...Det moderne gennembrud En litterær revolution Mens verden moderniseres, hersker de nationalromantiske forestillinger fortsat. Æstetisk er de litterære idealer ude af trit med en moderne storbys puls. Georg Brandes (1842-1927) destruerer på kort tid det fundament, som den danske litteratur hviler på, og baner vejen for en tiltrængt modernisering. Den 3. november 1871 begynder Brandes en af sine forelæsninger over emnet: Hovedstrømninger i det nittende århundredes litteratur på Københavns Universitet (link: http://www.danmarkshistorien.dk/leksikon-og-kilder/vis/materiale/georg-brandes-om-hovedstroemninger-i-1800-tallets-litteratur-1871/). Da forelæsningsrækken et par år senere er forbi, er den danske litteratur afgørende forandret. Brandes præciserer, hvilke problemer den moderne litteratur sætter under debat i Europa. Her tager litteraturen stilling til forholdet mellem de to køn, ejendomsforholdene, religionen og samfundet. Forelæsningerne bliver signalet til et litterært opbrud, en litterær revolution. Rygtet om den unge mand, der har sat København på den anden ende, når hele Skandinavien rundt. I løbet af få år bliver København centrum for den moderne nordiske litteratur. De senere verdenskendte svenske og norske forfattere: August Strindberg, Henrik Ibsen og Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson valfarter hertil. Herved kommer Brandes forelæsninger til at ændre den skandinaviske litteratur radikalt. I løbet af få år er resultatet synligt. Vi får en række forfattere, der i dag...
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...Preface Most suveys into what employers want in their staff would result in a similar list. Employers are looking for people who are good at: • Teamwork • Communication • Self-motivation • Planning and organising • Problem solving • Decision making • Time management and prioritising • Flexibility and adaptability • Willingness to learn • Interpersonal and negotiating skills In our companion e-book: Hidden Communication Skills Revealed, we discussed the career skills that make you stand-out. These essential inter-personal skills for managing an effective career included: • Active listening • Body language • Assertiveness • Questioning skills However, this e-book goes one step further. It’s looks at the more advanced inter-personal skills needed to be an effective leader. 9 About the Author About the Author Apex Leadership Limited was founded by Anthony Sturgess and Phil Higson. They have a long track record of developing innovative and challenging management and leadership development interventions, including programmes which have won national awards. From several MBA programmes to tailored, client specific programmes, Anthony and Phil have worked with new and experienced managers, in a wide range of organisations, across a breadth of management and leadership roles. Anthony Sturgess has almost twenty years experience in the teaching, facilitation and coaching of managers and leaders. This experience ranges from individual leadership and management...
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...Pre-Socratic Period Thales of Miletus Background: Thales of Miletus (fl. c. 585 BC) is regarded as the father of philosophy. Thales of Miletus was considered one of the Seven Wise Men of ancient Greece. Thales was the first of the Greek natural philosophers and founder of the Ionian school of ancient Greek thinkers. Works/Writings/Philosophy: His is said to have measured the Egyptian pyramids and to have calculated the distance from shore of ships at sea using his knowledge of geometry. He also predicted an eclipse of the sun. In geometry Thales has been credited with the discovery of five theorems like the one that a triangle inscribed in a semicircle has a right angle. He tried to discover the substance from which everything in nature is made off and suggested water. Thales is important in bridging the worlds of myth and reason. He initiated the revolutionary notion that to understand the world one needed to know its nature and that there was an explanation for all phenomena in natural terms. That was a giant step from the assumptions of the old world that supernatural forces determined almost everything. While considering the effects of magnetism and static electricity, he concluded that the power to move other things without the mover itself changing was a characteristic of "life", so that a magnet and amber must therefore be alive in some way (in that they have animation or the power to act). If so, he argued, there is no difference between the living and the dead...
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