The Heart is cone-shaped, with its base positioned upwards and tapering down to the apex. An adult Heart has a mass of 250–350 grams. The Heart is typically the size of a fist: 12 cm in length, 8 cm wide, and 6 cm in thickness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm3rDbXbZRI The Heart is the first functional organ to develop and starts to ...
Funny Face / Lustiges Gesicht / Cara Engraçada / Cara Graciosa
Funny Face is a 1957 American musical romantic comedy film. Maggie Prescott is a fashion magazine publisher, who is looking for the next big fashion trend. Maggie wants the look to be both 'beautiful' and 'intellectual'. She and famous fashion photographer Dick Avery want models who can 'think as well as they look.' Maggie and Dick take ...
My Story / Meine Geschichte / Minha História / Mi Historia
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Risk factors include mental disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, alcoholism, or substance misuse. Others are impulsive acts due to stress such as from financial difficulties, troubles with relationships, or from bullying. Those who have previously attempted Suicide are at higher risk for future attempts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjvq23sPrHA Suicide ...
The little girl who was Forgotten / Das kleine Mädchen, das vergessen Wurde / A Menina que foi Esquecida / La Niña Que Se Olvidó
Loneliness is a complex and usually unpleasant emotional response to isolation. Loneliness typically includes anxious feelings about a lack of connection or communication with other beings, both in the present and extending into the future. As such, Loneliness can be felt even when surrounded by other people. The causes of Loneliness are varied and include social, mental, ...
Losers / Verlierer / Perdedores / Perdedores
Loser (plural losers) - A person who loses; one who fails to win - Something of poor quality - A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life - A unfashionable person - A person who loses something - Bullying is the use of force, threat, to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively dominate others. Behaviors used to assert such ...
Above and Beyond / Darüber Hinaus / Acima e Além / Mucho más Allá
Tonight at any rate we've got to go through some theoretical material, so we're on a head trip. I don't know where the trip will end up, it depends on you! But in order to lay the foundation for this, we've got to examine ideas that are basics to our common sense. We'll begin with one ...
Story Of Milk / Geschichte der Milch / História do Leite / Historia de la Leche
As an agricultural product, Milk is extracted from non-human mammals during or soon after pregnancy. Dairy farms produced about 730 million tonnes of milk in 2011, from 260 million dairy cows. India is the world's largest producer of milk. The United States, India, China and Brazil are the world's largest exporters of Milk and milk products. Throughout the ...
Alienation / Entfremdung / Alienação / Alienación
Social Alienation is a condition in social relationships reflected by a low integration and a high degree of isolation between individuals, or between an individual and a group of people in a community. It is a sociological concept developed by several classical and contemporary theorists. The concept has many discipline-specific uses, and can refer both to a ...
Sufism / Sufismus / Sufismo / Sufismo
Sufism is a mystical trend in Islam characterized by particular values, ritual practices, doctrines and institutions. It is often defined as 'Islamic mysticism', the inward dimension of Islam, 'the phenomenon of mysticism within Islam,' Classical Sufis are characterized by their asceticism, especially by their attachment to dhikr, the practice of repeating the names of God, often performed after ...
Soulmates / Seelenverwandte / Almas Gêmeas / Almas Gemelas
A Soulmate is a person with whom one has a feeling of deep or natural affinity. This may involve similarity, Love, romance, comfort, intimacy, sexuality, sexual activity, spirituality, or compatibility and trust. Aristophanes states that Human's originally had four arms, four legs, and a single head made of two faces. He continues that there were three genders: ...
Solitude / Einsamkeit / Solidão / Soledad
Solitude is a state of seclusion or isolation, ie., lack of contact with people. It may stem from bad relationships, loss of loved ones, deliberate choice, infectious disease, mental disorders, neurological disorders, circumstances of situation. A distinction has been made between Solitude and loneliness. In this sense, these two words refer, respectively, to the joy and the ...
Look Beyond Borders / Schau Über Grenzen Hinaus / Olhar Além Fronteiras / Mira Más Allá de Fronteras
When talking about the problem of refugees, we use dehumanised language, which reduces Human tragedy to numbers and statistics. But this suffering concerns real people, who – just like us - have families, loved ones, friends; their own stories, dreams, goals ... Only when you sit down opposite a specific person and look into their eyes, ...
This is Water / Das ist Wasser / Isso é Agua / Esto es Agua
This Is Water: 'Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life' is an essay by David Foster Wallace. This essay covers subjects including the difficulty of empathy, the importance of being well adjusted, and the essential lonesomeness of adult life. David Foster Wallace’s speech suggests that the overall purpose of higher education is ...