...The Influence of Ancient Greece on Western Civilization Of all the cultures that have come and gone throughout human history, it was the achievements of ancient Greece that have left the most indelible imprint on Western civilization. In particular, it was greek achievements in the realms of art, democracy, medicine, philosophy and literature that has influenced the modern world the most. It is interesting to note that the loss of Greek thought after Roman civilization inducted a period popularly characterized as the Dark Ages. During this time human life was, in words popularized by Thomas Hobbes, “nasty, brutish and short.” Superstition, disease and a short life span were the hallmark of the age. It is crucial to understand that the middle “dark” ages finally ended with the re-discovery of greek texts to usher in the re-birth of civilization, ie: the Renaissance. It was the Catholic theologian St. Thomas Aquinas that set Western civilization on its current track by reintroducing Greek thinkers to European intellectuals. The popularizing of Greek philosophers renewed Western interest in Greek achievements, specifically within the realms of art, democracy, medicine, literature, and philosophy. While some of these subjects remained underdeveloped in Greek times, such as the discipline of medicine and democracy, others were so advanced as to set a standard to this day in the realm of art, philosophy, and literature. Discussed herein is a brief exploration of those Greek achievements...
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...Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the root word of Romanticism, “romantic” as being marked by the imaginative or emotional appeal of what is heroic, adventurous, remote, mysterious, or idealized. (Merriam-Webster, 2014) This is very much a summary of the entire period. The Romantic period has several significant contributions to the arts. Comedy was added to the drama as well as folk tales being part of entertainment. Poetry became shorter and less intense. Famous poet Robert Blake, who was largely overlooked during the Romantic period, donated several of his writings. Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an illustrated collection from Blake that has gained a popular notoriety in our current day. Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein which was a macabre story of crude medical experiment that put life into pieces of cadavers that were sewn together that eventually come to life. The meaning of the story is extremely fantastic considering the age that it was written. It is considered one of the earliest examples of science fiction. The Romanticism was also a reaction to the industrial revolution that was beginning. The Industrial revolution began to make the lives of people change. Realism was the answer to the cries from the Romantic age. Largely, the cultures across the world were yearning for independence. Life was hard and people worked long tedious and physically taxing jobs to support their families. The ministry was undergoing an upheaval and people were beginning...
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...American Revolution Impact on Historical Figures The American Revolution also known as the American War for Independence, took place between 1765 and 1783, a political fight that resulted in the founding of the United States of America. Many different battles were foraged, taxes and laws imposed that contributed to the Patriots wanting freedom from the control of Great Britain. The effects of war along with culture and ethnicity affected many during this time in many different ways due to their position or status during this fight. Abigail and John Adams are important known historical figures from the American Revolution. Abigail and John communicated through letters widely documented and used for the study of the war. The American Revolution affected this couple in many ways individually and as a married couple. John was a member of the Continental Congress, a select group to lobby for American independence. Being a part of this group required John to be away from his homestead while Abigail stayed behind to provide local support of the war and care for their home. Long or short time periods of distance in a relationship can bring many complications and in some cases a greater appreciation of the other. Abigail took on the responsibilities caring for the farm, educating children while dealing with reduced income, lack of goods due to the war and overall difficult living conditions and being alone. In letters between them, Abigail pleads for John to remember the rights of...
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...Executive Summary Mission * Our mission is to inform and provide individuals with the resources to maintain and improve their quality of health. * Our mission is to improve every customers understanding of their personal health needs and requirements. Aiding them in exceeding their aspirations and goals. * Our mission is to supply every customer with the resources to obtain personal needs and goals. The revolution of health and nutrition has just come to your backyard. Introducing Planet-Muscle, a personalized supplement store with all the intangibles. We promise to supply you with the knowledge and resources to accomplish goals you’ve never thought possible. Our certified staff will deliver results! Analyzing PPF, BMI and in cellular/Ex cellular bio analysis, we will personalize a plan that meets your needs and surpass your aspirations. Whether it be building mass or reducing body fat we have the solutions that fit your exclusive personalized requests. Planet-Muscle will also focus their efforts on providing services towards diabetics, post-chemotherapy patients, vegans and vegetarians. Creating a wide spectrum of customers that will walk through our front doors. Planet-Muscle is a place where everyone, no matter the age or gender, can receive information and the tools to reach their own dreams. Notes: * Would commend bullet points and or pictures of the staff and their certifications below the executive summary for a website, would look really...
