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May 17, 2012 - 2398 words | Health Science » Stroke
A stroke is defined by the Stroke Association as a ‘brain attack’, where part of the brain is deprived of oxygen. It is also known as a ‘cerebrovascular accident’ (CVA). There are two types of strokes: ischaemic and haemorrhagic (The Stroke... Read Article »
March 19, 2012 - 9003 words | Globalization Studies » Protest
In the waking moments of the twenty-first century, political science faces a burgeoning global movement, a crisis in some eyes, and a revolution in others. News and media hype over worldwide protests, from the Middle East, to Africa, to the United States and finally... Read Article »
January 16, 2012 - 2893 words | Political Science » European Union
Does candidacy to the European Union (Eu) increase a nation’s Trade Openness? A good way to begin examining this question is by asking, what is Trade Openness? Simply put, it is a nation’s imports plus its exports divided by its GDP ([imports+exports]/GDP... Read Article »
October 20, 2011 - 5079 words | Psychology » Addiction
The observable tendency of a person to repeat the use of drugs, and continue use in spite of possible or real negative consequences, can be partially explained by examining several learning theories and learning with respect to nEurological associative strength, and... Read Article »
September 27, 2011 - 2824 words | Political Science » European Union
Of the European Union’s twenty-seven member states, no country is more sceptical of political and economic integration than Great Britain. The English are profoundly independent and inherently suspicious of their continental neighbours; an attitude no doubt inspired... Read Article »
August 2, 2011 - 4085 words | Health Science » Euthanasia
One of the fastest growing medical phenomena is that of human Euthanasia. No matter what the argument or the entity involved, the common question seems to be whether or not the act of human Euthanasia is an ethically acceptable practice. Frequently a person takes a... Read Article »
April 15, 2011 - 3712 words | International Affairs » Governmentality
This case study asks the following question: given the symbol of the European Union as the ultimate supranational, rights-based, compliance-inducing international organization, why have member states France and Italy escaped punishment for their blatant violations... Read Article »
April 13, 2011 - 1860 words | Literary Criticism » Hermeneutics
In the Broadview Press edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, editor and translator James Winny makes a concerted effort to render the original Middle English text in denotatively correct, non-alliterative modern English. In doing so, he fails to illuminate one... Read Article »
March 30, 2011 - 3350 words | Behavioral Neuroscience » Emotion
When investigating the effect of gaze direction on facial expressions of emotion, previous imaging research indicated that dynamic presentation of stimuli produced higher amygdala responses (Sato, Kochiyama, Uono, & Yoshikawa, 2010). A behavioral study further... Read Article »
November 30, 2010 - 1387 words | English » Freud
The Phantom of the Opera was originally penned as a French serial by Gaston Leroux in 1909. It tells the story of a young man, Erik, who is born with a terrible deformity in his face. Erik is outcast by his parents, and eventually comes to live beneath the... Read Article »
October 18, 2010 - 4984 words | English » Tobias Wolff
Lucius AnnaEus Seneca once said that “All art is but imitation of nature” (Bartlett’s 106) and this has held true for the centuries following him, nature and life reflected in the art and literature of its time. Art shows life in a distilled and refined... Read Article »
October 5, 2010 - 2623 words | Business » Sustainable Business Practices
The search for competitive advantage is an ongoing quest for companies in the United States. As new technologies continue to develop at a lightning fast rate, and efficiencies are gained in all areas of production, one relatively new endeavor is becoming increasingly... Read Article »
October 4, 2010 - 5869 words | Philosophy » Artificial Intelligence
The advent of digital computers and contemporary nEuroscience has fundamentally changed possible approaches to artificial intelligence (AI). Mankind’s perpetually evolving technological capacity inevitably leads to faster processors, more complex systems, and... Read Article »
September 24, 2010 - 1555 words | Philosophy » Consciousness
