Elephant back Safari in Sigiriya Imagine clambering up that massive beast of the wilds! Something that you never dreamed possible to do. Once atop, you will get that euphoric feeling of being on top of the world or on top of these majestic animals of the forest. Ride these beasts of majesty through the forest, feel like an ancient Maharaja or King as you slowly plod and sway to the rhythm of the elephantâs gait. Now this can be a...
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Students at Normandy University (Normandie UniversitĂ©) in Rouen, France were curious to test whether the concept of âsensory substitutionâ exists within rats. âSensory substitutionâ is when an agent temporarily stops a specific sensory system from functioning properly, only to have a different sensory system to make up for the sensory system that was lost by using the other sensory system to function in its place. These students set out an experiment that would test whether the auditory system can be...
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Qualitative research is interpretative research. It helps with access the thoughts and feelings of an participants, which can allow development of understanding to the way the self considers its past and present experience. Qualitative approaches have been used to study several different topics and can help researchers understand how and why certain behaviors happen. Reflection is required from the researcher when conducting qualitative research, both before and during the process in order to provide context and understanding to its audience....
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Nuclear energy, the energy that has not only pushed the world to where it is now but has hurt the environment in the process, was invented in 1951 by a scientist by the name of Enrico Fermi. Fermi and Leo Szilard, a scientist who was a colleague, were the first to discover nuclear reactors that caused nuclear chain reactions. Since then, there have been many objects turning nuclear powered, from nuclear rifles to nuclear aircraft. The radiation that nuclear energy...
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Introduction Nikola Tesla was a brilliant electrical engineer and creator who seems to have escaped history. Born in the Austrian Empire in 1856, which is now Croatia, Nikola Tesla made important and groundbreaking advances to the field of electrical engineering. By laying the groundwork for today's alternating current (AC) power system, he had a big impact on the Second Industrial Revolution and the world's technology. His hobbies and inventions covered a wide range of topics, such as radio, X-rays, wireless...
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Before the industrial revolution, normal tasks we do today were very difficult for civilians to complete back in the eighteen hundreds. Thomas Edison sparked a flame that was the Industrial Revolution. His curious and ingenuitive mind helped him to achieve massive goals that seemed impossible. He made many amazing inventions that helped make very hard jobs become undemanding. Edison was the first to produce many inventions that many other people had tried to create but failed. He refused to give...
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Extinction happens when a plant or animal species ' last individual dies out. This can occur naturally, likely due to climate change or other factors, or due to human activity such as overhunting or habitat destruction. Marine animals are aquatic mammals that rely for their life on the ocean and other marine ecosystems. Researchers are now using a comprehensive study of marine animals that have died out over the past 23 million years to determine which animals and ocean habitats...
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Maria Sklodowska is a young polish girl who later became known as Marie Curie. She was born in Warsaw, Poland, but spent most of her life in Paris, France. To her family, she was known as âMaryaâ. She grew up with her mother having tuberculosis, so she didnât get much affection from her. She never got hugged or kissed by her mother when she was a child. She grew up the youngest of four other siblings. Her father was a...
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Qualitative research has been used for a long time, it is an effective way of gaining an insight to individualâs experiences, opinions, behaviours, thoughts, feelings and how they see themselves or others. It helps with the understanding of individuals in a naturalistic setting. Researchers explore and attempt to make sense of why people behave the way they do and how and why behaviours happen through the collection of data in the form of words or images. Qualitative research methods help...
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The Renaissance and the Elizabethan periods were times of great change in religion, and supernatural beliefs were pivotal aspects of peopleâs lives. Throughout the eras, people were constantly changing their religion. Numerous new rulers claimed the throne, each with different perspectives on how they wanted their kingdom to be. Therefore, religion was always alternating from one to another, forcing people to quickly convert. Rulers such as Henry VIII, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth influenced the religion of England during their...
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If the level of tension/stress that we bear in today's times was carried by the people in the 19th century, they were considered lunatic. With all the research, it seems like the authorities back then really made sure that the environment is calm and peaceful for everyone. Even though it meant they had to âarrestâ the people causing a slight hindrance to society. Yes, thatâs right - arrest. Well, according to the report, it was worse than going to jail....
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Introduction The French revolution might have only lasted a decade 1789-1899. However, its impact was unfathomable. It could be argued that it was the single seed that grew into a modern democracy. It questioned how the old world was governed by challenging the feudal system of France, the power of the church, and the monarchy (Anirudh 2018). The French revolution was bloody- about forty thousand lives were lost including King Louis XVI and his Queen Marie-Antoinette ('French Revolution | Causes,...
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The Civil War was during a time period that saw many new methods and inventions being used for the first time. The inventions were used to help quickly advance the war being over which caused more complex injuries. Therefore, medical practices had to evolve to treat these injuries and the diseases caused by poor medical practices. Most of the inventions used were in the weaponry category, however, some of the others included the railroads and the telegraph. Medical advances could...
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Introduction Napoleon Bonaparte is a historically important person. He was a military genius, a smart politician, and an ambitious leader whose actions changed the course of history. Napoleon was born on the small island of Corsica in 1769, just after it became a French colony. He came from humble beginnings and became Emperor of France, making an indelible mark on the world stage. His meteoric rise to power after the French Revolution, which was marked by a series of spectacular...
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Introduction Behavioural genetics can be defined as the study of genetics that is used to investigate the difference in nature and behaviour in livestock. It focuses on the influences of genetics mainly the genetics and the environment influences. The concept was discovered by Francis Galton in the 19th century. However, the survey of the literature on genetics was discovered recently where most studies started at the end of the 20th century. The importance of behavioural genetics in animal science(there ia...
