Preaching on Tobacco Road

Newman on Rhetoric and Preaching

Title of Document: NEWMAN ON RHETORIC AND PREACHING Milton King, MA, 2007 Directed By: Professor Jeanne Fahnestock English Language and Literature In Newman studies, four current theological issues find resolution and application. Faith emerges as the best mode of reasoning for discerning truth, boosts theology’s academic status, and speaks to the felt need in academia to require students to en...

Preaching to the unconverted.

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On Preaching the Commandments of Proper Research: A Rejoinder

In our recent article (Hardyck, Dronkers, Chiarello, & Simpson, 1983, we examined the effect of prolonged exposure durations on visual halffield presentation. Moscovitch (1987) has taken exception to our conclusions, and his rejoinder has taken the form of citing some of the commandments of good research, such as proper controls, adequate numbers of subjects, etc. One commandment that seems to ...

A hard road: finding ways to reduce teen tobacco use.

Avoidable death: tobacco, alcohol, and road accidents in France

encephalopathy can be counted on one hand in France, about a hundred thousand deaths are caused each year by tobacco (around 60,000 deaths in 1995), alcohol (45,000) and road accidents (8,000). A look at the most frequent causes of avoidable death in France shows that the consumption of alcohol is on the decline as are diseases related to alcohol, and that deaths due to road accidents are also ...