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    Virginia Apgar Courage

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    brother died early from tuberculosis and her other brother died from chronic childhood illness. Apgar had passion and wanted to have a scientific career in the field of medicine. When she enrolled at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in New York City, about a month later the stock market fell. This was the start of the Great Depression. This didn’t stop Apgar from pursuing her dreams because she then borrowed money and completed her course at college. She earned her…

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    Artistotle/Plato (384BC-347BC): Artistotle was a Greek philosopher, born in 384BC died in 347BC. Through his work, the “Scala naturae” also called “the great chain of being”, Artistotle tried to analyze the relationship between all living things. “Scala naturae” is the earliest work of taxonomy in biology, which categorized species on Earth from the simplest to most complex. He also declared that species could not ever change over time. Nicholas Steno (1638-1686): Steno was a Danish scientist.…

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    point of his original experiment was to see if a child relied on their mother for food or affection. Then in 1971 his wife died. This lead him to fall into a deep depression which he was treated for. He resumed his experiments at The University of Wisconsin- Madison. He left behind his studies on maternal bonding and depression and isolation began to amuse him. In the beginning, he took baby monkeys away from their…

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    While there are a variety of means to achieving such principles, one of the most commonly chosen paths is secondary education. Over 65% of recent high school graduates chose to go to college for at least some amount of time. Many colleges and universities across the nation use what people have coined liberal education. This type of education is supposed to provide a broad base on all subject matters. In an attempt to not only provide students with more knowledge but to also teach valuable…

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    Carl Ransom Rogers was born on January 8th, 1902, in a small suburb of Chicago called Oak Park, Illinois; the fourth of six children born to Walter A. Rogers and Julia M. Cushing. Walter Rogers was a successful civil engineer, and Julia Cushing was a homemaker and devout Pentecostal Christian. As strict Protestant parents, they worked hard to prevent society from corrupting their children. Carl didn’t feel close to his father, who spent a lot of time away from home on business trips. On one…

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    Lau HC, Jones OD, Frith CD (2007) Law, Responsibility, and the Brain. PLoS Biol 5(4): e103. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050103 Psychopaths' brains show differences in structure and function. (2011, November 22). Retrieved from University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health…

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    Urbana Student Missions Conference. Mr. Hill earned his B.A and his M.A. in business from Seattle Pacific University. He later attended the University Of Washington School Of Law. There he earned a J.D. Mr. Hill has published several articles. He is married with two daughters and the family lives in Madison Wisconsin. Hill worked as the dean of School of Business and Economics at Seattle University. Section One The book tries to explain or answer the question of ethical structures of holiness,…

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    William S. Harley was born on December 29th, 1880 (-September 18, 1943) in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Most people know him as Bill Harley or the co-founder and creator of Harley- Davidson motorcycles. When Bill was young you could always find him drawing or being creative and inventive. When Bill turned the age of fifteen he began to work at Meiselbach Manufacturing Company; which built (by hand) expensive bicycles. He was known as a cycle fitter and knew almost every part of their structure.…

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    fantasy of having power over others. Some critical information about Dr. George Palermo found would be that he was centralized where the trial took place, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was around 75 the time of the trial. He founded The Center for Forensic Psychiatry and Risk Assessment. He is also a)neurologist. He attended University Di Bologna, in Italy, in 1951. He later was certified with the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology…

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    The Walleye War Analysis

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    the novel The Walleye War: The Struggle for Ojibwe Spearfishing and Treaty Rights is Larry Nesper, an assistant professor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, as an understudy for Raymond Fogelson, a well-renown American Indian ethnographers. Nesper specializes in the Ojibwe or Chippewa tribes of Northern Wisconsin. As a result, the whole scope of his career is based on the social injustices and struggles that the Ojibwe face, creating…

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