Colors around us. Our environment‚ culture and upbringing conditions us to associate different colors with particular things. For example‚ purple brings to mind royalty‚ wealth and perhaps wisdom and religion; red we associate with danger or as a warning; pink is the color of love and romance; white is purity‚ cleanliness and sterility and so on. Color is actually light‚ carried from the sun in waves and is part of the same electro-magnetic spectrum as x-rays‚ radio waves and the like. Light
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Music and Emotion 2 Music and Emotion Music has been a part of human life since the beginning of time and can be defined as many different things; instruments being played‚ pots banging together‚ or even birds chirping in the wild. Today‚ music is usually thought of as either entertainment or a form of expression. For all the reasons above‚ it would be logical to say that music must play a large part on the human brain and emotion’s because of its ability to last thru time. Music in some form
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How Smoking Affects Your Body There’s hardly a part of the human body that’s not affected by the chemicals in the cigarettes you smoke. Let’s take a tour of your body to look at how smoking affects it. Starting at the Top As a smoker‚ you’re at risk for cancer of the mouth. Tobacco smoke can also cause gum disease‚ tooth decay and bad breath. The teeth become unsightly and yellow. Smokers may experience frequent headaches. And lack of oxygen and narrowed blood vessels to the brain can lead to
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lifestyle and giving advice on how to keep fit and healthy. Turning a deaf ear to their advice is to court trouble. Healthy food intake and lifestyle contribute much to keeping our body healthy. Despite knowing this statement‚ more and more people tend to visit fast food outlets instead of eating at home. Suffice to say‚ it has become an unhealthy vogue. We all know that deep-fried food containing high level of cholesterol‚ fat and sugar‚ for certain‚ will adversely affect our health. Yet most of us
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The Brain When children are abused it changes their lives. The three main types of Child abuse are physical‚ emotional‚ and sexual. As children grow the experiences from their environments around them are critical to future development. Early in life the brain has plasticity. This allows many windows of opportunity for the brain to thrive. Child abuse has the greatest impact on brain development in children. If hindered due to abuse or neglect‚ the brain can be altered and drastically affect the
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Contrary to popular belief‚ our brains do not reach adulthood and stop changing or growing. Although there are limitations‚ such as our inability to heal brain damage the way we heal other body parts‚ human brains continue to generate new neurons well past when was originally thought. This process is called neurogenesis‚ and until recently‚ was seen as a development only occurring in embryonic and perinatal stages in mammals. Luckily‚ this continues throughout life‚ and is beneficial to college
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Technology is the present world. It affects people’s daily lives. Whether it inspires somebody to be the master at videogames or makes somebody a computer hacker. It has changed the generation of teenagers/young adults rapidly. It has made the generation more greedy‚ ignorant‚ and lazy. For instance‚ my parents did not have fancy cell phones or high-tech computers back then because it was never created. They only had a bike and ball until it was worn out. They never thru a fit for not getting what
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*How does the brain communicate with the rest of the body? How is the autonomic branch of the peripheral nervous system involved in controlling emotions? The nervous system as a whole includes the Central Nervous System‚ consisting of brain and spinal cord‚ and the Peripheral Nervous System‚ whose nerve fibres connect all parts of the body with the central nervous system. The Peripheral Nervous System is further subdivided into two branches‚ the Somatic Nervous system and the Autonomic Nervous System
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Music Affects People Music has substantially evolved through the course of history and has branched into various genres. Indicating the fact that society has also changed greatly. Many people in the world have listened to music in their lifetime‚ and most of them have a habit of doing so. The music people listen to the most‚ affects their character‚ as it affects their mind. There is no contradiction regarding that music affects our emotions. It can make us sad or ecstatic. Different genres induce
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How Music Shaped our Culture Hum 176 11/2/2012 Music is a mass market in the United States‚ resulting in a strong influence throughout the nation’s culture. Youth culture in particular has been impacted since the explosion of rock n roll in the 1950’s. As the market continues to expand with each generation‚ an increasingly wider demographic felt the impact of music on daily life. The introduction of new technology contributed as well with music becoming easier to obtain and distribute. As
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