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- 1081: The Reformation
- ... even poked fun at them, the rich Catholic Church still preserved many Medieval ways. People began to disagree with Church customs. In the late 1300's, an English priest and teacher at Oxford University, named John Wycliffe declared that people should be able to read the Bible for themselves. Although the Church protested, Wycliffe's followers translated the Bible into English and handed copies out all over the English countryside. Wycliffe ... to Luther's doctrine of justification by faith. Reformers in other countries were also famous. Erasmus of Rotterdam spurred the study of the early Church through printed editions of the Greek New Testament. In England, John Colet worked for reform within the Church. John Calvin reformed churches in Switzerland and created the Protestant religion of Calvinism, now Presbyterianism. Where The Reformation Spread The Reformation first spread to the Netherlands and Scotland, where it was used as a vehicle ...
- 1082: Computers Not The Greatest Invention Of The 20 Th Century
- ... equations that had long left scientists and mathematicians baffled. The machine was cumbersome because hundreds of gears and shafts were required to represent numbers and their various relationships to each other. To eliminate this bulkiness, John V. Atanasoff, a professor at Iowa State College and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, envisioned an all-electronic computer that applied Boolean algebra to computer circuitry. This approach was based on the mid-19th century ... 5 million soldered joints, the computer was such a massive piece of machinery that it consumed 160 kilowatts of electrical power, enough energy to dim the lights in an entire section of Philadelphia. Developed by John Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly, ENIAC, unlike the Colossus and Mark I, was a general-purpose computer that computed at speeds 1,000 times faster than Mark I. In the mid-1940's John von Neumann joined ...
- 1083: Consciousness As Determined Th
- ... a wish or fantasy. In short a creature is conscious if it is aware of itself and that it is a physical and emotional being. Consciousness is a psychological condition defined by the English philosopher John Locke as "the perception of what passes in a mans own mind".1 Consciousness is defined and perceived differently in many psychological view points. For instance the earlier views around the 19th century was ... used by philosophers and psychologists as meaning "attention to the contents or workings of ones own mind." This notion had little significance for the ancients, but it was emphasized in the 17th century by John Locke and Rene Descartes. Contemporaries of these two philosophers thought of consciousness as the operation of the inner-eye. Both Locke and Descartes went further. They held that consciousness was involved with every working mental ... made the mind impossible for objective science. What is known introspectively to a single person would be utterly private and therefore can not be viewed scientifically. Scientific method demands objectivity and reportable data. The behaviorists John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner and the philosopher Gilbert Ryle rebelled against the idea of an inner sense and denied the very existence of consciousness in the strong sense exhibited by Locke, Descartes ...
- 1084: Consciousness As Determined Through The Times
- ... a wish or fantasy. In short a creature is conscious if it is aware of itself and that it is a physical and emotional being. Consciousness is a psychological condition defined by the English philosopher John Locke as "the perception of what passes in a mans own mind".1 Consciousness is defined and perceived differently in many psychological view points. For instance the earlier views around the 19th century was ... used by philosophers and psychologists as meaning "attention to the contents or workings of ones own mind." This notion had little significance for the ancients, but it was emphasized in the 17th century by John Locke and Rene Descartes. Contemporaries of these two philosophers thought of consciousness as the operation of the inner-eye. Both Locke and Descartes went further. They held that consciousness was involved with every working mental ... made the mind impossible for objective science. What is known introspectively to a single person would be utterly private and therefore can not be viewed scientifically. Scientific method demands objectivity and reportable data. The behaviorists John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner and the philosopher Gilbert Ryle rebelled against the idea of an inner sense and denied the very existence of consciousness in the strong sense exhibited by Locke, Descartes ...
- 1085: Anatomy Of A Muscle Cell
- ... The mature muscle fibers have a few myoblasts, which remain as satellite cells. These myoblasts retain the capacity to join with one another or with damaged muscle fibers in order to regenerate these muscle fibers. John Centore2 Dr. Jain Anatomy & Physiology The many nuclei of skeletal muscle fiber are located underneath the sarcolemma, which is the fibers plasma membrane. Thousands of invaginations of the sarcolemma, which are called T Tubules ... structures are contractile elements of skeletal muscles called myofibrils. The myofibrils are about two micrometers in size and extend the length of the muscle fiber. The striations appear to make the muscle fiber look striated. John Centore3 Anatomy & Physiology Dr. Jain The sarcoplasmic reticulum is a fluid filled system of membranous sacs. This system of sacs is similar to smooth endplasmic reticulum in non-muscle cells. In a relaxed muscle fiber ... and oval in shape. Smooth muscle fiber contains thick filaments and thin filaments. These filaments are in ratios of 1:10 and 1:15, but are not arranged in order sarcomeres as in striated muscle. John Centore4 Anatomy & Physiology Dr.Jain Smooth muscle fibers also contain intermediate filaments. Various filaments have no regular pattern of overlap, therefor smooth muscle fibers do not exhibit striations. As a result the muscle gets ...
