Essays on Epoch

A Rose for Emily constitute the crucial part of Faulkner's art. Analyzing the plot, background, and chronological order it becomes clear that Faulkner managed to develop his own manner of novelistic narration. The short stories of the writer were equally popular as his novels, and such stories as A Rose for Emily were widely appraised by critics and shared the most revered places among the representatives of the «big» genre. Indeed, by determining Faulkner's contribution to world literature, many English-speaking critics underlined that the writer's genius manifested itself in both genres, despite the complexity of the style that he ...

Fear is a relative term, at least from the human perspective. This suggests that humanity has experienced its own sets of fears, depending on the prevailing dangers of a particular physical environment and epoch. In this regard, it has always been common knowledge that survival is an integral part of every species, including the Homo sapiens, and that compromising the sense of safety of animals and humans is most likely to instigate a reaction of fear. As such, it can also be said that fear is a beneficial aspect of existence, given that it triggers reactions of alertness, fighting ...

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Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, astronomer and astronomer largely recognized for his contributions towards the scientific revolution. He laid down the basis of modern astronomy and largely supported the work of Copernicus. He is largely known for his heliocentric views in that he acknowledged the existence of the earth and the other planets including earth revolve around the sun, which is stationary. His heliocentric views brought him into conflict with the Catholic Church since was considered to be challenging the then pope Urban the eighth’s authority. He was then arrested, tried and convicted of heresy upon which ...

Evaluating the Successes and Failures of Reconstruction

Bibliography In the aftermath of the Civil War, Reconstruction of the South took place between 1865 and 1877 under the auspices of three American presidents. While Southerners did not embrace the process, which resulted in the germination of various obstacles and problems that ultimately rendered it quite unsuccessful, as slavery reappeared in debt peonage. Moreover, racism escalated due to latent antagonists by Southern Democrats against newly freed African Americans. When the Civil War was nearing its end in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln began devising a blueprint for the social, economic, physical, and political rehabilitation in the South, which was a ...

Give a general write up of recommendations of what “should have been done” by Lois instead (state your reasons).

Lois should have remained in control of her emotions as the Information Technology Department manager. The decision to fire the systems/network administrator was made in the heat of emotions which could have clouded clear judgment. Lois should have paid more attention to the behavior and the intentions of her employees rather than acting without clear facts of what had happened ( Roy, 2010). She should have called the system/network administrator aside and asked questions in order to understand the situation. She should have called the programmer and listened to his point of view. Then she should have talked to them ...

Introduction

Qualitative research, as defined by Thomas from the book of Sampa (2012), “involves gathering and interpreting information from the viewpoint of kinds of objects, ideas, or events” (as cited in Sampa, 2012, p.5). Qualitative research has five approaches, which are narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study. Each design should be anchored to a theory in order for the progress of a research to be guided. According to Creswell (2009), in qualitative research, a theory acts as a lens for understanding the study, although it may also be formulated during or after the study.

Implication of Theory in the Five Approaches

Phenomenology This type of approach, as ...

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This name of this chapter is Philosophical Issues: Phenomenology. Evan Thompson and Dan Zahavi explored consciousness and its relation to body and the processes of the brain. There are relations between “conscious experience and cognitive processes” (Thompson, and Zahavi 67). This article deals with the concepts of method of phenomenology, the understanding of intentionality and phenomenal consciousness and self-awareness. There is a difference between imagination and visualization and perception. Bodily experience and self-consciousness are related. Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) researched phenomenology in detail.

Husserl introduced phenomenology which has the best methods for studying and explaining consciousness. Other philosophers who addressed ...

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The rich biodiversity in the Florida panhandle 3 The rich natural history 4 Other regions rich in biodiversity.... 5

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Restoration activities in the Florida panhandle 6 Conservation efforts. 6 What next? 7

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Biodiversity in the panhandle Introduction The Florida Panhandle borders Alabama to the west, Georgia to the North and the Mexico Gulf to the south. The panhandle lies on a strip of land that measures approximately 320 kilometers by 160 kilometers (Blaustein et al. 784). This place is highly-regarded in the world because of its rich biodiversity. Few places can compete with the ...

Immigration from Asia, Africa and Latin America to Europe

The purpose of this paper is a complex study of migration processes from Asia, Latin America and Africa to European countries. Special attention will be paid to analyses of economical and other activities of immigrants, influence of their remittances on condition of payments balance of donor and recipient countries, questions of labor regulation and limitation of illegal migration due to criminal elements and shady economy. There are several research problems that we will tackle within this paper. We are interested in main reasons of migration from Africa, Asia and Latin America to European Union, estimation of its volume and dynamism. ...

Is Instagram Ethical?

