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This paper outlines the strategic development of Boots the Chemists, company by analyzing what kind of strategies it adopted and what kind of steps should be taken to rectify the failures.

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This paper is a series of questions regarding the case "Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v. Boots Cash Chemist". The paper explains that this is a case that provides the precedent of when shopping for goods at a store, the placing of the goods in a basket does not form a contract, the contract is formed when the goods are presented to the cashier and the cashier accepts the goods.

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Essay on Italian chemist Basolo. Summary of his early life and education. His academic background. Love of teaching. His educational philosophy. His move to the United States. Cites his many honors and awards. His legacy to students of inorganic chemistry. Based on the book PRIESTLEY MEDALIST: A CHEMIST FROM COELLO, by M. Jacoby.

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"Fred Basolo was born in Coello, a coal mining village with a population of roughly 300, in 1920. Basolo's parents had emigrated from the Piedmont region of Northern Italy to escape poverty and famine. He became interested in chemistry in high school. He took a lab course run reluctantly by a home economics teacher who was given the job of teaching the course on Saturdays. The students read the lab book and did a few experiments and Basolo's interest in chemistry was kindled. His principal recommended that Basolo attend college, but he needed some convincing since none of his siblings had even gone to high school and no one in Coello, his home town, had ever gone to college.
Basolo attended the Southern Illinois Normal school in nearby Carbondale, a low-cost school that offered only one type of..."

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The paper reveals that Pauling has been labeled the premier chemist of the twentieth-century for his work and awards. The paper describes Pauling's birth and childhood, college life, family life, and his many accomplishments. This includes his works on crystal structures, the nature of chemical bonds, the use of Vitamin C to maintain and restore health, as well as his efforts to bring about world peace.

Outline:
Thesis Statement
I. Linus Carl Pauling
II. Accomplishments

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"You can find Linus Carl Pauling in many areas of research. This man basically wore a coat of many colors. Pauling was a chemist, physicist, humanitarian, nutrition expert, author, educator, and family man. Having accomplishments that are a mile long--Pauling has been labeled the premier chemist of the twentieth-century for his work and awards. (Wiki, 2007)
"Linus Carl Pauling, was born on February 28, 1901, in the town of Portland, Oregon. (Hutchinson, 1999) His parents were Herman and Isabelle Pauling, and he had two younger sisters. Pauling's, father died in 1910, leaving his mother and the children to make it on their own. Pauling continued on through high school, but did not graduate; because the high school required everyone to take a civics class and Pauling, felt he could learn civics on his own."

Tags:crystal, structures, chemical, bonds, Hydrogen, molecules, Vitamin, C, atomic, bomb, testing

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The paper looks at Albert Hofmann's background and his belief that psychedelic substances such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) have a beneficial and unique impact on human subjects that can be constructive in navigating psychological afflictions, overcoming traumatic experiences and producing intellectual epiphanies with curative potential concerning one's emotional condition. The paper focuses on these benefits of LSD and how Hofmann decried the adoption of LSD as a recreational drug by the so-called 'hippie' movement. The paper does highlight, however, how the dangers of LSD usage are real and can provoke terrible psychological consequences and even psychoses that can be somewhat incurable.

Outline:
Introduction
Albert Hofmann
The Benefits of Hofmann's Discovery
Conclusion

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"One of the most controversial discoverers of the 20th century, Hofmann came from decidedly humble beginnings. He was born to a modest family in Baden, Switzerland. His father's work as a factory laborer and the absence of his formal education retained the family to fairly poor conditions. (Smith, 1) Nonetheless, Hofmann, who was born in 1906, would report happily on a childhood spent largely outdoors. Here, he would explore the ruins of local castles and roam the hillsides consuming the stimuli of nature. He would consistently report this to be one of his greatest pleasures and a source of the spirituality that encompassed his life but tended not to connect him to organized religion. (Smith, 1)
"The impoverished state of Hofmann's family stacked the odds against him in terms of furthering an education. However, the promise and perspicacity which had shown would incline his godfather to sponsor Hofmann at university. (Wikipedia, 1) Thus, he "went on to study chemistry at Zurich University because, he said, he wanted to explore the natural world at the level where energy and elements combine to create life. He earned his Ph.D. there in 1929, when he was just 23." (Smith, 1) The ready enthusiasm and fast success that Hofmann experienced in his studies would be a significant presence in the revelations that were to come about in the years to follow."

