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A Missing Appreciation of the Good
Never encourage beggars. America has been a country since 1619, which is 394 years. The American Revolution (1775-1783) ascended from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies and the colonial government, which represented the British crown, but was stationed in America. Citizen felt like they were being taxed and not represented by the government, so they revolted. During the American Revolution, American citizens were passionate about politics because the stakes, the survival of the New Nation, were so high. American government and politics are facing growing national skepticism about job performance at majority of the levels of the government, in modern times. People cannot fully understand the issues, and policy decisions facing the U.S. government, its constituent states or the citizens unless these issues are examined, in depth, and you also need to be able to understand how policies have evolved over time. You need to understand the role of political parties, in the United States, to understand why the U.S. Constitution and the Framers’ fears of factionalism (pack mentality), and how to realign the system when these parties are identified. Americans and people Worldwide need to understand how the American government works today, it is also important to understand your history, which is one of the most important classes in the World. History may be more important than religion and is something you should be taught from a young age. People need to be engaged in critical thinking, and parents need to learn to foster interest in important issues, you need to inspire your children’s participation, in the martial, they learn in class. Education is the modern form of religion.
All Americans need to understand the political processes institutions, and policies of American government. The American system is set up so that everyone can be independent, but it also encourages people to become couples, a feature designed to encourage visual literacy and attractiveness. Much of the American system is modeled on Britain. The American government has been a part of your life, from day one, and you say you do not trust them, but you send your children to government institutions, from the time they are 4-22. These Children general spend 8 hours a day and 5 to 6 days a week, at school. The government provides you children with free education, books, food, water, juice, milk and safe places for recreation, which keeps you children off the streets, out of trouble, alive and out of jail. The schools also double as day care centers, by providing students with teacher who love them and care about their progress, walfare and development. Personal liberty is perhaps the single most important characteristic of American capitalism. The Constitution was written to assure life and liberty. Liberty has evolved to mean freedom. The Construction is constructed to limit government infringements on freedom of religion and speech, from unreasonable search and seizure. The Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution implements equal protection of the laws and subsequent passage of the laws guaranteeing human rights. Americans are also able to go to work and school free from discrimination. The U.S. government has used a variety of initiatives to train people how to act and have provided grounds for them to have a basic education so that they can participate in the political system, so they are not in shackles like the original Americans.
Just as the ethnic composition of the American population has changes, so has the average age of the population. Family size and household arrangements have also changed. Large families were normal, during the Victorian ages, children were the source of cheap labor, and most Americans were farmers and manufactures. Now children are in schools, instead of working on the farm. The government also helps your children make friends, at school, which reduces the need to have more than one or two children. That limits your responsibility and liability. Industrialization and knowledge of birth control methods is very important for women because there is no limit of how far they can go, they have the power to control their bodies. Conservatisms is the political ideology of Americans. America is a country that likes to defend the ethical aspects of our culture, institutions, and practices. The American system likes to see people go to school, college, and get a job so that they can become an involved parent and citizen. Those are the kind of success stories that the nation is built on. However, Americans have come to expect far too much from the national government and must simply readjust their expectations. Your basic needs are met, there is no sewage in the streets, you are reasonably safe from crimes, and the air and water are clean, and you have shelter, food and medical supplies. Could these people be working to turn you against a system that loves you? The problem is not the America system, it is these people, who are unwilling to take responsibility, act civil and get to work. In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world.
Paradise Canyon–How the Earth Began
Many of us assume, almost without question, that we can trust in reality of what we see. The religions of ancient Greece and Rome are extinct. The so-called divinities of Olympus have not a single worshipper among the living (none that we know of). However, in theology and literature and taste, the gods of the ancient World still hold their place, and will continue to hold it, for they are too closely connected with the finest productions of poetry and art, both ancient and modern, to pass into oblivion. The Greeks also perfected the sculptural art of relief as a means to decorate and embellish the beauty of their great architectural achievements. We propose to tell the stories relating to them which have come down to us from the ancients and which are alluded to by modern poets, essayists, and orators. The Dawn, the Sun, and the Moon were supposed to rise out of the Ocean, on the eastern side, and to drive through the air, giving light to gods and humans. The stars also, except those forming the Wain of Bear, and others near them, rose out of and sank into the stream of the Ocean. There, the sun-god (Ra or Helios) embarked in a winged boat, which conveyed him around by the northern part of the Earth, back to his place of rising in the east.
These stories are fascinating, and I would like to believe they are true. That may sound a little unusual, but my vision of space and time may be different than most. I think that Earth is much like a carriage, which over time evolved into a powerful car. So it is possible that there were many gods on Earth, and they did all of these things, but as time went by and technology changed, so did the Earth, but for your sake, these are just myths and nice stories. The creation of the World is a problem naturally fitted to excite the liveliest interest in people, its inhabitants. The ancient pagans, not having the information on the subject, which we derive from the pages of Bible Scriptures, had their own way of reporting the story. Before Earth, and Sea, and Heaven were created, all things wore one aspect, to which we give the name of Chaos—a confused and shapeless mass, nothing but dead weight, in which, however, slumbered the seeds of things. Earth, Sea, and Air were all missed up together; so the Earth was not solid, the sea was not fluid, and the air was not transparent. God and Nature at last interposed and put an end to this discord, separating Earth from Sea, and Heaven from both. The fiery part, being the lightest, sprang up and formed the skies; the air was next in weight and place. The Earth, being heavier, sank below, and the water took the lowest place, and buoyed up the Earth.
Here, some god—it is not known which—gave his good offices in arranging and disposing the Earth. He appointed rivers and bays their places, raised mountains like the Sierra in Tahoe, scooped out valleys like Sacramento and San Jose, distributed woods which appears similar to Yosemite in California, and fountains akin to those of Grand Cascade in Peterhof near Saint-Petersburg, fertile farms not so much like Knott’s Berry Farm, but more similar to Harris Farms, and stony plains, which resemble the Grand Canyon. The air being cleared, the stars began to appear, fishes took possession of the sea, birds of the air, and four-footed beast on land, although some animals are bipedal humanoids. However, a nobler animal was wanted, and modern humans, also known as homo sapiens were made. It is unknown whether the Creator made him of divine materials, or whether in the Earth, so lately separated from Heavenly seeds. Prometheus took some of this Earth, and kneading it up with water, made man in the image of the gods. He gave him an upright stature, so that while all other animals turn their faces downward and look to the Earth, he raises his to Heaven and gazes on the stars.
Prometheus was one of the Titans, a gigantic race, who inhabited the Earth, before the creation of man. To him and his brother Epimetheus was committed the office of making man, and providing him and all other animals with the faculties necessary for their preservation. Epimetheus undertook to do this, and Prometheus was to overlook his work, when it was done. Epimetheus accordingly proceeded to bestow upon the different animals the various gifts of courage, strength, swiftness, sagacity; wings to one, claws to another, a shelly covering to a third, excreta. However, when man came to be provided for, who was to be superior to all other animals, Epimetheus had been so prodigal of his resources that he had nothing left to bestow upon him. In his perplexity he resorted to his brother Prometheus, who, with the aid of Minerva, went up to heaven, and lighted his torch at the Chariot of the Sun, and brought down fire to man. With this gift, man was more than a match for all other animals. It enabled him to make weapons wherewith to subdue them; tools with which to cultivate the Earth; to warm his dwelling, so as to be comparatively independent of climate; and finally, to introduce the arts and to coin money, the means of trade and commerce.
Woman was not yet made. The story is that Jupiter made her and sent her to Prometheus and his brother, to punish them from their presumption in stealing fire from heaven’ and man, for accepting the gift. The first woman was named Pandora. She was made in Heaven, every god contributing something to perfect her. Venus gave her beauty, Mercury persuasion, Apollo music, and it was said that Pandora would sometimes have white hair and at other times, it was jet black. Thus equipped, she was conveyed to Earth and presented to Epimetheus, who gladly accepted her, though cautioned by his brother to beware of Jupiter and his gifts. Epimetheus had in his house a jar, in which were kept certain noxious articles, for which, in fitting man for his new abode, he had had no occasion. Pandora was seized with an eager curiosity to know what this jar contained; and one day she slipped off the cover and looked in. Forthwith there escaped a multitude of plagues for hapless man—such as gout, rheumatism, and colic for his body, and envy, spite and revenge for his mind—and scattered themselves far and wide. Pandora hastened to replace the lid; however, alas! The whole contents of the jar had escaped, one thing only excepted, which lay at the bottom, and that was hope. So we see to this day, whatever evils are abroad, hope never entirely leaves us; and while we have that, no number of other ills can make us completely wretched. Another story is that Pandora was sent in good faith, by Jupiter, to bless man; that she was furnished with a box, containing her marriage blessing. She opened the box incautiously, and the blessing all escaped, hope only excepted.