Introduction In the new epoch, the world is experiencing a rapid rate of transformation from the traditional media practices to modern media practices. It is undeniable that media practices now embrace versatile, digital, computerized, and networked information technologies. Nonetheless, scholars including Eid M. and Ward S. J. claim that the penetration and use social network platforms in media practices come with significant ethical challenges. Issue such as information control, communication speed, and privacy of information continue to perplex researchers. Since its invention in 2010, Instagram has gained significant attention and wide ranging use globally. Since its acquisition by Facebook, ...

Sheila Fitzpatrick was one of the most prominent social historians of the epoch of Stalinism and Soviet Union. The author began to write from the cultural prospect and all her sociological researches relate to the topic of a culture. The issue of the Russian Revolution had a great resonance in the world and influenced many historical processes in the world. The investigation of its main factors was central to Fitzpatrick in her scientific research. Sheila Fitzpatrick asks the question: “When does the Russian revolution end?” (2). Finding the answer on this question is the main argument of the book. The ...

The concept of beauty is very subjective. What is beauty? Each of us has its own answer to this difficult philosophical question. Beauty cannot be measured, you can only admire it. The wisest people of the world passed many years in disputes about what is true beauty and why you need it. So, Cicero thought that beauty is an inherent property of health. Chekhov thought that in the person everything should be perfect: the face, appeared and the soul. It is hard not to agree with these words. However, you can be ugly, but very charming. A Frenchman and a ...

Classic English literature

Once Percy Bysshe Shelley said that human history is like a poem written by time upon the memories of man. But sometimes history gets a form of a novel, and hearing about historical events from a novelist may become much more exciting and entertaining than getting facts from a historian. Reading a historical novel allows the reader to avoid prejudice and form own opinion about events and historical figures; understand real causes and backgrounds of what was happening. It is interesting that Sir Walter Scott was a collector of antiquities. He admired this captured history that once had been put into the object by its ...

Olivier De Weck, Christopher Magee, and Daniel Roos, (2012), the authors of Engineering Systems: Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World, write about systems engineering and its relevance to mankind in the complex contemporary technological world. There are eight chapters in all, and the authors cover topics such as “what is an engineering system, rethinking systems engineering and design, engineering systems research and education, what the future holds for engineering systems and so on. The book looks at everything that technology does in our lives today, and why it is important to keep abreast of latest developments in technology ...

200 Years of Eastern and Western Medicine and Science

200 Years of Eastern and Western Medicine and Science – Comparison of Developments between 1800-1900 1 Introduction Thesis Statement: The period between 1800-1900 marked the evolution of Eastern and Western science and a significant cultural exchange that laid the foundation of modern day globalized science. The purpose of this paper is to trace the development of science and medicine across two centuries in both the East and the West. The timeframe that has been selected for the study extends across the 19th to the 20th century which is a very ...

The ‘Vasco Da Gama Epoch’ represents the move by Vasco Da Gama that made most of the European countries believe that he had discovered Asia. The Vasco Da Gama Epoch led to the European dominance in Asia and consequently the colonization in many parts of the continent. However, with time, many of the colonies started leaving the continent but the British rule in India encouraged the continuation of European dominance (Darwin 451). However, the end of British rule meant European dominance would soon end due to a number of reasons. This paper analyzes Charles Darwing’s claim that “The end ...

Beloved is a lyrical masterpiece authored by renowned and award-winning American writer, Toni Morrison. American has a long and complicated history. Since its inception, the country has undergone metamorphosis from one epoch to another. Some of these epochsare more significant to an American than others. The Civil War of 1861-1865 was one of the critical ones. The institution of slavery was still prevalent and acceptable within the American society. Moreover, women were viewed as inferior to men and the society held the view that a woman place was in the kitchen. In is in this historical context that Morrison decided to tell a ...

Baz Luhrman directed drama The Great Gatsby in 2013. Stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan took part in the film and played the main characters. The film was anticipated in 2013 and its screening became the great event. IN turn, High Fidelity is a comedy-drama movie starring John Cusack and it was screened 13 years before the Great Gatsby. Despite it received many positive reviews screening of that Nick Hornby’s novel was not as anticipated as the F. Scott Fitzgerald’s adaptation. These films are very different in style, in directing, in soundtracks. Yet they are ...

Joanne Garconnet

Abstract The aim of this paper is to see how paintings techniques and world description changed through styles concentrating on a single theme of female body. The three chosen works for analysis are Jacques-Louis David's Madame Recamier (1800) for Neoclassicism, Goya's The Nude Maya (1800) as an example of Romanticism, and Renoir's Young Girl Combing Her Hair (1894) for Impressionism. Key words: Impressionism, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, female body, paintings. Jacques-Louis David's Madame Recamier (1800) Francisco Goya's The Nude Maya (1800) Renoir's Young Girl Combing Her Hair (1894) Looking on the background of all studied materials, ...

