese shores into and throughout Asia economies. As the kitty mania caught on, Sanrio, the company wisely launched a blitz of the Hello Kitty merchandise covering clothing, stationeries, house wares, ATM and credit...
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...1. Introduction It is highly believed that fashion magazines contain various portrayals of women not only because fashion magazines target women as their biggest readers, but also become the facilitator to teach women how they view themselves in feminine elegant ways just like most women want them to be. Nonetheless, those views are more likely shaped by how the society views a woman. As such, if fashion magazines are indeed in the means of shaping women's view as well as society's view of a woman, then the representation of women in the magazines becomes very important in order to explore how women are portrayed according to those two views. Reading a fashion magazine on the surface simply contains fashion-related articles in thick glossy pages. On deeper surface, on the other hand, those articles actively are where women as well as society see how a woman should be. It is also implied that they become the source of stereotypes of women which many of them are always about marginalising women. Amongst many high fashion magazines, Elle is strongly believed to be one of the most leading high fashion magazines in regards to the fact that this French origin magazine widely spreads its international editions published in over 60 countries which one of those includes Indonesia. Like other Elle editions worldwide and other mainstream high fashion magazines, many ultra expensive bags, clothes, perfumes, and the sorts appear in Elle Indonesia in two forms: articles and advertisements...
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...© Copyright protected material from swopdoc.com - Propagation or publication is prohibited by law Prayer before Birth Louis MacNeice Proseminar-Paper Introduction to Literary Studies I Dr. Maria Löschnigg SS 2010 Verfasst von Sigrid Koller Matr. Nr.: 0913508 Studienkennzahl: B 190 350 344 Datum der Abgabe: 17. August 2010 © swopdoc.com Document uploaded/downloaded by Lala Seyfullayeva lalicka-22@hotmail.com at 21:07 CEST on Monday May 4th 2015. © Copyright protected material from swopdoc.com - Propagation or publication is prohibited by law 1 PRAYER BEFORE BIRTH 1 2 INTRODUCTION 2 3 LYRIC SPEECH SITUATION 3 4 THEME 3 5 GENERAL STRUCTURE 4 6 METRE AND RHYTHM 4 7 RHYMES AND OTHER SOUND PATTERNS 5 8 RHETORICAL FIGURES ON THE MORPHOLOGICAL AND ON THE SYNTACTIC LEVEL 5 9 6 SEMANTIC STRUCTURE 10 CONCLUSION 8 11 BIBLIOGRAPHY 9 12 WEBLIOGRAPHY 9 II © swopdoc.com Document uploaded/downloaded by Lala Seyfullayeva lalicka-22@hotmail.com at 21:07 CEST on Monday May 4th 2015. © Copyright protected material from swopdoc.com - Propagation or publication is prohibited by law 1 Prayer before Birth I am not yet born; O hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the club-footed ghoul come near me. I am not yet born, console me. I fear that the human race may with tall walls wall me, with strong drugs dope me, with wise...
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...Strategic Management of Change BUMGT5926 Scenario Planning Syafiqa Anneisa Abdullah Navaneeswary Ganesamoorthy Rei Lynn Lim 30089404 30089407 30089392 Presentation Overview (1/2) •Introduction •Company Profile •Microenvironmental Analysis •PESTLE Analysis •SWOT Analysis •Porter’s 5 Forces Analysis •The Industry Life Cycle •Nintendo’s Key Success Factors Presentation Overview (1/2) •Analysis of Key Uncertainties •Analysis of Future Trends •The Scenarios & Implications •Conclusion •References A Brief History of Video Games Atari to Wii Introduction (1/2) • Video games have been around since the 1940s. • Over the decades, game machines continuously evolved to become powerful machines capable of stunning visuals and graphics. • In the mid 2000 to 2007, social media, smartphone and tablet technology entered the gaming scene. • Casual games become the norm attracting previously non-gamers into the market. Introduction (cont 2/2) • As the dominant force of the mobile and gaming market, in the next coming 5 years, where does Nintendo see itself competing with threats from smartphones and other gaming platforms taking up its share of the market? • Scenario planning : To make strategic decisions that will be a sound foundation for all plausible and possible future scenarios. Company Profile (1/3) • Founded in 1889 in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi. • Manufacturer of Hanafuda “flower” cards • Expanded in 1960s by Hiroshi Yamauchi. • Following the crash...
