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• Djibouti (country) - country.

  l’Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD; Front for the Renewal of Unity and Democracy) represents the Afar minority. The Parti National Démocratique (PND; Democratic National Party) and the Parti du Renouveau Démocratique (PRD; Democratic Renewal Party) are both small opposition parties favoring democratic reforms. VI HISTORY Djibouti lies at a major global crossroads where, some 100,000 years ago, early humans migrated from Africa to the Middle East. Livestock herding, which remainsimportant...

• Vancouver (British Columbia) - geography.

  Canada from Hong Kong in the 1990s, many settling in the Vancouver metropolitan area.Lindsay Hebberd/Woodfin Camp and Associates, Inc. The population of the city of Vancouver increased from 384,500 in 1961 to 545,671 at the 2001 census, with growth in every five-year period except from 1971 to 1976. Inthe same 35-year period, the population of the Vancouver Census Metropolitan Area more than doubled, from 827,000 to 2,076,100. Between 1996 and 2001, the city’spopulation grew 8.5 percent, and met...

• Art and truth

  literature can illuminate how we ought to live has come from Martha Nussbaum. Her detailed analyses of literaryworks - the novels of Henry James in particular - set out to show that literature provides a means of extending ourmoral awareness beyond the limits to which traditional moral philosophy can take us. 'Schematic philosophers'examples', Nussbaum says, 'almost always lack the particularity, the emotive appeal, the absorbing plottedness, thevariety and indeterminacy, of good fiction;...

• Categories

  his list, or why one should feel confident that it is comprehensive ( Aristotle §7 ). To complicate matters further, there are compelling grounds for the belief that, despite the tradition, the genera of being with which the Categories deals are not (Aristotelian) categories. The word which we transliterate 'category' is employed by Aristotle to mean 'predicate' or '(type of) predication' , so that a 'category theory' ought to be a theory of predication, not of being. And in a relativ...

• Cincinnati - geography.

  and managed the Reds. The University of Cincinnati men’s basketball team enjoyed considerable success in the 1990s. IV ECONOMY Cincinnati, from its earliest beginnings, has functioned as a major port on the Ohio River. Distribution of raw materials as well as manufactured goods is one of the city’schief economic activities. Although Cincinnati remains one of the world’s leading centers for the distribution of bituminous (soft) coal, this trade is gradually declining. Coal from Kentucky and W...

• From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - anthology.

  Ignorance is a frail base for virtue! Yet, that it is the condition for which woman was organized, has been insisted upon by the writers who have most vehementlyargued in favour of the superiority of man; a superiority not in degree, but essence; though, to soften the argument, they have laboured to prove, with chivalrousgenerosity, that the sexes ought not to be compared; man was made to reason, woman to feel: and that together, flesh and spirit, they make the most perfect whole, byblending hap...

• Cavell, Stanley

  that agreement is ineliminable. Since, however, our capacity to use words presupposes some such agreement, its sceptical refusal must result in emptiness - in the sceptics' saying something other than they take themselves to mean, or in saying nothing whatever. Accordingly, scepticism must be combatted not by claiming that the repudiation of criteria is impossible or irrational, but by demonstrating its true cost. That cost turns out to be high. In so far as criteria distinguish phenomena fro...

• Colorado (river, North America) - Geography.

  sometime between AD 1300 and 1400, but their descendants, the Hopi and Pueblo people, continue to farm and irrigate using the river's waters. The first European to visit the river was probably Spanish soldier and explorer Francisco de Ulloa, who explored the mouth of the Colorado in 1539. In 1540 and 1541another Spaniard, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, traveled through much of the region around the Colorado River. An exploring party from the Coronado expedition,led by Garcia López de Cárdenas,...

• White Paper: SMEs in Morocco

  In addition to these structural weaknesses of the economic fabric, there is the predominance of the informal sector. If there are no figures on the portion of black economy in Morocco, but it is still a fact that nobody can deny: a large number of businesses, particularly small ones (the majority of the economic fabric) are only partially applying government regulation and particularly fiscal. This part of the informal activity is not i...