The World being thus furnished with inhabitants, the first age was an age of innocence and happiness, called the Golden Age. Truth and right prevailed, though not enforced by law, nor was there any magistrate to threaten to punish. The forest had not yet been robbed of its trees to furnish timbers for vessels, nor had men-built fortification round their towns. There were no such things as swords, spears, or helmets. The Earth brought forth all things necessary for man, without his labor in ploughing or sowing. Perpetual Spring reigned, flowers sprang up without seed, the rivers flowed with milk and wine, and yellow honey distilled from the oaks. Then succeeded the Silver Age, inferior to the Golden, but better than that of Brass. Jupiter shorted the Spring and divided the year into seasons. Then, first, men had to endure the extremes of heat and cold, and houses became necessary. Caves were the first dwellings, and leafy coverts of the woods, and huts woven of twigs (switches). Crops would no longer grow without planting. The farmer was obliged to sow the seed, and the toiling ox to draw the plough. Next came the Brazen Age, more savage of temper and readier to the strife of arms yet not altogether wicked. The hardest and worst was the Iron Age. Crime burst in like a flash flood; modesty, truth, and honor fled. In their places came fraud and cunning, violence, and the wicked love of gain. Then seamen spread sails to the wind, and the trees were torn from the mountains to serve for keels to ships, and vex the face of Ocean. The Earth, which till now had been cultivated in common, began to be divided off into possessions.
Men, however, were not satisfied with what the surface could produce, but must dig into its bowels, and draw forth from thence the ores of metals. Mischievous iron, and more mischievous gold, was produced. War sprang up, using both as weapons; the guest was not safe in his friend’s house; and sons-in-law and fathers-in-law, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives could not trust one another. Sons whisked their fathers dead, that they might come to the inheritance; family love lay prostrate, it seemed that all were doomed; Earth was wet with slaughter, and the gods abandoned it, one by one, till Astraea (the goddess of innocence and purity) alone was left, and finally also took her departure. After leaving Earth, Astraea was placed among the stars, where she became the constellation Virgo-the Virgin. This is the same thing people with high incomes do when neighborhoods fall victim to savages, they leave them behind and let them decay. Jupiter, seeing this state of things, burned with anger. He summoned the gods to council. They obeyed the call and took the road to the palace of Heaven. He summoned the gods to council. The road, which any one may see in a clear night, stretches across the face of the sky and is called the Milky Way (a galaxy, not candy bar). Along the road stand the places of the illustrious gods; the common people of the skies live apart, on either side. Jupiter addressed the assembly. He set forth on the frightful condition of things on Earth and closed by announcing this intention to destroy the whole if its inhabitants, and provide a new race, unlike the first, who would be more worthy of life and much better worshippers of the gods.
So saying he took a thunderbolt, and was about to launch it at the World, and destroy it by burning; but recollecting the danger that such a conflagration might set heaven itself on fire, he changed his plan and resolved to drown it. The north wind, which scatters the clouds, was chained up; the south was sent out, and soon covered all the face of Heaven with a cloak of pitchy darkness. The clouds, driven together, resound with a crash; torrents of rain fall; the crops are laid low; the year’s labor of husbandman perishes in an hour. However, Jupiter, not satisfied with his own waters, calls on his brother Neptune to aid him with the flood. Neptune lets loose the rivers and pours them over the land. At the same time, he heaves the land with an earthquake, much stronger then the magnitude 6.0, which cost Napa, California $1 Billion in damages, and brings in the reflux of the ocean over the shores. Flocks, herds, men and houses are swept away, and temples, with their sacred enclosures, profaned. If any edifice remained standing, it was overwhelmed, and its turrets lay hid beneath the waves. Now all was sea, sea without shore. This was much more devastating than 2011 Tsunami, in Japan, which was triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, as the waves engulfed the planet. (To digress for a moment, hundreds of U.S. sailors, who took part in rescue efforts, following Japan’s earthquake and tsunami, were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation, and have filed a class action lawsuit against the Tokyo Electric Power Company, and the federal judge has ruled it can go forward. ) Here and there, an individual remained on a projecting hilltop, and a few, in boats, pulled the oar where they had lately driven the plough. The fishes swim among the treetops; the anchor is let down into a garden. Where the graceful lamps played but now unwieldy sea calves gambol.
The wolf swims among the sheep, the yellow lions and tigers struggle in the water. The strength of the wild boar serves him not, nor his swiftness the stag. The birds fall with weary wing into the water, having found no land for resting place. These living beings whom the water spared fell a prey to hunger. Parnassus, a Greek god, alone, of all the mountains, overtopped the waves; and there Decalion, and his wife Pyrrha, of the race of Prometheus, found refuge—he a just man, and she a faithful worshipper of the gods. Jupiter, when he saw none left alive but this pair, and remembered their harmless lives and pious demeanor, ordered the north winds to drive away the clouds, and disclose the skies to Earth, and Earth to the skies. Neptune also directed Triton to blow on his shell and sound a retreat to the waters. The waters obeyed, and the sea returned to its shores, and the rivers to their channels. Then Deucalion thus addressed Pyrrha: “Oh, wife, only surviving woman, joined to me first by the ties of kindred and marriage, and now by a common danger, would that we possessed the power of our ancestor Prometheus, and could renew the race as he first made it; however, as we cannot, let us seek younder temple, and inquire of the gods what remains for us to do.” Deucalion and Pyrrha entered them temple, deformed as it were with slime, and approached the alter, where no fire burned. There they fell prostrate on Earth and prayed the goddess to inform them how they might retrieve their miserable affairs.
The oracle answered, “Depart from the temple with head veiled and garments unbound, and cast behind you the bones of your mother.” They heard the words with astonishment. Pyrrha first broke silence: “We cannot obey; we dare not profane the remains of our parents.” Deucalion and Pyrrha sought the thickest shades of the wood, and revolved the oracle in their minds. At length, Deucalion spoke: “Either my sagacity deceives me, or the command is one we may obey without impiety. The Earth is the great parent of us; and I think this is what the oracle means. At least, it will do no harm to try.” They veiled their faces, unbound their garments, and picked up stones, and cast them behind. The stones (wonderful to relate) began to grow soft, and assume shape. By degrees, they put on a rude resemblance to human form, like a block half-finished in the hands of the sculptor. The moisture and slime that were about them became flesh; the stony part became bones; the veins remained veins, retaining their name, only changing their use. Those thrown by the hand of the man became men, and those by the woman became women. It was a hard race, and well adapted to labor, as we find ourselves to be at this day, giving plain indications of our origin.
(The comparison of Eve to Pandora is too obvious. Lovelier than Pandora, whom the gods Endowed with all their gifts; and O, too like in sad event, when to the unwise son of Japhet brought by Hermes, she ensnared mankind with her fair looks, to be avenged on him who had stile Jove’s authentic fire.) Prometheus and Epimetheus were sons of Japhet. Prometheus has been a favorite subject with the poets. He is represented as the friend of mankind, who interposed in their behalf when Jove was increased against them and who taught them civilization and the arts. However, in so doing, he transgressed the will of Jupiter, he drew down on himself the anger of the ruler of gods and men. Jupiter had him chained to a rock on Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed on his liver, which was renewed as fast as devoured. This state of torment might have been brought to an end at any time by Prometheus, if he had been willing to submit to his oppressor; for he possessed a secret which involved the stability of Jove’s throne, and if he would have revealed it, that he disdained to do. He has therefore become the symbol of magnanimous endurance of unmerited suffering, and strength of will resisting oppression. The slime with which the Earth was covered by the waters of the flood produced an excessive fertility, which called forth every variety of production, good and bad. Among the rest, Python, an enormous serpent, crept forth, the terror of the people, and lurked in the caves of Mount Parnassus. Looking for idol hands to possess, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour.” 1 Peter 5:8.
