Despair as Defiance: Kierkegaard’s Definitions in “The Sickness unto Death”

Sickness Assessment of Abbasid Caliphs and Their Causes of Death

Despite the peak of medical knowledge in the Abbasid period, the presence of famous medical families in the Abbasid court, translation and writing of medical works, attention to nutrition and health in the court of the Abbasid caliphs, the expectation of long life and quality was created for the Abbasid caliphs. However, all these possibilities were not used much by the caliphs, and if they had...

Doing unto future selves as you would do unto others: psychological distance and decision making.

Four experiments showed that the decisions people make for future selves and other people are similar to each other and different from their decisions for present selves. Experiments involved decisions to drink a disgusting liquid for scientific purposes (Experiment 1), tutor peers during exam week (Experiment 2), receive e-mails for charity (Experiment 3), and defer a lottery prize for a large...

Death from Compressed-Air Sickness in India

disease of a man working on the river Hooghly Tunnel being constructed by Messrs. John Cochrane & Sons, Ltd., of Westminster, London, is of special interest as it is probably the first report of & deatfy from this disease in India. C. S., a Punjabi Sikh, aged 20 years, was medically examined on the 25th August, 1930, in the morning and was found fit. for work in " compressed air." He reported h...

Part IV Defiance in Groups

the significance of conjunction as a cohesive device in teaching writing

the research questions were as follows: 1. is there any relationship between the students concious awareness of the form and implications of the conjuncations and their improvement in using appropriate conjunctions? 2. does students knowledge of the from and the implications of the conjunctions help them to produce more coherent writings. 3. does a comparison between english conjunctions and th...