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  • Member Of The National Academy Of Sciences
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    Biography of Robert Burns Woodward Robert Burns Woodward was born in Boston on April 10th, 1917, the only child of Margaret and Arthur Woodward, of English antecedents. Robert's father Arthur died in October of 1918, at an early age of only thirty-three years old. Robert Woodward was attracted to chemistry at a very early age, and indulged his taste for the science in private activities throughout the period of his primary and secondary education in the public schools of Quincy, a suburb of Bost...
  • Cain And Abel
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    Society of Choices What makes a person walk a path in life they have chosen compared to a friend or a family member? Is it the society that they are a part of? Is it a person's own individuality? In the Bible [Genesis 4: 1-8] we learn the story of two brothers, one called Cain, and the other Abel. Cain and Abel were the sons of Adam and Eve who were the first humans created by Jehovah. Abel was a shepherd and Cain was a farmer. There came a day when Cain and Abel both went to make an offering un...
  • 400 B.C. Pythagoras And His Followers
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    The Pythagorean theory is probably more widely known than any other complex mathematical idea. The theorem was first used by the Eygptians, but they had no mathematical proof that the idea was correct. Pythagoras is credited with being the first to prove the theorem. The Pythagorean theorem, which is important in all technology, proved that the sum of the squares on the short two sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. (A right triangle has one angle of 90 degrees.) P...
  • Cult Literature Lures Potential Cult Members
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    Cults Each year, hundreds of North Americans join one of the increasing, estimated 3000 unorthodox religions that exist across North America. The increasing number of cults, to date in North America, is due to the fact that cults are a social movement that attempts to help people cope with their perceived problems with social interaction. Cult recruiters target those who perceive themselves as different from the rest of society, and give these individuals the sense of belonging that they crave. ...
  • Mad In Early Day Asylum
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    Madness and Civilization In Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault discuses the history of insanity in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. He begins his analysis with the treatment of the lepers and criminals concluding with the treatment of the insane. As "madness" became part of everyday life, people of the time were though to be threatened by "madness". This sense of threat resulted in the hiding of the "mad" in early day asylum or "mad house", whose conditions were inhuma...
  • Member Of A Particular Civil Society
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    In his Second Treatise on Law and Government, John Locke outlines clear and coherent standards for what constitutes a legitimate government and what persons one such government would have authority over. Both are determined by citizens' acts of consenting to relinquish to the government part of their natural authority over their own conduct. Unfortunately, the situation becomes much less clear once we consider how his standards would apply to the political situation existing in the real world to...
  • Costs And Benefits To The Building Societies
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    REPORT ON THE COSTS & BENEFITS OF A BUILDING SOCIETY CONVERTING TO A PLC Introduction At the beginning of this century there were more than 2000 building societies, fiercely independent mutual organisations, formed in the spirit of Victorian self help. There are now just 71. Some of these that have disappeared were terminating societies with a fixed wind up date. The last 'terminating'; society was the Fist Salisbury which wound up in 1980. Other societies have been swallowed up in take-overs or...
  • Article VI The Executive Council The Society
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    CONSTITUTION ARTICLE INameThis organization shall be named the Hippocratic Society ARTICLE IIPurposeThe purpose of the Hippocratic Society, hereafter referred to as the Society, shall be to foster and broaden the intellectual perspectives of those with an interest in medicine; to facilitate this end, the club shall hold regular meetings, sponsor, when possible, academic and social pursuits such as guest speakers, attendances at state and national conventions of interest, and interaction with stu...
  • Members Of The Society
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    In 1651, Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan, his famous work that detailed his physica list outlook and his concept of the value of a social contract for a peaceful society and the nature of man. His major belief was that man is a beast that defines his identity through the need to be controlled under some kind of external, oppressive power. This essay will explain Hobbes views of mans identity in the society and will demonstrate how it was mirrored in the political structure. In Hobbes work, he ...
  • Understanding Of The Characters Of Heroes
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    In the discussion which way is the best to get to understand the character of a society, many opinions have emerged. One of them is that to understand the characters of the he ores or heroines the society has choosen as the elites is the best method. In my opinion, to judge the true inner characters of a certain society, the comprehensive consideration of all aspects is required. That is, heroes can not be taken as the criterion to judge the attribution of a society in that the characters of her...

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