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Breast Cancer Awareness
Nearly 40,000 women die of breast cancer every year; and an estimated 6,000 women, in their 40s, unnecessarily die from breast cancer. An estimated 1 percent of women and 1 percent of men will develop breast cancer in their life time. As a result, women in their 40s should have a mammogram every years, reports the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute. Breasts are not part of the internal or external female genitalia. Instead, they are secondary sex characteristics (physical characteristics other than genitals that distinguish male from female). In physically mature women, the breasts are composed internally of fatty tissue and mammary, or milk, glands. There is little variation from woman to woman, in the amount of glandular tissue present in the breast, despite differences in size. This is why the amount of milk produced after childbirth does not correlate to the size of the breasts. Variation in breast size is due primarily to the amount of fatty tissue distributed around the gland. Breasts are a multitude of size and shapes, and it is common for one breast to be slightly larger than the other. Surgeries to enlarge or reduce breast size reflect the dissatisfaction many women or their spouse feel because the woman’s breast do not fit the cultural idea, as some believe that cleavage is in style. Many women like to have their breast well-displayed, in danger of busting out of their designer gowns. Breast augmentation practices may or may not be on the rise, data indicates that women are becoming more satisfied with their natural bodies. Not all women are meant to have huge or even moderate breast, some women are very petite, and that is normal. Likewise, there is nothing wrong with having huge or moderate breast.
The nipple is in the center of the areola, the darker area of the external breast. The areola contains sebaceous (oil producing) glands that help lubricate the nipples during breast-feeding. The openings of the mammary glands are in the nipples. Some nipples point outward from the breast, others are flush with the breast, and still others sink into the breast. The nipples become erect when small muscles at the base of the nipple contract in response to touch, sexual arousal or cold. Breast and nipple stimulation may be an important part of self-healthcare for women. Some women find breast and nipple touching neutral or unpleasant. However, others believe nipple and breast stimulation are an important source of pleasure and arousal during self-love or sexual interaction, as it builds the passion and sexual intensity that leads to a climax. A monthly breast examination is an important part of self-health care for women. This exam can help a woman know what is normal for her own breasts. She can do the breast exam herself and can teacher her partner to do it. However, many breasts normally feel lumpy, once a woman becomes familiar with her breasts, she can notice any alarming changes. If there is a change, it is recommended that one consults a medical doctor.
Nonetheless, this is reassuring, 90 percent of breast lumps, most of which are found by women, are not malignant. In addition, women should also have a mammography, which is a highly sensitive X – ray screening test to help detect cancerous breast cells and lumps. It uses low levels of radiation to create an image of the breast, called a mammogram, on film or paper. Mammography can often detect a breast lump up to several years before you can feel it manually; it can also sometimes find cancerous cell changes that occur even before a lump develops. You take such good care of your job, car and house, so be sure to perform the necessary maintenance on your body, when you are 40, that are when you should start having your mammograms, but if you are 50 or older, it is still not too late. With earlier detection of cancer, there is a dramatic decrease in mortality and a huge increase in breast-conserving treatments. The mammographic image also provides information about the type of tumor and the kinds of treatment needed. And lesbians need to pay special attention to their breasts because they tend to be screened less often than heterosexual women because they typically do not have birth control medical appointments.
Three types of breast lumps can occur. The two most common are cysts, which are fluid-filled sacs; and fiboradenomas, which are solid, rounded tumors. Both are benign (not cancerous or harmful) tumors, and together they account approximately 80 percent of breast lumps. In some women, these lumps can create breast tenderness, ranging from mild to severe discomfort, which is called fibrocystic disease. The cause of fibrocystic disease is unknown, but believed to be hormonal related. Caffeine in coffee, tea, cola drinks, and chocolate may contribute to the development of benign breast lumps. Dietary changes that have helped some women reduce their symptoms include a diet high in green vegetables, milk, water, fruit, fish, chicken, and grains, and low in red meat, pork, fired foods, salt, processed foods, and avoid foods high in fats. Vitamin supplements of 600 units of vitamin E and vitamin B complex in 110-mg daily doses have also helped some women. And there is a third type of lump, which is known as a malignant lump or tumor (made up of cancer cells). In 2014, approximately 232,670 new cases, of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed, in women, in the United States, along with 62,570 new cases of non-invasive breast cancer. That is a huge increase because back 2002, there were a reported 180,000 cases, so perhaps women are being more proactive about their healthcare. (Men can also get breast cancer, but it is very rare, only 1 percent of men ever actually suffer from the disease.) The risk of breast cancer rises with age; however, women in their 20 and 30s can still be hit with aggressive breast cancers with a high mortality rate. However, the good news is that since the 1950s, the number of deaths, from breast cancer, is steadily declining because of early detection.
Unfortunately, the five-year survival rate is lower for African American women than it is for European American women. Only 50 percent of African American women, diagnosed with breast cancers have early-stage and more treatable tumors compared to 62 percent of European American women. Hispanic women, on average, also have lager tumors, at diagnosis then European American women. Socioeconomic characteristics leading to differences in preventative health care probably account for the differences, especially in light of research that show physicians are less likely to refer women of lower incomes for mammograms, but the affordable health care act has granted everyone access to quality medical care, saving countless lives and preventing the spread of cancer. Certain risk factors increase a woman’s chance for breast cancer. Women who have lifetime cumulative estrogen exposure, menstruation before the age of 13, no pregnancies, first child after the age of 30 and subsequent children later in life, never breast fed a child, menopause after the age of 55, obesity, intact ovaries, family history of breast cancer, cancer in one breast, sedentary lifestyle, more than 14 alcoholic drinks a week and a high fat diet will greatly increase chances of having breast cancer. Exposure to environmental pollution, pesticides, chemicals, and radiation is a marginal cause of breast cancer, which is not really researched, but a contributing factor. Growing evidence indicates that some synthetic chemicals found in plastics, detergents, and pharmaceutical drugs mimic estrogen’s effects on the body and can cause cells to grow out of control and form tumors. Can we get an Ice Bucket challenge to bring more attention to breast cancer and spinal bifida?
Meanwhile, if a lump in found in your breast, further testing is necessary. I know a cancer scare might make you feel uneasy, but we have such great medical technology, and most problems can be corrected. Needle aspiration involves inserting a fine needle into the lump to determine if there is fluid inside. If so, it is usually a cyst and can be drained. Conversely, if not a cyst, a surgical biopsy of the tissue of any lump can be analyzed for cancer cells. This is reassuring, 75 percent of breast lump biopsies are negative for cancer. There is also a possible association between breast implants and a form of lymphoma that may develop tumors at a later stage. The researchers conclude that breast implants can cause a new subtype of the rare, yet malignant lymphoma known as Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (ALCL). Nearly, 147,000 women in the United States of America and Canada receive breast implants, and many ill have complications. Worldwide there have been 71 documented cases of patients with anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) in which researchers suspected breast implants to be the cause. ALCL is normally found in the lymph nodes, as well as in skin, lung, liver and soft tissue, but not usually in the breast. Cases in which ALCL developed in the breast region almost exclusively involved patients who have had breast surgery.
In these cases, ALCL developed around ten years after the operation. The tumors grew in the scar tissue around the implant. Even if implants do not cause cancer, 73 percent of women with saline implants experienced side effects and 27 percent of women had their implants removed within three years because of an infection, a broken or leaking implant, or painful scar tissue. In general, on any woman or in some rare cases men, once breast cancer is detected, several forms of treatment may be used and others are being developed. Radiation therapy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, immunotherapy, lumpectomy (only the lump and small amounts of the surrounding tissue removed), mastectomy (surgical removal of all or part of the breast), or a combination of these procedures may be performed. In some cases, chemotherapy may be the first intervention used, in the hopes of reducing the tumor to allow more conservative surgery. With mastectomy, the amount of the breast and surrounding tissue that is removed by surgery varies from radical mastectomy (the entire breast, underlying muscle, and lymph nodes are removed) to simple mastectomy (breast tissue, the nipple and areola, and a sample of lymph nodes are removed) to lumpectomy. If the cancer is small, localized, and in an early stage, a lumpectomy with chemotherapy or radiation may provide as good a change of cure as a mastectomy. Breast-conserving surgeries have become a more common intervention in the last ten years.