- 1086: Liberaliam
- ... affect their lives. The new influences were introduced in the areas of science, industry, political theory, economics, and technology. Also, a new class structure was introduced in the nineteenth century. Some of the liberals included John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hill Green, L.T. Hobhouse, David Riccardo, and Herbert Spencer. "In political philosophy, the works of John Stuart Mill stand as the supreme monument to a tolerant and balanced brand of liberalism." (A History of Europe, p.803) Mill advocates laissez-faire economics. In his essay, On Liberty, "he produced the standard ... affect their lives. The new influences were introduced in the areas of science, industry, political theory, economics, and technology. Also, a new class structure was introduced in the nineteenth century. Some of the liberals included John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hill Green, L.T. Hobhouse, David Riccardo, and Herbert Spencer. "In political philosophy, the works of John Stuart Mill stand as the supreme monument to a tolerant and balanced brand of ...
- 1087: How The Simpsons Affects Kids
- ... It just happens. If this world did not have The Simpsons children would behave in the same manner, they just might laugh quite as much. WORKS CITED "22 Short Films About Springfield." The Simpsons. By: John Swartzwelder, Dir: Jim Reardon, Prof: James L. Brooks. Fox. WHNS, Greenville. 12 May, 1996. "Bart the Genius." The Simpsons. By: John Vitti, Dir: David Silverman, Prod: James L. Brooks. Fox. WHNS, Greenville. 14 Jan, 1990 Dale, Steve, and Shane Tritsh. Simpson Mania. Lincolnwood: Publications International, Ltd., 1991. "Flaming Moe's." The Simpsons. By: Robert Cohen, Dir: Rich Moore and Alan Smart, Prod: James L. Brooks. Fox. WHNS, Greenville. 21 Nov, 1991 Groening, Matt. The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album. New York: Harper Perennial, 1994. "Homer at the Bat." The Simpsons. By: John Swartzwelder, Dir: Jim Reardon, Prod: James L. Brooks. Fox. WHNS, Greenville. 20 Feb, 1992 "Homer the Heretic." The Simpsons. By: George Meyer, Dir: Jim Reardon, Prod: James L. Brooks. Fox. WHNS, Greenville. 8 Oct., ...
- 1088: The Medicare Debate
- ... is one of the main sources of funding for those people that have no money or very small amount of money. The community service that was done for this research paper is hospital volunteering at John Muir Medical Center. The community service included various jobs that was needed to be done were, Putting items away for nurses, discharging patients, doing paper work, feeding patients, answering phones, and helping patients when they ... deals with tumors, including study of their development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention). This community service has help me gain insight on the Medicare situation because I have asked multiple amount of people that work at John Muir Medical Center. There is a side to be considered about Medicare and Social Security in the government. The vice president of the United States, Al Gore, wrote in a letter stating that social security ... even if patients do not have Medicare or insurance they will generally still accept the person into the hospital because the hospital does not have the heart to turn them away. My volunteering experience at John Muir Medical Center has help me understand Medicare a lot better because nurses were kind enough to answer all my questions about Medicare from filling out the form to problems and how they deal ...
- 1089: Locke Government Theory
- John Locke was born on August 29, 1632, into a middle class family during late Renaissance England. Locke started his studies at Christ Church in Oxford. He then went into medical studies and received a medical ... led him to believe that people are not aware of physical objects, but rather that they are aware of symbols for those objects, a believe shared by others such as Galileo and Descartes before him. John Locke became convinced that true knowledge cannot be attained in natural science, but only through concrete mathematics. This theory was later adopted by several other philosophers. Locke was the first theorist of the philosphy of ... well is because it develops innocently out of the state of nature, solely for the well being of the society's individuals, which is achieved through the unity of those indivduals to form the society. John Locke died on October 28, 1704, at the age of seventy-two. John Locke was recognized as a great political philosopher during his own lifetime, and his theories would spread across the world and ...
- 1090: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... 2). Zora's home town, which was not disputed, was Eatonville, Florida, which was founded by African Americans and was the first all-black town incorporated into the United States (Cheryl@geocities [online] ). Her father John Hurston was a tall, heavy muscled man who often seemed "invincible" to Zora (Lyons 2). John was a community leader and was influential member of society. His positions in Eatonville included: Baptist preacher, town mayor, and skilled carpenter (Lyons 2). Though John was a revered member of Eatonville he had is faults as well. His eye for other women often left his family home alone for months out of a time (Lyons 1). Zora's mother, ...
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