399 résultats pour "individuals"

• Coral - biology.

  Soft corals lack a distinct skeleton. Although they live in colonies, the individual polyps are fused into a complex body, usually strengthened by small lumps or spikesknown as sclerites, which are made of protein and calcite. Soft corals come in a variety of shapes, including undulating sheets, upright mushroomlike shapes, andbeautiful shapes that form branches. A number of other octocorals have skeletons made from a hard or horny protein, sometimes strengthened with more brittle calcareous dep...

• Folk Dance I INTRODUCTION Traditional Irish Dancing Irish dancing comprises mainly reels and jigs and may be accompanied by lively folk music played on the fiddle, harp, or bagpipes.

  Highland Games and DancesHighland dances are part of the Highland Games, a series of events held annually in various parts of Scotland, Canada,and the United States. Dance historians point out that warriors from the Scottish Highlands once went into battle dancingand playing the bagpipes. Highland dances, performed to music played on bagpipes or fiddles, remain an important part ofScottish culture.Courtesy of BBC Worldwide Americas. All Rights Reserved. Folk dances are usually thought to be simp...

• Protestantism.

  F England The Anglican Church became the established church in England when Henry VIII assumed (1534) the ecclesiastical authority over the English church that had previouslybeen exercised by the pope. Henry’s motive was to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragón rather than to reform church doctrine, and he imposed severe lawsupholding the major tenets of medieval Catholicism. Under King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth, however, the Anglican Church developed a distinctly Protestant creedthat w...

• Music I INTRODUCTION World Music Tour Click on the instruments to hear music from around the world.

  Duke EllingtonAmerican composer, bandleader, and pianist Duke Ellington endures as perhaps the most important pioneer in big-bandjazz. Ellington and his orchestra shared a special interdependent relationship: Using the band as his musical workshop,Ellington derived his orchestra’s tone coloring from the unique sound qualities of the group’s individual players. Thisparticular style was later dubbed the “Ellington Effect” by jazz arranger Billy Strayhorn, who also wrote one of the band’ssignature...

• Medical Ethics.

  medical profession. In recent years, however, the field of medical ethics has struggled to keep pace with the many complex issues raised by new technologies for creating and sustaininglife. Artificial-respiration devices, kidney dialysis, and other machines can keep patients alive who previously would have succumbed to their illnesses or injuries.Advances in organ transplantation have brought new hope to those afflicted with diseased organs. New techniques have enabled prospective parents to con...

• « Qui est appelé à vivre parmi les hommes ne doit repousser d'une manière absolue aucune individualité, du moment qu'elle est déjà déterminée et donnée par la nature, l'individualité fût-elle la plus méchante, la plus pitoyable ou la plus ridicule. » Schopenhauer, Aphorismes sur la sagesse dans la vie, 1851. Commentez cette citation.

• Commentaire de texte - Tocqueville - De la démocratie en amérique Tome II / 1ère partie / chap. 2

  Cependant, en considérant « l'homme à part », Tocqueville émet l'idée que les « croyances communes » sontnécessaires à l'épanouissement d'une société, mais aussi à l'homme, dans son élévation personnelle. Au niveau individuel tout comme au niveau collectif, il est impossible de se passer des « croyances dogmatiques ».Chaque jour, nous effectuons quantité d'actions, nous émettons des idées, des hypothèses, effectuer la vérification dechacune de ces idées nous prendrait un temps inf...

• Le travail fonde-t-il le droit de propriété ?

  mental et moral : ce ne sont pas les peuples qu'une nature clémente dispense du souci de l'alimentation qui sont àla tête du progrès; au contraire, leur insouciance même les fixe au stade d'une perpétuelle enfance. C'est dans letravail que l'intelligence se développe,, que la volonté se fortifie et que s'achève le type humain reçu à l'étatd'ébauche à la naissance.La propriété se présente comme un corollaire du travail : elle assure à l'individu le fruit de ses efforts (dans un paysoù les...

• 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...

