comes. * To keep the gods happy‚ the Greeks built great temples to them all around Greece. * In return‚ however‚ they expected the gods to give them help when they needed it. * For example‚ many Greeks in need of advice traveled to Delphi‚ a city in central Greece. Then they spoke to the Oracle‚ a female priest of Apollo to whom they thought the god gave
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seas of the world. Some species are even known to live in larger river systems. Dolphins belong in the kingdom anamalia; phylum‚ corata; class mammalia; order‚ cetacean; sub-order‚ odonteceti; family‚ delphinidae; genus‚ delphinus; and species‚ delphis. Dolphins are believed to have a long evolutionary past dating back several‚ tens of millions of years Dolphins are very social creatures and use this group interaction for hunting‚ defense‚ and reproduction. Normally dolphins are found in groups
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Ancient Greece Greece The Greek peninsula has been culturally linked with the Aegean Islands‚ and the west coast of Asia Minor since the Neolithic Age. The numerous natural harbors and close-lying islands lead to a unified‚ maritime civilization. However cultural unity did not produce political unity. Mountain ranges and deep valleys separated the peninsula into small economic and political units. Constant feuding between cities and surrounding empires for political power made Greece the sight
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centuries to find out what is going to happen in their future‚ or to help them make an important decision that they faced. This is what King Laius did in the play "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles. King Laius‚ Oedipus ’s father went to the Oracle at Delphi. Upon receiving the prophecy that his son Oedipus will kill him and marry his mother and commit incest with her‚ King Laius of his own free will ordered that Oedipus feet be bound by riveting his ankles together and sent him to Mount Cithaeron to
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inferior socially. But the women were isolated in their homes and did not mix in the society of men. What the men thought may not have been that important to the women. We should now go on to why Diotima is a woman. Socrates consulted the Oracle at Delphi (Know thyself) so we know that it is possible that Socrates would consult a priestess. Still‚ knowing that doesn’t answer why Plato
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34. What is supply? 35. What is law of supply? 36. State the factors affecting supply. 37. Define elasticity of supply. 38. State the factors determining elasticity of supply. 39. What is demand forecasting? 40. What is Delphi technique? 41. What is regression and correlation? 42. What is test marketing? 43. What is production function? State its managerial uses. 44. State the types of production function. 45. What is meant by returns to scale? 46
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sales of this phone in month 7? Use the appropriate Naive method............1412 Month|Sales| 1|1378| 2|1356| 3|1434| 4|1368| 5|1396| 6|1412| Which of the following methods is (are) subjective and may bias the forecast? Executive Opinion‚ Delphi‚ Market Research‚ Sales Force Opinion Which of the following forecasting methods generates trend forecasts? Regression and Naive Method You have been recording the gasoline price at your local gas station over the last three weeks. The following
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Oedipus Tyrannous When half human monsters walked the Earth and mythical Gods ruled all of creation‚ one man was destined to suffer the worst fate ever imaginable. Oedipus Tyrannous is a classic Greek tragedy written by Sophocles around 470 BC. According to Aristotle’s Poetics‚ Greek tragedies should follow certain guidelines in order to be effective tragic drama. Many of Oedipus’ character traits ultimately justify his place as a perfect specimen of Aristotle’s tragic hero. According
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My name is Andreas1) but I like to be called Andi I’m 34 years old I wrote a DokuWiki extension to make sure the previous fact is always correct I’ve been born and live in Berlin‚ Germany I studied applied computer science I work as a system administrator/ programmer I drink a lot of coffee I don’t like sports I prefer T-Shirts and hate suits My first computer was my father’s 286 CPU; 40MB HDD; 4 MB I’m only good at things I enjoy (or maybe the other way round)
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In 399 B.C‚ Socrates‚ a 70 year old teacher of rhetoric and speech‚ had been declared the wisest by the oracle at Delphi‚ however‚ he hadn’t considered himself the wisest. He figured that someone else was wiser than himself so he began to talk to poets‚ artist‚ educators and he realized that when they claimed that they knew the answers that didn’t. He had been the only one that had acceptably admitted that he didn’t know the right answer. People were infuriated because he had pointed out that the
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