...weapons. Therefore, when the Portuguese missionaries began arriving on the shores of Japan along with resources, they were tolerated. The missionaries were successful in converting quite a large number of people in Western Japan but towards the end of the sixteenth century, the Jesuits lost their influential power when Toyotomi Hideyoshi reversed the policy of his predecessor and began persecuting Christianity in 1587. Another Portuguese Jesuit missionary, Christovao Ferreira, was sent to Japan in 1609 and held the highest respect and had been a source of inspiration to priests and other Christians in Japan and abroad. Silence begins in 1637, a time when martyrdoms and apostasies are of daily routine. Hearing of Ferreira’s apostasy, Sebastion Rodrigues, alongside two priest companions, set out to Japan to investigate what happened to Ferreira and to carry on as missionaries. When they arrive in Japan in a small town called Tomogi, Rodrigues meets Kichijiro, a Christian and quickly realizes that Japanese Christians are living under heavy persecution. He is limited to administering their faith from a secret hut high upon a hill. Although conditions are not ideal, they have the necessities in Tomogi to practice Christianity. The Japanese Christians have been practicing their religion for the past six years since any priests have lived along them. As a result, they have devised their own religious order, led by the “jiisama” who baptizes children; next are the “tosama” who teach...
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...of the three specified images in the Contemporary Art section of the North Carolina Museum of Art is hard to choose. I liked all three pieces for different reasons. I have always loved Pablo Picasso’s work and have one hanging in my home. I can appreciate the Seated Woman, Red and Yellow Background, but it not in my favorites of Picasso’s work. When I first saw Portrait of Emy, by Karel Schmidt-Rottluff, my instincts were that he must have studied under Picasso. Portrait of Emy jumps out at you with the bold orange oil color. The blue eyes grab and hold your attention in an odd way, and I haven’t quite figured out the hair style his wife, Emy, had when she sat for this. And then when I looked at Michael Richards’ Tar Baby vs. St. Sebastion, I had a much different feeling. I was overwhelmed with wondering why he would give this sculpture a name like this. A man cast in gold, a pilot, covered with small airplanes…. It is intriguing. My first thought was that it must represent one of the world wars though it was made in 1999. Could it be paying tribute to a veteran family member? Without researching the artist or the piece itself, I would choose this as my favorite because it makes me want to understand more about the artist. If I was at a gallery viewing this statue I would likely stand around and discuss it with a friend. However, I wouldn’t want any of the three pieces in my home. I think any of these three could eventually give me the creeps. African Art Section ...
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...met them. These assumptions, however, do not apply to all people who speak the same language, share the same religion, or come from the same country. People are unique to how they think and act, no matter where they come from. In the third book, “City of Glass”, Clary travels to Idris, the shadowhunter capitol, to find a spell that will wake up her mom from her magical coma. She travels with the help of a Warlock named Magnus Bane who is in love with Alec Lightwood, Jace’s adoptive brother. She and Jace have not talked and things get more complicated when Sebastian Verlac begins to court her. Jace doesn’t like Sebastian and tells Clary not to trust him. It’s here in Idris where they discover that Clary and Jace are not related and that Sebastion, whose real name is Jonathan, is her brother. Valentine is finally defeated and Sebastian is killed, but his body disappears. This book also revolves around trust, but unlike the first book it represents the consequences of trusting the wrong people. Clary decided to once again trust a complete stranger, but this time the stranger's true intentions were malevolent. Sometimes people pretend to show interest in your situation in order to harm you, Cassandra Clare wanted her readers to comprehend that not all people can be trusted. Trust is a bond that usually develops overtime after you get to know someone and even then they could surprise you. Therefore, Sebastian represents deceitfulness and betrayal. In the fourth book “City of Fallen...
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...James Lawson MIS 333 Dr. Weible 11-13-12 Table of Contents Title Page......................................................................................................................................1 Table of Contents.........................................................................................................................2 Executive Summary.....................................................................................................................3 Intro………………………………………………………………...............................................4 Relation to DB communications……..........................................................................................4 Features…………………………………………….....................................................................5 The Dashboard……….…………………………………………………....................................6 How it works……………………………………………………………………….………….6-7 Online Gaming……………………………………………………………………..……………7 The PlayStation Store………………………………………………………………….……...7-8 Sony is Hacked…………………………………………..……………………….……………8-9 The Return of PSN……………………………………..………….…………………...……9-10 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………….……...10 Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………..…..…11-12 Executive Summary The PlayStation is the foundation of the PlayStation Network. So, this process basically started its reality transition in 1994. The PlayStation Network operates similarly to the definition of what database communications is. There are many features...
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...Serv Bus (2012) 6:265–278 DOI 10.1007/s11628-012-0135-0 EMPIRICAL ARTICLE Innovation and imitation effects in the mobile telecommunication service market Sang-Gun Lee • Byeonghwa Park • Si-Hyeon Kim Hong-Hee Lee • Received: 11 February 2011 / Accepted: 26 January 2012 / Published online: 15 May 2012 Ó Springer-Verlag 2012 Abstract This study investigates adoption patterns of the first mover and the followers in the Information and Communication Technology industry. The continuous behavior of adopters over time is difficult to analyze and most previous studies were cross-sectional rather than longitudinal. In order to overcome these limitations, a mathematical diffusion model with verified official time-series data is used to analytically investigate the impact of both innovation and imitation effects on the mobile phone adoption in South Korea. The results showed that the imitation effect of the first mover was larger than those of the followers in the mature mobile telecommunication services market in South Korea. The innovation effect of the follower was larger than that of the first mover, and the innovation effect was larger than the imitation effect in the market. Keywords Innovation effect Á Imitation effect Á Diffusion model Á Mobile telecommunication market S.-G. Lee Department of Business Administration, School of Business Administration, Sogang University, Shinsu-dong #1 Mapo-gu, Seoul 121-742, Korea e-mail: sglee1028@yahoo.com B. Park College of Business Administration...
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