• SMEs in Morocco

  In addition to these structural weaknesses of the economic fabric, there is the predominance of the informal sector. If there are no figures on the portion of black economy in Morocco, but it is still a fact that nobody can deny: a large number of businesses, particularly small ones (the majority of the economic fabric) are only partially applying government regulation and particularly fiscal. This part of the informal activity is not i...

• Chad - geografía.

  El desértico ChadEl país tiene un clima tropical seco. El Sahara ocupa la mitad norte del territorio, por lo que la zona es calurosa y árida, predominandolas condiciones desérticas.Shaw McCutcheon/Bruce Coleman, Inc. Chad tiene un clima tropical seco. La zona norte es calurosa y árida y predominan las condiciones desérticas. El área central tiene tres estaciones: calurosa desde marzohasta julio, lluviosa desde julio hasta octubre, con precipitaciones medias entre 250 y 750 mm y fresco durante el...

• Calculus (mathematics) I INTRODUCTION Limits This graph, which charts the function f(x)=1x, shows that the value of the function approaches zero as x becomes larger and larger.

  DerivativesThe derivative of a function at a given point is equal to the slope of the line that is tangent to the function at that givenpoint. In this example, the derivative of f(x) at x0 is defined as the slope of AB in the limit of h going to zero. As hbecomes increasingly smaller, B moves along the curve towards A, and AB increasingly approximates T, the tangent to thecurve at x0.© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Let the dependent variable y be a function of the independent vari...

• Jamaica - geografía.

  Población jamaicanaLa población de Jamaica es ante todo de origen africano o mestiza (con europeos), descendiente de los esclavos traídos a la isla entrelos siglos XVII y XVIII. Aproximadamente la mitad de los habitantes del país reside en áreas rurales y el 18% de la población activajamaicana está vinculada a la producción agrícola.Susan McCartney/Photo Researchers, Inc. La población de Jamaica es ante todo de origen africano o mestiza (con europeos), descendiente de los esclavos traídos a la i...

• mythes et heros

  between different civilizations of the world. Consequently we can put this text in the notion of Myths and Heroes because of the traditions of Maoris’ tribe. In a second time, I would like to talk about the very famous speech of Martin Luther King Junior I Have a Dream . He pronounces his speech in Washington on the steps at the Lincoln memorial on August 28, 1963. This speech shows that in all points MLK is against segregation and injustice between black people and white people....

• SUJET NATIONAL, SESSION DE JUIN 1995 LANGUE VIVANTE I

  Her father was delighted to have his daughter home. "She was so ashamed at being expelled, she didn't feel she could talle to anyone about it," he said. "She bottled everything up• so much that she couldn't bear it any longer. The poor girl. We would have unders- 35 tood and supported her whatever happened. W e are happy she is home and love her so much." However, Samantha's fatheris critical of the Swansea University: "1 am absolutely fur...

• Ciudades y pueblos - (exposé en espagnol).

  comerciales. En los últimos tiempos está empezando a darse un fenómeno espacial que impide que los límites de la ciudad se vean claros: larururbanización . La ciudad invade el campo que la rodea y el mundo rural se urbaniza: los trabajos rurales desaparecen ante la llegada de las empresas urbanas y se construyen grandes infraestructuras de transporte. Los habitantes de la ciudad se van a vivir alcampo en busca de una mayor calidad de vida, aunque vuelven a la ciudad para trabajar todos los días:...

• locke-montesquieu

  I shall leave the question of Montesquieu's influence for another day. My purpose here is to give an account of the argument for religious toleration in the Persian Letters . But before I celebrate the virtues of Montesquieu, I’m afraid I have a few unpleasant things to say about Locke, whose treatment of the subject seems to me to be generally overrated. It’s a common observation that Locke's treatment of toleration is unhappily limited. His subject is "mutual toleration among Christ...