• Cours de science politique et sociale

  en compte uniquement les avantages matériels.Ainsi le choix du candidat pour lequel on va voter est aussi basé sur les valeurs et non uniquement sur les avantages matériels qu'on espère en retirer. L'électorat degauche aussi bien que celui de droite est très large sur le plan économique. On trouve aussi bien des riches de gauche, même si la gauche veut augmenter les impôtset donc aller contre leurs intérêts économiques personnels, que des pauvres de droite, même si la droite veut baisser les imp...

• Obesity.

  of a day, contributing to the development of obesity. V TREATMENTS FOR OBESITY Obesity can become a chronic lifelong condition caused by overeating, physical inactivity, and even genetic makeup. No matter what the cause, however, obesity can beprevented or managed with a combination of diet, exercise, behavior modification, and in severe cases, weight-loss medications and surgery. A Diets The most common and conservative treatment for obesity utilizes a nutritionally balanced, low calorie diet...

• Michael Jordan.

  playoffs the Bulls pushed the Pistons to seven games in the Eastern Conference Finals before losing again. As he grew older, Jordan made a concerted effort to help his teammates reach their own potential. The result of his renewed commitment to team-oriented play was theBulls’ first NBA championship title. After the 1990-91 season the Bulls swept the Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals and then defeated the Los Angeles Lakers inthe NBA Finals. Jordan won the league MVP award for the second...

• Michael Jordan I INTRODUCTION Michael Jordan, born in 1963, American professional basketball player, considered by many to be the greatest player in basketball history.

  playoffs the Bulls pushed the Pistons to seven games in the Eastern Conference Finals before losing again. As he grew older, Jordan made a concerted effort to help his teammates reach their own potential. The result of his renewed commitment to team-oriented play was theBulls’ first NBA championship title. After the 1990-91 season the Bulls swept the Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals and then defeated the Los Angeles Lakers inthe NBA Finals. Jordan won the league MVP award for the second...

• Reproductive System.

  in which the young develop, and a thinner channel, the vagina, which opens exteriorly. V GENITALS In animals that lay their eggs and discharge their sperm into water, the spermatozoa reach the eggs by chemical attraction; the eggs of individuals of a species attractonly the sperm of members of the same species. When eggs and sperm are deposited at great distances from each other, the number of eggs fertilized is small. Manyamphibians and aquatic vertebrates solve this problem by attaching thems...

• 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...

• Blood.

  substances. For example, a person who is blood type A positive will not make antibodies against the A or Rh markers, but will make antibodies against the B marker,which is not on that person’s own red blood cells. If blood containing the B marker (from types B positive, B negative, AB positive, or AB negative) is transfused into thisperson, then the transfused red blood cells will be rapidly destroyed by the patient’s anti-B antibodies. In this case, the transfusion will do the patient no good a...

• Fungus - biology.

  Many fungi can reproduce by the fragmentation of their hyphae. Each fragment develops into a new individual. Yeast, a small, single-celled fungus, reproduces bybudding, in which a bump forms on the yeast cell, eventually partitioning from the cell and growing into a new yeast cell. V CLASSIFICATION OF FUNGI Scientists have long disagreed about how to classify fungi, and the classification systems are still developing. The first description of fungi was published in 1729 byItalian botanist Pier...

• Dolphin (aquatic mammal) - biology.

  Scientists have observed dolphins displaying three types of caregiving behaviors: standing by, excitement, and supporting. In standing-by behavior, dolphins remain inthe vicinity of an injured or ill companion without offering aid. In excitement behavior, dolphins swim swiftly in circles around an injured dolphin, responding aggressivelytoward threats to the injured animal. For instance, they may bite harpoon lines or charge boats that come too close to the animal. In supporting behavior, one or...

• Metalwork I INTRODUCTION Metalwork, in the fine arts, objects of artistic, decorative, and utilitarian value made of one or more kinds of metal--from precious to base--fashioned by either casting, hammering, or joining or a combination of these techniques.

