1980 résultats pour "humanités"
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Elephant - biology.
B Trunk An elephant's nose and upper lip are combined in a long, limber trunk, an exceptionally supple appendage with an estimated 150,000 muscles. The versatile trunk actslike a hand for grasping low-growing shrubs and other food and placing it into the mouth; an arm for breaking off tree branches; or a snorkel for breathing when theelephant's body is submerged. Elephants also use their trunks to suck up water and squirt it into their mouths for drinking or over their bodies for bathing. Nostr...
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Charles Dickens.
The Old Curiosity Shop broke hearts across Britain and North America when it first appeared. Later readers, however, have found it excessively sentimental, especially the pathos surrounding the death of its child-heroine Little Nell. Dickens’s next two works proved less popular with the public. Barnaby Rudge, Dickens’s first historical novel, revolves around anti-Catholic riots that broke out in London in 1780. The events in Martin Chuzzlewit become a vehicle for the novel’s theme: selfishne...
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Acid Rain.
the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, a quarter of the lakes and ponds are acidic, and many have lost their brook trout and other fish. In the middleAppalachian Mountains, over 1,300 streams are afflicted. All of Norway’s major rivers have been damaged by acid rain, severely reducing salmon and trout populations. E Plants and Animals The effects of acid rain on wildlife can be far-reaching. If a population of one plant or animal is adversely affected by acid rain, animals that feed on tha...
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L'humanité se définit-elle par la culture ?
On ne peut pas parler d'humanité sans culture Au sens strict, un homme sans culture n'est ni un être humain, ni un animal, ni une plante. Soit l'on parle de l'homme et l'on est forcé de se reporter à la culture. Soit l'on parle d'une créature vouée à la déchéance. Un homme sans culture n'est pas un homme S ans contact avec ses semblables, le nour- risson ne développera de lui-même aucune faculté, qu'il s'agisse des "Ce qui s'élabore au cours de l'hominisation, c'es...
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Capitalism.
Physiocracy is the term applied to a school of economic thought that suggested the existence of a natural order in economics, one that does not require direction from the state for people to be prosperous. The leader of the physiocrats, the economist François Quesnay, set forth the basic principles in his Tableau économique (1758), in which he traced the flow of money and goods through the economy. Simply put, this flow was seen to be both circular and self-sustaining. More important, however...
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Diving (underwater).
compensator (or control) device (BCD or BC), which the diver wears as a vest. By adding air to the BCD, the diver becomes more buoyant and rises. By releasing air,the diver becomes less buoyant and sinks. With minor adjustments of air, the diver can achieve neutral buoyancy. A third hose attaches to pressure gauges that diversuse to monitor how much air remains in the tank. A fourth hose attaches to a backup breathing device called an alternate air source, or octopus. Divers also wear a belt w...
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Nanotechnology.
ever-finer method of reducing material to the nanoscale size. Instead, nanostructures would be assembled atom by atom and molecule by molecule, from the atomiclevel up, just as occurs in nature. However, assembly at this scale has its own challenges. In school, children learn about some of these challenges when they study the random Brownian motion seen in particles suspended in liquids such as water. Theparticles themselves are not moving. Rather, the water molecules that surround the particles...
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Maya Civilization.
destruction was directed mostly at temples in the ceremonial precincts; it had little or no impact on the economy or population of a city as a whole. Some city-states didoccasionally conquer others, but this was not a common occurrence until very late in the Classic period when lowland civilization had begun to disintegrate. Until thattime, the most common pattern of Maya warfare seems to have consisted of raids employing rapid attacks and retreats by relatively small numbers of warriors, most o...
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Maya Civilization - History.
destruction was directed mostly at temples in the ceremonial precincts; it had little or no impact on the economy or population of a city as a whole. Some city-states didoccasionally conquer others, but this was not a common occurrence until very late in the Classic period when lowland civilization had begun to disintegrate. Until thattime, the most common pattern of Maya warfare seems to have consisted of raids employing rapid attacks and retreats by relatively small numbers of warriors, most o...