The geographical pivot in history depicts the twist and turn of events. Mackinder depicts the way of pivot location which is in America. The American people were incited. The description of end of Columbian epoch, which ended 100 years later showed the seats of power. It has been the common discussion of the geographical exploration. The twentieth century marked the end of historical epoch. There have been little left behind Scott and Nansen has reduced the new discoveries. In Europe and North America, which have lacked any pegging in any form of claiming ownership? Asia has joined the ...

Introduction

Genetic and physical similarities demonstrate that modern human species that is, Homo sapiens has a close association to other primate species group called apes. Evidence has shown that humans and great apes of Africa that is, gorillas and chimpanzees including bonobos or pygmy chimpanzees share common ancestor, which lived sometime between 6 million and 8 million years ago. Bonobos are found in Central Africa. It is interesting to note that the two species vary morphologically. Bonobos are characterized by shorter upper limbs, less rugged builds, and longer lower limbs than the chimpanzees and sport a distinguishing coiffure (Lavenda and Schultz 2012, ...

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The Homo erectus is one of the extinct homonins that existed between the late Pliocene epoch and the middle Pleistocene epoch. Some of the discovered homo erectus fossils, according to archaeologists were as old as 1.8 to 2.2 million years old, which should give us an idea how many years at least how many years it took the modern human beings to attain their evolutionary traits. It has been suggested that these homonins first occupied Africa, and after a series of environmental and other forms of changes, that most probably affected their chances of survival, travelled by foot into nearby ...

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There has been the introduction of architectures that are mutlicore in nature and for that reason; there has been the emergence of applications which are multi-threaded which are commonly susceptible to bugs of synchronization like data races. The development and use of software that are able to detect data races are known to incur a lot of costs due to increase in overhead costs. The use of hardware for the detection of the data race is a solution that can be used and is better and cheaper than that of software use. All the hardware solutions that have been proposed for ...

The Hydrologic Cycle

The global hydrologic cycle involves the change of water between three states. Water can be gaseous, like humidity in the atmosphere and the condensation in clouds, liquid as in our lakes, rivers, and oceans, or solid as in our ice caps and glaciers. Water is very complex and energy is required for it to change between the different states. Without water, biologic life could not exist. Evaporation and transpiration return water from the liquid state into the gaseous state. It takes a lot of energy to effect this change in state. Approximately 600 calories per gram of water is ...

Biographical method of personality research occupies an important place in the arsenal of modern psychology and related sciences. Its development has a long, rich history created by philosophers, historians, sociologists, art historians, scientists and, of course, psychologists. Among those who have made a significant contribution to the development of biographical psychology in XX century there are psychologists Sigmund Freud, Charlotte Buhler, Viktor Frankl, Alfred Adler, Hans Tome, Gordon Allport, Maslow and others. There is a growing trend in the modern science for the integral study of personality throughout the whole life on the scale of historical epoch, which is why the ...

Victorian era saw many social, political, economical and religious changes. French and industrial revolution changed the whole cycle of this era and this massive metamorphosis is visible in the novels and essays of this time. The Bronte sisters, Dickens, Jane Austen and Eliot portray the effect of these changes on the lives of the people quite aptly. Bleak House by Charles Dickens is not only a story about passions, unfulfilled love and heart break but also about the major differences and clashes between the upper class and lower class. Similarly Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte shows the love of ...

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Did there exists a pre modern world? If so, when did the modern world begin? These together with this question: is there a significant transformation in the structure of society in the transition from the pre-modern to the modern world? form the thesis behind this research paper. From a glimpse at several book designations and articles, one would perceive there is a precise period within the worldwide history that divide across countries and is documented as either pre-modern or modern world. Consistent with several factual volumes encompassing Europe, North Africa, the Ottoman Empire, China, India, Japan, and the America, these civilizations either possessed ...

Every historical event has its reasons, prerequisites, characteristics of development and further consequences. Particular feature of historical events is that their meaning changes with each epoch’s interpretation of it. There were events which contemporary scholars called insignificant and even harmful for the development of their society. On the other hand, representatives of the next generations would consider those events essential for the development of modern social order which is more advanced and democratic than the former one. In other words, history is an interpretative science and it gains new half-color each time scholar from a new epoch looks into ...

Each time has its own specific attitude to the main events and their conditionality. Depending on the level of the development of society and its ability for critical thinking, events might be interpreted coherently or subjectively. In case when representatives of other epochs analyze events of the preceding times, one might expect more objectivity or a placement of a different emphasis on their interpretation. This is particularly relevant in cases of long-termed conflicts or struggles when each epoch is trying to explain conditionality of the conflict and find possible solutions. It may seem that depiction of the epoch’s attitude to a ...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art offers about 100,000 objects to its visitors. The museum can boast of vast collections dedicated to different epochs starting from ancient times up to the modern contemporary artworks. Undoubtedly, it is one of the biggest museums of the United States. It is located in seven different buildings representing different epochs and countries. Definitely, it is one of the places, which should be visited by everyone, who is interested in history and wants to feel amazed by creations of ancient authors and the fantasy of the modern artists. The Bacchic Sarcophagus ...

