Philosopher's stone

According to Greek legend, Prometheus bestowed upon mankind the igniter of a cultural spark: fire. Without the gift of fire, men would have been left in the dark in innumerous ways. Fire illuminated the path towards the creation of the thriving cultures that we know today. Plus, Prometheus didn’t just give mankind fire. He also gifted them with the knowledge of different trades: brick making, woodworking, astrology, science and math, language, domestication of animals, navigation of the sea,…

The Wolf of Wall Street Analysis The Wolf of Wall Street is a film filled with sex, drugs, and lots of money. It was directed by Martin Scorsese, and released on December 25th, 2013. The movie revolves around the life of Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker who founded his brokerage firm, Stratton Oakmont. After watching the trailer multiple times, it can be concluded that the audience targeted were mainly adults and teenagers. Even more specific, they use rhetoric to appeal to large groups like…

advent of allopurinol and colchicine (Rheum chap 188). It is critical to reinforce to patients the importance of long-term management of gout, as complications of long-standing untreated gout may include secondary infection, urate nephropathy, renal stones, nerve impingement, or fractures in joints with tophi…

This Effective Natural Treatment Will Help You to Get Rid of Gout Forever Gout, a form of arthritis, is often ignored by those who have not suffered from this complicated disease that is quite unbearable. When uric acids build up in the blood gout appears. This build ups come from the breakdown of the waste processed by the kidneys and dissolved in the blood. When the kidneys are not able to get rid of the uric acid, it crystallizes and builds up waste products in the joints. This condition…

Austin Harvard 10/9/2015 Paper 1 Neolithic vs Civilizations Qualitative and quantitative changes occurred between early agricultural societies and the First Civilizations.The largest change between the early agricultural societies and the First Civilizations was the introduction of the state. The state is a system of officials, bureaucrats, and scribes. The state helped to maintain order in cities. The introduction of the state created new structures of power, social inequalities, and larger…

Over 8,000 years ago in what is now present day Jordan, there lived Stone Age hunters. Around 8,000 BC the hunters began farming and living in organized villages. During the Bronze Age, they lived in fortified towns and soon trade routes began to pass through Jordan because of its proximity to two booming trade routes that ran through Egypt and Iraq. Jordan also shares borders with Israel, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. After 1500 BC Jordan divided into organized kingdoms of which included the three…

Every century the ghost of Elizabeth Oaks comes and haunts the location of what now Rockbridge Academy stands upon. Before Rockbridge Academy, Cedar Academy was located at 911 Generals Highway. That school used Elizabeth in the same way Rockbridge does, as a homework thief. The teachers, both then and now, pay Elizabeth Oaks to take the homework of students they do not like to ruin their grades. However, when a good student forgets to do their homework the teachers communicate through a…

The Rosetta Stone is important to the Ancient Egyptians because, it is the anwser to Hierogliphic writing. If you closely compare other languages spoken at Egypt to the Hieroglphics you would understand what it says. Also acording to Ancient Egypt.com, it states that in 1822, after inspecting the Rosetta Stone for a long time, a man named Jean Francois Champollion finally understood how to read and write in Hierogliphics. Champollion was able to read Coptic and Greek.( Coptic is the present…

Carpentry would not exist without Math. Carpentry is one of the oldest skilled trades that is still used to this day, but also the base and necessity in all aspects for carpentry to be precise. There are references taking the word back to the French origins, “charpentier”, (pronounced char-pen-ti-er) which means a carriage maker. But history shows carpentry goes back to the beginning of time, existing in every culture and civilization. Today, I will show you examples of how carpentry was…

In addition, gout is indicated by excessively high levels of uric acid, which is referred to as hyperuricemia in an individual. The primary cause of hyperuricemia is underexcretion of the kidneys (Buttaro, Trybulski, Bailey, & Sandberg-Cook, 2013). Although not the sole indicator, hyperuricemia is a good indication of gout disease. However, not all individuals who have hyperuricemia will develop gout. In order to diagnose gout disease, the urate levels in the serum must be 7 mg/dL for men and 6…