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- 2461: A Little Bit About Einstein
- ... Pauline Einstein, middle class German Jews. Einstein was a very bright child; a magnetic compass sparked his interest in the natural world, at the young age of four. Einstein began his formal education at a school in Ulm. Contrary to what you would think Albert hated formal schooling. He often did poorly in subjects such as Geography, Language, and History, but excelled in Mathematics and Science. He generally did his real studies at home where he concentrated on physics, mathematics, and philosophy. One year one of Einstein s teachers suggested that he leave school, so at mid-term the 15 year old boy quit school. Einstein then moved to Italy to help his father in business. In 1895, he failed the entrance exam for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. They suggested that he studied at a Swiss school ...
- 2462: Adorno And Horkhiemers Dialect
- ... becomes mechanized. They also assert that class domination is a direct and inevitable consequence of the attempt to dominate nature, and is therefore inescapable. Background to the text. Adorno and Horkheimer, members of the Frankfurt school in Germany, wrote DoE (which was completed in 1944) while Fascism, a kind of barbarism never seen before, was threatening Europe. They viewed this as the epitome of the self-destructive nature of enlightenment, the ... philosophy to discard even the last vestiges of innocence in regard to the habits and tendencies of the spirit of the age (p.xi), hence the intensity of their critique. Being part of the Frankfurt school, Adorno and Horkheimer were influenced by Marxist theory. Their critique can be seen as a generalization of the Marxist critique of capitalism to the whole of civilization#. Stalinist Russia, the Fascist threat in Europe and ... of criticism that follows from the negative dialectic. It is briefly dealt with on p.24 of DoE. # I should mention that Habermas, who was a student of Adorno s and member of the Frankfurt school, does not accept Adorno s solution. He believes Adorno is being too nihilistic in [continued next page] allowing no way to escape instrumental rationality. Habermas s main philosophical project has been to resolve this ...
- 2463: Pan American World Airways, Inc
- ... increase about 15 percent within the past two years. This was primarily due to an increase in passenger sales of 16 percent. But as for operating expenses a 30 percent increase resulted due to a high increase in aircraft and ground rentals for 1988. Also a 45 percent increase depreciation and amortization occurred which put an impact on 1988 operating expenses. Eventhough sales where high, total operating cost increases substantially enough to provide a net loss of $84,183. This loss decreased 25 percent compared to the operating losses of $113,293 in 1987. Pan Am was able to recover ... over the book value of the aircrafts. This sale and other expense cutbacks decreased Pan Am's net losses in 1988 to 57 percent. Capital structure and long-term solvency is quite poor due to high debt's which incurred from high losses. Pan Am relies heavily on long-term borrowings from the Pan Am Corporation and other long-term proceeds as well as other short term investment activities. The ...
- 2464: Political Correctness In The Classroom
- Political Correctness In The Classroom Schools in Canada have recently become the battleground for the fight over how much political correctness should be allowed to infiltrate grade school classrooms. One can take two sides when dealing with such issues as violent toys, good clean fun, the benefits and disadvantages of political correctness. There is much controversy about violent toys which are far from being considered politically correct. The toys that enter many grade school classrooms throughout the country may also seem offensive to people who try to be as politically correct as possible. I can remember an incident involving myself, a water gun and a teacher back in grade four. What had happened was that I pondered onto school grounds with a tiny plastic watergun. As I proceeded down the hallway a teacher took notice of my water-squirting device. She approached me and ceased the toy from my hands . Many elementary school ...
- 2465: A Separate Peace; Chapter Summaries
- A Separate Peace; Chapter Summaries Chapter 1: The narrator (Gene) returns to the Devon School in New Hampshire, that he graduated from 15 years earlier. He goes to a certain tree and switches back to the past. Phineas dares everyone to jump from a branch in the tree into the ... falls to the ground, then Gene jumps into the river. Chapter 5: Finny has a shattered leg. Gene bears private guilt. He puts on Finny's clothes and the sensation excites him. Dr. Stanpole, the school physician, informs Gene that Finny wants to see him. Finny recalls the fall, and expresses that he thought Gene wanted him to fall. Gene is about to confess when Dr. Stanpole interupts. Finny is taken ... everyone could forget about Finny's accident. Finny confesses to Gene that he is no convinced that the war is real, and also explains that he has seen Leper hiding in various places around the school grounds. Brinker conducts a war trail, investigating the cause of Finny's accident and ambiguously accusing gene as the guilty party. Brinker asks Finny to recall the events leading up to his actual fall ...
