http://tanguay.info/data/rss_moocnotes.xml Edward Tanguay's notes on MOOC letcures he watches http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=indigenousArt ...contemporary indigenous art - gathering momentum in Australia from the 1970s onwards - indigenous visual culture is the longest continuous art form on the planet - 50,000 years - prior to contact by Europeans, its locus was - primary ceremony - largely ephemeral - 1971 - following the work of bark painters and sculptors in Arnhem land in the Tiwi Islands - la... Sat, 21 Mar 2020 00:22:01 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lactance250325 ...les réponses apportées par les chrétiens - les attaques des philosophes ont obligé les chrétiens à se situer sur le même terrain qu'eux - à apporter des justifications rationnelles de leur foi - l'ensemble de ces réponses chrétiennes, a été paradoxalement, pour cette raison, un facteur de rapprochement important entre christianisme et philosophie- l’apologétique - ce genre litté... Sun, 26 Jan 2020 00:25:04 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=nietzscheInBasel ...a la mi-avril 1869 - Nietzsche commence son voyage en direction de Bâle - il passe en bateau sur le Rhin - il s'arrête à Karlsruhe - il assiste à une représentation des Maîtres chanteurs - il fait une halte à Heidelberg - il rédige sa conférence inaugurale, intitulée : « Homère et la philologie classique » - la conférence inaugurale est la conférence où tout nouveau profe... Tue, 31 Dec 2019 01:08:05 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=glynphilpot ...Glyn Philpot (1884-1937) - made a name for himself in Great Britain in 1910s and 1920s - fasionable society portrait painter - as art student became fascinated with painting by Italian Renaissance painters - Titian (1488-1576) - Paolo Veronese (1538-1588) - Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) - Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) - depth of contstruction and subtle pa... Sat, 16 Nov 2019 22:12:26 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=YangZhuPhysiologicalTurn3 ...the physiological turn - Yang Chu (440–360 BCE) [yahng JEW] - the discovery of the body - the body becomes a philosophical topic - we don't know much about him - we've lost his writings - rivals referred to his teachings as egoism - the teaching of being for yourself only - an individualist primativist - not happy with society - wants to drop out of soc... Thu, 24 Oct 2019 19:34:13 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=jeuneNietzsche ...Friedrich Nietzsche est né le 15 octobre 1844 à Röcken une petite ville d'Allemagne, située près de Leipzig - l'Allemagne d'alors est un Etat encore en formation - le Saint Empire romain germanique, constitué d'une multitude d'Etats, a été dissous en 1806, pendant les guerres napoléoniennes - l'Allemagne va être unifiée en 1871, sous l'égide de Bismarck et de la Prusse– ces événem... Mon, 30 Sep 2019 04:04:00 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=fordFactory1920s ...the First World War brought the competing imperial systems, tension, and disequilibrium to a head- the peace of 1918/19 didn't create a durable peace as its architects sought out - the tension would persist until well into 1945 - 1914-1945 - a Thirty Years War with pauses and truces throughout - especially when you look at Asia during this period, war was much more common than... Tue, 27 Aug 2019 22:45:14 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=metaspriggina ...as paleontologists look back into the past, the further they look, the blurrier and smaller the view finder becomes - with living animals we can observe them directly - with animals from the Paleozoic Era (542-250 Ma, fish) or Mesozoic Era (250-65 Ma, dinosaurs) we observe them through fossils - becoming a fossil was like striking the lottery - as some soft Paleozoic life form, th... Tue, 23 Jul 2019 22:07:57 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=kahloCroppedHair2 ...retablo is a form of popular folk art in Mexico - painted in a small format on tin - highly decorative but also strangely unsettling to the viewer - they present ironic commentary on life's contradictions- PAINTING: Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair 1940 - we see Kahlo dressed in one of Diego's suits - she has herself represented in the process of cutting off her hair - sh... Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:57:13 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=languageCrisisWarringStates ...Warring States literature - Early Warring States - Analects - Tao Te Ching - the core part of Mohism (Mozi) - Late Warring States - concerned with language and how it relates to what we can know- two innovations that separate the early and late warring states literature - the language crisis - people are getting concerned about how words relate to reality - phil... Thu, 30 May 2019 00:40:48 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=fridaKahlo ...Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) - two portraits - 1. self portrait of cropped hair of 1940 - 2. Fulang-Chang and I of 1937 - aspects of femininity - Mexican artist - married to the famous muralist Diego Rivera - 140 works in which 55 were self-portraits - "I paint myself because I am often alone and I am the subject that I know best" - had a serious bus accident as a you... Thu, 16 May 2019 01:04:23 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=celsePorphyreCritiques ...les arguments utilisés par les philosophes contre les chrétiens- les critiques des philosophes concernent - la personne de Jésus - les évangélistes - les chrétiens en général- Celse (IIe siècle) - un philosophe romain écrivant en langue grecque, est l'auteur d'un ouvrage analytique et articulé, Discours véritable (Λόγος Ἀληθής), rédigé vers 178 - il s'agissait d'un ouvrage où ... Sun, 05 May 2019 22:14:03 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=rechercheDuGrandParis2 ...comment a évolué Paris depuis de 19ème siècle - il faut revenir sur ce qui se passe au milieu du XIXe siècle - Paris est une - petite ville - très dense - enserrée dans une barrière - une barrière d'octroi - l'octroi, c'est une douane - douzaine d'arrondissements - les premiers arrondissements centraux - au-delà de cette petite ville très dense, on va... Sun, 21 Apr 2019 13:42:01 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=industrialRevolutionRulingClass ...industrialization in the last decades of the 19th century as remarkably successful - Sergei Witte, Minister of Finance 1889-1891 - argued that Russia needed to industrialize to remain a great power - have to be able to have a great army - moving armies around - conservative modernization - wanted a positive balance of trade - was able to put Russia on the gold standa... Wed, 13 Mar 2019 22:44:04 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=celsePorphyreHierroclesJulien ...trois types d'arguments utilisés par les philosophes contre les chrétiens, les deux premiers sont: - 1. les attaques contre la doctrine - 2. concernent le texte biblique et l'exégèse des chrétiens - c'est-à-dire la façon dont ils l'interprètent - il est difficile de savoir comment les philosophes ont eu accès au texte biblique - il faut exclure l'hypothèse qu'ils auraient lu l... Sun, 24 Feb 2019 22:45:51 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=crashOf1929 ...the Treaty of Versailles produced an unstable Europe - a goal of it was the rebuilding of a global economy - but many focused on establishing the economic world as it had existed before the war - the idea was that restoring the Victorian boom was a condition for the political peace - people looking for new coordinates began to be nostalgic for the old world - it was the cr... Sun, 27 Jan 2019 19:29:31 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=moziFundamentalism ...Mozi (470-391 BCE) as a fundamentalist and activist - two chapters: "On Ghosts" and "Heaven's Will" - understand these chapters on the background of two trends of the growing elite as the Warring States period moves on - agnosticism - becoming unclear if ghosts and spirits exist - Mozi wants to revive this - that ghosts and spirits are alive and active agents on the Eart... Tue, 15 Jan 2019 20:31:12 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=pedroPabloRubens ...Rubens es heredero de Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), de Miguel Ángel (1475-1564), de Rafael (1483-1520) y de Tiziano (1488-1576) - como ellos, trabajó para los mecenas más importantes de su tiempo - pintó todo tipo de temas y fue también un extraordinario dibujante - Rubens pintó muchísimo: aún conservamos más de 1500 cuadros suyos - a menudo trabajó a gran escala - contó con la... Sun, 30 Dec 2018 18:51:34 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=globalColonialUpheaval ...what to do the former provinces of the former Ottoman Empire which included Palestine - one solution was to create states - in Palestine - to create a home for the Jews - for a return to the Holy Law - the Balfour Declaration - promised to create a home for the Jewish people - local incumbent populations of Arabs were upset - both Christian and Moslem Arabs... Sun, 16 Dec 2018 01:07:04 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=verdadContexto2 ...imaginemos una esfera que es mitad blanca y mitad negra - pero sólo podemos observarla desde una perspectiva - entonces de hecho no percibimos una esfera si no un círculo - si tratamos de averiguar de qué color es ese círculo - pues la respuesta dependerá desde la perspectiva desde la cual estemos observando - algunos dirán que es negro, algunos dirán que es blanco, otros mit... Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:41:22 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=claudioDeLorena ...en el siglo XVII Roma era la capital del arte europeo - muchos pintores viajaron a esa ciudad y algunos permanecieron allí de por vida - Nicolas Poussin y Claudio de Lorena - ambos forman parte de la larga tradición de artistas que se dedicaron a pintar imágenes idealizadas del mundo clásico - Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) - nació en 1594 en Les Andelys, Normandía, France -... Fri, 09 Nov 2018 23:47:22 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=muchaFreedomOfSerfs ...the character of the Russian state from its establishment to the pre-revolutionary time - the great dividing line is 1861 - the liberation of the serfs - how did serfdom develop and what were the consequences of serfdom - serfdom is the essential social fact of Russian history - which has significance very much going into Soviet times - serfdom developed relatively late... Sun, 21 Oct 2018 20:59:21 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ssSelfDetermination ...in retrospect, we know that the powers being imagined in 1919 were doomed to failure - we have to resist the temptations to engage in the retrospective fallacy - to read history backward as if people should have known at the time that what they imagined as doomed - Wilson was an optimist - lessons could be learned from the First World War - many warned that the peace was unsusta... Sat, 06 Oct 2018 15:01:01 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=maxDupain ...in Dupain's photographs of bathers, he shares interests with Cezanne's Bather - for his painting The Bather, Cezanne used photographs to explore how a body moves through space - it's a study of the placement of the body and its placement in the natural world - both returned often to the bather as the subject of their art - 1937 The Sunbaker - an athletic man lying on the beach... Thu, 20 Sep 2018 21:08:16 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=wilsonLeninMoment ...in 1918, Woodrow Wilson arrived in France to help put together a peace that would put an end to all wars - worried whether the Russian Revolution could spread - the victors discussed this peace in the shadow of disease and economic troubles - personal tragedy behind the scenes - Woodrow Wilson's daughter Margaret had gotten the influenza - came close to dying in a hospital i... Wed, 19 Sep 2018 23:01:11 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=accuracyDigitalEra ...editors play an important role in how news gets created - many of the other forms of news online and on television today, don't have the same level of editorial norms - e.g. on a blog or a non-traditional news site - might be based on a similar editorial process - but it very well may also simply be written by an unprofessional someone who simply has some particular opinion and want... Fri, 31 Aug 2018 11:49:28 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=chemicalBrothers ...disco at end of 1970s - the disco sucks movement - rock and rollers hated disco - it threatened many of the aspects of the hippy aesthetic - radio stations were changing formats - 1980s - the fad for disco gets absorbed in many ways - the idea of dancing music in a club - master-minded by a DJ doesn't go away - it's off the mainstream, not a style - continues ... Wed, 22 Aug 2018 01:35:10 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=guidoReni ...Guido Reni nació en 1575 - forma parte de la primera generación de pintores que desarrollaron gran parte de su carrera en el siglo XVII - se formó en Bolonia - trabajó allí durante la mayor parte de su carrera - también pintó en Roma durante varios años - fue llamado a Nápoles para pintar en la catedral de la ciudad - pero las amenazas de un pintor local le hicieron huir... Sun, 12 Aug 2018 13:36:53 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=barnettNewmanVir ...title is Latin for heroic and sublime man- Museum of Modern Art, New York City- Barnett Newman (1905-1970) - wrote about what an author and theorist could do in the postwar era - what an artist should do with abstraction is to plumb the void - to try to get somewhere in terms of perception and experience, both that of the painter and the viewer that was not possible before -... Sun, 29 Jul 2018 14:10:56 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=cezanneBather ...Paul Cezanne's The Bather (1885) - one of Cezanne's most arresting paintings - subtle tones of grey, blue and green - one of the hundreds of paintings Cezanne made around the subject of bathers and bathing - painted bathers throughout his career - more than 30 years - many have written on his remarkable obsession with the theme - the eroticism of Cezanne's bathers - h... Sat, 21 Jul 2018 21:49:33 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=1919epidemic ...leaders of the world discussed world peace in Versailles - one of the coldest winters in recorded history - millions of people froze to death - in 1918 and 1919 the real killer was disease - pathogens shaped world history - germs and viruses don't respect national, ethnic and class barriers - left 100 million people dead - this plague was more devastating than the war it... Tue, 17 Jul 2018 00:54:36 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=johnRawlsTheoryOfJustice ...John Rawls (1921-2002) - il est dans cet héritage de - la pensée de Kant - la pensée déontologique - de la pensée libérale - met l'accent sur la liberté - est l'auteur d'un livre Une théorie de la justice (1974) - a fait beaucoup de bruit - a continué pendant toute la fin du XXe siècle à influencer les politiques des États libéraux - le voile d'ignorance -... Sat, 30 Jun 2018 19:50:44 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=theflood ...the flood story called attention to the Epic of Gilgamesh - the flood story was known from the Bible - the role the flood story plays in Gilgamesh - comes late in the story - feels like an interpolated tale, like a story within a story - it's not the centerpiece of the drama of Gilgamesh and Enkidu - there is an ancient tradition in the Near East of stories within stories... Fri, 29 Jun 2018 01:24:02 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=textosDeLasPiramides ...el interior de las pirámides de los reyes de la tercera dinastía de la cuarta dinastía y de casi toda la quinta dinastía carece por completo de textos- "Textos de las pirámides" - las cámaras y los corredores de las pirámides de los siguientes faraones se llenan de textos funerarios que conocemos con el nombre de "Textos de las pirámides" - Unis, del último rey de la quinta dinastía ... Sun, 17 Jun 2018 08:10:05 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=matisseDancers ...The Dance (1909) - one of Matisse's most celebrated and controversial paintings - a daring foray into avant garde experiment - challenged the principles upon with academic painting was based - emerged from Matisse's informal academy established in 1908 - invited students to experiment - to push the potential of line and color into uncharted territory - he evacuated his b... Mon, 11 Jun 2018 23:29:27 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=teenIdols1990s ...some of the things we see happening in the 90s remind us of things that have happened before in the history of rock music - idols that specifically appeal to a teen audience, especially teen girls - Boyz II Men - from Philadelphia - signed to the Motown label - Michael Jackson had left Motown - revitalized Motown - returned to earlier styles of music - early do... Sat, 02 Jun 2018 00:38:53 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=congressOfVersailles ...after WWI ended, the nations were faced with the task of rebuilding the core at the center of the world system - tried to patch up the differences they had - some envisioned a world that would put an end to the conflicts that had given rise to the First World War - an idea put forth as the war ground down: this should be a war to end all wars - this was the spirit, albeit not wel... Sun, 27 May 2018 20:45:16 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=womenSingerSongWriters1990s ...1990s important for female singer-songwriters - develops in the 1960s - Dylan - Beatles - Paul McCartney - Elton John - Paul Simon - characteristics - sincerity - about your experiences - the singers are talking directly to you - the instruments shouldn't get in the way - usually an acoustic guitar or piano - there's an organic element to the commu... Mon, 21 May 2018 00:59:58 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=opinionArgumentation ...el objetivo de la argumentación - escribir una carta en la que solicites un aumento de salario - hagas un reclamo - en todos estos textos tenemos en común el propósito de persuadir al interlocutor para que asuma como válido nuestro punto de vista y se adhiera a él - en estas situaciones, el impacto que podemos tener en los otros depende directamente de nuestras competencias de argum... Sat, 19 May 2018 01:01:38 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=buildingBlockApproach ...the building block approach to religion - break a story down into its blocks and components - one finds stories with some blocks added or removed, and it changes the story - the concepts of religion, magic and superstition are unstable - other cultures don't necessarily have a concept that translates directly into what we generally think of as religion - to approach religion scie... Fri, 11 May 2018 22:49:02 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=celulasInterconectadas ...todos los seres vivos estamos formados de células - las bacterias - los hongos - las plantas - los animales- todos somos un conjunto coordinado de células - recordar lo que realmente somos - nos recuerda lo que nos parecemos entre si todos los seres vivos: todos estamos hechos de lo mismo - cualquier ser vivo que hayas visto en un documental sea un abeto, un perrillo la... Sat, 05 May 2018 21:59:57 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=jusepeDeRibera2 ...la influencia de Caravaggio fue tan grande, que surgió un estilo internacional basado en sus obras y que se asocia con su nombre, el "caravaggismo" - lo practicaron artistas en Italia, en España, en Francia, en los Países Bajos y en la actual Bélgica - la necesidad que se venía sintiendo en el continente de que apareciese una nueva forma de pintar, se vio satisfecha por las novedades que pr... Tue, 01 May 2018 23:16:27 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=genreOfRelevancy ...late 60s, early 70s - a time of social change - a youth movement, spawned the hippy generation - demonstrations against war in Vietnam - issues of civil rights - issues of womens' liberation - led to strive between a younger generation and a generation of authority - comic sales on the down swing - comic book companies asked themselves how they could stay relevant to this gen... Tue, 17 Apr 2018 01:40:09 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=firstWorldWar ...August 1914 - didn't destroy a world that was at its apex of civilization, but rather an arrangement that was already - in trouble - beset by anxieties - plagued by rivalries between regimes - plunged into the first truly global war in a century - since the Napoleonic Wars into Russia and Egypt - war went global for one fundamental reason - 1. it was a war between gl... Wed, 04 Apr 2018 20:23:08 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=newschanging ...there's been a shift over the journalism industry over the last 35 years - how we consume our news - how reporters do their jobs - the rise of digital technology- news is still in demand - the news model is not broken but the business model is - the advertising that would support three or four hundred staffers in a news room is gone - it's gone to the web - in fact, it's n... Mon, 02 Apr 2018 03:39:22 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=catholicCommunion ...how do you define a religion? - the folk idea of religion is that it has to do with supernatural beings - other people define it as having to do with the sacred - other people think religion has more to do with practice and we want to define it in terms of rituals and communities, i.e. what people do together and what rituals they practice is important - one of the advantages of the c... Thu, 29 Mar 2018 00:35:26 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=homeostasis2 ...underlying principles in the field of exercise science - provides the foundations that your body must make in response to the physical stress incurred during a single bout of exercise - 1. Homeostasis - the tendency of the body to maintain a stable internal environment for cells by narrowly regulating critical variables - pH (acid/base balance) - oxygen tension - blood gl... Wed, 21 Mar 2018 02:49:27 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=oasisband ...musicians who are embracing older styles and making them their own and updating them - Jam Bands - going back to - The Grateful Dead - The Almond Brothers - long improvisations - all about the live performance itself - any particular recording is just a snapshot - you have to be there to be a part of what is going on - HORDE 1992 - Horizons of Rock Developin... Fri, 16 Mar 2018 02:15:37 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=gilgameshHumbaba ...Gilgamesh and Enkidu have become friends - go out of the city to slay the monster Humbaba - Humbab is inhabiting and protecting a wild forest - they leave the city to raid the countryside, cut down the forest and slay the monster - particularly in the ancient Near East, the environment is an extremely pervasive factor - the city needs the countryside - the cities are larg... Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:22:18 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=raceEugenics ...the shrinking of the world more intervisible - including the intervisibiliy of races with each other - many people suggested that the problems of the world came from the fact that there were so many races - others insisted that it was racists who were the problem, since they held these irrational beliefs - i.e. those who didn't subscribe to 18th century philosophical beliefs... Tue, 06 Mar 2018 22:21:51 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=rousseausSleepingGypsy ...The Sleeping Gypsy (1897) - a mysterious work - has similar themes with The Dream - a recumbent female figure occupies the focal point - part of an exotic landscape - exists in harmony with the animal world - the full moon rises high in the sky - in both paintings there is a dark-skinned musician - differences - gypsy - a wanderer - carries a staff -... Thu, 01 Mar 2018 23:39:42 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=moziAnticonfucian ...Mozi is a materialist, state consequentialist - measuring material profit and benefit ("li") - wants to maximize the - wealth - population - order of the state - characteristics which can be measured - in the Warring States, population is power - you can measure ideas and processes with these three criteria - Mozi believes there are many things going on in the... Wed, 28 Feb 2018 08:12:07 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=russiaContext ...why study history - those who do not study history are compelled to repeat it - but this sentence makes very little sense, in fact, it doesn't work like that - it's good for the historians and advertisements, but beyond that, it has very little value - the reason is that history does not, in fact, repeat itself - life is complicated - every historical event is complicated... Sat, 17 Feb 2018 16:42:43 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=cesareLombroso ...protest movements - the right to be included in public life - the right to be included in the interdependent system of economies - suffragettes argued that they deserved these rights because they were reasonable creatures as well - people began to wonder about this faith in the ability of people to reason - could rationality from the 18th century characterize the nature of the mo... Sat, 10 Feb 2018 02:58:47 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=rembrandtTrialJesus ...the chosen are the ones most responsible for Christ's death is demonstrated in - the liturgy of the Church - artistic representation - Rembrandt's two depictions of the trial of Jesus - first image - depicts the presentation of Jesus to the crowd - uses details of contemporary buildings in Amsterdam - viewers from that time would have recognized that the buildin... Sun, 04 Feb 2018 06:28:53 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=porphyreDeTyr ...les arguments contre les chrétiens sont de trois ordres - 1. concernent la doctrine chrétienne - 2. le texte biblique et l'interprétation que les chrétiens lui donnent - 3. contre Jésus et ses disciples- critiques majeures au christianisme qui concernent la doctrine chrétienne - ils lui reprochent d'abord d'être une innovation, qui serait venue bouleverser les traditions des ... Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:02:37 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=shamhat ...what are the problems of a ruler who is going off the rails like Gilgamesh? - he's starting how sleeping with women on their wedding nights - overtaxing the population - he's making young men work to build his great wall around his city - abusing his own population - Sumerian kings are usually wonderful - never do anything wrong - the king has a council of infinitely wise ... Fri, 19 Jan 2018 23:03:08 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=1990sSting ...the creation of rock history - classic rock was created in the 1980s as a radio format - one of the most important changes in the 1980s was the transfer of technologies from analog to digital - from cassette tapes and vinyl records to CD - starts to happen in 1982 - Sony and Phillips combined forces to develop and standardize CD technology - CDs were advertised as high qua... Wed, 17 Jan 2018 02:34:24 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=leichtenstein ...1955 end of the golden age of comics - the golden age of comic books came to an end - it was almost the end of the comic book itself - as a result of the book The Seduction of the Innocent, and the work of Dr. Fredric Wertham - many comic companies went out of business - comic book writers, editors and artists were denigrated in society - Superman television series - no o... Sat, 13 Jan 2018 15:24:21 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=manipulatedContent ...being able to produce a corpus of information that's accurate - which expresses what's out there in a reasonable way - is important to allow citizens to render an effective decision - when people have information that they encounter which isn't accurate - the results can end up making decisions that are sub-optimal - example - the fake news that Pope Francis endorsed Trump... Mon, 08 Jan 2018 23:06:34 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=notredame ...Paris of the 12th century was one of the great stopping places - the city had been settled by a Celtic tribe, the Parisii in the 3rd century BC - 52 BC Romans establish Gallo-Roman settlement "Lutetia Parisorum" - Île de la Cité - where the Cathedral of Notre Dame built 10 centuries later- early history of Paris - 3rd century AD - France was Christianized - occupied by... Sun, 07 Jan 2018 01:28:10 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lesHospicesDeBeaune ...la philanthropie a une longue histoire - mais en lisant dans les journaux, on a l'impression que - le sujet est nouveau en France - la philanthropie est un phénomène américain ou anglo-saxon - ce manque de recul historique est un frein à la compréhension du présent et de l'avenir- les pratiques de dons, plus ou moins formelles, ont existé dans toutes les sociétés humaines - ... Sat, 30 Dec 2017 10:14:11 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lemisanthrope ...les textes en vers - ce n'est pas des vers simplement pour faire joli - c'est parce que le théâtre est conçu comme une dimension particulière de la poésie - il y a le sonnet, l'ode - les genres qui relèvent strictement du domaine de la poésie - la tragédie - l'épopée - les auteurs de théâtre du XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle ne se définissent jamais comme des dramaturges mais ils se... Mon, 25 Dec 2017 17:04:08 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=paulRicoeur ...Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) - la question éthique ne naît pas d'autre chose que d'une révolte devant l'injustice - comme enfant les premiers sentiments moraux que nous avons eus - des révoltes devant l'injustice - un partage inégal - une punition injuste - une distribution d'un bien qui aurait dû revenir à quelqu'un d'autre et qui ne lui revenait pas - de ces premiers ... Thu, 14 Dec 2017 08:05:31 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=celse ...la critique philosophique du christianisme - les Actes des apôtres, au chapitre 17 - Paul, de passage à Athènes, est interpellé par des philosophes stoïciens et épicuriens qui lui demandent de justifier les idées qu'il professe - c'est la première fois dans la littérature la mise en scène d'une confrontation entre le chrétien et les philosophes- quatre philosophes composaient de... Fri, 08 Dec 2017 06:02:14 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lacomplexite ...la complexité est partie prenante dans nos vies quotidiennes - personnelles - professionnelles - nous avons des difficultés à sortir de systèmes de pensée binaire - à envisager les incertitudes de notre quotidien pour aborder - nos actions - nos décisions - le mot de complexité - un peu ambigu - la langue commune - s'oppose au simple - un niveau de difficulté ... Sat, 02 Dec 2017 02:21:27 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=doublePredestination ...Calvin est principalement le théologien de - 1. la prédestination - 2. la double prédestination - ce serait la thématique centrale dans sa pensée - Alexander Schweizer - Ferdinand Christian Baur- la doctrine de la prédestination - se trouve dans le troisième livre de l'Institution - presque à la toute fin de ce troisième livre - dans les chapitres 21 à 24 - mais ce n... Sun, 26 Nov 2017 00:28:40 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=analysePolitiques ...la distinction entre la sphère privée et la sphère publique - certaines questions apparaissent comme relever purement de la sphère privée - du choix personnel des individus - le fait de fumer ou de ne pas fumer - relève a priori d'une décision purement personnelle - mais le fait de fumer est devenu un problème public - à partir du moment des associations se sont so... Thu, 23 Nov 2017 22:47:02 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=philosophieGrecque ...les grandes lignes de la philosophie grecque - la philosophie à l'époque où apparaît le christianisme - la philosophie est apparue en Grèce à la fin de la période dite archaïque, vers les 7e-6e - une tradition issue d'un disciple de Platon impute l'invention des termes philosophe à Pythagore, qui a vécu au 6e siècle - un philosophe est un homme qui recherche la sagesse - i... Fri, 17 Nov 2017 08:16:26 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=rhetoriqueDaristote ...le contenu du texte - pour faire parler les personnages - pour que les personnages échangent - des idées - des arguments - des passions - pour que le spectateur comprenne ce que l'auteur veut lui faire comprendre- sur scène - le point de départ d'une pièce de théâtre - où est-il en scène - à quelle période est-il en scène - qu'a-t-il fait auparavant - q... Tue, 14 Nov 2017 20:52:00 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=realitesSpatiales ...pourquoi l'espace joue un rôle dans la vie sociale - dans un wagon de métro - les passagers se placent aussi loin que possible les uns des autres - dans une ville - on trouve une concentration de gros objets et de personnes - nous accueillons et au contraire rejeter la densité dans le quotidien endiverses manières- nous sommes des réalités spatiales - notre appareil se... Fri, 10 Nov 2017 22:55:10 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=hansJonas ...l'éthique du discours était héritière de Kant - Kant a essayé de passer de la conscience de soi à une validité intersubjective - ces penseurs qui étendent la philosophie de Kant veulent l'étendre de manière universelle parmi tous les concernés le fondement de l'éthique plutôt que de la trouver dans le secret de la conscience d'un individu - ça ne correspond pas à intragénérationnelle... Tue, 07 Nov 2017 23:46:37 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=essentialismeEtConstructivisme ...de l'opposition entre l'essentialisme et le constructivisme - la constructivisme - traverse toute l'histoire de la géographie - ce n'est pas quelque chose de récent - mais quel est notre rapport au réel - comment construisons-nous le réel et comment analysons-nous ce réel - dans la géographie cette question était posée dès le XIXe siècle - la géographie classique - ... Fri, 03 Nov 2017 21:15:00 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=jesusdeath ...the week of Christ's passion - the most important moment in the Gospels - the defining moment was Jesus' death on the cross - who was responsible for the death of Jesus - the answer the Catholic catechism provides is denying that the Jews as a collective were responsible for this death - "We cannot lay responsibility for the trial on the Jews in Jerusalem as a whole, de... Mon, 30 Oct 2017 23:14:14 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=deathOfHippolytus ...l'art du théâtre est un art de la performance, qui associe - un texte - du jeu - du son - du visuel - de la musique- l'art du théâtre au XVIIe siècle et au XVIIIe siècle - le théâtre classique - un art avant tout du texte - Aristote - un art du dialogue par opposition au genre narratif et particulièrement à l'épopée et au roman - la différence entre l'épopée et la... Wed, 25 Oct 2017 22:51:05 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=definitionsPhilanthropie ...philanthropie - désigne l'ensemble des dons privés librement consentis en faveur d'organismes agissant dans l'intérêt général - lutte contre la pauvreté - éducation - santé - recherche scientifique - environnement - art et culture- le sens du mot a bien évolué depuis sa création - au Ve siècle avant notre ère - en Grèce dans la célèbre tragédie Prométhée enchaîné,... Sat, 21 Oct 2017 23:55:36 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=propagandafakenews ...the term fake news has become a contemporary buzz word - the concept itself is not new at all - people in power have always - used information to manipulate public opinion - manipulated information to distort facts about the world and gain access to more power - McCarthyism - the way that worked is he had his own brand of fake news - people would be named as communists... Sun, 15 Oct 2017 23:55:49 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=seductionOfTheInnocent ...the era of the Comics Code Authority (1954) - was impacting publishers, editors, writers and artists of the comic characters - considered by many in the comic book industry to be the the Dark Ages of comic books in the 1950s - interview with Stan Lee (1922-), former editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics - Fredric Wertham - went on a campaign to convince people that comic books were ... Thu, 12 Oct 2017 01:00:00 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=laurynHill ...Hip-Hop in the 1990s - has a difficult relationship with rock - in a way it is like jazz, which is outside of rock, but in another way, it is part of rock - gained momentum in the 1980s in an underground scene - began in the 1970s - Run-D.M.C. made it mainstream - by the end of the 80s, rap is a force clearly to be reckoned with - increased technology that comes with digita... Tue, 10 Oct 2017 02:48:46 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=womenssufferage ...turn-of-the-century economic unease and swelling discontent about the nature of the system that was coming into being - was increasingly uncertain if markets be relied upon to be self-regulating and self-contained - the fear that economic difficulties could lead to economic difficulties - John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) - what would happen to the economy if at the center of the syste... Sun, 08 Oct 2017 05:52:15 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=gilgameshThemes ...how does Gilgamesh have such an intimate sense to it - it is the first longer literature text - you would expect as a first literary text - an awkward, first attempt at literary excellence - the scribes would have tried a lot of things and not really understood what is required to create a successful literary text- the history of the text - dates from around 1200 BCE - attri... Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:11:41 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=tertullien ...credo quia absurdum - "je crois parce que c'est absurde" - une petite phrase souvent citée pour illustrer l'antirationalisme chrétien - la foi serait totalement opposée à la raison - c'est une erreur quand on penser que cette phrase est un rejet de toute forme de rationalité - souvent prêtée à Tertullien - Tertullien (150-220) - se convertit au christianisme à la fin du ... Wed, 04 Oct 2017 00:30:24 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=churchReform ...unresolved issues in 1790-1791 - creating tensions between supporters of the revolution and and those who thought that its reformers were too radical- the reforms to the Church - the National Assembly includes many members of clerical deputies to the Estates General - the majority were parish priests - very popular because they were the people who started to break rank with pri... Sun, 01 Oct 2017 23:32:04 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=impartialCaring ...Mozi wanted objective standards of rightness - believed this was modeled on heaven- the central principle of Moism: jian ai - usually translated as impartial caring - sometimes has been translated as universal love - both terms are wrong - jian = impartial - distribution that is done in a fair and objective way - we need to get away from our partial view - for th... Tue, 26 Sep 2017 22:54:46 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=rousseauDream ...Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) - an outsider artist - spoke to the generation of the surrealists - died impoverished - 1910 The Dream - strange and enigmatic painting - a dream of a Polish woman with whom Rousseau had had a relationship - naked, she reclines on a red couch, her arm outstretched in a regal manner - she is in a tropical jungle - a musician playing the f... Mon, 18 Sep 2017 04:37:04 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=exteriorNonSelf ...the interior version of the not-self - looking inside your mind - observing feelings and ideas - not identifying with them- the exterior version of the not-self - getting the sense that the bounds of your body are more permeable and porous than you might have thought - the boundaries are not so solid - there's more of an interaction with the world out there - it's a more... Thu, 14 Sep 2017 22:50:40 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=chartedesdroits ...la classification Vasakienne des droits de l'homme en trois générations a trois types de critiques - 1. d'ordre terminologique - le terme génération induit en erreur - le terme génération évoque l'idée d'une génération qui succède et remplace l'autre - en effet, ces trois catégories de droits coexistent et se complètent - 2. la nature réductrice de la classification génératio... Sun, 10 Sep 2017 16:09:41 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=panic1907 ...the late 19th century saw increasing troubles in the core European nations, and in the United States - the economy of the Victorian boom began to falter - 1873-1896 global and near-global recessions - had the capacity to skip from society to society - the weaknesses of the model of interdependence began to show - interdependence affected the ability of governments to stop t... Sun, 03 Sep 2017 16:47:15 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=marilynManson ...ways in which heavy metal and alternative were extended in the 1990s - fusion of Rap and Rock - you would often have a rock band, but the singer would rap the lyrics, sometimes singing some of them, sometimes screaming some of them - Rage Against the Machine - helped this rap into rock transformation take hold - Los Angeles - blending hard-driving rock with mostly rapped voca... Wed, 30 Aug 2017 02:45:59 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=justinmartyr ...les apologies - un genre littéraire dans lequel s'exprime une opposition à la philosophie - les textes hérésiologiques - les réfutations de l'hérésie - c'est le second lieu principal où s'exprime une opposition chrétienne à la philosophie dans l'Antiquité - Justin - cette réfutation chrétienne de l'hérésie commence avec lui - auteur d'une Apologie vers 150 - le premier à av... Sun, 27 Aug 2017 17:07:36 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=sceneDeTorelli ...l'éclairage a deux signification - 1. un éclairage commun à la scène - 2. un éclairage à la salle- dans époque-là on ne savait pas comment éteindre une partie d'un espace - on éclairait tout les lustres ensemble - il y avait au-devant de la scène une sorte de rideau de lumière qui étaient des chandelles avec des réflecteurs - ce rideau de lumière pouvait être occulté avec... Sun, 20 Aug 2017 09:35:42 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=habermas ...1784, Kant écrit un petit texte qui s'appelle Réponse à la question qu'est-ce que les Lumières - thèse : pour s'arracher à l'état de minorité, chacun doit pouvoir oser affirmer sa liberté et l'affirmer publiquement dans le débat public - toute société libérale est fondée sur la liberté - une société n'est pas une communauté - une communauté tient par le partage de valeurs communes, ... Mon, 14 Aug 2017 01:07:12 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=gilgamesh2 ...when Austen Henry Layard discovered the clay tablets on which Gilgamesh is written, nobody could read them - he brought them back to the British Museum - gradually people start to study them - Sir Henry Rawlinson (1810-1895) - was in the British service in Persia - got interested in inscriptions - found inscription in Behistun which turned out to be by Darius I (550-486 BCE... Wed, 09 Aug 2017 06:12:03 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=hildaRixNichols ...Hilda Rix Nicholas (1884-1961) - Australian artist - 1912 visited John Lavery's while visiting his studio in Morocco - one of the first Australian artists to visit Morocco - was in Morocco same time as Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Matisse was the inventor of Fauvism - began to experiment with post-impressionism - applied paint broadly upon the canvas - loose brush stro... Tue, 08 Aug 2017 07:00:48 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=humanitysBlindness ...the travel narrative - opens the theological error of Peter in Mark, chapter 8 - closes with James and John - the three most important disciples - Jesus takes these three up the mountain where he is dramatically transfigured - his clothes become so dazzlingly white that he could hardly be beheld - if these three most important disciples misunderstood Jesus, we can safely i... Sat, 05 Aug 2017 18:40:39 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=panchoVilla ...Mexico - a new regime practicing old regime tactics - had lost almost half of its territory in a war with the United States in 1848 - after 1850s began a process of rebuilding - enjoyed a pattern of export-led growth - borrowing capital from Europe and the United States - to produce primary staples for other people's consumption - races - Indian or mestizo... Wed, 02 Aug 2017 23:54:15 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=hazelLavery ...the role the museum plays - museums display a story, a cultural narrative - stories of technical, stylistic, and formal development - from religious art, to secular patronage, to the individualism of modern art - codified spaces for ritual comparable to churches or cathedrals - this provides a useful way to think about how we engage with art in such spaces - in hush to... Sun, 23 Jul 2017 17:10:28 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=economiaItalia ...il dopoguerra - l'Italia era fondamentalmente un paese agricolo - avuto uno sviluppo molto veloce - è stato chiamato il miracolo economico italiano- oggi - fra le prime dieci economie del mondo - quindi uno sviluppo molto - questo sviluppo si è accompagnato a processi - di urbanizzazione - di spostamento delle popolazioni dal sud al nord - a un cambiamento prop... Wed, 19 Jul 2017 23:33:30 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=old97s ...many of the bands from the 1980s indie scene went to major labels - ended up on MTV, went on tours - there was some push back on this, e.g. Pearl Jam protested Ticket Master's prices- the indie scene continued - a kind of alternative to the alternative - more dedicated to the idea of not selling out, keep it indie, keep it real, keep the do-it-yourself aesthetic- indie record la... Sun, 16 Jul 2017 02:49:31 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=historyOfPompeii ...Pompeii - located in an area called Campania - the area around Naples, south of Rome - small resort town beginning in late first century BC - sister city: Herculaneum - people made their money largely from commerce - a spot favored by the glitterotti of Rome - built imperial villas in the vicinity - Oplontis - Boscotrecase - Amalfi Coast - island of... Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:21:30 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=philosophieAapologetique ...la première attitude des chrétiens face à la philosophie celle de l'opposition - qui suppose une distinction entre deux façons d'atteindre la vérité - 1. philosophie - serait vouée à l’échec - 2. la Révélation contenue dans les Écritures - censée être infaillible- le désir de se détourner de la philosophie - deux types de textes - 1. les apologies - 2. textes ... Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:12:00 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=latiumBronzeAge ...Latium - a large plain between the Mediterranean Sea and the Apennine Mountains - people began inhabiting Latium (area around Rome) in the 10th century BCE - their language was the ancestor of Latin - they believed that their city was created by gods - Janus, with two heads - Virgil's Rome legend - the first people were aborigines - "people who were there from the or... Sat, 08 Jul 2017 12:52:05 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=aspettiAccademica ...la comunicazione nell'ambiente universitario avviene in un contesto di studio - i nostri interlocutori sono persone con le quali abbiamo un rapporto formale - l'italiano accademico è una lingua più formale e più complessa di quella di tutti i giorni - dovremo servirci di una lingua più formale - le nostre frasi saranno precise e mai superficiali - è una lingua più complessachi... Thu, 06 Jul 2017 21:57:41 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=herculaneum ...domestic architecture in Campania - Herculaneum - the sister city of Pompei - covered and presevered by volcanic eruption in August 79 AD - also near Boscoreale - famous for the frescoes of its aristocratic villas - while most of the city of Pompei has been excavated, only about 25% of the city of Hercumaneum has been excavated - mostly missing the public architecture... Mon, 03 Jul 2017 21:13:51 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=danteebeatrice ...1. Virgilio - una figura del tutto particolare - è presente nella Commedia come personaggio, come guida, ma nello stesso tempo è presente anche come autore - è difficile riassumere in poche parole l’enorme importanza di Virgilio nel Medioevo - l'autore su cui si impara la grammatica - si leggono i testi di Virgilio per imparare il latino, nelle scuole e nelle università - ... Sat, 01 Jul 2017 10:02:44 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=moisurmoica ...la conscience est le siège de ce qui en nous nous oblige à suivre notre devoir - on peut douter que la conscience puisse faire cela - Adam Smith - les personnes d'un groupe social estiment en conscience être leur devoir, correspond en réalité à ce qui naît de l'interaction de ces personnes entre elles - les grands marchands, qui ne rencontrent que des grands marchands et la consci... Wed, 28 Jun 2017 22:30:02 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=democracyNews ...what do you need to know to be a good democratic citizen - you can't just know nothing - this will lead you to make sub-optimal democratic choices - democracy is essentially a combination of four things - 1. people have the ability to vote or in some way make their voices heard - 2. some kind of equal representation - 3. non-tyranny measures which make sure majorities that b... Wed, 28 Jun 2017 05:34:32 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=laetoli ...Laetoli footprints - Tanzania - first evidence of bipedal walking by early hominin - preserved in volcanic layer - not only has hominin footprints but other mammals - lions - antelope - 200 square kilometers - 1894 reported in scientific literature - Oscar Bauman - Austrian geographer - was looking for the source of the Nile River - he got lost - co... Mon, 26 Jun 2017 22:36:31 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=laveryMorocco ...John Lavery (1856-1941) - an Irish painter best known for his portraits and wartime depictions - 1913 lived and painted in Morocco - Lavery was living in Northern Morocco in the city of Tangier with his wife and daughter - they lived in that city from time to time over a 30 year period - Australian artist Hilda Rix Nicholas (1884-1961) visited him - "In Morocco" painting... Mon, 26 Jun 2017 03:11:53 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=classicalMusicEra ...in every generation, we tend to think that music and other facets of society have declined to new lows- Johann Joseph Fux (1660–1741) - an Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue of the late Baroque era - most famous as the author of Gradus ad Parnassum (1725), a treatise on counterpoint- a common but not very accurate meaning of classical music is used to refer to any music... Sat, 24 Jun 2017 18:58:30 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=discipleshipOthers ...disciples were concerned with the worry that others might be doing good in Jesus' name - but the power of Jesus cannot be reduced to a narrow circle - Jesus' teaching does not apply only to a set of righteous people set off from the idea of the unwashed masses - but as Jesus says, anyone who gives water to the thirsty will gain the reward which is their due- Mark 10:32-34 - "And... Wed, 21 Jun 2017 23:41:02 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=sensoryWine ...what is wine - the self-preserved juice of the grape - a pleasant alcoholic beverage - a complex liquid sensory stimulus - grapes used for making wine seldom taste like the wine they are going to make - walking through the vineyard tasting grapes, they're delicious - but they don't specifically taste like Cabernet or Pinot or Chardonnay or Zinfandel - people often t... Wed, 21 Jun 2017 01:26:26 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ideologicalUnity ...Mozi's ideological unity - the importance of - getting people together on the same page in terms of what the right thing to do is - job efficiency- chapter: Honoring the Worthy - get worthy officials running the state - "When a worthy man is given the task of ordering the state, he appears at court early and retires late, listens to lawsuits and attends to affairs of government... Tue, 20 Jun 2017 05:53:07 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=thewild ...Barnett Newman (1905-1970) - 1950 The Wild - a very tall, extraordinarily narrow painting - the painting is as deep as it is wide - he has stretched his canvas over a solid piece of wood - he has hybridized this painting - it is as much a sculpture as it is a painting - Newman is a minimalist - he sees his paintings as objects - while his painting Onenes... Sun, 18 Jun 2017 00:13:07 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=comicsCode ...after WWII there was a growing threat of communism and the impact the Soviet Union was having on the world - it was beginning to have influence on other countries, e.g. in Eastern Europe - fears began to build - America has a political response to this fear - House Un-American Activities Committee - investigation of communist sympathizers in America real and imagined - McCar... Fri, 16 Jun 2017 23:24:10 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=introAncientRome ...Rome - 1st century - the largest city in the Roman Empire - one million people - 9th century BC - settlement - one part of settlement - one of the largest settlements in the Iron Age - subdivided into 27 smaller regions - Palatine Hill - Capitoline Hill - core of power - 6th century BC - larger than the 9th century BC - more complicated - l... Sun, 11 Jun 2017 01:02:19 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=italianaAccademici ...quando parliamo di italiano accademico ci riferiamo alla lingua dell'università - quella usata dai docenti per tenere le lezioni, i seminari o i laboratori - quella che troviamo nei libri e negli articoli che dobbiamo studiare - quella che serve per scrivere un documento, una relazione o una tesi di laurea - quella che usiamo per esprimerci quando sosteniamo un esame - uno stude... Fri, 09 Jun 2017 05:49:34 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=deathOfAbimelech ...instead of dying heroic, noble deaths, the warriors venerated in Biblical literature died in peace - Book of Judges - deaths are either not told are depicted as occurring peacefully in an advanced, old age - Gideon - one of the most celebrated names in the book after Deborah - his family was among the poorest in the tribe of Manasseh - he is the youngest son of the famil... Sun, 04 Jun 2017 19:17:20 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=daresaperestare ...altri verbi che sono completamente irregolari al congiuntivo - i verbi dare, sapere, e - dare - che io dia - che tu dia - che lei/lui dia - che noi diamo - che voi diate - che loro diano - sapere - che io sappia - che tu sappia - che lei/lui sappia - che noi sappiamo - che voi sappiate - che loro sappiano - stare - che io stia - che tu sti... Sat, 03 Jun 2017 20:26:25 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=endOfQing ...China face threats from inside and out - over the course of the 19th century, China was forced to sign humiliating treaty concessions to external powers - European - Japan - also participated in slowly dismantling the sovereignty of the Chinese empire - was never fully colonized - the cost of colonizing was high - foreign powers could get the regime to do some of the d... Thu, 01 Jun 2017 22:51:16 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=antirationalismeChretien ...le christianisme pouvait attirer les Grecs et les Romains - mais qu'il suscitait également des oppositions fortes - cette opposition a des raisons qui sont d'ordre idéologique - les chrétiens eux-mêmes prétendaient s'opposer à la culture qui les entoure- la culture grecque - on peut entendre deux réalités - 1. au sens large c'est l'ensemble des productions de l'esprit grec,... Tue, 30 May 2017 22:52:10 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=escavada ...come si forma il congiuntivo presente di molti verbi irregolari - la regola non è difficile - c'è modo di seguire un certo sistema che ci aiuterà- come formiamo il congiuntivo presente - prendiamo la prima persona singolare all'indicativo e sostituiamo la vocale finale "o" con la "a"- alcuni esempi - andare - l'indicativo presente di andare: io vado - per ottenere... Tue, 30 May 2017 05:42:35 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=seisolo ...over the course of the Baroque period - instrumental music continued to gain independence over vocal music - many of the music works in opera made their way into purely instrumental works - recitative - a style of delivery in operas, oratorios, and cantatas, in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms of ordinary speech- four categories of Baroque instrumental music - siz... Sun, 28 May 2017 01:10:12 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=indicativesubjective ...avremo delle frasi con un verbo principale e un verbo secondario, dipendente - che può essere all'indicativo o al congiuntivo - dovremo decidere se bisogna usare l'indicativo o il congiuntivo e decideremo in base al tipo di verbo nella frase principale- le frasi - "Ho sentito che c'è lo v dei mezzi pubblici." - usiamo "c'è" e non "ci sia" perché "ci sia" è il congiuntivo et il ... Fri, 26 May 2017 20:19:46 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=skapunk ...the rise of alternative rock in the 1990s was sparked by the commercial success of Nirvana's album Nevermind in 1991 - a breakthrough album of alternative rock - similar to the Beatles appearing the Ed Sullivan show in 1964 - this watershed event of Nevermind didn't come all at once - arose out of the indies rock seen of the 1980s and hardcore punk seen- R.E.M. - 1987 Document... Thu, 25 May 2017 01:02:53 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=comicsAfterWwii ...changes from WWII comic from the Golden Age to post-WWII - genres - DC Comics had their big six - Superman - Sandman - Batman - Ultra-Man - The Spectre - The Flash - changes 1940s - 1950s - DC's first comic book - New Fun Comics - newspaper-strip inspired features - comical characters - turned into More Fun Comic books - Green Arrow and Speedy... Wed, 24 May 2017 06:41:46 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ipersonaggi ...la Commedia è un poema corale - si compone di moltissime voci - una in particolare acquisisca una importanza speciale ed è quella di Dante - del pellegrino, del viaggiatore, del personaggio che dice "io" - questo personaggio si presenta subito come una figura complessa - una figura che si compone di varie sfaccettature - v'è il polo finale del personaggio, cioè l'aut... Tue, 23 May 2017 03:13:10 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=theNotSelf ...Buddhist meditation is sometimes called a mystical form of enlightenment - William James - there are two hallmarks of a mystic experience - 1. noetic - a sense that knowledge has been imparted, that some deep insight has been apprehended - 2. ineffable - its hard to express what the experience was like - no adequate report of its contents can be given in words... Sun, 21 May 2017 09:45:43 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=chosennessservice ...what hold's true for the identity of Jesus also holds true for those who would be his disciples - "And Jesus called to him the multitude with his disciples, and said to them, if any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me, for whoever save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it, for what does it profi... Fri, 19 May 2017 23:12:32 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=congiuntivoInUso ...Sapevamo di trovarti qui! - Ehi, ragazze! Come va?- A noi bene, e tu, lavoratrice. Non mi sembra che tu sia così impegnata! Non vedo il sudore sulla fronte! - Ma senti chi parla voi siete a spasso e io qua a lavorare. Ma voi piuttosto, siete venute per comprare qualcosa.- No, innanzitutto siamo venute per vederti, e poi, sì, per comprare del torrone. Sembra proprio che i nostri de... Thu, 18 May 2017 05:38:29 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ashurbanipal ...the Epic of Gilgamesh is the first great work of literature that has survived - was the most popular work of literature in the ancient Near East in the second and first millennium before Christ - then it disappeared and was dug up again, and became a work of world literature in a wholly new way - the standard form of the epic was composed around 1200 BCE - circulated widely around ... Tue, 16 May 2017 22:53:18 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=congiuntivo ...il congiuntivo - vuole dire subjunctive - non è un nuovo tempo verbale ma è un nuovo modo verbale - esprime o descrive la soggettività, quello che noi pensiamo, crediamo, vogliamo, desideriamo, ordiniamo - tutti i verbi che abbiamo studiato finora sono all'indicativo, cioè esprimono l'oggettività, la certezza- esempi - so che lui è americano - il verbo principale e il verbo ... Fri, 12 May 2017 21:30:18 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=filiationKant ...la pensée de Kant touche l'ensemble de la vie des gens d'aujourd'hui - nous sommes tous les héritiers des Lumières - notre attachement à la liberté - notre attachement au fait que nous devons penser par nous-mêmes - nous refaisons que d'autres, parce qu'ils auraient un accès privilégié à la vérité, nous imposent leur conception de notre vie morale - tout cela vient des Lumières et... Wed, 10 May 2017 03:24:25 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=onement ...Onement, I (1948) - Barnett Newman (1905-1970) - one of the major American artists in abstract expressionism - one of the foremost of the color field painters - born in New York City, the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland - studied philosophy at the City College of New York and worked in his father's business manufacturing clothing - he considered it his mature work - a... Sat, 06 May 2017 21:22:15 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=fragonardSwing ...Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) - a student of Boucher - successful career on his own - had an unofficial career - had joined the academy as a student - was never officially in the academy since he didn't submit the final work - was able to have a successful career outside of court circles - producing a number of prints for the print market - different market - acc... Tue, 02 May 2017 07:43:30 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=1905bloodySunday ...late 19th century colonial world - colonial authorities found themselves as occupiers rather than liberators - engaged in unconventional wars - not what the military authorities had been trained to practice - led to total wars in the colonies with three features - 1. armies become occupying armies - struggling to control territories, as well as people rising up against ... Mon, 01 May 2017 13:00:58 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=fulkegrevel ...poetry is metrical engineering- American poetry since the beginning of the 20th century - has concentrated on trying to use colloquial language - words in their accustomed order - that is a one of the roads into poetry - start with things that are much like yourself- Alan Ginsberg (1926-1997) - best known for his poem "Howl" - denounced the destructive forces of capitalism ... Sat, 29 Apr 2017 21:44:02 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=patrioticSuperheroes ...Pearl Harbor changed the national mood - war became the culture of America - war united the population - super heroes mirrored this culture - fought the foe - endorsed readers to - support the Red Cross - buy war bonds- super heroes had to have super villains - villains changed after Pearl Harbor took place - Germans and Japanese were portrayed as sub-human, ve... Sat, 29 Apr 2017 17:52:31 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=valueofclaims ...to know if something is true, we need to know how we know what we know - this is actually a difficult question - has a massive literature in philosophy- what do we mean by knowledge - justified true beliefs - from very early philosophy people have been skeptical that we can know anything at all - Socrates: "I know one thing: that I know nothing." - to get around this problem, ... Fri, 28 Apr 2017 21:34:59 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=karelCapekRobot ...что такое робот - мы говорим об обычных, казалось, очевидных вещах - в общем-то, все знают, что это такое- происхождении самого слова робот - в научный дискурс оно приходит из литературы - впервые его употребил чешский писатель-драматург карел чапек в 1920 году - в его научно-фантастической пьесе «россумские универсальные роботы» («р.у.р.») - действие происходит на фабрике п... Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:06:06 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=goetheCorpus ...Chinese novels translated into Western languages by 1827 - very few - relatively short - fast-paced - love stories full of adventures - improbable coincidences - magic - nothing like the Chinese novels that have since become part of the world literature canon - The Story of the Stone (Dream of the Red Chamber) - by Cao Xueqin (1715-1764) - one of China's Four ... Thu, 27 Apr 2017 06:53:18 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=effortEndResult ...experiment - gave people sheet of paper with randomly arranged letters - asked them to find pairs of letters - paid them, but less for each sheet they did - each time they turned in a sheet they could define if they wanted to continue - three conditions - 1. acknowledged condition: when they handed it in, the experimenter looked at it, said "ah-hah" and put it down - particip... Mon, 24 Apr 2017 20:22:06 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=experienceOfNow2 ...you start listening to a song, e.g. the Beatles song, "Hey Jude" - after it starts, the beginning is sinking into the immediate past - each moment of the song is, in time, a separate and discreet event - each word is a separate event - when we hear the word "Hey", every bit of us pulls towards the next word in the song, "Jude" - as the two words unfold, we have both anticipation and... Sat, 22 Apr 2017 23:46:46 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=whoDoYouSayIAm ...both Jesus and Israel are considered God's beloved and first-born son - in Genesis, this title is a challenge - "Human nature is not constituted so as to facilitate the acceptance of chosenness. The one chosen is sorely tempted to interpret his special status as a mandate for domination." - some think that this hurdle which is so present in the Old Testament will not be present in the ... Mon, 17 Apr 2017 19:29:06 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=nameofeurope ...the classical world had provided a mythical name for the Western end of Eurasia - Europa was the name of a Phoenician princess abducted by Zeus, named Europe - a Mediterranean myth - Zeus comes and abducts the princess and brings her back to Crete - sex and sea intermingled with the everlasting appeal of beauty and the beast - this name wasn't used widely until Renaissance tim... Sun, 16 Apr 2017 14:02:52 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=savagewarsofpeace ...latter half of the 19th century - a long Victorian boom - represented a dynamic of a great production and circulation of plenty - new ideas - effervescence - a feeling of possibility - population growth increasing - intensified interdependence between societies - the world had a center, located in Europe - the British economy, and London in particular - capitalist front... Tue, 04 Apr 2017 03:10:17 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=textespatristiques ...le christianisme devait une partie importante de son succès à sa doctrine - se constitue à travers la production d'une abondante littérature - les écrits du Nouveau Testamentdeviennent très vite pour les chrétiens des écrits de référence - textes pastoristiques - les apocryphes- Nouveau Testament - les premiers textes chrétiens connus sont les Épîtres de Paul, composées d... Sat, 01 Apr 2017 09:50:35 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=moziConsequentialism ...Mozi (468-391 BCE) - the "zi" means master - Mozi = Master Mo - Laozi = Master Lao - lived after Confucius (551-479 BCE) - lived before Mencius (390-310 BCE) - one of the principal interpreters of Confucianism - The Mozi - expounds the philosophy of Mohism - structured much like the Analects - collected after he died - may have penned some of the chapters... Tue, 28 Mar 2017 07:48:11 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=mountainsMatter ...why mountains matter - important in almost every country - compose one quarter of the world's surface - one quarter of the world's population live in or close to mountains- mountain ecosystems - almost all world's major rivers have their head waters in mountains - more than half of the world's population relies on the fresh water that collects in mountainous regions - drink... Mon, 27 Mar 2017 07:58:45 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=speciesAndSpeciation ...why are species bounded from each other - we would expect to find - gradual changes in the fossil record - gradual gradations among living organisms, i.e. a continuous range of species of animals - explanation - as gradual changes occurred, they became more and more adapted to smaller habitats - those gradations gave rise to large populations and smaller populations - ... Sun, 26 Mar 2017 10:11:20 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=pompadourpastel ...1754: Pastel of Madame de Pompadour - François Boucher - the official mistress of Louis XV - came from the bourgeoisie rather than the nobility - ennobled by the king upon becoming his official mistress - known for her beauty and - a clever woman - had the king appoint her brother and uncle to positions of importance regarding arts in the society - directors of king's ... Thu, 23 Mar 2017 22:43:11 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=kamoseAndAhmose ...Second Intermediate Period (Dynasties 15-17) - 1800-1500 BCE - the most important center in Egypt was the Delta city of Avaris - ruled by the Hyksos King Apophis - Hyksos means "foreign ruler" in Egyptian - Egypt seemed to be ruled then by a Palestinian immigrant elite - the south of Egypt - capital is Thebes - economically poorer - ruler: Seqenenre - Apophis vs. ... Thu, 23 Mar 2017 08:09:56 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=indiebandsrem ...among the commercial enterprises in the late 1980s - the was developing an alternative, off-the-radar music community - brought music to people in other ways - hard core punk did this as well- college radio and college rock - in the 1970s, AM radio dominated the music scene - FM radio had - classical music - university correspondence courses - Jazz - religious prog... Wed, 22 Mar 2017 02:43:11 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=architectureDesSalles ...il y a deux types de théâtres depuis l'Antiquité - 1. les théâtres en plein air - l'amphithéâtres sur le modèle des grands théâtres grecs ou odéons sur le modèle des théâtres latins - les théâtres circulaires - qui détermine la construction des premières théâtres italiens - 2. en France, le modèle était différent pour deux raisons - 1. c'est une forme rectangulaire - la... Sat, 18 Mar 2017 19:00:58 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=eckermanngoethe ...Castle of Weimar - center of Goethe's social and work life - the duke had brought Goethe to Weimar as a budding writer - Goethe began to assume more and more public functions - theater - founded an amateur theatrical troupe and turned it into a professional theater company - Minister of Finance - sent on diplomatic missions- Goethe's garden house - here 39-year-old ... Fri, 17 Mar 2017 02:34:40 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=malradical ...pourquoi il y a une propension chez les êtres humains à mal agir - il y a du mal parmi les êtres humains - partout ils sont dans les chaînes - nous mentons aux autres - nous nous mentons volontiers à nous-mêmes - on pense qu'on a été contraint de le commettre sans pouvoir rien faire d'autre- d'où vient le mal - de notre finitude - de la puissance immaîtrisable des forces ex... Tue, 14 Mar 2017 08:05:44 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=greatchurch ...The Great Church (180-313) - a body of Christians living mostly in cities but also in rural areas - North Africa - Asia Minor - Armenia - Mesopotamia - remained a minority in a hostile world - languages spoke - Latin - Greek - Syriac (dialect of Middle Aramaic) - Coptic (the latest stage of the Egyptian language, spoken in Egypt until the 17th century) - fo... Tue, 07 Mar 2017 21:39:01 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=valleeDuRift ...les aires protégées en Afrique - reconnues aujourd'hui comme étant un outil fondamental pour parvenir à la conservation de la diversité biologique - il y a une progression en nombre et en surface au cours des dernières années - conservent - des espèces menacées - des écosystèmes spécifiques - des milieux rares - dans un état sinon naturel, en tout cas le moins modifié... Sat, 04 Mar 2017 18:14:39 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=malayanTiger ...Malay - how the transformation of agrarian hinterlands upsets and changes the lives and livelihoods of a sedentary peasantry - tigers had been the subject of important ritual hunts - tigers have been for centuries a sacred animal for the Malayan - an icon of noble savagery - the gods would often take on great feline features - hunting was a ritual event - for men to... Thu, 02 Mar 2017 20:07:11 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=willeisner ...in the first half of the 1900s, the wave of immigrations of Jewish immigrants continued from Eastern Europe and Russia - many settled in New York - many looking to make large fortunes - but this is not what many found in the Great Depression of the 1930s - but their entrepreneurial spirit prevailed for some - Max Gaines (1895-1947) - in 1933, devised the first four-color, saddl... Tue, 28 Feb 2017 23:27:44 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lescoledesfemmes ...matinée théâtrale - une après-midi de théâtre - commence officiellement à quatorze heures - était constituée, dans un premier temps, par une pièce en cinq actes - mais il faut bien concevoir que la pièce en cinq actes, dans les conditions de représentation de l'époque était une pièce qui supposait un véritable entracte à la fin de chaque acte - quelques minutes durant lesquelles ... Sat, 25 Feb 2017 01:38:27 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=vertebrateenvironments ...what kinds of environments the earliest vertebrates inhabited - paleontology is blending of - biology - geology - to understand how and why certain features evolved, we need to interpret the rocks that fossils are found in - this tells us what kinds of environments the animals lived in - depositional environments on land are more common - depositional environments in the ... Fri, 24 Feb 2017 08:03:06 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=religionorientale ...quelle était la manière dont le christianisme est devenu une religion distincte du judaïsme - dans l'empire romain, l'Église connaît au cours du temps une évolution considérable - d'abord, elle apparaît aux Grecs et aux Romains comme une religion orientale parmi d'autres - parfois mal distinguée du judaïsme - mais elle va en trois siècles à peine devenir la religion officielle de ... Tue, 21 Feb 2017 03:51:56 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=chinesenames ...China didn't enter the intellectual landscape in Europe until the end of the 16th century - Chinese themselves didn't refer to the territory as such - 260 BCE Warring States of China - Qin - Wei - Han - Chu - Qi - Zhao - Yan - the center states called themselves Zhongguo - the cultural and political nucleus of the civilized Chinese world - 1136 A... Sat, 18 Feb 2017 13:08:37 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lesdroitsculturels ...les droits de la deuxième génération - les droits économiques, sociaux et culturels - remontent au 19ème siècle - incarnent selon Vasak, la valeur d'égalité - Karel Vasak (1929–2015) - fonctionnaire international tchèque-français et professeur d'université - il décide de rester en France après le coup communiste à Prague en février 1948 - il a acquis la citoyenneté ... Wed, 15 Feb 2017 23:42:19 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=punkgoeshardcore ...punk arose from an underground scene in New York - you had to be at CBGB to know that it was there - some elements of that, especially the music of the Ramones, translated into a UK scene - Malcolm McLaren put together the Sex Pistols - the bands in New York profited from this - by the end of the 1970s, groups like Talking Heads and Blondie were having pretty good success... Sun, 12 Feb 2017 01:45:07 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=boucherpastoral ...Boucher's pastoral paintings - a pendant pair - two works that were created to be displayed together - hung on either side of a medallion portrait by John Baptist Lemuel of Louis XV - both the paintings and the medallion sculpture are from 1748 - the height of King Louis XV's time as king - the epitomize aspects of 18th century French art - defined by its lightness o... Sun, 12 Feb 2017 00:12:14 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=bisonslaughter ...after the U.S. Civil War resolved the conflict between the South and the North - United States turned its sights to the West - 1867 Indian Peace Commission - under the leadership of Major Joel Elliot - signed treaties with the Cheyennes, Plains Apaches, Comanches, Arapahos, and Kiowas - major reservations were established in present-day South Dakota, Oklahoma, and Arizona... Sat, 11 Feb 2017 19:03:06 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=dinosauroverview ...synapomorphies - features that are shared between groups of dinosaurs- autapomophies - anatomical features that are not found in other dinosaurs- Phanerozoic Eon (542 million years ago) - 1. Paleozoic Era (524-251 Ma) ANCIENT - 2. Mesozoic Era (250-65 Ma) MIDDLE - Triassic (250-200 Ma) - Jurassic (200-145 Ma) - Cretaceous (145-65 Ma) - 3. Cenozoic Era (65 Ma - toda... Fri, 10 Feb 2017 00:18:48 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=paulvalery ...il ne faut pas penser qu'il est facile d'agir par devoir et de vivre éthiquement - l'immoralité est d'ailleurs une réalité quotidienne très répandue - derrière la façade, que l'humanité nous montre et que nous montrons aux autres il se cache bien des choses qu'il serait difficile d'avouer et pénible de les voir subitement mises au jour aux yeux de tous - Paul Valéry : "si le regard po... Wed, 08 Feb 2017 08:22:49 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=reisekoenigtum ...Pfalzen und Reisenkönigtum- wie konnte Karl der Große Herrschaft zur Geltung bringen - Aachen - Karl der Große und Aachen werden oft zusammen genannt - Aachen wurde während der Sachsenkriege aufgebaut - gegen das Ende seines Lebens hielt er sich dort im Winter auf - ein geistliches Zentrum - Aachener Dom - das karolingische Oktogon - ein gedeckter... Sun, 05 Feb 2017 05:56:18 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=guodian ...archeological texts - some are versions of the Daodejing - texts that we have uncovered in their original written form - most written on bamboo with ink - some are silk text - Mawangdui, central China - manuscript on silk, 2nd century BC - some on paper where caves are particularly dry - Dunhuang - typically these come from tombs - debate on what the relationship was be... Thu, 02 Feb 2017 05:39:57 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=criteriaofcontinuity ...what is the relationship between the historical Jesus and the Jesus that the Church that proclaims in the creeds - no single criterion will give us a reliable historical Jesus - imagine Martin Luther never wrote anything down - that only his followers wrote down what he said - and so we have to reconstruct Martin Luther from voluminous material - we would