Sentences with phrase «studied much history»

Not exact matches

But you should also note that much of the history you study is about major religions that rose to positions of power over the people.

The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America: Since 1945 By George H. Nash Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 467 pages, $ 24.95 George Nash knows as much about the intellectual history of modern American conservatism as anybody, and it is a pleasure to have his classic 1976 study again available.

Of course, much could be said for a study of literature as a basis for the understanding of any particular period of history.

Even a basic study of history indicates that Jews were MUCH safer living in Muslim countries than Christian countries for most of the time periods that both religions have existed.

Robert Heilbronner entitled his study of this history, The Worldly Philosophers, with much justification.

Scholar who has spent years actively studying history and the Bible and actually knows what he is talking about: «Hey you guys have a couple of misconceptions about this thing you love so much, wouldn't you like to know the actual truth?»

also this treasure chest is filled with history, prophecy, poetry, illustrations, parables, knowledge, wisdom, and discernment and so much great reading that to judge it unless you have read, studied and meditated on it many times really does not help you to develope a relationship with your creator.

What is to be taken literal / figurative depends on the context of passages / chapters and much study of the history of the translations, intention of the author, etc..

If more Christians studied the history of the Bible and the history of the early Church, not just the Bible itself, I think they would have much greater perspective on their religion, what has been taught to them and some of the why's (who decided what was «right» and what was «wrong» in early teachings) and how they have come to believe what they do.

The «we - they» theme runs through much of his writing on Islam, coming perhaps into clearest focus in a paper read to the Conference on Near East History held at the School of Oriental and African Studies London University, 1968, not yet published.

some day the Bible will be studied for History and not much else

Though such successive innovations in theological study as the social gospel, social ethics, religious education, psychological counseling and ecumenical relations may receive much publicity the schools seem to go on their accustomed way, teaching what they have always taught: Biblical and systematic theology, church history and preaching.

I did not know until much later that the new books we were given at the first of every school year... the social studies, history, geography books... would be the books used by those children next year.

Among them were the Purdue and Rochester studies of athletes in high school and college football [1,8,9,12,13, 31 - 38] and ice hockey, [8] which, as noted above, found subtle changes in cerebral function in the absence of concussion symptoms or clinically measurable cognitive impairment which researchers linked to the volume of head impacts, and a much publicized case - study autopsy of a collegiate football player, Owen Thomas, with no reported history of concussions, which revealed early signs of CTE.

Some parents worry endlessly about developing food allergies, but new studies have shown that waiting till 6 months probably won't reduce the risk much unless you have a family history of allergies.

«There is certainly much left to be studied — including how pregnancy and fertility treatments may affect mortality later in life — but our results highlight the fact that a history of infertility is indeed related to a woman's life long health, and opens a potential opportunity for screening and / or preventative management for infertile women for both women's health care providers and the general practitioner.»

In the end, the history of zoology reveals as much about our human foibles as about the animals we study.

«I wish very much that I could place the whole thing before him and take him fully into confidence,» Bush wrote, «but this is utterly impossible in view of the attitude of people here in Washington who have studied his whole history.»

The study suggests that the two African elephants split at least 2.5 million years ago, and possibly much earlier, although Pascal Tassy at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, warns that looking at historical genetic divergence does not give the final word on separating species.

Two first - of - their - kind studies in Nature look much deeper into the history of Greenland than previous techniques allowed.

But Robert Heinssen, who is chief of the Adult Treatment and Preventive Intervention Research Branch at the NIMH and who led the study, claims that prodromal symptoms, when considered in the context of a full medical history, can produce a much more accurate prediction.

«But this was not always the case,» explains Professor Dr. Madelaine Böhme, director of the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP) at the University of Tübingen, who continues, «Our most recent study shows that the number of amphibian and reptile species used to be much higher in the course of geological history.»

In the mid-1990s, a lake containing 1,300 cubic miles of water (as much as Lake Michigan) was detected 12,000 feet below the surface of the ice in East Antarctica, beneath where the Russians had spent years drilling into the ice sheet to study its history.

Even as advances in ancient - DNA technology have made it possible to probe population mixing and large - scale migrations that occurred thousands of years ago, researchers have had trouble studying the genetic history of the Near East because the region's warm climate has degraded much of the DNA in unearthed bones.

A new study has revealed that gills originated much deeper in evolutionary history than previously believed.

