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Insulin In spite of these developments, before the discovery of insulin, diabetes inevitable led to premature death. Oskar Minkowski and Joseph von Mering researched at the University of Strasbourg in France. They had first big breakthrough because of using insulin to cure diabetes in 1889. But at that time it could use only animal test. In the early 1900s, there was a German scientist who was Georg…

of writing the protections in the Convention, into UK law. Therefore, the Convention rights are enforceable in United Kingdom courts. This implies that people can document human rights cases in the UK courts, as opposed to going to the Court in Strasbourg to contend their case. The criticism of the HRA and European Court in the UK is massive. Critics have always argued that the ratification of the European convention on human right into UK law, is an encroachment, and it undermines the supremacy…

Furat Fakhreddin Academic Skills Assignment 1 Brexit is the abbreviation of Britain and Exit and it refers to a referendum vote that took place on the 23rd of March 2016 where the public voted that the United Kingdom was to exit the European Union. The leave vote won with 51.9% of the vote . This was first initiated by the UK Independence party. They pushed for the UK to leave the EU and in recent years gained the support of conservative party’s MP’s. They argue that being an EU member…

Around the year of 1346, a disease known as The Black Death, started in China and rapidly spread throughout Europe. The disease wiped out the populations of Christians and Muslims in percentages ranging from thirty-three to forty-five. However, The Black Death sparked reactions in the Christian and Muslim populations by causing them to have vastly different responses to who and why The Black Death started. The Christians believed that the Jews were spreading the “curse” by poisoning the water…

1. What are the factors that motivated United Kingdom exit European Union? What is unique about the United Kingdom from other members of the European Union? (Yixiao Xu) 1. Cressey, Daniel, and Alison Abbott. "Researchers reeling as UK votes to leave EU." Nature, 2016..doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20153. According to Nature, most scientists were against the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union. However, 52% of British people sill voted to leave. To analyze this outcome, we have to…

The French Revolution was a time of violence, chaos, and war. Through it all, one machine of destruction brought fear to almost every human being in France: the guillotine. Despite the bloodshed brought about by this large contraption, there is one person in particular whom the guillotine benefitted by supplying her with limitless heads and bodies. By using these severed body parts, Marie Tussaud created molds of the bodies of those taken by the relentless guillotine and put them on display in…

1. In no more than 250 words, please state below why you are applying for this opportunity with the GLS My desire to practice law dates back to a full-time job in a citizens’ advice unit. By assisting citizens in applying for planning permissions, selling property and registering land, I realised the significance of straightforward legal guidance on every transaction. During my internship in the Legislation Drafting Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, I observed the process of…

The responses of the Muslims and the Christians were very different in how they dealt with The Black Death. Mainly how the Muslims responded was they thought that they now needed to be saved or cleansed, and the Christians were worried about the pope because they had thought for all their life that he could fix these type of things when in reality he couldn’t. So both society groups or religions were panicking just in different ways. The Black Death had two other names the Great Pestilence, and…

since he was deported to Auschwitz. In this chapter, you can feel the mood start to lighten as Levi relaxes and remembers his life before the war. When Levi and Jean begin to walk toward the kitchens, Levi writes that: We spoke of our houses, of Strasbourg and Turin, of the books we had read, of what we had studied, of our mothers: how all mothers resemble each other! His mother too had scolded him for never knowing how much money he had in his pocket; his mother too would be amazed if she had…

Limbs infected with gangrene were usually cut in order to prevent spreading of the disease or eventual death of the patient (Kirkup 2007). Prior to the incorporation of the Barber-Surgeons Company in 1540, the training of surgeons was done through apprenticeships, after which they were given oral examinations. However, many barber-surgeon apprentices were illiterate, and there was a huge discrepancy in the training. They also had little anatomical knowledge. On the flipside, more educated…