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The Kitty Genovese murder and the social psychology of helping: The parable of the 38 witnesses
- American Psychologist
"... This paper argues that an iconic event in the history of helping research – the story of the 38 witnesses who remained inactive during the murder of Kitty Genovese – is not supported by the available evidence. Using archive material we show that there is no evidence for the presence of 38 witnesses, ..."
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in psychology textbooks. We also suggest that the story marks a new way of conceptualizing the dangers of immersion in social groups. Finally, we suggest that the story itself has become a modern parable, the telling of which has served to limit the scope of enquiry into emergency helping.
The Decay of the South: Duality and Containment in “A Rose for Emily”
"... William Faulkner, as the literary voice of the post-Reconstruction South, probes the dark corners of southern society in his short story “A Rose for Emily. ” In this paper, I will examine the ways in which “A Rose for Emily ” functions as a modern parable about the South as Faulkner experienced it. ..."
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William Faulkner, as the literary voice of the post-Reconstruction South, probes the dark corners of southern society in his short story “A Rose for Emily. ” In this paper, I will examine the ways in which “A Rose for Emily ” functions as a modern parable about the South as Faulkner experienced it
Quaker Perspectives on the Nature of Man
"... Ever since the dawn of human consciousness man has been inquisitive about himself. A modern parable of this insatiable desire of man to understand himself is expressed in the story of an insane person who was found rushing about the house fran tically looking in all the cupboards and clothespresses ..."
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Ever since the dawn of human consciousness man has been inquisitive about himself. A modern parable of this insatiable desire of man to understand himself is expressed in the story of an insane person who was found rushing about the house fran tically looking in all the cupboards and clothespresses
A Critique of the Modern Consensus in the Historiography of Mathematics
- Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 4 Issue
, 2014
"... The history of mathematics is nowadays practiced primarily by professional histo-rians rather than mathematicians, as was the norm a few decades ago. There is a strong consensus among these historians that the old-fashioned style of history is “obsolete, ” and that “the gains in historical understan ..."
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intrinsic merit. Much has changed in the historiography of mathematics in the last gen-eration or two. The field has “evolved, ” as the current incumbents would have it, to the point where “the gains in historical understanding are incom-parably greater ” in modern work than those based on the “obsolete
Colonization of a ‘‘Lost World’’: encrustation patterns in modern subtropical brachiopod assemblages
- PALAIOS
, 2004
"... The encrustation of Paleozoic rhynchonelliform brachio-pods has been studied for decades, but modern brachiopods have not received similar scrutiny. The discovery of abun-dant subtropical brachiopods from the Southeast Brazilian Bight provides an unprecedented opportunity to assess epi-biont abundan ..."
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The encrustation of Paleozoic rhynchonelliform brachio-pods has been studied for decades, but modern brachiopods have not received similar scrutiny. The discovery of abun-dant subtropical brachiopods from the Southeast Brazilian Bight provides an unprecedented opportunity to assess epi
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"... Metaphor, analogy, and allegory in a humorous short story Job Kunstetter is an honest, perfect and upright lorry-driver in the town of Tel-Aviv, his story is a modern par-able which The partial conceptual integrations involved help the reader learn a lesson from the modernized bib-lical tale. These ..."
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Metaphor, analogy, and allegory in a humorous short story Job Kunstetter is an honest, perfect and upright lorry-driver in the town of Tel-Aviv, his story is a modern par-able which The partial conceptual integrations involved help the reader learn a lesson from the modernized bib-lical tale
The relevance of asymptomatic endometriosis
- In Evers J.L.H. and Vermeiden J.P.W. (eds), Proceedings from the Ferring ESHRE symposium Endometriosis and Fertility 1994: What Can We Expect. 10th Annual Meeting of the ESHRE
, 1994
"... Asymptomatic endometriosis is likely to be a physiological phenomenon of very limited relevance to both the physician and the patient. The evolution of our understanding of this phenomenon is a parable for modern medicine. It is likely that access to a new diagnostic technique, a powerful armoury of ..."
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Asymptomatic endometriosis is likely to be a physiological phenomenon of very limited relevance to both the physician and the patient. The evolution of our understanding of this phenomenon is a parable for modern medicine. It is likely that access to a new diagnostic technique, a powerful armoury
Black Mustard (Brassica nigra)
"... The mustard plant has often been mentioned in the Bible, and most of us are familiar with Jesus ' parable of the mustard seed. However, there is great debate as to what the "mustard " plant of Jesus ' parable really was. Most modern commentators agree that it was the ordinary bla ..."
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The mustard plant has often been mentioned in the Bible, and most of us are familiar with Jesus ' parable of the mustard seed. However, there is great debate as to what the "mustard " plant of Jesus ' parable really was. Most modern commentators agree that it was the ordinary
ON VALUE AND PRICE An alternative approach to value/price theory
, 2004
"... JEL Number: D 46 ABSTRACT: Modern economic science has become a grand parable, the study of a virtual economic world where the interactive robots engage in mechanical relationships. Although the natural sciences that initially inspired many economists has undergone drastic changes since Newton' ..."
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JEL Number: D 46 ABSTRACT: Modern economic science has become a grand parable, the study of a virtual economic world where the interactive robots engage in mechanical relationships. Although the natural sciences that initially inspired many economists has undergone drastic changes since Newton
Bchain: Byzantine replication with high throughput and embedded reconfiguration. Unpublished
, 2013
"... Abstract. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of BChain, a Byzantine fault-tolerant state machine replication protocol, which performs com-parably to other modern protocols in fault-free cases, but in the face of failures can also quickly recover its steady state performance. Bu ..."
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Abstract. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of BChain, a Byzantine fault-tolerant state machine replication protocol, which performs com-parably to other modern protocols in fault-free cases, but in the face of failures can also quickly recover its steady state performance
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