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Is Food Technically Beneficial?

Is Food Technically Beneficial? Food is known to be a very essential and important part of our daily lives. Almost all of the needs for our bodies are supported by food. It is digested into molecules that are absorbed and transported throughout the body for energy. The body also uses food to collect nutrients for growth and development. With the right amount and control of nutrients, we can increase our body health. Food does not only help energize the body but it also helps the brain process thought. The body is able to send messages through chemical reactions to the brain released from food. Without the necessary nutrients from food, our bodies would not be able to function in its proper way.

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Studs, and Rings, and Piercings! Oh, My!

First impressions are often those that matter most. Various influences throughout our lives shape how we perceive people upon first glance. Often these preconceived notions are accurate; intuition is at times, reliable. However, this same premonition can lead to the development of biases. Certain groups of people, be it religious folk, supporters of various political ideas, sexual preference, or race can evoke a certain negative connotation in our minds simply because we are susceptible to these instinctive notions. Human instinct can be convincing, and the factors responsible for the development of such biases are often attached to emotions or memories experienced in early life. Because of this, humans will abandon all often abandon all logic in favor of their emotions and their natural instinct.

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Psycho-Delic?

Dear Skip Stone, Your book, Hippies from A-Z, gives details on the hippie culture and reasons to keep it alive. What I do not understand is, why should the hippie generation should be revived? Although it was a much larger movement back in the nineteen sixties there is still a substantial presence of the hippie culture in today’s youth. You claim, “We must spread the word, because so much of the hippy philosophy is positive and loving, something sorely lacking in today's world.” but you fail to acknowledge the blatant downfalls of this carefree lifestyle. This subculture that you are trying to keep alive embodies the negatives of our society; promiscuity and it’s adverse effects of STD’s, drugs, and a lack of initiative towards the common good of society. There is no substantial evidence that shows this sub-culture of music loving, pacifist people did anything good for our country. Essentially my goal is to explain the reasons why this culture shouldn’t be revived and how the new age hippies shouldn’t replicate their predecessors mistakes.

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Taming the Beast

Ever since the first human took a tool to the walls of a cave and captured his first painting, individuals have been expressing themselves in artistic forms. Be it performance, painting, writing or music, art exposes the depths of the soul and reveals the beliefs, moods, styles and trends of a culture. But for almost as long as humans have been creating art, others have stifled, or censored it. Music has been one of the most censored forms, continuously strangled by authorities fearful of the possible social and psychological damage that a piece of music had the potential to create. Even Mozart, who’s classical symphony “Marriage of Figaro” portrays the playful deceit of a student toward his master, was frequently censored in the eighteenth century (Economist 91). Two hundred years later, the censorship debate still ensues. There are many questions to ask pertaining to the encroachment on the first amendment, freedom of speech. What good will censorship do for society? What will it do for the art form? Does music really influence and/or corrupt our minds? Of course there is the question of morality, which appeals to both sides of the debate. While some believe that controlling an artist’s freedom to create is immoral, others believe that the content of music will foster immoral behavior and perpetuate the corruption of young people. Overall, the censorship of music hinders creativity, limits freedom of speech and stifles the communication of information. The silencing of US citizens would ultimately lead to further infringement of basic rights and increasing bureaucratic control over our everyday lives.

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