and is gifted with restraint as well as vision. He understood the fact that performance is a collective activity that requires a group of trained people‚ knit in a familial bond and has best portrayed this understanding in the first chapter of his treatise‚ Natyashastra. In the first chapter Bharata therefore talks about the response and involvement of the spectator in drama. The spectators come from all classes of society without any distinction‚ but are expected to be at least minimally initiated
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Ethan Allen was a farmer‚ businessman‚ land speculator‚ philosopher‚ writer‚ and American Revolutionary War patriot‚ hero‚ and politician. He is best known as one of the founders of the U.S. state of Vermont‚ and for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga early in the American Revolutionary War. Born in rural Connecticut‚ Allen had a frontier upbringing but also received an education that included some philosophical teachings. In the late 1760s he became interested in the New Hampshire Grants‚ buying
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John Dewey‚ an American philosopher‚ psychologist‚ educator‚ social critic and political activist. When he was a teenager‚ he started teaching at a private school in Vermont. During his free time‚ he would read philosophical treatises and discuss them with his former teacher. As his interests grew in philosophy‚ Dewey went off about teaching at the private school and onto studying philosophy and psychology at John Hopkins. George Sylvester Morris and G. Stanley Hall were among the teachers there
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John Locke was born on August 29‚ 1632 in England to a middle class family. He was named after his father‚ an educated attorney who had participated in the Civil War with the Long Parliamentary. Locke shared a great deal of affection and respect for his father. The relationship he built with his father influenced him to create his own views on education and government. His theory on education was published in 1693 titled‚ "Some Thoughts Concerning Education." Locke was accepted to Christ Church
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and geometry‚ he is credited with producing machines that were well ahead of their time. The Ancient Roman historians showed a strong interest in Archimedes and wrote several biographies relating to his life and works‚ while the few copies of his treatises that survived through the Middle Ages were a major influence on scientists during the Renaissance. Archimedes produced the first known summation of an infinite series with a method that is still used in the area of calculus today. Archimedes was
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Written By Shaun Kearney 6E 2003 "The Truly Great"‚ a treatise on greatness. (Poem written by Stephen Spender) This poem‚ broadly‚ is an attempt to describe what makes a person "truly" great. The poem was written in the 1930’s during wartime‚ this no doubt influenced the poet. However‚ soldiers are not the only people he is referring to. He is essentially referring to anyone who selflessly fights for what they believe in. "I think continually of those who were truly great Who‚ from the womb
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stretch of time between the Renaissance and Baroque periods of music offered a unique perspective of the changing opinions through the treatises critiquing the current music. A famous argument of this kind took place between Giovanni Artusi and Claudio Monteverdi regarding the latter’s madrigal Cruda Amarilli. It is through the study of this treatise that it is possible to ascertain what the composers’ opinions may have been on other pieces of music through applying their criteria to
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this flash of awareness‚ the individual perceives the object‚ sees it‚ labels it‚ and Right mindfulness and right concentration combine into a contemplative‚ meditative practice. The reason of mindfulness is "quieting and stilling the mind; creating knowledge; and developing generosity and sympathy" (Sharples‚ 2003‚ p. 27) to adapt to dukka (enduring). This parallels the concepts of Samatha (concentration) and Vipassana (insight) meditation. Therefore mindfulness‚ enriched through daily practice
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Introduction In our lives‚ there must be a time where we may face problems. Problems will occur if we do not have the right strategy or solution. So‚ how are we going to solve it? Well‚ there are no specific solutions that I can explain here but there are some ways that can help us to create the correct and fast solution to solve our problems. One of the ways is to think critically. Thinking is a good process but thinking alone will not help us to develop our minds. That is when critical thinking
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Common law versus civil law systems The two principal legal systems in the world today are those of civil law and common law. Continental Europe‚ Latin America‚ most of Africa and many Central European and Asian nations are part of the civil law system; the United States‚ along with England and other countries once part of the British Empire‚ belong to the common law system. The civil law system has its roots in ancient Roman law‚ updated in the 6th century A.D. by the Emperor Justinian and adapted
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