In his article “Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness,” Thomas Nagel suggests that the ordinary conception of a unified mind is misled. To support his claim, he turns to data concerning patients whose corpus callosum has been severed. Because the... Read Article »
March 22, 2010 - 7714 words | Art » Non-western Art
The Musée du Quai Branly opened under the long shadow of the Eiffel Tower in 2006 to spectacular criticism. Initiated primarily at the behest of then-President Jacques Chirac (b. 1932, held office from 1995-2007), the musEum possesses an eclectic family tree... Read Article »
March 10, 2010 - 3883 words | Biology » Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson’s disease (PD), a progressive nEurodegerative disorder most prevalent in the elderly and for which there is currently no cure, selectively targets nigrostriatal Dopaminergic (DAergic) projection nEurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc),... Read Article »
March 5, 2010 - 1531 words | Biology » Neuroscience
Mitochondria are Eukaryotic, membrane-enclosed, 1-10um sized organelles, described as “cellular power plants” as they are responsible for the production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and oxidative phosporylation. Signal transduction (buffering and storage... Read Article »
March 4, 2010 - 2805 words | Biology » Neuroscience
The discovery of adult nEurogenesis (the endogenous production of new nEurons) in the mammalian brain more than 40 years ago (Malcolm R. Alison, 2002) has resulted in a wealth of knowledge of this branch of nEuroscience. Today we know that the continuous production... Read Article »
February 23, 2010 - 3647 words | Psychology » Decision Making
Every day, people are inundated with decisions, big and small. Understanding how people arrive at their choices is an area of cognitive psychology that has received attention. Theories have been generated to explain how people make decisions, and what types of factors... Read Article »
February 22, 2010 - 6963 words | Art » Louvre
“You have created a MusEum; carefully assemble here every masterpiece which the Republic [of France] already possesses…and the entire world will be eager to deposit its treasures, its singularities, its accomplishments; and the documents of its history... Read Article »
February 22, 2010 - 1049 words | English » Immigration
On the eve of the 19th century, in 1781, French-American immigrant Hector St. Jean de CrevecoEur wrote a letter, the third in his famed Letters from an American Farmer, entitled “What Is An American?” His answer, as open for interpretation as it might be... Read Article »
January 29, 2010 - 3144 words | History » French Revolution
Common analysis of Marat is predominantly derived in his own radical written works, however there is also speculation about his character from “blind admirers and passionate enemies.”[1] Marat elicits absolute judgments from his contemporaries and revisionists... Read Article »
January 27, 2010 - 1173 words | History » French Revolution
The French Revolution marks a stain in history, notorious for one of the bloodiest periods in modern civilization. Whether this infamous violence existed at the birth of the Revolution or only during the Terror has been the topic of debate between scholars since the... Read Article »
December 15, 2009 - 1671 words | Opinion » Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau is the so-called “modern style” developed at the turn of the 19th century. Although it is dated roughly between 1890 and 1910, its first true recognition as an important new movement in art and design occurred at the Universal Exposition in... Read Article »
December 14, 2009 - 1636 words | Film and Cinema » Billy Wilder
In her article “Visual Pleasure and the Narrative Cinema”, Laura Mulvey describes a way of analyzing and understanding cinema from a feminist and psychoanalytic perspective. A very similar approach is taken by Molly Haskell in her review of Hitchcock&rsquo... Read Article »
November 28, 2009 - 1396 words | English » Ancient Greek Literature
Even in fairy tales and fantastical legends, the trespassing of the breathing upon the domain of the spirits is rare. It is a disturbing idea; when the dead visit our world, we can at least find comfort in numbers. Yet the hero OdyssEus braves the unknown and looks... Read Article »
October 25, 2009 - 881 words | English » Issei And Nisei
Hisaye Yamamoto’s double-telling stories, according to King-kok ChEung, convey “two tales in the guise of one,” one woven from the explicit words of the narrator, the other from the softened and sometimes pointedly silent characters that surround... Read Article »