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- 2411: Book Report Boundaries
- Book Report Boundaries: When To Say Yes, When To Say No To Take Control Of Your Life Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1992 The authors present the book in three parts: What are Boundaries?, Boundary Conflicts, and Developing Healthy Boundaries. What are Boundaries? A boundary is a personal property line ... stop interrupting the laws of sowing and reaping. Responsibility This law includes loving others. This is the entire law for Christians (Gal. 5:13-14). Jesus says, "Love each other as I have loved you: (John 15:12). If we do not love others, we are not taking full responsibility for ourselves and have disowned our hearts. (p. 86). We can only love one another, we cannot be one another. Everyone ...
- 2412: Civil War - Monitor vs. Merrimack
- ... Buchanan. After all the modifications were complete, the ship was rechristened the CSS Virginia, but the original name the CSS Merrimack is the preferred name. The USS Monitor was the creation of Swedish-American engineer, John Ericsson. The ship was considered small for a warship, only 172 feet long and 42 feet wide. Confederate sailors were baffled by the ship. One was quoted describing her as ". . . a craft such as the ... entire crew. Like the CSS Merrimack, the USS Monitor was expected to sink, it was referred to as "Ericsson's Folly" (DesJardien 2). The only individual willing to take command of the ship was Lieutenant John Worden. The battle at Hampton Roads was part of the Peninsula Campaign that lasted from March to August of 1862. There was a total of five ships engaged in the battle. From the US Navy ...
- 2413: Helen Keller
- ... earliest blind, deaf, and mute person to become active in society, Helen was also an author. Her first autobiography, The Story of My Life, was published in 1902 with the help of Ann Sullivan and John Macy. The Story of My Life became a world-wide best-seller and was translated into fifty languages. Before she had even graduated college in 1903, Helen wrote a 7,500-word essay called Optimism ... this period. In 1910 A Song of the Stone Wall was published. This patriotic poem was 600 lines long. This was the last of her great poems. It is said that, "After Anne Sullivan and John Macy's marriage ended Keller never again wrote with such lyric power," (Notable 390). Also, a collection of socialist essays entitled, Out of the Dark, was published in 1913. Helen became active in politics once ...
- 2414: The Martian Chronicles (isolat
- ... typically humble and wise people to convey his message that if science advances to quickly for society, it will result in the feelings of isolation and insignificance in the humans. The wise character of Captain John Black is used to show that isolation should not be ignored by simply pushing it aside. When the crew of the ship is brainwashed by the Martians into believing that their dead relatives are on the planet Mars, one of the crew members say "`Think of how they felt, Captain, seeing familiar faces outside the ship!' 'They had their orders, damn it!', said Captain Black." (p. 42). Captain John Black knows that humans should not push aside their feelings of isolation and insignificance by trying to believe in things that cannot be possible. The Captain believes that the crew should not try to ignore ...
- 2415: William Shakespeare
- ... friendship and the immortality of poetry. William was exceptionally good at his work and he generated a few enemies along the way. William was born in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 23, 1564. His parents, John and Mary Shakespeare lived on Henley Street, Stratford. His father was a whittawer, which is a maker, worker and seller of leather goods such as purses, belts, and gloves. His father was a well-known ... as "Anne Hathaway's cottage." William and his wife Anne had three children. Susanna was born on May 26, 1583. The other two children, Judith and Hamnet were twins, born in 1585. Susanna married Doctor John Hall in 1607. Their home Hall's Croft, is today preserved as one of Shakespeare's properties. Judith Shakespeare married Thomas Quiney in 1616, at the age of 31. Hamnet Shakespeare died at the age ...
- 2416: Human Variations in High Altitude Populations
- ... High Altitude Peoples.Cambridge University Press:London. Gibbons,Ida. 1996.Andean Cultures Web Page. Gibbons@andes.org. Molinar,Stephen. 1992. Human Variation. Prentice Hall:New Jersey Monge,Carlos. 1948.Acclimatization in the Andes.Maryland:The John Hopkins Press. Moran,Emilio. 1982.Human Adaptability.Westview Press:Colorado. Occasional Papers in Anthropology. 1968.High Altitude Adaptation in a Peruvian Community.Pennsylvania State University: Department of Anthropology. U.S. Department of Health and Human ... High Altitude Peoples.Cambridge University Press:London. Gibbons,Ida. 1996.Andean Cultures Web Page. Gibbons@andes.org. Molinar,Stephen. 1992. Human Variation. Prentice Hall:New Jersey Monge,Carlos. 1948.Acclimatization in the Andes.Maryland:The John Hopkins Press. Moran,Emilio. 1982.Human Adaptability.Westview Press:Colorado. Occasional Papers in Anthropology. 1968.High Altitude Adaptation in a Peruvian Community.Pennsylvania State University: Department of Anthropology. U.S. Department of Health and Human ...
- 2417: Henrik Ibsen
- ... in Christiania (now Oslo) from 1850 to 1851 to complete his upper secondary education. From 1851 to 1857, Ibsen was playwright in residence and director of the theatre in Bergen. While there, he wrote St. John s Night (written in 1852), Lady Inger of Osteraad (written in 1854, published in 1857), The Feast at Solhaug (written in 1855, published in 1856), and Olaf Liljekrans (written in 1856). All these plays were ... to Norway and settle in Christiania. The artist s creative ambitions, introspection and defeats came to the fore during the last phase of his career when he wrote The Master Builder (1892), Little Eyolf (1894), John Gabriel Borkman (1896) and the dramatic epilogue When We Dead Awaken (1899). His Poems, collected and published in 1871, show that he was also a master of lyric poetry. Henrik Ibsen died on 23 May ...
- 2418: Terrorism
- ... death squads that patrolled the streets at night and annihilated the homeless was supposedly done for a good cause. I think that is very questionable. Negotiating with terrorists can also be bewildering. Recently Prime Minister John Major of Britain and Prime Minister John Bruton of Ireland were engaging in peace talks with the Irish political party Sinn Fein. Sinn Fein is the oldest Irish political party and has been striving for the independence of Ireland for years. They ...
- 2419: Clinical Chemistry Tests In Medicine
- ... the patient. The more information that is made available to the doctor allows a faster diagnosis and recovery for the patient. Bibliography Barrie, Joan and Timothy D. G. Watson. "Hyperlipidemia." Current Veterinary Therapy XII. Ed. John Bonagura. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1995. Bistner, Stephen l. Kirk and Bistners Handbook of Veterinary Procedures and Emergency Treatment. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1995. de Morais, HSA and William W. Muir. Strong Ions and Acid-Base Disorders. Current Veterinary Therapy XII. Ed. John Bonagura. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1995. Fraser, Clarence M., ed. The Merck Veterinary Manual, Seventh Edition. Rahway, N. J.: Merck & Co., 1991. Garrett, Reginald H. and Charles Grisham. Biochemistry. Fort Worth: Saunders College Publishing, 1995 ...
- 2420: Sociology: The Comparative Method
- ... that a lot of Chinese people were allowed to immigrate to Canada, much to the dismay of current residents and already established European immigrants, during the time when the transcontinental railroad was being built. Sir John A. Macdonald was the Prime Minister at this time and defended his reputation by telling the people of Canada, who were very disturbed by his actions, that the Chinese immigrants would live in Western Canada ... would be the fact that it is still considered a major social impropriety for a man to even touch a woman in public. In North America public displays of affection can been seen everywhere. . (Stott, John. Down To Earth. 1980. Pg. 12-15) These are all prime examples of Western universal truths that are exposed when compared to another culture. One of the major benefits for exposing these truths through the ...
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