The loss of one or both breast is usually very signification and devastating to women, they are losing parts of their body they came to know and love and have grown up with (and to think, some women hide their breast to appear more rugged, and do not realize how grateful they are to be healthy women). Breast symbolizes many aspects of femininity and can be an important aspect of self-image. One journalist, who had a mastectomy, describes the many meanings her breasts symbolized during her life. “I remember the joy and power I felt as a young woman, I always enjoyed my breast, they were petite, but I was sexy and everyone knew it, they loved my legs, eyes, lips, hair, waists, and I was proud of my small breast because there was so much more to me. Even though my breasts were not as large as Tyra Bank’s or Pam Anderson, men still appreciated them. I even wanted them to be noticed under my sweaters, so I would wear shirts and dressed to display what I had, clothes that made me feel good as a woman. What pleasure I had nursing my children, rocking and being suckled by their small mouths, while their small hands patted my breast.” For this woman, she really enjoyed her breast, they were not only ornaments, but provided food for her children and helped her bond to her babies. (Some doctors recommend after about three months, putting children on formula like Gerber Rice Cereal because it has lots of vitamins and will help your baby stay well balanced. Also, breast feeding too long may cause breasts to sage, and it could expose your baby to hormones or chemicals in your system, which the baby may not need).
Furthermore, breast cancer and its treatments may adversely affect a woman’s sexuality. Women should not have to parade around like Lady Godiva to get you to understand that they are humans and have feelings, too. The stimulation of a woman’s breast, during love making, by massaging, licking or sucking—and the stimulation her partner receives from doing these things and from simply looking at her breasts—are often important components of sexual arousal, for both women and her partner; consequently, surgical removal of one or both breasts may create challenges in sexual adjustment for the couple. And some men might question why some women choose not to have implants after having their breasts removed, but it is not as simple as changing the tires on your car, the process and procedures are very emotional; for a man, it would like cutting your genitals off, and replacing them with something synthetic, might be appealing to some, but may not be something others want to experience. A mastectomy presents unique issues, for a woman, who is not in a long-term relationship. She may have difficulty deciding when to tell someone she is dating about her surgery. Her own feelings of acceptance and her judgment about timing are also important. In addition, she needs to understand that her partner will require some time to adjust to the information about her mastectomy. Still, it may help her to keep in mind that a loving relationship is based on more than just physical characteristics. Here is a fact that I want to leave you with, Aaliyah an American entertainer, was a member of American Cancer Society and advocate for Breast Cancer research because her aunt and grandmother had Breast cancer.
Impulse Bribes Reason: Drugs, Murder, Bribes and the Latino Caucus
It is not an easy matter to hit a conscience exactly between wind and water. Amphetamines form a large group of synthetic stimulants, including Dexedrine, Methedrine, and Benzedrine. Amphetamines were once widely prescribed to assist dieting or to relive mild depression. However, both practices are often frowned upon because patients frequently become dependent on dangerous drugs. Nonetheless, illicit use of amphetamines is widespread. Stimulants are especially popular among people who believe that drugs can enhance their mental or physical performance. Amphetamines rapidly produce a drug tolerance. Most abusers, who begin with a few milligrams a day, weeks later end up taking several grams just to get the same effect. Eventually, some users switch to injecting Methedrine (speed) directly into the blood stream. Of all the ways to administer drugs, injecting drugs carries the most risks as it bypasses the body’s natural filtering mechanisms, against disease and bacteria. Injection drug use is the preferred method, of ingestion, by people, because the effects of the drug are felt faster and the feeling of euphoria is reportedly intense.
Injection drug use is a high-risk behavior that can be further exacerbated. Heroin, cocaine, crack and methamphetamine are the most commonly injected drugs. Because needles are expensive or hard to come by, drug users often times share needles, spreading sickness and death, by reusing or sharing needles and/or failing to clean the needle, with bleach, after each use. These actions can increase the user’s risk for blood-borne infections, such as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis C, hepatitis B, and herpes simplex virus 2. In the United States of America, 25 percent of all people with AIDS, have been heterosexual drug users, who caught the disease by sharing needles and syringes, with someone infected by the virus, and in New York that percentage increase to a stark 34 percent. In the 21st century, Asia is expected to be the large population on Earth with Aids. Therefore, be very careful to stay sober and have protected sex, if at all. Drug usage is also dangers for other reasons.
Once people who are on meth become psychotic, they are very dangerous. True speed freaks typically go on binges lasting several days, after which they crash from lack of sleep and food, sometimes leaving a trail of blood and inexplicable carnage. A mother in Bakersfield, California, was punished by law enforcement, for stabbing her newborn, while in a meth rage. An Oklahoma woman drowned her baby, in a washing machine, in November. A New Mexico woman claiming to be God, stabbed her son with a screwdriver, last month, announcing, “God wants him dead!” Meth users become completely insane; they are unreasonable. They display very extreme alterations of normal brain function, becoming violent and lashing out, there are not any limits or boundaries to what someone high on meth may do. Also, amphetamines pose many dangers. To stay high, the abuser must take more and more of the drug and the body’s tolerance grows. Higher tolerance can cause nausea, vomiting, high blood pressure, fatal heart arrhythmia, and crippling strokes.
Uppers can also lead to a depletion of the body’s energy, fatigue, depression, terrifying nightmares, confusion, uncontrolled irritability, and aggression. Along with overextending the body with stimulants, this behavior may lead to self-starvation, sores and non-healing ulcers, tooth grinding, chronic chest infections, liver disease, high blood pressure, and brain hemorrhage. Amphetamines can also cause a loss of contact with reality known as amphetamine psychosis. Affected users suffer from paranoid delusions that someone is out to get them. Acting on these delusions, the speed freak may become violent, resulting in self-injury or injury to others. Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog, were dubbed the Speed Freak Killers after a 15-year methamphetamine drug-induced killing spree that began in 1984 and ended in 1999. The two were teenagers when they went on a rampage, killing more than 20 young women, mostly, and some men and burying them in the Central Valley.
The Central Valley of California is a hub of the nation’s methamphetamine distribution network, making extremely pure forms of the drug easily available locally. And law enforcement officials report widespread meth abuse is believed to be driving much of the crime in the vast farming region. In Salinas California USA, Robert (Bubba) Hanrahan, age 41, oversaw the establishment of Street Gangs in San Francisco, California and other surrounding Bay Area counties. Norteño gang members engaged in drug trafficking and violent crime. From 2004 and 2005, Robert Hanrahan was the primary supplier of methamphetamine and cocaine to the San Francisco regiment. In January 2006, while Robert Hanrahan’s Salinas, California drug case was pending, he fled to Mexico. However, on 12 November 2006, Robert Hanrahan was apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Most recently, 30 September 2014, in Sacramento, California USA, Robert Hanrahan was sentenced by United States District Judge, honorable William B. Shubb, to 31 years and three months, in prison, for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner reported. Also, the Federal Bureau of Investigations also reported that, This case and a related indictment have resulted in a number of significant sentences: On 21 April, 2010, Manuel Gauna was sentenced to more than 21 years in prison. On 13 December 2010, Richard Mendoza was sentenced to 17 years in prison. On 22 February 2011, Bismark Ocampo was sentenced to 28 years in prison. On 25 May 2011, the trial defendants were sentenced to the following: Larry Amaro was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Ernest Killinger was sentenced to 362 years in prison. Gerardo Mora was sentenced to more than 33 years in prison. Jason Stewart-Hanson was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
And furthermore, 25 July 2011, Gabriel Caracheo was sentenced to 25 years in prison. On 27 July 2011, David Ramirez was sentenced to 15 years in prison. On 26 September 2011, Fernando Villalpando was sentenced to 20 years in prison. On 17 October 2011, Faustino Gonzalez was sentenced to more than 15 years. On 28 November 2011, Oscar Campos-Padilla was sentenced to 14 years in prison. On 24 September 2012, Rebecca Guzman was sentenced to 14 years in prison. On 22 January 2013, Juan Gallegos ( Wino), was sentenced to 28 years in prison, and on 23 December 2013, Carolyn Huerta, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. It is a devil of a thing to have no conscience! More sin is the only anodyne for sin, and the only way to cure the ache of conscience is to harden it. No war finishes without far-reaching results, and the conscience of a country, like the conscience of a man, may be too severely tired.