  Early Bronze DiskThis disk with the head of Acheloos, an Etruscan river god, was made of bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, sometime inthe early 5th century bc. It comes from the necropolis of Monte Quaglieri in Tarquinia. Alloys are made by smelting twodifferent metals together.Scala/Art Resource, NY Knowledge of smelting ultimately led to knowledge of mixing different ores together in the smelting process to produce simple alloys. This followed an intermediateperiod, about 3000 BC, when comp...

• Supreme Court of Canada.

  whether the leave to appeal will be granted and the case heard by the Court. The Court has no specified criteria by which it determines whether to grant leave, and the Court does not give reasons for its decision. The key factor appears to be acase’s degree of national importance. Other factors might include the impact of uncertainty in the challenged law, the case’s appropriateness for developing the law torespond to changing social needs, and the presence of a split decision at the court of ap...

• Holocaust I INTRODUCTION Holocaust, the almost complete destruction of Jews in Europe by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II (1939-1945).

  relation to the Jews. He claimed that the Jews had achieved economic dominance and the ability to control and manipulate the mass media to their own advantage. Hewrote of the need to eradicate their powerful economic position, if necessary by means of their physical removal. IV UNIQUENESS OF NAZI ANTI-SEMITISM The linking of anti-Semitic accusations to race struggle is what made Nazism so genocidal. The Nazis believed the Jews were responsible for what they regarded as thedegeneracy of modern...

• Holocaust .

  relation to the Jews. He claimed that the Jews had achieved economic dominance and the ability to control and manipulate the mass media to their own advantage. Hewrote of the need to eradicate their powerful economic position, if necessary by means of their physical removal. IV UNIQUENESS OF NAZI ANTI-SEMITISM The linking of anti-Semitic accusations to race struggle is what made Nazism so genocidal. The Nazis believed the Jews were responsible for what they regarded as thedegeneracy of modern...

• Stone Age.

  limestone, quartzite, and indurated shale. Ground stone tools could be made on a wider range of raw material types, including coarser grained rock such as granite. Flaking produces several different types of stone artifacts, which archaeologists look for at prehistoric sites. The parent pieces of rock from which chips have beendetached are called cores, and the chips that have been removed from cores are called flakes. A flake that has had yet smaller flakes removed from one or more edgesin orde...

• Terrorism.

  exploitation, ethnic discrimination, and religious persecution. Perceived inequities in the distribution of wealth and political power have led some terrorists to attempt tooverthrow democratically elected governments. To achieve a fairer society, they would replace these governments with socialist or communist regimes. Left-wingterrorist groups of the 1960s and 1970s with such aims included Germany’s Baader-Meinhof Gang, Italy’s Red Brigades, and the Weather Underground ( see Weathermen) in the...

• French Revolution.

  B2 Assembly of Notables and Estates-General To pressure the parlements into accepting the plan, Calonne decided to gain prior approval of it from an Assembly of Notables—a group of hand-picked dignitaries hethought would sympathize with his views. But Calonne had badly miscalculated. Meeting in January 1787, the assembly refused to believe that a financial crisis reallyexisted. They had been influenced by Necker’s argument that state finances were sound and suspected that the monarchy was only...

• French Revolution .

  B2 Assembly of Notables and Estates-General To pressure the parlements into accepting the plan, Calonne decided to gain prior approval of it from an Assembly of Notables—a group of hand-picked dignitaries hethought would sympathize with his views. But Calonne had badly miscalculated. Meeting in January 1787, the assembly refused to believe that a financial crisis reallyexisted. They had been influenced by Necker’s argument that state finances were sound and suspected that the monarchy was only...

• Wyoming (state) - geography.

  The basins, which lie in the rain shadow of mountains, are very dry, with an average annual precipitation of about 250 mm (about 10 in) or less; the Great Plains regionhas an annual average of about 380 mm (about 15 in), and the Black Hills region receives slightly more. Thunderstorms and hailstorms are relatively frequent insummer. The annual snowfall ranges from about 500 mm (about 20 in) in the Bighorn Basin to well over 5,100 mm (over 200 in) in the higher mountains, where annualprecipitatio...

