| (Published: Mon, 22 May 2006 01:00:00 -0400) |
| Why are You so Scared of Public Speaking? |
| Of course, it’s not just you. Virtually everyone is petrified at the very thought of speaking in front of a group of their fellow human beings. Which means that this fear is natural. The human race is terrified of its own kind.
Why should this be? The answer to that question lies in prehistory; a |
| Author: Jim Ewan |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 01:00:00 -0400) |
| Immigration, Integration, And Criminalization |
| I was born and raised in the west. To say I knew illegal aliens were an understandment. These people were mostly Mexican fresh from the border. Having crossed over, they sought any kind of employment they could. For many years, they became known to us by a demeaning name as "wetbacks".
They wou |
| Author: Dana Smith |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 01:00:00 -0400) |
| Confidence For Speaking In Public |
| A survey of America revealed that people are more frightened of speaking in public than of dying!
How incredible is that? To be more frightened of talking to a few people than of having your life ended.
It’s particularly surprising when you realise just how easily you can overcome your fear o |
| Author: Jason Johns |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| What Triggers Heartburn or Acid Reflux? |
| Acid Reflux – also known as Heartburn - is caused when acid from the stomach backs up into the esophagus, causing an uncomfortable burning sensation.
Almost everyone experiences heartburn at some point in their life. However if these symptoms occur more than two days a week for several months, |
| Author: Paul MacIver |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| The Da Vinci Code and Opus Dei: Who is Telling the Truth |
| With the flood of publicity likely from occur from The Da Vinci Code, Opus Dei, the organization cast as the 'baddies', are demanding cuts from the movie 'so as not to offend Catholics'.
Whether the publicity will actually offend Catholics are just give Opus Dei some unwelcome attention is open |
| Author: William Martin |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Irritable Bowel Syndrome – Symptoms, Causes and Treatments |
| Irritable bowel syndrome is a chronic functional disorder of the intestines which causes abdominal pain, often accompanied by cramping, bloating, diarrhea and constipation. It is also referred to as spastic colon or mucous colitis. Irritable bowel syndrome is more commonly known by its abbreviated t |
| Author: Paul MacIver |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Cholesterol – What Is It and Are You At Risk? |
| Cholesterol is a fatty lipid, steroid and an alcohol found in the body tissues and blood plasma of vertebrates. It is the essential part of the outer membranes of human body cells, and it circulates in the blood.
Cholesterol in the human body comes from two major sources. About three-quarters of |
| Author: Paul MacIver |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Personalized Wedding Vows |
| The following article lists some simple, informative tips that will help you have a better experience with weddings.
Your wedding is your own. And in today’s society, people have been constantly scouring every book for any way to make their wedding as personal and as unique as possible. One wa |
| Author: Jack Smith |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Take Low Cholesterol Diets to Reduce Cholesterol |
| Cholesterol is a fatty lipid, steroid and an alcohol found in the body tissues and blood plasma of vertebrates. It is the cardinal part of the outer membranes of human body cells and it circulates in the blood of humans. Cholesterol in the human body comes from two major sources – diet, and the live |
| Author: Paul MacIver |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Health & Safety - An overview |
| Most countries have some form of Health & Safety at Work legislation. The legislation was needed to reduce the number of workplace accidents and fatalities
Health & safety now have to be factored into costs for any company. The company cannot allow unsafe practices to go on, without being liable |
| Author: Peter Gallagher |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Online degrees - specially suited to adults looking to improve their employment prospects |
| No longer is a university degree only available by physically attending university lectures, seminars and tutorials. Now you can work for your degree 100% online, never setting foot into the hallowed halls of learning unless you choose to.
There are universities that offer Bachelors and Masters d |
| Author: Peter Gallagher |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Nitrous oxide - Laughing gas uses in modern society |
| Laughing gas, N2O, dinitrogen monoxide or to use its older name, nitrous oxide has a range of uses in our society. Most of these would have to fall into the category of non-essential.
