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- 401: AIDS - What's new ?
- ... percent of drug users are HIV-infected, show that providing clean needles isn't enough to stem infection. Even given free disposable needles, many drug abusers preferred the camaraderie of shared equipment. Only with added teaching programs and free condom offers, are educational efforts likely to pay off. In New Jersey, offering free treatment coupons plus AIDS education brought 86 percent of local drug users to classes. A San Francisco program ... future?: -------------------- Many virologists believe that since antibiotics became available in the late 1940s we have become too complacent about viral infections, no longer take communicable disease seriously, and have modern medical schools which devote few teaching hours to anti-infective strategies. In fact, we still know little about retroviruses such as HIV. Perhaps special virology research centres, like the Virus Research Institute proposed for the University of Toronto, will help to ...
- 402: Neural Networks
- ... to move a cart back and forth in such a way that a broom balanced upside-down on its handle tip and the cart remained on end (Da90). More recently, application studies were done for teaching a robotic arm how to get to its target position, and for steadying a robotic arm. Research was also done on teaching a neural network to control an autonomous vehicle using simulated, simplified vehicle control situations (Wo96). Neural networks are expected to complement rather than replace other technologies. Tasks that are done well by traditional computer methods ...
- 403: Neural Networks
- ... to move a cart back and forth in such a way that a broom balanced upside-down on its handle tip and the cart remained on end (Da90). More recently, application studies were done for teaching a robotic arm how to get to its target position, and for steadying a robotic arm. Research was also done on teaching a neural network to control an autonomous vehicle using simulated, simplified vehicle control situations (Wo96). Neural networks are expected to complement rather than replace other technologies. Tasks that are done well by traditional computer methods ...
- 404: Albert Einstein
- ... post-basic education began at the Luitpold Gymnasium when he was ten. It was here that he first encountered the German spirit through the school's strict disciplinary policy. His disapproval of this method of teaching led to his reputation as a rebel. It was probably these differences that caused Einstein to search for knowledge at home. He began not with science, but with religion. He avidly studied the Bible seeking ... After publishing these theories Einstein was promoted at his office. He remained at the Patents Office for another two years, but his name was becoming too big among the scientific community. In 1908, Einstein began teaching party time at the University of Berne, and the following year, at the age of thirty, he became employed full time by Zurich University. Einstein was now able to move to Prague with his wife ...
- 405: Convince Me There Is A God
- ... army of demons, and Jesus will come out of the sky with an army of angels and the battle of Armageddon will kill everyone on earth except Jehovah s Witnesses. Do you believe this solemn teaching of their church? - Aztecs skinned maidens and cut out human hearts for a feathered serpent god. What s your stand on invisible feathered serpents? - Catholics are taught that the communion wafer and wine magically become ... a go at this type of leadership and failed. President Clinton is also familiar with the ramifications of such behavior. Preachers and Teachers How can you defend the teachings of the bible, when the preachers teaching the gospel are found to be saying one thing and doing another? I consider myself lucky in the sense I didn t follow in the footsteps of the preachers of my own congregation. I remember ...
- 406: Heart Of Darkness
- ... lugubrious drollery in the sight; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives---he called them enemies!---hidden out of sight somewhere (21). Conrad is teaching us something extremely important. Berthoud points out that the "intelligibility of what men do depends upon the context in which they do it." Marlow is watching this occurrence. He sees the Europeans firing "tiny projectiles ... 101). Kurtz takes everything in. He takes his life, and puts it all out on the table. "He had summed up--- he had judged...The horror!"(119). Kurtz's last words is his way of teaching Marlow the essence of a name. A name is not merely a label. It is one man's own judgment of an isolated event. However, unlike the Europeans who judge based on already existing principles ...
- 407: Lockes Influences On Education
- ... it is formed the correct way and that there is no inate knowledge. This is incorporated into education the grade system. Children start out in kindergarten or pre-school with a blank slate; we start teaching the very basics as if they know nothing. The more information and experience they gather, the further they move along the grade continuum. Locke was considered the founder of British empiricist. He believed that all ... mind itself. This view of empirical thinking is widely used in schools today, especially in the science fields. Concepts and skills are much easier to learn if you can experience them. The empirical way of teaching has brought about the use of the scientific method. First, students must observe a situation and decide if there is a problem. Secondly, make an educated guess, or hypothesis, of what will happen. Next, test ...
- 408: Anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice
- ... The Merchant of Venice" what happened if one day someone picked it up, read it, and followed the anti-Semitism in it. I think that if it will stop one person from being racist, by teaching them it is wrong by teaching everyone then it will all be worth it.
- 409: The Tragedies Of Shakespeare
- ... an act when he says "I am but mad north-north-west; when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw"(667). Shakespeare often used madness, either feigned or actual, as a teaching tool or vehicle to advance his plot. Sometimes this madness was feigned, as evidenced by Hamlet and Edgar (the legitimate son of Gloucester in The Tragedy of King Lear), but other times it was genuine ... willingness to engage in what will be his final battle. In this sense, it helps advance the play towards its climax. While Lady MacBeth's madness also leads to death, its focus is more on teaching than propelling the story to conclusion. While Lady MacBeth is initially seen as a cold, conscienceless, calculating woman, intent on advancing her husband politically (by any means necessary), her character changes as the play progresses ...
- 410: Book Report On 1984 By George
- ... to become a believer in the party. He did this by often causing Winston pain by using a needle, which could increase or decrease the amount of pain. O Brien and the party were now teaching Winston things that were not true and they knew it themselves. Such things as 2+2=5. They were also teaching him things that people said a long time ago that was proven wrong like on page 218; The earth is the center of our universe. This is known as geocentric. They were trying to get ...
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