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Remote Control
Two of the main elements in any poem are theme and symbolism. This holds true in Alicia Zakon's poem titled "Remote Control". It essentially tells about the relationship between a man and a woman, and how the man has the remote control to the woman's life. The symbols used are very meaningful to the overall theme. The theme of "Remote Control" is also very important, and not just a topic for a good poem
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Attention Deficit Disorder in Alolescents
Page 1 Attention Deficit Disorder in Adolescents Imagine being easily sidetracked and losing your train of thought in mid-conversation. Imagine being unable to focus and having inconsistent school work and career performance. Imagine losing your keys or forgetting what you were going to do next on a daily basis. Today, more so than ever before, there are children, adolescents, and adults who are being diagnosed with either ADD or ADHD. "Estimates on how many
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Controlling Systems
Kaiser Permanente has opted to use the bureaucratic control system to help meet the challenges of such complex environment. Bureaucratic control system is design to measure progress toward planned performance and to ensure that they are in line with management's objectives (2004). Today, bureaucratic ideas are still widely used among organizations to ensure success. Kaiser Permanente has found this system to be reliable, accurate and secure; all these terms have assisted our large complex organization
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Emotional Disorder Behavior
Parents today face the dilemma of having a child with emotional or behavioral disorder. For small children, to have it is one thing, but to detect it is another. Since they are still growing up and going through stages such as the "terrible two's" and adolescence, you'd think that some of their behavior is normal and it's all a part of child development. It all depends on how one may look at it. If a
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Phobic Disorders
Phobic Disorders Phobic disorders are classified as one of the most common of all anxiety disorders; they are a persistent and unreasonable fear of a particular object, activity, or situation. Many people who suffer from this disorder know that the fears they have, are excessive and unreasonable and, the feared object can usually determine how much it affects a persons functioning. Although, anyone can develop a phobic disorder, it is found more commonly in women
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Eating Disorders
I choose to do these weeks health paper on eating disorders. I myself have dealt with an eating disorder and know the effects it can have on those you love and yourself both physically and mentally. Bulimia and Anorexia are serious, functional eating disorders. There are a lot of similarities between the two, but the few differences differentiate the two. Anorexia is an eating disorder in which a person has an intense fear of gaining
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Eating Disorders
We have all heard the typical stereotypes of the "perfect body." Who really has a perfect body anyways, and what does it look like? Are all girls supposed to be tiny and twig like, and are all guys supposed to be macho muscle men? No, and if this were true then that's how we would have been created, but were not, so be proud of who you are. Thanks to media and today's culture people
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Galactosemia: A Rare Milk Sugar Disorder
Galactosemia: A Rare Milk Sugar Disorder Galactosemia is a rare congenital disorder which affects the body's inability to convert galactose into glucose. Galactose is a type of sugar, which is a breakdown product of lactose. Lactose is found in milk and milk products, including breast milk. Given that the galactose can not be broken down, it builds up in the body and acts as a poison that can cause serious damage to itÐ''s carrier("galactosemia"). "As
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Gun Control
Over half of America's households own a firearm, which does not include, the number of Americans that own firearms illegally. Although new technology for weaponry has advanced over the years such as, fingerprint recognition, and computerized sensors on the grip of the firearm also prevent anyone but the owner of the weapon to fire it. The critics of this new technology say "Some might believe that their weapon is now childproof and could leave
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All of the Other Ways of Knowing Are Controlled by Language.Ð'ðžð'ð What Does This Statement Mean and Do You Think It Is a Fair Representation of the Relationship Between Perception, Emotion, Reason and Language?
Language is such a universal phenomenon in human society. Whenever we write or speak, we use it; whenever we make a promise or ask a question, we use it. In the statement Ð'ÐŽÐ'§All of the other ways of knowing are controlled by languageÐ'ÐŽÐ'Ð, language is defined as Ð'ÐŽÐ'§wordsÐ'ÐŽÐ'Ð and this Ð'ÐŽÐ'§controlÐ'ÐŽÐ'Ð can be defined as Ð'ÐŽÐ'§dominateÐ'ÐŽÐ'Ð. Then this saying seems not so fair to represent the relationship between the four ways of knowing. It is
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Why an Infants Mind Can Be Controlled
Why An Infants Mind Can Be Controlled I would have to agree with the statement that taking a healthy infant well formed and placing them in a specific world, you could train him to become anything you want. Such as a doctor, lawyer etc...A normal infant well formed can be trained to do or become what we want of them providing that he is in a environment that is positive and not being an emotional
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Across Developmental Trajectory: Cognitive Processing of Threat in Children, Adolescents, and Adults
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder across Developmental Trajectory: Cognitive Processing of Threat in Children, Adolescents, and Adults Everybody experiences intrusive thoughts once in a while, yet we think nothing of it most of the time. However, for people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, such thoughts occur frequently, and they are likely to be interpreted with more emotional intensity, and are highly uncontrollable. Obsessions signify the extreme end on a continuum of normal, unwanted, intrusive thinking. Studies have shown that
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Multiple Personality Disorder
Multiple Personality Disorder When you were growing up, did you have an imaginary friend? Did Mom and Dad have to set a place for Timmy at the table and serve him invisible food, or did all your aunts and uncles have to pet your imaginary puppy when the came over to the house? That's just pretend, though, kids having fun. So is a child pretending that they are someone else, forcing their parents to call
