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Modernity In his article “Are We Really So Modern,” The Adam Kirsch raises the question, “what is modernity and when does one obtain such a thing?” He makes an interesting point that modernity has the same meaning to us today that it did for people back in the 1500’s. Kirsch uses historical phenomena like the discovery of the earth revolving around the sun instead of the sun revolving around the earth as examples. He analyzes the response to these new discoveries and ways of thinking and he…

In this paper, ototoxicity and its effects on hearing and balance will be discussed. Ototoxic drugs can affect different areas of the ear. It can affect anyone no matter the age, race, or gender. Although it is a common cause of hearing loss and balance problems, ototoxicity was not brought to awareness until the 1940s. Two common drugs that are damaging to one’s hearing are medications in the aminoglycoside family and cisplatin. There may be ways of preventing ototoxicity, but in some…

As a federal agency, NINDS must heed federal legislative mandates and statutory provisions liming the use of funds on NIH awards. Considering NIH is funded by tax dollars, many of the limitations are not surprising: anti-lobbying, limitation of use of funds for promotion of legalization of controlled substances, etc. and some appear to be dictated by policy such as gun control, restrictions on abortions, and restriction on distribution of sterile needles. The apparently less impactful…

Firstly, the World Wide Web is not the Internet. The web is a feature of the internet, which is a network of computer networks whereas the World Wide Web is a series of interlinked HTML webpages connected by Hyperlinks. Therefore, “surfing” the Web and “surfing” the internet are two different things. Although the task of retrieving a webpage can be completed in a matter of seconds, it is actually a complex process. Firstly, your device sends a request to the Domain Name System through a router…

INTRODUCTION Internal control is “a process, effected by an entity 's board of directors, management, and other personnel, designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the achievement of objectives relating to operations, reporting, and compliance.” (COSO). A component of internal control is control activities. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the control activities involved in the sales and collection cycle of an Amazon Prime membership. A flowchart will be provided to help…

Sending people to the hospital for more than 100 years, leukemia affects a high percent of earth’s population. Researchers and scientists work insistently every day to help patients diagnosed with leukemia. Before the knowledge of this illness and its causing factors, many other known “ailments” aided to the treatment of the infamous disease. Medicine, as many people know, had not contributed to society until around the 16th and 17th century, therefore viciously increasing the health of many,…

Mani was the founder of the religion Manicheanism. The reason why he is even relevant in this book is because at the end of Gnosticism, Mani was the individual to take Gnosticism and make it into a religion. The religion itself taught that life is a dualist system in which all is black or white. Also, because of this dualism, none of the things that seemed opposite shall meet. At the time, Mani was famous for his story strikingly resembling the story of Jesus. It is said that at the age of…

Democracy. A word that sounds very simple, but has many different connotations. Anyone could have an opinion about what democracy is, whether or not if they have created this opinion on their own, or were influenced by others. Some say democracy is destruction, some say it is the best and only way that the modern world can be ruled. Democracy is a complex term, as Winston Churchill stated, “No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the…

The English language has and will continue to be the unifier of worldwide linguistic diversity. As a result of its globalization and its relative status symbol, the spread of the English language has facilitated the decline of several smaller languages such as those discussed in Russel G. Rymer’s article “Vanishing Voices”. Containing what is arguably the densest concentration of English speakers, the United States population speaks the language with a distinct vocabulary and accent. The form…

Infants, who are between 0-3 months, learn to turn to their parents once they speak. Besides smiling, when they hear their voice. The sounds which are uttered as random prolong the vowels such as “a, u, o”. Most of the newborns attitudes are unintentional who begin to automatically make cooing sounds like “aaa, ooo, aaah”. Child knows that the sound come up as sound. They are happy to utter the sound and play tonguetied, thus the production of sound begins spontaneously. They learn to make…