1001 résultats pour "naturalisme"

• Africa - history.

  Africa’s other major mountainous regions occur at the northern and southern fringes of the continent. The Atlas Mountains, a system of high ranges, extend for 2,200 km(1,400 mi) across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, roughly parallel to the northern coast. These ranges enclose a number of broad inland basins and plateaus. In the west, theHigh (or Grand) Atlas contains Toubkal (4,165 m/ 13,665 ft), the highest peak of the system. Toward the east, the Atlas consists of two parallel ranges: the Tell...

• Africa.

  The highest elevations in Africa are found in the various ranges of East Africa. After Kilimanjaro, the next highest peaks are Mount Kenya (5,199 m/17,057 ft), north ofKilimanjaro in central Kenya; Margherita Peak (5,109 m/ 16,762 ft) in the Ruwenzori Range on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo(DRC); Ras Dashen (4,620 m/ 15,157 ft) in the Ethiopian Highlands of northern Ethiopia; Mount Meru (4,565 m/ 14,977 ft), close to Kilimanjaro in Tanzania; and MountElgon (4,...

• La Psychiatrie est elle une science?

  distinguish science from non-science. Philosophers of science now generally agree that the search for a demarcation criterion has failed. However, in other disciplines the search for a means of distinguishing science from pseudoscience continues. I review the current debate in psychology and psychiatry. Then, returning to philosophical work, I discuss and support accounts according to which 'science' is best considered a family resemblance term. This suggests that whether psychiatric research is...

• Argentina (república) - geografía.

  Lago Argentino, provincia de Santa CruzLos 1.415 km2 de la superficie del lago Argentino, en la imagen aérea, se extienden por el sector suroccidental de la provincia deSanta Cruz. Una parte considerable del mismo, la correspondiente a la de sus brazos y canales, forma parte del Parque nacional LosGlaciares. En ella se localizan algunos de los heleros más impresionantes del mundo, como el Upsala, el Spegazzini, el Ameghino y,sobre todo, el Perito Moreno.Yann Arthus-Bertrand/Corbis Los principale...

• Bahrain - country.

  A Religion Almost all Bahrainis and the majority of nonnatives are followers of Islam (Muslims). About 70 percent of all native Bahrainis belong to the Shia branch of Islam, whilethe remainder, including the ruling al-Khalifa clan, are adherents of the Sunni branch. Non-Muslims, including Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, and Jews, account for 15percent of the total population. High unemployment among the Shia population has caused considerable discontent on the part of this group toward the Sunni...

• Trinidad and Tobago - country.

  III PEOPLE The history of Trinidad and Tobago is reflected in the makeup of its population, among the most ethnically diverse in the Caribbean. Blacks of African ancestry andAsians of Indian ancestry each make up about 40 percent of the population. The remainder is mainly of mixed ancestry, although there are also small groups of peopleof Chinese, European, South American, and Middle Eastern descent. The ethnic diversity of Trinidad and Tobago owes its origins to slavery and its abolition. Afr...

• Estados Unidos de América - geografía.

  los Grandes Lagos incrementan este tipo de precipitaciones. En enero, se da un tiempo de intenso frío y escasa caída de nieve, a causa de que las masas de aire delAtlántico no pueden penetrar muy al norte en pleno invierno. Finalmente, las ocasionales tormentas en la kona (costa oeste) de Hawai durante el invierno son consecuencia de la entrada de masas de aire procedentes del norte del Pacífico que aprovechan el desplazamiento de la corriente en chorro hacia el sur. El régimen de lluvias habi...

• Venezuela - country.

  Venezuela has six navigable rivers. Of the thousand or more streams in the country, the majority flow into the Orinoco. The Orinoco flows east across central Venezuelaand drains approximately four-fifths of the total area of the country. With the tributaries—the Apure, Meta, and Negro rivers—it forms the outlet into the Atlantic Oceanfor the waters of much of the interior of Colombia, as well as of inland Venezuela. F Climate The climate of Venezuela is tropical on the Llanos and along the coas...

• Switzerland - country.

  formation over higher elevations. The wind reverses direction about sundown and moves down the valley as a cool downdraft. The foehn, which occurs during the wintermonths, is a dry and relatively warm airflow that is drawn northward over the Alps. The foehn can quickly melt snow and ice, increasing the risk of mudslides andavalanches. D Natural Resources Waterpower is the chief natural resource of Switzerland. The principal source of water is runoff from the considerable annual precipitation th...

• Población - geografía.

  proyecciones y estimaciones, con una exactitud razonable. Las principales fuentes demográficas son los censos nacionales, los registros civiles y los padrones. Estas fuentes proporcionan el material de base para investigar lascausas y las consecuencias de los cambios de población. La fuente más habitual y completa es el censo de población, un documento oficial que contabiliza en un momento concreto todas las personas que viven en un áreadeterminada, con sus datos personales y características dem...

