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- 1091: Latin Literature In History
- ... the early 200s, with Marcelinus writing history, Symmachus in oratory, and Ausonius and Rutilius writing masterful poetry. With the fall of the Roman Empire, much of the great works slipped away from the public interest, and underwent 2 major revivals. First, under Charlemagne during the Carolinian Renaissance, and second during the Renaissance. In the Carolinian Renaissance, Charlemagne urged on Classical education and the mass recopying of the ancient Roman texts ... but his preservation and education of the classical text could be one reason we understand what we do about the Romans and their way of thinking. At a certain point in the Italian renaissance, an interest in the classical artifacts grew, which grew into mass preservation of the ancient manuscripts. Soon, a great revival of the classical teachings took place that became known as Humanism. Humanists observed themselves, their interests, capabilities ...
- 1092: Andy Warhol And Pop Art
- ... This was to give them a plastic look. He was quoted as saying that these resembled club life, "plastic clothes, plastic jewelry, plastic surgery, plastic emotions." (Kakulani, New York Times Magazine, 1996) The center of interest on a Warhol image is the image itself. The objects were not meant to be "storytellers", as did the more classic artworks. The Warhol image was intend to confront the audience with boredom as an issue itself by making the images superficial. Usually, the objects were surrounded with space rather than pattern, emphasizing this center of interest idea (Bondo, 1998). Warhol used a detached style, in which little emotional involvement or identification is created. By use of this method, a statement is made, but does not effect the audience on a personal ...
- 1093: AIDS: Risk Factors / Modes of Transmission / W. Africa
- ... than those without the infection. Major routes of HIV transmission in Africa are heterosexual, mother-to-child, and transfusions with unscreened blood. In addition, prostitution and cultural sexual practices greatly influence the increase in transmission rates. Transfusions, though, are now being screened in most major urban areas and therefore are not as threatening as they once were. Homosexuality and i.v. drug use are not associated with AIDS or considered factors ... 1997, an additional million were estimated to be living with the disease, half of them were infected that year alone. There is certainly a gap between rich and poor countries and their mother-infant transmission rates. For example, in France and the United States, fewer than 5 percent of children born to HIV women were infected. While in developing countries, the average is between 25 percent and 35 percent. Breastfeeding practices ...
- 1094: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... Donato a Scopeto, Florence. Other works ascribed to his youth are the Benois Madonna (1478), the portrait Ginevra de' Benci (1474), and the unfinished Saint Jerome (1481). Leonardo expanded his skills to other branches of interest and in 1481 Leonardo wrote an astonishing letter to the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza. In this letter he stated that he knew how to build portable bridges; that he knew the techniques of constructing ... machines, and the rope ladder. There are perfectly executed drawings of the human body, from the proportions of the full figure to dissections in the most minute detail. It was observed, however, that Leonardo's interest in the human body and his ability to invent mechanical things were actually not as paramount to him as was his fascination and awe of the natural world (Clark 133). Leonardo lived to be 67 ...
- 1095: Labor Relations
- ... a profit. These corporations are not social entities who exist for the betterment of there work force. Rather they are business entities that exist for the financial betterment of the owners and share holders. The interest of the business in many cases goes against the interest of the union. One is concerned about maximizing profits to the business the other is concerned about maximizing profits to its members. Wages While it is true that union workers have better wage scales than ...
- 1096: Kurt Cobain
- ... Way") at the end of his road. Here, Kurt's time was spent writing his earliest lyrics("The Life"). School life was not much easier on Kurt Cobain either. Unlike most boys, Kurt had little interest in such things as football and other sports. Instead, he enjoyed painting and Puhek 2 singing. Therefore, much of his time at school was spent with the girls("Biography"). For this, Kurt did not have ... said the relationship was troublesome. It was obvious to them that Courtney was "playing on his [Kurt's] sensitvity" ("The Life"). Another important aspect of Kurt Cobain's life is his music. Kurt showed an interest in the arts at a very early age. He received his first guitar on his fourteenth birthday, and by the time he reachred fifteen, Kurt knew how to play. His musical influences were from bands ...
- 1097: Osteoporosis and Effects of Gavity and Space
- ... its mid cavity and to top it all it is capable of changing its architecture and mass in response to outside and inner stress. It is this dynamic remodeling of bone which is of primary interest in microgravity. To feel the impact of this dynamicity it should be noted that a bone remodeling unit [a coupled phenomena of bone reabsorption and bone formation] is initiated and another finished about every ten ... the past, astronauts with the Right Stuff had been resistant and distrustful of medical experiments but with scientific personnel with life science training we should be able to obtain valid hard data. [It is of interest that in the SLS mission, two of the mission specialists were to have been physicians, one physiologist and one veterinarian.] After all is said, the problem is easily resolved by creation of artificial gravity in ...
- 1098: Kurds Vs Turks
- ... changes which Med-TV proposed to make to its service in the future," the commission chairman, Sir Robin Biggam, said in announcing its decision. "However the commission decided that it was necessary in the public interest to revoke this license. "Whatever sympathy there may be in the United Kingdom for the Kurdish people, it is not in the public interest to have any broadcaster use the U.K. as a platform for broadcasts which incite people to violence. Med-TV have been given many opportunities to be a peaceful voice for their community. To allow ...
- 1099: Killer Angels Civil War Book
- ... civil war in 1861, Chamberlain felt a strong urge to fight to save the union. Although sympathetic to the plight of the slaves, he is not known to have been an abolitionist and showed little interest, after the war, in the cause of the freedmen. But the college was reluctant to lose his services. Offered a year's travel with pay in Europe in 1862 to study languages, Chamberlain instead volunteered ... never forgotten in Maine, Chamberlain largely faded from national view for most of the 20th century. No statue of him was ever erected at Gettysburg; few historians studied his campaigns. But amid the surge of interest in the Civil War in the 1990s he has re-emerged as an exemplary figure among the Union generals, the very model of the citizen-soldier. Longstreet James Longstreet at age forty-two was the ...
- 1100: H.R. Gieger
- ... a middle class environment, and his dad was a pharmacist. His dad recieved a human skull as a promotional peice from a pharmacy institution when he was very young, and this sparked H.R. Gigers interest in the strange and macabre. His mother encouraged his artistic ability, though she often failed to understand his strange fascinations. In 1953 he attends the cantonal school in Chur (a technical school), and in 1957 ... part were all in condemned buildings, using the wide space for art studios. Giger also began using the airbrush, and has become known as the best aircrush artist in the world. After college Giger's interest expanded into sculpturing and he became a master of a very broad amount of mediums. His work uses dark tones, usually black, grey, dark greens, and sometimes dark blues. Light is usually only used in ...
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