...Questions for Exam 1 What is absolutism? Briefly discuss the 16th-century context for the development of absolutism in France as well as the development of absolutism from Henry IV through the reign of Louis XIII. In many ways, absolutism began under Louis XIII and reached its peak under Louis XIV, particularly the personalization of power around Louis XIV himself. Explain. In answering, be sure to outline the general history of Louis XIV’s reign as discussed in class. Be sure to include a discussion of the reading titled “A Royal Tongue Lashing.” In particular, what political claims did the document make? What was the Copernican Revolution and why was it so important? What was the initial reception to the Copernican System, and how did Copernicanism ultimately become accepted throughout the European scientific community and European culture more broadly? In answering, be sure to outline the general history of the Scientific Revolution as we discussed in class. What were the cultural and social implications of the new science? In particular, how did Francis Bacon rethink science as a social process? And how did Robert Boyle rethink the culture of the new science, particularly considering the political context of his time? Be sure to include a discussion of Bacon’s New Atlantis, in particular the way it reflected Bacon’s conception of science and society. Seventeenth-century England was a time of seemingly endless contestation. What were some of the sources...
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...1895 | -Intensification of imperialism -China was seen as weak so many Europeans started to partition China and take land from them which led further on to the Boxer revolution | June 1900 | -Boxer Rebellion to foreign powers and imperialism-Boxers gathered in Beijing protesting against Christianity and their act of taking land under the influence of the church | -Opened the Europeans eyes and saw that China was not as weak and fragile as they thought which made them rethink themselves | October 10, 1911 | -The Manchu Dynasty was overthrown and a republic was created.-Government lost control of the military and many provinces became independent of Beijing | -the key causes of this event would be significant causes for the Civil War that would start 15 years later: imperialism, anti-foreign attitudes, and the central government’s weakness | February 1912 | -Yuan Shikai assumed the role of president.-he was able to achieve so from the role of premier he had during the Qing dynasty and the fact that people in the south recognized him as the man who would bring a new political system which would be better | | 1912 | -GMD formed by Sun Yat Sen | -GMD became very powerful later on where the country was led mainly by the GMD | January 18 1915 | -Japan send 21 demands to the Chinese government asking them what they want | -In China, the overall political impact of Japan's actions was highly negative, creating a lot...
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...Evolution of human resources management – Essay by Smriti Chand Business Since the 1980s the nature of Personnel Management is undergoing change and personnel function is shifting the locus of its focus. Amongst personnel specialists, the term, ‘Personnel Management’ is being substituted by that of ‘Human Resources Management’. It is felt that Personnel Management is being directed mainly at company employees and is not being completely identified with managerial needs. Personnel men have all along been mediating in between the management and the employees communicating the needs of each to the other. To maintain credibility with employees mediating personnel men have to look after their welfare. At the same time to justify their existence with management, they must show to their managers, a concern for the efficiency of labour utilisation as well as ensure that staff interests are always subservient to those of organisational effectiveness. Human Resources Management, by contrast, is directed mainly towards managerial needs for people resources in organisations, with greater emphasis being placed on planning, monitoring and control rather than on problem solving and mediation. Whereas traditional Personnel largamente is committed to the idea that employees’ needs should be looked after, since employees are effective only when their needs are satisfied, Human Resources Management reflects a different set of beliefs. These are that deploying of human...
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...This four-page undergraduate paper discusses the opposition that American leaders encountered after the Revolution, as a result of deciding to form a central government. The states feared that such a government would suppress them and would interfere with their internal affairs. Consequently, heated debates and uprisings characterize this period, which started with the framing of Articles in 1777 and ended with the final adoption of the United States constitution in 1787. STATES’ ARGUMENTS AGAINST A CENTRAL GOVERNMENT American leaders faced much opposition from the states after the American Revolution as a result of deciding to form a central government. The states feared that such a government would suppress them and would interfere with their internal affairs. Consequently, heated debates and uprisings characterize this period, which started with the framing of Articles in 1777 and ended with the final adoption of the United States constitution in 1787. The American Revolution holds a very prominent place in the history of this country, as it was the longest and the most painful war Americans ever encountered. It took many years and numerous conflicts to finally gain independence in 1776 from British domination, which had been subjugating its colonies with laws of an unwritten constitution. It must be understood that though Americans were fighting for the right of democracy and each state wanted self-government, later that same issue turned into a big problem. Soon after...