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...“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” The novel starts with these sentences. These sentences are the summary of all stories. This is story of real typhlosis. All stories begin from the place of forgotten humanity. This is the Republic of freedom, equality, sorority and death. There is no ruth, peace and cessation or there is no dimension of time. This is France. This is the French Revolution! The Tale of Two Cities begins with road story in November 1775 with coming of Jarvis Lorry working faithfully in Tellson Bank to England from France. Tellson Bank which has reputation in both countries (England and France) is a central of story because it is the symbol of both capitalism and dominance of sector and resistance of change. This shows us, capitalism has a power to control people and the way of life in this historical period. The reason of Jarvis Lorry’s coming is rescuing Dr. Alexandre Manette from Paris so although the story begins in 1775, this information meet us new face of France about before 1775. Dr. Manette busted in early 50’s and agonized 18 years in Bastille even though he wasn’t guilty. In these years, the prescription of solution was found in France; torture and death. After 1775, terrible events...
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...PLAGIARISM & THE ESSAY Plagiarism is a serious academic offense, one which is far too prevalent in today’s academic environment. The penalties range from failing a class to expulsion from school. At The Paper Experts, plagiarism can result in loss of pay for a paper or dismissal from the company’s pool of writers. Nevertheless, many writers have discovered that internet-based sources have made it easy to “cut and paste” material into their own work, and too often they fail to properly document this material, resulting in plagiarism. Often this occurs accidentally through carelessness or mistakes. The key to understanding how plagiarism happens and how to avoid it is to understand the philosophy of writing and what makes an academic paper an essay. What is an Essay? Because academic essays involve using other people’s research, ideas, and opinions to support and defend the writer’s own thesis, many writers believe an essay simply assembles these outside sources. Too often, papers read like a series of quotations glued together with transition words like “additionally” or “in contrast.” This is not a real essay. This mistaken idea about what an essay is makes it easy to plagiarize because the writer is doing very little thinking or writing by him- or herself. A true academic essay develops a strong thesis statement in its introduction and spends the rest of the essay supporting and defending that thesis, both through the use of facts, ideas, and information from outside sources...
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...Contents Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………………3 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………..4 Review of the Literature…………………………………………………………………………..6 Methodology………………………………………………………………………………………8 Findings…………………………………………………………………………………………..9 Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations…………………………………………………..11 References………………………………………………………………………………………..12 Appendix A………………………………………………………………………………………14 Health Wearable Technology !3 Abstract Innovations in technology paved way for a new category of digital devices aimed at improving the quality of life and cost effective healthcare system. This never before seen intersection between technology and healthcare industry leads to an efficient ecosystem which brings value to customers, innovators and investors alike. Health Wearable Technology !4 Chapter 1: Introduction Background For years since the digital revolution, innovation on technological front in healthcare industry has been limited. The complete transaction between a customer and the healthcare organizations is a tedious process and the information system is unorganized. “Health Wearables” commonly called as activity trackers, are being developed by taking advantage of this revolution and thereby fueling the growth of digital health technologies. The customer is established at the center of this ecosystem that is being built around health wearable technology. By using a device of this sort, consumers are in control of their health and...
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...Neolithic Revolution” Contents: 1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………………..3 2. Literature review……………………………………………………………………..4 3. Neolithic revolution…………………………………………………………………..6 4. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………….9 5. Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………10 Introduction The most important technological development ever to occur in human history was the domestication of plants (agriculture) and animals (pastoralism). Together these developments are called the Neolithic Revolution. To understand how the Neolithic Revolution occurred it is necessary to understand the economic system it replaced. Until the Neolithic, and in most areas for a long time after, all humans engaged in an economic activity called "hunting and gathering". This system is called "food extraction" as opposed to "food production" by agriculture and pastoralism. This period, which occurred between 12,000 and 8,000 years ago, brought along many profound changes to human society and culture, including the creation of cities and permanent dwellings, labor specialization, the baking of bread, personal property, more complex hierarchical social structures, non-agricultural crafts, slavery, the state, official marriage, personal inheritance, and more. I’ve chosen this topic because we can’t imagine our life, if there were not such a revolution. What would we be without the Neolithic Revolution? I think without the Neolithic Revolution I probably...