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Eating Disorders
Christie Roberts Psychology 102 Eating Disorders An eating disorder is a compulsion in which the main problem is a person eats in a way which disturbs their physical health. The eating may be too excessive (compulsive over-eating), too limited (restricting), may include normal eating punctuated with episodes of purging, may include cycles of binging and purging, or may encompass the ingesting of non-foods. ( Dictionary) Most eating disorders start before the age of 20,
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Handspring Inc Evaluation and Control
Solution EVALUATION AND CONTROL Evaluation of the sales staff should be done in order to improve their performance. Targets should be set at the beginning of every month and the actual performance in relation to the targets should be compared to get the real difference between the targeted performance and the real performance. A similar, target setting and evaluation of the sales performance will not only evaluate the performance of the employees but will also
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Dysthymic Disorder
Dysthymic disorder also known as Neurotic depression is a depressive mood disorder. It usually is current and happens every day or two years. Dysthymia is more common among African Americans and Mexican Americans than among Caucasians. Womaen are twice as likely to suffer from this depreesive mood disorder than males. Women are diagnosed with dysthymic disorder at two to three times the rate as men. The cause of this may be the hormonal fluctuation from
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Control Issues
2001: A Space Odyssey is just that: a long wandering voyage of the body and mind. Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clark collaborated brilliantly. In examining both works, the film and the novel, there are certainly differences, yet the theme and overall idea coincide thoroughly. That this was made in the 1960's augments both accomplishments. The visuals, seen in 2004, are still captivating. What they must've seemed like in 1968! I flout those who received
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Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar affective disorder has been a mystery since the 16th century. History has shown that this disorder can appear in almost anyone. Even the great painter Vincent Van Gogh is believed to have had bipolar disorder. It is clear that in our society many people live with bipolar disorder; however, despite the amount of people suffering from it, we are still waiting for explanations for the causes and cure. The one fact of which we
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder "Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric disorder, more specifically, an anxiety disorder. OCD comes in a variety of forms but is most commonly characterized by a subject's obsessive (repetitive, distressing, intrusive) thoughts and related compulsions (tasks or rituals) which attempt to neutralize the obsessions." It's important to distinguish OCD from other type's anxiety, like routine tension and normal stress that appear throughout life. "Obsessions are thoughts and ideas that the sufferer
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Genes Associated with Bipolar Disorder
Stated in the John Hopkins Neurology and Neurosurgery journal " Brain Waves" ( Potash , 2004 ) illustrates the idea which came from German psychiatrist Emil Kraipelin in the 1800's that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are distinct from each other by visualizing them as two trees in a forest of mental illness. As a result began the separation of the diseases that marks today's psychiatry. Potash also states that "If we knew the genes associated
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder which can afflict a person throughout his/her lifetime: "The individual who suffers from OCD becomes trapped in a pattern of repetitive thoughts and behaviors that are senseless and distressing but extremely difficult to overcome" (http:www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/ocd.htm). Obsessions and compulsions are the two main components of this disorder. The former are often highly negative such as an ever-present fear of germs. Compulsions such as repetitive handwashing are rituals
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Narcissistic Personality Disorder Willa Cather's title "Paul's Case" (1905) invites us to ponder the question, "What exactly is Paul's Case?" Cather immediately informs us that Paul's case is mysterious. His own father is "perplexed" about his son's behavior, and the school faculty, who meet with Paul to discuss his recent suspension, speak of Paul with such "rancor" and "aggrieved ness" that it is obvious that Paul's is "not a usual case" (Cather, 1991, p.
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Ambient Music and the Impulse Towards Deconstruction
Out of Light - cometh Darkness, dark ambient music and the impulse towards deconstruction 1. "These recordings may be seen as a notation of our deadminded society, but not as a reaction against it, we will all become ambient dead heads, if not..." (Archon Satani, In Shelter, liner note, 1994) If not, then ellipsis. The conditional clause of fact, followed by an open-ended ellipsis, where not only the conjunction between a conditional present and an
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Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control
Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control Netherlabs BV bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl Thomas Graf (Section Author) tgraf%suug.ch Gregory Maxwell (Section Author) Remco van Mook (Section Author) remco@virtu.nl Martijn van Oosterhout (Section Author) kleptog@cupid.suninternet.com Paul B Schroeder (Section Author) paulsch@us.ibm.com Jasper Spaans (Section Author) jasper@spaans.ds9a.nl Pedro Larroy (Section Author) piotr%member.fsf.org A very hands-on approach to iproute2, traffic shaping and a bit of netfilter. _______________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents 1. Dedication 2. Introduction 2.1. Disclaimer & License 2.2. Prior knowledge 2.3.
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Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder
Mental Disorders Millions and millions of people have been, and are, plagued by some type of mental disorder. There are many types of disorders such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and substance-related disorders. The mental disorders can range from minor cases to very strong, extreme cases. Two mental disorders that deal with the shifting of a human's personality and character are schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Schizophrenia is a mental illness that is characterized
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