• Población - geografía.

  proyecciones y estimaciones, con una exactitud razonable. Las principales fuentes demográficas son los censos nacionales, los registros civiles y los padrones. Estas fuentes proporcionan el material de base para investigar lascausas y las consecuencias de los cambios de población. La fuente más habitual y completa es el censo de población, un documento oficial que contabiliza en un momento concreto todas las personas que viven en un áreadeterminada, con sus datos personales y características dem...

• GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE, Etienne (1772-1844) Naturaliste, professeur de zoologie au Museum, il crée la ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes.

• Chile (república) - geografía.

  2.4 Vegetación y fauna La vegetación autóctona de Chile varía según la zona climática, la latitud y el relieve. La región norteña presenta pocas variedades de vegetación (coirón, llareta, pajonalesy cactáceas) y es uno de los mejores ejemplos de desierto absoluto en todo el planeta. El valle Longitudinal, más húmedo, cuenta con diversas especies de cactus, arbustosespinosos y pastizales, y con la araucaria, que produce piñones comestibles. Al sur de Valdivia se encuentran densos bosques húmedos...

• GENERA PLANTARUM SECUNDUM ORDINES NATURALES DISPOSITA. de Jussieu

• Water - chemistry.

  flourides in drinking water has been found to reduce tooth decay. See Fluorine. Seawater contains, in addition to concentrated amounts of sodium chloride, or salt, many other soluble compounds, as the impure waters of rivers and streams areconstantly feeding the oceans. At the same time, pure water is continually lost by the process of evaporation, and as a result the proportion of the impurities that givethe oceans their saline character is increased. See Ocean and Oceanography. VII WATER...

• Nansen Fridtjof Explorateur polaire, chercheur et naturaliste norvégien

• Isaac Newton.

  B Calculus (Newton’s “Fluxional Method”) In 1669 Newton gave his Trinity mathematics professor Isaac Barrow an important manuscript, which is generally known by its shortened Latin title, De Analysi . This work contained many of Newton’s conclusions about calculus (what Newton called his “fluxional method”). Although the paper was not immediately published, Barrowmade its results known to several of the leading mathematicians of Britain and Europe. This paper established Newton as one of the t...

• South Korea - country.

  forest habitat, and overhunting. The Siberian tiger has not been sighted in the wild in South Korea since the 1920s; the Asiatic black bear can still be found in someremote mountain areas. Several species of deer are indigenous to the peninsula, including the roe deer, water deer, and Siberian musk deer. The musk deer, which hasbeen overhunted for its musk glands, is legally protected as a threatened species. Smaller mammals indigenous to the peninsula include the wild boar, red fox, badger,rabb...

• Philosophia botanica [Carl von Linné] - Biologiste / Naturaliste.

• Massachusetts - geography.

  mi). Other large artificial lakes include Wachusett Reservoir, East Brimfield Reservoir, and Cobble Mountain Reservoir. Assawompsett Pond, covering about 10 sq km(about 4 sq mi), is the largest natural lake. North Watuppa Pond and Long Pond are other large natural lakes. Lake Chaubunagungamaug, near Webster, is usuallycalled Webster Lake, because the Algonquian name is difficult to pronounce and spell. The full version of the Native American name is said to be the longest place-namein North Amer...

• Systema Naturae [Carl von Linné] - Biologiste / Naturaliste.

• Philosophie zoologique [Jean-Baptiste Lamarck] - Biologiste / Naturaliste.

• Zola Émile, 1840-1902, né à Paris, écrivain français.

  pouvoir militaire et politique, notamment avec J'accuse qui parut le 13 janvier 1898 dans l'Aurore. Condamné par la justice, il se battit farouchement pour la réhabilitation de Dreyfus, multipliant les articles et les interventions. Il mourut brutalement, asphyxié dans son appartement par une cheminée bouchée, laissant une œuvre ambitieuse qui marqua le point culminant de la relation entre idéologie scientiste, réalisme sentimental et poésie épique du quotidien. Complétez votre recher...

• Souvenirs entomologiques [Jean-Henri Fabre] - Biologiste / Naturaliste.

• Le livre Thérèse Raquin de Emile Zola

  l’abbé Mouret (1875), Son Excellence Eugène Rougon (1876), et enfin L’Assommoir (1877). C'est par ce roman que Zola rencontre le succès et le scandale. Le succès permet aux Zola de s'installer. Zola publie Nana , Pot-Bouille (1882), Au bonheur des dames (1883), La Joie de vivre (1884), Germinal (1885), L’Œuvre (1886), La Terre (1887). En 1888, une jeune femme, Jeanne Rozerot, devient sa seconde compagne, et lui donne deux enfants. Zola achève ainsi Les Rougon-Mac...

