What is mental illness exactly? Why do we pardon cold blooded murderers with the use of mental illnesses and disorders? “Mental illness refers to conditions that affect cognition, emotion, and behaviour (e.g., schizophrenia, depression, autism).” is one of the definitions the US Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health website has given to the public. However, …
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In 1950 North Korea attacked the South. The attack was seen as an evidence of communist expansionism. Considering that with the end of WWII, tensions between the USA and the USSR rose, this Korean attack signed the first violent conflict of the Cold War. Since 1949, when communist Mao Zedong came to power in China, …
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Before the end of the Ming dynasty (1644), other than Kaifeng, there were several other Jewish communities in China. It is still unknown how all these communities eventually perished. HANGZHOU (杭州) Hangzhou became an important city in Chinese history when the Sui Dynasty (隋朝, 581–618) made it the southern terminus of the Jing-Hang Grand Canal …
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To begin with, what is privacy? The desire for it has existed ever since earth was populated by conscious thought. Privacy is a state, free of disruption and observation - conditions stimulated by the presence of other conscious thinkers. Based on those terms, the desire for privacy can be explained by splitting it into …
Drugs and Addiction As of today’s, there are many misconceptions about the essence of the addiction. The first definition that comes in search is ‘the fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance or activity.’ However, it is wrong. So far, science and philosophy haven’t achieved a rigid definition of the essence of …
