Charles Drew (1904-1950): Charles Richard Drew was a physician‚ researcher‚ and surgeon who revolutionized our understanding of blood plasma. During World War 2 alone‚ his work allowed blood storage for transfusions that saved many thousands of lives. Drew was born the eldest of five children on June 3‚ 1904‚ in Washington D.C. His father was a carpet installer and his mother was a school teacher. Dr. Drew an excellent student and athlete‚ graduated from Washington Dunbar in 1972. After graduating
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Carl Sagan asked‚ based on his cosmic calendar‚ “Where would you place your own life on this timeline? Where would you place the life of one of your grandparents? What is the major disadvantage of a time line drawn to this scale? What is its advantage?” To answer his questions about where your life or the life of your loved ones would fall‚ signifies a miniscule amount of time relative to the time line of human history. You simply couldn’t place the life of any single human on this cosmic calendar
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factor in what our present day society is like. The Industrial Revolution was the beginning of many new ideas‚ technology and changes. Although the Industrial Revolution did have its negative effects on the people living during that time‚ it was a blessing to world economy‚ and manufacturing. The Industrial Revolution had many positive effects. For example‚ England became a far superior technologically advanced nation due to the Industrial Revolution. Also‚ it provided for much more people to have
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Your Global Investment Authority PIMCO Funds Credit Bond Funds This brochure contains the following documents: Ⅲ Supplement dated March 15‚ 2013 to the Bond Funds Prospectuses regarding disclosure related to the PIMCO Income Fund. Ⅲ The Annual Report dated March 31‚ 2013. PIMCO Funds Supplement Dated March 15‚ 2013 to the Bond Funds Class A‚ Class B‚ Class C and Class R Prospectus and Bond Funds Institutional Class‚ Class M‚ Class P‚ Administrative Class and Class D Prospectus‚
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Why I Count my Blessings Have you ever read an article in the newspaper which caused your heart to ache for someone that you did not know? You may have read about an accidental shooting that involved a couple of playmates or about the couple‚ who on their honeymoon‚ died from a head- on collision with a drunk driver‚ or possibly read about a parent who abused their child for wetting the bed. Those are some of the news articles that had lingered on my mind long after I had read the newspaper
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Formal Analysis of "Relief of a Winged Genius" Yahaira Guzman Art History 09/29/10 Relief of a winged genius is a two-dimensional stone relief sculpture currently located on the first floor of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston‚ in the Ancient Near East Gallery (Accession number: 81.56). It is an Assyrian artifact excavated from the palace walls of the capital of ancient Nimrud‚ dating between 883-859 B.C. The unknown artist’s deliberate use of size‚ material‚ scale‚ style and
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having meaning to something you do. Meaningful work can be defined as enjoyment of the worker‚ dedication of the worker to the job‚ and involvement that the worker shows toward his or her job. In “The Physical Genius” written by Malcolm Gladwell‚ he talks about how to become a Physical Genius. Gladwell is an English-born Canadian journalist‚ author‚ and speaker. He has written many books and articles in sociology‚ psychology‚ and social psychology. People who have experienced the meaningful work‚ can
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Deviance: A necessary curse in society Deviance in the larger sense refers to the diverging from usual or acceptable standards‚ especially in social or sexual behaviour‚ as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary. But for our purpose of study we shall define deviance as any action by an individual (deviant) which is considered unacceptable in society. Kai Erikson’s “On the Sociology of Deviance” throws light upon the deviation seen in human society and how deviant behaviour might be necessary to
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Shock. That was the first thing I felt when I saw the Principal coming towards us‚ her mouth pressed into an angry line. Comprehension came second; but it was too late. Before long‚ she had herded us out of the corridor‚ into the ground‚ ordering us to stand in a queue under the blazing sun and the watchful eyes of other students. After she had left‚ I started to think. Why had I done it? Couldn’t I have just followed my usual behavior and sit in class? Self-hatred hit me like a wrecking ball. I
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Today I will about telling you about the spooks curse‚ the spooks curse is a book about a boy named Thomas ward who the 7th son of the 7th son‚ who has the power to see monsters and hear them to so most of the book has a dark theme about it‚ The book start off with Thomas going to save a priest who getting his blood drains from him‚ well this is happing the book tell you what it looks like and how violently it is‚ I thing the best song for this is bad voodoo. Bad voodoo is a fast pass surfer like
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