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...Title: “The Bill of Rights” March 12, 2011 Source: Jackson J. Spielvogel, p. 331 Summary: The accession of James II (1685-1688) to the crown guaranteed a new constitutional crisis for England. He was a devout Catholic and made religion the center of controversy between the king and Parliament. In 1687, James issued a declaration of indulgence that suspended all laws that excluded Catholics and Puritans from office. The Parliaments members did not object due to his old age. They knew his successors would be his Protestant daughters Mary and Anne, the children from his first wife. On June 10, 1688, a son was born to James II’s second wife who was a Catholic. Mary’s husband, the Dutch Chief executive, William of Orange and a group of prominent noblemen were invited to invade England. William and Mary put together an army and invaded England while James, his wife and their infant son fled to France. England’s revolution was not about whether there would be a monarch, but who would be monarch. In January 1689, William and Mary accepted the throne along with the provisions of a bill of rights. The Bill of Rights affirmed Parliament’s right to make laws and levy taxes and made it impossible for kings to oppose or do without Parliament by stipulating that standing armies could be raised only with the consent of Parliament. The rights of citizens to petition the sovereign, keep arms, have a jury trial and not be subject to excessive bail were...
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...ESSAY – ‘What is the Marxist theory of the state and how might it be criticised?’ Introduction Marxism first arose in 1987 when Marx and Engels were commissioned to write the manifesto for the political party of radical workers, The Communist League; this political party was formed in order to create a unity of the ‘working men’, in favour of the creation of a classless society. The purpose of The Communist Manifesto, and much of Marx’s early writings on the state, was to promote social change, in refutation to Hegel’s theory of the dialetic. This is achieved through the construction of a materialist interpretation of the state as ‘the active, conscious and official expression (of) the present structure of society' (Collected Works, 3, p. 199). Marx’s ultimate aim was to “lay bare the economic law of motion of modern society.” (Marx, Capital [1867] 1965, p10), which is to… This essay will explain and analyse Marx’s theory of state, a nd assess the legitimacy of the theory through criticisms. Marx’s theory of history/state: History is a study of past events in human affairs; Marx believes that historical events are driven forward by changing economic factors within the ‘base’ of society. According to Marx, human society is made up of two measures: a base and a superstructure. The superstructure is the set of 'non-economic institutions whose character is explained by the nature of the economic structure (the base).' (G. A. Cohen Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence pp 216...
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...can be traced back to the primitive time. Knowledge of hunting, gathering, safety, and health was recorded passed down from one generation to another. Between 1000 and 2000 B.C. more advanced HRM functions began to develop. In 1115 B.C., an early version of employee screening tests was being used by the Chinese. Ancient Greek and Babylonian civilizations, ages before medieval times, established the apprentice system, another example of early HRM (HRM, n.d., para.4). Over the years, HRM has been known by different names, “from personnel to industrial relations to employee relations to human resources” (HRM, n.d., para.5). Human resource by far is the best title given for managing your most valuable resource, humans. During the industrial revolution the need for an organized form of HRM emerged as the manufacturing process evolved from the cotton gin to the factory assembly lines. Companies in the United States developed new recruitment methods of attracting and retaining their best workers, as result of the economic shift from agricultural based to industrial based. As a result of the industrial revolution HRM were needed to help immigrants adapt to their new jobs and the American way of life (HRM, n.d., para.6). Immigration increased considerably between the 1880s and 1940s, resulting in a stable flow of low skill and low cost employees. Due to the language barrier, managers face problems getting immigrant workers to accomplish routine task. (HRM, n.d., para...
