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    The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment Science tries to explain the world without reference to God or gods. It sees the world as an object‚ and tries to explain how it moves and interacts. Science is therefore distinct from technology which is a way of manipulating the world. Many cultures had technological knowledge‚ but scientific thinking was first developed in an extensive way by the Ancient Greeks. It was the Greeks thoughts which dominated Europe up until the Scientific Revolution

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    1.1 Explain the value of a child centred model of assessment and planning Planning begins with skilful and purposeful observation of children‚ and this enables staff to draw conclusions and plan next steps. Child/young people centred assessment and planning are a good way of making sure that the setting provided is giving the child/young person attending the best possible chance to develop at their own rate. Planning is only effective when staff take account of children’s needs‚ dispositions‚ interests

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    Renaissance From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about the European Renaissance of the 14th–17th centuries. For the earlier European Renaissance‚ seeRenaissance of the 12th century. For other uses‚ see Renaissance (disambiguation). David‚ by Michelangelo (The Accademia Gallery‚ Florence) is an example of high Renaissance art The Renaissance (UK /rɨˈneɪsəns/‚ US /ˈrɛnɨsɑːns/‚ French pronunciation: ​[ʁənɛsɑ̃s]‚ fromFrench: Renaissance "re-birth"‚ Italian: Rinascimento‚ from rinascere "to

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    Increasing Power in the 17th Century Governmental systems in both France and England were greatly changing during the 17th Century. In England‚ absolute monarchies lost power while Parliament gained supremacy. France‚ on the other hand‚ saw Louis XIV strengthening his own offices and weakening both the Estates General and the local nobility. Absolutism‚ a political theory holding that all power should be vested in one ruler‚ was attempted by James I and Charles I of England‚ and Louis XIV of France

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    Roman Catholic Church vs Scientific Thinking Since the lives of the people in medieval Europe mostly revolved around faith and on what they believe in‚ mainly their religion‚ the effect of the Church in the middle ages on the citizens was huge. The church controlled the people as it was the main center of religious and social life. All Christians belonged to the Roman Catholic Church and it was considered that the church was as important‚ if not more‚ than any king or queen. In fact‚ a king could

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    SCIENTIFIC NOTATION * Scientific notation is a way of writing very large and very small numbers in a compact form. * A number written in scientific notation is written in the form: a x 10b WRITING A NUMBER IN SCIENTIFIC NOTATION * Shift the decimal point so that there is one digit before the decimal point. * Multiply by a power of 10‚ equal to the number of places the decimal point has been moved. * The power of 10 is positive if the decimal point is moved to the left and negative

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    that our DNA connects all of us by the one man‚ he is scientific Adam. In the bible it tells us that scientific Adam was the first man ever to set foot on the surface of the earth‚ but this is only based on faith and religion and comes with no hard proof. However‚ the project will prove this theory along with finding the roots of modern human with a strong based scientific evidence and well research using advanced technologies. If scientific Adam is truly our first father than we must inherit a

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    Taylor’s Scientific Management theory illustrates that instead of using rule-of-thumb‚ managers should develop a science for each element of a man’s work. They scientifically select‚ train‚ teach and develop employees.( Frederick Winslow Taylor ‚1911) Workers have to be fully cooperated “without asking questions or making suggestions”( Frederick Winslow Taylor ‚1909‚P87). However‚ in Mayo’s Human Relations Management workers and managers make decisions together and workers have certain degree of

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    Chapter six discusses scientific debates and the role faith and Christianity had in theories that were conceived. Educated Englishmen viewed the study of science to be a sort of religious pursuit. These scientific debates‚ which today would be considered pseudoscience‚ worked towards explaining scriptures in the bible scientifically. Those who presented theories were devout Christians whose purpose was never to disprove the scriptures nor the bible but to find scientific theories that brought historical

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    Topic: Scientific Notation II. Objectives: To be able to fully understand the lesson‚ the student must learn: a. the definition of scientific notation b. the purpose of scientific notation c. how to make a number in scientific notation and vice versa III. Motivation: Recalling the names of numbers by its number of zeroes IV. Lesson Proper: * A number is in scientific notation when it is written as N x 10n‚ where 1<N<10 and n is an integer. * Scientific notation

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