- 2466: Fiber Optics
- ... traditional coax tree and branch systems are two-way capable, most generally broadcast video signals one-way from the headend to the subscriber. Fiber was first proven cost effective for applications that required a very high quality signal to be sent from the headend to a remote site, such as an optical node. Super trunks are also used to connect to headend to geographically remote satellite sites, and often replace obsolete ... One of the newer network architectures, the passive cable network is similar to the FTF networks, exept that it entirely eliminates RF amplifiers from the fiber node to the subscriber, with the exeption of a high power amplifier at the optical node. The capability of newely fiber-upgraded cable TV systems can be greatly expanded with the construction of a fiber based regional inter connect network. This ring architecture provides a high-speed , high-bandwidth, two-way interconnect between multiple headends. A connected network of multiple headends can enhance opportunities for alternate access, and program availability and begins a seamless network between msos within a ...
- 2467: Spook: Summary
- Spook: Summary Mary Ann Nelson has never been to school. She is fifteen years old. Her and her mother, Muriel live in an old house. No one has ever seen what Mary Ann looks like in years because she always wears a hood to cover ... fun of her. They called her the "Spook". An educator comes to town. Her name is Lola Aragon. She hears of Mary Ann and wants to help her. Lola wants to get Mary Ann into school. But she has to hurry because by law after Mary Ann turns sixteen she can't be forced to go to school. Lola and Her friend, Deputy Ross Walker, go to Mary Ann's house to see if she is alright and also to see if she is educated. when they arrive at the house Muriel ...
- 2468: Pollution in Eastern Europe
- ... far the most serious pollution problem is eastern Europe. In general, the problem was caused by the burning of coal in industry and lead-based diesel non-desulferized petrol in cars. This resulted in very high amounts of sulfur oxides (particularly sulfur dioxide which is the number one pollutant), nitrous oxides, ozone, suspended particulates, carbon disulfide, and chlorine . The serious sulfur dioxide problem was exacerbated by the fact that eastern Europe is filled with thermal power stations that emit particularly high amounts of this pollutant . On top of this, the main coal used for energy in many areas is lignite, a very cheap but incredibly dirty and inefficient coal that is heavily overused and emits a ... is that it is primarily an urban problem . Industry and automobiles are situated in urban areas, and so the pollution is naturally higher there than in rural areas. This has led to areas of very high concentrated pollution (urban areas), such as the infamous "Black Triangle" ( or "Sulfur Triangle") which was the urban triangle of Lower Silesia, northern Bohemia, and Saxony . Cities themselves, such as Krakow in Poland or Leipzig ...
- 2469: The United Nations
- ... the economic and social work of the UN and related specialized agencies and institutions. The Council has 54 members. It usually holds two organizational and one substantive session each year; the substantive session includes a high-level special meeting, attended by Ministers and other high officials, to discuss major economic and social issues. The Council recommends and directs activities aimed, for instance, at promoting economic growth of developing countries, administering development projects, promoting the observance of human rights, ending discrimination ... Cambodia The UN helped end the 12-year conflict in Cambodia. The Secretary- General over the years exercised his good offices in the search for peace, and in 1988 presented proposals for a political settlement. High-level meetings of the five permanent members of the Security Council led to the signing in 1991 of the Agreements on Cambodia a peace treaty to end the conflict and prepare the country for ...
- 2470: Experimental Training Program: Wilderness/Adventure Learning
- ... most beneficial when used to promote effective work teams and used to enhance leadership and management skills in the participants. Outdoor- based training programs seem to accomplish these objectives by allowing participants to develop a high level of trust in their peers, improve their problem-solving ability, and generally improve the level of interpersonal communications between group members. Companies are looking for leaders that can launch them into a new era ... see that leaders have a strong interest in the people working for them, for when a team works well together they all help get an excellent job done. The first four behaviors focus on building high functioning teams: developing people; being able to influence others, encouraging teamwork, and empowering others. Developing People and Influencing Others Good leaders have a strong interest in the personal and professional development of their people. They ... Multiple option thinking should be the first approach of exceptional leaders. Intelligent Risk Taking Good leaders know how to analyze the risks inherent in a particular course of action. They know when an action is high-risk or low-risk. Even more importantly, they know how to gain consensus from their staff about the level of risk for particular actions, so that their people do not treat high-risk activities ...
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