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...prior to the American Revolution (1775-83), a very loose English system was in place. This was one of the leading reasons for the American Revolution. The founding fathers took a broader view of the world, and of governing people. As the American Revolution ends, a very limited system of justice exists. Courts, punishments criminal codes varied widely from colony to colony. After many decades of experimentations in court decisions and legislation began to form a modern criminal justice system. The declaration of rights (1776, Virginia) was the model for the U.S Bill of Rights, this was added to the U.S. Constitution in 1791. A good example of experimentation or the different colonies approach to crime and punishment. This would be the Quakers of Pennsylvania; their religious beliefs led them to incarceration verses execution. To this day the death penalty is still different from state to state, and from person to person. The Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons (1787), this was the first prison reform attempts, rehabilitation over beatings. And a separation of prisoners in to four different categories, a system to help the criminals. So, society tries to evolve a more humane prison, although the rural jails were run poorly with a primitive setting. As early as 1794 Pennsylvania recognizes the difference between first degree murder(planned act to kill) and second degree murder, this starts the states legislatures to rethink different levels of...
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...Paul Revere’s ride by David Hackett Fischer started with some brief background on Paul Revere and General Gage, and then went into an extremely detailed section of the famous ride that took place on April 18, 1775 . Fischer made many rethink what we always thought we knew about the man and his “Midnight Ride”. Pauls Reveres ride is know as a legendary event in American History that began American Revolutionary War. This book is a pretty good biography of Paul Revere, it almost seam as if Fischer was on this journey with Paul. Paul Revere was the son of a French immigrant silversmith. Paul Revere began to make bells for churched then soon after that he was one of the first manufactures in American to roll large copper sheets. He was a real entrepreneur. His church bells are still around and ring every April 19 it is a tradition to ring the bells in honor of his memory. He grew up in Boston, at that time a town of 15,000 that more resembled a medieval village. Paul Revere had lots of children his first was born shortly after his first marriage, it was very common in the eighteenth century. His first wife died and six short months later...
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...[art] once again at the service of the mind’ (Marcel Duchamp). Discuss with reference to ONE of Duchamp’s art works. “The readymade can be seen as a sort of irony, because it says here it is, a thing that I call art, I didn’t even make it myself” (Ades and Cox et al., 1999: 151). Most of Marcel Duchamp’s “readymades” are the representatives of this ideology, the most controversial and distinguished one is “Fountain” definitely, which is a urinal in Society of Independents Artists Exhibition in New York in 1917 (Nesbit, 1994). After this exhibition, the debate was initiated to argue what was art and what was not. This essay will first consider how Marcel Duchamp challenged the concept of art with Fountain and secondly, will evaluate the significance of Fountain, to demonstrate the worth of Fountain as one of the most significant art works in 20th century. There are numerous understandings of what art is. The definition of art from Oxford Dictionary is “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture” (Oxford Dictionaries). However, this is a traditionary explanation about art. It has no longer apply to the modern art in various aspects. Since the Dadaism movement started in Europe in early 20th century, anti-art works had been prevalent among the modern artists. The art theory had an enormous transformation during this period. Art was not only painting and sculpture anymore, many new forms of art...
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...REVOLUTION ANALYTICS WHITE PAPER Advanced ‘Big Data’ Analytics with R and Hadoop 'Big Data' Analytics as a Competitive Advantage Big Analytics delivers competitive advantage in two ways compared to the traditional analytical model. First, Big Analytics describes the efficient use of a simple model applied to volumes of data that would be too large for the traditional analytical environment. Research suggests that a simple algorithm with a large volume of data is more accurate than a sophisticated algorithm with little data. The algorithm is not the competitive advantage; the ability to apply it to huge amounts of data—without compromising performance—generates the competitive edge. Second, Big Analytics refers to the sophistication of the model itself. Increasingly, analysis algorithms are provided directly by database management system (DBMS) vendors. To pull away from the pack, companies must go well beyond what is provided and innovate by using newer, more sophisticated statistical analysis. Revolution Analytics addresses both of these opportunities in Big Analytics while supporting the following objectives for working with Big Data Analytics: 1. 2. 3. 4. Avoid sampling / aggregation; Reduce data movement and replication; Bring the analytics as close as possible to the data and; Optimize computation speed. First, Revolution Analytics delivers optimized statistical algorithms for the three primary data management paradigms being employed to address...
