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- 5821: Greeks
- ... it is not possible to deceive or go beyond the will of Zeus:” (Hesiod 9). As time continued the Greeks’ beliefs changed in some ways. Some Greeks began to speculate about the nature of the world and its origin. In doing this they made guesses that were completely naturalistic and did not include any reference to supernatural powers or anything else divine (Craig, Graham, et. al. 57). They were one of ... think that laws came from the gods, they realized that the laws were made by humans and should be obeyed because they represented the expressed consent of the citizens (Craig, Graham, et. al. 57). These new beliefs led to the characteristic Greek institution of the polis. Polis means “city-state”. All Greek poleis began as little agricultural villages and they all had a sense of being independent political units. The poleis were generally a group of relatives where all the citizens were theoretically descended from a common ancestor (Craig, Graham, et. al. 77). In The Heritage of World Civilizations it is stated: Aristotle argued that the polis was a natural growth and that the human being is by nature “an animal who lives in a polis.” Humans alone have the power of ...
- 5822: Scarlet Letter 2
- Similarities in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne The Ambitious Guest is a short story bye Nathaniel Hawthorne that presents deadly irony. Residing in a notch in the mountains of New Hampshire, a cottage sits on the side of a steep mountain. In the house lives a family whose contacts with the rest of the world are from the travelers that pass by. One night when the family was huddled by the fire, a traveler stopped by. The family was happy to have a guest and the guest was happy to ... The Ambitious Guest the forest surrounds the lonely family. They want to get out of the forest and get to know people. The forest is evil in a way, keeping the family from the outside world. They dwelt in a cold spot and a dangerous one (Hawthorne, Guest 1). In The Scarlet Letter Hester is plagued with solitude. Since she has the A on her chest she is isolated from ...
- 5823: Power And Class In The United
- ... perform by Japanese soldiers. They could not come back to their homes during war because they taught it was dishonorable and they will go straight to heaven if they died during combat. 3.Why does New Jersey have a high rate of teen suicide, use some of Durkheim's notions? One reason why New Jersey has a high teen suicide rate because of Individual Isolation. New Jersey is entirely urban and suburban so the loss of community is there. The feeling of you walking around lonely in a crowd in Jersey is a common thing. I can't lie when ...
- 5824: Amazon.com
- ... providing needed goods and services to their customers. The nature of providing these goods and services has changed drastically throughout the history of time. During the last thirty years of business activity, there has been new ways and means of conducting business through something we call technology. Today, in 1999, the number one technique of tying business into technology would be the use of the Internet. The Internet is a computer application that connects tens of thousands of interconnected computer networks around the world. Users are directly joined to other computer users at there own will for a small connection fee per month, or pay nothing at all. The connection conveniently includes unlimited access to over a million web ... convenience of a person's home, twenty-four hours a day. A business, such as Amazon, can be very pleased with the amount of information they can readily have available to publish to the entire world. If the customers are satisfied with a particular product with all the public information made available, why not make a product or service obtainable through the use of the Internet. Well, Amazon uses this ...
- 5825: What Causes Infectious Diseases to Strike?
- What Causes Infectious Diseases to Strike? Since the seventies, many knew diseases have been dicovered in many different parts of the world. The new diseases are all of an infectious nature, meaning that they are viral infections, not bacterial infections. The main difference between viral diseases such as Marburg and Ebola and other viral diseases like Inlfuenza is how ... first Marburg attack and five years before the first Ebola outbreak, .9 billion hectacres of the earths forests have been destroyed. This is a signifigant and sudden drop in forestation, consisting of nearly half the world’s forests. Before the sharp decline of the seventies deforestaion wasn’t even a problem, but ever since the dive in forested areas has continued, and so have the outbreaks. That first outbreak of ...