• Wyoming (state) - USA History.

  The basins, which lie in the rain shadow of mountains, are very dry, with an average annual precipitation of about 250 mm (about 10 in) or less; the Great Plains regionhas an annual average of about 380 mm (about 15 in), and the Black Hills region receives slightly more. Thunderstorms and hailstorms are relatively frequent insummer. The annual snowfall ranges from about 500 mm (about 20 in) in the Bighorn Basin to well over 5,100 mm (over 200 in) in the higher mountains, where annualprecipitatio...

• chacun pour soi

  I La société individualiste. Dans cette civilisation ultra-individualiste qui est la nôtre, nous sommes seuls. Seuls devant la misère, seuls en face des problèmes qui nous affligent et seuls à combattre les maux qui tourmentent nos existences. Les défis du genre humain sont de plus en plus globaux, sociaux et le capitalisme nous divise en centrant notre attention sur notre petite personne en écartant les besoins des autres et de nous-mêmes. Le chacun pour soi, voilà le nouveau mot d’ordr...

• Marx et les pouvoirs de l'argent

  b) Ainsi l'argent se définit comme le bien suprême ; on pourrait dire le souverain bien c'est-à-dire ce vers quoi il fauttendre et ce que tout le monde désir. C'est ce qui explique que l'argent soit un veau d'or, une idole dans un mondemarchand, c'est-à-dire un monde de la matérialité. Ainsi, même le plus imbécile est vénéré parce qu'il possèdel'argent. C'est en ce sens que puisque l'argent est bon, dans cette morale consumériste, le possesseur de l'argentest celui qui a été récompensé donc...

• l'art peut-il être laid ?

  Quelle vanité que la peinture qui attire notreadmiration par laressemblance des chosesdont on n'admire point lesoriginaux. (Pensées) Pascal reprend ici l'idée antique, contestéeaujourd'hui, que l'art imite la nature. Or si on imitede mauvais modèles, doit-on admirer la copie sousle simple prétexte que l'imitation est fidèle àl'original ? La critique pascalienne se situe surtoutau plan moral. L'artiste doit-il représenter dessujets immoraux ? Cette critique de l'art, classique...

• Vocabulaire: COLLECTIVISME, substantif masculin.

  structures) par le moyen de planifications et de nationalisations. Collectivisme des Kibboutzim isra?liens. Remarque : Collectivisme est employ? avec une nuance p?jorative par les adversaires du socialisme, pour lesquels collectivisme implique l'id?e de n?gation des droits de l'individu et s'opposent d?s lors ? individualisme et ? lib?ralisme (d'apr?s M. BOUVIER-AJAM, J. IBARROLA, N. PASQUARELLI, Dictionnaire ?conomique et social, Paris, ?ditions sociales, 1975). 3. ?tat social r?sultant de la...

• Liens sociaux dans les sociétés

  personnels, un sentiment d'appartenance faible et un mode de vivre  de vivre ensemble concurrentiel. Dans cette société on note plus d'individualisme, un détachement par rapport aux traditions, ce qui risque de poser problème pour la cohésion sociale même si la communauté n'a pas que des avantages ex : pas d'autonomie des individus. Max Weber a repris cette théorie, selon lui il existe le lien social de type communautaire qui se fonde sur des relations fondées sur le sentiment d'appartenir à une...

• faut il être seul pour être soi même

  soi-même, c'est bien sûr assumer son originalité. On peut alors penser que le groupe étouffe notre moi le plus authentique. C'est ce que pense Heidegger en analysant ce qu'il appelle "la dictature du On". La rencontre des autres ne suppose pas la distinction entre un sujet séparé des autres sujets. L'existence quotidienne implique que l'homme soit pris, absorbé par son mode. Il est sous l'emprise du "On" c'est à dire que le fait d'être ensemble crée une situation d'indifférence, d'indistinction...