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Introduction Through this essay, I will introduce intelligence scientifically as a component of many different traits and defining it in context of research on intelligence in humans. It has many different definitions and can be spilt into statistical values, such as g and IQ, or specific traits that contribute to overall intelligence, such as cognitive ability, fluid and crystallised intelligence, memory, or verbal reasoning. the nature vs nurture debate is controversial and currently being investigated in research, and I have...
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Today in biology the field of genetics is its own ever-expanding branch; geneticists can now tell us the entire blueprint for the human body due to a project completed in the early 2000s called the âHuman Genome Projectâ, over 30,000 genes have been coded and the chromosomes that house them logged in a complete set of DNAs which can show what makes a human being. A genome is the complete set of deoxyribonucleic acid, a chemical compound that contains the...
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I think there is a relationship between nursing and chemistry because nursing it is said to be a act and the science. And chemistry is science which shows how molecules of stuff interact with each other and the whole body of a person operate in molecular level. Which means us as nurses or as healthcare workers we need chemistry in order to understand what is going on within the body. I know it does not only relies on chemistry only...
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July 2015 my father was diagnosed with stage five kidney failure and heart failure; I remember thinking these illnesses were rare. Iâve come to find out that they aren't rare at all, the sad truth is that many people all around the world suffer from kidney disease and more severely kidney failure. There are three common treatments to combat these diagnoses; kidney transplant, hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. I wanted to learn more about the two treatments that my dad has...
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Organic chemistry is a chemical branch involved with carbon compounds and particularly carbon compounds found in living things. Originally restricted to compounds generated by living organisms, this branch of chemistry has been expanded to include human-made substances like polymers. Polymers are substances with a molecular structure that consists mainly or entirely of a large number of related units, such as Nylon. Nylon is the most helpful synthetic material with applications that vary from day-to-day to industry processes. It is a...
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Introduction Synthetic biology entered the fields of engineering and molecular biology as an innovative approach to study and manipulate biological systems rationally. Its novelty relied on the combination of genomics and systems biology and aimed to surpass the previous focus on reductionist biology (Van Regenmortel, 2004). Nowadays, it is widely known as the specialization that employs modern molecular biology techniques to engineer organismal behaviour (Cameron, Bashor and Collins, 2014). Currently, scientists are discussing the potential of translational medicine, defined in...
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What is Astronomy? Astronomy is the scientific study of matter in the external parts of the atmosphere of the Earth including stars, planets and what they are made of and lastly how they move. Early indigenous knowledge lunar calendar solar calendar constellation star lore Astronomy is one of the sciences that having lived for a long time. Ancient civilisations globally observed over a period of time the night skies, noting the patterns they observed in the sky. These patterns are...
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Introduction Social Inclusion and Exclusion in Education Social exclusion can be quite a distinct concept that has faced challenges due to there being a lack of broadly accepted definitions of what constitutes social exclusion, however, there have been three main ideas recurring in various definitions of social exclusion. According to Anthony Atkinson these ideas are that social exclusion is relative to the norms of a particular point in time, that social exclusion is caused by an act of some individual,...
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Following the period of the Enlightenment, it was believed that religion would eventually fade away due to the rise of new ways of rationalizing the world in which we live, specifically religion was thought to be in its last phase before obsoleteness because of science (Newberg & dâAquili, 2008). It has been over two-hundred years since the end of the Enlightenment and religion is not fading away, to the contrary, it is on the rise (Lipka & Hackett, 2015). However,...
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James Cone, an American theologian, is best known for his advocacy of black theology, which focuses on the lives and experiences of black people. Throughout God of the Oppressed and Bill Moyers interview, Cone uses symbols to narrate black theology. The symbols he uses are the lynching tree, Jesus, the Israelites, and folk stories. The lynching tree symbolizes the reflection of the reality of black people, Jesus and the Israelites function as a symbol of hope, and folk stories round...
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Islam emphasises on a creative and productive effort as a source of happiness and accomplishment. This is due to the Islamic viewpoint of poverty as the promise of the devil, and prosperity as the promise of God as Allah has prescribed in the Quran: âThe devil threatens you with poverty and bids you to conduct unseemly. God promised you His forgiveness and bountiesâ (Al Qurâan, Al Baqarah: 268). This implies that poverty can almost amount to impiety. Thus, begging and...
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Western media has gradually generalized the Muslim community as strict religious followers located in a singular region of the Middle East, leading Westerners to falsely assume that followers of Islam belong to few nations. However, as a widely practiced religion Islam surpasses national borders and extends to South Asian countries such as Malaysia, Bangladesh, and southern Philippines, with Indonesia as the country with the highest population of Muslims in the world. For Muslim Americans, their religion intersect with their ethnic...
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In American society, the mass media plays a powerful role in influencing public opinion, especially about people and cultures deemed foreign. In Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World, Edward SaĂŻd analyzes the way the mass media presents Islamic people and that image of the Islamic world has operated to foster Western colonialism. Early in his book, SaĂŻd says, âIt is only a slight overstatement to say that Muslims and...
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Christianity and Hinduism are very different religions and practiced by very different people. First, while Hinduism is monotheistic, they believe that many gods make up one Brahman. The gods are all equal to each other, but Hindus typically favor one over the others. Christianity is also monotheistic, but he is the only one who is worshipped. There are not multiple gods that create him. Also, Christianity is practiced by mostly westernized countries. Hinduism is primarily practiced in India and southeast...
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Catholic social teachings are integral to human life, as one cannot live without love, and love does not exist when we are isolated (W. Wright, 2018). Catholic social teachings teach us about economic, political, personal and spiritual factors in our lives. Catholic Social Teachings (CSTâs) provide a different way of thinking, being and seeing the world in its entirety (CSSA,2019). Catholic Social Teachings allow us to maintain a special connection towards Christâs heart and the church, the teachings allow us...
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