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...Creative Talk and Analysis Doug Edwards PHL/458 3/7/2016 Bennigna Jenkins Sir Ken Robinson Feb, 2006 Monterey, California Creating an Education that Nurtures (rather than undermines) Creativity From the onset Ken addresses the audience and soon after jokes with the crowd (which he does through out his speech) this gets the audience engaged and focused on what he is about to say to them. He then tells the audience what he wants to talk to them about and says he wants to talk about three themes; one is the extraordinary evidence of human creativity the variety and arrangement of it. Second is it puts us in a place where we have know idea what is going to happen in terms of the future and how it may play out. Everybody has an interest in education partly it is because it takes us into the future that is unknown. He states a few stats on education and the unpredictability of it as soon as five years down the road. The third part is the extraordinary capacities that children have towards innovation. Kids will take a chance at creativity they are not afraid of mistakes at being creative. For example if they are in a play that they have lines to say and forget their line they will say something because they are not afraid of making a mistake. Saying something wrong does not mean you are being creative but if you are not prepared of being wrong you will never come up with anything original. Most people that...
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...NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES | SOCIAL MOVEMENT OF NETWORK AND SOCIAL MEDIA | Critical essay | SOYEON PARK 20122455 2012-12-05 | SOCIAL MOVEMENT OF NETWORK AND SOCIAL MEDIA Malcom Gladwell printed an article in The New Yorker, the article is entitled ‘Small Change : Why the revolution will not tweeted’. The article is giving criticism in principle about the social media disseminator’s ideas that social media such as facebook and tweeter will bring enormous changes on social activities and movements. His article provides us with amount of food for thought about what is behaviorism and social movement in the age of social media and what is relations between social media and social movements. Of course, there would be a sharp division of opinions between those who approve and disapprove. He argues that it is impossible to reform the society radically by social media such as tweeter and facebook based on weak ties. And he pointed out the limit of ordinary unimportance of weak ties. It means, in spite of extensivity and quantitative expansion of weak ties, it does not have materiality of solidarity showing in the 1960s’ a civil rights movement. And he’s opinion is that the connection of information is different with the solidarity of people. A movement, which goes along with human body, makes people blood boil and heat them up, unlike when they are absorbing information by using their brain cells. It is hard to banish the lingering and regret about that kind of...
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...Some of these concepts forced me to rethink myself and my place here on Earth, am I a Taker, or a Leaver? Are entire species going extinct because of us directly? And if so, is that the natural order of the way life is supposed to be? Or are we supposed to take our knowledge and “play God” so to speak and save all of the living creatures we are able to? Furthermore, what techniques are we actually going to use? Putting animals in cages changes them, so much that they are not “wild,” rather, they are confused. When you see the Tiger pacing in his cage at the zoo, with the murals of jungle life on the walls, fiberglass rocks, and the smells of other animals from different parts of the world; these are changing the animal’s psyche and the way it feels about his place in this world. We think we’re helping, but we’re only hurting. This reminds me of Disney’s Finding Nemo, the scene in which the dentist is showing off Nemo, saying he “found this little fella swimming off the reef and he saved him…” Saved him, from what? His natural habitat so he could live, no, exist in an artificial environment? I propose these questions when discussing the natural world, focusing on the fact that we don’t actually know best just because we possess a self-aware, free-thinking and reasoning mind. We don’t possess the knowledge of this way of life...
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...his success at combining tradition and personal expression he was the dominant musical figure of the 19th century, and scarcely any composer since his time has escaped his influence Beethoven’s greatness is mainly thought of in terms of instrumental composition (though in his last symphony he would try to synthesize the symphonic and vocal realms) Beethoven’s audience heard “Liberation” in his music—a successful revolutionary He chose to compose music that would express his individual ‘genius Beethoven expanded all the stylistic categories and models that he inherited Beethoven’s life was seen as a tragic and—in the age of Napoleon—as a heroic struggle He was of the generation coming of age at the time of the French Revolution (1789–1815) The revolution’s ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity, fired Beethoven’s inspiration Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon embodied the “career of talents” (meritocracy) The “heroic Beethoven” takes shape: For two years I have ceased to attend any social functions . . because I find it impossible to say to people ‘I am deaf’ - - (and yet) I will seize Fate by the throat - it shall certainly not crush me completely The Heiligenstadt Testament The Eroica (Ital., the heroic) Symphony The first major “heroic” work was the third symphony (1803–1804), the ‘Eroica’ The Eroica marks a major event in musical history: beginning with Beethoven, German symphonic music gained an unprecedented prestige French Revolutionary...
