1 - Touraine‚ A. (1992)‚ "Présentation"‚ dans Critique de la modernité‚ L’idée de modernité définie par le triomphe de rationalité objective ou instrumentale‚ a perdu sa force de libération et de création‚ elle résiste aussi mal aux forces que l’appel aux droits de l’homme‚ à la montée du différencialisme et du racisme. Elle devient définie par la séparation du monde objectif créé par la raison‚ et du monde de la subjectivité qui est celui de l’individualisme qui fait appel à la liberté personnelle
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Problem You want to endow a chair for a female professor of finance at your alma mater. You’d like to attract a prestigious faculty member‚ so you’d like the endowment to add $100‚000 per year to the faculty member’s resources (salary‚ travel‚ databases‚ etc.) If you expect to earn a rate of return of 4% annually on the endowment‚ how much will you need to donate to fund the chair? Solution This is a perpetuity of $100‚000 per year. The funding you would need to give is the present value of that
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The Last of Us The Last of Us is a video game for the Playstation 3 and 4‚ created by the game company Naughty Dog. It follows the storyline of two characters in a post apocalyptic world. “What is the disaster?” you ask. A zombie outbreak‚ once again. However‚ this one has a new spin on things to keep it fresh: it is based on a real infection called cordyceps created by plants‚ using fungus spores. The spores infect ants and other bugs that may be threatening the plant ecosystem. The Last of Us
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Character Profile Report I read an amazing book called The Last Apprentice: Curse of the Bane. This is the second book in the series. It is about a 12-year old kid‚ named Tom‚ becoming an apprentice for the county spook. The spook’s job is to help the people in the county get rid of ghosts‚ ghasts‚ boggarts‚ and other creatures from the dark. Tom is special because he is the seventh son of a seventh son. Usually‚ the oldest son gets the most important jobs‚ and in the end‚ inherits the farm. Tom’s
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Fight or flight response The fight or flight response is a response to a stimulus that could threaten the survival of an organism. During the fight or flight response the hypothalamus sends signals to the sympathetic nervous system. This causes the body to tense up and become more alert. The hypothalamus also releases CRF which activates the adrenal cortical system. The anterior pituitary gland begins the secrete adrenocorticotropic hormone directly into the bloodstream. When the ACTH reaches
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The Last Juror by John Grisham 1. "From day one she was intimidated by me because I was from Memphis and had gone to school up North for five years. I was careful not to wear my Ivy Leagueness on my shoulder‚ but at the same time I wanted these rural Mississippians to know that I had been superbly educated. (page 10)" There are two literary elements that could be categorized in this excerpt. I think that John Grisham highlights his use of satire very vividly early on in the book. He is placing
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Response paper on The Catcher in the Rye The novel The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D Salinger is one of the most discussed novels in American literature. The Catcher in the Rye is J.D Salinger ’s landmark novel‚ it set a new course for literature in post-WWII America and vaulted him to the heights of literary fame. The book mostly focuses on the period of time when a young teenage boy named Holden Caulfield gets expelled from his high school and how he sees‚ feels things and people around
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Freshman year was the year of starting a new chapter in my education with feeling of being much older and responsible for my actions‚ which would lead to consequences that can affect your future. As many of the students that started their high school without knowing what or who they wanted to be in the future‚ with that being said I haven’t really challenge myself to take higher level classes. That would give me a bigger opportunity to choose my school latter on. As a senior I feel much more responsibility
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Jordan Borgerding Real World Case Study of Brain Injury The Last Hippie is the story of a young male‚ Greg F.‚ who suffers profound cognitive alterations and brain damage as a result of a midline tumor. Greg F. was born and grew in the 1950s‚ in a comfortable household in Queens‚ with both parents. He used to be a gifted boy‚ with an ambition for songwriting. With time‚ Greg started to question the principles and conventions of his life with parents; a teenager in the late sixties‚
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The last Meow Americans spend 19 billion dollars a year on veterinary care‚ 47 billion dollars including food and other supplies. With the money from reducing spending on American pets we can help malnourished American children accost the country. The author of the article “The last meow”‚ Burkhard Bilger‚ agrees that spending excessive amounts of money on our pets is wrong. Spending excessive amounts of money on our pets morally wrong. “Were looking at spending a thousand
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