...Woman is Fickle: A Modern Comparison By Jonathon Davis Dr. Michael J. Pendowski Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama November 13th, 2010 Verdi’s “La donna è mobile,” translated into “Woman is fickle”, puts onto display many popular key musical elements of the 19th century that are still very much alive in today’s modern music. Giuseppe Verdi utilizes several trends in music of the day to create the masterpiece that we still recognize today, despite the immense time gap. The piece is written about a woman whose mind constantly changes direction and leaves her admirers constantly pursuing in vain. Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) was an Italian world class composer of operas during the height of the Romantic period. This piece is widely considered his most notable work, but considering all of his great operas still performed to this day, to place anything as his “most notable” would be an understatement. His career took off with Nabucco, which he wrote after the death of his children and wife, and was able to write masterpiece after masterpiece, even into his twilight years. Verdi died with twenty-eight operas on his resume, many of which are still performed today. Most of Verdi’s inspiration came from the works of Shakespeare, with the opera Macbeth as an example. Verdi also incorporated political messages into his operas, as Italy was leaving Austrian Hapsburg rule at the time. A chorus of Nabucco is still considered an Italian patriotic theme. The opera that this piece...
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...To understand an event as large as the Italian Unification one must draw an analysis from the causes of that event. Many small case-specific causes can be found, but the key is to find general causes that can explain the whole unification. When looking at the time frame 1815-1870, one can find three general causes that mostly, but not always, worked towards Italian Unification. The complete Italian unification in 1870 occurred because of the actions of significant personalities, more specifically: Cavour, Mazzini and Garibaldi, it also came about because of the role of foreign players and lastly because of the not always successful, but reoccurring peoples movement. After Napoleon’s adventure into Europe had been extinguished, the parties at the Congress of Vienna in 1814/1815 were determined to re-establish old conservative order. Prussia, Russia, Great Britain and Austria-Hungary were the “Big Four” throughout the meetings, all of them, except Great Britain, being interested in highly conservative monarchical rule. New concepts such as liberalism were thwarted (Murphy, et al. 2000) and laid aside; the “old way” should provide peace, which was the ultimate aim of the Congress, for the next centuries. A Congress System was established; hereby the aforementioned Powers would meet in a regular basis to negotiate and solve problems by peaceful means. Besides reintroducing old hierarchies, the Vienna Congress also brought territorial changes. They were mostly supposed to create...
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...Unification of Italy Q: Describe & Explain the Unification of Italy. The Unification of Italy divides in to 3 main stages: 1815-1830: Revolts all over Italy. Revolts are suppressed. 1848-1849: Revolts all over Italy. Revolts are suppressed. 1858-1870: The unification of Italy Introduction To understand the unification of Italy, matters before the revolution need to be examined. Up until 1716, Italy was just a big piece of land divided among small kingdoms of monarchs. (ref. H.O. #1 p.29) When napoleon Bonaparte conquered Italy, he left them 3 things, which were probably the key characteristics in the revolution: - Efficient Government. - A practical demonstrations of the benefits from a unified Italy - Hatred towards foreign influence. After the fall of Napoleon, the major European powers (Austria, Russia, Spain, United Kingdom, & Prussia) what was to be done with Italy, which was conquered at the time by Napoleon. It was thus decided that Italy would be divided among different monarchs, all associated with the Habsburgs (except for Piedmont Sardinia, which was to be ruled by Victor Emmanuel, an independent monarch, and Papal States, ruled by the pope.). (ref. H.O. #1 p. 29-30) Austria had very strong domination over Italy. It had agreements with Ferdinand, king of Kingdom of the 2 Sicilies, and helped the pope maintain his kingdom. Only Piedmont Sardinia wasn't influenced by Austria (ref. H.O. #1 p. 30). 1815 - 1830 Revolution Almost all "'Italians" hated the foreign...