• From "Resistance to Civil Government" - anthology.

  intending it, as God. A very few—as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men—serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated as enemies by it. A wise man will only be useful as a man, and will not submit to be “clay,” and “stop a holeto keep the wind away,” but leave that office to his dust at least: “I am too high born to be propertied,To be a second at control,Or useful serving-man and instr...

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: AL-R-Z/ AND AL-F-R-B/

  cultural particularities. Political philosophy includes consideration of the relations between philosophy and religion,which for al-F&r&b( meant the defence of philosophy. A number of his works fit into this class. The Enumeration ofthe Sciences surveys the encyclopaedia of scientific knowledge which the Arabs have built up through theirphilology, their translations from the Greek and their own creative work: grammar and linguistics, logic, mathematics(in the broad sense of the quadrivium...

• Indian Art and Architecture I INTRODUCTION Art on the Indian Subcontinent This map highlights places in India and Pakistan where prominent examples of Indian art and architecture have been produced.

  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...

• Andorra - country.

  For 715 years Andorra was ruled jointly by Spanish and French co-princes—respectively the Bishop of Urgel and, in modern times, the president of France. Under thisarrangement, which granted Andorra a limited form of autonomy, responsibility for domestic affairs was delegated to an elected general counsel ( Consell General de las Valls ). Judicial matters, foreign affairs, and defense remained under the control of the co-princes. In March 1993 Andorrans voted to end this semifeudal system ( see...

• Electoral College.

  III HISTORY OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE A Origins One thing is clear about the political theory underpinning the electoral college: The framers of the Constitution could not agree on one. From the outset, the framerswere uncertain about how the president should be chosen. Meeting in the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1787, the framers originally decidedto have Congress choose the president, and that there should be no popular vote to elect the president. Then the Con...

• Charlottetown - Geography.

  Royalty. In 1864 Charlottetown was the site of the Charlottetown Conference, a meeting between representatives of most of the British North American colonies to discussConfederation. The meeting was a success, and led eventually to the establishment of the Dominion of Canada in 1867. Charlottetown was incorporated in 1855, with a population of 6500. On July 16, 1866, the city experienced its worst of several fires. “The Great Fire” broke out in an oldbuilding near the waterfront. It was thought...

• Encéfalo - ciencias de la naturaleza.

  que conectan estos dos hemisferios y transfieren información de uno a otro. La corteza cerebral presenta una capa superficial denominada sustancia gris, de unos 2 o 3 mm de espesor, formada por capas de células amielínicas (sin vaina de mielinaque las recubra) que envuelven una sustancia interior de fibras mielínicas (con vaina blanca) denominada sustancia blanca. Las fibras mielínicas unen la corteza cerebralcon otras partes del cerebro: la parte anterior del cerebro con la posterior, las difer...

• Japanese Art and Architecture I INTRODUCTION Otani Oniji as Eitoku Otani Oniji as Eitoku is one of a number of woodblock prints created by the artist T? sh ?sai Sharaku between 1794 and 1795 during the Edo period in Japan.

  Jō mon PotteryJapan’s J ōmon people, who thrived from 10,000 to 300 bc, made distinctive pottery for boiling, steaming, and storing food.The pots were made with coils of clay and then decorated by rolling carved sticks, plant fibers, or braided cords over theouter surface. This cord-marked (j ōmon) pottery gave the culture its name.Scala/Art Resource, NY The first settlers of Japan, the J ōmon people (10,000?-300? BC), named for the cord markings that decorated the surfaces of their clay vessel...

• Criminal Punishment.

  In the United States and Canada, younger offenders may be sentenced to highly regimented, military-style correctional programs known as boot camps. Generally,offenders volunteer to participate in boot camp programs to avoid other types of incarceration. At boot camps, officials subject offenders to strict discipline and physicaltraining. They also provide educational or vocational programs. Boot camps serve as an alternative to traditional, long-term incarceration and attempt to train offenderst...

