Author : Carey JamesDear reader, before i begin my tirade of self assured blathering i would ask you to hold this question in your mind before you let your eyes scan further across the pre-mentioned text What is Beauty? By which i mean what is it to you personally and also what is it to society? How do we view and value it?
Beauty for no sake except its own is the only form worth pursuing, when beauty has a dual purpose it detracts form itself, let me explain further as i realize i have launched into my thoughts without taking the time to go into detail If a beautiful object such as a painting or sculpture or a fine building has a primary or secondary function other than to be beautiful it ceases to be so, and thus falls into the well worn trap of being merely practical
Many people suppose that all beauty can have a purpose, A flower is comely to attract bees, as is a female to attract males at first glance it would well seem that every natural beauty has a purpose or a side agenda which was in place firstly thus leading to the need for a form of beauty, and so mankind emulates his perceived surroundings and assigns all beauty a sub-task for which its beauty is just the mode of delivery for its purpose or job If this is deemed to be true then beauty must have no value in itself and therefore cannot truly be beautiful Man finds it almost impossible to create something of beauty without attaching to it a subtle meaning or silent message The human race feels lost and shudders to think of a purposeless universe twirling and pulsating in all its perfect majesty for no other reason than IT IS A good example is Mona Lisa’s smile by which i mean the painting not the much later but also very brilliant movie, Back to the painting of the Mona Lisa, most of us rather than look upon it and say to ourselves she is as she is, we look for a hidden meaning in that most beautiful smile, a hint of sadness? a glint of buried despair perhaps?
Mans natural love of creating beauty is governed and oppressed by this need for functionality, a grand cathedral cannot be built for its own sake, it must always be in homage to a god or gods or idol, we view the beauty of women as the same in homage to another whether man or woman but hardly ever for its own sake Monuments of old are scrutinized until a reason, any reason is found for the creation of something of beauty for why would man create beauty unless it had a hidden meaning? was symbolic? a purpose? and so man has limited itself to what it can create it has to represent an existing symbol, theology, mode of thought, house of power or cultural identity
When will man ever create beauty for only itself to be beautiful free from the mental block and conditioning, to put the depths and intricacies of our minds and souls into physical matter without the constraint of needing to represent or be symbolic or give a message We have sadly lost many fantastic and sublime minds to this mode of thought for example Bernini the great sculptor himself who most agree is a maker of beauty and pure emotion translated into delicate marble was still for all his skill restricted by this when he began a work he always started with a theme or thought such as pain, anguish, ecstasy, or a person or event, but never did he simply start with one word to guide his hand, beauty, his works are alas only a shadow of his emotional strength they are the hollow shell of the beauty he could have produced if free within himself, it is the same for many young women today in a different sense but no less true
Many misguided young women nowadays shape there beauty to societies current perceptions of it or to the opposite sexes proscribed ideas about modern beauty sadly almost never does she view it through her own self effectively becoming a mere social mirror again a brief fluttering reflection in the flickering lights of what her true beauty is Many advocate isolation to obtain a true understanding and eye for beauty, there is great value in this as being isolated you have no need of mirroring or projecting the thoughts of others such as the media or the fashion houses into your concepts this is why many monks and saints favoured hermitage it was much easier they found to connect with the pure spiritual beauty of god free from expectations or dogmatic notions
All great people who create beauty have no sub task for example Two women Cleopatra and Marilyn Monroe, Cleopatra who is know to have been in spirit and body very beautiful is often viewed as ugly and immoral due to the fact that she used her beauty as a mere political tool, while Marilyn Monroe who once proclaimed she didn’t wish to be rich or famous just wonderful is for all her imperfections and so called dubious morals viewed as almost saint like as beauty personified Showing that the only way to create something truly beautiful is to set out to do that and nothing but Anything else is a pointless endeavour a waste of many a magnificent mind and always ends in failure by being a shadow of what it could be Let us embrace beauty for what it is there would be no limit to what wonders we could achieve Bob has been writing articles online for nearly 2 years now. Not only does this author specialize in The Beauty of Art
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Author : Carey JamesThe diagnosis of lumbar back pain is difficult and uncertain due to the various conditions which can present with this problem Effective back pain management depends on identifying what kind of back pain problem is present, and many people have suggested that there are many back pain subtypes which need to be identified before treatment can be well targeted The variations in diagnoses for low back pain and related symptoms include: postural pain; trigger point pains; nerve root compression; neuropathic pain; facet joint pain; disc related pain and lumbar stenosis
The spinal facet joints, intervertebral discs, muscles and ligaments are all potential sources of mechanical back pain, a pain derived from the damaged or injured tissues and transmitted by the nervous system When the nervous system is damaged or injured it can start generating pain itself, leading to the production of what is termed neuropathic pain Typical diagnoses of this kind of pain are post-shingles pain, phantom pain, nerve root damage pain and diabetic neuropathy pain Patients suffer badly with this kind of unpleasant pain and it is difficult to treat
A recent study performed by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, UK, has investigated this difficulty They recognised that the assessment by taking a score of pain intensity does not reflect the reality of the complex nature of pain processes by which pain is generated They set out to design an assessment which would take these complexities into account, allowing the clearer identification of the diagnosis and thereby a potentially more accurate treatment They developed a standardised tool to use in the assessment of chronic pain with the aim of delineating differing pain subtypes
130 people with peripheral neuropathic pain and 57 people with mechanical low back pain were surveyed and given a standardised assessment An interview with 16 questions was then applied followed by a specific series of twenty-three physical tests A list of words applicable to pain descriptions was provided and patients were asked to indicate which ones most accurately described their pain In chronic pain patients often have an alteration in the ability to feel touch, vibratory and pin prick stimuli so the ability to discriminate these sensibilities is tested
In neuropathic pain patients it was possible to identify six sub-groups and in non neuropathic patients two further subgroups were noted Researchers were also able to distinguish the 6 questions and 10 physical tests which were best suited to making the most accurate discrimination between the pain subtypes Testing this tool on one hundred and thirty seven further patients allowed the researchers to see it worked effectively and that patient acceptability was good A particular group of neuropathic pain subtypes could be elucidated by a relatively low number of signs and symptoms which were not related to the presenting causative conditions