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...Unification of Italy Q: Describe & Explain the Unification of Italy. The Unification of Italy divides in to 3 main stages: 1815-1830: Revolts all over Italy. Revolts are suppressed. 1848-1849: Revolts all over Italy. Revolts are suppressed. 1858-1870: The unification of Italy Introduction To understand the unification of Italy, matters before the revolution need to be examined. Up until 1716, Italy was just a big piece of land divided among small kingdoms of monarchs. (ref. H.O. #1 p.29) When napoleon Bonaparte conquered Italy, he left them 3 things, which were probably the key characteristics in the revolution: - Efficient Government. - A practical demonstrations of the benefits from a unified Italy - Hatred towards foreign influence. After the fall of Napoleon, the major European powers (Austria, Russia, Spain, United Kingdom, & Prussia) what was to be done with Italy, which was conquered at the time by Napoleon. It was thus decided that Italy would be divided among different monarchs, all associated with the Habsburgs (except for Piedmont Sardinia, which was to be ruled by Victor Emmanuel, an independent monarch, and Papal States, ruled by the pope.). (ref. H.O. #1 p. 29-30) Austria had very strong domination over Italy. It had agreements with Ferdinand, king of Kingdom of the 2 Sicilies, and helped the pope maintain his kingdom. Only Piedmont Sardinia wasn't influenced by Austria (ref. H.O. #1 p. 30). 1815 - 1830 Revolution Almost all "'Italians"...
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...Count Cavour and Giuseppe Garibaldi both contributed heavily to the Italian unification process. Each of them contributed differently. Garibaldi was more military minded and brought together forces like the red shirts to oppose the Austrian influence with force. Cavour becoming the Prime Minister of Piedmont-Sardinia in 1852 had more of a political stance on unification, Cavour was very ‘tunnel minded’ he was only focused on the welfare of Piedmont; he believed piedmont should be the centre of a united Italian infrastructure. Cavour spent his career improving infrastructure, stabilizing economy and strengthening Peidmont. He built a new railway system in Italy and started a newspaper known as II Risorgemento which spread nationalist feeling in the country and the prepared the people for unification. He believed in a constitutional monarchy and made Italian unification evident at the Paris Peace Conference. Garibaldi was firmly against foreign intervention which caused the two to clash when it came to any coalition efforts. Cavour’s ideology led him to arrange the Plombieres meeting in 1858 which involved a secret agreement between Cavour and Louis Napoleon, Napoleon had promised an army of 200,000 which would drive out Austria from Italy and in return France would receive Nice and Savoy. Garibaldi’s fears of foreign support became plausible as France’s real intentions of taking land became evident. After Cavour mobilized his army, Austria sent their ultimatum in 1859 to Peidmont...
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...PART 1 Company Allocation Ticker symbol | Company | | GICS Sector | GICS Sub Industry | Address of Headquarters | | BEN | Franklin Resources | | Financials | Diversified Financial Services | San Mateo, California | | FCX | Freeport-McMoran Cp & Gld | | Materials | Diversified Metals & Mining | Phoenix, Arizona | | The cost of capital of the aforementioned companies will be discussed in the following questions. The companies will be referred to by their Ticker Symbols henceforth. Question 1 BEN The book value of the company’s liabilities and equity can be deduced from a number of online sources. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (2013) provided the company filings data whereby BEN’s Form 10q, dated 29/07/2013, showed the following (included on page 2 of this report). The book value of long-term debt is $1,252.1 million, and the book value of equity is $10,402.3 million. The schedule of outstanding debt shows that this figure includes $54.5 million of FHLB advances and $1197.6 million of Senior Notes at various effective interest rates. The notes on Stockholders Equity and Non- Redeemable Non-Controlling Interests reveal that Franklin Resources Inc Stockholders Equity totals $9779.8 million whilst the Non- Redeemable Non-Controlling Interests (previously referred to as minority interests) totals $622.5 million. FCX The book value of the company’s liabilities and equity can be deduced from a number of online sources. The US Securities...
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...Giuseppe Verdi Dr. Lara Housez School of the Arts McMaster University Content • Giuseppe Verdi • Verdi in Italy • La Traviata – Setting – Plot – Characters – Act I • Opera Divas Giuseppe Verdi (1813-‐1901) • Italian composer • Married and had 2 children • Widower at 26 • Later had a scandalous affair with soprano Giuseppina Strepponi; reIlected in his opera, La Traviata • Composed 28 operas, including La Traviata, Rigoletto, Aïda, and Il trovatore • Verdi was immensely popular in Europe; he was given state funeral in Milan; largest public assembly of any event in the history of Italy Verdi in Italy La Traviata (1853) • • • • • “The fallen woman” Opera in 3 acts Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave Based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas Premiered in 1853 in Venice CHARACTERS • Violetta (soprano): a high-‐class prostitute • Alfredo (tenor): a young gentlemen SETTING ...
