“The Birthmark” is a short science fiction created by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1843. The story tells of an eighteenth-century scientist who attempts to remove his wife’s birthmark yet takes her life the end. This paper will use Louis Montrose’s theory Historicity Texts and Textuality History disclose dialogic relationship between its historical context Hawthorne’s view science. firstly discusses ...

Abstract The second-century philosopher Celsus disparaged Christians who “alter the original text of Gospel three or four many times” ( Cels. 2.27). Scholars have understood this passage as a critique multiple distinct Gospels, but Celsus’ invective is better explained by comparison with elite polemics (e.g., Gellius, Lucian, Galen) against readers lack discernment and arbitrarily alter manuscr...

objectives: to compare the outcomes of prone and supine lumbar traction in patients with chronic discogenic low back pain. methods: the test was prospective and randomized control trial. the structure of trial was urban physical medicine and rehabilitation clinic. participants was included of a total of 124 subjects with chronic low back pain (lbp) and evidence of a degenerative and/or herniate...

This paper addresses the cultural impact of genomics and the Human Genome Project (HGP) on human self-understanding. Notably, it addresses the claim made by Francis Collins (director of the HGP) that the genome is the language of God and the claim made by Max Delbrück (founding father of molecular life sciences research) that Aristotle must be credited with having predicted DNA as the soul that...

Last words, the theme for this series of articles that comes out of last spring's graduate conference of the same name, are somewhat disconcerting for a philologist. Philology's traditional obsession has usually been with first words those first and originary scribblings which initialize a culture's, and a nation's, textual history. Last words from a linguistic-philological perspective usually ...