charge. Somebody or something had to pay the price. It is the overlooked and unobserved that was lost while achieving such a striking outcome; in the notion of Joseph Conrad’s words‚ “Exterminate all the Brutes”.1 Joseph Conrad‚ born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski on December 3‚ 1857 in the Polish Ukraine‚ did not learn English until he was 21 years of age. As a young boy his father was exiled to Siberia and his mother died. Not ever seeing his parents again‚ he was sent to his mother’s brother
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Munich Agreement Assignment Who won at Munich‚ Hitler or Chamberlain? Neville Chamberlain was a realist‚ he had inherited a policy of appeasement Lord Halifax memoir) from his predecessor Baldwin. His prime motive during his diplomatic meetings with Adolf Hitler was to prevent Britain becoming entangled in a war that she was ill equipped to wage. This he successfully achieved and by defusing a situation through statesmanship he bought valuable time to allow the British forces to re-arm. On
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Essen‚ City of Industrial History and Artistic Present Essen‚ located on the Ruhr River‚ is one of Germany’s ten biggest cities. Governed by abbesses for more than 1000 years‚ Essen is a center for arts‚ history of coal and steel manufacturing‚ and even a major tourist attraction today. The history of Essen starts in the 800’s; in 852 Aflrid von Hildesheim created a convent. This convent was created for daughters of the Saxon high nobility. The majority of the settlers to come by this convent
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Chap. 9 Psychological Assessment: The use of specified procedures to evaluate abilities‚ behaviors and personal qualities‚ measurement of individual differences because the majority of assessments specify how an individual is different from or similar to other people on a given dimension Sir Francis Galton: Hereditary genius in 1869‚ Galton’s Ideas of Intelligence: Differences are quantifiable‚ Differences form a bell shaped curve or normal distribution‚ Intelligence(mental ability) can be measure
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1. Nicholas II Nicholas II was the last Czar of Russia from 1894 until 1917 when he was forced to abdicate. He was the leader of Russia during a turbulent time when the Russian society was ready for the changes he was not willing to make. Nicholas II would lead Russia into War World I as the commander of the Russian army despite his qualifications to do so. He wouldn’t back down from war and let his country slide into worsening circumstances which would eventually lead to his abdication and the
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Application of honey to a wound did no harm and was partially effective‚ but applying metals like arsenic salt and mercury would often kill the patient along with the infection. During World War I‚ when antibiotics had yet to be invented‚ explains Konrad Hell in his article “Characteristics of the Ideal Antibiotic for Prevention of Wound Sepsis among Military Forces in the Field‚” more than 50% of traumatic injuries would lead to sepsis from infection. In World War I‚ gas gangrene‚ a severe infection
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in America between 1939 and 1944. However‚ in the aftermath of World War II it was discovered that a program controlled computer called the Z3 had been completed in Germany in 1941‚ which means that the Z3 pre-dated the Harvard Mark I. Prof. Hurst Zuse Thusly from its birthing AI has been regarded as an unknown‚ a concept that by its very
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Lijphart‚ Arend (2010): Democratic Quality in Stable Democracies‚ 24 November 2010‚ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3003825/ (last visited: 15.12.2012). Weibezahl‚ Tinko (2011): Wahlkampf mit zweifelhaften Mitteln‚ DR Kongo Länderbericht der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung‚ http://www.kas.de/wf/doc/kas_21580-1522-130.pdf?110110212228 (last visited: 15.12.2012). Documents: IPU Members of the Union‚ http://www.ipu.org/english/membshp.htm (last visited: 15.12.2012). United Nations (2005): Declaration
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In each period of art history‚ there is a story. For Baroque art‚ the story is why the period has been classically misunderstood. In the early 1600s‚ artists and intellectuals worked in academies to explore humanism begun in the Renaissance‚ classical thought (i.e. Plato and Aristotle)‚ and new trends in human thought and expression. But why does the word “Baroque” have a negative history? The original translations of this word include Italian for “tortuous medieval pedantry” and Portuguese for “deformed
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John Bowlby (1907 - 1990) was a psychoanalyst (like Freud) and believed that mental health and behavioral problems could be attributed to early childhood. Bowlby’s evolutionary theory of attachment suggests that children come into the world biologically pre-programmed to form attachments with others‚ because this will help them to survive. Bowlby was very much influenced by ethological theory in general‚ but especially by Lorenz’s (1935) study of imprinting. Lorenz showed that attachment was
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