The second chapter in the book‚ Reasons are BS‚ is an interesting and somewhat controversial chapter. The author of The Achievement Habit is Bernard Roth. He is a Professor of Engineering at Stanford University and director of the design school at Stanford. In the second chapter‚ Roth explains through personal experiences and experiences with his students‚ how reasons are BS. He also talks about why people think they need reasons and why they use them. Throughout this chapter Roth appeals to
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countries‚ especially Iraq‚ are often portrayed as overly religious‚ backward‚ and violent. Their image in the world has been clouded by the intergroup hostility that has existed between Muslim and Christian societies for centuries. In his review of Bernard Lewis’s book‚ What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response‚ Professor Aslam Syed points out a commonly accepted Western narrative of the origins of this hostility. This narrative states that the ancient Muslim world was once an epicenter
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1. The title of this painting is Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard‚ located on page 946 of the textbook. This oil painting on canvas measures approximately eight feet‚ eleven inches by seven feet‚ seven inches. Painted by Jacques-Louis David in 1800-1801‚ this piece can now be found in Versailles‚ the Châteaux de Versailles et Trianon. 2. In this work of art‚ Napoleon is the only character riding a white horse and depicted front and center. All figures are anonymous‚ except Napoleon himself‚
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The title "Arms and the Man" derives from the opening lines of the popular epic of Virgil‚ "Aeneid" : "I sing of Arms and the Man" However‚ as Virgil highly praises war as described by its heroes‚ Shaw’s aim in writing "Arms and the Man" is to provide a more realistic picture of war and to remove all pretensions of the nobility from war. As General Philip Henry Sheridan put it "Many of you here believe that war is all glory; but let me tell you‚ boys‚ it is all Hell". Even though Shaw is
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Arrigo and Bernard’s (1997) article identifies six theoretical statements that compare conflict theory to radical and postmodern criminology. These six concerns include; the focus of the theory‚ the goal of conflict‚ control of crime definitions‚ nature of crime‚ explanation of crime‚ and policy implications. Arrigo and Bernard’s (1997) theory suggests that postmodern criminology is consistent with conflict criminology’s definition of crime‚ while radical criminology is consistent with conflict criminology
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Many are scared of death and try their hardest to avoid it but most do not know what they are avoiding. George Bernard Shaw uses figurative language to describe what he saw and what he learned during the cremation of his mother. Shaw uses ironic tones of humor and beauty to describe the cremation. Shaw describes the cremation by stating: “The feet burst miraculously into streaming ribbons of garnet coloured lovely flame‚ smokeless and eager like pentecostal tongues‚ and as the whole coffin passed
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Being unhappy should be enjoyed by everyone. We must experience a wide range of emotions in order to learn how to handle everything life throws at us. According to Bernard in Brave New World‚ ‘[he would] rather be unhappy than have the sort of false‚ lying happiness that he was having here”‚ (179) this quote means that he would rather be unhappy than live in a happy lie. This book describes a utopian world yet there’s a quote in the book that is in direct conflict with the “utopian” world they are
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What is Andragogy and how is it relevant to training and development? Topic 1: What is Andragogy and how is it relevant to training and development? Andragogy is the term used to describe ‘the art and science of teaching adults’ (Delahaye‚ 2011). It focuses on the post-school vocational education‚ where the adults learning needs are the main importance and also should allow them to take responsibility for their own learning (Delahaye‚ 2011). In this sense‚ the differences between andragogy and
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written by Bernard Shaw. The genre of the book is fiction and realism. Pygmalion is about a flower girl‚ Eliza Doolittle‚ who meets Henry Higgins‚ who is a professor. Eliza hears Higgins bet Colonel Pickering‚ Higgins friend‚ that he could pass Eliza off as a duchess at a party. Eliza takes up his offer and learns how to speak English perfectly. Many complications come along the way as the story progresses. In the end‚ Eliza leaves Higgins house and marries Freddy Hill. Although Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion
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George Bernard Shaw wrote Arms and the Man in 1893 during the Victorian era when most plays were lighter dramas or comedies in the vein of The Importance of Being Earnest‚ which was a play about manners and other Victorian conventions. Still‚ in many ways‚ Arms and the Man‚ despite some of its themes‚ is a perfect example of Victorian literature. The play opened to the British public in 1894 to mixed reviews and was one of the plays included in the Plays Pleasant Volume which included a few of Shaw’s
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