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    GDR writers and the people parted company when the phrase “Wir sind das Volk” (‘We are the people’) changed to a more nationalist phrase, “Wir sind ein Volk” (‘We are one people’) (Mews 4). “Wir sind ein Volk” was ironic because it reminded people that they did not have any democratic rights nor should they demand rights (ibid). “Für unser Land” (For our country) was signed by major GDR writers on November 28, 1989 (ibid). This was a plea for a socialist alternative to the FDR (ibid). Christa…

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    What Is Homeostasis?

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    Homeostasis can be best defined as, the physiological process by which the internal systems of the body are maintained at equilibrium despite variations in the external conditions. It comes from the word homeo-, which means the sameness, and stasis, that is, standing still. However, equilibrium is not an unchang-ing state, so this is not strictly true – it is a dynamic state of equilibrium causing a dynamic constancy of the internal envi-ronment. (D. J. Schnecl 1981). Our bones and teeth…

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    The acute inflammatory response can be stimulated by an infection, tissue necrosis, foreign bodies, or immune reactions. The stimulus is recognized by receptors on the surface phagocytes, dendritic cells, and epithelial cells. The two types of the receptors are the toll like receptors and the inflammasomes. The toll like receptors recognize bacterial and virus DNA and endotoxins and in response produce inflammatory mediators. The inflammasome recognizes microbial or dead cell products or…

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    “Hamlet” is a grim play about greed, betrayal, revenge, and death written by William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” is Shakespeare’s most tragic play he ever written. “Hamlet” describes the story Prince Hamlet who finds out his father, King Hamlet was murdered by his uncle; King Claudius who married Queen Gertrude; when King Hamlet reemerges as a ghost. Ghost Hamlet reveals he wants his son to avenge his death. When Prince Hamlet received the new shocking information he then had an elaborate plan to…

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    Rhetoric, like many other facets of understanding this world, has been something we’ve used since the Ancient Greeks and Romans. It’s inevitable that we use it every day; even towards the most banal of exigencies, the most trivial of facts, it 's something we’ve just come to take for granted. As a “scientist,” though, I do have to wonder how does rhetoric fall into the world of scientific discourse. Turns out, science is inherently rhetorical; everything in science is the result of discourse…

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    What Does Transhumanism mean in the modern 21st Century? In the peer reviewed journal, “Better Living through Transhumanism”, the author George Dvorsky explains the meaning of Transhumanism and elaborates the innovative ways it can benefit human kind in the future. He also points out the modern workings of medical and technological breakthroughs. He claims that more individuals should join in and be involved in transhumanism, which aims to stimulate and promote the remarkable enhancement of…

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    Sandra Cisneros Barbie-Q

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    Sandra Cisneros’ short prose poem “Barbie-Q” follows a narrator as she discusses her and her companion's enthusiasm for Barbie dolls. Cisneros infers, through the narrator’s account, that the characters are both young ladies, both of whom possess only one Barbie. On a Sunday, the young girls are at a market and spot a cheap new Barbie lying on a table. Glancing around, they notice there are numerous dolls and outfits, including a "'Career Gal'" outfit (291). Evidently, a close-by toy factory…

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    recording of the interrogation. The students are training to become officers of the Stasi – the secret police force of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. When a student asks a question deemed too empathetic, his name is marked on the attendance sheet – clearly nothing good will happen to him (The Lives of Others). The society depicted in The Lives of Others has a separate school for aspiring members of the Stasi. The separation of this from the rest of the education system shows how deeply…

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    Education has always been one of the most concerning subjects in people’s lives and a lot of people have been debating about it for decades. Most of the debates on this topic reach a stasis point at the end, which is that College is not as meticulous as it used to be because of the falling standards. In this debate over higher education, the authors of the article have different viewpoints on higher education. Emily Hanford and Pew Research Center discuss that the American Higher education…

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    Peter Gunst Summary

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    there was in Western. Instead, the region used the idea of common land property. This isolated village communities and kept the region politically inferior to the well-connected Western Europe. These communal fields also created economic and social stasis because the system didn’t promote the intensification of production. Eastern Europe also experienced extraordinarily strong systems of central power which prevailed over a dependent nobility. As Gunst notes, “the structure of Eastern European…

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