By Carolyn Reeder What a person believes to be true can have a powerful effect on the body. Medical
studies show that between 30 percent and 40 percent of patients experience relief of
their symptoms if they think they've received medicine, even when they actually
received an inactive substance, or placebo. This positive response based on the
expectation that treatment will improve their condition is called the placebo effect,
and it works to reduce pain and promote healing in a variety of conditions and
injuries. There is also a nocebo effect, in which negative expectations cause a
negative response in the patient.

Read the excerpt from a supporting opinion of the supreme court’s ruling in plessy v. ferguson, 1896. laws permitting, and even requiring, their separation in places where they are liable to be brought into contact do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race to the other, and have been generally, if not universally, recognized as within the competency of the state legislatures in the exercise of their police power. how does this relate to the premises of brown v. board of education? the brown case addresses whether state legislatures are equipped to judge the quality of education offered at segregated schools. the brown case addresses whether authorities believe that one race is inferior to another when creating public schools. the brown case addresses whether these laws inherently deny certain citizens equal protection under the law. the brown case addresses the legality of using police power to monitor public places separated by race.

Read the following excerpt from the play a raisin in the sun by lorraine hansberry: johnson (this usa woman who decided long ago to be enthusiastic about everything in life and she is inclined to wave her wrist vigorously at the heigh of her exclamatory comments.): hello there, yourself! h’you this evening, ruth? which assumption about johnson is most likely true based on the stage direction? a. her enthusiasm is used to mask her fear of public places

What does hofmann use of the pronoun it imply about the sister feeling about gregor