• Langage et vérité

  3) Les notions de « mensonge » et d'« illusion » sont-elles identiques ? 4) Essai critique et personnel sur le problème suivant : y a-t-il des vérités préjudiciables ? GROUPE I (A) JUIN 1983: F8, G. H. 349 « Si je dis cet arbre, ma maison, je signifie seulement que je montre un arbre, que cette maison m'appartient, je signifie un rapport, je ne représente pas l'arbre ou la maison dans leur individualité. Même si je tente de décri...

• LA PERSONNE (cours de philo complet)

  En dehors de cet élément historique, seul f ondement lég itime d'un Droi t inte rnational garantissant la d i gnité de la Personne humaine, i l est à noter que la notion de Personne a été au centre de nomb re u ses conceptions philosophiques, la plus récente étant • le personnalisme • d'Emmanuel 11-founier. 1- Per sonn e et individu , per s onnag e , p e rson­ nalité. Pou r exp lorer la signi11cation de la notion de Personne, nous ferons un d...

• Sociologie

  Partie I : De la naissance de la sociologie aux sociologies contemporaines        L'invention de la sociologie : le contexte et les grands précurseurs : Auguste Comte, Alexis de Tocqueville, Karl Marx.      L'avènement et l'institutionnalisation de la sociologie : Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, la sociologie empirique américaine.      Les sociologies contemporaines : sociologie de l'habitus de Pierre Bourdieu, individualisme méthodologique de Raymond Boudon, l'interactionnisme symbolique de Howard B...

• La chanson de GESTE (Histoire de la littérature)

  Au début de notre siècle, Joseph Bédier reprend com­ plètement le problème. Il constate que le thème de la croisade est presque omniprésent et que beaucoup d'œu­ vres se rattachent à une abbaye. Leur origine est donc liée aux grandes voies de pèlerinage du XIe siècle et aux vies de saints latines, comme à toutes les réalités politiques de cette époque : féodalité, Reconquista, croi­ sades ... Elles sont nées d'une collaboration entre les...

• Canada's Constitution Act of 1982 In 1982 the Canadian constitution was patriated, meaning it was brought further under Canadian control.

  10. Everyone has the right on arrest or detention (a) to be informed promptly of the reasons therefor; (b) to retain and instruct counsel without delay and to be informed of that right; and (c) to have the validity of the detention determined by way of habeas corpus and to be released if the detention is not lawful. 11. Any person charged with an offence has the right (a) to be informed without unreasonable delay of the specific offence; (b) to be tried within a reasonable time; (c) not to be...

• Bill of Rights - history.

  being indicted (formally accused) by a grand jury. Second, a criminal suspect may be prosecuted only once for each crime. If a jury acquits the accused person, there can beno retrial. Third, a person cannot be forced to testify against himself or herself in any criminal case. This is the right against self-incrimination. Fourth, the due process clausebars the government from arbitrarily depriving anyone of life, liberty, or property. Fifth, the government may not take anyone’s private property u...

• The Story of An Hour by Kate Chopin

  “The Dream of An Hour”, it is described as a dream to describe something unrealistic and unreachable. Women were not allowed to think for themselves or have an opinion of their own, they had to have the same opinions as their husbands or fathers, at the time. It took her husband dying for her to feel free, it was the only way, back then, for a woman to be free, as women were always financially dependent on men, a woman goes from being dependant on her father to being dependant on her husband, sh...

• philosophie politique - philosophie.

  5. 1 Thomas Hobbes Autonomisée par rapport à la morale, la sphère du politique se voit confrontée, dès le XVIe siècle, à des perspectives radicalement nouvelles, puisqu’il faut expliquer l’apparition et la pérennisation du pouvoir, sa légitimité même, autrement qu’en faisant intervenir un principe transcendant. Ainsi, Thomas Hobbes expose, dans Léviathan , la fiction d’un contrat social selon lequel, afin d’échapper à la tyrannie des passions individuelles, chacun renonce à sa liberté, à ses...

