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Marijuana Is Smoked Periods Of Time
1,332 wordsDrugs have been a problem in our society for many years. They have been used and abused by many groups, including professional athletes. It is certainly quite common to hear about or read about athletes and drug use. Although drugs have a lengthy history of use by athletes, they have varied effects on the body and different preventions. Much of the world's supply of cocaine is produced in South America. Thousands of years ago, the ancient Incas of Peru chewed coca leaves because they made it pos...
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Dinner Century Parents
430 wordsThe winter chills of December seemed far away. My family and I sat in the basking of the sunlight. The incredible warmth of the sun was a balm for my soul. With the end of 1999 approaching, my parents and I decided to celebrate with a cruise to the Caribbean, and the day promised to pass all expectations. New Years Eve day began with great anticipation. Not only was this the beginning of a new Millennium, but also hunger touched my stomach and I knew a scrumptious breakfast awaited me. Making my...
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19 Th Century Massage Therapy
1,083 wordsMassage therapy spans a wide variety of therapeutic approaches, working to improve an individuals health and well being through the hands on manipulation of soft muscles and other soft tissues of the body. There are three key benefits to massage therapy; physical, mental and emotional. The first states that massage therapy is designed to stretch and loosen muscles to improve the blood flow and the movement of lymph throughout the body, facilitate the removal of metabolic wastes resulting from ex...
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Review Of Cicely Berry Voice And The Actor
1,010 wordsThe book, Voice and the Actor by Cicely Berry explains the importance of vocal training to a professional actor. The actor relies on his or her voice to bring emotion to a character. It is taken for granted that the speaking voice is important to convey precise thoughts and feelings. Cicely Berry says that there are four factors that condition the voice: environment, ear, physical agility, and personality. Environment plays an important factor to ones voice. For example, ones environment can hav...
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Rapid Eye Movement Falling Asleep
1,036 wordsThere is an old Chinese proverb that says, "Only when one cannot sleep does one know how long the night is. " If you have ever had trouble falling asleep night after night after night, you know how true that is. This condition, known as insomnia affects nearly a quarter of adults in the Unites States. Insomnia not only ruins your night by your difficulty falling asleep, it ruins your day by as you are not physically and mentally prepared to go about and do your normal work and activities. There ...
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A Favorite Place I Like To Spend Time
657 wordsA Favorite Place I Like to Spend Time Sometimes, when I feel tired and exhausted, I need a place for relaxation. Although there are many places, where one can feel relaxed, such as reading in a library with a cup of coffee, or sitting in a comfortable chair, covered with a cozy warm rug, holding a cup of fresh hot tea with scents of flowers, herbs, and jasmine and looking through the window, where sticky raindrops are falling down slowly on the window, or little white snowflakes dancing in a whi...
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Factory Owners Son Larger Quieter Hand Quot
813 wordsHart Crane Episode of Hands The unexpected interest made him flush. Suddenly he seemed to forget the pain, - Consented, -and held out One finger from the others. The gash was bleeding, and a shaft of sun That glittered in and out among the wheels, Fell lightly, warmly, down into the wound. And as the fingers of the factory owners son, That knew a grip for books and tennis As well as one for iron and leather, - As his taut, spare fingers wound the gauze Around the thick bed of the wound, His own ...
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Patients With Severe Illegally To Produce Drugs
526 wordsDrugs are Drugs 3 Drugs Drugs are chemical substances that alter mood, behavior, perception, or mental functioning. Throughout history, many cultures have found ways to alter consciousness through the ingestion of substances. In current professional practice, psychoactive substances known as psychotropic drugs have been developed to treat patients with severe mental illness. Psychoactive substances exert their effects by modifying biochemical or physiological processes in the brain. The message ...
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Long Term Effects Personal Interview
1,508 wordsIn James Baldwins Sonny's Blues, Sonny was addicted to heroin. He states: I cant get anything straight in my head down here and I try not to think whats going to happen to me when I get outside again. Sometimes I think Im going to flip and never get outside and sometimes I think Ill come straight back. Ill tell you one think though Id rather blow my brains out then go through this again (84). Here Sonny is going through one of the stages of heroin. He is going through the withdrawal stage and he...
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Hart Crane Quot Poem
629 wordsThe first thing that comes to mind upon reading this poem is a sense of calmness and relaxation. Described well is an attempt at reminiscing at ones past, and how it may have affected life at present. It is a poem of truth, and the joy that comes with the realization of ones self, the inner being. In the poem is a character who has injured himself during work, and has taken a recess to tend to the wound. During this time the character is able to find it within himself to discover a truth within ...
