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Second Treatise Human Body
1,571 wordsGnostic writings of Jesus portray him as a heavenly redeemer made less of flesh than of spirit. The emphasis of Jesus' importance is not on his physical humanness but rather, on his ability to show people the way to the kingdom. Jesus put on flesh in order to give people gnosis and reveal to them where they come from and where they will eventually return. When it is time for Jesus to return to his heavenly home, he is crucified and resurrected before he finally ascends. His body's lack of import...
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Physical And Mental Genetic Engineering
1,878 wordsDuring the past decade, genetic engineering has been a very controversial issue facing our world that ultimately questions our power as humans to control nature. Genetic engineering has many potential benefits, such as curing all diseases, growing more food, and altering our genes, but these advantages also cause some disadvantages, such as overpopulation, ecological, ethical, and social issues, which all must be assessed before we advance any further in this field. We should definitely move ahe...
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Stem Cell Research Bioethics Advisory Commission
1,515 wordsShould Embryo Stem Cell Research Be Banned? This is one of the most controversial questions posed in the last century. The issue is simple. Should the federal government fund embryo stem cell research? The answer is extremely complex. At the heart of this controversy, is whether or not, it is morally ethical to use stem cells derived from human embryos to possibly discover the cure and treatment for many diseases such as Diabetes, Stroke, Cancer, Parkinsons disease, and Alzheimers, to name just ...
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The Effects Of Painkillers On A Daphnia
1,221 wordsLate one afternoon, a lady was driving home in the rush hour traffic. The last thing she needed was a pounding headache. While she was stopped, she dug in her purse for some aspirin to relieve her headache. She chugged it down with the Pepsi sitting by the seat. Her only worry was to relieve her headache. The affect of the painkiller on the other parts of her body was not a concern to her at that point in time. Should people wonder if their painkillers are affecting their body? Should people kno...
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Tycho Brahe Heliocentric Universe
967 wordsIt was during the 16 th and 17 th centuries when man's view of the universe and himself changed drastically. This came after a millenium of repetition and stagnation in the development of science. People finally began questioning what they were told, and they went out to find proof rather than assuming on the basis of authority and common sense. These advances in astronomy and medicine came about in the same era, and were not un parallel in their development. In both fields were some very notabl...
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Male And Female Order To Survive
1,941 wordsNo one knows exactly how homosexuality entered into human history. I would imagine that the practices associated with the erotic attraction of people to one's own gender have been around since the dawn of humanity. The earliest accounts of homosexual behavior seem to be found in ancient pagan religious practices. At least, the pagans included homosexuality in the worship of various gods. Whether the inclusion in worship was because the practice was already a part of the society-at-large or if th...
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Anabolic Steroids Androgenic Steroids
1,895 wordsAll about Steroids Understanding steroid Steroids nature Steroids that are used by athletes are the artificial form of testosterone, a human hormone released by the body to stimulate and maintain the male sexual organs. Testosterone is called a male hormone since it is produced in men in large quantities compared to the quantity produced in women (Mishra, 1 - 2). Hormones that are produced by the testes and the adrenal gland in men and ovaries and adrenal gland in women contains certain kind of ...
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Anorexia Nervosa Self Starvation
1,595 wordsAnorexia nervosa is a life threatening eating disorder defined by a refusal to maintain fifteen percent of a normal body weight through self-starvation (NAMI 1). Ninety-five percent of anorexics are women between the ages of twelve and eighteen, however, in the past twenty years, this disorder has become a growing threat to high school and college students (Maloney and Kranz 60). Anorexia produces a multitude of symptoms, and if not treated, anorexia can lead to permanent physical damage or deat...
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Yin Yang Digestive Tract
1,570 wordsTraditional Chinese Medicine Chinese Medicine Traditional medicine of China has a long historical and cultural background dating back about 2500 years. The ancient Chinese people were able to reach a level of social stability that included the ability to treat disease of emotional, physical, and spiritual origins. Although a belief in spirits as the cause of disease has remained in China even to the present day, the view that the body obeyed a natural order struck a chord in the intellectual eli...
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Common Sense Martial Arts
1,659 wordsIn today? s diverse society, violence is a dominant issue on the social front, especially for women, who lack the physical strength and size of their human counterparts, making self-defense a continual concern. Self-defense is the act of defending one? s person against attack by the use of physical force. In order for a person to defend himself / herself properly against a variety of attacks, it is necessary to analyze the various types of attacks, and the techniques available to defend against ...
