Luigi Galvani Clearly‚ animals know more than we think‚ and think a great deal more than we know." (Irene M. Pepperberg ) . Luigi Aloisio Galvani born in Bologna on September 9‚ 1737 and attended University of Bologna where he received a doctorate for studying the human skeleton. Galvani was an Italian physician‚ physicist‚ biologist and philosopher‚ who discovered animal electricity. He is recognized as the pioneer of bioelectromagnetics and this discovery impacted literature ‚ science ‚and other
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The effect was named after the scientist Luigi Galvani‚ who investigated the effect of electricity on dissected animals in the 1780s and 1790s. While experimenting in his lab‚ his scalpel touched the body of a frog‚ and he saw the muscles in the frog’s leg twitch. At that time he thought that he had discovered a new way of forming electricity. The term is also used to describe the bringing to life of organisms using electricity‚ as popularly associated with the 1831 revised edition of‚ Mary Shelley’s
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In this selection from the beginning of Act III of Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author‚ the Father tries to make the Producer and the actors understand the difference between illusion and reality. In the beginning of this selection‚ the leading actress uses the word “illusion” to describe the scene they are working on. This word greatly offends the Father because it belittles his family’s story of their lives. Their story is not merely an illusion to them‚ it is their reality
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Six Characters in Search of an Author By: Luigi Pirandello GENRE: Italian Drama - theatre of the grotesque SETTING: Daytime‚ the present‚ the stage of a theatre THEMES: How does one define reality/truth? "At least admit that the actress who will play her will be less true than what you see before your very eyes" (Father‚ II) DRAMATIS PERSONAE: THE CHARACTERSTHE COMPANY FatherDirector MotherLeading Man StepdaughterLeading Lady SonSecond Female Lead Boy (mute role)Ingenue Little Girl (mute
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“Is The War On Terrorism A War?” The Global War on Terrorism is a military campaign that began shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001. First used by George W. Bush‚ the phrase ‘war on terror’ has become to be conceptualized as a term used to signify ‘global military‚ political‚ lawful‚ and conceptual struggle targeting both organizations designated as terrorists and regimes accused of supporting them.” The war on terror main focus has been with Islamist militants and Al-Qaeda
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The prisoners of war were not treated in accordance with the international agreements. They were complaining about starvation and malnutrition and there were some Japanese who were claiming that the Japanese Army had tried to do their best to service the foods to the Prisoners of War while they were in the camp. What is it like to be a prisoner of war? When you are a Prisoner of War you have to do everything that you are told to do. Often times the Prisoners of War were treated poorly by their captors
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Day Versus War In literature you find things like figurative language‚ mood‚ and lastly tone. Tone is the attitude the writer has toward its work. It is their perspective on the subject that they are writing about and many mistake it with mood. It is based off of how you would imaging the author telling the story. The story ‘Half A Day’ establishes tone throughout the entire story by the authors use of figurative language and you get the general tone from the
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War is necessary in human society Introduction War‚ in the broadest sense‚ is a violent contact of distinct but similar entities (Wright 3-6). Different people may have very different opinions towards war. To some people‚ war is a plague which ought to be eliminated or a mistake which should be avoided; to others‚ it is an anachronism which no longer servers any purpose. However‚ there are some who take a more receptive attitude toward war and regard it as an instrument which may be useful‚ and
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How the Weak Win Wars: A Theory of Asymmetric Conflict Author(s): Ivan Arreguín-Toft Source: International Security‚ Vol. 26‚ No. 1 (Summer‚ 2001)‚ pp. 93-128 Published by: The MIT Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3092079 . Accessed: 08/08/2013 11:12 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars‚ researchers‚ and
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War is a fact of life. As long as there are humans‚ there will be war. In past times‚ for a man to go to war‚ it was viewed as romantic and heroic. But‚ these ideas have faded and vanished throughout the course of the 20th century. War can be horrific‚ like a bad nightmare‚ and can easily break the human spirit‚ which is not a t all fragile. In his novel‚ "The Wars"‚ Timothy Findley develops the idea that war‚ in and of itself‚ is meaningless‚ unjustified‚ and irrational. PART I "The Wars" is
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