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- 1971: Pythagoras of Samos
- ... the traditional views. The union of mathematical genius and mysticism is commonly enough. Originally from Samos, Pythagoras founded at Kroton (in southern Italy) a society, which were at once a religious community and a scientific school. Such a body was bound to excite jealousy and mistrust, and we hear of many struggles. Pythagoras himself had to flee from Kroton to Metapontion, where he died. It is stated that he was a ... with the senses, Plato argues, remind us of things we knew when the soul was out of the body and could perceive reality directly. There is more difficulty about the cosmology of Pythagoras. Hardly any school ever professed such reverence for its founder's authority as the Pythagoreans. 'The Master said so' was their watchword. On the other hand, few schools have shown so much capacity for progress and for adapting ... s Phaedo (86 b) we are told by Simmias that the Pythagoreans held the body to be strung like an instrument to a certain pitch, hot and cold, wet and dry taking the place of high and low in music. Musical tuning and health are alike means arising from the application of Limit to the Unlimited. It was natural for Pythagoras to look for something of the same kind in ...
- 1972: Stress Management
- ... support by the department and bosses, shift work and disruption of family time/ family rituals and the daily grind of dealing with the scum of society. All of these factors add up and lead to high rates of cancer, heart disease, and suicide for police officers. We are becoming all too familiar with police suicide especially with the attention it gets from the media. In New York City twice as many ... a divorce are five times more likely to commit suicide than officers who have a stable relationship. Relationship problems are highly related to job stress. In fact, studies have called police work to be a high risk lifestyle not because of physical danger, but high risk in developing attitude problems, behavioural problems, drug problems, and intimacy and relationship problems. These studies also show that police suffer from a substantially higher divorce rate ranging from sixty to seventy percent higher ...
- 1973: Black Female Bodybuilders
- ... sport are frequently ostracized for embodying the stereotype that the straight women are trying hard to undo by donning the exaggerated signifiers of femininity so many wear. Done hair, woven for length and then piled high so that their back muscles will show. Long, sculpted and painted fingernails accentuating the tips of perfectly formed hands like bold exclamation points of femininity. Stiletto pumps highlighting calf muscles that look powerful enough to ... representing femininity and strength, artist Cynthia Wiggins, herself once a fledgling bodybuilder, created the 1994 installation titled Difference and Pathology.45 In it she included three photographs: on the left was a foot wearing a high-heeled pump stepping up on a stool, which ironically references the pedestal of posing and competition. Cut off just above the flexing calf muscle, the photograph united the glamorous and the mundane, the elegant shoe ... exist. Of her own attraction to bodybuilding, Wiggins explained that "it was just something I did, I think partly because as a girl, I wasn't supposed to." Having weight-trained on and off since high school, Wiggins returned to the gym to create Difference and Pathology. In part referencing the politics of interracial relationships and how that dynamic informs the image of a physically strong woman, she "even tweaked ...
- 1974: The Use Of Propaganda In The N
- ... a mere one percent of the population. Soon the cultural taboos that had formerly shaped the moral fabric of Germany at the time lost all influence. It was then that German anti-Semitism reached a high point: false, cruel, yet indisputable accusations. Prostitution, sexual degradation and depravity, and the sexual assaulting of unsuspecting German virgins are examples. The Germans also imagined Jew conducting ritual murders. By the time the Nazi party ... to another important issue, education. For if Germany were to be flooded with Aryan children they had to get the "right" education and to be taught by the "right" teachers: Nazi teachers. Therefore, the German school systems discharged all Jewish and non-Nazi teachers. At that point, 97% of the teachers in Germany belonged to the Nazi Teachers Association. Textbooks and children’s books, as well, had heavy military and anti ... campaign aimed at children, the Nazis integrated both anti-Semitic ideology and encouraged children to join the Hitler Youth, for boys, and the League of German Girls, for girls. Indeed, the enrollment rate was very high, but the storm of children joining the two youth organizations were not all going for their hatred toward Jews. Rather, many saw it as a good opportunity to go camping, make friends (activities which ...
