Dreadnought: 10 Facts 1) It was a Predominant type of battleship in the 20th century. 2) It was a Symbol of national power. 3) The earlier battleships were known as pre-dreadnoughts‚ while the more powerful vessels were known as super-dreadnoughts. 4) Use of dreadnought dropped after the World War One. 5) The dreadnoughts consisted armament of four heavy gun of 12-inch caliber. 6) Dreadnoughts made preceding battleships obsolete. 7) A type of warship that dominated the world’s navy for
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Human beings have a chance to survive only jointly. All of the moral laws that are praised by transcendentalists‚ as independent infinite truth; or another example of transcendentalism is Kant’s ethics of duty (Rachels‚ James‚ 1999) were simply determined by the natural selection. Severe conditions of wild nature taught humanity that the single way to remain alive is to help each other; otherwise‚ they are merely a number of
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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s works "Self-Reliance” and Nature esteem transcendentalism as a romantic‚ individualistic philosophy of life in hopes of establishing contemporary concepts in society which reject traditional institutions and customs. Emerson’s thoughts are generally based on inward reflection‚ in which the capabilities of one’s soul and intuition are fundamental. He believes that a rejuvenated sense of personal inspiration can overpower the dogmatic constructs society imposes on its members
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Visions of psychological‚ emotional‚ spiritual paralysis and despair run rampant throughout dark romantic literature. Dark Romanticism can be seen as the antithesis of the Romantic ideals that reached their ultimate form in Transcendentalism. Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ two dark Romantics‚ were concerned with the human condition and human nature in a way that few other writers of the time period were. Although strikingly different from the Transcendentalists‚ Hawthorne and Poe emphasize
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Can a woman be true to one man? Is a pure and virtuous woman anywhere on the ends of the earth? John Donne‚ a poet of the Renaissance and a contemporary of Shakespeare’s ponders this dilemma in the poem "Song" or "Go and Catcha Falling Star". Structurally Donne is unique in the structure of the poem. The poem has a rhythm and a rhyme scheme a‚b‚a‚b‚c‚c‚d‚d‚d. With lines 7-8 Donne has two word lines which add impact to those words "And find/What wind"‚ "And swear/no where"‚ and "Yet she/Will be"
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matter. We debated throughout the class period once‚ we left the class I was proud of myself for I standing up for my opinion even though four other classmates joined in on the opposing side. I think a peaceful protest does resolve matters even if it does not change anything‚ people heard what you had to say‚ as well as‚ knowing there is others that have the same beliefs and point of views as you.
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Meg Whitman‚ CEO of eBay Leadership and Organizational Behavior Transaction Leadership Transactional leadership involves motivating and directing followers primarily through appealing to their own self-interest (Hellriegel‚ D.‚ & Slocum‚ J. W‚ Jr. 2009). In this case Meg Whitman’s leadership reflects transaction leadership through the focus on basic management process of controlling‚ organizing and short-term planning. Hellriegel and Slocum mentions Whitman craves for statistics and
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A study on Meg Whitman and Hewlett-Packard George Davies Dr. Laura Poluka Business 520 Organizational Behavior 9/01/13 1 A Study on Meg Whitman and Hewett-Packard Introduction Meg Whitman was born Margaret Cushing Whitman on August 4‚ 1956‚ in Cold Spring Harbor‚ Long Island‚ New York. The youngest of the Hendricks and Margaret Cushing’s three children‚ Meg grew up in Cold Harbor Spring‚ New York. Her father worked for Wall Street while her mother was a stay-at-home mom. Confident and
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Emerson‚ Thoreau‚ Twain: Transcendentalist Writers Transcendentalists are believed to go above and beyond and be independent. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau both stress that transcendentalism is all about individualism. According to Emerson‚ the main idea of transcendentalism is to withdraw from society: “To believe you own thought‚ to believe that what is true for you in your private heart‚ is true for all men(that is genius” (185). Emerson focuses on following the heart. Similarly
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Plato’s Symposium is a book of speeches given in honor of Eros‚ the god of love. Aristophanes‚ a comic poet‚ gives the first speech‚ and the second is given by Socrates. The first speech tells a humorous history of mankind and how it became “whole‚” addressing gender issues and sexuality. On a more serious note‚ the second speech addresses the origin of Eros and his use to humans. Before launching his speech‚ Aristophanes warns the group that his eulogy to love may be more absurd than funny
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