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    Introduction Proper cleansing is perhaps the key component for acute and chronic wound management. Cleansing methods differ among health care providers and institutions, and many times is based on an individual’s experience and preference. Many cleansing solutions exist today. In this research, the author focused on the use of tap water versus sterile cleansing solutions such as Normal Saline and sterile water. Many cleansing solutions are safe and have been proven to provide effective results

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    the Renaissance. Savonarola fits into the Renaissance context as a force that wishes to maintain absolute devotion to god. He is someone who wants to keep away humanist thought and have everyone submit to God in all aspects of life. While people like Pico della Mirandola and Cardano were very religious men, their approach to thought put more emphasis on humankind than God. This way of thought would soon become ever more dominate as time carried on. To start, looking at how he mixed politics and religion

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    it is definitely possible that they can be better than the angels. However, Pico also thought that humans could condescend as low as animals and even worse. He first explains, “…for it is not the bark that makes the tree, but its insensitive and unresponsive nature; nor the hide which makes the beast of burden, but its brute and sensual soul; nor the orbicular form which makes the heavens, but their harmonious order.” (Pico, 13) Here he uses several different examples to put his point across. A tree

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    The philosophy of man is an intricate and multidimensional system involving complex problems rationalized by theoretical ideals. In writing the Oration on the Dignity of Man, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola approaches this study universally, wherein, humanism and the worth and dignity of the populace is affirmed. Saint Augustine's Confessions attempts to explain the truth and philosophies of man, but does so with a different approach, referring to man as a product of society self-consciously

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    On beautiful morning day the sky is blue, a gentle breeze passes by and a freshly cut grass, motivates the perfect chance to walk Reveille. As the cadet goes to grab the leash it makes Reveille jump with excitement, but not knowing the danger that awaits. As Reveille sets of for her daily walk a bike comes in out of nowhere colliding with Reveille injuring her allowing her perpetrator to runs away from the scene, the cadet tries to catch him but only manages to grab his notebook. The hunt for Reveille

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    works from the period of the Renaissance, at different ends of the spectrum, illustrated this new way of thinking; a self-consciousness to the here and now as opposed to the predominating theme or focus of the Middle Ages, the afterlife. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity

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    Oration on the Dignity of Man: Analysis Pico della Mirandola in his work, “Oration on the Dignity of Man”, re-evaluates humanism and humans in general. His work talks about the dignity of man in particular and how man differs from other creatures as man is a creation with a unique and important trait, free will. He uses several arguments to support his claim that humans can choose their destiny and in doing so can achieve perfection. He presents a piece of work that challenges the medieval view

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    1a. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola says that human beings are free to become whatever or whomever they may choose to be. In his work, Oration on the Dignity of Man, Mirandola discusses how as a human being you have “no limit or no bound” and “may choose for yourself the limits and bounds of your nature” He believes that God created humans with no fixed position in life and that the choices they make during their journey will define whether they fall into high or low positions on the chain of life

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    competition (Perry 189). As a result, the common people were able to engage in social and economic development, which lead to spiritual advancement. These changes were reflected throughout Renaissance literature, such as Hamlet by Shakespeare, Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity of Man, and The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, as well as religious works such as the The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, and The 95 Theses

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    individual, and recognized himself as such” (193). Man could now be a “spiritual individual” outside of the theological realm because of this humanist movement of the Renaissance. This idea was simplified by the Renaissance Italian philosopher, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, in his work Oration on the Dignity of Man. He believed that

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