- 5826: Anti-Social Personality Disorder
- Anti-Social Personality Disorder In a world full of fears, perhaps the worst one a human being should have is that to be afraid of his fellow man. The human that should be most feared is the one that has Anti-Social ... a sociopath a lack of understanding for other people's feelings which enables them to be deceitful without feeling bad about whatever they do. The under developed emotional system as explained in the video "The World of Personality Disorders volume 5" says the sociopath is "emotionally retarded" . The sociopathic behavior problems that start as a child have links to heredity, a family with a pre-disposition to perform crimes, alcoholic parents ... so hard to deal with we should make strides to control their behavior in public. BIBLIOGRAPHY BOOKS Wing , John Kenneth, Reasoning About Madness, Oxford Press, Oxford ,1978 Milt, Harry ,Basic Handbook on Mental Ilness,Scribner, New York , 1974 Hales, Dianne,Caring for the Mind, Bantam Books , New York , 1995 ARTICLES Salama M.D., Aziz A.,The Antisocial Personality,The Psychiatric Journal of the University of Ottawa , Ottawa , 1988 Malaney M. ...
- 5827: Schizophrenia
- ... mental illness that is one of the most debilitating and baffling mental illnesses known today. This disorder is characterized by “a dysfunction of the thinking process, such as hallucinations, delusions, and withdrawal from the outside world”(Bower, 1). Schizophrenia is a biologically based brain disease. “The most recent advances in brain chemicals- dopamine and serotonin- in those who suffer from schizophrenia”(Bower,1). Also scientists believe schizophrenia is caused by poor ... person to tell the difference between real and imagined experiences, to think logically, to express normal emotional responses or to behave normally in social situations”(Schizophrenia, 1). This disease affects about 1 percent of the world population. 2.5 million people in the United States have this disease. “Schizophrenia affects men and women equally, however, its onset in women is typically five years later than with men.”(Puharic, 2). Symptoms usually ... disease. “Antipsychotic medications help to normalize the biochemical imbalances that cause schizophrenia”(Gibson, 3). These drugs are also important in reducing the likelihood of relapse. The two major types of Antipsychotic drugs are traditional and new Antipsychotic drugs. Traditional effectively controls the hallucinations delusions, and confusion. Side effects for Antipsychotic drugs may cause a patient to stop taking them. They suffer from dry mouth, blurred vision, constipation, drowsiness and dizziness. ...
- 5828: The Shocks of European Colonization
- The Shocks of European Colonization From 1492 to 1608, a new era, called "The age of discovery," had evolved into a full blown conquest for the unknown. Explorers explored the unknown in the uncharted sea with their crew and boats in search for the unknown. This innocent quest for the unknown grew fatal when greed interceded in their discoveries. During this age of discovery, Europeans invaded the "New World," cruelly enforced it's culture upon the Indian culture and used Africans rudely and injustly in slave trading. When Christopher Columbus discovered the new world, little did he know that he would begin an ...
- 5829: Demanding Greatness: Steroid Use
- ... team or for a scholarship.7 The word steroids was hardly heard in the news until the 1988 Olympics. It was announced that Ben Johnson from Canada had taken steroids to help him set the new world record for the 100-meter dash. Now many young athletes realized that they too could use steroids to help their physical appearance. Everyone saw what steroids did for Johnson. He set a new world record. This was not the first time steroids have been used in a professional event. “Some studies estimated that up to 80 percent of professional football players, half of all world-class athletes, ...
- 5830: Sherlock Holmes
- ... Doyle himself did not even think that the Sherlock Holmes stories were good literature, but as he found out, people were not interested in the quality of his writing but rather being entertained by the world's most famous detective. Holmes was created in March 1886 but was not introduced to the public until November 1887 due to lack of funding for his stories. He first appeared in 'A Study of ... looking for a figure of hope and inspiration. The selection criteria were short: Someone who always got his man. The only one who fitted this description was Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes was not only the world's greatest detective, but he also lived in London. He was someone close to home and a man well steeped in Victorian traditions. Holmes was just like any other Englishman at the time. He read ... a generation's imagination but also transformed the way people thought. At the turn of the century, people began to look to science for more and more answers. Holmes was at the forefront of this new way of thinking. Doyle himself actually created finger print forensic science as we know it today. He said that no two people have exactly the same finger prints. Holmes used this science to assist ...
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