• African Literature I INTRODUCTION African Literature, oral and written literature produced on the African continent.

  that few scholars of African culture know any African languages, and few Africans know an African language other than their own. The best-known literatures in Africanlanguages include those in Yoruba and Hausa in West Africa; Sotho, Xhosa, and Zulu in southern Africa; and Amharic, Somali, and Swahili in East Africa. In West Africa, Yoruba writing emerged after Bishop Ajayi Crowther, a former slave, developed a script for the language and in 1900 published the first Yorubatranslation of the Bible...

• Marruecos - geografía.

  17,8 ºC y la nieve cubre los picos de las montañas durante la mayor parte del año. Las precipitaciones en forma de lluvia se producen principalmente durante los meses deinvierno, siendo abundantes en el noroeste y ligeras en el este y sur. La precipitación anual es de 860 mm en Tánger, de 430 mm en Casablanca, de 280 mm en Essaouira yde 130 mm en el Sahara. 2.2 Recursos naturales La agricultura es el principal recurso económico de Marruecos, pero también son significativos sus recursos minerale...

• Artistic style

  The ancient rhetoricians discussed style in terms of rhetorical figures, both semantic (such as metaphor andpersonification) and syntactic (such as asyndeton and antithesis). Contemporary stylisticians and discourseanalysts have used modern linguistic techniques to identify particular stylistic features of poems, plays and ordinarydiscourse. Style in this sense is identified as how something is said rather than what is said: with form rather thancontent. Very different things can be s...

• ANTILLES — GUYANE, SESSION DE JUIN 1995 LANGUE VIVANTE 1- SÉRIES L ET ES/S

  courage, lustiness, the natural grasp of things. It would never corne 30 back. 1 would end up in the psychiatrie ward of the country hospi­ tal, screarning that the bridges, ail the bridges in the world, were falling down. Then a young girl opened the doorof the car and got in. "1 didn 't think anyone would pick me up on the bridge," she said. She car- 35 ried a cardboard suitcase and -believe me - a small harp in a crac­ ked waterproof. Her str...

• POLYNÉSIE FRANÇAISE, SESSION DE JUIN 1995 LANGUE VIVANTE 2 - SÉRIE L

  25 "What's so funny?" 1 finally said. It occurred tome that perhaps she was laughing at me, at my life. Maybe she had listened through the wall and heard nothing, the stagnant silence of our unhappy bouse. "Why are you laughing?" 1 demanded. "My mother kicked me out," she finally said. She talked with a 30 swaggerl, seeming to be proud of this fact. And then she snickered 6 a little and said, "We had this fight and she pushed me out th...

• Meteor Shower - astronomy.

  Meteor observations with radar work much the same way that observations with radio forward scattering observations do. With radar, the receiver and transmitter areat the same place. Both methods provide numbers of meteors per hour, without the visual observer’s dependence on a clear, dark sky. Astronomers can determine the orbit of the particle stream that creates a meteor shower by finding out the radiant of the shower and the speed of the meteors.Observers must record meteors with cameras or v...

• Native American Literature I INTRODUCTION Leslie Marmon Silko Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko is perhaps best known for her first novel, Ceremony (1977), a coming-of-age story about a young man of mixed Native American and white ancestry.

  SequoyahNative Americans did not use a complex written language before the immigration of Europeans to the Americas. In theearly 1820s the Cherokee leader Sequoyah developed an alphabet and written language for his native tongue. ManyCherokee learned the new written language readily, and in 1828 they published the first Native American newspaper,written in both Cherokee and English.THE BETTMANN ARCHIVE Before Native Americans came into contact with Europeans, many tribes supplemented the spoken...

