... extremely large proportions, and large wooden or clay plates are inserted. Among the ancient Aztecs and Mayans labret piercing was reserved for male members of the higher castes, they wore beautiful labrets fashioned from pure gold in the shape of serpents, golden labrets with stones ... a state of constant excitation...the medical community was outraged by these cosmetic procedures, for they represented a rejection of traditional conceptions of the purpose of a woman's body." "Anatomy & Destiny" Stephen Kern "For a long time I could not understand why I should consent to such a painful...

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... , even instructors with years of experience. Some were caused by practitioners staying in poses for extreme periods of time. For example, an older case reported in the sixties involved a male college student who would sit and meditate in kneeling pose (thunderbolt) for hours a day. Before long he was having difficulty walking, running and climbing stairs. Apparently, the extreme ... sciatic nerve. The condition became known as "yoga foot drop". After discontinuing this habit, the young man made a full recovery (Broad 110-111). Another instance involved a male yoga instructor with four de...

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... great importance to the world of communicating. What does your nonverbal language say about you? An American psychologist, states that our communication consists of 55% body language, 38% is expressed through tone and voice, and 7% is communicated with words. A communications expert, Mario Pei, once estimated that humans can ... may not understand the messages that other people are sending you. The way a person stands, positions their arms, and smiles can tell a lot. Body language usually does not lie. Facial expressions also give clues as to what other people are thinking. Men and woman...

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... bear cubs chase and tackle their siblings, which is play fighting, and this has been observed between aggregating sub adult and adult male polar bears. Only pregnant female polar bears hibernate. They aren't deep hibernators, but enter a state of carnivore exhaustion. Though hibernating ... male with its head down, mouth closed, and eyes averted. The bears usually make contact by gently touching or "mouthing" each other around the face and neck. They then proceed to rear up on their hind legs and try to push each other over with their forepaws. A mother polar bear can comfort, protect, o...

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... increase in steroid use over the past few decades is a result of the roles they perform in the body. They imitate the predominately male hormone testosterone by producing both the androgenic and the anabolic affects that are associated with the hormone. The ... androgenic effects include masculine characteristics such as deepening of the voice, growth of facial hair, and the maturation of sex glands. The more desirable anabolic effects include the growth of body ... side-effects. New York Times reports the stunting of bone growth, testicular shrinkage, and even female breasts in male use...

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... of tissue that surround the cavity connect the dorsally and ventrall to form mesenteries, which suspend the internal organs. An acoclomate is a lower invertebrate animal. It does not develop a body cavity. A protostome is a member of one or two distinct evolutionary lines of coeleomates, consisting of annelids, mollusks, and arthropods, and characterized by spiral, determinate cleavage, schizocoelous formation ... Each microspore eventually divides once by mitosis and produces two cells, a generative cell and tube cell. Together, the two cells and their wall constitute a pollen grain, o...

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... temple complex built on a hill over a city Amphora: a two-handled Greek storage jar Architrave: a plain, unornamented lintel on the entablature Canon: a body of rules or laws; in Greek art, the ideal mathematical proportion of a figure Caryatid (male: atlantid): a building column that is shaped like a female figure Cella: the main room of a Greek temple where the god is housed Contrapposto: a ... graceful arrangement of the body based on tilted shoulders and hips and bent knees Cornice: a projecting ledge over a wall Entablature: the upper story ... cemented to a wall or a floor Pedimen...

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... have passed since the first inclusive approaches to faith and worship resources were published; most North American denominational hymnals or books of worship make some attempt at language revision. A significant body of material exists to merit reflection and critique as churches continue to inch their way toward more inclusive language. Provisional solutions ( such as "Father, Son, Spirit-) must be questioned ... cannot create meaning without some degree of association with human father-child relationships. Constant liturgical use of masculine language for God cannot help giving the im...

