Essays Tagged: "University of Pennsylvania"

The follwing play depicts a hypothetical meeting between Margery Kempe, The Wife of Bath, from Canterbury Tales, and Chauntecleer, a rooster. Lit. in the 14th century.

RY AND WIFE MEET THE TALENTED ANDFOOLISH COCK( The scene opens in the women's bathroom at CaliforniaUniversity of Pennsylvania - the one in the studentunion on the second floor in case any of you arec ...

(10 pages) 163 1 4.3 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucher

The Red Wheel Barrow by William Carlos Williams

came a county doctor before he discovered his ability to write. He earned his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and began practicing as a pediatrician in Rutherford befor ... utherford before publishing his first Poem in 1909. William Carlos Williams studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. At the University he became friends with some famous writer nemed Ezra P ...

(2 pages) 145 1 3.7 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Independence Shawl: The Unveiling Of A Hidden Paradox Based on Independence Hall in American Memory (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002) by Charlene Mires

Independence Shawl: The Unveiling Of A Hidden ParadoxBased on Independence Hall in American Memory (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002) by Charlene MiresIn 1776, the Continental Congress adopted t ...

(8 pages) 59 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

This is a paper on the life of Ezra Pound and also an analysis of a few of his poems.

Ezra PoundEzra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho, in 1885. He went to the University of Pennsylvania for two years and then continued to get a degree in 1905 from Hamilton Co ...

(2 pages) 83 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Crawfordlong

n surgery. He was born in Danielsville, Georgia on Nov. 1, 1815. He got his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1839. Long is now known to be the first to use an ether-based anesthes ...

(2 pages) 15 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Nurses Wanted: Apply Within

en the nursing shortage and an increase of patient deaths according to an October 2002 study by the University of Pennsylvania. Who is to blame for the shortage of United States trained registered nur ...

(4 pages) 182 0 4.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Brain Conquered Brawn in Early Humans

orted in the latest issue of the journal Nature by a team of biologists and plastic surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The report provoked strong r ... ."We're not suggesting this mutation alone defines us as Homo sapiens," said Hansell Stedman of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. "But evolutionary events are extraordinarily rare. Ov ...

(4 pages) 43 0 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

This is a Biography of William Carlos Williams. It talks about how his life affected his poetry

ool, Williams decided to pursue a career as both a writer and a doctor. He received his M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, where he befriended Erza Pound, who will become a big influence of Willi ...

(2 pages) 22 0 5.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Uprooted 2nd Edition by Oscar Handlin

Urban America History11/1/2004Oscar Handlin. The Uprooted. 2nd EditionPhiladelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.Oscar Handlin, the author of the Uprooted, reveals common exp ...

(4 pages) 48 0 3.7 Dec/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The History of Computers (1946-1992)

r was called ENIAC (Electronic Numerator Integrator Analyzer and Computer), and was invented at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946. Its was constructed for military purposes. Weighing around 27 to ... ed by a man named Teuvo Kohonen. He came up with this invention while working at Finland's Helsinki University of Technology. When they first tested this machine, it worked 97% of the time, from the 1 ...

(6 pages) 76 0 5.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Social Groups and Institutions.

evelopment.The above statements are from Grace Kao, who is a renowned Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her BA in Sociology at UC, Berkley and her MA and PhD at th ... m Pearson Prentice Hall published in Upper Saddle River, NJ.· Grace Kao, Ph.D, People at the University of Pennsylvania (2002) retrieved from www.ssc.upenn.edu/soc/People/kaograce,html

(2 pages) 96 0 0.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Sir William Osler

a proprietary, or privately owned, institution (not to be confused with the Medical Faculty of the University of Toronto), which was then not active as a teaching body. After two years at the Toronto ... active as a teaching body. After two years at the Toronto School of Medicine , Osler came to McGill University in Montreal where he obtained his medical degree (MDCM) in 1872.Osler subsequently taught ...

(3 pages) 17 1 0.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Article: "Pavlovian Conditioning: It's Not What You Think It Is" by Robert A. Rescorla

hapter 5: LearningCited: Rescorla, R. A. (1988). Pavlovian This article by Robert Rescorla from the University of Pennsylvania, is to look at Pavlovian Conditioning in more modern thinking. Rescorla a ...

(2 pages) 44 1 4.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Mood Disorders: Bipolar I & II

Dr. Wade Berrettini, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania says, "the illness has a devastating effect on patients and their familie ... a blueprint of all the genes that make up an individual."� A top researcher at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Dr. J. Raymond DePaulo states "A person may have several genes that m ...

(3 pages) 55 0 5.0 May/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Recording Enginer

eges that had good music computer engineering programs and came up with four colleges. They are The University of Colorado ""Boulder, The University of Washington, Ball State University, and Bloomsbur ... s and came up with a few that had the best programs. The first school that stood out was Ball State University. Ball State's bachelor degree in music engineering technology combines academics and musi ...

(7 pages) 13 0 3.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Postpartum Depression

gnosed in 10 to 15 percent of those. Laurence Kruckman, PhD, a professor of anthropology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania points out that we live in a culture with values that stress individualis ...

(1 pages) 19 0 0.0 Feb/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Untitled

to think that violent acts are acceptable. According to George Gerbner, Ph.D., a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, for the first time in human history most of the stories about people, li ...

(4 pages) 10 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

The Avant-Garde Architecture o

i was born in China in 1917 and immigrated to the United States in 1935. He originally attended the University of Pennsylvania but grew unconfident in his drawing skills so he dropped out and pursued ...

(5 pages) 9 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Wood Stock 1969

d at a drug store and toothpaste manufacturing fortune. He got his money from a multimillion-dollar University of Pennsylvania degree and a lieutenant's commission in the army. He had seen only one ro ...

(7 pages) 21 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

If you had four extra hours per day, what would yo

This applicant was accepted by the following business schools: Harvard Business School, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), Northwestern University (Kellogg), University of Chicago, Mass ... niversity (Kellogg), University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan), Columbia University, Duke University (Fuqua) and the University of Virginia Four extra hours would allow me t ...

(1 pages) 998 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies