American Medical Association. (Fishman 28) When the National Council for Education on Alcoholism (now known as the National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependency) was formed‚ their first and most prominent principle was‚ “Alcoholism is a disease” (Nicolaus 136). The disease has serious consequences on the drinker and society as well. Even though there is much concern about drugs‚ next to tobacco‚ alcohol is the most widely used drug in the United States (Hurley 71). Alcohol impaired drivers caused
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John Hick and Pluralism John Hick was born in 1922 in England to a middle class family. He developed an interest in philosophy and religion in his teens‚ being encouraged by his uncle‚ who was an author and teacher at Manchester University. Hick initially pursued a law degree at Hull University‚ but converted to Evangelical Christianity from the fundamentalist Christian beliefs with which he was raised‚ and decided to change his career and enrolled at the University of Edinburgh in 1941.
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Assignment #7.2: The True Father of Protestant Mission Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf was born into a noble and wealthy family in 1700. His father died when he was a child and his mother remarried leaving “him to be reared by “his grandmother and aunt‚ whose warm evangelical Pietism turned his heart toward spiritual matters” (Turner‚ 2004‚ p.100). As a child he was taught by Lutheran Pietist August Hermann Francke. His studied law at Wittenberg but his heart wasn’t calling him to that career
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uncle later in life. As a young boy he wanted to study Latin and law. With the help of his uncle he got into the University of Copenhagen to study law and philosophy. One day he witnessed a partial eclipse of the sun‚ he learned the basic tables of Copernicus theory and even studied some of ptolmeys work. He then decided to change and study the astronomical tables and position of the planets. The uncle did
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http://www.thebravesandsmarts.com/2013/02/the-great-indian-mathematician.html http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Aryabhata_I.html (Please check this website‚ I was unable to copy the information) Āryabhaṭa (Devanāgarī: आर्यभट) (AD 476 – 550) is the first of the great mathematician-astronomers of the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. He was born at Muziris (the modern day Kodungallour village) near Thrissur‚ Kerala. Available evidence suggest that he went
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Earth’s Rotation Earth ’s rotation is the rotation of the solid Earth around its own axis. The Earth rotates from the west towards the east. As viewed from the North Star or polestar Polaris‚ the Earth turns counter-clockwise. The North Pole‚ also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole‚ is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth ’s axis of rotation meets its surface. This point is distinct from the Earth ’s North Magnetic Pole. The South Pole is the other point
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reaction between the two. This is same reaction that occurs in water they are both acid-base reactions. But according to Arrhenius this reaction cannot take place because there is no reaction between the H3O+ and OH-. A Danish chemist named Johannes Nicolaus bronstead recognised the problem together with an English chemist named Thomas Martin Lowry ‚ they formed a more general definition of acids which states the following : An acid is a proton donor An base is a proton acceptor Using this definition
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Distances in space * Our Sun (layers and solar events) * General properties of stars (luminosity‚ heat) * H-R Diagrams and what they mean * Two types of telescopes (reflecting & refracting) * The key scientists (Ptolemy‚ Copernicus‚ Brahe‚ Kepler‚ Galileo‚ Newton‚ Hubble‚ Halley‚ Hawking & Oort) **Those in bold have been covered since the winter break and will be the main focus of the quiz. Hint: Studying science is like studying a new language. Including the terms
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Stating why the Geocentric Theory view of our solar system was held to be true for such a long time. What is the geocentric theory? The geocentric model‚ also known as the Ptolemaic system‚ is a theory that was developed by philosophers in ancient Greece and was named after the philosopher Claudius Ptolemy who lives in circa 90 to 168 A.D. it was developed to explain how the planets‚ the sun‚ and even the stars orbit around the earth. Why the geocentric view was a natural one to assume? It was
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Galileo Galilei is a man known for greatly improving the telescope‚ discovering Jupiter’s four largest moons‚ and being the man who experimented with falling objects in the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He was an Italian astronomer‚ mathematician‚ and a physicist. He gave important contributions to science‚ especially in the field of astronomy. With his telescope‚ he discovered the moon’s spherical shape and rough texture‚ Venus’ phases‚ and Jupiter’s moons that do not revolve around earth. All which contradicted
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