Snipers are highly skilled marksmen at taking out targets from a distance and being shot at hurts a lot. Pain and snipers are like first cousins ​​with a love-hate relationship. Pain is something everyone feels and it's not something people look forward to. Burns, bruises, cuts, and broken bones are just a few of the many things that cause people pain. Your brain, the control center of your body, obviously needs to receive the pain signal for you to feel it. Pain that can be caused by many different things that are not pleasant, but there must be a specific part of your brain that can read these signals for you to feel pain. Pain is described by an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual pain or potential tissue damage. Pain, the process by which receptors in your body pick up a painful stimulus which then transfers them to the central nervous system which then transfers the signal to the brain (“How Pain Works”, 2007). The nervous system is made up of two parts: the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS). Pain is not carried directly from pain receptors to the brain; it has to go through the central nervous system. The CNS occupies the spinal cord and the brain. The receptors are connected to the spinal cord which is connected to the brain. To ensure protection of the CNS, it was entirely enclosed in bone, with the brain in the skull and the spinal cord in the vertebrae (Berkeley). The PNS which represents all the nerves in your body except those located in the brain and spinal cord. The PNS is the real reason you feel pain, because the PNS acts as a communications relay between your brain and your extremities...... middle of article......2013, from http ://serendip.brynmawr.edu /exchange/node/1736Craig, A.D. (nd). Mapping pain in the brain. Mapping pain in the brain. Retrieved November 18, 2013 from http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/pain/microsite/science2.htmlFreudenrich, C. (November 9, 2007). How pain works. How things work. Retrieved November 13, 2013 from http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/pain.htm Lambert, K. (September 21, 2007). How CIPA works. How things work. Accessed November 21, 2013, from http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/cipa3.htmThe Central Nervous System. (nd). The central nervous system. Retrieved November 13, 2013 from http://mcb.berkeley.edu/courses/mcb135e/central.html staff, M. (March 3, 2011). How your brain works. Mayo Clinic. Accessed November 17, 2013 from http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/brain/BN00033&slide=8