The current weaning study is part of a much larger, decades - long effort by Fisher and a series of graduate students to extract «life history» information preserved in fossil tusks.

A study published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases collates a history of the disease and finds that while rates dropped world - wide in the post-penicillin era after 1945, they remained, up until recently, much higher in Sub-Saharan Africa compared with other regions.

«This study shows that we are able to look into the metabolic history of trees with much higher resolution, so that we possibly can detect if trees acclimate under changing climates.,» says professor Juergen Schleucher, one of the two directors of the NMR Center in Umeå.

While much recent research has not been published in this area, there is actually a long history of studies that show: (1) there is a significant number of antigens shared between tumors and embryonic tissues (called «oncofetal antigens») and, consequently, antibodies made against tumors can also recognize embryonic tissues, and vice versa; (2) pregnancy confers some immunity against cancer (accompanied by antibody production against oncofetal antigens), not only against its occurrence but also against its growth; (3) similar to pregnancy, an immune response against cancer can be generated by vaccinating animals with embryonic tissues.

However, Bob Kopp studied another snowball Earth that happened much earlier in the planet's history.

For decades, scientists have turned to DNA to learn about our past, but their studies have been limited to eras much earlier than recorded history.

A new study in the April 22 edition of Science reveals that volcanic activity associated with the plate - tectonic movement of continents may be responsible for climatic shifts from hot to cold over tens and hundreds of millions of years throughout much of Earth's history.

«Much like physicists who study trace signatures left behind by particles that are difficult to observe directly, we study the genetic signatures left behind by important moments in population history,» Novembre said.

«By interacting with many people, I learnt about Singapore's history and culture, and my study abroad life became so much more fulfilling.»

Everywhere we went had so much history and having studied art history in college, i was just in awe at seeing these structures, landmarks, and buildings in person!

Thirty - three years old, English, good and wealthy family, right studies, (Eton first and History of Art at Cambridge then), newlyweds with Hannah Bagshawe — antiquarian with whom he shares a nose not exactly perfect and to whom he pointed his finger to when he got the award saying «Hannah, I love you so much» — Edward John David Redmayne — called Eddie — stays to Hollywood business as Rania di Giordania stays to 7Eleven.

In addition, and unlike much English - language film scholarship even today (and certainly television studies), the book is far from Anglophone - or even Francophone - centric in its account of both cinema and criticism / theory's history, being at pains to emphasise the reality of new - century scholarly discourse as truly global in scope.

Thus, Bingham positions his study as a follow - up to and update of the much - revered first major research on the biographical genre, George Custen's pioneering and influential Bio / Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History (1), which mainly covered the Hollywood studio years.

From now on, children know they will learn how to read, to write, to count, to study history, discover geography and much more.

For students at IS 218, school is much more than a place to study history or hone their mathematical skills.

While calculus or physics might not have much relationship to demographics of the students, clearly the choice of texts to read in a history class, or a literature or sociology or urban studies class, might evolve over time to reflect changing demographics.

Included are schemes of study, visuals, policy documents, student support documents, step by step guides, coloring sheets, art history information and much more.

History and Geography have replaced Studies of Society and the Environment (Queensland) requiring twice as much time as before and new to all primary school teachers.

Last year, my history surveys revealed almost universal disappointment at too much time studying early America (which students found less interesting), leaving too little time for the Cold War (which students found engaging).

«Much of the information given was probably more relevant to the History or Indigenous Studies curriculum, but I can see many links to science, my curriculum area,» she said.

Meeting the needs of the most diverse classrooms we will ever face in history will require much study and practice.

There is only so much time in a curriculum and forcing schools to deliver the EBacc's seven GCSEs (English language, literature, Maths, core and additional science (at least), history or geography, and a language) leave very little time to study anything else: especially when most schools want to offer eight subjects due to the size of the new exams.

You know that there is much to be learned — about history, about literature, about human emotion — from the theatre, and you know that the study and practice of dramatic arts can create more confident speakers and individuals.

Instead of literature and history, she spends much of her time studying self - defense, learning magic and how to infuse mah - jong tiles with her life force, or ch» i, for magical purposes.

Much of the history of Khmer society is known through bas - relief carvings of the Angkor temples (that are studied by the character and real life art historian Victor Goloubew in Samuel Ferrer's The Last Gods of Indochine) and the writings of the visiting 13th century Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan.