You go on with your ever day activities but the voices keep intruding. ... Your positive that the visions and voices are real, you don't know who to trust, what is real, and why this is happening to you. ... As soon as an imagined voice spoke, or a vision appeared, a patient pressed a button. ... When one patient reported seeing dripping colors and severed heads, for instance, the parts of the sensory cortex that process movement, color, and objects, became active. When patients hear voices, the auditory cortex as well as the language-processing areas became active (2001). ...

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The representatives that we the citizens vote into office are suppose to help voice our opinions so we have say in the government. ... Active political participants are few and far between in this country. ... However, some people do not think it is important to actively participate in politics. ... In this country people who vote, for the most part, vote because they follow the elections and want their voice to be heard. ... They do not feel that their one voice makes a difference in our country with millions of people. ...

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The representatives that we the citizens vote into office are suppose to help voice our opinions so we have say in the government. ... Active political participants are few and far between in this country. ... However, some people do not think it is important to actively participate in politics. ... In this country people who vote, for the most part, vote because they follow the elections and want their voice to be heard. ... They do not feel that their one voice makes a difference in our country with millions of people. ...

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In these cases where the patient suffers from a terminal disease or remains in a persistent vegetative state or PVS from which they cannot voice their wishes for continuation or termination of life, the question becomes whether or not the patient has the freedom to choose whether or not to prolong their life even though it may consist of pain and suffering. ... In the hopes of clarification, we must first distinguish between active and passive euthanasia. ... As to active euthanasia, there has been no Supreme Court ruling determining whether the right to die, as understood in passive euthanasi...

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The citizens are active participants in all aspects of government under this theory. ... Unlike citizens in favor of pure democracy, special interest groups have ensured that their voice was heard. ... We have the right to voice our opinions, but actions are harder to come by. ... It no longer actively functions as a part of today's society. ... In the end, we must remember that participatory democracy requires active participants....

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As Aisenberg states, "women's voices and developmental experiences differ from those of men. The heroine substitutes moral courage and a moral voice for the hero's physical courage and sense of predestination"(13). ... Both of these women are similarly passive in that they don"t play an active part in the stories; in other words they receive actions from characters . ... Marian eventually overcomes her fear of life and she takes an active role in it. ... Marian and Lily may have played passive, relatively non-active roles in the novels but they were also strong characters an...

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By participating in politics, people air their voices and thereby contribute to nation through representatives, hence the term representative democracy. ... This view suggests that Americans tend to be more passive than active political participants. ... It is healthy if memberships of political parties are large and active, and if attendance at political rallies is high, and so on. ... By electing officials to represent their opinions, citizens are actively partaking in policy making. ... They do not realize that one voice can make a difference in our government. ...

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In other words, the voice, use of images and figurative language determines how a poem is read and reveals what is being said. ... The diction here is simple and direct, and the tone is the quiet voice of private conversation. ... The third stanza is the most irregular metrically, which is fitting because it is the site of a new and active presence in the poem. ... , in all its homeliness and diminutiveness, is the physical voice of the real world. ... In this poem, Hardy shows one imperfect human response through the voice of the speaker. ...

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Senate term, Bob Graham has emerged as a leading voice of moderate Democrats bent on putting results ahead of politics. ... While taking a lead on the national stage, Graham has remained active in and attentive to Florida issues. ... As an active member of the Blue dogs, a coalition of conservative Democrats working to reform Washington politics, Boyd was instrumental in the successful efforts by Congress to reach the historical 1997 balanced budget agreement. ... Boyd, throughout his tenure in Congress, has worked to protect Florida's military community and has been active throughout the...

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Her opposition to the veil was greatly influenced by her parents actively protesting, her mother was actually featured on the cover of European and Iranian newspapers protesting, "I was really proud of her". ... Marjane learned at an early age the importance of voicing her opinions and standing up for what she believed through the example of her parents. Religion actively influences Marjane Satrapi, from her beliefs in God to the very institution whose oppression she overcame. ... Marjane voices her opinion and stands up against the proposed amendment pushing for more concealment, p...

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AIDS after 1985 was an astonishing deadly risk for sexually active people as a whole. ... An article in The Village Voice, entitled "The Facts About Straight Sex and AIDS", answers the questions of whether or not AIDS was a heterosexual disease. ... The popular conception of AIDS was changed to be a disease that heterosexually active people could contract. ... Abstinence was fine for people who weren't sexually active, but for the majority of sexually active people condoms were the preferred method. An article in The Village Voice showed promise for a "super" condom. ...

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AIDS after 1985 was an astonishing deadly risk for sexually active people as a whole. ... An article in The Village Voice, entitled "The Facts About Straight Sex and AIDS", answers the questions of whether or not AIDS was a heterosexual disease. ... The popular conception of AIDS was changed to be a disease that heterosexually active people could contract. ... Abstinence was fine for people who weren't sexually active, but for the majority of sexually active people condoms were the preferred method. An article in The Village Voice showed promise for a "super" condom. ...

