Walter Benjamin‚ Jewish philosopher and cultural critic‚ once said‚ “History is created by the victors.” Assuming that this belief is true‚ the question becomes what then happens to the losers? Carlo Ginzburg presents a similar notion in his book “The Cheese and the Worms.” Rather‚ his notion is “history is created by the literate.” Historically‚ the population who could read and write was limited to the well-to-do upper class. This proves to be a problem for historians who seek to know more about
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IMDB’s perpetual top-10 films of all time (No. 6 as I write this)—an old-school‚ single-set talkathon perched incongruously among adolescent fantasies. Like Schindler’s List (No. 7)‚ it speaks powerfully to our belief that one individual with a conscience can make a real difference in the world‚ and that’s a genuinely uplifting message that people do right to embrace. Only a stone-hearted soul could fail to be moved watching Henry Fonda slowly‚ methodically sway 11 other jurors‚ one by one‚ employing
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Chapter 9 Monte Carlo methods 183 184 CHAPTER 9. MONTE CARLO METHODS Monte Carlo means using random numbers in scientific computing. More precisely‚ it means using random numbers as a tool to compute something that is not random. For example1 ‚ let X be a random variable and write its expected value as A = E[X]. If we can generate X1 ‚ . . . ‚ Xn ‚ n independent random variables with the same distribution‚ then we can make the approximation A ≈ An = 1 n n Xk . k=1
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into the leadership qualities displayed by Carlos Ghosn. A businessman with his roots in Brazil‚ Lebanon and France is currently the incumbent Chairman and CEO of Renault‚ Chairman of Nissan and Chairman of Mitsubishi Motors. He is widely known as Turnaround specialist- a person who could turn around business from losses to profitability and he had done the same with Renault and Nissan during his business career. Born to Lebanese-Brazilian parents‚ Carlos Ghosn completed his education between Lebanon
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Carlos Gonzales’ reputation precedes him – he is known as a tough negotiator. Carlos is the new purchasing manager for a large automobile company and has scheduled a negotiation meeting with an important‚ though financially distressed‚ supplier. The goal of the meeting is to negotiate the terms for a large contract. The supplier has had a close business relationship with the automobile company for many years; Carlos has called the supplier to meet him at his home. After the guests have been waiting
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Mockingbird” Atticus finch used many quotes to instill conscience on his children. For example: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." That means that you shouldn’t judge someone until you really know how they are feeling on the inside. He also uses: The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience." That means that your conscience doesn’t really tolerate. He also uses: "Bad language
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The Science Without Conscience Is The Ruin Of Nature The modern age is the age of science. The inventions of science govern our life. At every stage we are dependent on the inventions and discoveries of science. In the every day life of an individual science plays a very important and significant part. The discoveries of science such as electricity‚ wireless‚ telephone‚ railways‚ airplanes‚ medicines‚ etc. are extremely valuable and it is difficult to conceive of modern life without the amenities
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America is in the Heart By: Carlos Bulosan I found the dark hole of the steerage and lay on my bunk for days without food‚ seasick and lonely. I was restless at night and many disturbing thoughts came to my mind. Why had I left home? What would I do in America? I looked into the faces of my companions for a comforting answer‚ but they were as young and bewildered as I‚ and my only consolation was their proximity and the familiarity of their dialects. It was not until we had left Japan that I
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understanding. By beginning with that line it only opens the readers mind to the narrator’s thoughts of uncertainty making it easier for us as readers to understand. As a reader I enjoyed the story because it was simple and to the point‚ unlike William Carlos Williams “The Red Wheelbarrow” or Edger Allan Poe’s stories. There isn’t particularly a metaphorical meaning to it‚ and it can be read over and over again and I can still feel the same simplistic beauty I did the first time. I believe the rhyming
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of others. William Carlos Williams worked hard throughout his career to reach his goal of perfecting his own simple and modern style of poetry‚ along with the help of some friends. William lived in the era of modernism and was considered to be an imagist poet. Williams strived to write poetry that focused on modern people and everyday situations in the simplest of words. But how did the events and people in his lifetime influence the way Williams wrote poetry? William Carlos Williams poetry was
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