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- 5961: Hepatitis
- ... notice dark urine, yellowing of the skin and eyes (jaundice) or light coloured stools.7 A few patients have a more severe course of illness and may die of fulminant (overwhelming) hepatic failure within a short period of time after getting sick. HBV is transmitted through contact with body fluids containing HBV, such as blood, semen and vaginal secretions (menses). Thus, anyone who is exposed to blood or body fluids of ...
- 5962: The Effects of Aristotelian Teleological Thought on Darwin's Mechanistic Views of Evolution
- ... we inquire as to its nature…when we know the fact we ask the reason" (Evans, 82). Despite Aristotle's frequent teleological explanations, he did warn against teleology leading to misinterpretations of facts. In a short writing on the reproduction of bees in Generation of Animals, Aristotle was troubled that there were insufficient observations on the subject, and warns that his theory is dependent on facts supporting the theory. One twentieth ...
- 5963: Mark Twain 2
- ... and journalist; and The Gilded Age. The Gilded Age was an immediate hit with the public and sold out three printings in the first month. Twain soon wrote perhaps the two most famous and influential stories in American Literature: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Howells would call Tom Sawyer the best story I ever read. It will be an immense success... (Lyttle 137). Though ...
- 5964: Differences and Similarities of Liberalism
- ... the source of much economic activity. In addition, by buying or selling government bonds, the Federal Reserve was able to make the whole banking system relatively flush with funds when these were needed, or relatively short of funds when money seemed in excess supply. ...second was tax adjustment...By raising or lowering taxes, particularly income taxes, the government could quickly increase or diminish this broad flow of purchasing power. ...third was ...
- 5965: The Question of an Answer: What It Is To Be Human
- ... take it over our head. We begin to run back to make the catch, but we have been deceived. The ball actually struck the end of the bat, and it turns out to be a short blooper that falls in front of us. (Kretchmar 1994, 42) It is facts like this that attract people toward the idea of a separate mind that is superior to a separate body. It seems that ...
- 5966: Slavery in the Eyes of the South
- ... the southern states left the Union. The northern criticism of slavery became sort of an annoyance to the Southern states who wondered why the north would oppose something that economically was to their benefit. In short, the southerners wanted the anti-slavery northerners to mind their own business. Like Jefferson Davis said, “All we want is to be left alone.” There were slaveholders in the south who recognized that slavery was ...
- 5967: Two Brands of Nihilism
- ... tenets of dualistic philosophies, with emphasis on Christianity. How the “True World” Finally Became Fable, a section in Twilight of the Idols, is subtitled “The History of an Error”, for it supposes to give a short rendering of how the “true world” is lost in the histories of disfiguring philosophies that posit otherworldly dualistic metaphysics. First, Plato's vision of the realm of forms. “The true world - attainable for the sage ...
- 5968: To What Extent Does the Nature of Language Illuminate Our Understanding of the Relation Between Knowledge of Ourselves and Knowledge of Others?
- ... subsequently). By using language humans can vicariously partake of the experiences of another (e.g. when one watches a play or a film or when one listens to an account of a friends experience.) In short, language allows us to make comparisons between our own thought processes and those of others which in turn enables us to infer that the subjective experience of others is in many cases similar to our ...
- 5969: Betrand Russell: The Problems of Philosophy
- ... to send to the starving people; it's common sense." then you would be taking the simple biscuit decision out of context and into an area where many factors must be considered, such as whether short term food aid would prevent the people of Africa from reaching a long term solution to their problems. So Russell is not arguing against common sense per se; what he is warning against is the ...
- 5970: The Existence of God: Theories of Thomas Aquinas, St. Anselm, and William Paley
- ... like the existence of God. Although I enjoyed reading Paley and am amazed at the intricate nature of his work I am still a skeptic when it comes to the existence of God and nothing short of first hand experience will change that. In conclusion, I have spent the most time writing on Thomas Aquinas for the fact that I believe him to be the most thorough and discerning of the ...
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