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...Number:2010356030.Database:CINAHL Plus with Full Text... Translate Full Text:. Choose LanguageEnglish/ArabicEnglish/Bulgarian英语/简体中文英語/繁體中文English/CzechEnglish/DanishEnglish/DutchAnglais/FrançaisEnglisch/DeutschEnglish/GreekEnglish/HausaEnglish/HebrewEnglish/HindiEnglish/HungarianEnglish/IndonesianInglesi/Italiano英語/日本語English/KoreanEngelsk/NorskEnglish/PersianEnglish/PolishInglés/PortuguêsEnglish/PashtoEnglish/RomanianАнглийский/РусскийInglés/EspañolEnglish/SerbianEnglish/SwedishEnglish/ThaiEnglish/Urdu . ... . ... HTML Full Text How We Failed the Net Generation Contents HOW WE FAILED THEM TWO FRONTS WHERE WE LET THEM DOWN WHY LIBRARIES ARE ALIEN TO NET GEN-ERS MORE GUIDANCE NEEDED GOOGLE PREDOMINATES AT UNIVERSITIES WHAT TO DO NOW IT COMES DOWN TO THIS . Listen. American AccentBritish AccentAustralian AccentSlow Reading SpeedMedium Reading SpeedFast Reading SpeedDownload MP3Help. . . Section: infolit land IT is the nature of one generation to fail the next. We've been doing it for centuries. But the memory of when I watched our most recent failure happen right in front of me while I felt the frustration of not being able to prevent it remains with me. Librarians knew the score, but who listens to librarians? Let me...
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... Home (2009) 2. Thrive (2011) 3. Paradise or Oblivion (2012) 4. Love, Reality and the Time of Transition (2011) 5. Earthlings (2005) 6. Everything You Know Is Wrong (2000) 7. Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008) 8. Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011) 9. The Money Fix (2009) 10. The Wikileaks Documentary (2010) 11. Owned & Operated (2012) 12. Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis (2010) 13. Apologies of an Economic Hitman (2010) 14. The Beautiful Truth (2008) 15. The Awakening (2011) 16. What Would It Look Like? (2009) 17. The World According to Monsanto (2008) 18. Esoteric Agenda (2008) 19. Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging (2008) 20. College Conspiracy Scam in USA (2011) 21. The Indigo Evolution (2005) 22. Edible City: Grow the Revolution (2012) 23. Collapse (2009) 24. The Global Brain (1983) 25. The White Hole in Time (1993) 26. The Primacy of Consciousness (2011) 27. Fuel (2008) 28. Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil Crisis (2006) 29. What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007) 30. Resonance: Beings of Frequency (2012) 31. War by Other Means (1992) 32. Endgame (2007) 33. War Made Easy (2007) 34. The War on Democracy (2007) 35. Rise Like Lions: The Occupy Wall Street Documentary (2011) 36. Propaganda (2012) 37. The Secret of Oz (2009) 38. The One Percent (2006) 39. The Shock Doctrine (2009) 40. Iran Is Not the Problem (2008) 41. PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is the Mind (2010) 42. Vaccine Nation (2008) 43...
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...William McDonough and Michael Braungart, the authors of Cradle to Cradle want to stablish a new looking of design and how this can be implemented to create a better world. They talk about many reasons about how we produce, use, consume, and get rid of our products, that makes us think twice about how the world do that. They refer to this based on their personal experiences. The authors make emphasis on what we need to rethink about the standard procedures of design, to change and create a better way of product manufacturing, finding a new system that will help to save and restore the earth instead of killing it. McDonough and Braungart divert attention that this will take a lot of sacrifices, and they instead recommend approaching with a different...
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