Tags:psychedelic, substances, epiphanies, hallucinogens, sensations

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This paper explains and examines the Gaia Theory, which proposes that the earth is itself a tremendously large and complex super-organism, comprising all of the other life forms dependant upon it in very much the same fashion that the human body comprises the many trillions of individual living cellular organisms that, collectively, constitute a human being. The paper first details some of the criticisms as well as the support for Lovelock's theory, outlines the essential elements of the theory, and then provides a critical analysis of the theory.

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"In the 1960's, James Lovelock, a British atmospheric chemist, was engaged in research commissioned by the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States. Specifically, the studies were intended to develop a method for determining reliably whether or not biological life existed on Mars. Part of Lovelock's work involved analyzing certain elements of Earth's atmospheric properties and mechanisms, in order to understand how a planet teeming with biological life might be differentiated accurately from interplanetary distances from a planet completely devoid of biological life (Enteractive, 1995)."

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The following paper takes a look at the life of Friedrich August Kelule, known as the originator of the structure theory of benzene. This essay discusses Kelule's interest in chemistry, beginning with a trial concerning a charred woman's body.

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"Kelule went to a trial about a woman's charred body. Many believed she had combustion because she drank too much alcohol. However, Justus von Liebig testified in this trial and ignited Kekule's interest in chemistry. He changed his studies from architecture to chemistry. Charles Gerhardt and Jean-Baptiste Dumas taught him the unitary theory of chemistry. From 1855 to 1858 Kekule debated with JFW von Baeyer until 1858 and was professor at Ghent and Bonn (Ulearntoday 1)."

Tags:atoms, form, chains, complexity, valency, carbon, reaction, products, molecules

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"Many fundamental concepts in chemistry can be traced back to Friedrich Wohler. A mild-mannered scientist, Wohler's discoveries revolutionized the understanding of organic chemicals. His artificial synthesis of urea eventually led to the overthrow of the theory of vitalism. In addition, Wohler contributed to ideas on isomerism and organic radicals. His work has ultimately had a great influence on the development of many fields of scientific endeavor.

A quiet, gentle person, Friedrich Wohler combined his "passion for chemistry" with a "great love of the open air, the beauties of nature and of all living things" (Findlay, 1965, pp. 323-324). Indeed, that branch of chemistry dealing with compounds of carbon is widely considered to have been started by..."

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"The harrowing experience of Primo Levi, detailed in his book Survival in Auschwitz, was the experience of millions of people in World War II. The book is powerful and affecting, and it also serves as a very strong portrayal of the entire era of which the Holocaust is a part. This book presents the real effects of history, not the changes in leadership and the movements of armies but the changes in the lives of real individuals who become the victims of other people's hatreds an ambitions. No single book can be considered a complete history of the "final solution" or its aftermath, but a book such as this one provides strong insights into the effect such horrors had on the people against whom the Final Solution was directed. As we consider what Levi has to say about that era and his description of what was done to himself and others, we will.."

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This paper is an in-depth examination of the periodic table. The author begins with some background on atomic knowledge, and then looks at the ancient Greek scholars who influenced the early table. Early atomic theory, and the discovery of distinct weights are discussed in detail. The author pays specific attention to Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, whose scientific work in the late 1880s provided the breakthrough in the construction of this table and remains the basis for the model used today.

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"Mendeleev completed the table in 1869, when 63 known elements existed. As Mendeleev said, "if all the elements can be arranged in order of their atomic weights a periodic repetition of properties is obtained." (Leichester, 1965) Mendeleev arranged the elements according to weight, and then proceeded to group them into clusters of elements that possessed similar properties. These groupings, together with the consideration of variance from strict atomic weight order, left spaces in the table that Mendeleev predicted would encompass elements that had not yet been discovered. Mendeleev left these spaces open in order to accommodate future discoveries. He himself accurately predicted three of these missing elements- Scandium (ekaboron), galluim (ekaaluminum), and germanium (ekasilicon). By 1886, only seventeen years after the creation of the table, all of the elements previously predicted by Mendeleev had been isolated."

Tags:science, chemistry, pattern, atomic, table, elements, scholars, greek, mendeleev, thinkers, history, scientists, weight, properties, hubbard, modification, zinc, ore, winkler, nilson, meyer, point, melting, composition, principle, four, classification, order