04.11 Education Click on the wax tablet next to the question in the lesson to find the answer. Write your answers beneath the questions. 1. Who was Horace’s pedagogue (tutor who walked school boys to school and home again)? Horace’s pedagogue was his father. The father spent a small fortune on his son’s education‚ eventually accompanying him to Rome to oversee his schooling and moral development (my information came from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace#Childhood) 2. Why did Cato teach
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LIMITS AND CONTINUITY 1. The concept of limit x2 − 4 . Examine the behavior of f (x) as x approaches 2. Example 1.1. Let f (x) = x−2 Solution. Let us compute some values of f (x) for x close to 2‚ as in the tables below. We see from the first table that f (x) is getting closer and closer to 4 as x approaches 2 from the left side. We express this by saying that “the limit of f (x) as x approaches 2 from left is 4”‚ and write x→2− lim f (x) = 4. Similarly‚ by looking at the second table
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Change for a Change The abolition of slavery in the Americas was seen as a very progressive moment for the country‚ but that didn’t necessarily mean everyone in America was content with the decision. It also didn’t mean most people were going to have a change of heart towards how they felt about people of different races. Yet there was still people willing to endorse progression in this area; one being famous American writer Samuel Clemens‚ better known as Mark Twain. Mark Twain fought against many
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Before the era of 1200-1450‚ developed countries and religions were changing and cultures molded how empires operated. The Silk Road opened‚ countries were in their infancy‚ and religions like Christianity were developing with the lifetime of Jesus Christ. As time went by‚ traveling for reasons other than religion started‚ and people started developing empires and long-distance trade. During the 12-1400s‚ new empires started trading with people close to them geographically‚ trading across continents
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If the victors truly write history‚ then E Bradford Burns’ The Poverty of Progress: Latin America in the Nineteenth Century seeks to give voice to those who lost. Burns highlights the price of progress‚ namely increased reliance on Europe and a declining quality of life for the masses. Furthermore‚ he questions the traditional metrics of progress‚ suggesting that the oft-praised modernization and growth of the era hindered potential development. Burns’ brief preface states an ambitious goal: to
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The moveable type printing press was invented in 1450 and by 1500 it had spread through most of western Europe to the extent where societies became more dependent on it than scribal work.1 This remarkable expansion has had numerous effects on the development of science and technology in European societies. The reasons that this expansion had such a major impact was that it allowed for language standardization‚ the Protestant Reformation and the wide adoption of specific scientific techniques such
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Huayna Capac‚ brought about a power struggle between the two sons of the former emperor‚ that initiated a civil war. This civil war weakened the imperial state and effectuated the conquering of the Inca by Fracisco Pizaro in 1532. All these conquest and many more of the Latin Americas provide the background information of the commencement of the changes in religion and beliefs in Latin America/Caribbean. Upon the arrival of the Spanish in Latin America‚ their goals in their expeditions were to
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There were many changes during 1750 to 1900‚ the majority of which were industrial and economic and not always for the better of then or the better of now. In this essay I will list two changes that I thought significant then I will list the negative short term effects‚ the negative long term effects‚ the positive short term effects and the positive long term effects. At the end of each change I will decide whether it was an overall positive or negative change. My first change will be the development
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Over time‚ a culture’s art will change or improve in some way. Some characteristics may remain the same while other characteristics change drastically. Art in the Archaic era and the Classical era had no emotion and unrealistic features‚ but the Classical era brought a sense of anatomy and movement to its art. In the Archaic era and Classical era‚ emotion was not present in art. Characters had plain expressions on their faces; their eyes told nothing‚ regardless of what they were doing. The
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Running Head: U.S AND LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS U.S and Latin American Relations [Author’s Name] [Institution’s Name] U.S and Latin American Relations The United States has a long history of involvement in and with Latin America. The relationship has varied from intense adulation to benign neglect--as dictated by US interests. Although at present the US has its attention focused elsewhere in the world‚ events and issues in Latin America remain a matter of ongoing concern. Relations of the
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