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- 9331: The Enlightenment and the Role of the Philosophes
- The Enlightenment and the Role of the Philosophes The Enlightenment is a name given by historians to an intellectual movement that was predominant in the Western world during the 18th century. Strongly influenced by the rise of modern science and by the aftermath of the long religious conflict that followed the Reformation, the thinkers of the Enlightenment (called philosophes in France) were ... the work of the great 17th century pioneers--Francis Bacon, Galileo, Descartes, Leibnitz, Isaac Newton, and John Locke--who had developed fruitful methods of rational and empirical inquiry and had demonstrated the possibility of a world remade by the application of knowledge for human benefit. The philosophes believed that science could reveal nature as it truly is and show how it could be controlled and manipulated. This belief provided an incentive ... swept away in the religious revival of the 1790s and early 1800s, and the cultural leadership of the landed aristocracy and professional men who had supported the Enlightenment was eroded by the growth of a new wealthy educated class of businessmen, products of the industrial revolution. Only in North and South America, where industry came later and revolution had not led to reaction, did the Enlightenment linger into the 19th ...
- 9332: The Aztec Empire History
- ... place where they would see an eagle eating a snake, while perched on a cactus, which was growing out of a rock in the swamplands. This is what priests claimed they saw when entering the new land. By the year 1325 their capital city was finished. They called it Tenochtitlan. In the capital city, aqueducts were constructed, bridges were built, and chinapas were made. Chinapas were little islands formed by pilled ... 52 years, the Aztec held a great celebration called the Binding up of the Years. Prior to the celebration, the people would let their hearth fires go out and then re-light them from the new fire of the celebration and feast. A partial list of the Aztec gods: CENTEOTL, The corn god. COATLICUE, She of the Serpent Skirt. EHECATL, The god of wind. HUEHUETEOTL, The fire god. HUITZILOPOCHTLI, The war/sun god and special guardian of Tenochtitlan. MICTLANTECUHTLE, The god of the dead. OMETECUHLTI and his wife OMECIHUATL, They created all life in the world. QUETZALCOATL, The god of civilization and learning. TEZCATLIPOCA, The god of Night and Sorcery. TLALOC, The rain god. TONATIUH, The sun god. TONANTZIN, The honored grandmother. XILONEN, "Young maize ear," Maize represents a chief ...
- 9333: Annexation Of The 50th State
- ... saw many great economic and military advantages to having Hawaii annexed as a state. He realized that Hawaii in itself was a growing industry, soon to be had as a major sugar producer in the world at the time. Plus, Hawaii offered a huge strategic position, lying in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, which could serve as a docking point for many U.S. warships. Stevens himself felt that ... Bulletin, Hawaii, 1993. 2. Stevens to Blaine, March 25, 1892. Dispatches, Hawaii, XXV. 3. Pratt, Julius W. Expansionists of 1898, pp.50-51 copyright 1936. Bibliography 1. Pratt, Julius W. Expansionists of 1898, Quadrangle Books. New York, New York, Copyright 1936. 2. Stevens, John L. Letter to Bro. Blaine, March 25, 1982. 3. Liliuokalani. “Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen,” Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1964.
- 9334: John Lennon
- John Lennon Lennon was born in 1940 during the Nazi bombing of Britain and given the middle name Winston, after Prime Minister Churchill. Knowing firsthand the horror of a world at war and living through the era of Vietnam's senseless carnage as well, Lennon came to embrace and embody pacifism via such classics of the Beatles era as "All You Need Is Love" and ... early Seventies Lennon fought the U.S. government to avoid deportation - a campaign of harassment by Nixon-era conservatives that was overturned by the courts in 1975 - and came to love his adopted city of New York. Then there were those five quiet years when Lennon chose to lay low and raise their son, Sean Ono Lennon. Simply by stepping back and "watching the wheels" from the sidelines, John Lennon made ... credited to John Lennon/Yoko Ono, was released on December 6th. Two days later, a brilliant life came to an untimely end when John Winston Lennon was fatally shot by a deranged fan outside his New York City apartment upon returning from a recording session. "Oh, the Lennon years. John was bigger than life man. The cat was so much more than groov...ya know. To me, John was the ...
- 9335: Netscape Analysis Report
- ... Before founding the company, Clark was the chairman of Silicon Graphics, a computer hardware manufacturer he founded in 1982. Marc Andreessen is vice president of technology for Netscape Communications. He helped develop the original graphical World Wide Web browser, Mosaic, while he was at the University Of Illinois at Urbana/Champlain. The Internet is a global network connecting thousands of networks by use of high speed digital lines called ATMs, T3s ... the Internet through use of a password (MIME) encoding scheme. Netscape Server is a piece of software that installs on UNIX and Windows NT based systems that allows serving of data on the Internet's World Wide Web. It also provides for secure transactions such as those involving credit cards. IV. Corporate Structure The founders, Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen, own 35% of the company. There are other major shareholders, and ... Spyglass Mosaic, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Sun's HotJava. However, Netscape dominates its market with an approximate 80% market share. It is the current industry standard for WWW browsing software, due to its support of new HTML features such as frames, JavaScript, and plug-ins. Spry Mosaic is a piece of WWW Browser software designed by CompuServe's Spry division. It poses no threat to Netscape because of its inability ...
