Fact or Fiction? Total Recall Paper PHIL 2003-013 Usually at least once in a lifetime a person will question whether a dream was reality or not. It is rare to think “I am just dreaming” in a dream. In the 1990s movie Total Recall the director‚ Paul Verhoeven‚ attempts to illustrate the puzzling question of “what is reality and what is not?” With Arnold Schwarzenegger in this futuristic flick‚ the director cleverly confuses the audience about what is “real” in the movie‚ making one doubt each
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Paranoid Personality Disorder Jessica Alba - (born April 28‚ 1981) is an American actress who’s TV and film credits include Dark Angel‚ Honey‚ Sin City‚ Fantastic Four‚ Into the Blue‚ Idle Hands and 2007’s Good Luck Chuck. Alba’s early life was marked by a multitude of physical maladies; she suffered collapsed lungs twice‚ had pneumonia 4-5 times a year‚ a ruptured appendix‚ and a cyst on her tonsils. She has also acknowledged suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder during childhood. Her health
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Global Warming: Fact or Fiction? Many consider global warming to be the largest threat facing the people of Earth‚ while others view it as nothing more than Liberal propaganda. Both sides have extremely well thought out arguments. According to Environmentalist there is a growing realization that human activities are threatening the health of the natural systems that make life possible on this planet. While Non-believers claim that you can’t find a real scientist anywhere in the world who can
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Borderline Personality Disorder There are many abnormal psychological disorders in the DSM-IV along with various treatment options for them. The American Psychological Association’s (APA) lists that these types of disorders are genetic and learned. The main focus is of one of the possible treatments for the Axis II disorder known as borderline personality disorder (BPD) and that is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Through a discovery of its usefulness for individuals with this disorder‚ the defining
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Global Warming: Fact or Fiction? Is global warming taking place? Are humans the cause of it? Lately these questions are being asked more and more by people who believe that the earth’s climate is growing steadily warmer at an alarming rate. Our planet’s ever-changing climate has captured the attention of those who would have us agree that without drastic modification of our behavior‚ we will ultimately destroy the world in which we live. However‚ these activists are using scare tactics based upon
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Borderline personality disorder is a serious mental illness marked by unstable moods‚ behavior‚ and relationships. Because some people with severe borderline personality disorder have brief psychotic episodes‚ experts originally thought of this illness as atypical‚ or borderline‚ versions of other mental disorders. While mental health experts now generally agree that the name "borderline personality disorder" is misleading‚ a more accurate term does not exist yet. The symptoms of borderline disorder were
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Causes of ASP “The cause of antisocial personality disorder‚ or ASP‚ is unknown.” (Black‚ 2012‚ para. 1) “Researchers have their own ideas about ASP’s cause. One theory suggests that abnormalities in development of the nervous system may cause ASP.” (Black‚ 2012‚ The theories section‚ para. 1) “A recent study showed that if mothers smoked during pregnancy‚ their offspring were at risk of developing antisocial behavior. This suggests that smoking brought about lowered oxygen levels with may have
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Males in Charge: Fact or Fiction Stereotypes are all around us. In today’s world stereotypes are frowned upon and seem to have no bearing on the limitations one can surpass‚ but they did not come out of nowhere. Something had to have happened for these stereotypes to arise. Gender stereotypes are some of the most controversial stereotypes‚ one being that males should be in charge instead of women. Since the founding of America took place in 1776‚ a male has been in charge of this country
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Schizoid personality disorder has an interesting effect on one’s emotions. SPD is a disorder in the group “Cluster A‚” or eccentric personality disorders. Schizoid disorder‚ like every other mental illness‚ has a very interesting past. The word “schizoid” was coined by Eugen Bleuler in 1908. He used it to designate a tendency in some humans to give more attention to one’s inner life and less to the external world. When there was an exaggeration of this tendency‚ Bleuler labeled it the “schizoid
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Borderline Personality Disorder Etiology: A history of abuse in the patient’s is very common. Some hypothesize that if‚ as a child‚ the patient was separated from their mother they are more likely to develop BPD‚ therefore developing intense anxiety‚ hypersensitivity to rejection‚ and feelings of abandonment. Medications: SSRIs are the preferred medication given to patients with BPD. Common SSRIs are Prozac‚ Zoloft‚ Lexapro‚ Paxil‚ Luvox. Antipsychotic agents and opiate receptor antagonists may
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