Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Two allegorical themes are developed during the stay in the tree house, the first of which deals with Dolly's spiritual regeneration, as her imaginative mind finds itself wholly in harmony with the new environment. Implicit in this theme is the conflict of the individual in a stereotyped society, and...
In putting things right, the Christian partially agrees with the psychologist. He, too, puts the criminal above the crime, is not primarily concerned with" settling "a bill in accordance with some tariff." But unlike the psychologist, he does not regard guilt as "an illusion, a form of groundless self-torment...
Even sunburn, which can occur for the first time long after birth, is the result of "an intricate sequence of reactions which involves both the genetic equipment of man and the environment in which he lives," he pointed out.
It depends on the agent (the sun), the inherited qualities of the victim (blonds are more susceptible than brunets) and the environment (climate, altitude, time of year).
Ingalls and co-workers have shown that many deformities previously thought to be inherited are brought on in large part by unfavorable environment before birth--by, injury, illness or some other defect in the pregnant mother.