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Week Seven 19/02/2008 14:03:00 Tillyard is saying that you modern readers will have some problem understanding. He will try to explain it to his generation. At the top we are talking about the microcosm, total reality. You start with god, not with the angels. God is the supreme being. As a supreme being, he is omnipotent, powerful is everyway. God is omniscient, he knows everything. God is pu...

Trauma Analysis 25/02/2008 12:46:00 Trauma: any force caused to an individual by an external force Mechanical Trauma • Blunt force o Something coming at low velocity impacting over a fairly large area o Projectiles  Guns, bullets, arrows, o Sharp force trauma  Fracture Mechanics • • Stress: force applied Strain: Deformation of an object due to that stress o Change in shape. • Failure: Frac...

Determination of Ancestry “Race” vs. Ancestry Historically: Ancestry or “race” • • • • Phenotype 22/02/2008 12:56:00 Geography Language Ethnicity Population Variation • More variation between smaller groups than larger groups Population Differences • Between o Between populations not a lot of change • Within o Within populations there is a larger change • Factors? Determining Ancestry • ...

Determining stature, skeletal changes with age Bergmann & Allen’s Rules 20/02/2008 12:58:00 Human body form follows the ecological rules of Bergmann and Allen Bergmann: Body mass • • • Relation to latitude Hot climates lower body mass Cold climates higher body mass Allen: Appendage Length • • Stature • • • • • Increases until adulthood Longer – hot climates Shorter – cold climates Decrea...



14/02/2008 14:56:00 Above the terristrial world is the celestial world. It is made up of ether, a separate element. Sometimes called the 5th element. The quintessential means the 5th substance. Whoever invented ether was having fun with that because its takes you out of the ‘world’. the life cycle of the human being is the life cycle of all terrestrial beings in some way. The laws are of perpet...

Humanism, Society, and Gender: Did Women Have a Renaissance? 13:58:00 Decameron 12/02/2008 dimorphism starts in order to have the inferiority of women. Boccaccio asks what is really natural? If the religious requirements were lifted? What is a woman’s natural virtue. acts of courage, honor. the plague was not understood as it is today. Struck suddenly thorughtout Europe. Advanced very quickly...

Did women have a Renaissance? 13:46:00 05/02/2008 It was written in the 1970s. women historians had to push and shove to get to this type of scholarly literature. she is more of a social historian. She separates the classes, genders. The materials she uses are not the ideological documents, but the social basis for them. She refers to the sources as ideologies that reflect the values of the m...

Humoral Theory and Human Nature and Gender 24/01/2008 14:56:00 The elements needed to be in perfect balance in order to make gold. The most perfect metal. when god first created the terrestrial world, everything was perfect. nature was disrupted when humans were exiled from the garden of Eden. Now there are hurricanes and other calamities. Part of the first book of the scriptures is try to ex...