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- 27521: Breast Cancer
- ... than that at the time. Now, because of Breast Cancer awareness, women can have options that were not available just 30 years ago. Another public figure who suffered from Breast Cancer is Gloria Steinem, woman's rights crusader. She spent all her time fighting for women's rights and ironically, it what what she had fought for so long that brought her the biggest fight of her life, being a woman. Some of the effects felt by recent awareness of Breast Cancer ...
- 27522: Bronchial Asthma
- ... plastic, getting rid of furry pets, and avoid foods that trigger an inflammatory response. Many people find this impossible, and their symptoms become worse. Many turn to immunotherapy. This form of therapy modifies a person's allergic response by repeated exposure to small amounts of allergens. The asthmatic is injected periodically with known allergens, a procedure that trains the asthmatic's body to react to the allergens differently. Immunotherapy is especially effective in reducing allergic reactions to dust mites, animal dander, pollen, and fungi. Asthma is the seventh leading cause of death in America and the ...
- 27523: Cathedrals
- ... Europe. In France there are a number of cathedrals that are world renowned. The are, for example, the Amiens cathedral, the Beauvias Cathedral, the Chartres Cathedral, the Rheims Cathedral, and the Rouen Cathedral. France isn't the only country, though. In fact, there are cathedrals in England, Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Sweden. Located in the country of England are the Canterbury cathedral, the Durham Cathedral, the Ely Cathedral, the Winchester Cathedral ... Gothic in design for it has pointed arches instead of domed walkways; the roofs are pointed as well. The basic construction of these and the majority of the walls had been completed but it wasn't until nearly 40 to 60 years later when the buttresses and other such accessories were added. Even though the old style of churches and cathedrals can still be recognized in old churches, many new churches ...
- 27524: Blooms Taxonomy
- Bloom s Taxonomy is the higher order of thinking. Imagine a pyramid; to get to the top, you must first finish what is on the bottom. Bloom s Taxonomy is divided into 6 different sections, each one specifying what skills are being demonstrated. The first and easiest block is knowledge. In knowledge you observe and recall of information, knowledge of dates, events, places ...
- 27525: Comparison Of Huck Finn And To
- ... Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer are two friends with very different personalities, each bringing their own unique characteristics into this comical relationship. Tom and Huck are two adventurous souls but in very opposing ways. Hucks idea of adventure is to escape from society, their beliefs and all of their conformities, but he does it in a way that is level-headed and sensible. Tom, on the other hand, is more ... people happy. Tom lives out his escapades with no regard for the pain and suffering it causes others. Huck, on the other hand, just wants things done and done right but he gives into Toms wild ideas and extravagant plans, which Tom loves. Tom and Huck are two interesting yet different characters. It is for these reasons that they have become an American literary classic.
- 27526: Comparson Of Mouse And Trackba
- ... fact that a hand is easier to move in any direction compared to a thumb, a trackball does not require total hand and arm movement to move the cursor around the screen. Instead the users hand can stay stationary and movement of the thumb is all that is needed to direct the cursor. On the other hand, a users thumb may be restricted to movement in any direction as quickly as a hand may move. Mice and trackballs are both used for the same reason and perform the same task. Mice need the ability ...
- 27527: Thomas Aquinas
- Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas, was born in about 1225 in the castle of Roccasecca, near Naples. Before his birth a holy hermit foretold Thomass career, saying to his mother: "He will enter the Order of Friars Preachers, and so great will be his learning and sanctity that in his day no one will be found to equal him." His ... master of theology at the University of Paris. Albertus Magnus introduced Thomas to the works of Aristotle, which were beginning to be translated from the original Greek. Thomas set himself the task of harmonizing Aristotle's teachings with Christian doctrine. Thomas held that there are two sources of knowledge: revelation (theology)and reason (philosophy). He held that revelation is a divine source of knowledge and that revealed truths must be believed ...
- 27528: The Study of Biology
- ... Thomas Henry Huxley, who was also an important educator. Huxley insisted that the conventional seperation of zoology and botany was intellectually senseless and that all living things should be studied in a combined way. Huxleys approach to the study of biology is even more convincing today, because scientists now realize that many lower organisms are neither plants nor animals. The limits of the science, however, have always been difficult to ... biology. Cellular biology deals with the functions of the cell and the basic strucural unit of living matter; Finally, population biology became firmly established as a major sub division of biological studies in the 1970s. This field relates with the study of gene changes in populations, and ecology. Biology also includes the study of humans at the molecular, cellular, and organismal levels. If the focus of examination is the application ...
- 27529: The Ideal Dinner (Billy Corgan, Jimi Hendrix, and G. Washington)
- ... skill, and wisdom. I would invite Billy Corgan because of the poetic lyrics in the songs he writes. He uses majestic words to describe everyday things and expresses himself beautifully, even in songs that don't sound like they would have good lyrics. I would like to know where he gets his inspiration. His lyrics do not even have to rhyme, but they flow together so beautifully, that you do not ... uncanny ability to play my favorite instrument, the guitar, would be plenty enough reason to invite Jimi Hendrix to dinner. My third guest would be much different than the rest. Not only because he didn't play guitar, but for the fact that he existed a couple hundred of years before either of the other two. I would invite George Washington to dinner because he was one of the founders of ...
- 27530: Wyatt Earp
- ... on March 19, 1848. He is the son of Nicholas Earp, a lawyer/farmer and Virginia Earp and was born at 406 South Third Street, Monmouth, Illinois. Wyatt was given the name of his father's Army captain. When Wyatt was quiet young, his two older brother, James and Virgil, went off to fight in the Civil War for the Union. A story is told in which Wyatt tried to run ... 1879, Wyatt and his brothers Morgan and Virgil journeyed by horseback down to Tombstone, Arizona. There he furthered his reputation as a gunfighter, first as deputy sheriff of Pima Co. and later as deputy U.S. marshal for the entire Arizona Territory. Earp and three of his brothers, together with the American frontiersman Doc Holliday, participated in the famous O.K. Corral gunfighter in 1881, during which they killed several suspected ...
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