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Low Birth Weight Tobacco Smoke
1,286 wordsTobacco is one of the leading preventable causes of death in Malaysia. Under the current law, smoking is banned in all public places. These include amusement centres, theatres, hospitals, clinics, public vehicles and air-conditioned restaurants. Likewise, anyone under age of eighteen is not allowed to buy cigarettes or any tobacco products. If the seller is not sure of the buyers age, then it is advisable to check his identity card. Free cigarette samples are not allowed to be distributed at the...
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Hellenistic Period Classical Period
2,095 wordsGreek art has gone through many stages through out the coarse of its history. Over the years the Greeks strived to perfect the faces, bodies as well as the human form in their sculptures. They experimented with many types of techniques, many of which I will touch on in this paper. This paper will mainly discuss Greek sculptures that range from the Geometric Period all the way up to the Hellenistic Period. We will discover that the Greeks were quite talented and always strived for a better depict...
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Phrase Quot Poem Quot
792 wordsIn C. K. Williams " Grief, " the speaker explores the all too common experience of losing a loved one. The speaker describes the pain involved in sitting helplessly by, only able to watch, while another human being slowly withdraws into death. The poem " Grief, " like many of C. K. Williams poems, is a maelstrom of memories, thoughts, emotions, and other human experiences. In this particular poem, the speaker is torn by the slow death of his elderly mother. His attempts to co...
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Part Of Nature Huckleberry Finn
2,546 wordsEvery culture of the world has its stories. Whether large or small, technologically developed or ancient, nomadic or settled, every population on Earth has a unique mythological tradition and special history. Despite the great variety that can be found among these tales, there are certain characteristics that repeat from story to story. Psychologist Carl Jung called these characteristics archetypes. Archetypes, he said, are universal, and that? there are as many archetypes as there are typical s...
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Work Of Art Fourth Century
1,442 wordsSculpture has been a very important part of art history throughout thousands of years. For the past few months I have viewed many different kinds of sculpture, including Greek archaic sculptures, Greek classical sculptures, Greek Hellenistic sculptures and Roman sculptures. All of the sculptures that I have seen and analyzed have very interesting characteristics, but the one that I have analyzed most recently was the most fascinating. Hermes carrying the infant Dionysos, by the artist Praxiteles...
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Plato And Aristotle School Of Athens
861 wordsThemes of Italian Renaissance Art As the fourteenth century ushered out the Middle Ages in Italy, a new period of cultural flowering began, known as the Renaissance. This period in history was famous for its revival of classical themes and the merging of these themes with the Catholic Church. These themes of humanism, naturalism, individualism, classicism, and learning and reason appeared in every aspect of the Italian Renaissance, most particularly in its art. Humanism can be defined as the ide...
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Electron Beam Television Programming
1,822 wordsDid you know there are more television sets in the world than there are telephones? Even the television professionals find it hard to believe. However the statistics prove it. According to official figures from the International Telecommunication Union there were 565 million telephones in 1983, and 600 million television sets. Other statistics are just as impressive. In Belgium, from 1967 to 1982, the average time spent watching television by children from 10 to 13 years, increased from 82 to 14...
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Pope Julius Ii Sistine Chapel
1,414 wordsMichelangelo Buonarroti, born in the sixteenth century, was perhaps one of the greatest artisans of all time. He was an accomplished artist, sculptor, architect, and poet who demonstrated his great skill with the creation of many astounding works. Michelangelo's artwork consisted of paintings and sculptures that showed humanity in its natural state. He is remembered today as the man who had sculpted the David and the Pieta, which are two of the most stunning sculptures to come out of the Renaiss...
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Century B C Immortal Soul
3,146 wordsMystery cults greatly influenced the development of Pythagoreanism as Pythagorean's adopted many of their traditions, behaviors and beliefs. Pythagoras, the founder of the Pythagorean's, established a school in which he developed and taught these adopted cultural behaviors and beliefs. The nature of daily living in the school, both its moral and its intellectual disciplines, can perhaps best be understood as an intellectualized development from earlier mystery cults such as the Eleusinian (Wheel...
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Chaos Theory Sickle Cell
1,215 wordsThe Fun Filled Fractal Phenomenon A fractal is a type of geometric figure. It is generated by starting with a very simple pattern such as a triangle and, through the application of many repeated rules, adding to the figure to make it more complicated. Often, an input will be entered into a recursive function and it will yield an output. This output is then inserted back into the function as an input and the process is repeated infinitely. Fractals often exhibit self-similarity. This means that e...
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