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- 7151: Socrates
- ... was wise for he was always in the pursuit of knowledge. Unfortunately, Socrates was put to death late in his life. One of his best students, Plato, however, recorded what had occurred on that last day of Socrates' life. On that last day of his life, Socrates made a quite powerful claim. He claimed that philosophy was merely practice for getting used to death and dying. At first, the connection between philosophy and death is not clear. However ...
- 7152: Evolution
- ... to the point of publishing a work of his own entitled Darwinism. This itself was his single greatest contrib! ution to the field: encoura ging Darwin to publish his extensive research on the issues they'd both developed. He later published Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection, comprising the fundamental explanation and understanding of the theory of evolution through natural selection. He also greatly developed the notion of natural barriers ... of the sexes: the significantly evolved difference of musculature between male and females can probably be more easily explained by Lamarckian theory than Darwinian. There was actually quite a remarkable similarity between the conclusions of D arwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck - Lamarck himself only mentioned Erasmus in a footnote, and with virtual contempt. The fact is neither Lamarck nor Darwin ever proposed a means by which species traits were ...
- 7153: Creation or Evolution?
- ... believe in evolution. Biblical creationists are also called literal creationists, because they interpret the two Genesis accounts of creation in the Bible literally and believe that the Bible is without error. They believe that the "day" mentioned in Genesis 1 signifies a normal 24 hour day. According to this creation the universe was established in six days. Biblical creationists interpret most sedimentary rocks as products of Noah's flood. The majority believes that the earth is under 10,000 years of ...
- 7154: Athens And Sparta
- The country of Greece in 400-500 B.C. was led to greatness by two great city-states. These city-states were Athens and Sparta. These two states were as different as night and day. They were rivals and very diverse. As you read you will find out their differences between their form of culture and government. The city-state of Athens adopted a form of government which is now ... Athens were very educated. From their childhood until the ages of six or seven the men were taught home by their mother or a male slave. After the age of seven they attended a normal day school. At school they learned drama, public speaking, reading, writing, and mathematics . When they reached the age of fourteen they attended a higher school for four more years. At the higher school they learned more ...
- 7155: Vegetarianism
- ... the United States is consumed by livestock. Another example of how people could use less water by being vegetarian is shown in the fact that a vegan uses only three hundred gallons of water a day for the production of their food while a meat eater uses four thousand two hundred gallons of water in one day. Many people have chosen to eliminate eating meat because they feel like the data shown above demonstrates how being vegetarian is an environmentally sound choice. A third reason why people don't eat meat is ...
- 7156: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... people to never forget their dreams. King preaches that in the eyes of God, the blacks are as good as any other race and should be treated as equals. "I have a dream that one day every valley will be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places shall be made plain, and the crooked places shall be made straight, and the glory of the lord shall ... I Have a Dream speech) Unlike Malcolm X, King does not incite his followers to riot and hate, but encourages his followers to remember that all people are Gods children and that hopefully one day all American can join together to sing "My country tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing
" Kings eventual disillusionment became because of the lack of success the blacks were making ...
- 7157: Earthquakes
- ... 90 percent of the city's buildings. One of the clues that led to this prediction was a chain of low-magnitude tremors, called foreshocks, that had begun about five years earlier in the area. (Day 1988) Other potential clues being investigated are tilting or bulging of the land surface and changes in the earth's magnetic field, in the water levels of wells, and even in animal behavior. A new ... basis of such measurements the U.S. Geological Survey, in April 1985, predicted that an earthquake of magnitude 5.5 to 6 would occur on the San Andreas fault, near Parkfield, California, sometime before 1993.(Day 1988) Many unofficial predictions of earthquakes have also been made. In 1990 a zoologist, Dr. Iben Browning, warned that a major quake would occur along the New Madrid fault before the end of the year ...
- 7158: Antibiotics
- ... drugs, and their use should be possible within the near future. Bibliography 1. Pharmaceutical Preparations, Except Biologicals, 1978, Current Industrial Reports, Series MA28(78)-1, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C. 2. Synthetic Organic Chemicals, United States Production and Sales of Medicinal Chemicals, U.S. Tariff Commission (1972-73) United States International Trade Commission (1974-75), U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 3. L.S. Goodman and A. Gilman, The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 5th ed., Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, 1975.
- 7159: Alice In Wonderland By Lewis C
- ... stammering Oxford mathematics professor. Dodgson was a deacon in his church, an inventor, and a noted children's photographer. Wonderland, and thus the seeds of his unanticipated success as a writer, appeared quite casually one day as he spun an impromptu tale to amuse the daughters of a colleague during a picnic. One of these girls was Alice Liddell, who insisted that he write the story down for her, and who ... which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." There is plenty of fodder for psychoanalysts, Freudian or otherwise, who have had a field day analyzing the significance of the myriad dream creatures and Alice's strange transformations. There is even Zen: "And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown ...
- 7160: Ancient Egypt 2
- ... The location of this exhibit, behind the pyramid, gives the impression of being a less important and less frequent aspect of Egyptian culture. The visitor is lead through a less cramped exhibit of the every day live of an ancient Egyptian. There is a display in which one can "envision himself as an Egyptian": the visitor can put his face up to a pane of glass, behind which is a model of an Egyptian face. The visitor is shown how he would look as a typical ancient Egyptian. This exhibit, while interesting and entertaining, has very little to do with every day life of the ancient Egyptian. Through out the exhibit, there are few artifacts, and even less information on the daily events of an ancient Egyptian. Two to three small, five-foot tall walls are painted ...
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