Bribed conscience makes hypocrites, frightened conscience makes fanatics, but reason-drilled conscience makes incarnate devils. Along with the drug cases and Senator Ben Hueso’s (Democrat of an Diego) DUI arrest and second arrest for embezzlement, and Ronald S. Calderon, age 56, of Montebello, California being arrested and charged in a 24-count indictment, by a federal grand jury, for mail fraud, wire fraud, honest services fraud, bribery, conspiracy to commit money laundering, money laundering, and aiding in the filing of false tax returns; in conjunction with his brother Thomas M. Calderon, age 59, also of Montebello, California, a former member of the California State Assembly, also charged in the money laundering conspiracy and with seven substantive counts of money laundering, brings up so major concern about the unlawful, and unethical behavior demonstrated within the Latino political community. Whenever a lie was necessary for their occasions, they brought it out with a careless ease and breadth altogether untroubled by the rebuke of conscience.
Deforestation—Flora, Fauna, Fury and Fire
The ceaseless conflict among interpreters, whatever master truth may be thought to lie just ahead of their farthest energetic probing, simply renders cloudy the supposition that sense of truth is the central experience of those who join the assemblage with special expectations and are in some ways satisfied. With the King fire burning more than 72,000 acres and all the other fires burning in the United States of America, deforestation is a major concern, but not only because of fires, but also because of logging as well. The World’s great forests play major roles in the biosphere. Forest watersheds are like giant sponges that absorb, hold, and release water gradually. By influence the downstream of water flow, forests help control soil erosion, flooding, and sediment buildup in rivers, lakes and reservoirs and also keeps moisture in the soil. Deforestation, the removal of trees from large tracts of land, leads to loss of fragile surface layers of soil and disrupts watersheds. The disruption is especially pronounced in watersheds with steep slopes. In tropical regions, soil loss mean long-term fertility loss as nutrients are quickly washed out of the system, leaving nutrients missing from the soil, and the ground deficient of the food it needed to be of use for planting and feed vegetation. The tropical rainforest is one of the most beautiful wonders in the world. They cover billions of acres of land, mountain sides and waterways.
A rainforest is a collection of very tall and exotic trees, and some of the World’s most hungry and some of the largest insects, animals, tress and birds ever seen. The trees in a rainforest can grow as tall as 150 feet. These trees are generally found in regions that are warm year-round and also receive a lot of rain. Tropical rainforests may cover less than 6 percent of the Earth’s surface and produce 40 percent of the Earth’s oxygen. Typically, a rainforest receives 4 feet to 21 feet of rain each year. Since these naturally beautiful forests thrive in warm conditions, tropical rainforest are usually located around the equator. However, Berkeley, California and much of New York, New York used to also be a rainforest. Nonetheless, some of the largest rainforests are currently located in South America, Africa, Indonesia, Asia, Hawaii, and the Caribbean Islands. In fact, one of the largest rainforest in the world is located in South America and would cover two thirds of the Continental United States of America. They are home to the greatest variety of spectacularly plumages birds and to the plants with the largest flowers. Trees in the rainforest must grow tall and fast to reach the peak of the canopy, where the sun is. Since these some of the fast growing trees are not very wide, they produce prop roots, which drop down to the ground and dig into the earth to support the tree. Also, the tree may not have branches for the first 50 feet.
Large animals are not as profuse as they are in other parts of the World, but they are splendidly represented, in a variety of species. The large animals in the rain forest are usually tapirs, monkeys, and jaguars of South America to the apes, okapi, and leopards, and tigers of Africa. African cats are in danger, as sample to highlight the issue of deforestation and hunting, we have selected the tiger population. Give us minds possessing foresight; give us minds obeying what foresight tells. Tigers are beautiful, majestic and mysterious creature, which are in great danger of becoming extinct. In the 1900s, there were over 100,000 tigers in the wild. However, over the last 100 years, the World has lost more than 97 percent of the tiger population; there are less than 3,200 left in the wild. Tigers are some of the largest cats in the World, they are about three and a half feet tall, and are anywhere from five feet long to nine feet in length, and they weight about four hundred to seven-hundred pounds. The tail of a tiger is about three feet in length. At least four species of tigers are extent, including: Bali tiger, Javan tiger, Caspian tiger, and there are only a few South Chinese tiger left, but they are all in captivity.
The World still have nearly seven-hundred Malayan tigers, four hundred and fifty Sumatran tigers, four hundred Siberian tigers, about one thousand Indochinese tigers, and eighteen hundred Bengal tigers. Tigers eat about 88 pounds of meat, at one time. Tigers like to feed on antelope, baby elephants, berries, buffalo, carbs, deer, fish, frogs, lizards, snakes, and wild boar (pigs). Be careful around tigers, they like meat and will devour you. Tigers like to kill by sinking their teeth into the neck of their prey (food). Tigers mainly live in Africa, Asia, and they used to even live in Russia. Tigers are sensitive to heat and like to swim a lot. Tigers, in the wild, live about ten to fifteen years, but in captivity, they can live as long as twenty to twenty-six years. Tigers like to live in the tropical forest, mountains, swamps, and they usually keep to themselves, until mating season. Tigers will usually mate from November to April. Their gestation (pregnancy) period is about one hundred and three days, and they will usually give birth to 3 or 4 baby tigers, also known as cubs. When the tiger is about three years old, they leave their mothers and start their own lives, in the wild. Tigers are in danger because they are hunted for their meat, deforestation, and logging of trees. It is illegal to eat tiger meat, but many people like to consumer it like it is a steak and even make tacos out of tiger meat. There is a restaurant, in Florida, called “Taco Fusion,” which serves tiger meat tacos, and they are about thirty-five dollars each. Tigers also hunted for their beautiful orange and black stripped coats; sometimes they are white and black strips, and their eyes, teeth and paws. Orange and black tigers usually have yellow eyes, and white and black tigers have blue eye. Unlike other cats, tigers have pupils. There are also hybrid tigers called ligers, which occur when male lions mate with female tigers.
Ligers usually have the main of a lion, but strips like a tiger, but there are some variations. The first liger was produces in the year 1798, in the country India, by scientist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Ligers are about ten feet long, about five feet tall, and seven-hundred pounds. So please do not hunt or harass tigers, there are not many of them left, and we want to preserve them for future generations. It is very hard for a fool not to be a fool. Fools must live in the World, but you do not have to become like them. I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first. Forgiveness is never denied to sincere repentance. Meanwhile in the rain forest, specimens of trees from the rain forest may have made their way into your home or your dentist’s waiting room in the form of girl scout cookie boxes, furniture, or ficus benjamina, rubber plants, and tree ferns, to name a few. Also, it is important to keep in mind that the Girl Scouts and Barbie use materials from the Rain Forest for packaging and labeling, which is sad because rare trees and animals are being destroyed. Too bad they cannot just use recycle Christmas trees. In the forest themselves, vines twist around tree trunks and grow up toward the sunlight. Below the tall canopy trees, in the rainforest, there are also smaller trees, and shrubs. The foliage below the canopy usually does not grow very tall because they are not exposed to as much sun. The rapid growth in the rainforest can be attributed to all the fallen leaves, which quickly decompose, releasing important nutrients for plants to grow.