The recording of the symptoms was less sensitive in distinguishing the neuropathic nature of the pains than the physical examination The pain quality was less important than often noted and the pinprick testing more helpful The researchers tried to link the pain subtypes with specific underlying biological mechanisms, with spontaneous pain of a burning nature linked to spontaneous discharges in heat sensitive pain nerves and pain from brushing related to increased sensitivity of cells in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord
The physical examination was more sensitive in delineating neuropathic diagnoses of pains than the recording of the types and nature of symptoms The qualities of the pain were less helpful and the testing of pinprick more helpful The researchers attempted to connect the underlying neural mechanisms with the pain subtypes The heat sensitive pain nerves were linked to burning pains of a spontaneous type and heightened sensitivity of the spinal cord dorsal horn cells was linked to increased pain from brushing over the skin Bob has been writing articles online for nearly 2 years now. Not only does this author specialize in Diagnosing Low Back Pain
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Author : Matthew StuartChoose a subject of interest, even if it’s not a part of analysis, this must be the foremost thing to be done to effectively develop a research paper or research analysis
The main aim of doing an analysis for a research paper is to define the research problem, implement a sample plan and identify new lines of inquiry, conceptualize and test your methodological insights, seek recommendations for further research and develop a design structure
Steps in Analysis:
Once you have done the above, the analysis is fairly easy for a research paper analysis
The following points try to bind the analysis in a simpler way, even though there could be many explanations for the analysis to done before writing a research paper
1 Prepare your data
You need prepare a data base to store your data which involves storing or checking your data for accuracy In this process you may have data coming from different sources such as mail surveys, interviews, pre or post test data and observational data
You need to check the data for legibility, answers, completeness and context You should develop a codebook where you are able to access the data according to its name, description, format, group, location or notes You need to perform a data transformation by providing certain variables to missing values, item reversals, scale totals and categories
2 Describe the data
You need to describe the data using some basic features so that you can get summaries of a set of data, samples and measures You are just describing how the particular data differentiates from other hence making analysis easy The large amount of data inferred into some simple terms so that it is manageable and sensible Every description makes a complex set of data into simpler conclusions When we describe a data we need to put them into three ways
The distribution is a summary of frequency of individual values or ranges of values The central tendency is an average of the most commonly used value
The dispersion is the variation from the central tendency It shows the highest values and the lowest values
3 Inferential statistics
When you analyze, descriptive data is used to simply analyze what is going on in our data, but inferential data states something more in general The descriptive data could even be something that might have happened in our study alone for a particular group by chance You can analyze the inferential statistics in many ways using factor analysis, multidimensional scaling, cluster analysis and so on
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Research paper analysis when developing a business research paper or a law research paper could be carried out in many ways by collecting data from different sources, interfering them in a way that benefits your argument and developing them support your point The most important thing you need to keep in mind is to keep a database that easily pulls them for you whenever you want by certain key words that you use Matthew Stuart is the Editor in chief at BestResearchPaper.co.uk, an industry leader in research paper writing and assistant company in UK. It also features one of the exclusive free draft facility for students with quality in research paper writing as its prime objective.
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Author : Dennis Cooper
The practice of sexual perversion in the form of homosexuality and lesbianism is steadily gaining acceptance and popularity in the American social mainstream A practice that should in the most absolute form be frowned upon is gaining widespread popularity to the extent that it has succeeded in dividing the political system of the country Once upon time, the practice of homosexuality and lesbianism were confined to a handful of minority individuals, today for whatever reason the adherents of homosexual practices are waging a relentless war in favor of not just the legalization of the practice but also an increase in its proliferation using whatever means available to them Besides the obscenity of the practice of homosexuality, a source of deep concern is the campaign to interpolate the rich social values with this uncouth conducts
Come to think of it, a number of states within the United States have got very active and functional proponents of homosexuality who are seriously campaigning for the promotion of homosexuality as a right and hence subject to protection by the laws of the land They have so far successfully pushed a number of bills through; enshrined in these debasing bills are the provisions to enjoin the state and its institutions to put up defense for homosexual legal cases in our courts It is therefore in the light of these acts of unbridled extremism that this essay will be conducting an exhaustive critique of why the practice of homosexuality should not be promoted in the American society In view of the broad nature of the question of homosexuality, this essay will limit its scope to the dangers posed by the practice of homosexuality to our national security interest Consequently, knowing that there is no compromise in matters of national security because of the renewed threat posed by religious and political radicalism there is no point allowing the practice to enter our honorable military institutions
There is an enormous wealth of evidence to prove that the practice of sexual perversion in the form of homosexuality is mortally dangerous This evidence ranges from the health and medical, to the social, the financial and a host of other spheres of the American society It therefore begs the question that why should the American people acting in all forms of rationality expose their noble military institution to the ravaging effects of homosexual threat
Come to think of it, the United States is the reigning military super power after the demise of the Soviet Union that ended the Cold War Beside hardware and sophisticated technology, the human capital component is also another important determinant of military might The United States Army is a highly respectable, honorable, and noble institution that our men and women patriotically serve for the purpose of defending the motherland for the prosperity of today’s generation and those yet unborn It commands a respect of global scale, with a composition of men and women who profess discipline order essays
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