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Czech Republic - country.
enforcement of environmental regulations. Environmental considerations have also led some government officials to promote nuclear energy as a key source of powerfor the country’s future. The Czech Republic produces most of its energy by burning domestic coal. Much of the coal burned is low quality with a high ash and sulfur content—a key componentof acid rain—producing high levels of air pollution. Forests in the Czech Republic are among the most seriously affected by acid rain in all of Europe....
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Zimbabwe - country.
contamination—especially from the dieldrin and DDT used in tsetse fly control—has significantly affected wildlife and human health. III PEOPLE AND SOCIETY OF ZIMBABWE In 2008 Zimbabwe’s population was estimated to be 12,382,920, giving the country a population density of 32 persons per sq km (83 per sq mi). With a birth rate of27 per 1,000 and a death rate of 22 per 1,000, Zimbabwe’s population growth rate is 0.6 percent. Life expectancy at birth was estimated at 40 years in 2008, downfrom 59...
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Peut-on concevoir une humanité sans technique ?
passer à l'acte avec le silex. Par ailleurs, il y a conservation de cet outil, ce qui signifie que l'homme sait qu'il vapouvoir s'en servir ultérieurement. II. la technique est essentielle a. La technique n'est pas forcément un éloignement de la nature humaine, elle peut en être sa prolongation. Toute la technique ne se résume pas à la technique moderne, elle peut être aussi la simple fabrication d'outils, lacréation d'appareillage pour soulager l'homme d'efforts difficiles mais pourtant n...
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Astronomy - astronomy.
Telescopes may use either lenses or mirrors to gather visible light, permitting direct observation or photographic recording of distant objects. Those that use lenses arecalled refracting telescopes, since they use the property of refraction, or bending, of light ( see Optics: Reflection and Refraction ). The largest refracting telescope is the 40-in (1-m) telescope at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, founded in the late 19th century. Lenses bend different colors of light by d...
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human flow english
Human Flow (Ai Weiwei, 2017) Opening – Global Context The documentary begins with global facts about displacement: over 65 million people forcibly displaced, the largest number since World War II. Ai Weiwei introduces migration as a global reality, showing aerial views of desert, sea, and camps. The tone establishes the humanitarian scale of the crisis. Middle East – Syria and Iraq Scenes move to conflict areas in the Middle East. Written facts indicate...
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United States History - U.
and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...
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United States History - U.
and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...
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RABELAIS François : sa vie et son oeuvre
Profil de l'œuvre romanesque des placards, l'évangélisme connaît sa plus belle heure : On peut supposer que des préoccupations si nettement et si constamment manifestées ne seront pas absentes du roman de Rabelais. Même si ce serait Je défigurer que de n'y voir qu'une œuvr e à thèse, on ne saurait nier que l'auteur ne l'inscrive dans son temps et n'y pose les questions qui préoccupent son époque. Les deux premiers livres furent publiés pres...
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Explication de texte. Extrait de l'ouvrage de H. Bergson : « Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion »: « les mentalités primitives »
étant celle que le primitif utilisera, la seconde étant celle à laquelle recourra le scientifique. Bergson, à travers son texte, transcrit directement l'idée qu'il a vis à vis des croyances, et plus directement de la religion. Il utilise des exemples concret auxquels l'Homme est susceptible de faire face durant sa vie. « Quand le primitif fait appel à une cause mystique pour expliquer la mort, la maladie ou tout autre accident, quelle est au juste l'opération à laquelle il se livr...
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Faut-il regretter la multiplicité des langues ?
En effet, Saussure abandonne une conception pauvre du mot qui en faisait le simple véhicule du sens, car dans la pratique de la langue, le sens se construit plutôt qu'ilne se forme préalablement dans l'esprit pour se couler ensuite, en une seconde opération, dans la matière linguistique et sonore. Ce n'est en effet que par abstractionque nous dissocions la pensée et la parole, dans la mesure où la pensée même silencieuse s'articule en un discours intérieur, et dans la mesure où il n'existeconcrè...
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Y-a-t-il un devoir de mémoire dans l'histoire?
