Imbalance Essays

  • Hamlet - The Imbalance of the Idealistic Mind and Human Nature

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    Hamlet - The Imbalance of the Idealistic Mind and Human Nature It is often heard: Nobody is Perfect. This phrase is often used as a rationalization of foolish human mistakes that could have been prevented.  However, this statement has a much more profound significance. It contains an important lesson that guides or rather should guide people through life.  By admitting that nobody is perfect, the individual demonstrates a deeper understanding of the human nature and inner self. This knowledge

  • macbeth

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    means of ambition, desire and an imbalance of good and evil. “Macbeth” is a play composed of the disintegration of a noble man’s world. The play begins by offering the audience Macbeth, a war hero, with a high regard from Duncan, the king of Scotland. By the end of the play Macbeth transforms into a universally despised man without a place in the social community. Shakespeare draws an amazing face of a man made to be a villain by ambition, desire and an imbalance of good and evil. Macbeth, unhappy

  • European Colonialism and Imperialism in Shakespeare's The Tempest

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    it is a complex and multi-layered literary construction. As it cannot be reduced to the single issue of race to investigate the imbalance of power in the play. Attention must be given to the way patriarchal notions of gender inform racial representations in order to understand the imbalances of power i... ... middle of paper ... .... An investigation into the imbalance of power in the play reveals the ideologies of race and gender that drive the power dynamics of the play. The construction of the

  • Tibetan Medicine

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    the root of the problem, rather than merely performing a quick fix to a localized part of the body as in the West. Tibetan doctors do not recommend simply popping a pill. Instead, they see illness as a manifestation of the body’s imbalance and seek to correct this imbalance. In order to cure a disease, behavior, lifestyle, and one’s individual ‘humoral constitution’ (the three humors and the way in which they function in the body will be fully explained later) are all very important. In order to

  • Physics of Paintball

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    second force is A spinning force that the C02 imparts on the ball causing a rotational acceleration and also a rolling motion. Once the ball has cleared the barrel there is a significant change in the forces that are acting on the paintball. The imbalance of the pressure behind the ball is gone. So that there is no longer any force pushing the ball in the direction that the muzzle is pointing in. It should be noted that there are many different ways that are employed to get a marker to shoot a

  • Living With Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

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    understood by many members of the public ("Escape"), I hope that the experiences of the authors that I researched will be able to paint a vivid picture of what life with OCD is like. Obsessive-compulsive disorder involves a chemical imbalance in the brain. This chemical imbalance is thought to be the main reason for obsessions and compulsions, although there may be other factors as well.  Nearly one in every fifty people suffers from symptoms of OCD ("Escape"), and approximately 5 million Americans are

  • The Four Humors

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    particular, Empedocles, came to the conclusion that that body consists of four main fluids, or humors. These humors were yellow bile, black bile, phlegm and blood. If one of these components was out of proportion in the body, disease occurred. The imbalance was called isonomia, an idea which was also proposed by the Greek scientist Empedocles. Empedocles followed the Pythagorean school of natural philosophers rather than the Hippocratic school as most other physicians in the time did. He felt people

  • Headaches Their Causes And Effects

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    All of us suffer from an occasional headache; in fact, 20 million Americans see their doctors each year because of headaches. Headaches are also the leading cause for missing school and work in this country. There are many different types of headaches ranging from just ordinary pain, to pain associated with a disorder or serious medical condition. I’d like to discuss the worst type of headache. The type of headache I’d like to discuss, the Migraine, although intense in its pain, is not

  • History of Schizophenia and its treatment

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    currently believed that schizophrenia is caused by multiple factors but scientists are still unsure of the exact cause. Some of the factors believed to be involved in the development of schizophrenia but which are still being researched are: an imbalance of the brain's neurotransmitters (naturally existing chemicals that assist in cellular communication); genetics (schizophrenia is more likely to occur in families with a history of the disorder); (an abnormality in brain structure (the structure

  • Reassemblage: Challenging the Relationship between Women and Visual Pleasure

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    Reassemblage: Challenging the Relationship between Women and Visual Pleasure Visual pleasure, derived from images on film, is dominated by sexual imbalance. The pleasure in looking is split between active/male and passive/female. In her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" Laura Mulvey asserts the fact that in mainstream films, women are simultaneously looked at and displayed. That is to say, the woman is both an object of desire and a spectacle for the male voyeuristic gaze. The male's