• le machinisme

  INTRODUCTION AU THÈ ME «   CARACT È RES   » D É FINITION   : Mani ère habituelle de r éagir propre  à un individu donn é. C’est l’ensemble   des qualit és et des d éfauts qui constituent la personnalit é de l’individu. C'est   l’ensemble   des   signes   distinctifs,   des   traits   propres   à  une   personne.   C’est   l’ensemble   des   traits   moraux   particulier   à  une   personne   qui   marque   son   individualit é. On   dit   Caract ères   ou   :   psychologie,   temp érament...

• Dissertation de philosophie : L'idée de génie

  telle partie de l'anatomie, le génie apparaît comme « un être en puissance » qui continue toujours de persévérer. Eneffet, si l'être humain ne se donnait pas de but comment pourrait-il avancer par l'unique force d'une inspirationdivine ?Dans la même perspective, Boileau, dans son Art poétique, lie la source du beau à la raison. En effet, il admet que lepoète travaille toujours à perfectionner son œuvre grâce aux règles qu'il se fixe. Ainsi les règles classiques luipermettent de touj...

• Prohibition - U.

  B Movement Toward Repeal In the late 1920s, however, more and more Americans found the idea of repeal increasingly attractive. The reasons for this were numerous and complex, thegovernment’s failure to enforce the law being only one of them. Most Americans were happy that the old-time saloon had been abolished, but they felt that a newsociety was emerging in the 1920s—a primarily urban and industrial society of great geographic and social mobility and great ethnic and religious diversities, in...

• Fruto - ciencias de la naturaleza.

  penetra en el óvulo, donde puede fecundarlo. Si lo fecunda, el óvulo se transforma en semilla y el receptáculo que protege el ovariose ensancha y forma la carne o pulpa del fruto.© Microsoft Corporation. Reservados todos los derechos. En los casos típicos, el fruto se limita al ovario maduro, como ocurre en la vaina del guisante (chícharo); en cambio, la manzana incluye ovario y receptáculo —el conjuntode las demás piezas florales soldadas—; la fresa es en realidad una infrutescencia formada por...

• Sangre - ciencias de la naturaleza.

  Leucocito granulosoLos glóbulos blancos presentes en la sangre incluyen los leucocitos granulosos y los no granulosos. Los leucocitos granulososrepresentados aquí son células polimorfonucleares que tienen un aspecto granular, de ahí su nombre común.Andrew Syred/Science Photo Library/Photo Researchers, Inc. Las células o glóbulos blancos de la sangre son de dos tipos principales: los granulosos, con núcleo multilobulado, y los no granulosos, que tienen un núcleo redondeado.Los leucocitos granulos...

• Dog Family - biology.

  muzzles, long and bushy tails, and large ears. Many foxes hunt by stalking prey and then leaping on it with a distinctive, stiff-legged pounce. Once thought to besolitary animals, foxes are now known to live in groups of up to six individuals. The remaining canids are each highly distinctive. Raccoon dogs and bush dogs are the least doglike canids in appearance. Raccoon dogs, found in eastern Asia, havestubby legs, a stout body, short ears, shaggy fur, and a black face mask that resembles a racc...

• Stem Cell.

  The medical profession used adult stem cells to treat diseases long before anyone isolated one. In 1968 scientists performed the first successful bone marrowtransplant, a procedure in which a patient receives an infusion of healthy bone marrow cells. The purpose of such transplants is to restore the blood-making capabilitiesof the patient’s diseased bone marrow after extremely strong chemotherapy has destroyed that bone marrow. From the beginning investigators suspected that stemcells in the inf...

• Smoking.

  causes about 20 times the number of deaths in the United States than all other addictive drugs combined. Smoking cessation methods are plentiful, and many books and products are available to help an individual stop smoking. Many smokers turn to group help because ofthe support and understanding provided by other former smokers or people trying to quit. Most successful group-help techniques involve a challenge and rewardsystem that also bolsters the self-discipline of the former smoker. A number...