"Le devoir est la nécessité d'accomplir une action par respect pour la loi." Fondements de la Métaphysique desmoeurs, S'il n'y a pas d'histoire proprement dite, là où tous les événements dérivent nécessairement et régulièrement les unsdes autres, en vertu des lois constantes par lesquelles le système est régi, et sans concours accidentel d'influencesétrangères au système que la théorie embrasse, il n'y a pas non plus d'histoire, dans le vrai sens du mot, pour unesuite d'événements qui seraien...
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Le travail est-il servitude ?
C'est seulement par le risque de sa vie que l'on conserve sa liberté.HEGEL C'est dans l'un des plus fameux passages de la « Phénoménologie de l'esprit »,qui décrit la lutte à mort pour la reconnaissance avant que d'aborder ladialectique du maître et de l'esclave, que Hegel déclare : « C'est seulementpar le risque de sa vie que l'on conserve la liberté. »Hegel entend montrer que la rencontre avec autrui prend logiquement laforme d'un conflit, d'une lutte, dont le risque est la mort...
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Geographic Exploration.
The commercial reason for exploration has been a consistent driving force. In 1492 the great navigator Christopher Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic Oceanseeking a new, shorter, and cheaper route to reach the riches of East Asia, and Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama circumnavigated Africa for much the same reason.Yet similar investigations of the profitable eastern trade had already been made by Arab sailors. Arab trading ships were sailing from the Arabian Sea to southeasternAsia probab...
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Geographic Exploration - explorer.
The commercial reason for exploration has been a consistent driving force. In 1492 the great navigator Christopher Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic Oceanseeking a new, shorter, and cheaper route to reach the riches of East Asia, and Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama circumnavigated Africa for much the same reason.Yet similar investigations of the profitable eastern trade had already been made by Arab sailors. Arab trading ships were sailing from the Arabian Sea to southeasternAsia probab...
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Mars (planet) - astronomy.
The Martian core is probably much like Earth’s, consisting mostly of iron, with a small amount of nickel. If other light elements, particularly sulfur, exist there as well, thecore may be larger than presently thought. From studying Earth’s magnetic field and core, scientists theorize that the motions of the liquid rock in Earth’s core generateits magnetic field. Mars does not have a significant magnetic field, so scientists believe that Mars’s core is probably solid. However, spacecraft data in...
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Michel de montaigne- les monstres
2L'humanité de l'enfant : Il commence par ce qu'il y a de normal chez l'enfant : entre les lignes 3 et 5, il y a une é num ération des éléments qui pr ésente la normalit é de l'enfant, il marche et émet des sons comme tous les autres enfants. 3Une description rationnelle : Le mot monstre n'est plus utilis é, vocabulaire pr écis et simple : "tetins"l6 "tete"l7 "canal du dos"l8. Il dit "un autre enfant" : prouvant la nature humaine de l'excroissance et non fabuleuse. Il anticipe les ...
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Pantagruel de Rabelais
• Médecine : en particulier la dissection. Rabelais a pratiqué la dissection.• Biologie (passage où il parle de la flore. Gargantua doit connaître en détail cela même si s'est peu important) On constate que l'enseignement artistique n'a pas beaucoup d'importance, à l'exception de la musique. III. Idéal social, moral et religieux: a) Un idéal social et moral• L'homme du 16ème siècle est tourné vers les autres (= solidarité). C'est l'esprit humaniste. Solidarité entre leshommes.L'auteur parle d'un...
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Indian Literature
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INTRODUCTION
Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
Indian author Arundhati Roy poses with a copy of her acclaimed first novel, The God of Small Things (1997).
Mathura BuddhaMany of the earliest texts of Indian literature were religious writings of Buddhism. This Buddha figure carved out ofsandstone is from Mathura, a city in northern India that was at the center of Buddhist sculptural activity from the 2ndcentury bc to the 6th century ad.Angelo Hornak/Corbis The sacred Vedas were composed in Old Sanskrit by Aryan poet-seers between about 1500 BC and about 1000 BC. The Vedas are compilations of two major literary forms: hymns of praise to nature deit...
