Peter Zumthor‚ a Basel born Swiss‚ is an internationally accredited and decorated architect. He is one of the most revered architects of the 21st century. Zumthor is best known for his materiality and attention to space. His style is said to epitomize the principles of phenomenology. Buildings should be experienced‚ a specific mood and feeling should felt by the person interacting with the space. In 2006 Peter Zumthor was commissioned for the Steilneset Memorial monument by the town of Vardo‚ Finnmark
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Logic: Peter Singer NAME PHI 103‚ Information Logic Instructor: NAME DATE Logic: Peter Singer An Evaluation of Singer Peter Singer questions our conception of equality as it relates to the human species and other animal species. He fundamentally argues that‚ “The principle of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat humans.” The statement‚ revealing Singer’s essential argument‚ also comprises
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PETER OLAFSON BACKGROUND Peter Olafson has just taken a position as the general manager for Cable King Television (CKV) of St. Paul Minnesota. CKV has been in existence for the past four years. The company is by UniComm of Beverly Hills California and a local St. Paul businessman‚ 85%-15% respectively. The first three years of CTV were spent securing state‚ federal‚ and local franchises and permission to operate in the St. Paul area. When Olafson arrived‚ CTV had six employees working on
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1. What are Browning’s are the dilemmas at White Cap? Explain Peter Browning’s job is to revitalize a mature business in the face of serious competitive threats‚ but without discouraging the loyalty and morale of a family style culture. Market share of plastic bottles was growing fast and White Cap is losing customers due to that‚ so a change is necessary. However‚ few managers or employees at White Cap acknowledged the need for change and were resistant to change. Employees have been accustomed
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Girls and Achievement Girls are now appearing to have a higher ability to succeed in education than boys in today’s schooling system. There are many issues concerning this area and these have been supported by a range of theorists using key studies and concepts to establish this further. The impact of feminism on the female population has gradually increased since the 1960’s when feminist sociologists highlighted the idea of an education system filled with gender inequalities. These sociologists
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Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian moral philosopher who was born in 1946‚ one of his main goals is to end world poverty by donating to charities and convincing others to do the same‚ and he believes that affluent people should donate all disposable income to charity. Nel Noddings is an American philosopher born in 1929‚ and her view on ethics focuses on a natural sense of caring and a flexibility of principles‚ she rejects Singer’s argument saying that we have obligations to those around
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and gardening.] A teenage girl in the mid-1960s abandons her home on Antigua‚ a tiny island in the West Indies‚ bound for New York and not to return home for 19 years. She becomes an au pair for a family in Scarsdale‚ N.Y.‚ then for a different family in New York City. She breaks off all contact with her mother‚ takes photography courses at the New School‚ dyes her hair blonde and changes her name. A few years later‚ in her early 20s‚ she convinces Ingenue‚ a girls ’ magazine‚ to allow her to interview
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------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- (i) ------------------------------------------------- AN INVESTIGATION INTO FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO LOW INTAKE IN HIGHER INSTITUTION OF LEARNING AND HIGH DROPOUT OF FEMALE STUDENTS (A CASE STUDY OF NAROK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE) ------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------
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The doctrine of the mean states that for someone to be a good person they must occupy the “golden mean‚” meaning a person may become virtuous by acting between the extremes of excess and deficiency. For example during war‚ the two extremes would be for a soldier to be rash or cowardly‚ but being courageous is the accepted golden mean. According to Aristotle‚ virtue lies in between the two extremes‚ which are the vices‚ and thus a virtuous person is one who can find the mean that is relative to
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Peter Paul Rubens was the painter of the first part of the Seventeenth Century in Catholic Europe. How he became so is an interesting story. Rubens was educated to be a humanist but like all great artists choose his profession for himself. The combination of first rate classical education with innate visual genius made for an unprecedented combination in an artist‚ which is what made him so great. It has been said that no artist has ever been as well educated as Rubens. After training with
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