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- 3971: Celiac Sprue Disease
- ... followed in the footsteps of this pioneer, prescribing diets based on rice, bananas, and lamb, which often led to symptomatic improvement of these children with celiac sprue. It wasn't until the end of World War II that the connection between the consumption of wheat and rye flour and the incidence of celiac sprue was made. Dutch pediatricians noted that during the war, when these flours were in short supply, celiac patients improved and few new cases were seen. After the war, when adequate food supplies were restored to the civilian population, celiac disease reappeared with regularity. Based on this clinical observation, scientist then determined that a water-insoluble protein component of these grains, gluten, was ...
- 3972: Time And Technology
- ... mid 1870s the telephone was invented. This was a new revolution because it could be used for both listening and speaking. The first major use for the telephone though was during the First World War when directives were sent to the front from distant headquarters. Certain battles were lost due to the rejection of this technology and the communication failed. It was not until after the war that the telephone was put in use privately. But the astounding thing is that the means of communication reached almost anybody, anywhere, if only they wished to pick up. This helped business a lot, and ... or not it was propaganda, a weather warning or an advertisement it still reached millions of people, and this had a profound effect on the commercial sector. It also allowed society to organize itself for war or other national events, because these were issued on the radio, this was the most effective means to reach the population of a country, therefore it became a very powerful political and economical tool. ...
- 3973: Parthenon
- ... even quoted saying, " the Greeks must be outraged," they cried. "They must consider this an act of bare-faced tyranny, when they see that with their own contributions, extorted from them by force for the war against the Persian, we are gilding and beautifying our city, as if it were some vain women decking herself out with costly stones and thousand talent temples." "Pericles' answer to the people was that the Athenians were not obliged to give the allies an account if how their money was spent, provided that they carried in the war and kept the Persians away. " All they supply is money," he told the Athenians, " and this belongs not to the people who give but to those who receive it, so long as they provide he ... by Elgin without the permission of the Turks. The history of the Greeks can be studied by looking at the sculptures on the Parthenon. The thirty-fourth metopes of the north side portrayed the Trojan War. The twelfth metopes on the west depicts the Greeks fighting the amazons, on the opposite side depicts the battle of the Olympian gods. The south flank of the metopes is a depiction of the ...
- 3974: Nelson Mandela
- ... He was suspended from college for joining in a protest boycott. He went to Johannesburg where he entered politics by joining the African National Congress in 1942 (Woods). At the height of the Second World War, members of the African National Congress set themselves the task of transforming ANC into a mass movement. In September of 1944 they came together to form the African National Congress Youth League. Mandela soon impressed ... the 1948 all-white elections on the platform of Apartheid, inspired ANCYL to create the Programme of Action. The Programme of Action was simply a sub-committee of the ANCYL. The weapons of boycott, strikes, civil disobedience and non-co-operation was accepted as official ANC policy. In 1950, Mandela was elected to the NEC at national conference (Apartheid). The ANCYL programme aimed at attaining full citizenship and direct parliamentary representation ...
- 3975: Tragic Hero Characterization I
- ... failure of duty. He made the tragic mistake of sacrificing his daughter's life to the gods in hopes that they would send strong winds to blow his armies' ships towards Troy for the Trojan War. After sacrificing his daughter, he eventually arrived at Troy where he fought for several years. In Agamemnon, Agamemnon has arrived to his kingdom after nine years and is unaware of the doom that awaits him ... Agamemnon really is not an opposing force to a conflict in the story. Creon and Antigone directly inverse each other creating the clash between the two opposing arguments while Agamemnon is represented as an honorable war hero who made a tragic error in judgment which ultimately leads to his downfall in the story. He gives ut-most respect and honor to the gods and claims that the god's are responsible ... but she loves her brother and feels he deserves a proper burial. She only wants to give her brother the respect he deserves in her opinion. Agamemnon did sacrifice his daughter to fight in a war caused by his brother Menelaus' unfaithful wife but he had to show his patriotism to avoid being shunned or overthrown due to his lack of loyalty to his kingdom. Because of his curse, whichever ...
- 3976: The Khent
- ... death our half dead and buried bodies from the burning sands of the Arabian desert, where our age-long persecutors, the inexorable Turkish authorities had driven us during the dark days of the First World War with the flimsy excuse that we were in sympathy with the Allied cause. We enjoy now in America, "The Land of Liberty and The Home of the Brave," a cultural democracy, the likc of which ... of these novels in which the author has a thesis to expound and a sermon to preach. The theme of the story is taken from the bloody events which followed as the aftermath of the war of 1877 between Turkey and Russia. Raffi in his travels had witnessed the deplorable conditions to which the Armenian people were subjected. These were chiefly peace loving peasants whose sole purpose in life was to ... the other also to them." Raffi having seen the Armenian refugees who had escaped certain death at the hands of their pursuing enemies, the Turkish soldiers, in the province of Alashgerd during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, set his imagination into motion and gave us a novel of great merit, weaving a succession of captivating episodes, gruesome events, and portraying the fascinating pictures of the Armenian peasant, first in ...
- 3977: Education In Public Schools
- ... real reason why the children are there. Not only that, but some of the textbooks hold inaccurate information and do not contain the whole story. Some textbooks stated that the atomic bomb ended the Korean War (instead of World War II) and that only 53,000, rather than 126,000 Americans, were killed in World War I. One book summarizes Abraham Lincoln's and George Washington's life in approximately six lines each. Not only are the wrong things written in the textbooks, they teach the children wrong values. In ...
- 3978: Why The Crucible?
- ... each and every one of them of being a communist or having communist ties. The only catch was that those who were accused, in most cases, were not even communists. He realized that after World War II, the whole nation was afraid that communists would overtake the country. McCarthy did not know much about communism, but he used it to scare people. He told them that if they were not careful ... Miller wrote The Crucible as an allegory, the expression of truths or generalizations about human existence by means of symbolic figures and actions. In the beginning, McCarthy was hailed as a hero. After the World War II, McCarthy began his campaigns. He made himself sound like a war hero, but in actuality, he peeled potatoes (DAmbrosio lecture). The last straw was when he went a little too far with his accusations. After he relentlessly destroyed thousands of peoples lives; government ...
- 3979: The Battle of Monocacy
- The Battle of Monocacy Frederick County has a lot of history to it. Many major events in the history of the United States of America have taken place here. During the Civil War, many troops crossed through Frederick County. During one instance, there was a major battle, which many say saved Washington from being taken over by the Confederates. This battle took place just outside the city of ...
- 3980: The Writing of the Bill of Rights
- The Writing of the Bill of Rights When the Revolutionary War was over, the American colonists were free of the British. Since they were free from the British, they wanted to create their own system of government where tyranny would not be a problem. Originally the ... solution in which both views were united to protect the citizens rights. This was called the Bill of Rights. New York and Pennsylvania refused to ratify the Constitution unless it was amended.When the Revolutionary War was over, the American colonists were free of the British. Since they were free from the British, they wanted to create their own system of government where tyranny would not be a problem. Originally the ... solution in which both views were united to protect the citizens rights. This was called the Bill of Rights. New York and Pennsylvania refused to ratify the Constitution unless it was amended.When the Revolutionary War was over, the American colonists were free of the British. Since they were free from the British, they wanted to create their own system of government where tyranny would not be a problem. Originally ...
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