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humanism

The concept that human interests, values, and dignity are of utmost importance. This is integral to the actions and thoughts of those who care for the sick.
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Q. I am a man with breast cancer. Hello friends, you might have heard about breast cancer in women but here I am a man with breast cancer. Is Herceptin licensed to treat me?

A. Hi, what were your symptoms and when did you discover you had breast cancer?

Q. what are the basics products we as a humans, need to have in our diet?

A. A regular healthy diet should be comprised of a 40-50% carbohydrate (bread, rice, etc.), 30-40% protein (dairy, meat, chicken, fish) and 20% fat. Other important ingredients are fruit and vegetables, that contain large amounts of fibers and vitamins.

Q. Is there a difference between a man's diet and a woman's diet? let say for the point of it the weight the same and they are in the same age .

A. no one should have the same exact diet, you need to find what works for you and helps you achieve your goals.

the base of the diet could be the same, for example burn calories then you consume. But other wise, find what works for you.

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The impact of humanism upon the origins of the European Reformation has been studied with considerable intensity in the last two decades; that this scholarly intensity has yet finally to resolve some of the questions involved is a sobering testimony to the intractability of much of the historical material, which in no way detracts from the excellent quality of much of that research.
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What is true is that, without God, he can only organize it against man." That is what the tyrannies of the mid-20th century had proven--ultramundane humanism is inevitably inhuman humanism.
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Pinn also calls for broadening the conversation around evil and suffering to include his voice of non-theistic humanism. But his position seems to deny the existence of God and claims that anyone believing in any positive reality to suffering is wrong and dangerous for the betterment of oppressed black humanity.
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You see variances on this throughout Scandinavia, where Enlightenment humanism is more firmly rooted.
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According to Price, the artist's long and formative relationship with humanism can best be understood by examining his lifelong fascination with texts.
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More than twenty years ago, someone from People for the American Way quipped that "defining secular humanism is like nailing Jello to a tree." That phrase lives on, though a recent Web search reveals that "raising a teenager" has eclipsed "defining secular humanism" as the undertaking most often said to resemble nailing Jello to a tree.
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The possibility that this humanism can be compromised and perhaps obliterated, under severe social, economic, and philosophical stresses is explored in "Ethical Invisibility and the New Humanism" and "The Humanities: The Eye of the Needle in the Black Experience." The former considers what Barksdale refers to as "a new note of futility and philosophic despair" in African American fiction of the 1950s, and suggests that works such as Kafka's The Trial and Camus' The Stranger had a profound influence on Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison.
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