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...Teatro Pilipino was a resident drama company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) from 1976 to 1987. It was founded by Filipino playwright, translator, director, and educator Rolando S. Tinio, who also served as its Artistic Director. The company was dedicated to producing world classics in translation as well as notable Filipino plays, as it aimed to promote the cultural development of the youth and of the Filipino language through theater. Teatro Pilipino popularize a number of classic masterpieces of world theater among Filipino audiences by translating them into Filipino. Rolando S. Tinio believed that by translating these masterpieces for the Filipino audiences, he was also translating the philosophies and ideologies behind those plays as well. As such, the production of such plays serve as vehicles to intellectualize the Filipino audience. After a 1975 pilot season of two plays sponsored by the Department of Public Information and the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Teatro Pilipino was formally introduced as one of the two resident drama companies of the CCP. After a change in government in 1986, the new CCP Management decided to let go of its two resident drama companies, forcing Teatro Pilipino to move to its new home at the old Metropolitan Theater (MET) at Lawton, near Downtown Manila. After the death of its principal actor, Dame Ella Luansing-Tinio in 1991, the closing curtain fell for the last time, and fittingly on its take on William Shakespeare's...
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...Philip Mazzei When Thomas Jefferson was asked to draft the Declaration of Independence, his words “All men are created equal” were paraphrased from the writings of Philip Mazzei, an immigrant from Tuscany. “All men are by nature equally free and independent,” Mazzei wrote in the Virginia Gazette in 1774. “Such equality is necessary in order to create a free government.” Filippo Mazzei was born in Poggio a Caino in Tuscany, Italy on December 30, 1730. He studied medicine in Italy for several years before moving to London in 1755 to begin a career as a mercantile importer. While in London, he met Benjamin Franklin, who convinced him to start a new business in Virginia. In 1773, Mazzei led a group of Italians who cultivated the first vineyards, olives, and other Mediterranean fruits in the colonies. By some historical accident, Mazzei became a neighbor and friend of Thomas Jefferson. During 1774–75, a year before the appearance of Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense,” Philip Mazzei published a series of newspaper articles, translated into English by his good friend, Thomas Jefferson, under the pseudonym of Furioso in John Pinkney’s Virginia Gazette. In one article, Mazzei wrote that “every citizen has an equal right to the benefits and honors of his country.” He also wrote that there should be freedom of sex and property, and that any “bias in favor of riches has no other foundation than ancient injustice and is very similar to that which, in various circumstances, exists in...
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...of New England Foundry In this analysis of New England Foundry we need to make a comparison with each of the models or layouts, the first combined counter with the new mentioned model with separated counters, for the determination of time saved with the new layout and then the amount that could be saved per hour with the same. For the layout with combined counter there is 2 servers with a single waiting line, the queuing model that is being used is the M/M/s, because of this queuing pattern consists of single phase and multiple servers. The arrival rate of 7 (4+3) per hour and service rate of 5per hour, which gives the average time in the system W=0.3922hours or 23.53minutes (refer to Excel) the time taken per trip is as follows: For maintenance people it will be 23.53+6 (walking time taken) =29.53minutes. For molding people 23.53+2= 25.53minutes. For the new layout with separate counters, Bob for the maintenance shop and Pete for pattern shop both of them follow M/M/1 model with single-server and single-waiting line. Bob providing for the maintenance people, serves 6per hour at an arrival rate of 4per hour, giving the average time in the system W=0.50hours or 30minutes(shown in A5) with the time taken for trip is 2minutes 30+2=32minutes, this is an increase of time, 2.47minutes compared with the other layout for maintenance dept. Pete serving the molding people, serves 7per hour at an arrival rate of 3per hour, giving the average time in the...
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...(a) First, determine the Queuing Models 1. Queuing Models Poisson Arrivals Standard (Infinite Queue) Exponential Service Times Single Server (M/M/1) Standard M/M/1 Model P0 = 1 – P (Probability of 0 customer in the system) P (n ≧k ) = ρk (Probability of Pn = P0ρn (Probability of exactly n customers in the system) Ls = λ / ( μ – λ ) (Mean no. of customers in the system) Lq = ρλ / ( μ – λ ) (Mean no. of customers in queue) Lb = λ / ( μ – λ ) (Mean no. of customers in queue for a busy system) Ws = 1 / ( μ – λ ) (Mean time customer spends in the system) Wq = ρ / ( μ – λ ) (Mean time customers spends in the queue) Wb = 1 / ( μ – λ ) (Mean time customers spends in queue for a busy system) Now, in our case, Λ (mean arrival rate) = 15/hr μ (mean service rate per busy server) Old machine’s mean service time= 3mins, 60/3 =20/hr New machine’s mean service time= 2mins, 60/2=30/hr Wq =ρ/ ( μ – λ ) (Mean time customers spends in the queue), Where ρ = λ / μ Old machine: (15/20)/ 20-15 = 0.1 hr = 9mins New machine: (15/30)/ 30-15= 0.03333 hr = 2mins According to the case, the average wage of the people who bring the documents to be copied is $8/hr, If the company rent the old machine and there are 15 arrivals/hr, There total mean time spend in the queue is ( 15 x 9 )mins = 135mins = 2.25hr, The total wage = $8 x 2.25 = $18 If the company rent the new machine and there are 15 arrivals/hr, The total mean time...