Today, when someone hears the name of Jane Eyre, a classic story of female emancipation and personal development, struggle against society-imposed norms and unjust gender segregation system in times when woman was treated as nothing but men’s addition and reason for his pride and showing-up are imagined. Indeed, the story of Jane Eyre is nothing new for the modern society, just as two centuries ago, there are places in the modern world, where women do not favor equal rights with men, where the main role of woman is to serve and obey to male malicious will and desire to ...

Every historical event has its reasons, prerequisites, characteristics of development and further consequences. Particular feature of historical events is that their meaning changes with each epoch’s interpretation of it. There were events who contemporary scholars called insignificant and even harmful for the development of their society. On the other hand, representatives of the next generations would consider those events essential for the development of modern social order which is more advanced and democratic than the former one. In other words, history is an interpretative science and it gains new half-color each time scholar from a new epoch looks into ...

In the history of humanity, there were numerous questions the most brilliant scholars of all times were trying to answer. Among the most complicated and substantial questions was an issue of human nature, its origin and developmental implications. With each epoch, answers were becoming more and more diverse. Subsequently, in each epoch there were people who tried to summarize collected knowledge. In this context, the main aim of the current essay is to compare two theories of human nature. In this context, approaches of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud are explored in respect to philosophers’ intelligence and far-reaching interpretation ...

What Are the Concerns of Enlightenment? What Distinguished the Enlightenment From the Baroque World? How Are the Arts, Religion, and Politics Challenged in the Enlightenment And by Whom?

The Age of Enlightenment was a great time of changes for the whole European society. In the middle of 16th century it became obvious that knowledge provided by the Bible and works of ancient authors are not enough to satisfy the demands of inquiring minds. It was time of scientific progress, when Isaac Newton found out and described law of gravitation, Christian Huygens invented pendulum clock and discovered Titan. It was the ...

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In the present paper, the story and biography of Leonardo da Vinci is described from the perspective of his personality and inner searches. The research is not conducted through the pragmatic perspective of his artistic and scientific works. Although those masterpieces would give us an image of Leonardo in the sense of human development he was representing, society and epoch requirements he was reflecting through his talent, but they would not tell us what kind of persona Leonardo da Vinci was. In order to comprehend an artist and such brilliant mind, one should follow his life path with him. ...

In the history of human kind, there is probably no such well-known and often used image as a lion symbol. Those beautiful and strong creatures were accompanying mankind during all its known or conscious history, when people became able to comprehend the surrounding environment, fear threats and warship strength of stronger and braver creatures than themselves. It is true that each epoch and culture had its own interpretation of the lion symbol, but attitude to this animal had always showed the human perception of the animal world in general and its place in the surrounding environment. In order to understand the ...

C. Wright Mills; The Sociological Imagination p. 355-358 in Lemert, C. (Ed.) Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classic Readings. 3nd ed. (37-41) (2004) Boulder, CO.: Westview Press.

“Underlying this sense of being trapped are seemingly impersonal changes in the very structure of continent-wide societies. The facts of contemporary history are also facts about the success and the failure of individual men and women. When a society is industrialized, a peasant becomes a worker; a feudal lord is liquidated or becomes a businessman. When classes rise or fall, a person is employed or unemployed; when the rate of investment goes up or down, a person takes new ...

“The Four Seasons” by Antonio Lucio Vivaldi is one the most remarkable masterpieces of the world music history. It is available for listening on almost every musical website, for ex. you can find it at http://magnatune.com/all/abaroque-seasons_128.mp3 A unique representative of Italian art, Vivaldi composed them in 1723.

“The Four Seasons” are considered to be one of the best artworks in Baroque music epoch which lasted from 1600 to 1750. First published in Amsterdam in 1725, they were a part of Opus 8, entitled “The Contest between Harmony and Invention”.

Today we can hear many different versions with solo instruments, but ...

For far too long, humanity has been content with unquestioned faith in subjective knowledge passed down from generation to generation. This has been especially true on issues regarding the origins of our species and, indeed, the universe. However, in the last 100 years, a new culture has emerged. A culture rooted in the ideals espoused by such trailblazers as Bertrand Russell; a belief in scientific understanding of the world we live in and veneration of acquisition of knowledge. The human race is no longer content with fables and fairy tales. We want to know how, when and why our universe came ...