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    Tuberculosis

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    Tuberculosis [pic] Salena Nowak Physiology 22 Dr. Jennifer Gray April 15‚ 2008 Abstract Tuberculosis (TB) is an acute infectious disease. It is found primarily in the lungs‚ but is also seen in any tissue of the body. This disease has infected more than one third of the world’s population. Most cases are seen in African and European countries. Tuberculosis has killed more people than any other disease in history. Robert Koch was the person who

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    Victorian Thinkers

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    Victorian Thinkers (Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin) Victorian Thinkers contains studies of four of the most influential critics of 19th-century British culture. Each was heralded a prophet in his own lifetime‚ and yet each was also regarded as misguided‚ and even mad‚ by his contemporaries. Their interests in art and culture led them to develop views on society and economics. Carlyle was a writer of extraordinary stature‚ radical in thought and style; Ruskin‚ who began his career as a critic of

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    unjust death. The exact birth date of Plato is unknown. Based on ancient sources‚ most modern scholars estimate that he was born in Athens or Aegina between 429 and 423 BC. His father was Ariston. According to a disputed tradition‚ reported by Diogenes Laertius‚ Ariston traced his descent from the king of Athens‚ Codrus‚ and the king of Messenia‚ Melanthus. Plato’s mother was Perictione‚ whose family boasted of a relationship with the famous Athenian lawmaker and lyric poet Solon. Perictione

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    William Blake Argument

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    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (March 2010) simonelmer@hotmail.com The Argument Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burdened air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep. Once meek‚ and in a perilous path‚ The just man kept his course along The vale of death. Roses are planted where thorns grow‚ And on the barren heath Sing the honey bees. Then the perilous path was planted: And a river and a spring On every cliff and tomb; And on

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    Pythagoras: A Universe made of Numbers PART 1 – Pythagoras & His Philosophy Pythagoras of Samos is often described as the first pure mathematician. He is an extremely important figure in the development of mathematics yet there is relatively little known about his mathematical achievements. Unlike many later Greek mathematicians‚ where at least we have some of the books which they wrote‚ there is nothing of Pythagoras’s writings. The society which he led‚ half religious and half scientific

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    Anhang Seite91 die PhysikerBibliographyDürrenmatt: Der Besuch der alten Dame‚ Die Physiker (critical guides to german texts) written by: Kenneth S Whitton. published by: Grant & Cutler (1994)Die Physiker written by: Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Published by Diogenes (1998)

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    Emerson's Self Reliance

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    R.W. Emerson’s Self-Reliance The essay has three major divisions: the importance of self-reliance (paragraphs 1-17)‚ self-reliance and the individual (paragraphs 18-32)‚ and self-reliance and society (paragraphs 33-50). As a whole‚ it promotes self-reliance as an ideal‚ even a virtue‚ and contrasts it with various modes of dependence or conformity. "Self-Reliance" Paragraphs 1-17. The Importance of Self-Reliance. Emerson begins his major work on individualism by asserting the importance of

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    The School of Athens

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    Biography of Raphael "While we may term other works paintings‚ those of Raphael are living things; the flesh palpitates‚ the breath comes and goes‚ every organ lives‚ life pulsates everywhere." -- Vasari Raphael was born Raffaello Santi or Raffaello Sanzio in Urbino on April 6‚ 1483‚ and received his early training in art from his father‚ the painter Giovanni Santi. In 1499 he went to Perugia‚ in Umbria‚ and became a student and assistant of the painter Perugino. Raphael imitated his master

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    The Problem of Evil

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    A Critical Analysis on the Problem of Evil (Theistic Approach) Thesis Statement: The problem of evil is inadequate to disprove the existence of God. The Problem of Evil coined by Epicurus states that: “Either God wants to eradicate evil‚ and cannot; or he can‚ but does not want to. If he wants to‚ but cannot‚ he is impotent. If he can but does not want to he is wicked. If God can eradicate evil‚ and He wants to do it‚ why is there evil in the world?” This problem has long bothered many theologians

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    Mill vs. Bentham

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    authors commonly read in the schools and universities of the time. His main reading‚ however‚ was history and by this age had read the whole works of the historian Herodotus‚ and was acquainted with the satirist Lucian‚ the historian of philosophy Diogenes Laërtius‚ the Athenian writer and educational theorist Isocrates‚ and six dialogues of Plato. While the training of the young Mill has aroused amazement and criticism‚ its most significant effect was the close association it encouraged with his father

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