ask, how would we se... Sat, 28 Jan 2017 18:05:14 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=swissfederalism ...The European Commission - the executive body of the European Union responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the EU treaties and managing the day-to-day business of the EU - accused Switzerland of predatory tax regimes - the Swiss cantons played an important role- the Swiss state structure - Switzerland is a confederation - Confoederatio helvet... Fri, 27 Jan 2017 00:47:11 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=caravaggiodecapitacion ...Caravaggio (1571-1610) - se llamaba Michelangelo Merisi - su familia era de un pueblo llamado Caravaggio - cerca de Milán - pintó escenas de aspecto radicalmente diferente de lo que se había hecho hasta entonces - sus cuadros son imágenes de un tiempo nuevo - que muy pronto serían imitadas en toda Europa - se formó en Milán - pero pintó la mayor parte de sus obras en R... Wed, 25 Jan 2017 03:21:24 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=namingmoons ...the right to name moons and features on their surfaces belongs to a body known as the International Astronomical Union (IAU) - founded in 1919 - if you find a new moon, you suggest a name to the IAU but they don't have to accept it - today, when a moon is discovered - it is given a provisional name, e.g. S/2005 P1 - S = Satellite - 2005 = year of discovery - P = primary b... Mon, 23 Jan 2017 22:29:20 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=timeconsciousness ...what is it that makes a dripping faucet so annoying? - a single drip is an innocuous sound and probably not even very loud - the sensory properties of each drip are pretty constant - you have a non-sensory awareness that these sensations are not new - drip number 42 doesn't differ from drip number 1 - drip number 1 was then, and drip number 42 is now - the difference is time... Sun, 22 Jan 2017 09:36:24 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=agirmoralement ...Emmanuel Kant était un penseur essentiellement théoricien - mais ce serait une erreur de penser qu'il ne s'est jamais occupé de la réalité concrète - dans sa vie quotidienne, ce n'était pas un homme isolé des autres - il a cultivé l'amitié - sa vie a été incontestablement très rangée - Kant a toujours pensé que les êtres humains devaient être soucieux de l'action qui les cond... Thu, 19 Jan 2017 21:00:21 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=nwacompton ...1980s: rap music became CNN for black people - as it becomes a bigger commercial entity - began to offer many various kinds - one version of rap music was socially conscious rap - realistic communication of what urban life is really like for African American people - they didn't really didn't have a black news channel - had elements of good guys and bad guys as in other eras o... Thu, 19 Jan 2017 03:02:48 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=socraticirony ...the central focus of attention in most of the concept of Kierkegaard's irony is Socrates - Kierkegaard was not only interested in the concept of irony, but in the figure of Socrates - Socrates (469-399 BC) - the dialogue The Apology is an account of his trial - the dialogue The Phaedo is an account of his final hours and his execution by drinking hemlock - spent much of his t... Tue, 17 Jan 2017 01:23:52 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=transitiondemographique ...transition démographique - la population mondiale va fortement croître dans les années qui viennent - va passer d'un peu plus de sept milliards d'individus aujourd'hui - à plus de neuf milliards dans 40 ans - cela va représenter un poids considérable pour - la planète - ses écosystèmes - le climat - mais la population mondiale va ensuite se stabiliser- l'évo... Mon, 16 Jan 2017 08:15:56 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=bachfamily ...the Baroque period in Germany - delayed behind France and Italy due to the Thirty Years' War (1618-48) - a struggle between Catholicism and Protestantism - much of the country was destroyed - territories were transferred - land was divided into more than 300 independent cities and territories - late 17th and early 18th century - some of Baroque's leading composers came ... Sat, 14 Jan 2017 18:34:52 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=cravings ...push back against the modular view of the mind - sometimes these frames of mind set in - I'm not really aware of them happening - they are sometimes triggered by feelings - I could see a movie that could affect my subsequent behavior - but there are sometimes when I, the Chief Executive Self, make a decision - I may be tempted to eat a powdered doughnut, but I say no, it's... Tue, 10 Jan 2017 20:54:12 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=superman1938 ...June 1938 - sociological conditions that were present in America and the world - poverty - depression - war - this impacted America's need for heroes - many publishers turned Siegel and Shuster down - too crazy - too over-the-top - too unbelievable - too crude - finally published in Action Comics #1, June 1938 - starts with an origin story of superman - un... Tue, 10 Jan 2017 05:20:22 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=stomatolites ...how could all of this complex life have emerged from far more simple chemicals - very little hard data - a lot of room for speculation - what we have is speculation based on some empirical evidence- current hypotheses for the emergence of life - in any case - it happened a long time ago - in a place unknown - 1. panspermia hypothesis - it might have arrived from ou... Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:53:52 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=exportledgrowth ...economic model: export-led growth - changed formerly inwardly-oriented villages - led to villages in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, which produced not for themselves but for the rest of the world - had a dramatic effect on the hinterland regions in particular on the relationship between humans and other animals - consumers would have a powerful effect on natural environments ar... Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:04:56 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=maccabees ...how does the Bible deal with the topic of dying for the state? - the First Book of Maccabees - summary - the two Books of Maccabees contain independent accounts of events that accompanied the attempted suppression of Judaism in Palestine in the second century B.C. - first Maccabees was written about 100 B.C. in Hebrew, but the original has not come down to us. Instead, we have ... Fri, 30 Dec 2016 17:40:46 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=whatsadvertising ...advertising - we know it when we see it, but it can be difficult to define - three definitions - 1. "any device which first arrests the attention of the passer-by and then induces him to accept a mutually advantageous exchange" - James Laver, art historian, late 19th century - a broad definition - includes a flower that attracts through its color and nectar a butterfly to... Thu, 29 Dec 2016 21:31:06 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=naissancedeleglise ...la première communauté chrétienne - après la mort de Jésus et comment elle s'est progressivement séparée du judaïsme - seconstitue d'abord à Jérusalem - au lendemain de la mort de Jésus, au début des années 30 - déploie une activité missionnaire importante - en Palestine - mais très vite dans tout l'Orient romain - les Actes des apôtres - figurent aujourd'hui dans ... Fri, 23 Dec 2016 13:32:49 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=thecottagedoor ...Charity and Sensibility - Gainsborough painted this painting towards the end of his career - one of several pictures on this theme - how the representation of the rural poor and the theme of charity became part of the civic culture of the 18th century - many of Gainsborough's works include references to labor and the working class - one theme was impoverished mothers and their ch... Thu, 22 Dec 2016 21:55:46 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=fluxetfluidite ...piétons ou voitures - aux Émirats Arabes Unis - on favorise la voiture - en Asie du Sud-Est - à Singapour et Kuala Lumpur - on cherche de plus en plus - à favoriser le piéton - c'est un choix politiques - le flux des gens que je fais venir dans ma ville globale, est-ce que je vais faire en sorte qu'ils puissent se promener à l'air libre - l'exemple à Abu Dhabi - que... Sat, 17 Dec 2016 20:57:26 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=laoziprefrontalcortex ...Laozi has the most literal sense of wu-wei - in the sense of non-action, or do nothing - he wants to - shut down activity - shut down the trying the society has encouraged us to do - strip away desires, artificial hypocrisy and learning that's been laid on top of our natural desires - Daodejing, Ch. 48 - "In the pursuit of learning, one does more each day, but in the pursu... Fri, 16 Dec 2016 08:18:25 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=twomoderntheories ...when people are faced with difficult questions - they prone to dismiss and marginalize dissent - politics is polarizing - in some parts of the world extremely dangerous - whether it is - Christian fundamentalism - Islamic extremism - militant atheism - religious dialogue remains tinted by terrifying and dehumanizing arrogance, dogma, and ignorance- the world needs more ... Wed, 14 Dec 2016 01:01:30 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=troistypesdetroupes ...ces pièces de théâtre - qu'on va appeler classiques - ou celles qu'on va appeler plus tard baroques - les tragédies et les tragi-comédies - sont représentées par différentes troupes de comédiens qu'on peut répartir en trois grandes catégories- 1. les grandes troupes parisiennes - l'Hôtel de Bourgogne (Comédiens du Roi) - le Théâtre du Marais - quelquefois appelé petits... Sat, 10 Dec 2016 23:35:51 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=beastieboys ...rap was originally a live experience only - you had to be there to experienced how it happened - if you are going to make money in the music business, you have to cross over to white audiences - that's where the money was - that's where the disposable income was - you had to figure out a way of taking whatever music you had out of a niche audience, and getting it onto the whit... Wed, 07 Dec 2016 01:08:01 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=imperitifcategorique ...l'éthique se constitue à partir d'une exigence de la raison pratique - l'exigence qui se révèle dans la volonté - il y a quelque chose d'impérieux au coeur de la raison - en tant qu'elle est volonté humaine - d'impératif de la raison pratique - tous les impératifs ne sont pas du même degré ou du même niveau d'exigence- il en distingue trois impératifs qui relèvent de la con... Mon, 05 Dec 2016 08:06:41 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=okzidentundorient ...das Verkehrs- und Kommunikationsnetz, Rechtswesen, Zivilverwaltung, und Baukunst standen bei den Römern weit über die Leistungen der Franken- andere Reiche zu der Zeit - Das Byzantinische Reich (395-1453) - entstand in der Spätantike nach der sogenannten Reichsteilung von 395 aus der östlichen Hälfte des Römischen Reichs - Abbasidisches Kalifat (750-1258) - hat seine größte Ausde... Sat, 03 Dec 2016 16:18:45 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=theodorherzl ...late 19th century reform and adaptation - many projects to create new nations - sometimes creating new nations out of old empires - Persia - Egypt - Lebanon - Syria - a new vocabulary for describing political communities - a collection of faiths, languages, and families governing on the ground - imagining a nation was not the only respond to political pressur... Fri, 02 Dec 2016 03:08:47 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=articlesofconfederation ...historical background - after the Revolutionary War, it was necessary to create a new government - the Articles of Confederation were drafted among the states - were deeply distrustful of having a strong national government - they didn't want to give the national government any more power than necessary - these were the states deciding what to do - they wanted to be the uni... Wed, 30 Nov 2016 23:01:46 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=historicaljesus ...what is meant by scholars when they say the historical Jesus? - what are the criteria that we use when we talk decide what is historical and what is not? - what do we mean when we talk about the real Nero or the real Caligula, or Reagan or Clinton - what we usually mean by the real person is a body of knowledge that approaches an extremely accurate record of every day of their life... Tue, 29 Nov 2016 02:17:49 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=conceptreversion ...Samsara - the concept of reversion, or turning back - from the Daodejing - 4th century BC - chapter 9 - "To hold the vessel upright in order to fill it is not as good as to stop in time." - "If you make your blade too keen, it will not hold its edge." - "When gold and jade fill the hall, none hold on to them." - "To be haughty when wealth and honor come your way is t... Fri, 25 Nov 2016 23:11:24 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=troisetapes ...la discipline anthropologique peut être découpée en trois étapes - processus distincts mais complémentaires de production de savoirs - 1. l'ethnographie - "graphe" veut dire transcrire - produire des théories par la Imise en dialogue d'empiries singulières et localisées - Maurice Godelier (1934-) - "Les métamorphoses de la parenté" - Pierre-Joseph Laurent - "Beaut... Thu, 24 Nov 2016 08:17:42 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=foreboding ...British 18 and 19-year-old men found themselves in a foreign land for the first time- German fathers found themselves in France which they had once visited as a student- they stood in trenches waiting for the shrill whistle that ordered them over the top- the saw little of the enemy - only the crash of artillery - the murmur of those around them waiting as they were to die- Wi... Mon, 21 Nov 2016 23:30:22 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=meotoiwa ...polytheistic religions - recognize multiple divine beings - Japan - when we think of Japanese life, we think of Tokyo, skyscrapers, many people, luxurious European-inspired shops in the Ginza quarter - on the other hand, in Kyoto, the former Japanese capital, we encounter a different universe - traditional temples - shrines - beautiful landscapes with mountains and rivers... Fri, 18 Nov 2016 08:06:04 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=faitdelaraison ...Kant (1724-1804) - les êtres humains ne sont pas seulement des êtres théoriques - mais des êtres qui ont vocation à agir - agir dans un sens éthique- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) - une des deux grandes figures du XVIIIe siècle - il été décisive dans d'orientation de Kant - il est maintenant célébré en Genève - depuis que les querelles sont oubliées où à cause de ... Thu, 17 Nov 2016 22:59:55 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=beginningofrap ...hip hop culture in the 80s - 1970s arises in New York's African American and Latino communities - remained a regional culture - you would have had to go to e.g. the Bronx to see it - it was the same thing with punk at CBGB or Max's Kansas City - several components to hip hop - rap music - graffiti - got the most attention outside of New York - break dancing - ... Wed, 16 Nov 2016 02:26:42 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=earlyhominins ...hominids - all modern and extinct great apes including gorillas, chimps, orangutans and humans- hominins - any species of early human that is more closely related to humans than chimpanzees, including modern humans themselves- Carol Ward - professor of anatomy at the University of Missouri in Columbia - worked in the field in Kanapoi, Kenya - at the southern end of Lake Tur... Mon, 14 Nov 2016 07:51:42 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=representationdeladroite ...la question de l'éclatement de l'Union européenne - un nombre grandissant de citoyens européens doutent que leur construction européenne, une construction inédite dans l'histoire, soit armée pour répondre à la crise protéiforme dans laquelle sont plongés leurs pays - il faut voir que la construction européenne est confrontée à une crise de défiance sans précédent - cette crise de défia... Wed, 09 Nov 2016 07:33:57 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=doublechords ...Igor Stravinsky lived almost 90 years (1882-1971) - wrote a large amount of music - although it changes over time, there is much we can say about what his music sounds like in general - 1. appearance of melodies that sound like folk melodies but are different in kind than the folk melodies that we usually recognize in the Anglo-American tradition - characteristic of the Rite of Spr... Tue, 08 Nov 2016 01:04:13 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=quellenkritik ...in der Rekonstruktion der Vergangenheit ist die Geschichtswissenschaft abhängig von den Quellen - die Quellen sind das bevorzugte Bekenntnismedium - nur das Studium der Quellen in ihrer unmittelbaren Überlieferungsform oder in kritischen Editionen schafft einen methodischen Zugang durch nicht bereits subjektive Interpretationen - Quellenkenntnis ist unverzichtbar, um wissenschaftli... Mon, 07 Nov 2016 21:11:31 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=blueboyeffeminacy ...The Blue Boy - stands next to Thomas Lawrence's Pinkie - achieved a level of popularity rarely afforded to an academic painting - Pinkie and Blue Boy make an engaging pair - Jonathan Buttall was thought to be the model for the Blue Boy - but Gainesborough's nephew is a more likely candidate - an example of costume and fashion in English portraits in the 1770s - the blue suit... Sun, 06 Nov 2016 15:39:52 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=europasurface ...as you get to Jupiter and beyond, you get to the frost line - bodies are icier than rocky - the moons of Jupiter and the moons further out tend to have more ice on their surfaces and interiors - how ice fractures is different than it fractures on earth- icy moons - a group of small bodies - orbit the giant gas planets - also in the Kuiper Belt there are icy bodies - 1000 k... Fri, 04 Nov 2016 22:36:55 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=rashidrida ...end of the 19th century - humans were becoming national subjects - becoming Japanese - becoming Brazilian - becoming German - these were all states and nations that scarcely existed a century earlier - the national frame gave people a sense of new identity for defining their membership in political communities - those who were bereft of a state - didn't have a polity t... Tue, 01 Nov 2016 08:17:46 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=schengenarea ...le continent européen est le plus riche en organisations internationales - créant des dynamiques entre territoires, frontières, circulation et organisation politique - l'Union européenne s'est élargie et approfondie au cours du temps - occupe aujourd'hui la place centrale au sein de cette multitude d'organisations européennes- après la Seconde Guerre mondiale - les états européen... Sat, 29 Oct 2016 00:42:54 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=sachsenreich ...Expansionspolitik: Sachsen und Awaren - hier hatte Karl mit den heidnischen Gegnern an der Grenze des Reiches zu tun - bei der Motiven mischen sich Expansions- und Missionsgedanken - der Sachsenkrieg - begann Karl früh - 772: schon ein Jahr nach Beginn der Alleinherrschaft - unter den vielen Kriegen Karls, dieser Krieg war der härteste und der längste - 30 Jahre lang... Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:24:25 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=jesusbaptism ...how to prepare for the restoration - John the Baptist insists that Israel prepare itself to meet the Messiah - if John proclaimed a baptism of repentance, and if Jesus consents to the proclamation of John, then we come to the conclusion that Jesus must have thought of himself as in need of forgiveness for his own sins - this conflicts with the church's claim that Jesus as the Son of Go... Wed, 26 Oct 2016 02:03:55 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=chordates ...origin of vertebrates - 525 million years ago during the Cambrian explosion - saw the rise in organism diversity - humans, other mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, and fish are all part of a large clade of animals called the vertebrata, or vertebrates - vertebrates are part of a larger clade called the Chordata - animals that have a stiff chord in their back -... Tue, 25 Oct 2016 06:35:57 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=deterritorialization ...the relation between theater, globalization, and mobility - mobility is understood in two ways - 1. migration - people relocated to different parts of the globe in the 19th and 20th centuries - their theatrical cultures followed them - 2. theatrical mobility - theatrical actors and performances which moved around the world- deterritorialization - coined by Gilles Deleu... Mon, 24 Oct 2016 00:16:24 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ligoniers ...the Ligonier paintings - Edward, Second Viscount Ligonier - Penelope, Viscountess Ligonier - both portraits painted in 1771 - located at The Huntington Art Collections in California - outstanding examples of 18th century portraiture - fine examples of the gendered culture of sensibility - Gainsborough painted a number of portraits of the gentry and landed aristocracy - in... Sat, 22 Oct 2016 17:14:14 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=doesnotspeak ...Laozi: "He who speaks does not know" - famous saying from the Daodejing - very easy to make satire of, since it contradicts itself - but it maps to the suspicion of language, since language can - cut us off from our experience - distorts our experience in various ways - a common theme in the Daodejing and the Zhuangzi - two foundational texts of Daoism - language c... Thu, 20 Oct 2016 07:19:04 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=article19 ...les droits dits civils et politiques - les droits de la première génération, - remontent au 18ème siècle - incarnent la valeur de la liberté - expriment d'un point de vue idéologique la doctrine du libéralisme - dans quels instruments ces droits sont-ils protégés - 1. au niveau universel - dans la déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme - pacte sur les droits ci... Tue, 18 Oct 2016 19:27:34 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=1930scomicbook ...the comic book first arose in America in the mid-1930s - the demand for a new form of entertainment - in small towns, we were becoming aware that we were apart of something larger than just a small town - all of America was facing economic depression - country was facing the threat of war in Europe - people were looking for outlets of entertainment - comic books were inexp... Tue, 18 Oct 2016 05:06:11 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=droysen ...die Subjektivität des Betrachtes - beim Blick auf die Vergangenheit, bleibt auch der Historiker ein Teil seiner Gegenwart - er ist vorgeprägt durch seine Erfahrungen, Ausbildung, Interessen und seine historischen und politischen Gegebenheiten seiner Zeit - es gibt einen markanten und unauflöslichen Unterschied zwischen - 1. der objektiv abgelaufenen Geschichte - 2. einer Aufarbei... Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:13:21 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=laraisonpure ...Emmanuel Kant (1724-1804) - philosophe du XVIIIe siècle - il étaite à l'origine d'une profonde révolution en philosophie - il était un air infiniment sérieux - il avait une attention profonde - mais il était un homme agréable à vivre, bon compagnon et gai, heureux dans la vie sociale - il n'a pas seulement révolutionné l'éthique mais aussi toute la philosophie moderne ... Wed, 12 Oct 2016 22:55:53 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=russianjapanese ...there was expansion not only in Europe and the Americas, but in East Asia as well - 1868 Meiji [MAY-gee] Restoration - a chain of events that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji - powerful army trained by Prussian officers - powerful navy modeled on British expertise - Port of Edo - today the Port of Tokyo - navy displayed their power... Tue, 11 Oct 2016 23:43:32 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=jameshetfield ...heavy metal bands that captured the spirit of the progressive rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s - took heavy metal seriously - wanted to do something with a sense of seriousness of purpose - not the dandyism of the L.A. Hair Bands - or the kind of radio-friendly, hook-oriented bands such as Guns-n-Roses, Van Halen, or Bon Jovi - music that had substance to it - had contr... Thu, 06 Oct 2016 01:42:29 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=gunsandroses ...heavy metal hits the big time - bands from the first half of the 80s had decent success - Van Halen - Motorhead - but there wasn't really a move toward heavy metal yet - second half of the 80s, heavy metal becomes much more popular - two bands that started off this trend, but not particularly thought of now as heavy metal - Bon Jovi - New Jersey - Jon Bon Jovi... Mon, 03 Oct 2016 02:36:17 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=isaiahisrael ...Israel's restoration - John the Baptist introduces the figure of Jesus - John's ministry - sets the stage for the hope of Israel's restoration - Gospel of Mark - no infancy narrative telling us about the birth of Jesus - no stories about the circumstance that attended his conception or birth - we learn nothing about his pre-existence as we learn in the Gospel of John... Fri, 30 Sep 2016 07:54:10 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=moneytablet ...arithmetic - led to modern mathematics - addition, subtraction, multiplication, division - originally just addition and subtraction - counting - 35,000 BCE or earlier - piles of pebbles - notches on bones and sticks - notched bones have been found - perhaps for - seasons - phases of the moon - monetary system - the first evidence we have for ... Wed, 28 Sep 2016 22:27:07 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=corneillecid ...les historiens ont pensé que le public des théâtres publics était un public mélangé, fait de - laquais - filous - bourgeois - nobles - mais il se trouve que cette conception-là ne résiste pas à l'analyse - toute simple du prix des places de théâtre - le prix des places les moins chères dans les théâtres sont quinze sous au parterre, doublé lors d'une création d'une pièce... Sun, 18 Sep 2016 06:03:19 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=whitemansburden ...Europeans were not the only powers to scramble for new opportunities in the rest of the world at the end of the 19th century - e.g. in Africa- Americans had joined this project as well - although it held back from formal colonization - as in the type Europe was engaging in - Hawaii - in one sense a colony before they became a state - Puerto Rico - avoided formal colonizat... Thu, 15 Sep 2016 08:24:08 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=motleycrue ...because heavy metal became so popular by the end of the 80s - we tend to look back to the late 60s and early 70s and call a lot of that music heavy metal - because it seems to share many of the characteristics- but heavy metal music didn't begin to separate itself out from other blues-based rock music until the end of the 1970s and the early 1980s - at the time when rock music was cha... Sat, 10 Sep 2016 03:46:27 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=sponville ...André Comte-Sponville (1952-) - philosophe français - ses philosophes de prédilection sont Épicure, les stoïciens, Montaigne et Spinoza- les quatre ordres d'éthique - 1. l'ordre économico-technico-scientifique - est foncièrement neutre moralement - c'est en vue de consolider ou de favoriser un rapport de force donné - protéger ceux qui ne sont pas en position de force... Fri, 09 Sep 2016 08:05:39 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=atlanticcharter ...during his four-term presidency, FDR had to face security threats unequaled in scale - 1929 Wall Street crash - the Great Depression - very high unemployment - poverty affecting millions of people - abroad there was the rise of totalitarianism- 1933 inaugural address - "Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoni... Thu, 08 Sep 2016 22:46:16 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=cancelled ...talked to software company - 200 engineers in room - had worked on project which was supposedly the next visionary project for the company - worked on it for two years - a week before the CEO cancelled the project - it was a demotivated group - they reported that they began to come to work later, and go home earlier - the CEO was seeing the workers as rats in a maze - m... Wed, 07 Sep 2016 23:53:48 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=karlfriedrichabel ...Portrait of Karl Friedrich Abel - Hunting Art Gallery, San Marino, California - Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) - a portrait of a musician as a man of sensibility - Karl Friedrich Abel - German musician who trained under Bach - one of the last great virtuosi of the viola de gamba - seen at desk poised over a musical score - presented as the consummate musician, act... Wed, 07 Sep 2016 22:15:16 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=hermanncohen ...1916 is the key year in Germany - failed offensive in Verdun - Falkenhayn's failed attempt to bleed out the French to force a decisive victory - counter offensive in the Battle of the Somme - puts pressure on the Germans - an increasing sense in Germany that the war cannot be won - coupled with the consequences of the economic blockade - on the home front a real shor... Fri, 02 Sep 2016 00:45:45 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=desiresoftheeye ...the desires of the belly - simple desires which constitute our basic nature - few and finite- the desires of the eye - the things you can see that are far away that you don't have - that's the problem with them: they aren't things that are here that we are appreciating with our belly - created by society and socialization - they are infinite - society can keep churning ou... Mon, 29 Aug 2016 23:35:47 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=israeljesus ...the transition from Israel to Jesus - the relationship between the Old Testament and New Testament is of promise and fulfillment - prophecy found in Isiah 7:14, "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." - this is understood as being fulfilled by the virginal conception of the Christ child by ... Mon, 29 Aug 2016 23:10:29 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=bassinversant ...trois grands enjeux de la régulation de la ressource en eau - la question des usages - la question des règles - la question des territoires de gestion de la ressource - on assiste depuis plus de 200 ans à - une extension du nombre de resources - une diversification des usages - l'exemple d'une rivière ou de ce lac - au XVIIIe siècle, il y avait très peu d'usage et d'u... Sat, 27 Aug 2016 14:27:34 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=biologicalanthropology ...anthropology - studies the diversity of the human condition - the past, the present, and the future - includes biology, science, language, and culture - culture - a system of shared meanings - used to cope with surroundings and communicate with others - subfields - cultural anthropology - diversity of beliefs from a cross-cultural perspectives - social struct... Sat, 20 Aug 2016 23:44:02 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=gambiasenegal ...the Suez Canal - plowed through the land to connect the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean - transformed the relationship between the continents of Afro-Eurasia- until the 1880s most of European interests in Africa were restricted to the coast - relied on indigenous polities and merchant princes - to harness the slaves - to bring slaves to the coast to trade them with Euro... Fri, 19 Aug 2016 19:24:48 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=18centuryimprov ...improvisation played an important role in the Baroque - the written music often supplied only the melody which the performer was expected to embellish - a figured bass line - included numbers which indicated which other notes were to be played - singers and instrumentalists were expected to improvise ornaments like trills, grace notes, and turns - to personally enhance com... Wed, 17 Aug 2016 01:36:14 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=courtetlongterme ...on peut comprendre la complexité - on gagne à la comprendre - comme une série de contradictions qu'il faut affronter tous les jours - qui ne dépendent pas des décisions des uns ou des autres - les organisations sont soumises en particulier à une tension - entre court-terme et long-terme- on attend à court-terme de soi-même et des autres qu'on délivre au maximum de ce qu'on ... Tue, 16 Aug 2016 18:40:08 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=dinosaurappearance ...museums often display fully fleshed-out models of dinosaurs - paleontologists have some methods to determine the appearance of some dinosaurs based on dry bone fossils - bones are hard, mineralized structures that rot away slowly - muscles, organs and skin decay quickly - they are seldom fossilized - however, sometimes paleontologists get a rare glimpse of a dinosaur's soft a... Mon, 15 Aug 2016 00:12:41 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=petergabriel ...many 70s bands continued to have great success into the 1980s - it's typical of history of music to only follow the new innovations as they occur in time - the music scene is more varied than just following the newest innovations- in some cases they had more success in the 80s than in the 70s - Genesis - went from Genesis to corporation - the band was down to three people... Sun, 14 Aug 2016 03:06:33 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=richardstgeorge ...Gainsborough's portrait "Lieutenant General Edward Ligonier" - shows relationship between man and beast - "it was possible to judge a Gainsborough's portrait as if it were a living person" - we have the sense when confronting one of his paintings that we are confronting someone personally - e.g. going about their daily business on the streets of Bath, where Gainsborough lived... Sun, 14 Aug 2016 01:56:59 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=subjectivityobjectivity ...our overall conception of consciousness is that it is indeed something we do - but intentionality is usually only thought of in terms of acts such as walking or speaking - perception, imagination, and emotion are all intentional - each instance has a subjectivity and an objectivity - variations of intentionality reveal the underlying detail of the basic structure of consciousness... Sat, 13 Aug 2016 23:00:20 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=georgeandandrew ...artists that came along in the 1980s but who based their sound on earlier styles - AC/DC - out of Australia - if you had just discovered AC/DC, you would think that they would be best grouped with bands like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin from the first half of the seventies - but AC/DC didn't have their first big hits in the United States until 1979, when groups like Led Zeppelin st... Mon, 01 Aug 2016 21:46:32 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=onlesaura ...Henri Bergson - French philosopher - by WWI had achieved an unparalleled reputation - 1914, election to the Académie française - his lectures at the Collège de France were wildly popular, especially with women - exhibited clarity of insight, controlled form of prose, and lucidity - a person who was entirely dedicated to the life of the mind - during Dreyfus Affair, rema... Sun, 31 Jul 2016 19:46:53 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=paristheatre ...le théâtre à la Renaissance - est un théâtre qui se joue dans des salles fermées - va perdurer jusqu'au XVIIe siècle - Paris commence par disposer d'une première salle qui est une salle construite par une confrérie - une confrérie religieuse comme il y en avait tant dans l'Ancien Régime - les confrères de la Passion - une version du Mystère du Moyen Âge dans lequel on re... Sat, 30 Jul 2016 12:58:03 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=comparativepelvises ...humans walk upright - walking up a hill, you realize one of the consequences of that - we're able to walk relatively efficiently - this has compromises for other forms of locomotion - we're not especially good at climbing - we've descended from a mammal that are especially good at: - climbing - good at walking quadrupedally - as hominids, we took a different pathway... Tue, 26 Jul 2016 20:02:59 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ogoniProtests ...la charte africaine des droits de l'homme et des peuples - du 27 juin 1981 - il y a une double originalité - 1. formelle - l'effet au champ géographique - la charte s'applique sur l'ensemble du continent africain - à l'exception le cas du sud Soudan - 2. matérielle - c'est l'effet au contenu - une première originalité matérielle de la charte est sa conséc... Sat, 23 Jul 2016 20:04:42 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=u2band ...the rise of New Wave at the end of the 1970s - a signal event in the sense that it helped define the end of the decade that was pushing back and rejecting the hippy aesthetic, which unified Rock music from the mid-60s to the end of the 1970s- New Wave into the 1980s had three main groups - 1. those who turned to the past in an ironic or detached way - not that you want to return to... Thu, 21 Jul 2016 01:48:12 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=rubensDianaReturningFromHunt ...1. la tragédie régulière: classique - la notion de classique apparaît à partir du XVIIIe siècle - on parle d'oeuvres classiques pour toutes les oeuvres qui sont étudiées dans les classes - classiques parce qu'on les étudie à l'école - c'est à partir du XVIIIe siècle - lorsque les auteurs français particulièrement pour le théâtre, Corneille, Molière, Racine - ils sont présen... Mon, 18 Jul 2016 23:53:22 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=quelmodele ...nous allons partir en Asie, avec l'analyse de plusieurs villes: - Kuala Lumpur - Singapour - Abu Dhabi - Dubaï - il y a des choix politiques, des choix de société, qui sont faits lorsque l'on planifie une ville - ces divers choix - cette panoplie de choix - que l'on fait - il s'appelle finalement un modèle - il y a des grands modèles que l'on peut suivre - on... Sat, 16 Jul 2016 23:47:01 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=salvatormundi ...the unusual name that the Pharaoh gave Joseph upon his elevation to being second in command over all of Egypt - Genesis 41:45: - "Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah and gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. And Joseph went throughout the land of Egypt." - until recently since the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphic language - readers ... Fri, 15 Jul 2016 22:51:49 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=cplusplushelloworld ...la programmation - consiste à écrire - des programmes - les séquences d'instructions qui seront exécutée par l'ordinateur - pour une tâche donnée, le programmeur - devra trouver le programme qui réalisera cette tâche - la première étape consiste - à développer un algorithme - à trouver la séquence d'instructions dont le programme sera fait - c'est le micro-pro... Wed, 13 Jul 2016 20:23:38 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=macintyre2 ...un aspect important de la pensée de MacIntyre - l'individualité ne peut exister indépendamment de la communauté à laquelle elle appartient - pour les modernes, l'individu est premier et la communauté est simplement le soutien indispensable à son épanouissement - pour l'éthique des vertus, la communauté est première - tout être humain apparaît dans un monde qui a commencé sans lu... Tue, 12 Jul 2016 08:22:03 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=caravaggiochrist ...es común usar el final del siglo XVI para separar dos períodos en la Historia del Arte europeo - los cambios que tuvieron lugar en torno a 1600 - las diferencias que separan al Renacimiento del siglo XVII son mucho menos profundas de las que lo separan de la Edad Media - la idea de fijar la fecha de hacia 1600 como límite entre dos períodos, es algo arbitrario - otras fechas podrí... Tue, 12 Jul 2016 04:50:17 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=karlkarlmann ...Karl der Große (748-814) - von Herrschaftsantritt bis zu Beginn der Alleinherrschaft - drei Jahre liegen zwischen diesen Daten - ein Musterbeispiel für geostrategische Machtpolitik - Tod des Vaters - Karl war 17 - 768 Pippin ist gestorben - Karl war der älteste Sohn - der Nachfolger war festgelegt - Pippin hinterließ zwei Söhne, Karl und Karlmann - die Frank... Sat, 09 Jul 2016 20:54:08 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=rainydayfeeling ...visual perception is a core theme of phenomenology - can easily show how non-sensory intuition plays a part in completing visual sensory information to form a concept of physical objects and the world - our key concept of invariance is concrete in the visual cases - positional and objectivating functions of consciousness - the principle of interpretive exclusivity - the visu... Thu, 07 Jul 2016 08:13:26 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=turnerthesis ...by the 1890's, this second process of industrialization showed resistance - with great expansion came great turmoil - a coexistence of dynamism with crisis - the 1890s was a decade that fused together expansion with turmoil - from people deployed on factory lines - the assembly line was probably not something Karl Marx could have imagined - it was not something he forecasted fo... Thu, 07 Jul 2016 00:26:59 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=rebeccaeliezer ...similar to Jane Austen in English literature, the Biblical authors redefined the hero - rather than valiant warriors, figures like Ruth and Boaz were a new kind of hero - Boaz - referred to as a mighty hero - instead of a fighting hero, he is a hero through being a man of - class - aristocratic virtue - nobility - established justice i... Mon, 04 Jul 2016 01:02:46 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=snapdragon805 ...a look inside a smartphone - contains a Snapdragon 805 chip from Qualcomm Corporation - smartphones that have a Snapdragon 800, 801 or 805- Nexus 6 smartphone - released by Google and Motorola in 2014 - logic board - many components - Snapdragon 805 package - one component is actually one stacked on top of another - underneath - the 805 chip is inside the pack... Tue, 28 Jun 2016 20:57:24 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=themediterranean ...el termino Mediterráneo - es un uso relativamente reciente - el primero en emplearlo fue en el siglo séptimo, Isidoro de Sevilla - con anterioridad había recibido casi tantos nombres distintos - para los judíos de la antigüedad era - el Yam Gadol - el gran mar - para los antiguos egipcios - el Gran Verde - para los romanos - era el Mare Nostrum - con un... Sat, 25 Jun 2016 21:35:52 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=cplusplusinstall ...Linux - comment installer les outils pour programmer en C++ sous Linux - un éditeur pour taper le code - Geany - ouvrez un terminal et tapez la commande : sudo apt-get install g++ espace geany - un compilateur pour lancer le code - g++ - vérifiez que la version de g++ est bien la 4.8, ou plus récente, en tapant g++ espace moins moins version - configurer Geany - téléc... Mon, 20 Jun 2016 21:40:05 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=princpleinterpretiveexclusivity ...phenomenology emerged near the turn of the 20th century - one main goal of phenomenology is to enrich your perception and reflection as your live your life from day to day - emerged from 20th century European philosophy - founder was Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) - was a professor at Göttingen and Freiburg Universities - began his academic career studying mathematics- cogito... Fri, 17 Jun 2016 08:14:24 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=alasdairmacIntyre ...Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-) - il a écrit un livre qui l'a rendu mondialement connu intitulé "après la vertu" - il a voulu montrer l'importance de réactiver à ses yeux l'éthique des vertus - alors il part d'abord de l'histoire des modernes - qui est interprétée par lui comme l'histoire d'une perte - la modernité s'est constituée éthiquement sur le fond d'un refus de continuer à admet... Wed, 15 Jun 2016 07:50:43 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=husserldeathwar ...in 1914, the destruction of Leuven library - German intellectuals took defense of the German cause - Husserl's support of the world implicated him in the support of German actions during the war including the destruction of the Leuven library - it is an irony that Husserl's own manuscripts were saved on the eve of the Second World War- one hundred years after the war to end all wars,... Mon, 13 Jun 2016 23:03:31 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=gainsboroughtheblueboy ...the culture of sensibility - began a central part of Thomas Gainesborough's work - the man of feeling - embraced by inclined individuals in both the rural and urban spheres in Britain and elsewhere in Europe - first came to prominence in that late 17th century as the sustenance economies of Europe began to be overtaken by a more robust, commercial economy that allowed for the develo... Sat, 11 Jun 2016 12:25:00 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=elgrecotoledo ...en la segunda mitad del siglo XVI - durante la última fase del Renacimiento - muchos artistas se sintieron liberados de las normas que habían gobernado el arte de generaciones anteriores - el objetivo de crear en sus cuadros un mundo que - pareciese realista - se inspirase en la estética de la escultura antigua - había sido logrado ya por - Leonardo - Miguel Ángel ... Fri, 10 Jun 2016 05:14:57 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=secondindustrial ...the 19th century saw a drive to reorganize the world economy on new principles - instead of the mercantilist empires pulling the parts of the world together - empires began reaching into the hinterlands - now what we see are different relationships emerging based on the flows of labor, capital, and commodities dictated by market forces - a global economic system which was reinforce... Tue, 07 Jun 2016 22:55:49 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=tradingexhibitiontopunt ...New Kingdom Period - 15th century BCE - the largest extent of Egyptian rule - occupies the whole of the Nile Valley to the sixth cataracts - cataracts are little waterfalls on the Nile that make trade by boat particularly challenging - all the way up through the Middle East into v - mainly for commercial reasons - there are certain things grown in this part of... Mon, 06 Jun 2016 21:08:30 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=jesusoriginesduchristianisme ...le christianisme - au départ simple courant au sein du judaïsme - est devenu rapidement un mouvement important qui s'est retrouvé très tôt en situation de conflit avec la culture gréco-romaine - est une religion issue du judaïsme - née en Palestine - Ier siècle après J.-C., dans l'Empire romain - les tout premiers « chrétiens » étaient des juifs disciples de Jésus - mais d... Fri, 03 Jun 2016 22:40:59 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=mindmodules ...modular view of the mind - there is no chief executive in your brain - but many modules that take turns exerting dominant influence on your thought and behavior - this corresponds with the Buddhist idea of the self - that there is no self at the core that persists coherently through time- Buddhist mediation - can the module view of the mind help in meditation and help explain... Tue, 31 May 2016 22:27:08 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=eurythmics ...artists who had success in the early years of MTV - "Second British Invasion" - because of the shortage of videos at the beginning of MTV, many groups benefited who may not have otherwise gotten much attention - because they came from England and because it was part of their usual marketing to prepare a video, they had one available - Bow Wow Wow - Adam and the Ants - A Flock o... Tue, 31 May 2016 20:09:28 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=originofsolarsystem ...while solar systems are based on hydrogen and helium, they also also likely to include all the elements of the period table - many generations of dying stars have injected freshly synthesized matter into interstellar space - how can this widely scattered matter be used to form dense solar systems for planets - if the matter was evenly distributed throughout the universe, this would be ... Mon, 30 May 2016 08:20:35 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=unhewnwood ...Laozi, in contrast to Confucius, wants us to return to the unhewn wood- Daodejin - the evils of the social elite - it is bad to have social stratification - Daodejin Ch. 75: - "The people are hungry because those above eat too much in taxes, this is why the people are hungry." - Daodejin Ch. 53: "The court is resplendent, yet the fields are overgrown." - the elites are ha... Sun, 29 May 2016 22:16:36 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=tizianolabacanal ...Tiziano (1488-1576) - fue uno de los principales pintores del Renacimiento italiano - a diferencia de Leonardo, Miguel Ángel, o Rafael - centró su carrera en Venecia y no en Florencia o Roma - tuvo una enorme influencia en artistas de siglos posteriores - su juventud - en Venecia - trabajó junto a grandes pintores - Giovanni Bellini - Giorgione - llegó a ser ... Thu, 26 May 2016 22:29:05 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=euridiceperi ...the Baroque era - roughly from 1600 to 1750 - it takes time and some distance to understand the boundaries of an era - the mid 18th century - so the Baroque era didn't receive its name until mid 18th century - at first it had a negative meaning - the style known as Classical music was being established - the simple, singable melodies that we associate with Haydn, Mozart, ... Sat, 21 May 2016 03:48:36 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lifeofcleopatra ...Cleopatra (69-30 BC) - Cleopatra VII Philopator [Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ] - from here very early ages, she knew that she was royalty - her father was King Ptolemy XII - the latest in the line of Greek monarchs who had ruled over the Egyptians for about 260 years since the death of Alexander the Great - even though the Ptolemy's were Greek, they very much stylized themselves as Egypti... Thu, 19 May 2016 00:41:49 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=suspendedattitude ...we make assumptions all the time to make our way through a complex world - usually these assumptions are operating in the background - they shape things if we think about them or not - sometimes our assumptions are wrong - what we expect to experience and what we do experience can diverge - phenomenology lurks in illusions, jokes, riddles, and many other forms of art and inquiry... Wed, 18 May 2016 23:16:20 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=gunpowderrocket ...Archytas (428–347 BC) [ar-KEE-tus] - Greek philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer - friend of Plato - was reported to have constructed and flown the first self-propelled flying device - we don't have illustrations of this device - described as a small bird-shaped device - may have been suspended by a wire - using a jet of steam, this device was propelled through the ... Tue, 17 May 2016 22:52:25 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=zarathoustra ...l'homme n'est pas un être destiné à - 1. demeurer ce qu'il est - 2. se contenter d'être satisfait dans ses aspirations naturelles - mais qu'il est plutôt un être en tension vers son propre dépassement - la doctrine scientifique évolutionniste a eu le grand avantage de montrer que le mouvement qui tend au dépassement - à la création d'espèces nouvelles - est une loi de la vi... Sat, 14 May 2016 12:19:33 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=rothchildfamily ...the British economy emerged over the course of the 19th century as the core of the core of an emerging capitalist world system - co-dependency between Britain and India - although India's participation in the system was not entirely voluntary - Indians because to resist the controls that the British imposed on the Indian economy - the reason why the controls were there because -... Thu, 12 May 2016 04:40:46 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=princejanetjackson ...Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, and Janet Jackson - interesting connections between all four of them - Prince and Janet Jackson having their success in the second half of the 1980s - all of them big MTV stars - stars that depended much on the video dimension of music- Prince (1958-2016) - born in Minneapolis - developed an image as a somewhat sexually charged and somewhat an... Wed, 11 May 2016 03:23:24 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=mythofsysiphus ...labor and motivation - what gets people to work - we often think it is mainly about money - we think more money leads to a higher amount of work - motivation - standard thinking is that people are like mice in a maze - we think all we care about is the particular tangiblereward we are getting - there are some jobs that people do just for the money - but human nature h... Tue, 10 May 2016 23:46:12 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=judahsonofjacob ...Benjamin was caught with stolen goods in his possession - Judah adopts the only position possible in the situation - he tries to create an affection for the father - yet Joseph's affection for his father needs no such encouragement - at the end of this speech, Joseph is emotional - Genesis 45:1-3: "Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him, and h... Wed, 04 May 2016 07:58:01 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lasciateognisperanza ...la Divina Commedia è un poema cosmico - poiché la sua struttura impegna tutto il mondo allora consosciuto - il pozzo dell'inferno - che scende sino al centro della terra - è stato determinato sin dal primo istante dell'universo dalla caduta del ribelle angelo Lucifero - la terra spostata da questa caduta vertiginosa - produce dall'altra parte della terra la montagna del ... Sat, 30 Apr 2016 22:49:14 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=akenatenandnefertiti ...the Narmer Palette (31st century BC) - one of the oldest and most important artifacts from Ancient Egypt - thought by some to depict the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the king Narmer, which is the founding of the unified Egyptian kingdom under one pharaoh - a stone palette - on the pallete, Narmer is wearing the crown of Upper Egypt about to hit a prisoner with a club... Wed, 27 Apr 2016 08:12:50 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=tiepolocleopatra ...Tiepolo's Banquet of Cleopatra, 1744 - set in the Palace of the Pharaohs in Alexandria around 140 BC - it's about a competition that Cleopatra made with her husband Marc Anthony - a bet about who was the most extravagant and therefore the most powerful regent in Rome of the day - Cleopatra wagered that she could spend the equivalent of 80,000 pounds of gold on one feast - af... Sat, 23 Apr 2016 20:47:49 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=eichmannproblem ...Eichmann - 1961 the Israeli Secret Service, the Mossad - discovered that Eichmann was living under an assumed name in Buenos Aires - they went there and kidnapped him - brought him back to Israel - charged him with - crimes against humanity - crimes against the Jewish people - they sentenced him to death - executed him- who was Eichmann? - a concentration c... Fri, 22 Apr 2016 22:58:39 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=droysenundjaspers ...was ist Geschichte - es gibt heute keine allgemeine gültige Definition, die allen Ansprüchen gerecht werden könnte - Leopold van Ranke (1795–1886) - der Urvater der kritischen Geschichtswissenschaft - 1824, "Man hat der Historia das Amt, die Vergangenheit zu richten, die Mitwelt zum Nutzen zukünftiger Jahre zu belehren, beigemessen; so hoher Ämter unterwindet sich gegenwärtiger Ve... Fri, 22 Apr 2016 21:04:19 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=nietzschesurhomme ...Nietzsche est un philosophe essentiel dans l'histoire de la philosophie moderne - il a été un des critiques les plus aigus de la modernité - il a choqué par la radicalité et la démesure de certaines de ces affirmations - sa critique radicale de la décadence correspond dans les temps modernes, au triomphe de l'affirmation de ce qu'il nomme les volontés faibles- les volontés faibles... Thu, 21 Apr 2016 07:57:53 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=talmud1 ...Jews have long been called the people of the Book - the book that is usually presumed to give Jews this title is the Bible - for a thousand years, another book has been slowly displacing the Bible as this book, the Talmud - Jews continue to venerate the Torah, the Hebrew term for the first section of the Bible - the Torah is crucial to the Synagogue service where the Talmud is no... Mon, 18 Apr 2016 20:50:35 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=isaacandrebekah ...Genesis chapter 26 - the story of Isaac - the son of Abraham, the father of Jacob - the story tells of Isaac living in the Philistine land of Gerar - to the west of Judah - a foreign territory - Isaac has a very attractive wife named Rebekah - one day his neighbors come and ask him about Rebekah - instead of telling them the truth that she is his wife, says she is his ... Fri, 15 Apr 2016 05:53:35 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=theodorerooseveltpanamacanal ...at the end of the 19th century, the territorial expansion of the United States across the continent came to an end - new existential threats could now only come from abroad - Theodore Roosevelt knew this and sought to promote an international police power - to prevent other nations' chronic wrongdoing - The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine - "Chronic wrongdoin... Mon, 11 Apr 2016 23:16:56 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=buildingofsuezcanal ...colonies, once marginal outposts of the global system, now emerging into dynamos - receiving migrants - de Tocqueville witnessed and Europeans watched - these colonies began to be the envy of Europe - societies that could be created as freed trade societies that could export agrarian products back to Europe - this is what Britain had and which made her the envy of European ri... Sat, 09 Apr 2016 17:16:05 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=albertodurero ...Alberto Durero (1471-1528) - un pintor alemán que nació en Nuremberg - un artista muy original - que amplió el potencial expresivo de la pintura, el dibujo y el grabado - con veintiséis años fue un artista de mucho éxito - él tenía una opinión muy elevada de sí mismo - en su autorretrato no se muestra como pintor sino como un joven elegante, vestido a la última moda - ... Thu, 07 Apr 2016 21:46:05 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=laozianddaodejing ...The Daodejing - "Classic of Way and Virtue" - earliest transmitted text after the Analects - and early Warring States text - archeological versions of it have been found - versions that are very different from the received text - whole passages missing - different wording - the first of the Daoist texts - there is no Daoist movement per se - it's not a coherent gro... Sun, 03 Apr 2016 01:41:29 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=niokolokoba ...plus de 15 % de la surface terrestre bénéficie d'une forme de protection formelle - on appelle ces territoires des aires protégées- 1872 Yellowstone en Amérique du nord - le premier parc formellement reconnu comme aire protégée - son classement découle de la volonté des pionniers américains de préserver un paysage exceptionnel - que la colonisation allait sans doute faire dis... Sat, 02 Apr 2016 22:35:35 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=madonnamtvawards1984 ...Michael Jackson and Madonna helped define - what MTV was going to be - how successful it could be as a force in the music business - a tool to bring artists to their audiences - both were very popular - both benefited quite a bit from MTV - both depend to a large extent on the physical presentation - there is a certain amount of theater and live performance - y... Thu, 31 Mar 2016 03:40:23 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=sumeriankingslist ...the Bible presents a nice and neat genealogical line extending from Abraham - Abraham's son is called Isaac - Isaac is the father of Jacob - Jacob undergoes a name change to Israel - Jacob/Israel is the father of twelve sons who represent the twelve tribes of the whole nation - Jacob and his family go down to Egypt - during the days of Joseph there - they do fairly ... Wed, 30 Mar 2016 01:49:06 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=enjeuxetdefis ...l'enjeu principal des périphéries - c'est la majorité des nouveaux arrivants dans les villes qui vont s'installer dans cette périphérie - donc la pression sera - non pas sur les centres-villes - non pas sur la ville existante aujourd'hui - mais sur les territoires qui ne sont pas encore urbanisés - les territoires naturels autour des villes- la mobilité - les gens ... Tue, 29 Mar 2016 21:16:56 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=semisensationsuperposition ...semisensation - the concept that every object has parts that we can't see hidden behind parts that we can- but semi-sensation is not the only way that what we see goes beyond the senses - look at the duck-rabbit - make the reversal as many times as you can in five seconds - in what way is the object you are looking at changing? - since the image is not changing, the changes t... Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:43:47 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=musicalnotation ...notation has developed dramatically in the past 1000 years - half note = 72 Rhythmico - number refers to beats per minute - i.e. 72 half notes per minute or 114 quarter notes per minute, which is pretty fast - the tempo is very important and can be found on all standard metronomes in use since Beethoven's time - clef sitting on the staff - e.g. treble clef used for violin ... Sat, 26 Mar 2016 01:32:07 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=fichteaddressestothenation ...August 25th, 1914 - three weeks after the Germans invaded Belgium - German troops set fire to the city of Leuven - destroyed the University Library - including collection of over 300,000 books and manuscripts dating back to Medieval times - provoked international indignation and outrage - British Prime Minister Ashquith - "The burning of Leuven is the worst thing the ... Sat, 26 Mar 2016 00:43:59 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lesoucidesoi ...le souci de soi est au coeur de l'éthique des vertus - l'importance du souci de soi tient au fait que mon humanité - il n'est pas donnée et figée une fois pour toutes - un caractère - techniquement un idiosyncrasie - une réalité héritée à la fois - de l'hérédité - de mes premières années d'existence dans le milieu où j'ai été élevé - mais le caractère est sans do... Fri, 25 Mar 2016 08:24:25 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=judahbenjaminspeech ...through the stories we get of Joseph, we see his character transformed - Genesis 37: Joseph's dreams - arrogant individual - understood the role he was playing in his family as all about him and used it to the disadvantage of his brothers - created tension within his family - Genesis 50: Joseph Reassures His Brothers - understands that he has been elevated to the office he... Wed, 23 Mar 2016 06:48:47 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=themodularmind ...the module theory of the mind - various modules that can take control of the mind and body for at least awhile - if there are modules, this would help explain how the mind could operate effectively without there being a single unified self in control - there are a number of command modules and they take turns running the show - Douglas Kenrick - Arizona State University - ... Tue, 22 Mar 2016 07:18:53 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=hammurabi ...kingship and law in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt - environment, climate, and geography affect societal order - things that humans can't change - society order is usually seen as the law - but when no laws in place, it's - the relationship between the ruler and the ruled - the relationship of the ruled in terms of each other - societies and leaders understand order d... Sun, 20 Mar 2016 04:01:40 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=mtvbillyjean ...initiial audience of MTV - they determined at the beginning that their audience would be mostly middle-class, mid-western, white kids - they understood the demographic that was available to them - think of the movie Wayne's World (1992) - this gives you a good idea of what the early cable TV audience was - lots of mainstream rock with emphasis on the aggressive guitar base k... Fri, 18 Mar 2016 01:37:25 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ledroitalavie ...le concept de protection internationale - le rôle et l'importance du rôle qui revient à ces procédures - le contrôle du respect des droits de l'homme - leur concrétisation dans leur mise en oeuvre - leur reconnaissance - le processus de contrôle du respect des droits de l'homme joue un rôle déterminant dans le concept même de ces droits - leur concision - souvent les dro... Wed, 16 Mar 2016 22:59:38 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=florenceskyline ...a city's skyline - tells something about the city's values and hierarchy - traditional European city - clear diagram of - what was ordinary - what the decided could rise above the skyline - below the skyline - the fabric of life - where everyone lives and works - whether you are the wealthiest or the poorest, your building operates as part of that datum - ... Tue, 15 Mar 2016 21:37:38 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=confuciusprimitivists ...the Analects is a composite text - has different layers to it - the last part of the book is late and has many anomalies - stylistically distinctive - has long narratives - for the first time we see Confucius confronting critics - he confronts rulers who don't listen to him - he doesn't confront rivals in the sense of other philosophers who have different views of the... Fri, 11 Mar 2016 23:15:54 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=19thcenturymigrations ...Marx and de Tocqueville argued a new world was coming into being - a new logic was at work - logic that had capabilities of spreading beyond Europe - beyond even the European colonies - had the ability to resolve some of the tensions around - political systems looking for legitimacy - economic systems dislocating peoples - widen the possibility for internal social mo... Thu, 10 Mar 2016 19:38:14 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=eleanorroosevelt ...Anna Eleanor Roosevelt - born in New York City, October 11, 1884 - her father was Eliot, Theodore Roosevelt's younger brother - her mother was Anna Hall - member of the distinguished Livingston family - both of her parents died when she was a child - Eleanor spent most of her child with her grandmother - received a traditional education - at age of 15, sent to Allenswo... Wed, 09 Mar 2016 21:10:10 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=milkywayblackhole ...as you look far away in the universe, you are looking into the past- International Space Station - only very recent that humans have developed technology to have a station outside the earth - floating above the Earth at an altitude of 375 kilometers - the diameter of the Earth is 12,000 kilometers - suggests that moving out away from the Earth is not a very easy thing to do- tra... Tue, 08 Mar 2016 19:57:03 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=riseofmtv ...on August 1, 1981, MTV launched its all-music, 24-hour cable TV - nobody had ever done anything quite like this before - an important moment in the history of rock music - as MTV develops, it changes the music landscape - the business of music - the ways people are able to get to music - in a way that the Internet and file sharing has changed the music business in a sig... Fri, 04 Mar 2016 19:59:31 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=outcomeassyrianconquest ...the outcome of the Assyrian conquest of the Levant - second half of the 8th century BCE - first half of the 7th century BCE - the essential background of the understanding of the history of Judah when it was conquered by the Babylonians - Tiglath-Pileser III (ruled 745-727 BCE) - king of Assyria - founded the Neo-Assyrian Empire - introduced advanced civil, military, and p... Tue, 01 Mar 2016 08:27:03 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lavirgenyenino ...la vida y la carrera de Rafael (1483-1520) tienen mucho en común con las de Leonardo y Miguel Ángel - fue pintor y dibujante y arquitecto - trabajó para príncipes y papas como ellos - fue muy reconocido - Leonardo (1452-1519) y Miguel Ángel (1475-1564) influyeron sobre el arte de Rafael, que era más joven - pintó más que sus colegas y formó un gran taller - algunos de sus ... Tue, 01 Mar 2016 04:24:12 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=unresolvedissues ...one of the great hopes of the Revolution of 1789 was a new era of - fraternity - harmony - regeneration - where members of the privileged orders would join with members of the Third Estate in creating a new and regenerated France - everyone could take advantage of their abilities in a new world of liberty and equality - the National Assembly engaged in the task of regenerating ... Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:25:34 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=hippieaesthetic ...we can see an arc of rock music that develops between the mid 60s - around 1965 to 1966 crossover to psychedelia - over the barrier of 1969-1970 continues forward to 1974-1975 and works it's way to 1979-1980 - that arc of about 15 years, is what we might think is dominated by The Hippie Aesthetic - all of this music hangs around in a number of ideas and values - music as professio... Sun, 28 Feb 2016 02:41:58 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lesenjeuxetlesdefis ...la connaissance des villes - 1. les villes sont devenues un centre d'intérêt majeur, très médiatique - 2. c'est que certaines villes sont devenues des économies extrêmement importantes, plus riches, sans doute, que certains états - il y a une création de richesse - il y a une économie qui tourne autour des villes - 3. toutes ces villes, comme des sociétés, se sont mises en con... Sat, 27 Feb 2016 14:51:20 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=iraqiranwar ...September 1980 - Iraq invaded Iran - Saddam believed that the Iranian revolution had weakened Iran militarily - 1979 Iranian Revolution - the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty - the ruling house of Iran from 1925 until 1979 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi - the Shah of Iran - ruled from 1941-1979 - wanted to seize territory - a short, victorious war would put Iraq in ... Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:09:06 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lesmodesdevie ...les modes de vie constituent une différenciation sociale - une dérivée des variables socio-démographiques - le revenu - la formation - la composition du ménage- des modèles nouveaux de modes de vie ont émergé - l'habitat - les transports - la dépendance à l'automobile - la périurbanisation - sont devenus centraux dans la constitution des modes de vie- la mode de ... Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:51:58 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=biblicalproject ...the early communities in Egypt and Babylon and in Judah itself present major problems - they are not that literate of the laws of Moses - they don't know Israel's history very well - in Elephantine, we see that they don't even use the name Israel - Nehemia tries to get the community behind a building project in Judah - the community seems to be interested in other things -... Wed, 24 Feb 2016 08:24:14 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=davidricardo ...transition from self-sufficient villages to interdependent societies - Marx observed this as fundamental to the system - the demise of mercantilist empires - the end of the slave trade - the rise of free labor - these were intensifying - painting: Pieter Bruegel's Peasants - taking a break from their work - they take a lot of breaks because they produce for their own n... Mon, 22 Feb 2016 23:35:09 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=perfectionnisme ...une réplique moderne des éthiques des vertus n'est pas du tout évidente - 1971 John Rawls - l'éthique peut être considérée sous deux angles qui renvoient l'un à l'autre en s'opposant - 1. l'éthique utilitariste, la recherche dans l'action, de ce qui est le plus utile - 2. la morale déontologique, la morale du respect, de la loi morale et des principes des moeurs - John Ra... Mon, 22 Feb 2016 21:09:49 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=begriffdespolitischen ...Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) - the "crown jurist of the Third Reich" - 1927 "Der Begriff des Politischen" - the existential interpretation of war and politics - dedicated to a fallen comrade in WWI - "Dem Andenken meines Freundes August Schaetz aus München gefallen am 28. August 1917 beim Sturm auf Moncelul" - while churches are predominant in religion or society is predominant in ... Fri, 19 Feb 2016 03:03:20 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=franklinroosevelt ...born 1882 in Hyde Park in upstate New York - came from the wealthy and aristocratic from the Hyde Park branch of the family - parents provided him with the best education possible - he attended Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts - graduated in history at Harvard - studied law at Columbia University - 1905 married a distant cousin, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt - the niece ... Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:50:54 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=josephsdreamservice ...Joseph is called forward to help Pharaoh with his dreams - Pharaoh summons his court magicians to discern what they meant - they were of no help - the cup holder told Pharaoh of the success he had had with Joseph's interpretations while he was in prison - "A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard, and when we told him he interpreted our dreams to us, g... Tue, 16 Feb 2016 07:34:41 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=costello ...British New Wave groups - had success in the United States - punk didn't happen in the United States in the same way as it happened in the UK - at least not in a commercial way - although it certainly happened in subcultures - Elvis Costello - came out of the punk scene in the UK - seen as one of the first UK artists to do New Wave, the safer version of punk - most ... Sat, 13 Feb 2016 19:13:59 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=semisensations ...goal of phenomenology - to see more, specifically to observe in an active, energetic and creative way, looking for possibilities, including the unlikely - this approach to observation replaces the textbook conception of perception- the textbook picture of perception reception seems tied to available light - perception is not just limited to what the light affords - you see the sides... Fri, 12 Feb 2016 23:21:49 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=thelovemask ...some people think that the study of consciousness must be some kind of intellectual selfie - based on some kind of inner self-examination or introspection - but actually the starting point of phenomenology is to turn away from the selfie an towards the world - its in the structure of the world that we actually discover the structure of consciousness - phenomenology is not in your h... Thu, 11 Feb 2016 01:28:12 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=doubletree ...unexpected element - novel and surprising - one way to make ideas stick is to make them unexpected - the minivan ad - set up a pattern - we are all thinking it will be a normal minivan ad - they showed things that we expect in a normal minivan ad - a child coming back from soccer practice - temperature controlled cup holders - like a garden path - when we... Sat, 06 Feb 2016 18:32:55 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=newwavelate70s ...New Wave - arises at the end of the 1970s - embraces the punk attitude but takes the danger out of it for record companies turning it into a kind of a lifestyle choice and aesthetic attitude as opposed to any form of cultural rebellion or revolt - when you think about the Sex Pistols and the ways in which they would create scandals and get themselves arrested and banned - fun stori... Fri, 05 Feb 2016 02:59:17 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=theodoreroosevelt ...the Roosevelts can trace their family roots to Claes Maartenszen van Rosenvelt - emigrated with his family from the Dutch province of Zeeland - arrived in New Amsterdam between 1638 and 1649 - 1652 bought a farm - had two grandsons - Johannes (Oyster Bay Roosevelts) - Theodore - Eleanor - Jacobus (Hyde Park Roosevelts) - Franklin - 1905 Eleanor and Franklin ... Fri, 05 Feb 2016 00:05:58 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=yanhui ...anyone who has wu-wei as a spiritual goal is going to face the tension of trying not to try - the paradox of wu-wei in the Analects - Analects 3.3: "A man who is not Good, what has he to do with ritual? A man who is not Good, what has he to do with music?" - ritual and music are the way you become good - Confucius is saying: you shouldn't be doing the practice unless you are alread... Wed, 03 Feb 2016 20:41:36 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=expositiondevelopment ...Mozart's B-flat major sonata, K333 - first theme comes in the tonic, B-flat - the theme goes nowhere - it begins in b-flat major - and ends in b-flat major - it has no roll but to establish the tonality firmly - and to be extremely beautiful - second theme is established in the dominant F - two roles - establish the dominant - contrast in character - firs... Tue, 02 Feb 2016 23:01:25 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=newlabor ...middle of 19th century - world is recovering from the great upheavals of the age of revolution - hadn't put an end to them - had changed the cultural moorings of the world's systems - new aspects are coming into being - new regimes - new identities - new discourses of science and technology - societies faced the challenge on how to stabilize this new order - finding a ... Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:49:35 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=roosevelts ...the three Roosevelts - provide a particularly interpretation of U.S. history - changing role of the United States in the world through the 20th century - 1. Theodore Roosevelt - 26th president of the United States - pointed the way for the country to become a world power - 2. Eleanor Roosevelt - Theodore's niece - became the most prominent First Lady in U.S. history -... Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:25:26 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=tonalsound ...categories of sound signals - we transduce sound signals using the machinery of the human auditory system - two extremes - tonal sound signals - white noise sound signals- tonal sound signals - a sound that repeats systematically and continuously over time - tuning forks are not natural sources of sounds - you aren't going to find anything in nature that produce... Tue, 26 Jan 2016 01:39:13 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=arsnova ...at the beginning of the 14th century - there was finally a system of musical notation which - showed exact pitches - but durations were relative - music before this had been rhythmically grouped always into threes - same note shape could be given two or three beats, but depending on context - confusing - limiting - Philippe de Vitry - credited with creating the a... Wed, 20 Jan 2016 19:59:57 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=rebuildtemple538 ...often distant communities would not celebrate traditions based on the text of the Torah but would write back to religious authorities in Jerusalem - letters back, however, would often not quote the Torah or religious texts- how this period is depicted within the Bible - Ezra - subject is the Return to Zion following the close of the Babylonian captivity - first part - the stor... Wed, 20 Jan 2016 03:25:42 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=cinna ...la nouvelle tragédie est écrite par ces mêmes auteurs qui ont commencé leur carrière par des tragi-comédies - une tragédie maîtrisée - une tragédie qui contient de l'action tout en obéissant à la concentration nécessitée par l'obéissance à la règle des vingt-quatre heures- il suffit de comparer deux oeuvres - 1. Cléopâtre captive, de Jodelle - a première de toutes les tragédi... Mon, 18 Jan 2016 23:35:11 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=swissarmyknife ...if the conscious self is not the thing directing behavior and directing thought, then what is doing this? - the answer that comes from the modular view of the mind is: nothing in particular - this doesn't mean nothing, it just means no single thing - rather, there are a number of things called modules - they take turns exerting decisive on our thought, our feelings, and behavior... Mon, 18 Jan 2016 00:54:50 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=malcommclaren ...1974-77: punk in the UK - starts with one guy: Malcolm McLaren - background - the UK in the 70s - troubling financial economy - the US had the same problems - but most middle class kids in the US had enough - but in the UK a feeling of despair that they would never be able to move out of where they were - a sense of why bother, no hope - punk music is ofte... Mon, 18 Jan 2016 00:07:06 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=plasticdeformation ...six materials that engineers have to work with: - 1. metals - 2. polymers - 3. ceramics - 4. glass - 5. fiberglass - 6. semiconductors - in each case there is a difference at a very low level - e.g. in the case of fiberglass, the microscopic architecture of the fiber-reinforced composite - underlying principle - a mantra of material science: structure leads to propertie... Sun, 17 Jan 2016 00:25:19 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=pachycephalosauria ...two key traits that distinguish ornithischians and saurischians - 1. ornithischians have a hip with a pubic bone which points backwards - sometimes it has a projection that points forward, but they are usually short - resembles those of birds - this is an evolutionary convergence - birds belong among saurischian dinosaurs - plants are hard to digest - the backward... Thu, 14 Jan 2016 23:21:39 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=zurichwwi ...artists and intellectuals say the Great War both as - 1. bringing something to an end - European civilization - 2. an opportunity for something new - an alternative future - Zurich - a microcosm of these different attitudes - James Joyce is writing Ulysses - 1904–20: Trieste and Zurich - Hugo Ball - 1916, created the Dada Manifesto - co-founder of the Cabaret ... Wed, 13 Jan 2016 01:57:56 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=vertusmodernes ...l'éthique d'Aristote est une philosophie de l'antiquité grecque, une éthique concernant une vie qui est loin de la nôtre - est-ce que cela signifie que l'éthique des vertus qu'il avait formulée ne peut plus nous concerner? - qu'elle est une affaire d'historiens, et qu'il n'est plus question de la vivre au présent? - il est clair que l'on ne peut plus vivre comme du temps d'Aristote... Tue, 12 Jan 2016 21:22:27 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=classificationmaterials ...six categories of engineering materials - nearly all materials used for modern applications come from these six categories - 1. metals - metallic bond - adjacent atoms share electrons in a non-directional way - metal pan - can't see through it - electrons that provide the metallic bonding are reflecting any proton light rays from the environment - gives us the charact... Fri, 08 Jan 2016 03:19:08 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=megaregions ...Kansas City is a typical U.S. city and can stand for what has happened and is happening in other places - river boats on the Missouri River - wagons carrying settlers Westward leaving from Westport along the Santa Fe trail - railroad - connected to west coast - local street railways were built which enabled urban extensions - mostly south of the city center - new residential... Fri, 08 Jan 2016 01:56:55 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=orionconstellation ...Orion - in south east part of sky - three stars in a line - his belt - two stars below are his feet - two stars above are his shoulders - Orion nebula - a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way - visible to the naked eye - the closest region of massive star formation to Earth - 24 light years across - regions of red and of blue-violet - Greek mythology... Wed, 06 Jan 2016 23:00:06 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=comparativeplanetology ...comparative planetology - we see a remarkable variation of planets even in our own solar system - various forces drive the formation and development of planets, enables us to understand - habitability - does the planet have moons, are those moons habitable - each planet has a different story - each planet has certain possibilities for a home for life - long term - shor... Tue, 05 Jan 2016 01:46:33 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=josephdreamsprison ...Joseph shows no interest whatsoever in what John Milton once called knee tribute that his brothers offer him - Joseph: "Fear not, am I in place of God?" - believes that such displays of reverence are not due any human being, but God alone - all that has transpired had little to do with me - God is the one who has superintended all of our actions - let us return our attention... Mon, 04 Jan 2016 22:39:29 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=oklahomalandrush ...United States - once referred to in the plural, now being increasingly referred to in the singular - a process of the various parts through expansion - while Japan and Germany integrated old, feudal parts into something new - the United States, Canada and Brazil had different ambitions - they were the products of something new - they were not old feudal remnants - what t... Sun, 03 Jan 2016 20:03:11 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=archerycomportment ...non-coercive order - important theme in the Analects - the Confucian rule through the power of his de, or charismatic power, can bring about order in a non-coercive way - connected to theme: anti-militarism - archery - one of the important arts that the Confucian gentleman is trained in - not valued for its military effectiveness - not military training - Analects 3... Sat, 02 Jan 2016 23:50:43 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=centcom ...Carter's effort to resolve the Iran hostage crisis ultimately succeeded after dragging on 444 days - Iranian authorities chose January 20, 1981 as the date to set the hostages free - the date Carter left office and Ronald Reagan became president- so Reagan presidency began on a triumphal note - some argued that the prospect of dealing with a steely Reagan rather than a weak and wimp... Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:05:02 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=judahitesinbabylon ...587 BC: Siege of Jerusalem - Nebuchadnezzar II - culminated in the destruction of the city - after Siege of 597, Nebuchadnezzar installed Zedekiah as tributary king of Judah at the age of twenty-one - revolted against Babylon, and entered into an alliance with Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt - Nebuchadnezzar responded by invading Judah - siege lasted 30 months - "every worst... Mon, 28 Dec 2015 14:31:43 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=champdemars1790 ...1789-1791: attempts by the National Assembly to remake the new France - National Assembly - May 1789, deptuties chosen to be the representatives of the three estates - National Assembly is made up for these three estates had come together to be the National Assembly - those who could not work with this body had resigned and left - charged with implementing the revolutionary pri... Fri, 25 Dec 2015 22:28:32 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=explodingplastic ...punk rock is an significant phenomenon in the history of Rock music - a return-to-simplicity movement - begins to bubble up in an underground scene way off the radar at the beginning of the 1970s - then explodes on the scene in the UK in 1977 with the Sex Pistols - New Wave becomes the adaptation of the punk attitude - a push back against the ideas of professionalism and musical... Wed, 23 Dec 2015 08:22:35 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=integrity ...human beings are very inclined to have a story about why they do the things they do - at some times they seem capable of generating false stories - we are designed to convince the world that we have coherent motivations - and in the process we convince ourselves of this- in terms of evolution - if people could impress people and preserve their reputation - this would help su... Tue, 22 Dec 2015 20:53:08 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=conflictsofinterest ...the fundamental issue of cheating is conflicts of interest - when we are paid or encouraged to do things that are slightly different than the truth, we think and act with a bias - sports are a good example - if you support team A and the referee makes a call for team B, then you find his call to be unfair - this may even make the game more fun - although we try to minimize it... Mon, 21 Dec 2015 05:02:25 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=aristotepluralism ...le débat éthique contemporain de cet héritage d'Aristote - 1. respecter simplement quelques règles, ou - 2. de se cantonner à fixer un cadre à l'intérieur duquel l'ensemble des activités humaines pourrait être légitime - il ne s'agit pas pour Aristote de s'abstenir de faire certaines choses - mais au contraire il faut rechercher le bien - l'éthique est ainsi vue comme une ma... Sun, 20 Dec 2015 18:06:40 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ordersmagnitude ...orders of magnitude in terms of money - 1. a dollar - 10^0 dollars - one Snickers bar - 2. ten dollars - 10^1 dollars - a compact disc - 3. one hundred dollars - 10^2 dollars - dinner at a nice restaurant - 4. one thousand dollars - 10^3 dollars - a nice vacation - 5. ten thousand dollars - 10^4 dollars - a new car - 6. one hundred thousand doll... Sat, 19 Dec 2015 05:16:33 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=colonialismwars ...the First World War was a true global war - but when we think of WWI, the first images that come to mind are British, German, and French soldiers - in reality over 4 million non-European soldiers fought in the war - French army at at least 500,000 colonial troops- the colonial prehistory to the war - how the European colonial experience established a certain mentality and attitude o... Thu, 17 Dec 2015 23:39:16 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=francoofcologne ...one of the biggest issues with neumatic notation is that it doesn't show rhythm - there's a flow to a chant - some notes are held longer than others - sometimes it speeds up - sometimes it slows down - sometimes there are pauses - it was a learned art, you had to get the feel of knowing the standard way to employ these effects- chant in the Catholic Church was official... Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:10:42 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lifecomplexity ...le problème de la complexité existe depuis qu'il y a une humanité - au cours de l'histoire humaine, des penseurs, des observateurs, des écrivains l'ont traité sans employer le mot de complexité - Héraclite - "vivre de mort ou mourir de vie" - "éveillés, ils dorment" - nous ne sommes même pas conscients de ce qui se passe dans notre cerveau - nous ne sommes pas conscients de n... Fri, 11 Dec 2015 21:48:01 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=germany1871 ...Japan ushered in a new age for the Japanese people - but in the course of their expansion began to transform the geo-political theater of East Asia - with tremendous consequences for the 20th century - 1894-95: First Sino-Japanese War - became almost like a template of what would happen in the rest of the world- Germany, late 19th century - like Japan, national integration d... Tue, 08 Dec 2015 23:34:51 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=thomasaquinas ...la postérité d'Aristote - pendant des siècles, Aristote a été considéré comme une autorité - dans tous les domaines, la pensée d'Aristote a paru être une pensée tellement assurée et solide qu'elle a fait que les gens ont vu ce que voyait Aristote - Aristote prétendait que les corps célestes étaient purs, mais était possible de voir même à l'oeil nu des tâches sur la Lune - Aristot... Mon, 07 Dec 2015 23:12:14 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=josephandbrothers ...the end of the Joseph story - Genesis chapter 50 - Joseph having undergone tremendous change is now a new person - Jacob has died - had asked his sons to bury him in the land of Canaan - sons seek Pharaoh's approval to take the body to Canaan - Pharaoh grants permission - but sends men along with him to ensure the return of Jacob's sons after the burial- theological... Sat, 05 Dec 2015 13:30:00 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=catharsistragedy ...le lien entre ce que vous être en train de dire et la catharsis - Jean Chapelain : Lettre sur la règle des vingt-quatre heures (1630) - il ne paraisse aucune différence entre l'objet imité et celui qui imite - le but c'est de purger le spectateur de ses passions déréglées - Aristote a écrit dans sa Poétique un passage dans lequel il dit que le but de la tragédie c'est de provoq... Sat, 05 Dec 2015 05:44:36 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=clarenceearl ...write to have a lawyer - Clarence Earl Gideon - had a rough life - father died when he was three - made it through the 8th grade - ran away, drifted away - ran into trouble with the law - 1961 was working as an electrician - someone broke into a pool room and stole money - someone accused Clarence of the crime - couldn't afford a lawyer - at the time, the... Sat, 05 Dec 2015 03:37:58 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=china2015 ...why is China interesting - China's economy is already the second largest in the world - second largest economies in history - most number twos in the world run into economic and political trouble - Germany before WWI - Bismarck ran country successively but this led to WWI - Japan until 2011 before being taken over by China - 20 year slump - China today is different... Thu, 03 Dec 2015 21:46:10 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=subjectivite ...le mythe de l'anthropologie qui est surdéterminée par la subjectivité - 1. les transformations des faits induites par la place du chercheur - le chercheur est souvent un enjeu négligeable sur son terrain - tout ne tourne pas autour de lui - il y a une impossibilité d'annuler tout effet de la rencontre - il y a une impossibilité de gommer toute part de subjectivité - la me... Tue, 01 Dec 2015 20:45:33 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=medievalchant ...as Christianity spread throughout Europe in the 300s and 400s CE - singing songs and hymns became part of worshop in Catholic church - text was regularly chanted and set to different melodies - different churchs developed had different musical traditions - even chants that were intended to be the same ended up with slight variations as they were passed from one generation to anothe... Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:16:52 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ordersofmagnitude ...the concept of scale - a common hurdle in understanding the universe - two dimensions - spatial - how large or how small is something - temporal - how long ago or how far in the future something is - how to do handle the broad scales that we have to deal with for these two dimensions - realize that when studying the world and our universe, spatial and temporal scales ar... Sat, 28 Nov 2015 01:08:14 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=racineberenice ...le théâtre régulier, soumis à des règles - la règle des trois unités - la règle d'unité de temps - la fameuse règle des vingt-quatre heures - la règle d'unité de lieu - la règle d'unité d'action - la concentration autour d'une seule action - par rapport à la tragi-comédie - à plusieurs actions - tout doit être organisé autour d'un ensemble de personnages liés entr... Fri, 27 Nov 2015 23:22:55 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=operaandoratorios ...Handel started out as a composer of operas - Handel's life - born 1685 in Halle - moved to Italy - learned about Italians produce music - came back to Germany - went to England - died 1759 in London - moved to oratorios later - his audience moved with him- the music of oratorios - very like the music of operas - 18th century opera - is a wonderful cre... Fri, 27 Nov 2015 00:38:19 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=meijirestoration ...development of state power is a condition for national identities- the way nations were created often showed characteristics of the entities which nations wanted to overthrow, namely, empires - so empires didn't slide off the historic stage but get reconstituted- three categories of regimes after Napoleon - 1. some parts of the world still had empires which were in a steady but ine... Thu, 26 Nov 2015 20:35:36 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=joyle ...virtue - a disposition to behave in the right way in a particular type of situation - to perceive the situation in the right way - virtues are domain specific - specific Confucius virtues - 1. filial piety - the virtual of being a good, obedient child - a suite of actions and emotions that instruct how the child should act in relation to the parent - actions: ser... Tue, 24 Nov 2015 20:26:51 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=styx1978 ...Progressive Rock in the 1970s - King Crimson - 1974 disbanded - Genesis - Peter Gabriel left the band after "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" - after a search for a singer, they decided to use the drummer, Phil Collins - 1976 A Trick of the Tail - Genesis continued on without any real disruption - although Peter Gabriel fans won't agree - but this was true at least a... Mon, 23 Nov 2015 07:51:31 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=carter1979 ...1979 Carter - if he was going to have any chance of reelection in 1980, he needed to demonstrate that he had a viable plan for remedying the economic woes - Carter didn't turn around the economy - critics blamed him for events abroad - November 1980 Reagan won - what Carter tried to do in 1979 - Carter didn't believe that the oil crisis was the main problem - but only a s... Mon, 23 Nov 2015 00:23:00 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=elephantinepapyri ...Elephantine Papyri - isle in the Nile - we have extra-Biblical evidence of a community that lives in Egypt - has a garrison of Persian troops - one of them is from Judah - there is a body of Papyri - relate to the Jewish communal life there - 495-399 BCE - not about military operations - insights into the ways the Judahites lived among themselves and with... Sun, 22 Nov 2015 23:29:36 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=aristotlami ...pour Aristote, l'éthique concernait l'ensemble des personnes - pas simplement une petite élite - mais l'ensemble des personnes - comment est-ce qu'on peut devenir un homme ou une femme de bien - il faut d'abord se demander - quel genre de personne nous voulons être - quel genre de personne nous voulons devenir - se poser la question du but de notre vie - quel ser... Sun, 22 Nov 2015 13:51:23 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=prosauropod ...we can use features of skeletons to divide dinosaurs into smaller and smaller groups - pelvis - two main shapes of the pelvis - Ornithischia ("bird hip dinosaur") - Stegosaurus (155-150 Ma, Jurassic) - Saurischia ("lizard hip dinosaur") - 1. Sauropods ("long neck dinosaurs") - e.g. Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus - largest land an... Sat, 21 Nov 2015 11:40:04 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=vomkriege ...Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) - Prussian general - in his book "On War" tried to distill a concept of war - a book that would have lasting influence on thoughts about war in the 19th century and beyond - On War - unfinished masterpiece - a collection of puzzle pieces that don't add up to one unified image - struggled in his life to come to terms with the profound chan... Fri, 20 Nov 2015 20:08:17 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=renijosephpotifar ...the three ascents of Joseph - 1. he's dropped into the pit, and lifted out of the pit - 2. he's dropped into Egypt to serve as a slave, but then he is hired as a servant of Potiphar - after the incident with Potifar's wife he makes Joseph descend one more time - 3. dropped into prison but ascends once again to the court of Pharaoh - Genesis 41:14: Then Pharaoh sent adn called ... Fri, 20 Nov 2015 02:06:40 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=permanencetragedie ...le théâtre classique s'organise donc autour de deux genres - 1. la tragédie - 2. la comédie - il y a une hiérarchie entre ces deux genres - exactement la même hiérarchie qu'on retrouvait dans la Poétique d'Aristote - son ouvrage fondateur sur la théorie des genres du théâtre - redécouvert par les hommes de la Renaissance - la tragédie se distingue de la comédie par deux... Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:48:48 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=criseurbaine ...les migrants est une force vive de la ville africaine aujourd'hui - la migration et une question de l'attirance - les villes attirent - les campagnes font que les gens se sentent obligés de migrer vers la ville - parce que la plupart des campagnes n'arrivent pas à subvenir aux besoins de l'entier des populations - à l'inverse, il y a aussi un fort pouvoir d'attraction de la vil... Tue, 17 Nov 2015 21:18:26 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=19thcennationstates ...irony of the mid-19th century - while naturalists such as Darwin were emphasizing the commonness of human kind - societies were going about creating national identities which separated us from each other - claimed that there were some fundamental differences between members of different nations - these differences increasing took on the language of race - it's was difficult to... Mon, 16 Nov 2015 01:44:49 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=naissancetheatremoderne ...le théâtre classique a une longue histoire et il a un début - ce début c'est le milieu du XVIe siècle - avec un rejet du théâtre qui a existé jusqu'alors - qui s'était développé progressivement au Moyen âge - avec des genres religieux comme - le miracle - la moralité - le mystère - les passions - des genres populaires comme les farces et les soties - dans l... Sun, 15 Nov 2015 19:20:16 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=tokyoamericanization ...sudden Americanization process - Anglo-Japanese Conversation Manual - short and small book - became a best-seller, sold 3.6 million copies - basic American conversation - Radio Program: "Come Come English" - Radio Program: "News From America" - Comic Book: "Blondie" - American exhibitions - Film - the most effective method of Americanization process - films were a c... Sat, 14 Nov 2015 15:49:47 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=billups ...strategies of a civil rights movement - an action taken for a civil rights cause has multiple purposes - e.g. going to jail is a form of civil disobedience - 1. confronts and challenges the system which makes the laws - 2. helps individuals who are challenging the system - strengthens their resolve - shows a deep amount of commitment - attract others to join the ... Sat, 14 Nov 2015 14:16:31 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=vertuseducation ...les vertus cardinales - 1. la prudence - 2. la tempérance - 3. la force - 4. la justice- la justice - avec les premières on pourrait avoir l'impression que pour être éthique, pour être un homme de bien, pour être heureux, nous pouvons l'être seul - ce serait méconnaître un point essentiel - nous sommes des êtres sociaux - nous avons besoin de la relation aux autres da... Fri, 13 Nov 2015 00:08:53 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=anthropologiebase ...il y a l'idée que l'anthropologie n'est pas une science - qu'est-ce qu'une science? - produire des savoirs à partir de méthodes d'investigation rigoureuses vérifiables et reproductibles - en sciences sociales - les manières de faire science varient selon qu'on soit dans différents paradigmes, différents modèles - on oppose souvent le modèle compréhensif au modèle explicatif... Wed, 11 Nov 2015 20:46:38 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lavertu ...Aristote: "un cheval est un bon cheval, non seulement lorsqu'il a tout ce qu'il faut pour faire un bon cheval, mais lorsqu'il sert bien son cavalier pour la course ou pour faire face à l'ennemi" - le cheval - un bon cheval ne l'est pas simplement, par ses capacités, mais par l'exercice de ses capacités - il ne s'agit pas simplement d'être un bon cheval, mais d'être un excellent cheval... Tue, 03 Nov 2015 21:03:06 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=theaterofdionysus ...the Greek theater in 5th century BC - today we see theater as entertainment, something like television or movies - in 5th century Athens, theater, particularly tragic theater, was central to cultural, political, civic life - early history is hard to define - but always connected to ritual - always connected to the god Dionysus - god of wine, shape changing, masks - see... Tue, 03 Nov 2015 07:18:14 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=charlesdarwin ...Charles Darwin - developed an early fascination with natural history - educated at Edinburgh and Cambridge - advisers encouraged him to explore his world - a world that was becoming both interconnected and interdependent - an example in which the worlds horizons were opening up - technological revolutions - French Revolution - advent of free trade - embarked on a five y... Tue, 27 Oct 2015 21:55:10 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=leftrightbrain ...what do we make of this thing we call the self? - the thing that we call the self, the conscious me, the thing that we think is running the show, may not be running as much of the show as we think - we may be attributing much more power and control to this concept than it really deserves - this idea goes back to pre-modern psychology - Freud: the self is controlled in large part b... Mon, 26 Oct 2015 20:48:27 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=theoryofmind ...theory of mind - our ability to perceive what others seem to be perceiving - put ourselves in someone else's place and have a sense of what they are feeling - critical for social behavior - pro-social - the extent that we can understand each other and behave in accordance with that understanding - orders of consciousness - first-order consciousness - person #1 has a sense ... Sun, 25 Oct 2015 08:01:53 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=andersenstatue ...artistically, socially, and culturally, Hans Christian Andersen was a mold-breaker - "The Fairy Tale of My Life", autobiography - described himself as a bog-plant which had its roots deeply anchored in mire and mud - but which reached up and stretched for the light and the sun- born in Odense in 1805 - moved from being a poor, working-class boy to being a famous author - beca... Wed, 21 Oct 2015 00:10:22 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=aristotebonheur ...l'éthique d'Aristote - est une éthique téléologique, qui vise un but - est une éthique eudémoniste, ce but, c'est le bonheur - s'appuie sur une psychologie- la méthode d'Aristote - inductive - alors que d'autres philosophies partent d'un grand principe et déduisent de ce grand principe ses applications pratiques, Aristote va partir de ce qui est - il va partir de la natur... Tue, 20 Oct 2015 21:53:44 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=confuciuscultivation ...strength of the Confucian strategy - taking cold, abstract system 2 knowledge and build it into our hot system, so it becomes automatic - creating moral skills - give you flexibility and autonomy - don' need to rely on your system 2 cognition - cultivating the self - ritual - the classics - archery - music - various arts - you learn these culture forms - y... Mon, 19 Oct 2015 08:13:21 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=deportations ...how can we explain the demographic decline of Judah after the Babylonia conquest - where did everyone go? - were they all deported to Babylon?