The protagonist in the novel ‘Out of the dust’ by Karen Hesse‚ is a young girl‚ Billie Jo‚ and her life during the dust bowl of the 1930s. During this time period‚ Billie Jo’s life was turned upside down with all the hardships and challenges she had to face. As her father was a wheat farmer‚ Billie Jo’s family relied on the crops as their source of income. However‚ when the drought reached Oklahoma‚ the soil and their crops dried out and died‚ which meant her father could not sell the wheat for
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Influence and reception of Friedrich Nietzsche From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Friedrich Nietzsche ’s influence and reception varied widely and may be roughly divided into various chronological periods. Reactions were anything but uniform‚ and proponents of various ideologies attempted to appropriate his work quite early. By 1937‚ this led Georges Bataille to argue against any ’instrumentalization ’ of Nietzsche ’s thought; Bataille felt that any simple-minded interpretation or unified ideological characterization
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Database: Ovid MEDLINE(R) In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations and Ovid MEDLINE(R) ‚ PsycINFO Search Strategy: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Depression/ (88163) 2 Fluorodeoxyglucose F18/ (16267) 3 Deoxyglucose/aa [Analogs & Derivatives] (2344) 4 2 or 3 (16702) 5 1 and 4 (36) 6 (fdg adj1 pet).ti‚ab. (11503) 7 flourodeoxyglucose.mp. (35) 8 6 or 7 (11519) 9 2 or 3 or 8 (19574) 10 1 and 9 (39)
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Anxiety can be described as the nervousness or unease associated with an unavoidable event for which the outcome is uncertain. The presence of social anxiety in college students has been studied many times in relation to alcohol consumption. There are mixed results in the link between social anxiety and drinking. Villarosa‚ Moorer‚ Madson‚ Noble‚ and Zeigler-Hill (2014) did not find a direct relationship between social anxiety and alcohol consumption‚ but found a positive relationship between social
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Wernher von Braun (1912 – 1977) Inspired by the possibilities of space exploration by reading the science fiction of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells‚ von Braun developed a keen interest in space flight‚ and became the most important rocket designer of his time. During World War II‚ von Braun worked for the German army‚ developing missiles. This work resulted in the V-2 rocket‚ which used liquid fuel and could bomb targets in Europe. The structure of the V-2 rocket became the basis of the rockets used
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main cause of the fall of the Romanovs in February 1917? Tsar Nicholas II was the head of the Romanov family who had ruled Russia for five generations from 1613 to 1762. When Nicholas had inherited the throne he married Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse‚ who was from Germany. They had five children together‚ but their popularity was starting to fall by 1914. When there was the outbreak of the war‚ the Russian people criticised Alexandra’s German heritage and Nicholas’s failure to treat Russia’s social
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The Protestant Reformation was the schism within Western Christianity initiated by John Wycliffe‚ Jan Hus‚ Martin Luther‚ John Calvin‚ and other early Protestants. It was sparked by the 1517 posting of Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses. The efforts of the self-described "reformers"‚ who objected to ("protested") the doctrines‚ rituals‚ leadership‚ and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church‚ led to the creation of new national Protestant churches. The Reformation was precipitated by earlier
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down and the putsch disintegrated with Hitler being arrested and charged with high treason and later sentenced to five years in prison although he only served two years. Some of his fellow conspirators were arrested while others escaped to Austria (Hermann Göring‚ Ernst Hanfstaengl‚ Rudolf Hess). The Nazi Party headquarters were raided‚ and its newspaper‚ the Völkischer Beobachter (The People’s Observer)‚ was banned. The consequences were that Hitler and the Nazi party would from then on use legal
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1967-1975. 1. Regents of the University of Michigan‚ 1989. Print. Enns‚ Carolyn. "The Basics of Social Feminism." The Women ’s Webring. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 31 Mar 2011. http://www.feministezine.com/feminist/modern/THE-BASICS-OF-SOCIALIST-FEMINISM.html Hesse-Biber‚ S.N. (2007). Handbook of feminist research. London: Sage Puglications. Linda‚ Lindsey. Gender Roles: A Sociological Perspective. 5. Boston: Prenice Hall‚ 2011. 14-18. Print. Keohane‚ Nannerl. Feminist Theory: A Critique of Ideology. 2. 7. Chicago:
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Functionalism Perspective: concentrates on what the mind does and the role of behavior. (William James‚ p.16). Gestalt Perspective: emphasizes on how perception is organized and thinking in a "whole" rather than on the individual elements. (Hermann Ebbinghaus & Max Wertheimer‚ p.17). 2. List the current perspectives in psychology and briefly describe each perspective‚ including any theorist mentioned in the text book who is associated with the perspective. Neuroscience Perspective: the study
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