- 1975: Influences of Chinese Culture
- Influences of Chinese Culture Dear mother, I feel so blessed and thankful to represent my school there and to observe the great T’ang governmental system here in China and return there to assume official position. By the time you receive this letter from me, I’m pretty sure that you ... five proved to have the most lasting significance for Chinese culture: Confucianism, Daoism, Moism, Naturalism, and Legalism. The body of thought that had the most enduring effect on subsequent Chinese life was that of the School of Literari, often called Confucian school here in West. I’m here at the school of philosophy that he founded (Ru).1 And I met one of Master Kung’s or Confucius’ disciple, he told me a lot about Confucius. ...
- 1976: Teen Suicide 2
- ... is left of his father's once magnificent flock of sheep. He holds the rifle used to execute the remaining sheep. He thinks of all the pressure on his family and the constant teasing at school. He raises the gun and without thinking fires. When his father finds the young man's body later that day, he is horrified. The farmer thinks to himself, why didn't I know this was ... which may be superimposed on the backdrop of a more transient, but expected, developmental storm." Shaun Lukes, a researcher into youth suicide, sites daydreaming, acting as the class clown, hyperactivity and the sudden dislike of school and/or a dramatic fall in school performance as pointers to potential suicidal behaviour. The main risk factors in suicide attempts are heavy alcohol consumption; depression; Aboriginality; previous attempted suicide attempts; significant fall out in a relationship in recent months (a ...
- 1977: US Generals Of WWII
- ... the other Allied forces catch up. (Blumenson, pg. 264) Omar Nelson Bradley was born in a log cabin on February 12, 1893. He received a good education and became a star baseball player in Moberly High School. General of the Army Omar Nelson Bradley played a critical role in World War II. He supported the formation of tank forces and promoted the growth and development of new airborne forces. His best contribution to the war was the development of the officer candidate school or OCS. The OCS turned thousands of lieutenants needed to lead platoons of an eighty-nine division Army. The OCS alone produced over 45,000 officers. Bradley was commissioned a second lieutenant in the ...
- 1978: Animal Farm: Animal Satire
- ... Empire. A few years after Eric was born, he retired on a low pension and moved back to England. Though their income was not much enough, the Blair family sent their son away to boarding school which was an exclusive preparatory school, to prepare him for Eton Collage. Eric then won a scholarship to Eton Collage. During his education from the age of eight to eighteen, as he wrote in his essay about his school experiences titled "Such, Such Were the Joys," he experienced many things about the "world where the prime necessities were money, titled relatives, athleticism, tailor-made clothes", inequality, oppression and class distinctions in the schools ...
- 1979: The Importance Of Accounting In Our Modern Society
- ... s table or desk, you saw books of accounting. Accounting is one of the fastest growing fields in the United States It expands each time a new store, a factory, a filling station, or a school goes up, whether in a large city or a small town. In today’s society, the demand for good accountants for exceeds the supply. As our country has expanded, business and industry have become more ... internal accountant to see whether the assets of a business are properly protected and accounted for, that current trasactions are completely recorded, or the company’s waste and loss whether to be saved or not. High schools, colleges or universities are also need accounting professors to teach students accounting techniques. Teaching accountants, who know a great deal about accounting and has had some practical experience in dealing with persons and businesses, ready to pass along their knowledge and experiences to students and future accountants. In small schools, teachers have other duties besides their work in the classrooms. They serve as school secretaries, bookkeepers, statistical clerks, and managers in lunchrooms. In addition to the accounts mentioned above, you may also find tax accountant, a systems and control accountant, a budget accountant, or an auditor. Working people ...
- 1980: Rock And Roll
- ... at his hip, hopping about on one leg in what came to be known as his “duckwalk,” Berry also changed the role of the rock guitarist from sideman to star.10 In 1957, Berry released “School Day.” He dared to say what every teenager in America had already known: high school was boring and oppressive, and it was at its best when it was three o’clock. Berry was in his late 20’s when “School Day” was released, but more than any other composer ...
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