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Shakespeare's protagonist Othello is an isolated black male playing an active role in Venetian society. ... I had rather to adopt a child then get it" which shows Desdemona has an active role and is not just passive. ... The reason for this is Shakespeare does not allow Desdemona to have a voice until late in the first act which means before she is introduced to the audience, they would only have thoughts on her based on what is said about her and as Brabantio is over confident that there was no way Desdemona would be in an active relationship with "the Moor" unless she had been "cha...

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Since a strong civil society means that more people are actively involved in their communities and have the chance to discuss politics more often than not, a decrease in this strength results in less people identifying with their communities and taking less of an interest in outside matters, such as politics. ... Creating a cooperative spirit clarifies our strength as a democracy because more voices will be expressed and heard in fuller democratic debate which results in stronger policies. ... "People without a voice are not represented" so how can these people be part of a cooperative spirit ...

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The bus was like a portable campus caring lively symphony of voice from block to block compared to the nearly empty and quiet muddy void of a field outside. ... With headphones in peoples ears, eyes glued to the glowing screen of a modern tech device or book , its almost as if people make an active effort not to interact with strangers. The volume of peoples voices were also soft and quiet, which made it more uncomfortable to talk out loud since everyone on the bus could hear you if you spoke at a normal volume. instead, people who knew each other started to whisper instead of talk, further cr...

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They may hear "voices" that others cannot hear. The patients may believe that these "voices" carry messages from important people, or even from God. ... Some patients withdraw from their family and friends and talk mainly to themselves or to their "voices." ... Residual schizophrenia is constituted by minor symptoms, which occur as an active episode diminishes. ...

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The Indian National Congress, led by Gandhi, was one of the first political organizations to actively include woman, even women formally in Purdah. ... They actively and enthusiastically sought after redistribution of land and wages. The first group to cross over and actively seek out women's liberation was an organization of new Marxists called Magowa. ... Although feminist sentiments existed throughout, it took active female inclusion in the poli...

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Another channel, called the Slow Associated Control Channel (SACCH) is also always present when a dedicated link is active between the Mobile Station and the BTS. ... The GSM voice path is fairly simple. The voice first travels thru the Vocoder, then the Interleave, the Codec, the Modulate, and finally the Burst. ... To further protect against the burst errors common to the radio interface, each voice sample is diagonally interleaved. ... At the Modulate, the voice sample inputs at 13kbits/s (Error corrected interleaved) and outputs in time ¬slot bursts at a bit rate of 270.833kbits/s...

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I am at liberty (freedom) to voice decriminalization of marijuana, as well as my fellow pot smoking Americans. ... Reason number one, marijuana is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known. ... The liberal group would and will appreciate many more voices to voice. One of our greatest voices would be the National Organization for the Legalization of Marijuana (NORML). ...

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Hegemony is "the process of moral, philosophical, and political leadership that a social group attains only with the active consent of other important social groups" (Artz). ... When content, people actively give their consent. ... Other codes and conventions in broadcasting are voice-overs, split screen comparisons, music, lighting, direct or indirect address, camera angles, and the narrative. ... In the Budd text, a Cascade commercial is analyzed to see how unobtrusive techniques like voice-overs, music, lighting, direct address, and the narrative style come together to create a particul...

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They were active members of the abolitionist movement who met in England in 1840 at the World Anti-Slavery Convention. ... Anthony, who was most active in the movement at the time. ... At the age of 13, Joan began to hear voices, which she determined had been sent by God to give her a mission to save France by ejecting its enemies, and to put Charles as their king. ...

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However, there are also sub-categories for the aims: -to bring the problems which children have to deal with into the open and to come up with a solution for each problem -to make the results continuing and going a long way -to make the voice of children more audible and with this aim to launch the necessary campaigns -to make other people, other countries or organizations aware of this situation and with this aim to communicate with people, governments or other organizations for building new partnerships All around the world, there are 30 organizations which make partnership with this organi...

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It spread rapidly throughout the Civil Service of the British Empire and the armed forces, and became the voice of authority and power. ... During WW2, it became linked in many minds with the voice of freedom, and the notion of a "BBC pronunciation" grew. ... Modern linguists tend to prefer to take a descriptive rather than prescriptive approach to studying language, and as a result no one is likely to try actively to 'suppress' such regional variations. ...

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In the first section the voice the poet chooses to use (it is never clear if he speaks as himself or if the poem is intended as a satire) very traditional, romantic language and is complimentary throughout, such as My vegetable love should grow' and An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes '. ... The woman seems to play no active role in this idealised relationship and is merely an object to be admired, wooed and conquered. ... The fact that he chooses to leave off' implies that he feels respect for this woman, rather than just lust, and this is reiterated by the fact...

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He has the chance to voice his beliefs if he disagrees with a law. ... They can voice out any opinion and they have. ... So since I am not able to take an active part in the making the law, I don't have a tacit agreement. ...

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