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Biel, Gabriel
Aquinas and above all Duns Scotus. A wide-ranging dialogue with various philosophers and theologians makes Biel's work valuable as an encyclopedic overview of the diversity in Western thought at the end of the Middle Ages. Biel seeks an integration not only of the ancient and modern 'ways' but also of knowledge and piety. His Canonis misse expositio (1488) is a remarkable example of the symbiosis between late medieval theology and spirituality. The pragmatic tendency of Biel's thought...
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A-t-on le droit de se taire quand on connaît la vérité ?
1. Il vaut mieux parler ici de véracité que de vérité : la question n'est pas de savoir si on doit dire la vérité mais sion doit dire ce que l'on croit être la vérité. Je puis me tromper ; mais puis-je tromper ? 2. Or la véracité est un devoir universel, car elle est source du droit : ériger en principe la possibilité d'une faussedéclaration ou d'une fausse promesse ruinerait les engagements et les contrats réciproques entre les hommes. 3. Le mensonge nuit donc toujours : sinon à un particulier,...
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Cambio climático - geografía.
relevante que influye en la dinámica del clima en la Tierra. El hielo presente en las regiones polares proporciona datos sobre la composición de la antigua atmósfera de la Tierra. Los núcleos de hielo analizados por los científicos,procedentes de las placas de hielo de Groenlandia y de la Antártida, ofrecen información sobre la temperatura y los gases de efecto invernadero presentes en la atmósferade hace cientos de miles de años. Las capas de estos núcleos de hielo formadas por las nevadas esta...
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Cambio climático - ciencias de la naturaleza.
relevante que influye en la dinámica del clima en la Tierra. El hielo presente en las regiones polares proporciona datos sobre la composición de la antigua atmósfera de la Tierra. Los núcleos de hielo analizados por los científicos,procedentes de las placas de hielo de Groenlandia y de la Antártida, ofrecen información sobre la temperatura y los gases de efecto invernadero presentes en la atmósferade hace cientos de miles de años. Las capas de estos núcleos de hielo formadas por las nevadas esta...
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Ancient Egypt.
around 4500 BC. The style and decoration of the pottery found at these sites differ from those of pottery found in Upper Egypt. The northern type eventually fell out of use. Other differences between the peoples in Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt include the nature of their architecture and the arrangements for burial of the dead, thelatter perhaps signifying differing religious beliefs. B Unification and Early Dynastic Period By 3500 BC, the settlement of Hierakonpolis, located on the west bank...
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Ancient Egypt - USA History.
around 4500 BC. The style and decoration of the pottery found at these sites differ from those of pottery found in Upper Egypt. The northern type eventually fell out of use. Other differences between the peoples in Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt include the nature of their architecture and the arrangements for burial of the dead, thelatter perhaps signifying differing religious beliefs. B Unification and Early Dynastic Period By 3500 BC, the settlement of Hierakonpolis, located on the west bank...
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Nietzsche et la pitié
qui est toujours trop complaisante avec les faibles et très dure avec les forts. Pour preuve la vie difficile qu'ont eue tous les génies et tous les grands esprits. Combien d'entre eux ont vécu pauvres, ignorés, méprisés, humiliés, avant d'être parfois emprisonnés ou assassinés ! À l'inverse, combien d'êtres faibles, médiocres, sans talent ni profondeur, ont reçu richesses, honneurs, considérations de toutes sortes ! Pourquoi le monde est il si dur avec...
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Australia - country.
itself forms most of the border between New South Wales and Victoria. Considerable lengths of the Murray, Darling, and Murrumbidgee rivers are navigable during thewet seasons. The central plains region, also known as the Channel Country, is interlaced by a network of rivers. During the rainy season these rivers flood the low-lying countryside,but in dry months they become merely a series of water holes. The Victoria, Daly, and Roper rivers drain a section of the Northern Territory. In Queensland...
