Spring 2011 Brand New Issue Maganificent

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Shopaholism: Reasons, Triggers, and Aftershocks -aholic suffix: one that is addicted to or compulsively in need of; e.g. shopaholic In her book To Buy or Not to Buy: Why We Overshop and How to Stop, April Lane Benson speaks of overshopping as a “coping mechanism, a way you temporarily distract yourself from authentic personal needs that aren’t being met.”[1] An emotional and/or compulsive shopper would typically go spending money to overcome a bad mood, to escape facing

With one month to my wedding, I can tell you that the situation was getting a little brighter considering my overwhelming wedding preparations that are getting to be settled so far! Throughout my journey I was dazzled by tons of stuff that I was never into before. And I can tell you that it's much easier to learn what not to do! Than learning what to do (I believe I wasted some time in misleading steps) I

After setting out to your perfect summer vacation; you pick up your favorite sunglasses, a nice cold drink, a sunscreen lotion or spray and head out to the beaches, enjoy the summer sun, maybe get yourself a nice bronze tan. But there is a lot of sunscreen on the shelves to choose from and it is a bit confusing to understand which one is suitable for your skin? Well, in the next few paragraphs we

Open your eyes It’s alright, you are okay. Calm down and inhale. No, nobody was chasing you. No, you were not drowning in the sea. No, no shark was going to bite you No, you were not crossing that tight bridge over the river No, you didn’t fall from that tower No, no, the whale never swallowed you. You’ve never seen a whale in real life! No, the sea was not all rocks. You are nowhere near the sea! No, no, you can speak

In a world where ownership and ruling has been forevermore men exclusive, sex was no exception. In fact, sex has been portrayed as all that men ever think about; sex is how you attract a man; sex is how you keep a man; sex is how you’re rated by man and thus the world. So, it was only natural for men consumed by such tremendous amount of sex, to get hooked. Women, on the other

Seeing them repetitively in movies, with an insatiable thirst for blood, equipped with long fangs to pierce veins, sleeping in coffins and hiding from the sunlight, we have grown accustomed to the fantasy of vampires. And the movies provided audience with a guide on how to uncover them: play the mirror trick—vampires won’t have a reflection. That’s easy indeed. But where the popular culture and arts dwelled on blood suckers, little has been said about

A phobia is defined as the unrelenting fear of a situation, activity, or thing that causes one to want to avoid it. The three types of phobias are social phobia (fear of public speaking, meeting new people, or other social situations), agoraphobia (fear of being outside), and specific phobias (fear of particular items or situations). Many people experience specific phobias, intense, irrational fears of certain things or situations--dogs, closed-in places, heights, escalators, tunnels, highway driving, water,

“Cause” and “effect” are so ambiguous for human instinct. The human nature doesn’t believe in the unknown and just tend to give some logic explanations to the so- called “superstitions”. But remember, “Superstition is the child of ignorance and the mother of misery.” By Robert G. Ingersoll. The word itself comes from two Latin words. "Super" which means above and "Stare" which means to stand. In the times of the Romans, those men who were lucky