The rainforests have more types of trees than any other area in the world. There are between 100 to 300 different species of trees located in the rainforest, and 70 percent of the rainforest is composed of trees. The rainforest usually gets up to 93° Fahrenheit and usually do not drop below 68° Fahrenheit. The rainforest is very important because it produces oxygen, regulates the temperature and is a home for many rare animals and insects. The rainforest also produces medicine that helps to treat cancer, muscle pains and other ailments. Furthermore, the U.S. Cancer Institute has identified 3,000 plants that are active against fighting cancer cells and 70 percent of these plants are found in the rainforest, and 25 percent of pharmaceutical medications come from trees and plants in the rainforest, and this is amazing considering only 1 percent of the organisms in the rainforest have been tested to see how they can benefit human recovery. Orchids, mosses, lichens, and other planets and flowers grow on tree branches, absorbing minerals brought to them in rain water. Entire communities of inspects, spiders, and amphibians live breed, and die in small pools of water that collect in the leaves of aerial plants. Developing countries, in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia have been clearing their tropical rain forests on massive scale. Those countries have great and growing numbers of people and not enough food, fuel, or lumber. If people not allowed to cut trees down, in the forest, for lumber, often times, as retribution, these individuals would start forest fires. (One of every four human lives in those countries, in 1990, were responsible for about 33 percent of the World’s human population growth.)
At present rates of clearing, most tropical forest will disappear by 2050. Nevertheless, many people only value the rain forest for lumber and are cutting down the trees to build homes, offices, ships and furniture. It is estimated that in 40 years, there will be no more rainforests left in the world, and this is alarming because of the health benefits that come from the rainforest and also because they produce more than 40 percent of the oxygen in the world. Without rainforest, we would lose a lot of medication that helps to save lives, we could experience more drought, warmer weather, and more floods. Also, there are more than 3,000 fruits found in the rainforest, many of which most people have never tasted. Experts say, if left intact, that the rainforest is by far more valuable because they harvest of the fruits, nuts and oil producing plants are very valuable. Anthropologists also say that Berkeley, California, USA used to be a rainforest, now it is home to housing projects, colleges, and other businesses. Similarly, Manhattan, New York was once filled with forest, swamps and hills. As the population was increasing, the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811 divided New York, all most all of the trees were removed, and officials filled in the swaps to make room for homes and office buildings. Lower Manhattan was created by dumping trash into the river and cementing it so they could expand the land mass. As a result, the river in Manhattan became narrower, and today it is eroding the land. In the near future, the tunnels in Manhattan will flood due to the way it was constructed. So please preserve our rainforest, it may save the world and the people in it.
For purely ethical reasons, many condemn the total destruction of a major chunk of the biosphere. For practical reasons, consider how the destruction might affect your own life. The World’s food supply depends on a very small number of crop and livestock species. That base of food production can be broadened and made less vulnerable if we can develop new or hybrid crop plants. By using genetic engineering and tissue culturing methods, we can tap the diverse organisms of tropical rain forests as genetic resources. They also can be tapped for developing new antibiotics and vaccines. Many tropical planets already give us the alkaloids for drug treatments of cardiovascular disorders, cancer, and other illnesses. Aspirin, the most widely used drug in the World, was formulated by using a chemical blueprint of a compound extracted from the leaves of the tropical willow trees. Coffee, bananas, cocoa, cinnamon, and other spices, sweeteners, Brazil nuts, and many others foods we love originated in the tropical rainforest. Massive destruction of tropical rain forests is changing the mixture of gasses in the atmosphere. Among other things, the burning releases carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, nitrogen dioxide, and nitric oxide—and atmospheric concentrations of these gases are increasing contribution to acid rain, smog, and dissipation of the ozone layer, and probably increases the World temperatures. If the World is to face another ice age, global warming may counter act that, allowing for climate change and not permafrost.
As an individual, you might choose to cherish, brood about, or ignore any aspect of the World of life. However, I want you to keep this in mind, whatever choice you make, the fact of the matter is that you and all other organisms, on Earth, are in the together. Your lives interconnect, to degrees that many are only now starting to comprehend. Some suspect that the internet is allowing ghost to take human form and that time travel is subtle taking place, and that astral planes are intercepting your timeline and distorting reality. There are all kinds of concepts going around, some even think the United States has an iron dome protecting us around the clock. Whatever the truth maybe, human population has undergone rapid and exponential growth since the mid-eighteenth century. Today, there are 7 billion people on Earth, we have the technology, and the cultural inclination to use energy and modify the environment at astonishing rates. The World of life ultimately depends on energy from the Sun, Moon, Ground, Air and Water, which drives complex reactions between the atmosphere, oceans, and land. The accumulation of human-generated pollutants in the atmosphere especially is disrupting those interactions. Those disruptions may have alarming consequences in the near future. Humans, as a species must come to terms with the principles of energy flow and resources utilization that govern all systems of life on Earth. I am not pushing an agenda; I am just giving you the facts. More than this, deforestation also can change regional patterns of rainfall as a result of altered rates of evaporation, transportation, and runoff.
Between 50 and 80 percent of the water vapor above tropical forest alone is released from the trees themselves. Without trees, annual precipitation declines, and the region gets hotter and drier. Rain that does fall rapidly runs off the bare soil. This has been a major concern after the rim fire– the Rim Fire was a wildfire, in the central Sierra Nevada region, and in Tuolumne and Mariposa counties, of California, in the United States of America. The Godzilla of a fire started on 17 August 2013, during the 2013 California wildfire season, and a major drought. Keith Matthew Emerald, accused of starting the massive Rim Fire, last year, in Stanislaus National Forest and Yosemite National Park, pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court in Fresno. He is facing sentence of 11 years in prison and more than $500,000 in fines. The Rim Fire engulfed 257,000 acres, causing more than $130 Million in damages, and was the third largest wildfire in California history. Also, as the local climate gets hotter and drier, soil fertility and moister levels decline even more. Eventually, sparse grassland or even desert like conditions might prevail, where we once had rich tropical forest. The 2013, Black Forest Fire in Colorado cost $85 Million in damages, killed two people, destroyed over 430 houses, and burned more than 14,223 acres of land. Clearing large tracts of tropical forest also may have global repercussions. These forests absorb so much of the solar radiation reaching the equatorial regions of the Earth’s surface, when the forests are burned, logged, or otherwise cleared, the land becomes shinier, so to speak, and reflects more incoming energy back to space, which heats up the planet.
The trees of these vast forested regions help maintain the global cycling of carbon and oxygen through their photosynthetic activities. When they are harvested or burned, the carbon stored in their biomass is released to the atmosphere, in the form of carbon dioxide—and this may play a role in the amplified greenhouse effect. Almost half of the World’s expanses of tropical forests have already been cleared for cropland, grazing land, timber, housing, parking, landfills, and fuelwood. Deforestation is greatest in Brazil, Indonesia, America, Colombia, and Mexico. Another problem with ripping up forests is we are disturbing some dinosaurs like giant alligators, who have been alive since other dinosaurs walked the Earth. Alligators are as old as the dinosaurs, and now they are also on the verge of extinction. The alligator species is over 150 million years old, and they managed to outlive the dinosaurs, which died out 65 million years ago. Alligators live in fresh water like rivers, lakes, and swamps; they mostly live in the Southern United States, places like Louisiana and Florida. Sometimes alligators will sneak into swimming pools. In general, alligators live to be 35-50 years old and can grow as large as 20 feet and 1,000 pounds. On average, alligators are anywhere from 10-13 feet. Alligator babies’ hatch from eggs, they only take 40 days to be born; alligator babies are about 6-8inches long when they are born. The diet of the alligator is composed of fish, turtles, snakes, other small animals and sometimes pets or humans.
At one time, alligators were the most dominant animal on Earth, but now they are on the verge of extinction, as only 12 species of alligators remain. Alligators are killed and their skin is used to make shoes, purses, wallets, briefcases, and other leather items. Alligators are also hunted for their meat, and some are caught and sent to other countries. Alligator meat is actually very healthy, low in fat and very expensive, a pound of alligator meat cost about $7, and alligator skins can fetch $25 per foot. Because alligators are endangered, farmers have opened over 30 alligator farms, which are very successful. They produce about 300,000 pounds of meat and 15,000 skins a year. That is about 2.5 million a year in revenue for farmers. Please be kind and save our animals. Once they are gone, we cannot replace them. We have to live with Mother Nature. Only when the last tree is cut down, the last fish has been caught and the last stream has been poisoned will we realize you can’t eat money. At present rates of clearing and degradation, only Brazil and Zaire will have large tracts of tropical forests in the year 2016. By 2035, most of those forests also will be gone, leading to desertification. Yet, whatever come through has a validity that one would never deny. Even when a defenseless town is given up being sacked and pillaged, military officers do not put helpless men, women, children or animals to the sword with that just proportion of coolness with which a hangman ties the fatal noose, or a lawyer draws up a brief by which he beggars the wretched family he is employed against.
