Pre-Discovery Before the discovery of insulin‚ diabetes was a feared disease that most certainly led to death. Doctors knew that sugar worsened the condition of diabetic patients and that the most effective treatment was to put the patients on very strict diets where sugar intake was kept to a minimum. In 1889‚ the physician Oskar Minkowski‚ in collaboration with Joseph von Mering‚ removed the pancreas from a healthy dog to test its assumed role in digestion. The dog developed diabetes
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stars were made rather than tracking the orbits of comets and planets. I find this significant because Herschel sought information that was different than what other astronomers were studying at the time. What was the motivation that led to the discovery? William Herschel was frustrated with the small telescopes he was using. He couldn’t afford larger telescopes‚ so he built one himself. He was observing a Nebula when he discovered Uranus. What questions were asked? How can he see it? What if
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TEJADA‚ ANGELICA F. SY1315 The Discovery of the Katipunan On July 5‚ 1896‚ Manuél Sityar‚ a Spanish lieutenant of the guardia civíl stationed at Pasig‚ reported to Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas the mysterious activities of certain Filipinos who had been gathering arms and recruiting men for some unknown purposes. On August 13‚ 1896‚ Fr. Agustín Fernández‚ an Augustinian curate of San Pedro‚ Makati‚ wrote to Don Manuél Luengo‚ Civil Governor of Manila‚ denouncing anti-Spanish meetings
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by making talented athletes famous‚ and making sports entertainment a popular and important source of school revenue (Sack 31). College sports have affected American entertainment and the economy‚ influencing culture in both positive and negative ways. A possible negative effect of paying collegiate athletes would be a decrease in competition. People believe college athletes should get paid as if it were a job‚ although this will create issues between rich and poor schools (Griffin 18). The rich
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According to Wikipedia‚ an invention is a new form‚ composition of matter‚ device‚ or process. When the Internet was introduced it created a free-flowing stream of information through out the world. It has established a boundless. The World Wide Web has established a new spectrum of opportunity that has become one of the greatest tools to society. Today‚ the Internet provides resources and services such as e-mail‚ online libraries‚ financial tools‚ and more. Many businesses rely on the Internet’s
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consequences) 4. What are the three possible sources of rights? (SA) * human given (government‚ state‚ etc.) * god given (piousness) * natural (nature based) – right to live‚ right to have opinions 5. What does Barbour mean by “negative” and “positive” freedom? * negative –
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The Invention of Jay Gatsby Mckenzie Hart 03.03.05 "It was a testimony to the romantic speculation that he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that is was necessary to whisper about in this world." (48) States the narrator‚ illustrating the attractiveness to attention and gossip of a party host. The quote comments on a conversation of two woman gossiping about the mysterious host named Gatsby. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby‚ a young
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-Treaty of Versailles- "As solders on the battlefields celebrated‚ families reunited‚ and the unlucky ones mourned‚ the war was finally over‚ as of 11 o’ clock on the morning of November 11th in 1918 (Vaughan‚ 1-2)." The solders that survived came home‚ and the unlucky ones did not; some families united‚ and other families mourned for their loved ones. Everybody started celebrating the end of the first major war‚ where so many young lives were lost; so many people were permanently scarred for life
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Abner Doubleday invented the game of baseball. How he became a Civil War hero while baseball was growing in America. But sadly‚ this is not true at all. Doubleday was still involved in the war in West Point‚ and claimed he had nothing to do with the invention of baseball. The story was told around by a former major league player Aj Spalding claiming he got the story from Abner Graves‚ a mining engineer. Later on major league officials talk and rely on the myth and then put it in the Baseball Hall of Fame
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The Best Invention Today’s topic is the best invention of humanity. There are no doubts that this subject is extremely disputable‚ because almost all inventions seem to be irreplaceable in modern life. While thinking about the most useful thing that people cannot live without‚ I reached a conclusion that there must be something basic‚ something that made other inventions possible. Going back to the humanity civilization origins‚ I found that one thing that we consider as a natural and innate part
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