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used time and again at some stage in the records of biomedical studies. Early Greek physician-scientists, inclusive of Aristotle, (384-322 BC) and Erasistratus, (304-258 BC), accomplished experiments on dwelling animals (Franco, 2013). Likewise, Galen (129-199/217), a Greek physician who practiced in Rome and became a giant within the history of medication, performed animal experiments to increase the expertise of anatomy, body structure, pathology, and pharmacology (Franco, 2013). Indeed,…

In the past accusations of witchcraft ran rampant causing panic wherever it went. 75%-90% of those tried and executed during this occurrence were female as opposed to the 10%-25%, which were males. It was apparent that women were linked to negative beliefs about dangerous magic and association with the devil, or judged based on systems of power in communities and courts worked against women rather than men. The concept of Gender plays an important role in shaping ideas about witches. In the…

adult, he moved frequently, living in such cities as St. Louis and New York. “Many critics base their interpretation of The Glass Menagerie as autobiographical in part because of the similarities between the Wingfield family and Williams’s own.” (Galens 123-139). “Like the play’s inconsolable narrator, Tennessee (then known as Tom) worked at a shoe company while dreaming of becoming a writer. Williams’s sister Rose (the model for Laura) was extremely troubled; and most people who knew her well…

The Reign of Adolf Hitler Although he dint practice religion openly, Hitler certainly believed in God. He was raised in a catholic setting and even went to a monastery school. His main ambition as a young boy was to become a priest. He got most of his ideas from the Bible, and most certainly, from the Christian Social movement. Even though he opposed certain priests who opposed him for political reasons, he never stopped believing in God and his country. Hitler believed the Christian feeling…

In Dante’s Inferno, Dante Alighieri writes himself as a traveler who is traversing through the realm of the underworld with the Roman poet Vergil as his guide. In documenting his journey, Dante continually references and encounters both fictional characters and historic figures from the Greek, Roman and Catholic canon. In doing so, he brings the characters and figures back to life, allowing him to rewrite them in his own context and perspective. By reviving these characters and melding the…

As a seemingly dreary atmosphere crept through European towns and cities, local citizens were being, to their dismay, succumbed to a fatal disease they knew little of. The Black Death, in its monstrous form, strangled the life out of every being it came in contact with. It drained its prey of their faith, hope and a perseverance to keep fighting. Having no one to turn to, no one to get a definitive answer or solution from, these victims acted out, and reacted in ways that were outrageous,…

The relationship between Vitalism, and the opposing Mechanism in the eighteenth through twentieth centuries was complex, and often fraught with the confounding effects of religion. Depending on the social and historical context, vitalism has either been radically opposed to accepted Christian teachings, or a very quaint, and somewhat religious pseudo-scientific explanation for biological phenomena. In some sense, it seems as though the very concept of vitalism is analogous to the belief in…

Neurodevelopmental disorders are disorders wherein impairments in neural development lead to deficits in various cognitive and/or social abilities (Reynolds & Goldstein, 1999). Historically, researchers have often assumed that human cognition is served by numerous “modules”, each of which performs a specific cognitive function. It is typically argued that each module is supported by a specific brain region whose evolutionarily-defined characteristics confer neural properties that facilitate…

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Justine Reynolds Miss Kiss English 10 Honors-2 3 May 2015 Maybe Different is Okay EE Cummings was born and raised in the town of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cummings knew he wanted to pursue a life of poetry at the young age of eight years old, however; he did not seem to know what tragedies awaited him. Not long after attending Harvard University did he become a volunteer ambulance driver in France during the time of World War I. Due to suspicion of espionage he was soon imprisoned in a French…