The cumulative effect of the Black Death proved that the Church was not powerful enough to help the people overcome crisis or improve lives, and highlighted the limitations of medieval knowledge in handling problems. ... These books not only could be mass-produced and used to spread humanities such as literature and philosophy, enabling more people to adopt these ideas, but also bypassed Ecclesiastical control and it was made possible to disseminate ideologies, opinions and knowledge which were secular, further catalyzing the people's spirit of inquiry. ... The discovery of the telescope ...

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This political stability increased the prosperity and pride of the ruling classes as well as the military, and helped reinforce the general belief in Augustus as a symbol of the Roman peoples" favor in the eyes of the gods. ... Julius Caesar's seeming disregard for Roman tradition, as well as its constitution, helped Augustus" cosmetic reinstitution of some of these constitutional boundaries appear more substantive than they really were. Although his reign spans the period known as "the golden age of Latin literature", the building of roads during this period seems to indicate preoc...

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For literature, Tragedy was considered the most important in Aristotle's Poetics, Musical genres were composed of classical sonatas and symphonies, and genre painting depicting domestic life and daily social encounters began to surface in the 17th century and were then followed by genre painting that came to suggest an image of a "slice of life. ... Conventions are the properties or features that identify a genre, Formulas are the patterns for developing stories in a particular genre, and Expectations describe a viewers experience and knowledge while watching a film that help antici...

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As Zeus clarifies his opinion of hero Odysseus to his daughter Athena, who is seeking his help in protecting the suffering him from the ceaseless danger he has encountered, he proclaims, " 'Great Odysseus who excels all men in wisdom, excels in offerings too he gives the immortal gods who rule the vaulting skies?'... Alcinous' statement clearly depict the god's support of sacrificing mortals, because, as he expresses, those gods went as far as accompanying them in an act of communion, often indicating a significant event in literature just as the sacrifices are substan...

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At the beginning of the Renaissance, humanist educators revived the study of the classics and humanities to help students attain salvation. ... Despite this emphasis on the pagan classics, a Renaissance education was designed to help students acquire knowledge so that they could attain salvation. ... In his work Reflections, he wrote that acquiring more superficial or "decorative" skills such as good penmanship, dancing, singing, horse riding and dressing well would lend dignity to an educated man and help him to impress princes. ... In the view of the author of this letter, studying litera...

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Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in neuropsychology. ... The demand for both neuropsychologists and clinical neuropsychologists is expected to remain high as more individuals turn to psychology for help in resolving or managing problems" (Career Information Center 183). ...

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