Internalization Struggle Values Brigadier General Haji Hassan Basry Against Activities In Schools

A Struggle Against Forgetting

One of the most remarkable characteristics of living organisms is their ability to alter their behavior by learning. Human beings excel at processing new information, retaining it in their memory, and using it to develop new ideas. Studies in the mollusk Aplysia showed that learning involves the strengthening and increased effectiveness of preexisting synapses. Over time, it has become clear th...

The Struggle Against Sepsis **

The struggle against sepsis is as old as man. Primitive man believed that infections were inflicted upon him by the gods or by evil spirits. The Bible reflects this belief in that the boils of the plagues of Egypt were brought about under the Lord's direction, and Job's boils were due to Satan's ministrations.' The Hippocratic School made the first attempt to deal with the surgical treatment of...

How to struggle against torture.

Perspective: evolution's struggle for existence in America's public schools.

The ongoing creation-evolution controversy in North America thrives on the widespread special creationist beliefs of a significant portion of the public. Creation science supports a literal interpretation of the Judeo-Christian Bible, an earth that is no more than 10.000 years old and created ex nihilo in six days by a monotheistic God, with no new kinds arising since the period of creation, an...

The age-old struggle against the antivaccinationists.

n engl j med 364;2 nejm.org january 13, 2011 97 smallpox was hindered by a burgeoning antivaccination movement. The result was ongoing smallpox outbreaks and needless deaths. In 1910, Sir William Osler publicly expressed his frustration with the irrationality of the antivaccinationists by offering to take 10 vaccinated and 10 unvaccinated people with him into the next severe smallpox epidemic, ...