- 9336: Psychoanalytic Approaches To P
- ... of the psychoanalytic approach. Successful therapy was a long-term and costly process, which most people during that time, with the exception of the wealthy, could not afford. Sigmund Freud’s main contribution to this new field of studying personality was in the area of the understanding the unconscious, an aspect of the mind to which, he claimed, we did not have ready access to, but was the source of our ... and wrong, and is almost a direct paradox to the id. The ego, which can be seen as the mediator between the id and the super-ego, takes into account the activities of the external world, and attempts to invoke some balance among all three parts of the mind, with failure resulting in neurosis of some kind. Freud’s “Lecture III” provides, what I believe to be another important theory in ... external motives. Jung also went on to describe four separate conscious orientations which sub-type introversion and extroversion, categorized as: sensation types, thinking types, feeling types, and intuitive types. Sensation types focus on experiencing the world via the senses, while thinking types are more rational and use a cognitive approach to things. While feeling types tend to focus on emotion, the intuitive type concerns himself (generic) about possibilities in life, ...
- 9337: Descartes' Meditation One
- Descartes' Meditation One Being a foundationalist, Descartes needs to destroy the foundations of his beliefs so that in his Meditations he will be able to build upon new foundations of undeniable and self evident truths. In order to do this Descartes must first find a valid argument that will allow him to doubt his foundation beliefs and in turn doubt what is considered ... argument. The argument is as follows: If the experience of a dream is indistinguishable between that dream and reality; and there is no test to differentiate between dreaming and awakens, then one must doubt the world outside their minds. This is so because even if one believes they are awake and perceiving their surroundings soundly, they have no way of knowing for certain that they are not, at that moment, dreaming ... Hypothesis is this : instead of a “supremely good God, the source of truth” there exists an Evil Genius who deceives completely so that all that is perceived is not actually what exists in the “real” world. Because the Evil Genius can mislead a person into thinking for instance, that a triangle has four sides or some other false belief, there is no realm of perception that is not touched by ...
- 9338: Fahrenheit 451
- ... what the effects of his actions were. He never really experienced freedom. This quote expresses the changes that he made in his life. The book Fahrenheit 451, set in the future, shows rules that the world today would think of as "outrageous laws". The most apparent law shown in the novel is that citizens of the country are unauthorized to own any type of book, or medium that expresses knowledge or ... opinions of people. Although that this law is very well known in the land, it is often broken by those who refuse to give up reading books for entertainment or religious purposes. What the modern world's definition of a Fireman is today does not match the definition of a Fireman in this novel. Firemen in Fahrenheit 451 are employed with the sole purpose of starting fires as opposed to putting ... may be. McClellan begins to serve as an inspiration to Guy Montag. By the end of the story Montag has totally gone against the regulations of the government and his employers, and he begins a new, free life. Ray Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451, uses many literary techniques to express the importance of freedom in a man's life. In the story "Firemen", along with the government, are used ...
- 9339: Our Free Will
- ... is determined to this or that volition by a cause, which is likewise determined by another cause, ad infinitum.” All of his philosophy reflected the deterministic view that we are not free to change the world because we are all part of a grand causal chain, but his philosophy also claims the idea that if we accept determinism we free ourselves from ignorance and emotional servitude. If a person has the ... there's no sense in making an effort. Whatever will be will be, whatever the person do or don't do. So then why even bother getting out of bed? Bibliography Anthony Flew, Western Philosophy (New York: Bobb_Merrill Company, 1971), p. 223. Thomas Ellis Katen, Doing Philosophy (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1973), p. 321. Ibid., p. 386. Ibid., p. 315. Spinoza. The Ethics. Part 2, proposition 35, sholium. Ibid., proposition 48.
- 9340: Building A Passive Wine Cellar
- ... to resist mold. The racks must rest directly on the floor. For strength the best materials are steel, aluminum, and wood. Choosing the Wine Before you stock a cellar, it helps to understand the vernacular. "New World" winemakers in the U.S. and Australia market wine by the type of grape used to produce it--Cabernet Sauvignon, Riesling, Shiraz and Zinfandel, for example (Rizzo). In Europe, the grape used to make the ... from second to first growth in 1973. All but one first-growth wine, Haut-Brion, from Graves, is made in the Medoc district of Bourdeaux. A wine that is perhaps the most expensive in the world—Chateau Petrus—isn’t even classified among the five growths because it’s made in the tiny Pomerol district of Bordeaux rather than in Medoc. People collect fine wines for many reasons: a true ...
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