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		<title>Causation and Mental Illness</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anxiety, depression, dissociative identity disorder, Why am I talking about this? After a 2 year reprieve, I am back to being depressed.1 And the question that pisses me off the most is, &#8220;why are you depressed?&#8221; Because if there&#8217;s a cause, there must be a cure! Find the magical traumatic event and my brain will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brand Me</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first years at university, I was a journalism advertising major. So, the inevitable question is how does one go from that to computer science? As a journalism major, it became quickly obvious that journalism (at least in the United States) has fallen quite far on the integrity scale. Today, it has gotten even worse. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Visual Impairment?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alright, the standard belief is that people who want equal access, rights, etc. are stereotypically people that fall into the group that are being marginalized. I am by no measure blind; my nearsightedness is easily corrected with glasses. I am an individual with behavioral, learning, and pain disorders that affect my interactions with society. Why [...]]]></description>
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