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The Arrival and Reception of Reality
The World is immensely vast that it could hardly be comprehended by the imagination—there is so much beauty, on Earth, that is it often overlooked by the unaided eye. America was created under the leadership of extraordinarily wealthy and beneficial families like William Randolph Hearst, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, William Wirt Winchester, Paul Cuffe and Sam McCarthy. These contributors have left art that helps us see the World in new ways, revealing hidden or universal truths. There is so much aesthetic beauty, which transforms the World into a better and more beneficial place. A certain segment of the public has always sought out art, in galleries and museums, but art is everywhere and is not just visual. Art is about texture, shape, color, smell and sound. For example, when you walk into the grocery store and smell the fresh ripe nectarines and see the colorful displays of the produce gently arranged to appeal to the customer, some artist took his or her time putting that display together, so it is art, and this art happens to not only appeal to your visual senses, but the aroma also draws you in and you can always pictures yourself and image the taste of biting into a firm, but soft, juicy peach. The fruit is so fresh; it will make you forget all about candy and cake. And while we are on topic, smoothies, made from milk and fruit, are a great substitute for ice cream. Now, as you can see, art can be found in the grocery store, or even on the sidewalk.
Just take a look at the architecture of the historical buildings and look at all the detail that went into producing them—it is rare to find architecture up to the levels of the Victorian era. The Victorian era architecture is so beautiful because the World was going through a lot of changes and the architecture wanted to build homes and buildings to get your mind off of the World and make you feel like you were in a majestic fairy tale land with homes and buildings that looked like castles and European gardens. So people could intelligently have something to focus on and they could talk about the works of art and tune out unpleasant thoughts. The idea was that what you focus on will manifest, and if people were in the convention of habitually or generally thinking about the beauty and accepting a given culture, it would remove their own prejudice and other unwanted results from our conventional expectations. Roman, Greek and Egyptian architecture also focused more on people and buildings, to give rise to the greatness of being human. It also alludes to other realities, our connection to a greater race of beings. Beings that maybe even had special powers and were much larger than the modern human, many of the Greek paintings and statues are someone’s rendition of God or gods. For example, William Blake’s painting, The Ancient Days, represents God as a powerful and mature father.
However, in Western culture, many of you are taught to focus on Jesus because he is a real person, and it is far easier for him to represent his father—the spiritual unknown. People do not want God to be “Too human.” Nevertheless, a painting from 1432, by Jan van Eyck, God, depicts God as someone who trusts the World, and one that celebrates a materialism that is proper and right of benevolent Kings, “This is God, all powerful in his divine majesty; of all the best, by the gentleness of goodness; the most liberal giver, because of his infinite generosity.” God is supposed to be one who is loving and merciful, self-sacrificing love—one who would wound himself in order to feed his own with his own blood, if other food was unavailable. Art is a representation of one’s mind. What is it that you spend most of your time focusing on? Make sure it is something beneficial. All the sentiments of Worldly grandeur vanish at that unavoidable moment which decides the destiny of each individual. ‘Tis worthy to recollect, continued my father, how little alteration, in great end, the approaches of death have made. Vespasian died in a jest upon his close stool. Galba with a sentence, Septimus Serverus in a dispatch, and Tiberius in dissimulation, and Caesar Augustus in a compliment. –I hope ‘twas a sincere one.
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The Revolution
The Universe is considered to be 14 billion years old, and is composed of particle of matter, energy, gas and light that exists in space. Some scientists, like Albert Einstein, believed there to be an infinite number of Universes’. Inside of our Universe is the Milky Way Galaxy, there are several other galaxies also. NASA estimates that there are 500 billion galaxies. To illustrate this point, The Whirlpool is 23 million light years from Earth. In our solar system are the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The Earth orbits the Sun. Earth, the only planet known to have human life, but there more than likely are other life forms out there, considering the vastness of our Universe. Earth is located in the Milky Way Galaxy, this galaxy is considered to be 13.6 billion years old, and contains about 200-400 billion stars. Inside of the Milky Way Galaxy, scientist estimate there are 160 billion planets, and at the center of the galaxy is a massive black hole.
The moon, which orbits Earth, is also located in the Milky Way Galaxy, and is about 4.4 billion years old. The moon used to be a planet, until it smashed into Earth. This planet split into two moons, which orbited the Earth, until they collided into each other, and merged, forming one moon. The Earth is believed to be about 4.58 billion years old, and has only known to have human life for about 100 million years. The Sun, which heats and provides light for Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. Recently, there have been a lot of coronal mass ejection being projected from the Sun and they have been hitting Earth. The year of 2012, on Earth, is supposed to be very active with coronal mass ejections, and then the Sunspots, which produce these coronal mass ejections, will go dormant. The Sun will still continue act as a source of light and heat for the Earth.
However, in about 5 billion years, the Sun is expected to use all of its nuclear energy, expand into a red giant, then cool and retire as a cooler denser white dwarf. Also, it is likely that time travel is possible; the fact that the whirlpool galaxy is 23 million light years away is a strong indication. Also, consider taking a trip to China, this is what I call mini time travel, because China is a day ahead of California by at least thirteen hours. So if one was to take a flight from Sacramento, California, Thursday at 2pm, by the time one reaches Beijing, China, it will be Saturday at about 4pm, but in Sacramento, California, it will still be Friday and about 3am; that is technically time travel. “You must keep your mind on the objective, not on the obstacle.” -William Randolph Hearst
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Your Love is My Drug
Oxytocin is a hormone, once thought to only be present in women, but studies have some that men also have oxytocin in their blood steam. Oxytocin is known for reducing fear and generating a feeling of well-being. It makes people feel like they are in love, which can help a pair enjoy mutual absorption of affection. Levels of oxytocin naturally increase when people are hugged, kiss, or shake someone’s hand. Also, people, who are in love, are shown to have increased levels of oxytocin in the plasma. High levels of oxytocin are said to make people more social, and can be used to treat people with autism by helping them to better communication their emotions. Oxytocin seems to have so many benefits; it is a hormone that is naturally created in the body, and released into the blood steam. Oxytocin is typically manifested in the hypothalamus and distributed into the plasma. This hormone is distributed by pituitary gland throughout the brain and the spinal cord, where it is bonded to oxytocin receptors, released throughout the body and influences behavior. In general, oxytocin is said to give a feeling of overall well-being. Although oxytocin is common in both men and women, this chemical has some enhanced functions for women. Studies have shown that women, who have higher levels of oxytocin in their blood, tend to connect better with their babies. These women have a special relationship with their babies, their babies are generally then center of their world. They tend to find joy in, “singing to their babies, pleasure in giving them bath, and enjoy feeding them. In looking at this evidence, it is possible that women with low levels of oxytocin may experience postpartum depression.
Studies have shown that newborns, which have a close relationship with their mothers, are more likely to be healthier. This is because women and babies get to know each other better, and the mother knows how to respond to the needs of her child. For the baby, connection with the mother and being held by the mother reduces stress on the baby because they cry less, are warmer, and have a sense of well-being because oxytocin is released, during skin-to-skin contact. These babies also get used to the natural bacteria on the mother’s skin and develop a natural immunity to other agents in the environment, so they are stronger. The more time two people spend together, the better they get to know each other. Since oxytocin is known to help people communicate better, synthetic oxytocin may help children with autism. Autism Spectrum Disorder is a range of complex neurodevelopment disorders, which create social impairments, communication difficulties. Studies have also shown that autism is linked to mothers who experience maternal stress. So to prevent Autism, women should limit the amount of stress they endure while they are pregnant. They should also have a close bond with their newborn babies. If Autism does develop, it is possible that oxytocin hormone therapy could help.