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Australia - Geography.
itself forms most of the border between New South Wales and Victoria. Considerable lengths of the Murray, Darling, and Murrumbidgee rivers are navigable during thewet seasons. The central plains region, also known as the Channel Country, is interlaced by a network of rivers. During the rainy season these rivers flood the low-lying countryside,but in dry months they become merely a series of water holes. The Victoria, Daly, and Roper rivers drain a section of the Northern Territory. In Queensland...
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animal farm
knew that the pigs guaranteed by the revolution would end badly. Sheep, these animals don't understand anything, they follow the strongest and they have no opinion, and follow all orders pigs. So they always acclaim the revolutionary refrain « Four legs, yes! Two legs, no! » Then « Four legs good, two legs better! » . The sheep represent the masses which are highlighted in this policy. Dogs are nine big beasts constituting the personal guard of Napoleon, and which allow this one...
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Commentaire texte de Nietzsche
Il nous explique ensuite que ces envies-là trouvent leur origine dans la pensée de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau est un philosophe du siècle précédent qui croit en « une bonté de l’humaine nature » dès l’origine. Avec le groupe de mots « miraculeusement originelle » placé aussitôt après, l'auteur tourne en ridicule cette pensée car selon lui, cela n'aurait pas de sens. Il appuie donc sur le mot « miraculeusement » pour sous-entendre sa critique. Selon Rousseau, cette bonté originelle est...
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Dignité et destinée de l'homme ?
le cours de la providence, mais il nous est demandé de «transformer le monde» pour en faire un séjour digne del'homme.Cependant l'attitude marxiste conserve quelque chose — en le transposant — de l'optimisme religieux. Il y a làl'espoir et l'attente d'une réconciliation de l'homme avec lui-même et avec la nature. Tandis que pour un Camus,pour un Malraux, il subsiste toujours un divorce douloureux entre les exigences de l'esprit, du coeur humain et lesréalités tragiques et absurdes de l'his...
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Genèse - résumé.
Babel et la généalogie des ancêtres d’Abraham, qui termine cette partie, ne cessent d’affirmer l’unité de l’humanité. 2.1. 2 Histoire des Patriarches (XII-L) Tiepolo (Giambattista), le Sacrifice d'IsaacVoulant éprouver la foi d'Abraham, Dieu lui demande de sacrifier son fils Isaac. Au moment fatidique, Dieu accepte que l'enfant soitremplacé par un bélier. L'épisode, relaté dans la Genèse, est le sujet choisi par Tiepolo pour réaliser un décor de plafond d'une grandeélégance, empreint d'une impo...
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Vico
■ Indications générales
La langue, mémoire de l'humanité
Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) est un philo
sophe italien du xvm• siècle....
Vico ■ Indications générales La langue, mémoire de l'humanité Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) est un philo sophe italien du xvm• siècle. Avec sa«science nouvelle» (la Scienza Nuova, 1725), il bâtit une vaste fresque reconstituant l'histoire de l'humanité à partir du principe « verum est factum»: «le vrai, c'est le fait même»: les actions humaines sont l'avènement historique de la vérité, et le philosophe, comme un géo mètre de l'humanité, doit en retracer les contours. Dans cette entreprise,...
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Atificiel
Sustainability 2019,11 , 189 2 of 24Since the 1980s, many research was conducted to minimize the error of prediction through a method dubbed as gradient descent. This method is referred to as a Backpropagation algorithm for the training of the ANNs and it was applied to solve problems in different domains using few hidden layers [ 5,6]. Today, the availability of data has introduced the concept of machine learning as a subcategory to AI. Machine learning implies coding the computers to behave l...
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Dance
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INTRODUCTION
Dance
Archive Films/BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.
features in its dance styles. The ordinary potential of the body can be expanded in dance, usually through long periods of specialized training. In ballet, for example, the dancer exercises to rotate,or turn out, the legs at the hips, making it possible to lift the leg high in an arabesque. In India, some dancers learn to choreograph their eyeballs and eyebrows.Costuming can extend the body's capabilities. Toe or pointe shoes, stilts, and flying harnesses are a few of the artificial aids employe...