Nitrous oxide is well known as a dental anaesthetic gas. Having gas at the dentist though, is much less common no |
| Author: Peter Gallagher |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Teaching - A Survival Guide for Students and New Teachers (Part 4) Body languagwe basics |
| Body language is your chief weapon in your campaign for a calm and disciplined learning environment. With the correct posture or hand movement it is possible to control even the most rowdy of classes. Most of the ideas here are extremely simple but they do work. Practice them on colleagues and child |
| Author: Peter Gallagher |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Teaching - A Survival Guide for Students and New Teachers (Part 1) |
| Most teachers make many mistakes in the early years of their careers. The majority of these mistakes, in hindsight, are avoidable. This series of articles is written with the experience of many years’ teaching in mind. I hope it can help you to avoid some of the common mistakes made by new teachers, |
| Author: Peter Gallagher |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Vitamins – An Overview |
| Protectors of Good Health
We know that vitamins do not provide us with energy. Yet they are considered essential to our general well being as they assist in metabolism, protect our health and are necessary for the proper growth and development, especially in children. Vitamins were discovered by Du |
| Author: Jack Smith |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Treatment of Alcoholism |
| In recent times, alcoholism itself is being recognized as the primary issue to be dealt with rather than underlying social, psychological or physiological factors that may have caused it. Earlier, these factors were considered primary and alcoholism was secondary to these problems; thus treatment wa |
| Author: Jack Smith |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Types of Allergies |
| People who suffer from allergies of a specific type are usually prone to allergies from various other substances. These substances, called allergens, range from common indoor household substances like dust particles, mold and mildew, pet dander, chemical emissions from cleaning agents, to biological |
| Author: Jack Smith |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| What are Allergies? |
| Considered as one of the major disabling illnesses, allergies afflict more than 40 million people in the in United States alone. As you know, our immune system protects our body from all types of foreign substances and dangerous microorganisms, called antigens, like viruses, bacteria etc. It does th |
| Author: Jack Smith |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Office Air Purifiers |
| In today’s challenging and aggressive business environment, providing comfortable and pleasant occupational surroundings has become essential to improve employee productivity and retention. Both customers and employees demand that their work environs be clean, healthy and comfortable. A crucial elem |
| Author: Jack Smith |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Air Pollution – A Distressing Reality |
| Today, air pollution has become a distressing reality in most parts of the world. Ecologists never tire to remind us about the need to maintain the delicate environmental balance between humans and plants to ensure the healthy survival of the human species. Plants and trees, nature’s natural mechani |
| Author: Jack Smith |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Air Purifiers and Asthma |
| If you are a sufferer of asthma or any serious allergies, at some point you must have considered or been approached by a salesman to buy an air purifier. These gadgets are meant to alleviate the problems of air pollution faced by asthma patients. People who suffer from asthma know only too well the |
| Author: Jack Smith |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| History of Cocaine |
| Extraction of pure cocaine was first done from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush, which is found mainly in the high mountain ranges of Peru and Bolivia, in the mid nineteenth century. The natives of this region used the coca leaves as a stimulant. The effect of intake was increased breathing, w |
| Author: Jack Smith |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Hydrocodone Addiction – A Rising Crisis |
| Commonly prescribed for its effectiveness as an analgesic or pain reliever, addiction to hydrocodone is today being viewed as a mounting crisis. While addiction to illicit drugs, like cocaine, marijuana and heroin that claim national headlines ever so often, is widely talked about, we scarcely know |
| Author: Jack Smith |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Hydrocodone Addiction |
| Do you feel anxious about getting your prescription filled before it runs out? Do you need to take more pills than before to achieve the effect you desire? Do you get your prescriptions from many doctors? Perhaps you are, like many others, a sufferer of a drug addiction. One of the most common addic |
| Author: Jack Smith |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Physical Effects of Withdrawal From Tobacco |
| The most commonly felt effects of physical withdrawal from tobacco smoking are feelings of anger, depression, anxiety and restlessness. A chain smoker’s body experiences sharply rising and falling levels of nicotine on a daily basis. In the withdrawal stage, these cycles are coming to an end. Over y |
| Author: Jack Smith |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Reasons to Quit Smoking |
| Reduced risk of cancer
Smoking causes cancer. We’ve all heard that. Everyone knows that lung cancer is one of the most devastating side effects of smoking. However, what is less known is that it puts smokers at risk of many other types of cancers as well, for example, mouth cancer, cancer of the la |
| Author: Jack Smith |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| What is an Addiction? |
| We are addicted to a substance or an activity when we repeatedly crave for it and would go to great lengths (often even detrimental to our well being) to obtain or experience it. Addictions can be to substances such as alcohol and drugs or even to activities such as gambling and sex. When the conseq |
| Author: Jack Smith |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| A Brief History of Heroin in America |
| In the late 1800’s, opium was a popular, commonly available drug. Drug users frequented opium dens which dotted the ‘Wild West’ region of America. It was smuggled in and sold by Chinese immigrants who came here to work on the railroads.