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...THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATION THEORIES: A Critique Paper Since the inception of communication as a discipline of knowledge, scholars have come up with many theories related to its components. In fact, the encyclopaedia of communication theories (Littlejohn, 2009) has identified more than 300 relevant theories, a testament that the field is already making a big wave in the academic arena. It has been a product of many minds converging into one vision – to enrich the communication field. However, it was not an easy road for these intellectual minds as they are confronted with issues that still need to be resolved. In this paper I will try to present first the rich beginning of communication theories and in light with this development context follows my presentation on the varied problems confronted the field of communication theories as well my personal views on the matter. Historical Beginning There are two insights into how communication theory came into being – the religious view and the philosophical aspect. Although most of communication theories book do not include the religious view, I find it necessary to take into account the dogmatic view to present the variations of its origin. The religious view is demonstrated in the Holy Bible especially in Genesis when God communicated with man and man had the ability to communicate with Him and with each other. It is no wonder then that other writers of Bible theorize about communication. Notably, the Old Testament portrays...
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...CGlobal Young Leaders Conference (GYLC) - A Walk to Remember “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader” John Quincy Adams Like all teenagers our age we are swept up by the leadership wave partly encouraged by our parents, school and by all that we hear and see around us. Thus when the Global Young Leaders Conference was announced we got onto the leadership bandwagon. It all started when myself, Shafra Ameen (12 Cam. Sci) and Hasini Chamika (12 Cam. Sci.) was nominated from school to attend The Globlal Young Leaders Conference. Our applications were accepted by the GYLC and thus began the very exciting 14 days of summer visiting Washington DC and New York. What is GYLC? The GYLC is a unique leadership development conference that takes place in China, Europe and U.S.A in July and August every year. Outstanding high school scholars aged 15-18 from around the world converge to share and collaborate with each other. The theme of GYLC this year was “The Leaders of Tomorrow Preparing for the Global Challenges and Responsibilities of the future” The Reality Just 10 days after our Cambridge A/L final examination the 3 of us were in the flight to Washington. Shafra, Hasini and I opted to choose the session held from the 25th of June to 4th July plus the optional add on which continues till the 7th of July. Likewise there are 6 similar sessions throughout July and August so that the applicants are given a choice to choose...
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...Destiny J. Green SOC 501 Critical Reaction: Critical Race Theory “Waiting to Exhale…” While delving into the assigned literature for this week, I noticed that it controlled me—my soul sometimes evoked a sense of pride, waves of applause, but most of all, anger. I immediately became aware of the forced sense of solidarity that I am assigned, the voice that always whispers to me when one of “us” appears intelligent: “Yes, these authors made us look like we had some sense! Look how analytical they sounded!” But why on earth do I have to feel like that in this marvelous, post racial society? After reading, I noticed that despite the year tacked on to the assigned readings, the content barely changed. From Dubois (1903) to Wingfield and Feagin (2012), we are still acknowledging the same woes that a society assigns particular groups of people. We are still attempting to come up with dire solutions in hopes that everyone will begin to “get along” with one another. But most of all, because of this…People of color are still waiting to exhale. In this essay, there will be two parts: Firstly, a general analysis of the assigned literature for this week. In this compartment of my paper, I will analyze extracted points from the readings thematically as it directly relates to certain points in the “Critical Race: An Introduction” excerpt. Here, I will also be giving a respectful critique of Dubois’ postulations in the “Souls of Black Folk.” Secondly I will critique Allport’s (1954)...