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Sound
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INTRODUCTION
Sound, physical phenomenon that stimulates the sense of hearing.
A fundamental law of harmony states that two notes an octave apart, when sounded together, produce a pleasant-sounding combination. Other combinations of notescan also be pleasing. Physically, an interval of a fifth consists of two notes, the frequencies of which bear the arithmetical ratio 3 to 2, and a major third, the ratio 5 to4. Fundamentally, the law of harmony states that two or more notes sound pleasant when played together if their frequencies bear small, whole number ratios; if thefreq...
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Indian Art and Architecture
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INTRODUCTION
Art on the Indian Subcontinent
This map highlights places in India and Pakistan where prominent examples of Indian art and architecture have been
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Sun Temple of KonarakThis 13th-century relief depicting a wheel of the chariot of Indian sun god Surya is situated in the Konarak temple. Thetemple, dedicated to Surya, is situated at Puri in the Gulf of Bengal.Keren Su/Corbis The arts of India expressed in architecture, sculpture, painting, jewelry, pottery, metalwork, and textiles, were spread throughout the Far East with the diffusion ofBuddhism and Hinduism and exercised a strong influence on the arts of China, Japan, Myanmar (formerly known...
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Mesopotamian Art and Architecture
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Mesopotamian Art and Architecture, the arts and buildings of the ancient Middle Eastern civilizations that developed in the area (now Iraq) between the Tigris and
Euphrates rivers from prehistory to the 6th century
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arts. III EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD Figures from Tell AsmarCreated around 2700 bc, these stone figures are from the city of Tell Asmar in what today is Iraq. From the Temple ofAbu, the statuettes stood in watchful prayer with the wide, staring eyes often found in Sumerian sculpture. The figuresare in the Iraq Museum, Baghdād, Iraq.Art Resource, NY The first historical epoch of Sumerian dominance lasted from about 3000 BC until about 2340 BC. While earlier architectural traditions continued, a ne...
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Les hommes doivent-ils travailler pour être humains?
l'abeille la plus experte, c'est qu'il a construit la cellule dans sa tête avant de la construire dans sa ruche », explique Marx . Il s'agit donc d'une activité consciente et réfléchie, qui présuppose une capacité à se représenter des fins. Par le travail, l'homme extériorise ces fins, qui sontaussi les siennes : reprenant l'analyse de Hegel , Marx conclut que l'homme se produit lui-même, qu'il est le résultat de son travail, au sens où, pris dans la sphère des besoins naturels, l'homme conq...
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Les Mouvements littéraires
l'Europe et à l'Amérique, où il survivra jusque dans les années 1950. Les mouvements qui ont supplanté le réalismeincluent le symbolisme, insuffisamment défini en face du naturalisme plus rigoureux[2], le parnasse et le surréalisme. -Naturalisme (1870-1890)Le Naturalisme est un mouvement littéraire qui prolonge le réalisme et qui s'attache à peindre la réalité ens'appuyant sur un travail de documentation minutieuse et en s'inspirant des sciences expérimentales. Dans laseconde moit...
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Reproduction - biology.
E Gestation After fertilization of the egg, the resulting zygote undergoes cell division and differentiation to form the embryo. In most higher plants, the embryo is enclosed in a layerof nutritive material surrounded by a hard outer covering, forming the seed. In most lower animals the embryo, surrounded by the nutritive material of the formerovum, is enveloped by a leathery or calcareous shell and is extruded from the body of the female. Animals, such as birds, that lay their eggs before the...
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Paul Eluard, Pouvoir tout dire. Monographies
« Des baisers ils font des hommes » Eluard souligne ainsi la continuité dans la création. Mais si l'action de l'homme peut être un prolongement de ce qui lui est donné, elle constitue bien souvent unrenversement de l'ordre des choses. Il ne s'agit plus de faire mais de « changer ». Le vieux rêve alchimique de latransmutation des métaux trouve un équivalent dans le passage d'un élément « l'eau » à un autre « la lumière » ;mais ici rien de magique, c'est l'action pure des hommes, de tous les...
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