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... , he has to do certain identity checks for gaining clearance into work. However for some reason he is not able to get into work. They perform a body scan on him, when they discover that he is a robot andriod. Nevertheless, he denies this claim and tries to prove that he is human by cutting ... Booth. ) Girlfriend - Angelina Jolie ( I think that she would help my film to attract money, and she is a fairly good actress. Also she would help to gain male and female audience members beacsue she has sex appeal. ) Weapon Designer friend - Jeff Goldbrum ( I think that he would be a perfect actor...

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... or for his extraordinary exploits," according to Bisson. However idealized is the lady, the courtly tradition therefore surfaces the existence of females, whether by physical or male-defined virtue, disguises the inner characters, and in a way impersonalises women from the ordinary humane nature. "Their (women's) role is to learn, listening quietly ... censure from around. "To urge a woman to chastity is to urge her in some profound sense to deny her femininity, since to transcend the body is to escape that which is gendered feminine" (qtd. In Bisson, Chaucer and the Late Medieval World ...

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... two subjects underwent non-structured interviews. These two individuals were significantly older than the other four. One was female and the other one was male, their ages were 60 and 42 respectively. These two individuals were interviewed so that they could provide a basis as to any differences that ... were through the use of picks, rakes, combs or chisels. These methods of tattoo application are the reason for the name of this form of body modification. The word tattoo is derived from the Polynesian word 'ta', which means 'to strike something', and the Tahitian word ' ...

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... mother. Wordsworth's gendered poetics clearly manifests itself in his poems The Idiot Boy, and The Thorn. Each poem depict the literal female body, as well as the emotional aspects of the mother, and illustrates that Wordsworth's ability to create these poems depends upon actually possessing ... perspective. In order for Wordsworth to depict the emotional aspects of motherhood and female tribulations from a woman's perspective he abandons his mental and physical male body and in a spiritual sense, a takes on the physical, emotional and social views of his female characters. It is importa...

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... cinemas. A common argument against pornography is that the media portrays women as being nothing more than sexual playthings and objects to satisfy male sexual desires. As before, the media once again, is not to be held responsible for creating this image; these views are products ... above mentioned events are socially acceptable; media displaying pornography is not. It is also said that the media reduces women to a collection of body parts through pornography (Christensen 1990:74). But why then are their no complaints of advertisements in magazines displaying only ears, for example, or...

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... form of Malay), English, Dutch, local dialects, the most widely spoken of which is Javanese Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 83.8% male: 89.6% female: 78% (1995 est.) The Indonesian culture has a great variety due to the fact that Indonesia is a very vast country. By this I mean that because ... is of utmost importance, because it is essential to health and longevity. Though, the Mentawaians believe that the soul departs and leaves the body various times during the life of the individual before the final escape. They think that sickness is the ab...

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... cinemas. A common argument against pornography is that the media portrays women as being nothing more than sexual playthings and objects to satisfy male sexual desires. As before, the media once again, is not to be held responsible for creating this image; these views are products ... above mentioned events are socially acceptable; media displaying pornography is not. It is also said that the media reduces women to a collection of body parts through pornography (Christensen 1990:74). But why then are their no complaints of advertisements in magazines displaying only ears, for example, or...

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... traits. Medea is a woman and as a member of the patriarchal, man concerned, Greek community she is considered less than that of the male species and is treated appropriately. She is restricted in her actions by social understandings & ideologies and is positioned by society to fit the conventional ... moans and cries, a noise perfectly fitting into the patriarchal gender prescription of the emotionally unstable Woman. This pleasing image (to the Grecian male audience at least) is soon shattered. Medea goes on through the rest of the play to swap personas like clothes; she is cunning, ......

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... not treated differently. This arguement does not make sense because it is interesting to see how an equivalent professional group caring for male does not exist. Is it because male don't need any gender related medical treatment and its only womens body that can be controlled. When we look at any Obstetric and Gynecology text book we can clearly see that the role ... Reproduction (1992), the author Emily Martin shows that in describing various physiological processes, medical science assumes production , i.e., baby making and child rearing as the normal state of the female body. Although...

