Laughter: A Chemical Reaction In The Brain

An emotion is a distinctive feeling deriving from a relationship with other individuals. Emotions can be very powerful and can either hinder or strengthen an individual. In the novel Ethan Frome written by Edith Wharton, the hamarita that Ethan possesses is the abundance of concern he has for others. This means that his emotions for others hinder his life. This leads to his demise which is when Ethan and Mattie crash the elm tree and they are sent to the hospital.

In Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the protagonist McMurphy proves that “Laughter is the best medicine.” The narrator’s name is Chief Bromden who pretends to be deaf and dumb but has many hallucinations that alter his perception of the people and things around him. The antagonist, Nurse Ratched, or the Big Nurse, has all power in the ward until McMurphy comes. He was voluntarily admitted to the mental hospital. His rebellious attitude and actions lead him to take the power from the Nurse. With this power, he tries to influence the other patients using laughter, something they were not previously exposed to. While laughter does not cure all mental illnesses, laughter affects the patients in the ward positively because it

Anabolic steroids are a group of powerful drugs or compounds that duplicate the function of the male sex hormone Testosterone. They are used medically to treat certain kinds of anemia, severe burns, endocrine problems, and some types of breast cancer. Research has shown that they increase lean muscle mass, strength, and increase the ability to train harder and longer. Anabolic steroids can be administered in the body orally, injected into the vein with a needle in cycles of weeks or months, or they can be inhaled. Anabolic steroids can be addictive the the body, and if used improperly, can cause many negative side effects. They are used by medicine to treat medical conditions, and athletes to increase their performance.

Emotions are what propel you forward to reach your goal, but what also stop you from breaking your limits. They are what weigh into our decisions and help lead us to the choices we forever live with. Not only can they determine what we do, but also when and how we do it. At times they are stronger than others, pulling us forward or throwing us back as if we have absolutely no control. Just like in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the entire lives of two teenagers led by the emotions that they couldn’t ignore. Consequently, this leads them to make decisions that are irreversible, and significant. Decisions that change the lives of not only themselves, but the ones who love them. It opened the eyes of those who had been blinded by hatred, changing the way they viewed the delicate concept of life and death. The power of their emotions was so strong, that there was no escaping them. In the play, Shakespeare displays the power of emotions by the actions of not only Romeo and Juliet, but their families as well. The strength of their emotions are strong enough to cause them happiness, chaos, and eventually tragedy.

The Biopsychological Approach is the concept that psychological and social factors play a part in understanding an individual’s mental illness or disorder. Aggression is a human behavior which many display, but if it is gone unnoticed it can worsen overtime. This essay will explain the Biological, psychological, and social factors explaining an individual’s human behavior.

Anabolic steroids, are affect the male hormones, mainly testosterone, is the main reason of development and changes that happens during puberty and growth. Male hormones have

Our brain is so powerful sending signals throughout our body. Amygdala is a part of our brain when triggered with stress it will send a single to our hypothalamus ("Understanding the Stress Response" 1). Amygdale deals with emotions and distress signals ("Understanding the Stress Response" 1). The hypothalamus part

What is it? -a sudden and sometimes fatal occurrence of coronary thrombosis, typically resulting in the death of part of a heart muscle. -More than a million Americans have heart attacks each year. Pain or discomfort in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw or stomach. Shortness of breath

Humour is often found in a health care setting being used by both the nurses and the clients. Although in such a setting humour may seem unacceptable at times many positive effects have been found with the use of humour. The health care setting can be a stressful place whether a nurse or a client. Although individuals often have no control over stressful events that happen in their lives, they have a choice in how they respond to those events.

Similarities are found in common items, and more typically in similar items. Such as a brain is like a heart as it is a organ. However, these two are similar in a small regard as being an organ, they are vastly different in the ways that they function, grow, and purpose for the organism. Although they are different, both the brain and heart are similar in regards to certain aspects. “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one” (Einstein, 1952) .

Lundberg states that positive humor is nurturing and makes everyone feel good. According to Goodman (1992), "Laughing with others builds confidence, brings people together, and pokes fun at our common dilemmas. Humor is laughter made from pain, not pain inflicted by laughter."

Emotional happiness is the feeling that is hard to be described, it is a subjective experience. Emotional happiness occurs mainly when we are pleasured about something connected to us. Moral happiness is the feeling that we get when we successfully live up to our duty, virtue and potential. Judgemental happiness is when we express our beliefs about things.

Emotion plays an important role in human life. Human beings are subjected to various emotions throughout their

The word first looks in our language in the mid-16th era, However, one can find pioneers to the word emotion dating back to the earliest identified recordings of language.

Whenever a decision is made, it depends on the opinions that one take. So, opinions are important. Emoticons express the opinions very well but from the text, it becomes difficult to find out the sentiments and opinions of one. Sentiment analysis is the process of detecting one’s opinions regarding a person, product, text. This paper covers the challenges and basic work flow of sentiment analysis.