Man and beast

Man versus beast: pharmacokinetic scaling in mammals.

Land mammals range in size from the 3-g shrew to the 3000-kg elephant. Despite this 10(6) range in weight, most land mammals have similar anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and cellular structure. This similarity has allowed interspecies scaling of physiologic properties such as heart rate, blood flow, blood volume, organ size, and longevity. The equation that is the basis for scaling physiolog...

Beauty and the Beast

Is it really true that “All Scripture is inspired by God?” (2 Ti 3:16). Some feminist theologians argue that the Bible is nothing but male-centered works that are critically tainted with androcentrism. Nevertheless, the belief that the Bible was written completely by the revelation of God has legalized that the rights of women have been oppressed by the biased Christian doctrines. Today feminis...

Man vs beast the human-animal boundary in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

The Beauty and the Beast

This paper presents a method for programming window-based I/O in a pure functional language. This method enables the programmer to specify interactions at a very high level of abstraction. It employs a machine independent declarative specification of devices such as windows, dialogues and menus. These devices are specified via predefined algebraic data types containing event handlers (user defi...

The Beauty and the Beast

Mild psychological effects, such as sleep-deprivation, on an oppressed and tortured human being can be characterized as “normal”. However, Shame by Salman Rushdie uses magical realist style to describe the psychological effects of shame in a patriarchal society which is based on capitalistic class values. This essay will focus on the Marxist feminist reading of the novel with a psychoanalytical...