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Cheri Baker Sheryl LeSage EG. Comp. 2 10-9-2015 Annotated Bibliography George, Nneka M., Julia Whitaker, Giovana Vieira, Jerome T. Geronimo, Dwight A. Bellinger, Craig A. Fletcher, and Joseph P. Garner. "Antioxidant Therapies for Ulcerative Dermatitis: A Potential Model for Skin Picking Disorder." PLoS ONE PLOS ONE (2015). Web. 6 Oct. 2015. This article is about studies done on mice with ulcerative dermatitis, which is being compared to skin picking and trichotillomania in humans. The mice…

allowed the rulers to lead by example and their followers were willing to work harder for them. Because all able bodied people worked hard, the sick and injured could have enough supplies from the storehouses to be able to survive (Internet History Sourcebooks). One useful system was having common householders work specific jobs for the government on top of managing their homes and servants. This service was called mit’a, which could include working in mines, being a servant for a nobleman, or…

astronomy and navigation so merchants could arrive at destinations quicker and easier ("Science and technology in Medieval Islam"). Centers of scholarship were founded in urbanized cities like Baghdad to fuel these developments. In the Medieval Sourcebook, Baghdad under the Abbasids, c. 1000 CE mentions that there were “numerous colleges of learning” (William Stearns…

The Virgin Queen Elizabeth’s Everlasting Effects Elizabeth Tudor, or better known as Queen Elizabeth the First or The Virgin Queen, helped shape and change the land of England. Her reign was monumental which helped establish and expand the land overseas. Not only did she work with foreign lands to improve her own, she helped increase trading, which then, in turn, made England prosper. She made such an impact her monarchy was referred to as the “Elizabethan Era” and this age truly allowed for…

Technology has been one of the most important discovery for mankind and with each passing day its entering our lives a bit more. Today it is almost at the center of our lives mostly through the social media. But what social media actually is? When we hear the term social media the first think that comes to our mind is platforms like Facebook or Instagram. But to understand the real meaning and function of it we can say that social media is a web-based communication system that helps people to…

everything was for the good of the nation (541), they were oblivious to the changes that were coming with the French Revolution so close at hand. Specifically, this can be seen in the document written by Marie Antoinette, from the Modern History Sourcebook: Marie Antoinette: Letter to Her Mother, 1773. While it clearly shows that Marie Antoinette knew of the tax burdens and the economic hardships faced by the peasants of France, yet she didn 't seem to fully understand. For instance, she…

Areli Perez History 112 #11697 October 30, 2014 Prosperity and Disillusionment of the 1920’s The 1920s in American history mark a decade of great prosperity, and are referred to as the Roaring Twenties. Although there was the Recession of 1920-21, America was able to pull through this time and during the decade was able to have a low unemployment rate and a steady economy. The Roaring Twenties mark an era of great prosperity with many “modern” world ideals and cultures coming into society.…

In the 1100’s, Cathedral Schools were developed in central and northern France and were part of the cultural centers of their communities (Sayre 405). The student body consisted primarily of men. The schools provided thorough training to the priesthood, and were the only people required to be literate in society. Overall, the schools became important institutional centers of learning (iun). The academics consisted of seven liberal Arts including grammar, logic, music, astronomy, rhetoric,…

others, to quickly take refuge inside of the house. This point during Elisa’s experience greatly demonstrated the value of loyalty. As she had noted, “…had but one [servant] proved treacherous, our lives must have been sacrificed.” (“Modern History Sourcebook”) Furthermore, it was with the assistance of one of their servants that they were even able to escape with their lives. Golab Khan led the mob to a false hideout in the hay, which provided the others with enough time to exit the burning…

If Sparta could have changed anything, what do you think they would have changed? Become more educated and wise like a philosopher? Or, what would Athens have changed? Increased their military training? Polybuis, a Greek historian, once said, “Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.” When we look to city-states Athens and Sparta, their government and history of war, do we see where this quote offers truth? Let’s look at…