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Taking Video Games to China

two or three weeks, so that they will get hooked" (Srinivasan, 2005). Indian programmers are indeed being "hooked" and the compan...

Frustration And Marketer Performance

violent tendencies. Sometimes the client creates frustration in any number of ways, a reality the marketer must accept given the ...

How Does A Particular Intentional Mental State, Such As A Belief Or A Desire, Come To Have Its Particular Content?

To conjure a concept is to bring about thought; however, the question as to where and how that thought originated continues to be ...

Philosophy And Skepticism

including moral evil. Epicurus, by contrast, believed just the opposite and openly asserted how the gods have no sway over anyone...

Augustine, Aurelius And Guibert

Plato and Anselm . He talks about seeking truth and wisdom consistently throughout the text. For Augustine, "Truth is one, and Go...

PSYCHOLOGY AND STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

acknowledges that this is somewhat of a surprise, given that, since the 17th century, mysticism, science and healing have gone in ...

Goal of Meditation in the Buddhist Tradition

leads to the meditative absorptions states known as jhana (Novak, 1989). The second, insight meditation, contemplates the "true n...

Productivity and Stress in the Workplace

at stress and productivity specifically will draw on the other relayed information. II. What is Stress? According to the Tex...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

Meditation Types

while remaining completely conscious" (Religion, 2001). When the meditator reaches the fourth stage, he has abandoned "any sense o...

Disease Treatment Through Alternative and Holistic Medicine Approaches

approaches that are specifically utilized to improve health, the percentage of Americans relying on CAM jumps to sixty-two percent...

Modalities of Self Care and Holistic Nursing

help each other by merely listening and offering words of encouragement. My psychologist friend firmly believed that lifestyle ch...

Meditation on Dying by Robert Nozick

to be" (Nozick 22). After first acknowledging that connections with others are crucial throughout life and comforting at its end...

States of Consciousness

is indicative of REM sleep. If one has reached Stage IV, it is indicative that one will shortly be entering the REM stage where d...

An Analysis of The Long Discourses Of The Buddha: A Translation Of The Digha Nikaya

& of themselves... the mind in & of itself... mental qualities in & of themselves -- ardent, alert, & mindful -- putting aside gre...

Evaluating Childbirth Pain Management Alternative Proposal

drugs. In reality, pain management in labor delivery can include not only pharmacological approaches but also behavioral approach...

Daily Living Through Zen Buddhism

karmic retribution. Zen Buddhists believe that karmic actions result in reincarnation, and that "ones circumstances are the suita...

Theories on Stress and How It May Be Treated

the most effective means of treatment. Stress is, in fact, a reaction; not the event or situation which causes the reaction (DeFr...

Healing and the Meditation Ritual

clutter and entanglements with regular meditation is one of the most effective ways to maintain a healthy existence. "The basis o...

Religion and Man According to Benjamin Franklin and Edward Taylor

In five pages the world and religion as man relates to both are considered in the context of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and...

Overview of 'Expression and Communication'

In five pages this paper examines the concepts contained within the 'Expression and Communication' essay that is featured in E.H. ...

Practices of Meditation

In fourteen pages this report considers meditation practices in an assessment of its spiritual impact, benefits, and effectiveness...

Nursing and Elderly Pain Management Strategy

In eleven pages this paper examines such strategic pain management for senior citizens as guided imagery, meditation, and massage ...

Meditation and Exercise

that there are some tips toward combating stress and its effect on the human body. Taking time out each day to perform stress-bust...

Reviewing 'Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth

This dissolution, first adverse, becomes a positive driving force which allows us to sway from crime, avarice and over-anxious car...

Meditation Benefits

at the moment to meet our destiny will be available to us. It is at this point that we alter our relationship with the future. W...

Meditation Value, Zen Buddhism, and Martin Heidegger

In nine pages this paper considers Zen Buddhism and Heidegger's teaching in a discussion of how meditation and its value relates t...

Buddhist Meditation Practices Known as Vippassana and Samatha

In eight pages this report contrasts and compares these various types of Buddhist meditation practices. Seven sources are cited i...

Benefits of Meditation

In three pages this research paper examines creative visualization, channeling, Shamanic Journeying, and T'ai Chi practices of med...

Aurelius and Augustine

parables, or a book of varied quotes. As an example, in the Sixth Book he notes, "Do not ever conceive anything impossible to ma...