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  devient sa seconde compagne, et lui donne deux enfants. Zola ach ? ve ainsi Les Rougon-Macquart ( Le R ? ve , 1888 ; La B ? te humaine , 1890 ; L ? Argent , 1891 ; La D ? bacle , 1892 ; Le Docteur Pascal , 1893), et apparait d ? sormais comme le maitre incontest ? du grand roman naturaliste apr ? s Balzac, Stendhal et Flaubert. Deux autres cycles romanesques, plus courts, prennent imm ? diatement la...

• LITTÉRATURE ESPAGNOLE : Du réalisme a nos jours - Post-Romantisme, Réalisme et Naturalisme

  fit croire à une révolution dans l'art dramatique Dans son théâtre à effet et à thèse , il passe en revue les conséquences d'une idée trop stricte du devoir (Ou folie ou sainteté ), les méfaits de la calomnie (Le Grand Galérien) ou du liberti­ nage (Vie Joyeuse et Mort Triste), les défauts de la société capitaliste (Une Tache qui purifie), les laideurs de l'arrivisme (A Force de Ramper ). Tous ces titres sont significatifs. Toutes...

• Israel (república) - geografía.

  En los últimos años se ha aumentado el número de robles enanos, de árboles de hoja caduca y de coníferas. Desde 1948 se han plantado en Israel más de 200 millones deárboles, y actualmente las zonas boscosas cubren un 8,1% del territorio. Entre las plantas y frutos de valor económico figuran los cítricos, los plátanos, el algodón, eltabaco, las uvas, los dátiles, los higos, las aceitunas, las ciruelas y las almendras. En Israel hay 116 especies conocidas de mamíferos y 180 de aves. Entre los anim...

• Aldrovandi Ulisse, 1522-1605, né à Bologne, médecin et naturaliste italien.

• España - geografía.

  2.5 Temas medioambientales La tierra básicamente montañosa y semiárida de España alberga más de 5.000 especies vegetales diferentes. Los bosques cubren el 35,4% (2005) del país, aunque estascifras incluyen formaciones de pinos y eucaliptos plantados para estabilizar el suelo o para aprovechar su pulpa, utilizada en la fabricación de papel. La tierra agrícolacomprende el 37,3% del país. Entre las áreas protegidas de España hay parques nacionales, parques naturales y regionales, reservas marítima...

• DAUBENTON, Louis (1716-1800) Naturaliste, il est le collaborateur de Buffon pour son Histoire naturelle et le créateur de la race des moutons mérinos.

• Native American Art I INTRODUCTION Native American Art, the visual works crafted by indigenous people of North America, starting after their arrival on the continent thousands of years ago and continuing until the present.

  artists in the Ohio area cut delicate flat forms from sheets of mica in the shape of birds, human figures, and large hands. They also carved quite natural-looking birdsand animals on stone platform pipes. These figures sat on the pipe’s flat base, or platform, and on some pipes they were part of the pipe bowl. Prominent people ofthese cultures were buried with a wealth of ornaments, such as jewelry of shells and copper, and headdresses elaborated with animal forms. The period of Mississippian cu...

• Republic of Singapore - country.

  Singaporeans of Chinese and Indian ancestry live in small, nuclear families. Housing favors smaller families, as most units consist of small apartments in high-risebuildings. Western clothing is common, and foods reflect the Chinese, Malay, and Indian origins of the people. D Social Issues Since Singapore became an independent state in 1965, government policies have brought orderliness and efficiency to the country. Examples are supplanting slum andsquatter areas with high-rise public housing p...

• Uruguay (country) - country.

  Freedom of religion is guaranteed by the constitution of Uruguay. Three-quarters of the people belong to the Roman Catholic Church. There are also sizable Protestantand Jewish congregations. The official language is Spanish, which in Uruguay has been influenced by Italian vocabulary and pronunciation. C Education Uruguay has one of the highest rates of literacy in Latin America, at 98.2 percent of the adult population. Six years of primary education is compulsory, and Uruguay isone of the few n...

• Fire - chemistry.

  were usually natural caves. Eventually people learned to dip branches in pitch to form torches. They created crude lamps by filling a hollowed out piece of stone withmoss soaked in oil or tallow (a substance derived from animal fat). By cooking with fire, prehistoric people made the meat of the animals they killed more palatable and digestible. They learned to preserve meat by smoking it over a fire,vastly decreasing the danger of periodic starvation. Cooking also enabled them to add some for...

• Rain Forest.

  dropped into the heart of the forest by helicopters. Suspended from the crane’s long, movable arm is a large gondola that functions as a mobile treetop laboratory.Moving from tree to tree, forest researchers collect specimens, conduct experiments, and observe life in the canopy frontier. The highest stratum of the rain forest is made up of the emergent trees, those individuals that stick up above the forest canopy. Emergents, which do not form acontinuous layer, are usually the giants of the for...