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... had homosexual subcultures that have been brought out through rituals and other such ceremonies. Dance has been defined as "a series of rhythmical steps and body movements, usually performed in time to music" (Encarta, 2003). Nowhere in this definition does it say that dance solely pertains to women. Although ... during a period when modern ballet style was emerging" (Buckle, 2002). His work, however, still lives on along with other various gay male advocates. Around 1966, a young male by the name of Rudolf Nureyev made what ballet was never once referred to, a man's game. Nureyev was in...

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... to continue the household during high wartime male mortality. A great quote from Demosthenes, the noted Greek orator, summarizes the latitude of husbands and wives: "We have hetaerae for the sake of pleasure, prostitutes for daily care of the body, but wives to bear us legitimate children and ... determined if she was strong enough to live. Otherwise she was exposed. Her young life was spent in various athletic pursuits, toning her body to produce babies. Throwing the javelin, wrestling and racing were some of these events. Footraces at Olympia to commemorate Hera saw virgin Spartan .....

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... serial killer in the USA is Jeffery Dahmer, who had many characteristics and motivations behind his crimes. Statistically, the average serial killer is a white male from a lower to middle class background. Usually between his 20s and 30s. Many have been physically or emotionally abused by their portents. Very few ... home. His stay in Florida did not last long. Jeffery decided to go back home to Ohio. Upon returning there he dug up Hicks' body. Once he had uncovered the remains he crushed the skeleton with a sledgehammer. Scattering the powdered remains throughout the woods. Jeffery once...

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... . The nurse should assess who the decision maker will be so that informed consent can be directed to the right person. Even in emergency situations, it is best to involve male family members because the woman will be placed in an awkward situation if she makes a decision alone. Modesty is very important to the Arab Muslim client, especially for females. The ... intention of Muslim dress is to conceal the body identity (Zaidi, 1994). Vaginal examinations can cause great anxiety. It is common for traditional Arab women to expect to see female providers (Kulwicki, Miller & Schim, 2000). If ...

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... may differ markedly with time and place. In pre-industrial Europe,for example, the practice of medicine (other than midwifery) was generally seen as a male prerogative. However, in Russia health care was more often seen as a feminine role. The results of these views can be seen in modern society, where ... or tying their hands to the side of the bed was wrong, for youngsters should grow up with a wholesome and natural feeling about the whole body. This in turn will allow them to grow up into "healthy" adults. Otherwise traits such as "sissiness" in boys and "unhappiness" in girls ... dr...

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... are considered specifically feminine or masculine, then an interesting and new character is then created. By reading medieval literature one can conclude that the male character hardly ever deviates from his masculine role. In medieval literature, the men are very masculine and chivalrous, and if they stray away ... literature allows the sexuality of the woman to overstep boundaries and show an array of the female characteristics. On the other hand, there is the male character in medieval literature. Unlike his versatile and forever changing female counterpart, he is the same at all times...

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... , eternal, who is the essence of all things, and inconceivable, himself shone forth. He, desiring, seeking to produce various creatures from his own body, first created the waters, and deposited in them a seed. This (seed) became a golden egg, resplendent as the sun, in which he himself ... immaculate substance a female who is celebrated under the names of Satarupa, Savitri, Sarasvati, Gayatri, and Brahmani. Beholding his daughter, born from his body, Brahma became wounded with the arrows of love and exclaimed, 'How surpassingly lovely she is !' Satarupa turned to the right side from his...

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... modified to suit specific needs. In poultry, the process has accelerated during the past several decades because of increased selection pressure and development of specialized male and female lines in breeding programs. Large changes have also occurred in the intensification of environments in which poultry are maintained. Such intensification is a ... vary in size from very small to several inches in length. The head or anterior end is much smaller than the rest of the body. Since tapeworms may be very small, careful examination often is necessary to find them. A portion of the intestin...

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