  • Going Towards a Postpatriarchal Family

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    dramatic and confusing transformations in everyday life, many of them originating in the social enfranchisement of women that has occurred over the past twenty-five years. Sociologist Arlie Hochschild demonstrates a widespread phenomenon of work-family imbalance in our society, experienced by people in terms of a time bind, and a devaluation of familial relationships. As large numbers of women have moved into the workplace, familial relations of all sorts have been colonized by what Virginia Held critically

  • Irresponsible Portrayal of Women in the Media

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    male dominance and desire in our patriarchal world. They are denied full expression of humanity if, as Lord Krishna preached, feeling desire is a very human “thing.” Society employs many mechanisms that perpetuate patriarchy and maintain the sexual imbalance in our world. One such mechanism is the media. The media bombards humans with images that portray women as passive objects. It is unfair that the media cites the First Amendment as the reason for not censoring such depictions of women that are degrading

  • Ruth Benedict

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    Zuni’s are considered to be an Appolonian society. They are group centered, a humble, modest and ritualistic society. In a culture such as the Zuni’s the individual voice can have a tendency to not be heard. Unlike the Zuni, the Dobu value excess, imbalance, and immoderation. The Dobu are self-sufficient and self-reliant. They live in a hostile environment and wear fake smiles and only care about their own personal gain. Dobu’s will kill, cheat, and steal to get the things they want, “Behind a show

  • Acupressure and Shiatsu

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    Structual/Movement/Functional/Integration massages, oriental methods and energetic methods. Oriental Methods " The goal of oriental medicine is to diagnose the nature of imbalance- to discern the 'pattern of disharmony', not to diagnose the name of the disease. There is a saying ' illness is goodness'. Health is balance- illness is a signal of imbalance, and of the body's action to regain that balance." (http://www.shiatsucanada.com/shiatsu/oriental.htm) Oriental methods are taken from the fundamentals of Chinese

  • Sleepwalking

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    sleepwalking incidents are short and not dangerous, some can involve self-injury and are much more dangerous for the sleeper. Also, most interestingly, the disorder seems to stem from many different sources, not from one definable cause such as a chemical imbalance. While it is predominantly pre-adolescents who suffer from somnambulism, it is also observed in adults, although the frequency and severity of incidents increase with age. The source of the disorder was once thought to be entirely psychological and

  • Investigation of Power in Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’

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    home, the power and control of society over the actions of Ibsen’s characters and finally the causes and effects in the shift of power to Nora. From very early on in the text, in fact from Helmer’s first line, we are introduced to an obvious imbalance of power present in the domestic setting. “Is that my little songbird piping away out there?” The manner in which Torvald talks down to his wife and the apparent, unopposed acceptance of this by his wife, is evidence that, at least initially

  • Justice After War

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    acquitted and the rest were subject to heavy jail terms. The Nazi atrocities that they were put on trial for were for good reason, though they had been wishing to give them all a fair trial it is obvious that excessive urges to take revenge caused an imbalance in the balance between revenge and justice. Those to be prosecuted were done so because of the brutal “war crimes”, “crimes against peace” and “crimes against humanity” they had committed. The prosecutors were dominated by a large percentage of Jews

  • Defining the Victorian Woman

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    mothers. Women often did not benefit from being married in many respects, such as their personal rights. In addition, the census of 1850 "revealed a significant imbalance between the sexes," creating a surplus of single women (Lerner 176). Many of these single women joined the ranks of spinsters and old maids due to this imbalance in the population. However, society did not give unmarried women the same roles as married women. Society challenged these women because it believed that a

  • Reflexology

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    human body can be healed from disease or imbalance through pressure to specific points on the hands, feet, and ears (http://www.doubleclickd.com/reflexology.html). This alternative form of healing is doubted by many, although there are studies that support its theory. History of Reflexology Reflexology is an ancient method of healing that originated in Egypt and the Orient. More than four thousand years ago, man discovered this treatment for imbalance, and recorded their discovery in drawings

  • The Chapter of Circe in James Joyce's Ulysses

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    Circe is a symbol for the entire novel. Regardless of which theme or idea we refer to, one cannot deny the potency of the chapter in terms of literary content and finesse. A theme that supports the literary finesse of Circe is chemical imbalance. Specifically, I came across research to support the theory that Circe is a metaphor for Schizophrenia. Though this cannot be considered a major watermark, the idea does not lack merit and is interesting in the least. The chapter