On December 3‚ 1967‚ medicine was changed forever. On that day‚ Dr. Christiaan Barnard and a team of twenty surgeons revolutionized the way we treat infirmities such as cancer‚ heart failure‚ and cardiomyopathy. Every year‚ five thousand people worldwide undergo a heart transplant. Without Dr. Barnard‚ it’s very possible they would all be dead. Dr. Christiaan Barnard’s discovery not only saved thousands of lives‚ but inspired other doctors and researchers around the world to conduct similar studies
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Cabin is an anti-slavery book whose permanent impact‚ both positive and negative‚ on race relations within the United States are irrefutable. Published in 1852‚ Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel was written as a direct response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850; second of a pair of federal laws criminalizing the aiding and abetting of escaped slaves within the both slave and free states. Through Uncle Tom’s Cabin‚ Stowe denounces the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the entire system of slavery by exhibiting
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What was life like after the great war? After the great war it was terrible. Everything was so bad all of the houses were destroyed. All of the cars were destroyed to and there was nothing left to eat and nothing to sleep on. We could not do anything all of my friends and family went to the war and they would not be back for a long time. I had nobody to sleep with or to even eat with it was bad. I had to wake up in the morning thinking that my family would be there but they weren’t. I started to
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Appian once claimed “Tiberius lost his life because he followed up an excellent plan in too lawless a way”. Tiberius Gracchus proposed a plan which would redistribute land amongst Roman citizens. Though controversial‚ Tiberius’s plan was brilliant and well thought. However‚ the actions Tiberius took to have his plan made into a law were dishonorable and unruly. When Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus became tribune‚ one of his first actions were proposing a law which would have regulated the use of the
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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in order to help bring the plight of southern slave workers into the spotlight in the north‚ aiding in its abolitionist movement. Harriet Beecher Stowe‚ in her work Uncle Tom’s Cabin‚ portrayed slaves as being the most morally correct beings‚ often times un-humanistically so‚ while also portraying many whites and slave-owners to be morally wrong in most situations. Stowe created a definite distinction between the morality of slaves and
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What did Socrates mean by ‘the examined life’ In the Apology Socrates opined that the greatest good a man could engage in‚ is continual discussion about virtue and examination of its presence in self and others. Socrates felt that Athenians‚ like a purebred horse that is well fed but seldom exercised‚ had become lazy‚ sluggish and underperforming. He was disturbed by the indulgence which coupled with fixation on wealth was distracting his townsmen from true greatness that would only be achieved
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and new ideas about human rights are what prompted this anti-slavery movement. Abolitionist literature began to appear around 1820. Abolitionist literature included newspapers‚ sermons‚ speeches and memoirs of slaves. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass were two abolitionist writers. They were similar in some ways and different in others (“Abolition”). Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Connecticut in 1811 as the daughter of Reverend Lyman Beecher who was active in the anti-slavery movement
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In her slave narrative‚ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl‚ Harriet Jacobs makes the case that “[slavery] is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.” (Jacobs #) According to female slave narratives like Incidents and The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave‚ it is worse to be a female slave because‚ in addition to the brutalities endured by all slaves‚ enslaved women are also victims of a sexist and patriarchal society where they are victims of sexual abuse and exploitation
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me‚ I was more proud than I have ever been since at any success I may have achieved…” proclaimed Harriet Robinson as she proudly led a line of female workers protesting unfair treatment at the Lowell textile mills (“Women in the 19th Century” 15). Robinson was one of the many women working at the Lowell Mills‚ which were textile mills in Lowell‚ Massachusetts‚ during the Industrial Revolution of the mid-1800s (Benson 932; “Women in the 19th Century” 13). These factories mainly employed young‚ single
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I am writing this letter to you to explain who Pythagoras was and how his mathematical findings influence your life. Pythagoras was born about 569 B.C. in Samos‚ Ionia to his parents Mnesarches and Phthais (“Pythagoras of Samos”). It is believed that Pythagoras had two brothers‚ however some accounts say he had three (“Pythagoras of Samos”). Pythagoras was a very well educated man. Through his childhood‚ he learned to play the lyre and was taught many things by the three philosophers Pherekydes‚ Thates
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