" The sensitivities of each stage guide the development and determine the rhythm of movement through the planes. ... The caterpillar crawls along eating leaves, the butterfly flies from flower to flower in search of nectar. We cannot aid the caterpillar by providing a garden full of flowers, nor will the butterfly benefit from green leaves. ... The child intently studies the human face and listens to the sounds of speech, and then begins to babble and coo. ... " Sensitive periods are windows of time when the young ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It took one hundred years, from the time it was first recognized as a syndrome among hysterical women in the late 1800s to its inclusion in 1980 as a diagnosis in the manual of the American Psychiatric Association, for posttraumatic stress disorder to be recognized as a legitimate illness. ... Their failures allowed the illness to be forgotten each time epidemic cases following war faded, but several brilliant minds over the century continued to tussle with the problem and contribute, little by little, to the shaping of a scientific diagnosis. ...

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Few deaths of farmers and laborers are also reported due to pesticide poisoning at the time of spray. ... To understand the psychology of Indian farmer towards the GM technology, we have conducted studies on the reaction of farmers who are cultivating Bt Cotton in Andhra Pradesh state of India (Shourie & Sai 2002). 2. ... Even studies conducted in USA reiterate the fact that cultivation of Bt Cotton is beneficial only when the pest attack is above a threshold level (Cornejo & McBride 2000). ... Attempts were made to ascertain if there is any visible environmental damage caused by Bt gene t...

• Word Count: 2919
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" When he learns what has happened on the island, the officer is reproachful: how could this group of boys, he asks-and English boys at that-have lost all reverence for the rules of civilization in so short a time? ... Although he tried to write a novel as early as age twelve, his parents urged him to study the natural sciences. ... Golding wrote several more novels, notably "Pincher Martin" (1956), and a play, "The Brass Butterfly" (1958). ...

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• Grade Level: High School