• Embryology - biology.

  stage a portion of the minute yolk sac is enclosed in the body of the embryo to form a part of the embryonic alimentary canal. At the beginning of its fourth week theembryo, now about 4 to 5 mm (about 0.16 to 0.2 in) long, has the rudiments of eyes and ears, and each side of the neck shows four gill clefts. A tail is also present. Early in the second month the buds of the arms and legs appear. The major internal organs begin to take shape, and in about the sixth week bones and muscles beginto fo...

• Gothic Art and Architecture I INTRODUCTION Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris Notre Dame Cathedral, in Paris, was begun in 1163 and completed for the most part in 1250.

  and by external arches, called flying buttresses. Consequently, the thick walls of Romanesque architecture could be largely replaced by thinner walls with glass windows,and the interiors could reach unprecedented heights. A revolution in building techniques thus occurred. With the Gothic vault, a ground plan could take on a variety of shapes. The general plan of the cathedrals, however, consisting of a long three-aisled nave interceptedby a transept and followed by a shorter choir and sanctuary,...

• Confucian philosophy, Japanese

  1 Confucian philosophy in early Japan The earliest extant Japanese histories record that in AD 285 - the actual date was probably a century or so later - Wani, of the Korean kingdom of Paekche, brought copies of the Analects (Lunyu ; in Japanese, Rongo ) of Confucius and the Qianziwen (Thousand Character Classic; Senjimon in Japanese) from Korea to Japan ( Confucian philosophy, Korean ). Even though most scholarship on Japan tends to identify this introduction of Confucian texts with...

• 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...

• 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...

• Excerpt from Othello - anthology.

  MESSENGER. The Ottomites, reverend and gracious,Steering with due course toward the isle of Rhodes,Have there injointed with an after fleet. FIRST SENATOR. Ay, so I thought. How many, as you guess? MESSENGER. Of thirty sail; and now they do re-stemTheir backward course, bearing with frank appearanceTheir purposes toward Cyprus. Signor Montano,Your trusty and most valiant servitor,With his free duty recommends you thus,And prays you to believe him. DUKE. 'Tis certain then for Cyprus.Marcus Luccic...

• Santa Claus I INTRODUCTION Santa Claus, legendary bringer of gifts at Christmas.

  included such details as the names of the reindeer; Santa Claus's laughs, winks, and nods; and the method by which Saint Nicholas, referred to as an elf, returns up thechimney. (Moore's phrase “lays his finger aside of his nose” was drawn directly from Irving's 1809 description.) The American image of Santa Claus was further elaborated by illustrator Thomas Nast, who depicted a rotund Santa for Christmas issues of Harper's magazine from the 1860s to the 1880s. Nast added such details as Santa'...

• Relativity I INTRODUCTION Albert Einstein In 1905 German-born American physicist Albert Einstein published his first paper outlining the theory of relativity.

  in calculating very large distances or very large aggregations of matter. As the quantum theory applies to the very small, so the relativity theory applies to the verylarge. Until 1887 no flaw had appeared in the rapidly developing body of classical physics. In that year, the Michelson-Morley experiment, named after the American physicistAlbert Michelson and the American chemist Edward Williams Morley, was performed. It was an attempt to determine the rate of the motion of the earth through t...

• THE ALCHIMIST

  Pau lo C oelh o - T he A lc h em is t 2 o f 6 8 w ho l iv ed i n t h e v illa g e t h ey w ould r e ach i n a b out f o ur d ay s. H e h ad b een t o t h e v illa g e o nly o n ce, t h e y ear b efo re . T he m erc h an t w as t h e p ro prie to r o f a d ry g oods s h op, a n d h e a lw ay s d em an ded t h at t h e s h eep b e s h eare d i n h is p re se n ce, s o t h at h e w ould n ot b e c h eate d . A f r ie n d h ad t o ld t h e b oy a b out t h e s h op, a n d...