• Mythology.

  Across cultures, mythologies tend to describe similar characters. A common character is the trickster. The trickster is recklessly bold and even immoral, but through hisinventiveness he often helps human beings. In Greek mythology, Hermes (best known as the messenger of the gods) was a famous trickster. In one version of acharacteristic tale, Hermes, while still an infant, stole the cattle of his half-brother Apollo. To avoid leaving a trail that could be followed, Hermes made shoes from thebark...

• History of Chemistry - chemistry.

  even better distillation apparatus than the Arabs had made and to condense the more volatile products of distillation. Among the important products obtained in thisway were alcohol and the mineral acids: nitric, aqua regia (a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric), sulfuric, and hydrochloric. Many new reactions could be carried outusing these powerful reagents. Word of the Chinese discovery of nitrates and the manufacture of gunpowder also came to the West through the Arabs. The Chinese atfirst use...

• Guatemala - country.

  C Climate The climate of Guatemala varies according to elevation, from hot coastal plains to cold mountain heights. Most of the population lives between 900 and 2,400 m (3,000and 8,000 ft) above sea level, where there are warm days and cool nights with average annual temperatures of 20°C (68°F). The coastal regions are hot and humid,with average annual temperatures of 28°C (83°F). A rainy season, from May through October, is sometimes called “winter” because it brings cloudy afternoons andlower...

• Minnesota - geography.

  C Climate Minnesota’s climate is classified as humid continental because normally there is a sufficient amount of precipitation to provide at least some surplus for runoff, andbecause Minnesota’s temperature conditions are largely controlled by its location in the interior of the large landmass of North America. The result is extreme seasonaltemperature variations. The average January temperature is about -18°C (about 0°F) in the northwest and about -10°C (about 14°F) in the south, but thetherm...

• Minnesota - USA History.

  C Climate Minnesota’s climate is classified as humid continental because normally there is a sufficient amount of precipitation to provide at least some surplus for runoff, andbecause Minnesota’s temperature conditions are largely controlled by its location in the interior of the large landmass of North America. The result is extreme seasonaltemperature variations. The average January temperature is about -18°C (about 0°F) in the northwest and about -10°C (about 14°F) in the south, but thetherm...

• DISSERTATION : AU BONHEUR DES DAMES: Comment Zola applique-t-il le naturalisme dans une œuvre romanesque ?

  DISSERTATION : AU BONHEUR DES DAMES Émile Zola est considéré comme le chef de file du naturalisme, un mouvement littéraire de la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle. Ce courant littéraire se base sur l’idée que le roman est un témoignage précis et analytique des faits et évènements du réel. En lisant attentivement Au Bonheur des Dames, roman portant sur le monde des grands magasins, il est possible de s’interroger sur les principes du naturalisme et de la fiction. Comment Zola applique-t-il le...

• Dans ce corpus, nous allons étudier quatre textes appartenant au mouvement naturaliste et réaliste.

  de vie insupportables. D'abord, dans Germinal, Zola nous montre, à travers le rythme ternaire de l'énumération de trois propositions juxtaposées, les conditions de travail pénibles que doivent endurées les mineurs au quotidien. Ce travail est également dangereux et malsain car “l'air ne circulait pas, l'étouffement à la longue devenait mortel” mais aussi car la lampe “lui brûlait le sang”. Ensuite, dans l'extrait de Quatre-vingt-treize, nous pouvons voir que l'opposition des classes sociales se...

• Monod, Théodore Monod, Théodore (1902-2000), naturaliste et explorateur français qui a

• Brehm Alfred, 1829-1884, né à Renthendorf (près de Neustadt), naturaliste allemand.

• THE TRANSCENDENTAL DIALECTIC: THE CRITIQUE OF NATURAL THEOLOGY - KANT

• Ratzel Friedrich, 1844-1904, né à Karlsruhe, géographe allemand, naturaliste de formation.

• "Là est l'école moderne du naturalisme, la seule qui soit d'accord avec l'abandon des fables anciennes". ZOLA

  64 / Naturalisme'(et morale)• 11 On nous accuse de manquer de morale, nous autres écrivains naturalistes, et certes, oui, nous manquons de cette morale de pure rhétorique. · Emile Zola ► Zola et les écrivains naturalistes furent souvent accusés d'attenter à la moraie au point que, sous l'influence de journalistes bien-pensants, certains en vinrent à appeler un pot-de-chambre un « zola ». Dans Le Roman expérimental, recueil collectif publié...

• La Condamine ( Charles Marie de), 1701-1774, né à Paris, mathématicien et naturaliste français.

• Vogt Karl, 1817-1895, né à Giessen, naturaliste et homme politique allemand.