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- 81: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- ... come up with the possible theories about what causes ADHD. Some of these theories have led to dead ends, some to exciting new avenues of investigations. In recent years, as new tools and techniques for studying the brain have been developed scientists have been able to test more theories about what causes ADHD. Research shows that a mothers use of cigarettes, alcohol, or other drugs during pregnancy may have damaging ... that last through the school day. The short-term dose is often more practical for children who need medication only during the school day or for special situations, like attending church or a prom, or studying for an important exam. Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman and Robert Ullman (1996) recommend that children be taken off a medication now and then to see if the child still needs it. They recommend temporarily stopping the ...
- 82: Albert Einstein 4
- ... methods and would often skip classes in order to study physics on his own or to play his violin. Although his professors did not think highly of him, Einstein graduated from school in 1900 by studying the notes of a classmate. For the next two years Einstein resorted to substitute teaching and tutoring because his superiors did not recommend him for a university position. In 1902, he was secured a position ... this time he had fallen in love with Mileva Maric who he later married in 1903, and became a father to two sons. His marriage ended quite quickly but it did not stop him from studying his physics. In 1905, Einstein received his doctorate degree from the University of Zurich specializing in theoretical dissertation on the dimensions of molecules. During this time he also published three theoretical paper about the central ...
- 83: Extra Sensory Perception
- ... soviet government supports their research. And instead of referring to ESP as extra sensory perception, they call it biological information, also clairvoyance is called bio-location. The Russians are also spending a lot of time studying dowsing and skin-vision. In some parts of the world, people are said to be able to find water by holding a stick in a certain way and and walking over a field. These people ... perception. That is, maybe there are no outside senses, just senses we have not discovered yet. Lets keep an open mind. The study of ESP is a young one. Scientists have been looking at stars, studying plants and animals for centuries. But there are some things to be considered in the future. First, we have to have much more information about ESP. Millions of cases must be studied. We have to ...
- 84: Catcher In The Rye 3
- ... fall off the edge of the cliff. He got this image from his misinterpretation of a line from Robert Burns poem, "if a body catch a body comin through the rye." It is obvious by studying the reviews of The Catcher in the Rye that most critics enjoy picking apart the character of Holden Caulfield, studying his every action and the basis for that action. Reviewers of the novel have gone to great lengths to express their opinions on Salinger s main character. Some consider Holden to be considerate, others consider ...
- 85: Intelligent Design As A Theory
- ... of right and left turns. But by randomly wandering the maze, the rat gives no indication that it can discriminate the appropriate sequence of right and left turns for exiting the maze. Consequently, the psychologist studying the rat will have no reason to think the rat has learned how to traverse the maze. Only if the rat executes the sequence of right and left turns specified by the psychologist will the ... there implicitly. To see this, consider again a rat traversing a maze, but now take a very simple maze in which two right turns conduct the rat out of the maze. How will a psychologist studying the rat determine whether it has learned to exit the maze. Just putting the rat in the maze will not be enough. Because the maze is so simple, the rat could by chance just happen ...
- 86: Dna Replication
- ... in his late 20s by the time the war ended, but he decided to go back to school for a PhD. Around the same time, he read a book that inspired him to begin studying biology. He went to the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University to pursue this interest by studying proteins. In 1951, James Watson arrived at Cavendish, and the two began the collaboration that would lead to the discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule. Before Crick received his PhD, he completed the ...
- 87: How Cultures Affect Teenagers
- How Cultures Affect Teenagers As a teenage girl in Cairo, Egypt is locked away in her home, studying madly for a upcoming high school exam. A teenage boy rushes down the fields of Brazil handling a soccer ball and his future. Another teenage boy in Rajasthan, dessert in Northwestern India is guided seven ... of being a soccer player is over. All teenagers have goals in life from reaching fame, to being a star or achieving high marks in school. A teenage girl named Aman lives in Cairo, Egypt studying long hours at home preparing for upcoming exams at her high school. Exams are very important to her and the rest of her classmates in her school. "There is a obsession to pass high school ...
- 88: ESP
- ... soviet government supports their research. And instead of referring to ESP as extra sensory perception, they call it biological information, also clairvoyance is called bio-location. The Russians are also spending a lot of time studying dowsing and skin-vision. In some parts of the world, people are said to be able to find water by holding a stick in a certain way and and walking over a field. These people ... perception. That is, maybe there are no outside senses, just senses we have not discovered yet. Lets keep an open mind. The study of ESP is a young one. Scientists have been looking at stars, studying plants and animals for centuries. But there are some things to be considered in the future. First, we have to have much more information about ESP. Millions of cases must be studied. We have to ...
- 89: William Penn
- ... God was absolute, but didn't need to be preached at a formal meeting as much as the Anglican Church believed that should happen. In 1661, William Penn was introduced to Quakerism. He had been studying at Christ Church in Oxford. He started to notice that he didn't believe in some of the things that he was studying in his religion. So, he started to go to Quaker meetings, and believe in that religion instead.6 In England, he was expelled from Oxford in 1662 for refusing to conform to the Anglican Church ...
- 90: "The Idea of a University": Education as Moral Training
- ... opportunities for jobs if everyone learned the same subjects, and the fact that we have to learn all the subjects that we might not even use in life. There should be specific people doing and studying specific things so we all don't have to learn and do it. In my opinion, I believe that part of Newman's theory is correct but the other half is not correct. We should ... received a different training, to operated only in the direction of infidelity." (Newman p. 40) His students realized that what he though was understandable and clear. We all realized that the way he though of studying was maybe something he went to in his own life and he wanted us to realize that there is more out there in the world and not just want you want to study, meaning your ...
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