Index Education & Reference Categories : Adult | College | Education & Reference | Environmental | Homeschooling | K-12 Education | Language | Philosophy | Psychology | Science | Sociology | Weather Results 71 - 80 of 3018 United Nations Day Teaching Tips Author : Freda J. Glatt, MS The United Nations, an international organization dedicated to keeping peace among the world's nations, was created on October 24, 1945. This month, then, would be an excellent time to focus on how to settle disagreements and learn something about the U.N. Here are a few suggestions: 1. Read this excerpt of the U.N. Charter and discuss what it means: We the peoples of the United Nations determine...to live together in peace with one another... | Read more... Study Tips for Test Taking Students Author : Derick Yung You're in the thick of the school year. It seems like there are so many things going on, like assignments, projects, and extracurricular activities. Now a test is coming up and you've got to do well on it. How should you study so you do better on that test? First of all, when you study for a test, you shouldn't be learning something completely new. It is faster and easier to recall something you have already learned than to learn somethin... | Read more... Do not miss your opportunity-learn it now to change your life tomorrow. Author : Chris Wells Every article that we read comprises some vital sentence which describes the gist of it, its major points and arguments. The same pertains to all academic projects. Whatever project you are assigned with-either it is a one-page descriptive paper or 100 pages dissertation, whatever the topic of the project may be, whatever the scope of the research- it should contain one or two sentences which provide the reader with the most important points of t... | Read more... NCAA Mascot Mayhem Continues–Jonathan Munk Author : Jonathan Munk The future of the 17 remaining schools on the NCAA’s list of colleges with “hostile and abusive” nicknames and logos will probably depend on how good the relationship is between the school and the associated tribe. Florida State escaped a costly rebranding two weeks ago, citing support and an ongoing positive relationship between the school and the Seminole tribe. The University of Utah also sent in an appeal to the NCAA yesterday, in hopes o... | Read more... Earning Your Associate’s Degree Online Author : Mark Woodcock An Associate’s degree, or a “two-year” degree, provides a valuable pathway to career enhancement, and provides an educational foundation which makes it easier to earn a Bachelor’s degree down the road. Earning an Associate’s degree online is a flexible, convenient, and innovative way to advance your career and improve your education. Traditionally, going to college requires a student to physically attend. This often requires relocating, or settli... | Read more... Life of Leonardo da Vinci Author : Sam Vaknin Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, cartographer, engineer, scientist and inventor in the 15th century. Yet, despite his genius, he referred to himself as "senza lettere" (the illiterate, the man without letters). For good reason: until late in life, he was unable to read, or write, Latin, the language used by virtually all other Renaissance intellectuals, the lingua franca, akin to English today. Nor was he acquainted with mat... | Read more... Lysenko and Stalin's Genetics Author : Sam Vaknin Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1898-1976) was an agronomist. During the reign of Lenin and Stalin years in the Soviet Union, he became the chief proponent of the work of the self-taught plant breeder Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855-1935) and his brand of Lamarckism - a pre-Darwinian theory of evolution of the species proposed in the French scientist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829). He was appointed as the president (1938-56) of the Lenin All-Uni... | Read more... The Invention of Television Author : Sam Vaknin The transmission of images obsessed inventors as early as 1875 when George Carey of Boston proposed his cumbersome system. Only five years later, the principle of scanning a picture, line by line and frame by frame - still used in modern television sets - was proposed simultaneously in the USA (by W.E. Sawyer) and in France (by Maurice Leblanc). The first complete television system - using the newly discovered properties of selenium - was patente... | Read more... The Origins of Biological and Chemical Warfare Author : Sam Vaknin Chemical and biological warfare are not an invention of the 20th century. Solon (638-559 BC) used a strong purgative, the herb hellebore, in the siege of Krissa. During the 6th century BC, the Assyrians poisoned enemy wells with rye ergot. In the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), the Spartans flung sulfur and pitch at the Athenians and their allies. In the Middle Ages, besiegers used the bloated and dripping bodies of plague victims as readymad... | Read more... The Roman Family Author : Sam Vaknin The father in the Roman family (paterfamilias) exercised absolute and lifelong power over all other family members (patria potestas): his wife, children, and slaves. If the father's father was alive - then he was the supreme authority in the household. Fathers were even allowed to execute their grown sons for serious offenses like treason. Each house maintained a cult of ancestors and hearth gods and the paterfamilias was its priest. The famil... | Read more... << Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next > End >>     [ Back ] Top AlphaContent 2.5.4 © all - visualclinic.fr

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