• Bohr, Niels

  in Bohr's writings. The central claim of Bohr's philosophy after EPR is the indispensability of classical concepts, supplemented by ordinary language, for unambiguous communication of experimental results. Unambiguous description presupposes a strict separation between the observed object and the observing subject. This is possible only at the classical level, where the quantum of action can be neglected. Classical concepts, guided by complementarity in different experimental arrangements,...

• Inca Empire - history.

  rediscovered the site in 1911.© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Inca society was strictly organized, from the emperor and royal family down to the peasants. The emperor was thought to be descended from the sun god, Inti, and hetherefore ruled with divine authority. All power rested in his hands. Only the influence of custom and the fear of revolt checked the emperor’s power. The emperor had oneofficial wife, but he had many royal concubines and his children by these wives often numbe...

• United States (Overview) - country.

  parts. IV UNITED STATES PEOPLE When Europeans first reached North America in the 1520s, they encountered other people—Native Americans—and they also encountered a new geography. Someimagined they were entering “a howling wilderness”—an environment filled with exotic flora and fauna but sparsely populated. In reality, they found their way to alandmass that was widely settled. But soon after the Europeans’ arrival, the population of the Americas plummeted, largely because Native Americans lacked...

• Honduras - geografía.

  2.3 Vegetación y fauna Los bosques cubren alrededor del 41% del territorio y producen maderas duras, como el palo de Campeche, y coníferas; hay un total de 7 especies de pino hondureño. Lasselvas cubren cerca de un tercio del territorio. Los bosques de encinas y de pinos son numerosos en las zonas frías más altas. Hay, además, especies maderables nobles,como la caoba, el ébano y otras. Los pastizales de sabana cubren las regiones más secas de Honduras; los más fértiles sirven de base para la im...

• Baroque Art and ArchitectureIINTRODUCTIONGerman Baroque ArchitectureThe baroque style of architecture flourished in Germany in the 18th century.

  C Early baroque styles Conversion of Saint PaulItalian baroque painter Caravaggio painted scenes of realism and drama, often selecting lofty, religious themes anddepicting them with lower-class characters and settings with dramatic spotlighting. With its unidealized characters andfocus on the horse’s body, his Conversion of Saint Paul seems to record a stable accident, not a miraculous conversion byGod. This work was painted in 1601 and is in the Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, It...

• European Union .

  safeguard the interests of the member states, a common assembly with advisory authority only, and a court of justice to settle disputes. D European Economic Community (EEC) In 1957 the participants in the ECSC signed two more treaties, known as the Treaties of Rome. These treaties created the European Atomic Energy Community(Euratom) for the development of peaceful uses of atomic energy and, most important, the European Economic Community (EEC, often referred to as the CommonMarket). The EEC tr...

• Children's Literature I INTRODUCTION Kate Greenaway's May Day The delicate skill and graceful simplicity of English artist Kate Greenaway's illustrations delighted children and impressed thinkers, including art critic John Ruskin.

  With the development of vernacular literature, particularly after the invention of printing, more children's books appeared. The publications of the first English printer,William Caxton, included the Book of Curtesye (1477), a collection of rhymes that sets forth rules of conduct for a “goodly chylde.” Eight years later Caxton printed Le Morte d'Arthur (1469-1470; The Death of Arthur ) by English translator and compiler Sir Thomas Malory, which became the basis for later treatments of the A...

• Johann Sebastian Bach I INTRODUCTION Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German composer and one of the world's greatest musical geniuses.

  Bach served nine years at the Weimar court, first as organist and then, from 1714, as concertmaster as well. His employer, Wilhelm Ernst, duke of Weimar, was a greatadmirer of the organ, and spurred by the duke’s enthusiasm Bach proceeded to compose a vast number of unprecedented works for the instrument: the Orgelbüchlein (“Little Organ Book”), a collection of small chorale preludes for the church year; the so-called Great Eighteen Chorales of larger size; and a series of dramatic preludes a...