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...optimization tools are required to harness their full performance. Technologies such as event-based sampling and expert systems are now augmenting traditional methods of performance analysis based upon profile and call graph tools. Understanding the basics of performance analysis, as well as the current state- of-the-art software optimization technologies, enables developers to pinpoint and implement solutions to application performance issues. One sophisticated processor, the Intel® Pentium® M processor, is growing in embedded application usage due to its high performance and low power utilization. The Intel Pentium M processor features Intel MMX™ and Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE, SSE2) that enable higher performance through parallel computation. Getting the most out of the processor, however, requires that developers take full advantage of these built-in performance enhancements. Software optimization technology offered by advanced compilers utilizes the enhancements in Intel Pentium M processors in a fashion conducive to embedded development. Compiler technology provides access to these extensions with low development investment while maintaining backward compatibility and minimal code size, two critical challenges in embedded software development. The key to focusing the optimization process, however, is to perform performance analysis. Performance analysis is the study of application performance on hardware with the end goal of understanding issues and recommending enhancements...
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...|Intel’s advertisement | | | | | |The following picture presents the advert of computer CPU | | |Intel Core 2 Duo manufactured by the computer company Intel.| | |The advert appeared in the United States in 2007 and it | | |caused varied reactions. | | |In this analysis, I would like to concentrate on the message| | |directed at potential customers in order to persuade them to| | |buy the new product. | ...
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...The Surrogate Motherhood Controversy POSC 450.001 Senior Seminar October 24, 2009 The Surrogate Motherhood Controversy Introduction “A surrogate mother feels like a flesh covered test tube during the entire experience. As the fetus grows the women is depersonalized and she become fragmented from the whole person –merely a vehicle for breeding babies.” There is a huge controversy of whether surrogate motherhood should be legal. This controversy has started huge debates worldwide. It has brought attention to doctors, sociologists, feminists, historians, and people of different cultures, races, classes and religions. The major overwhelming arguments is that the act of surrogacy should be illegal. The issues and objections surrounding the surrogate motherhood is that it is considered baby selling, finding the legality of its contracts, and the class of people, whether they are rich or poor. The other concerns are the traditional rights of the birth mothers, the psychological impact of these children who are born under these contracts. The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss and analyze the controversy of a surrogate mother. The paper will find the reasons of why women want to become surrogate mothers. This paper will examine the different viewpoints that have been in conflict for many years. The paper will reveal how some women chose to become surrogate mothers just for the money and that some do it because they want to help couples who...
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...Ethical and Legal Dilemmas of Surrogacy Christie Blackwell HCA 322 Dr. Nine Bell June 17, 2013 Ethical and Legal Dilemmas of Surrogacy Many individuals have a life plan consisting of college, marriage, and then children. After numerous methods of conception, many couples are still unable to conceive a child. A woman who enters into a contract with a couple, agreeing to carry and birth a child, then hand that child over to the contracted couple, who is often unable to conceive own their own naturally is considered surrogacy (Pozgar, 2012). Surrogacy raises many ethical and legal issues for all parties involved. Is it moral or immoral to enter into an agreement with a woman to birth a child for money? What are the legal rights of the woman conceiving or of the couple? Should the child be aware of the process in which he or she was born? Does the child have rights to access the confidential records of the process? These are a just a few questions that will be addressed throughout this paper. Discussed below is the history of surrogacy, the ethical and legal dilemmas that surround surrogacy, alternative solutions to surrogacy, and the potential effects and future implications of how surrogacy may be addressed. There are two types of surrogacy arrangements to consider. These types of surrogacy are genetic and gestational. Genetic or traditional surrogacy is where the surrogate mother contributes her genetic makeup to the offspring, whereas gestational surrogacy consists...
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