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...Karl Marx, philosopher, economist, historian and German sociologist was born to a Jewish family in Trier Germany on May 5th 1818. He devoted his life and his work in the practice of his theoretical analysis and grew to become the most influential socialist thinker of the 19th century. He founded with Friedrich Engels the scientific socialism and he is the initiator of the international labour movement. During his life, he wrote several manuscripts in which he predicted the collapse of industrial capitalism and its replacement by communism and his theory has resulted in the establishment of communist political systems in many countries. He also became a member of the Communist League. After that, he published the Communist Manifesto just before a wave of revolutions struck Europe. The Communist Manifesto opens with the famous sentence "The history of all hitherto societies has been the history of class struggles" This expression is the basis of the Manifesto and reveals two key points. First, different social classes emerge and oppose themselves throughout history: free man/slave, baron/serf, or more generally oppressor/oppressed. It therefore defines the existing classes, contemporary to the manifest, explaining (in order to demonstrate) their emergence and reality. The second point is considering the theme of the "struggle". When two classes are opposing, a continuous struggle is taking place in various forms. Its outcome is the revolutionary transformation or the disappearance...
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...753 BC, which was traditionally celebrated in Rome with the festival of Parilia. Two founding legends exist - Romulus and Remus and Aeneas. Rather than contradict each other, the tale of Aeneas adds to that of Romulus and Remus. King Numitor of Alba Longa was ejected by his younger brother Amulius. To do away with any further possible pretenders to his usurped throne, Amulius murdered Numitor's sons and forced Numitor's daughter, Rhea Silvia, to become a vestal virgin. However Mars, the god of war became enchanted by her beauty and had his way with Rhea Silvia while she slept. As a result of this Rhea Silvia bore twins, Romulus and Remus. An enraged Amulius had Rhea Silvia thrown into the river Tiber where she was caught beneath the waves by the river god who married her. The twins were set adrift on the river in a reed basket. They floated downstream until the basket was caught in the branches of a fig tree. This was where they were found by a she-wolf who suckled them until a shepherd found them. Another version of the same story tells of the shepherd finding them and taking them to his wife, who had just lost a stillborn child and who breast fed them. The tale says the shepherd's...
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...food shortages and great risk of forest fires. The reason behind these shortages is because due to the change that would happen in the snowpack of Sierra Nevada which is the main source of irrigation for California’s Central Valley which consequently would affect the food/water supply not only for California but the entire United States. Also, a naked Amazon could contribute to a weather cycle of extremely dry air which during the winter months would bring rain to California and the Sierra Nevada region while drying out the Pacific North West. In this article, it is also indicated that along with this change in the weather cycle, there would also be meandering winds that move east or west across the planet. These are known as the Rossby waves. David Megvigy explains in this article...
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...选修6课文 1 A SHORT HISTORY OF WESTERN PAINTING Art is influenced by the customs and faith of a people. Styles in Western art have changed many times. As there are so many different styles of Western art, it would be impossible to describe all of them in such a short text. Consequently, this text will describe only the most important ones, starting from the sixth century AD. The Middle Ages (5th to the 15th century AD) During the Middle Ages, the main aim of painters was to represent religious themes. A conventional artist of this period was not interested in showing nature and people as they really were. A typical picture at this time was full of religious symbols, which created feeling of respect and love for God. But it was evident that ideas were changing in the 13th century when painters like Giotto di Bondone began to paint religious scenes in a more realistic way. The Renaissance (15th to 16th century) During the Renaissance, new ideas and values graduallv replaced those held in the Middle Ages.People began to concentrate less on religious themes and adopt a more humanistic attitude to life. At the same time painters returned to classical Roman and Greek ideas about art. They tried to paint people and nature as they really were. Rich people wanted to possess their own paintings, so they could decorate their superb palaces and great houses. They paid famous artists to paint pictures of themselves, their houses and possessions as well as their...
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...in early 1989. They were spotted by Tom Hazelmyer and signed to Amphetamine Reptile Records, releasing their debut 7 inch single, "Born Annoying", later that year. AmRep released their first album, Strap it On, in 1990. Helmet was acclaimed as a "Thinking person's heavy metal band." Eschewing the traditional heavy metal image of long hair and black clothing, the band stood out with their preference for simple t-shirts, jeans, and sneakers, and short haircuts. Their music is characterized by repetitive, syncopated, staccato guitar riffs, often in distorted time signatures, and almost always in a minor key with drop-D or drop-C tuning. The guitar sound is heavily distorted and dissonant, with choruses that often involve guitar feedback waves. Before...
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