The printing press, spectacles and pendulum were just some examples of the technology available at that time. The printing press was an important technology, which enabled books to be written and published much faster than before, when all books were handwritten. ... The pendulum, invented by Galileo Galilei around the 1600's, allowed people to accurately keep time. ... Andreas Vesalius, a famous anatomist and physician, was highly regarded for his works on medicine and his many published books. ... Humanist thinkers focused more on the world around them than on spiritual life and death. ...

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Classroom teachers spend much time using textbooks in class, so choosing an appropriate one is important. ... Textbooks are published in printed format; many are now available as online electronic books. ... Early textbooks were used by tutors and teachers, who used the books as instructional aids, as well as individuals who taught themselves. ... Neither the content standards found in the professional profile for teachers nor the content standards from educational profile of their training courses are adequately covered in the books. ... At the same time, teachers have increasingly adopted t...

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Since music takes place in time, rhythm is the foundation upon which every song is built. ... Romantic composers often used books, poems, or plays as in inspiration for their music and incorporated the written word into musical pieces. The leading author of the Romantic Movement was Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, whose books stress human passions, imagination, and freedom. ... It was in the eighteenth century that concert life began. ... The romantic era was a time of creativity when composers attempted to portray real-life events through music. ...

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In order to isolate Jews and Gypsies from the rest of the society and control them, laws were passed to purge these racial groups from almost all cultural life as early as 1933. ... Later on, these restrictions expanded to many other aspects of life, such as playing of Gypsy music because "hard-working German citizens were annoyed by the sloppy bearing of Gypsy musicians who used their music as a cover for begging... Books, newspapers, magazines, and radio, all tried to "educate" the audience about the struggle between the white "Aryan" race and others, and the harms those minority groups had ...

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Jean Bodin's work 6 Books of the Commonweal 1576 originated a theory of modern sovereignty when he argued that "the first and chief mark of a sovereign prince" - the power upon which other people depend - was that he must be able to make law without consulting anyone else. ... Absolutism seemed, to political philosophers like Hobbes and Bodin, the only workable solution to the religious divisions that exposed people to such anarchy as to render everyday human life impossible. ... We have already had one example of absolutism: the only time in which the English lived under a government w...

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Varieties on the term, in the same way as neoclassicism, can besides allude to a particular school or style in a specific time period. ... Traditional styles and topics kept on dominaing the time of the High Renaissance in the work of the early-sixteenth-century experts Leonardo da Vinci (1452 "1519), Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 "1564), and Raphael Sanzio (1483 "1520). ... With the new accessibility of moderately modest printed books and Italian-prepared local educators, on the other hand, the investigation of established writing got to be more open, and by the center of...

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The Copenhagen Document of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages are examples of the adjustments that have been made regarding minority languages, and all of them highlight the importance of individual human rights, including education, communication, policy, services, culture, economics and social life. ... At the 7th International Conference on Minority Languages in 2000 in Bilbao, Catalan wasn Ÿt included in the list of the minority languages Ÿ and...

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In this "The Six Books of the Common wealth" (1577) he defined sovereignty as "the absolute and perpetual power of a commonwealth" (Bodin, p. 1). Consequently, in this sense the power of the prince, or the sovereign, is not subject to time and has no superior. ... The achievements of the Renaissance in art, literature and philosophy were particularly important in the secularization of life; thus there was a corresponding decline in the religious authority of the church. ...

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It should be noted that this does not suggest that the quality of life was better for the Europeans, only that even the poorest European was materially better off than his counterpart in India or China. ... With fewer children to provide for, more could be invested in producing strong animals, and in educating the human labor force as well, who, with spare time provided by not working the fields, could turn to other endeavors, such as woodworking. ... More than 160 trades and crafts were active in the city at that time, in approximately the following proportions: 25 percent in clothing; 10 per...

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Our research set out to improve our understanding of the immigration from 1960s up to 1980s and by exploring the rhythms and realities of everyday life both of immigrants and natives people. ... We aimed to investigate the strategies people deployed in the time of far-researching changes, to meet their perceived priorities and needs. ... This topic is particular for me because my aim is to find the real causes and consequences of immigration in Britain, to know why people migrate, what they expect once they arrive in the country of immigration maybe escape for persecution or to look for better...

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The nature of the conflict also changed over the passing of time, changing from what was primarily a selfish war, fought by Britain against the growing ascendancy of the Central powers as a whole, and Germany especially, whom, by the eve of the war, were challenging Britain on virtually every front except finance, to the prevention of global domination by a single power. ...

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As a result of this, there are not many published accounts on this particular project apart from few chapters in newly published books such as Shaffer, Korin and Luft, mass media coverage such as the Times, Guardian, Zaman, Milliyet, articles in academic papers such as Barysch11, Winrow12, Norling and Ozdemir and Internet resources such as http://www.nabucco-pipeline.com. ...

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