There is a clear connection that most people who are social, loved and hugged tend to develop better socially. We have focused on the benefits of oxytocin in women and children. However, oxytocin is also important for men, and helps to make a relationship better. Loving couples tend to want to hug, kiss, touch and have sexual intercourse. This is a good thing because it will increase their oxytocin levels. Skin to skin contact is known to generate higher levels of oxytocin. Oxytocin is released during sexual intercourse in both men and women, which encourages bonding. However, testosterone neutralized oxytocin in men, so men are less likely to want prolonged contact after sexual orgasm. So if you want a long-lasting relationship with a man, it is better to hold out on sex, until the man has genuine feelings for you. That way there will be an attachment between the couple and the man will not only want to have sex with you, but he will crave your attention and be more likely to stick to the relations for the long haul. Couples who share thoughts, ideas, and other commonalities will have a relationship that is far more intimate than just sexual partners.
How Many of You Men and Women have been Raped?
There are many ways to win in this World, but none of them is worth much without good hard work back of it. It is devastating to know that when you are in a room, nearly half of them men and women in the room have been forced to have sex. While the legal definition of rape varies from state to state, most states have laws that define rape as sexual intercourse occurring under the actual or threatened forcible compulsion that overcomes the serious and honest resistance of the victim. We are concerned about how many journalists have been raped by a coworker or photographer because you people work alone with your photographers often, and in isolated areas, at unusual hours, and it is possible that someone has been raped and is not speaking up. It is possible that these concerns have been brought to the attention of your legal department, but you were threatened by union staff that if you speak up, they will have you arrested, sue you, or make it so that you cannot work again. Rape can range anywhere from the violent assault by a stranger, to a planned romantic date that devolves into coerced sex. What these acts have in common is a disregard of the feeling of victims and a willingness to take advantage of and, often, to harm them. There are usually three different types of rape. Stranger rape, which is rape by an unknown assailant; acquaintance rape (date rape) is committed by someone known to the victim. Statutory rape is intercourse with a person under the age of consent (usually 18) or having consensual sex with someone is mentally disabled. If an individual is incompetent, they cannot consent. Despite the fact that rape is a significant problem, it has been difficult to obtain accurate statistics on its frequency. And 97 percent of rapists have never been sent to prison, but 50 percent of rape claims have been deemed as false accounts.
One of the reasons is that many individuals do not report when they are raped, and men and women are both often raped. It is reported that 38 percent of men have been raped, and 40 percent of women have been raped. That is alarming that at any time, half of the people you look at have been forced to have sex. Some people think that real rapes are only violent attacks, but that is not the case. This definition includes victims who were forced to penetrate someone else with their own body parts, either by physical force or coercion, or when the victim was drunk or high or otherwise unable to consent. When those cases were taken into account, the rates of non-consensual sexual contact basically equalized, with 1.270 million women and 1.267 million men claiming to be victims of sexual violence. 54 percent of men have been raped by other men, and 88 percent of women have been raped by men. However, women and especially men do not report being raped because they are embarrassed, fear they will not be taken seriously, fear reprisal by the offender or his or her family, and are concerned about unwanted publicity may deter individuals from reporting rapes. It just blows my mind that someone would get you drunk, assault you and seriously hurt you, then take advantage of you. Then the rapist walks around like they own the World and did nothing wrong. There are so many drawbacks to regard and intimacy, from pride, from property, and various other collateral causes, that rarely as we meet with people of brilliant parts, there is almost ever some objection to our desire of meeting them again.
Versatility is the Foundation of Success–Great President
It is fate of most individuals who mingle with the World, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature. It is the fate of all Presidents and journalist to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. A treacherous friend is the most dangerous enemy. The President has to interact with the media frequently, and the problem is that not all journalist are good, some of them have bad intensions. So the best thing for you to do, is open yourself up to them, invite them into your home, for an art show or something. Not every event with the press has to be about a pressing issue. Sometimes you can just hang out with the reporters and treat them like they are your friends, but understand that they may have ulterior motives. On the other hand, you have members of the press that will have your back even more than your lawyer. The idea of public relations is to have a group, who is a management tool for your business, the media, your branch of government, and other institutions. You want your public relationship team to establish beneficial relationships to accomplish goals. If we could just cool it with some of the negative coverage, threats and crime, those seeking attention may stop misbehaving.
As the President of the United States of America, think as yourself as the father of everyone in this country, and the media as your children. Children seek attention. If a child cannot receive good feedback, he or she will seek negative attention. Often children seek attention when it is difficult for parents to give it to them, such as when a parent is engaged in another activity like signing bills, dealing with an economic crisis, or spending time with his family, who still lives at home. When the journalists are behaving, their parents may not pay attention to them because they are doing what they are supposed to be doing. However, to keep your journalist behaving well, compliment them, maybe give their station a compliment for great coverage on something you did well, or send them a nice letter. Journalist misbehave to get attention, power, revenge, or to make their parents feel inadequate. So basically, they are seeking good attention, in all the wrong ways. In modern society, institutions have many relationships. The President, for example, has relationships with Congress, its faculty, its staff, and law enforcement, its benefactors, the neighborhood, the community, colleges, accreditors, banks, and many other programs. The list could go on forever. Each of these constituencies is called a public—hence the term public relations. And the object is to be on good terms with the public, so the like you and share good things about you.
Through research, the public relations practitioner studies these relationships to determine how well they are working. This evaluation is an ongoing process. If a complaint comes to your office, you never want to overlook it, but at the same time, you do not want to issue a threat, that is how you make enemies. First of all, let them know that you can relate to their concern and will address the issues, but first you need to gather more information. Give a few weeks, and if you decide it is the issue at hand is serious, then take corrective action. However, if it is just someone who is upset about something, never apologize—the President is not supposed to say sorry, it will make you look weak. Also, if students and the Press are disrespecting you, do not let them taunt you. Put them in check, professionally, on the spot, and have them removed from your meeting. This will show people that you are a strong President and will not tolerate foolishness, and will discourage anyone else from stepping out of line. When people start to think they are better than the President that is when we have a problem. These social media accounts, which are disrespecting you, need to be shut down. Never in my life have I seen so many people make such bad remarks about a President and get away with it, but that goes to show bad behavior is contagious and need to be eliminated. On your public relations team, you may want to have a few lawyers, a few journalists, former members of congress, and people you know like you. Their job is to recommend policies to top management to make these relationships work better, not only for you, but also for the partners in each relationship. However, being too nice, which many think you are could have consequences.
During the great, of 1929, it was discovered that some corporations were too nice to the public and their employees, which put them at risk with many public, including its own employees. I am not saying go all out and be mean, but you have to let it be known that you are not a joke and there will be serious repercussions for slander, harassment, assault, theft and lies. You need to have enlightened self-interest, which is a mutually beneficial public relationship with the media. Face, bad news tanks the economy and makes people act ugly, but when you point out all that is going well, people feel better and see that this is not the end of the World. However, when you are too nice to others, they lose their motivation and will monolithically run all over you and get the notion that they are running the game. Nonetheless, have some less formal events. Have journalist play golf with you, playing golf with the President would make their career and life and they will be happy. Invite them over for an ice cream social, and this will get them to like you as a person, but they will also know business is business. You can also set up municipal programs with certain cities and grants for schools and scholarships for employees’ children and people who share your views. Still, you will need critics, on your staff, to keep you on your toes, and critics and haters are not the same.
Some of you most valuable supporters are your critics. It is often those who love you, who will do you wrong out of concern, until they learn the truth. Once you straighten the nation out and let them know what time it is and who is boss, you will benefit from a revised image, and in the spirit of enlighten self-interest, so will the rest of the America and the World. Public relations are used to accomplish goals. Plant good press releases that you know newspapers, magazines, and TV news and radio stations will pick up, do not be afraid to seek some good press. Maybe someone has overcome a challenge and it is found out that you are supporting this person through college. That will look good in the public’s eye, especially if that person is from a group, who opposes you. And keep in mind, many huge corporations found themselves in disfavor, in the late 1800s, for ignoring the public good to make profits. This idea that just because corporations have so much money and support the economy, so they skate on fraud, assault and corruption, because taking them down would hurt the economy is just bogus. If bad behavior keeps spreading, it will hurt us all more. This will be a nation fighting itself and at war with the rest of the World. We have to set an example. We do not need to arm anyone, people need to learn to communicate, be fair and show respect. Nothing is so dangerous, especially to those who are not much accustomed to it, as a little success.
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