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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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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"Jesus Christ‚ what in the fuck did you do to my face? Where the fuck is my face" (Identity) the main actor in the movie Identity by Columbia Pictures presenting a Konrad Pictures production a film by James Mangold. and shows his discomfort and his misunderstanding of what is going in his life when he is face to face with many lawyers and a judge; along with the Doctors trying to convince them that this man is not the killer of the people‚ but instead that was just one of his identities that should
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the world is digital is also not new‚ as to Pythagoras numbers were the non-material essence of the world‚ Plato felt that “God geometrizes” and Gauss that “God computes”‚ as in Blake’s "Ancient of Days" (Figure 1). The tradition continues today‚ as Zuse argues that "space calculates" [1] and others ask if reality computes?2 This essay explores the virtual reality (VR) conjecture‚ that the physical world is the digital output of quantum processing. One can contrast Platonic idealism‚ that the seen
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Gabrielle Vitez Professor Harasimchuk LAS Paper October 31st‚ 2014 Ebola Prevention The Ebola outbreak that started in Africa has become a major health issue for the United States. When the virus surfaced‚ many feared that it would be brought back from Africa and infect North America. The world health organization (WHD) explains that Ebola virus disease (EVD)‚ formerly known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a severe‚ often fatal illness in humans. The WHD elaborated by saying‚ “The virus is transmitted
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