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...The eighteenth century is best known for the being the birth of the enlightenment movement. Deemed the age of reason due to the scientific revolution that occurred, a shift from the mystic to scientific fact occurred. Despite this shift in beliefs, mysticism was still present due to the methods that were used to spread scientific discovery also allowed for the spread of mystic ideologies. According to Sir Micheal Drummett, a British philosopher, mystics objects such a Tarot cards, thrived during the eighteenth century into the early nineteenth century. Tarot cards were able to be incredibly popular during this time because of the social climate of the long eighteenth century. In order to understand why Tarot was popular during the long eighteenth century, one must look a...
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...Notes on Martin Luther (from the PBS docudrama) Driven to Defiance “I would never have thought that such a storm would rise from Rome over one simple scrap of paper...” - Martin Luther Few if any men have changed the course of history like Martin Luther. In less than ten years, this fevered German monk plunged a knife into the heart of an empire that had ruled for a thousand years, and set in motion a train of revolution, war and conflict that would reshape Western civilization, and lift it out of the Dark Ages. Luther's is a drama that still resonates half a millennium on. It's an epic tale that stretches from the gilded corridors of the Vatican to the weathered church door of a small South German town; from the barbarous pyres of heretics to the technological triumph of printing. It is the story of the birth of the modern age, of the collapse of medieval feudalism, and the first shaping of ideals of freedom and liberty that lie at the heart of the 21st century. But this is also an intensely human tale, a story that hurtles from the depths of despair to the heights of triumph and back again. This is the story of a man who ultimately found himself a lightning conductor of history, crackling with forces he could not quite comprehend or control. For Luther, in a life full of irony, would find himself overwhelmed by his own achievements. As his followers sought to build a new and just Europe around him, he could only turn on them in frustration, declaring that his...
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...HISTORY 4C: WESTERN CIVILIZATION: 1715-PRESENT Description of the Course: This course surveys the history of Europe from the beginning of the 18th century until the end of the 20th century. We will study major political, economic, social and intellectual developments that affected European societies during that time period and changed lives of people throughout the world. Major themes of the course will include the French and Industrial Revolutions, emergence of ideologies such as liberalism, nationalism and socialism as well as their practical impact on politics and culture, the rise and fall of European global dominance, wars and revolution of the 20th century. Goals of the Course: I. Understanding Historical Heritage of our Civilization: The major purpose of this course is to familiarize you with heritage of the western civilization and help you understand significance of its impact on contemporary world. This class will aim to illustrate how the past impacts people’s lives in the present and how our actions, ideas, and self-image are shaped by historical developments. II. Acquiring Critical Thinking: History consists of more than just memorization of names, dates and narratives of historical events. Although knowledge of factual information is imperative, it is important to realize that history is interpretation of facts, trends and ideas. Therefore, neither professor nor Teaching Assistants will give you “right” or “wrong” answers. Instead, another major...
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...Why was Socrates regarded as a man of virtue? Why was Socrates regarded as a man of virtue? Socrates: Man of Virtue (470-399 B.C.E.) Socrates proposed the theory of value in which there are two sorts of good: virtue and happiness. Both are unconditional goods. But happiness is a "self-generated" good in that it "derives its value strictly from its inherent properties;" whereas virtue is an "other-generated" good in that it derives its value from happiness, precisely from its conduciveness to happiness. Virtue is an instinct in all humanity which can be aroused through self-examination. This universal truth is accessible to everyone who thinks and question. Socrates assumes that any person with whom he talks has the resource to answer his question correctly, that is, that no specialist knowledge is required. Socrates thought that knowledge is virtue, and virtue leads to happiness. It makes sense to think that moral people know what morality is. If you know right from wrong, then you might be able to choose to do what you know to be right. It also makes some sense to suspect that our beliefs about right and wrong influence our decisions. If we believe its right to help a drowning child, then it would be fairly shocking to decide not to do so—and it would less surprising when we decide to help the child. It is quite a shocking statement to say that virtue always leads to happiness. Criminals commit crimes that hurt others to help themselves. To think that their crimes would...
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