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Scientific Community American Medical
1,026 wordsThe Encarta Encyclopedia defines hypnosis as, altered state of consciousness and heightened responsiveness to suggestion; it may be induced by normal persons by a variety of methods and has been used occasionally in medical and psychiatric treatment. Most frequently brought about through actions of an operator, or hypnotist, who engages the attention of a subject and assigns certain tasks to him or her while uttering monotonous, repetitive verbal commands; such tasks may include muscle relaxatio...
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People Who Smoke Heart Attacks
622 wordsHeart Attacks Heart attacks are the leading cause of death in the United States. Everyday approximately 1, 500 people die from heart attacks. Thousands more suffer crippling effects of some form, and remain disabled for the rest of their lives. A simple definition of a heart attack is a sudden failure of the heart resulting from an occlusion or obstruction of a coronary artery. Basically, this means the heart is no longer receiving the blood supply it needs to function properly. A person having ...
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Attention To Detail Homer
1,270 wordsThe 1873 masterpiece Breezing Up, by Winslow Homer located in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC is an oil on canvas painting that measures 23 3 / 13 X 38 1 / 6 in... The primary subject of this painting is a man with three boys in a small wooden sail boat that is moving along with what appears to be a fairly choppy sea. At the center of this painting is the stern of the sail boat. The oldest of the boys is sitting on the high end of the stern with his knees up and his bare feet plante...
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19 Th Century Medical Association
1,440 wordsHypnosis The British Medical Association and the American Medical Association has called it a temporary condition of altered attention in the subject that may be induced by another person, (Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia) but there is still much about hypnosis that not understood. Because it resembles normal sleep, it was studied and was found that terrain waves of hypnotized people are more similar to the patterns of deep relaxation than anything else. Rather than a psychic or mystical idea,...
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Transient And Intermittent Insomnia Transient And Intermittent Sleep
505 wordsInsomnia is the Insomnia Insomnia Insomnia is the perception or complaint of inadequate or poor-quality sleep because of one or more of the following: difficulty falling asleep, waking up many times a night with troubles of falling back asleep, waking up too early, or un refreshing sleep. Insomnia is not defined by the number of hours of sleep a person gets or how long it takes them to fall asleep. Each person has different needs and satisfactions with sleep. Some signs of insomnia may include t...
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Middle Of The Night Sleeping Pills
1,206 wordsSleep! Sleep! Sleep! What exactly is sleep and why do we need it? Sleep is the state of partial or full unconsciousness by which the body restores itself. Without sleep, it would be impossible to survive. The body needs time to rejuvenate its system functions, and to temporarily shut down and rest. An appropriate amount of sleep for a young-adult is around 8 or 9 hours. The inability to fall asleep or to sleep long enough to feel rested is insomnia, which affects about 30 million people in the U...
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Alcohol And Tobacco Harder Drugs
1,031 wordsShould Marijuana be Legalised? Marijuana should be legalized for a number of reasons. It is a relatively safe drug, in comparison to harder, more addictive drugs like heroin and cocaine. It is the most widely used drug, behind only alcohol and is even more popular than tobacco. Marijuana can have many positive effects on the body, such as relaxation and pain relief. The legalisation of marijuana would result in a decrease in crime and let police concentrate on more serious offences. The health a...
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Deep Breath Feel Fine
733 wordsSit up in a comfortable chair or lie on a couch or a bed with your hands resting in your lap or by your side and take three slow deep breaths. Each time you inhale, focus on filling your lungs with clean, fresh air. (Pause) As you exhale, feel all of the tension leave your lungs. (Pause) Now stare at a spot. Look at a spot on the wall or ceiling. (Pause) Look at that spot, breathe deep and relax. (Pause) Your body is relaxing, deeply relaxing. (Pause) Your eyes are getting heavy and closing down...
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Panic Disorder Anxiety Disorders
703 wordsFear is an emotion that everyone experiences from time to time throughout his or her life. Fear is part of a biological response to danger. This emotion was programmed into each human being eons ago through evolution to alert us to the presence of danger by releasing adrenaline into our bloodstream therefore causing heart palpitations, sweating, tremors, chest pain, and nausea or abdominal distress among other symptoms induced by adrenaline. Our bodys reaction to fear is called the flight or fig...
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Terminally Ill Music Therapy
1,216 wordsMusic therapy is the prescribed use of music and musical interventions in order to restore, maintain, and improve emotional, physical, physiological, and spiritual health and well-being (Lindberg). So one finds the selections under the New Age/Relaxation section of the record store about as relaxing as water torture? Just because ones taste runs more to Sousa than to soothing doesnt mean one cant reap all these relaxation benefits music is supposed to have. Music therapy works primarily by chang...
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