There is a typical picture of the western cowboy drowning hi |
| Author: Jack Smith |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Coping With An Addiction |
| It is most important to stay motivated during the process of recovery. It helps to make a list of benefits, or advantages of quitting the addictive behavior. These should be benefits that are very valuable to you – valuable enough to turn your back on the addiction. Setbacks will occur and should b |
| Author: Jack Smith |
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| (Published: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Effects of Cocaine |
| Cocaine has enormously devastating side effects which can eventually be fatal. It acts extremely rapidly and its short term side effects can even be experienced by a person who has used it just once. Its long term side effects gradually show up after repeated use, and their intensity depends upon th |
| Author: Jack Smith |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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| (Published: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Heroin Addiction - The Basics |
| Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug. It among the most abused and fastest acting of the opiates (opiates, also called narcotics, are a family of drugs which are used in the medical profession to relieve pain, but are also highly abused due to this very property). It induces a feeling of inten |
| Author: Jack Smith |
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| (Published: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Adult Acne - The Basics |
| Adult Acne
Did you know that acne is considered to be the most widespread skin condition in the world? While its occurrence is most common amongst adolescents, men and women in their thirties and forties have also been known to suffer from acne. Adult acne then refers to acne that begins or continu |
| Author: Jack Smith |
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| (Published: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Over-the-Counter Acne Treatments |
| A wide range of medications are available today which have proven effective in the treatment of acne. Sometimes it may be necessary to take a combination of medicines to successfully and completely treat the acne. The earlier you treat your acne, the less likely you are to develop severe acne and sc |
| Author: Jack Smith |
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| (Published: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Types of Acne - 101 |
| Acne can range from mild to moderate to severely disfiguring and manifests itself in different forms in different people.
Acne Vulgaris is the most common form of acne and it includes several types of pimples. These include blackheads, whiteheads, papules, pustules, nodules and cysts. Nodules an |
| Author: Jack Smith |
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| (Published: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Whatever you do, don’t squeeze that zit! |
| Squeezing pimples or zits, as they are commonly called, can be painful and cause serious damage. An enduring myth about acne is that squeezing blackheads can clear up the acne faster. This myth is not only false, but following this advice can also cause long-lasting harm to the skin.
Pimples can |
| Author: Jack Smith |
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| (Published: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Prescription Medications for Acne |
| Why should you visit a dermatologist?
With the host of over-the-counter medications available, it can be quite a frustrating experience and long drawn process finding the right medication that suits your particular type of acne and skin. The easier and most often desirable option would be to contac |
| Author: Jack Smith |
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| (Published: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Acne: Fact and Fiction |
| Acne: Fact and Fiction
Myths about acne die hard. Old wives’ tales about its causes continue to persist, in spite of scientific condition to the contrary. This article aims to shed light on some common myths about acne and attempts to separate fact from fiction.
Myth 1: People who have acne ar |
| Author: Jack Smith |
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| (Published: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| What Causes Acne? |
| Acne inflicts most people at some stage of their lives, most commonly during puberty. Contrary to the popular myth, acne is not caused by eating greasy foods and chocolates. The exact reason why people get acne is still not fully understood although it is known to run in the family. Listed here are |
| Author: Jack Smith |
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| (Published: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| What is Mesothelioma? |
| Most people who have or have had mesothelioma have been exposed to asbestos about 35-40 years before contracting the disease. Asbestos have been known to come from certain insulators, cements, roofs and household cleaners, among other things. An exposure to asbestos for as little as 2 or 3 months |
| Author: Bart Samuri |
| Directory: Arts - Humanities |
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