- wars in antiquity - death tolls were usually quite high, due to: - lack evacuation - lack medicine - lack of sanitation - siege warfare - in Judah, wars usually meant people in countryside taking refuge behind municipal for... Fri, 16 Oct 2015 20:42:41 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=chewamask ...Africa - extremely heterogeneous place - second largest and second most populous continent after Asia - 54 different countries - 1 billion people - 1500 difference languages - sprawling massive cities - Lagos, Nigeria - more than 5 million people - millions of people in small villages and towns- history of Africa and America - bound up in the transatlantic slave tra... Thu, 15 Oct 2015 22:00:13 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lenozzedifigaro ...when we think of Italian opera, we often think of Rome, Venice, Florence, Milan - yet in the late 18th century, much Italian opera occurred in Vienna - Mozart - Antonio Salieri - Martín y Soler - few works that were created in the late 18th century had come to us unaltered - usually not played on the kinds of instruments Mozart wrote for - singers are trained differentl... Wed, 14 Oct 2015 23:50:59 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ecoledathenes ...il n'y a pas une définition de l'éthique - dans le débat contemporain, il y a une pluralité de conceptions de l'éthique, qui se rattachent à des courants divers - parmi ces courants, certains s'enracinent très loin dans notre histoire occidentale- l'éthique inspirée d'Aristote - il enracine son éthique précisement dans la nature - dans une conception qui comprend aussi, le monde ... Wed, 14 Oct 2015 08:20:47 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=eagleclaw ...Operation Eagle Claw - America's war in the greater Middle East began over 30 years ago - no shots fired - Americans didn't engage their adversaries - but 8 American soldiers died - location called Desert One - 200 miles south east of Tehran - the purpose was to free several Americans - mission ended in failure - bad planning - defective equipment - poor coo... Tue, 13 Oct 2015 23:32:01 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=cheating ...fudge factor - due to our flexible cognitive ability, the fact that we can rationalize things very quickly, as long as we cheat just a little bit, we can both benefit from cheating, and we can still see ourselves as honorable people - the moment we start creating a dishonest behavior, there is a range before it invokes a different concept of ourselves, and in that range, we can both be dish... Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:00:58 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=josephpit ...after Joseph revealed his dreams to his brothers - Jacob, foolishly, sends him off to check on the well-being of his brothers - and return report - Genesis 37:17-12 - they conspire against him to kill him - here comes the dreamer - throw him into a pit - and say a wild beast devoured him - Reuben heard this, said to not take his life - shed no blood... Thu, 08 Oct 2015 22:21:33 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=zafardeath ...a mass upheaval in the 1850s - with echos around the world - would bring down both - the East India Company - last of the Mughal empires - the Enfield rifle would play a staring role in the saga - pressures to modernize faiths - Hindus - Muslims - accommodate rationalism into their explanations of the world - reconcile beliefs with new concepts of - individuali... Thu, 08 Oct 2015 08:30:33 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=stevemiller ...bands from who continued what they were doing in the first half of 1970s also in the second half - The Rolling Stones - 1976 Black and Blue - "Fools Cry" - 1978 Some Girls - "Beast of Burden" - "Miss You" - became a disco song - 1980 Emotional Rescue - they outlasted disco and punk - The Beatles' members - Paul McCartney - by far the most commerciall... Tue, 06 Oct 2015 02:09:05 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=socratesplato ...if you're a logician, then argument means something like: - a set of two or more propositions - at least one of which is a premise - at least one of which is a conclusion - a rational structure in which premises give reasons for conclusions - argument can also mean people fighting - a proof in a geometry book is an argument - an angry bar fight is an argument - if you ... Mon, 05 Oct 2015 05:01:30 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=russianottomanwar1768 ...dramatic change with the balance of power with Europe - up until the middle of the 18th century, the Ottomans could feel to be on an equal footing with Europe - and before this period even superior to Europe - in the last quarter of the 18th century, a dramatic change began to took place - the gab in science, technology, military and economic power was shifting in favor of the E... Fri, 02 Oct 2015 23:14:31 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=odysseuscirce ...Aeolus [Αἴολος] - foreign kind who has control of all the winds - has all the winds stuffed into a single bag - his sons and daughters marry one another - even in Greek mythology, brother and sister marriages count as prohibited - so Aeolus is being represented even by Homer as a bit strange and exotic - again, the curiosity of Odysseus' men leads to a problem - they ca... Fri, 02 Oct 2015 07:28:44 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=chaearonea ...during large, set-piece battles that Alexander fought - companion cavalry usually stationed on right-hand side - on the left-hand side, the Cavalry of Thessaly - 1800 man strong unit - commanded by a Macedonian officer - fought in a diamond or rhomboid shape - a defensive shape - allowed to fight in any direction - Battle of Gugamela - though heavily outnumbe... Thu, 01 Oct 2015 08:08:13 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ageofpericles ...Pericles - there are very few people who have given their names to a period in history, Pericles is one of them - The Age of Pericles - 495-429 BC - the golden age of Athenian culture - brilliant general, orator, patron of the arts and politician - he was the first citizen of democratic Athens, according to the historian Thucydides - his family background was as elite... Wed, 30 Sep 2015 19:44:20 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=fourroomhouseisrael ...Judea after the Babylonian conquest - Biblical text suggests that the area of Judah remained in an empty state of ruins during the exile - almost every urban and military installation from the 7th century in Judah was destroyed or abandoned - with few exceptions these remained unoccupied until well into the Persian period - scholars seem to agree on the point that there was an urban... Tue, 29 Sep 2015 19:48:08 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=miguelsixtina ...Miguel Ángel Buonarroti - a quien conocemos como Miguel Ángel - vivió de 1475 a 1564 - se formó en Florencia - trabajó durante toda su vida entre esa ciudad y en Roma - donde trabajó para los papas - fue escultor, arquitecto, pintor y también un gran dibujante - para comprender toda su dimensión como artista, es importante recordar - la cúpula de San Pedro en el Vatica... Mon, 28 Sep 2015 23:28:44 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=framptonalive ...second half of the seventies - FM radio changed over the course of the 1970s - started as free form, you can play anything you want, disc jockey was in complete control - as it became popular, more stations switched to the album-oriented rock format - more possibility of profits being made - so only had songs that people wanted to hear - radio was not just radio, it was... Sat, 26 Sep 2015 04:30:20 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=iliadwarrior ...one of the most impressive aspects of the Iliad is the way Homer comprehends the mental state of the warrior - how the warrior is affected and changed over time by constant exposure to danger - and by seeing his comrades die - how war dehumanizes - and why people fight even if they don't believe in the justice of the cause - or in their actually being any cause - so it is imp... Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:04:39 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=africa1914 ...expansion in India - mid 18th century - initially a rivalry with the French - over next century - large areas of India came under British control - assumed a new important for Britain - economically - strategically - militarily - after loss of 13 American colonies - India fixed itself in the English imagination as the jewel in the British imperial crown in Victo... Fri, 18 Sep 2015 21:19:38 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=athenianempire ...allies requested that Athens take over the leadership of the voluntary confederation the Delian League - main goals of the Delian League - 1. defense against Persia - 2. equality and autonomy for all members - 3. annual contributions from each member-state - Athens was first among equals - had the conditions set up to come to dominate - Athenian ability to build and man t... Fri, 18 Sep 2015 03:12:33 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=archery ...the arts in education - modern Western view of arts - something you do on the side - an optional extra - or Confucius, the arts are crucial in shaping people - and the most important art for Confucius was music- the term for music: yue [yeah] - very broad - music - playing an instrument - singing - dancing - whereas observing ritual changed you gradually by de... Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:56:16 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=act1998 ...l'implantation des droits de l'homme dans l'ordre juridique des États - cette implantation est un phénomène qui varie fortement en fonction des États - de leurs traditions constitutionnelles respectives - les États sont et restent fondamentalement libres d'adhérer et de ratifier les traités dans le domaine des droits de l'homme - il ne le fait pas toujours exclusivement pour des con... Wed, 16 Sep 2015 05:54:11 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=genie ...language is one of the most important distinguishing characteristics of human beings - we used language to - communicate - think - show who we are - which group of human beings we belong to or want to belong to - hard to imagine any part of human society where language is not used- languages which we may call languages but are not languages in the linguistic sense - p... Tue, 15 Sep 2015 08:13:56 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=samuelandeli ...Samuel - many parallels between Samuel and Joseph - like Joseph - Samuel is about to be elevated to a position of high authority - Samuel's elevation is going to come at the cost of someone else - replaces the priest Eli - Eli's sons had misused their priestly privileges - so God decided to end this priestly house's service within the temple - God revealed the g... Fri, 11 Sep 2015 23:22:49 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=bahadurShahZafar ...mid-19th century India - a story that braids together the stories of - the railroad - the Enfield rifle - the political shifts that are being imposed on the subcontinent - the protracted crisis in India is in contrast to what is happening in the United States - two major cotton exporters faced with two very different political fortunes - the pressures mounting for free mark... Thu, 10 Sep 2015 05:02:56 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=wordsworth ...William Wordsworth - one of the greatest poets of the English language - born 1770 in Cockermouth, north west England - English lake district - mountainous area know for its scenery - much of his poetry especially his Prelude described his childhood in this area - nature took on parental role for him - who died when he was 13 - formally schooled in grammar school in ... Tue, 08 Sep 2015 22:15:52 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ardipithecus ...Ardipithecus - important in the early evolution of the hominids - not every paleontologist agrees if Ardipithecus is connected to homo sapien lineage or not - but it sheds light into what the common ancestor of humans, chimpanzees and bonobos - a genus of hominids that lives between 5.5 and 4.4 million years ago - homo sapiens probably shared a common ancestor to chimpanzees an... Sun, 06 Sep 2015 03:36:06 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=villeafricaines ...des villes africaines - du passage de l'urbanisation à la ville - des formes d'urbanisation en forme des villes - il n'existe pas un seul modèle de ville, une seule ville africaine qu'on retrouverait du Maghreb jusqu'à l'Afrique du Sud - mais une multiplicité- pour deux tiers d'entre elles, des villes sont de littoral - il y a une proximité de la mer - des villes portuaires... Sun, 30 Aug 2015 21:05:41 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=miranda ...Ernesto Miranda didn't know he had a right to remain silent - Miranda was arrested based on circumstantial evidence linking him to a rape - circumstantial evidence - evidence that is not based on direct observation or physical evidence - the police interrogated him for two hours without telling him he didn't have to answer their questions - in the end, he confessed - this c... Sat, 29 Aug 2015 07:37:34 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=cavalryunits ...raising horses - central Greece - the land and resources of not particularly suited to rearing horses, which require: - fields - fodder - water - people who could spend high amounts of time tending to them - none of these are in abundance - lower Macedon - broad fields - much food - much water - large group of Macedonian nobles were willing to spend t... Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:03:31 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=scientificinquiry ...scientific inquiry - progressive, looping feedback of multiple stages of inquire that culminate in the establishment of a new cycle of inquiry - an infinite process of hypothesizing, testing, observing - stages on spiral that narrows onto a problem area - initiation - pre-experimentation - pilot experimentation - experimentation - post-experiementation - re-iterate a... Wed, 26 Aug 2015 07:33:21 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=josephsdreams ...issue of choseness - Jacob was renamed Isreal - Jacob is the chosen son over his brother Esau - poses problems for both men - important for the Bible's understanding of what choseness is all about - Joseph is the chosen son of his father - creates problems and challenges in the family - Joseph knows he is the privileged son and exploits this privilege to his own benefi... Mon, 24 Aug 2015 06:01:27 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=romanslaves ...Rome refounded Corinth as a colony of free persons- some scholars read references to slavery in Paul's letters as metaphorical or abstract - e.g. inner freedom or slavery as sin - in Romans, "You are set free from sin and have become slaves of God" - Paul talks about himself as a slave - when he was not a literal slave - "For though I am free from all, I have made myself sla... Wed, 19 Aug 2015 21:51:15 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=achillesslayshectorrubens ...takes place as a series of individual encounters, not has a continuous narrative - monotonous for some modern readers - two warriors engage, one is hit, his limbs collapse, darkness descends, and then we're on to the next engagement - only once do we get a sense of the sweep of the battlefield - when Zeus holds up his golden scales to determine which side should prevail - the Tr... Sun, 16 Aug 2015 20:16:06 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=socratesapology ...what is Socrate's like? - at the start of Euthyphro - Socrates and Euthyphro meet outside the Archon Basileus' court - Archon Basileus - official in charge of overseeing religious matters in Athens - holds hearings in cases of alleged, religious crime - which is why Socrates and Euthyphro are before him on this day ... Sat, 15 Aug 2015 17:59:18 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=disco1970s ...Disco - just the word is enough to anger 1970s rock and rollers - how can you get so upset about a style of popular music? - as if you wanted to stamp it out - and wish it never existed in the first place - it was a dance craze for sure - rejects some important elements of the hippy aesthetic - the reaction may have to do with the misunderstanding of black pop - most whi... Fri, 14 Aug 2015 03:03:20 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=laultimacena ...el Bosco y Brueghel siguieron una tradición muy diferente de la que dominó la pintura europea desde principios del siglo XVI - que se inspiraba en el arte de tres artistas principales - 1. Leonardo da Vinci - 2. Miguel Ángel - 3. Rafael- Leonardo da Vinci - en el Renacimiento la confianza de los seres humanos en sus propias capacidades, llevó a la idea de que podían destacar e... Thu, 13 Aug 2015 21:15:42 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=britishenfield ...the global upheavals that happening in the mid 19th century were part of a global economic process - result of changes that began to intensify - a shift in the world from interconnected to interdependent - societies which were able to take care of themselves were now increasingly dependent on other societies - societies are not just in contact with each other, they're not even just... Mon, 10 Aug 2015 20:24:33 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=amarnaletters ...history central highland states - Biblical story - Book of Samuel - authority shifting along a succession of judges - people of Israel assemble and petition the prophet Samuel to find a king - so Isreal could be like other nations - Samuel says this is not what God wants, our king is alone Yahweh - but then under the direction of Yahweh himself, Samuel gives in and ... Fri, 07 Aug 2015 22:31:01 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=delianleague ...Second Persian War - 479 BC: ended with the battles of Plataea and Mycale - a general sense of euphoria among the Greeks - three practical results from this war - 1. the Persian threat was effectively at an end - 2. a sense of Greek unity, at least briefly - Greek states made an offering at Delphi - a column commemorating this was taken from Delphi to Istanbul by Em... Wed, 05 Aug 2015 04:52:55 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=tacumseh ...the prophetic Taiping Rebellion led to one of the world's bloodiest civil wars - reflected also the destitution that swept across China in the middle of the 19th century - but poverty and hunger, two of the most proximate causes of this upheaval, are not mere happenstance - except for e.g. unexpected climactic shocks - but on the scale and at the sustained level of what it was i... Fri, 24 Jul 2015 23:39:27 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=briseis ...Homer's vision of war is idiosyncratic - doesn't dwell upon the causalities - participants either die instantly and painlessly or make spectacular recoveries - they don't get shipped back to Greece crippled, blinded, mutilated or insane as in real wars - reasons for this - his audience was primary aristocratic - he was composing for the officer class - the ancien... Fri, 24 Jul 2015 05:05:06 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=dividedline ...what is a contradiction - logical contradiction - p and not p - "The ball is red all over and the ball is not red all over." - "I am six feet tall and I am not six feet tall." - "I forgot to turn the gas off when we left for vacation, and I didn't forget to turn the gas off when we left for vacation." - psychological contradiction - we are bursting with them - especiall... Thu, 23 Jul 2015 09:05:05 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=syntagma ...Philip II of Macedon's (382–336 BC) military reforms - affected Macedon's ability to wage war significantly - gave Macedonians massive advantagess over - the Hoplite city-states - forces of Persian kings - most important changes: infantry and cavalry - pezhetairoi [πεζέταιροι] - foot companions - distinguished them from the other group merely called "companions"... Thu, 23 Jul 2015 00:12:18 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=hellespontcrossing ...Xerxes I (519–465 BC) - 486 BC: took over Persia on the death of his father, Darius - capital in Perseopolis - determine to get revenge on the Greeks for the defeat that they inflicted on his father's troops - begins his rule with enormous power - Herodotus gives up a remarkable psychological portrait of the young king - in a debate as to what he should do - Mardonius... Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:32:33 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=19thcenturymarket ...market revolution - merchants didn't need anymore state sanctions to enjoy their privileges - there emerged a new ideology of free trade - Ali Pasha (1769-1849) made deal with the British to get access to markets - drew inspiration from Adam Smith - coupled with a transformation in finance - new financial actors: merchant bankers - old agrarian aristocracies of China, India... Sat, 18 Jul 2015 12:55:30 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=shepherdmotif ...Israel is another name for Jacob - Jacob had 12 sons- The Joseph Story - the last 14 chapters of the book of Genesis - chapters 37 to 50 - Genesis 37:1 - Joseph speaks ill of Bilhah and Zilpah - Jacob makes Joseph nice coat - Joseph's brothers hate Joseph for this - significant detail - Joseph is introduced in this story as a shepherd - this is typical of... Sat, 18 Jul 2015 07:22:10 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=bronzeagepottery ...the end of the Last Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age - marks major shift in material culture of central hill country - ##hillcountry - beginning in 13th century - both sides of the Jordan River - a significant rise in the number of small, agricultural settlements - people who occupied these settlements originated from various places - their material cultu... Tue, 14 Jul 2015 21:56:39 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=messier87 ...dark matter - Fritz Zwicky (1898–1974) - 1933 - Caltech - realized that the mass of the Coma Cluster was 400 times the amount of mass in its visible stars - Sinclair Smith - 1936 - Virgo Cluster - other astronomers did not take these statements too seriously since there was no other evidence for them - 1970s is was accepts when more evidence was found - from flat g... Sat, 11 Jul 2015 21:00:19 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=stringquartethistory ...the history of the string quartet - how did it come to be - the term needs to be defined precisely to answer the question - development was as long one - hard to identify a starting point - although string quartets as defined were being performed in the 18th century, the term "string quartet" was not fully in use until the 19th century - the term is muddied by its close ... Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:48:37 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=velazquezjosephscoat ...image of Joseph as shepherd - he's shepherding the flocks with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah (Leah and Rachel's slaves) - this a strange detail because we know that Joseph is a favorite of his fathers - the ranking of children in terms of prestige followed birth order - and the most prestigious wives would be Leah and Rachel - if Joseph were really important, he would be s... Mon, 06 Jul 2015 23:58:44 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=rocksandminerals ...mineral - naturally occurring - something like glass or concrete would not be a mineral - solid crystalline substance - something like opal is not a mineral, which is simply an amorphous form of silica or non-crystalline solid, lacks the long-range order characteristic of a crystal - usually inorganic - we can have some organic minerals e.g. a compound containing organic foo... Thu, 02 Jul 2015 08:17:04 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=pellaruins ...there were prominent 4th century Greeks who didn't consider the Macedonians to be Greek or Hellenes at all - or they made this claim for rhetorical reasons - what we know is that the Macedonian kings, including Alexander, could speak, write, and read Greek fluently - although some sources indicate that Greeks couldn't necessarily understand Macedonians - because Macedonian was prob... Thu, 02 Jul 2015 00:27:36 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=trojanwarhomer ...nothing is known for certain about Homer - there is a strong tradition that he was blind - this may be based on the idea that his poetic genius compensated for his blindness- 19th century: two groups regarding historicity of Homer - the Analysts - dispute Homer's existence altogether - the poems are a patchwork of works stitched by many hands - the Unitarians - believe... Tue, 30 Jun 2015 20:52:47 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=fiveaggregates ...why is the idea that there is not a single self so important in Buddhist thought - how does it help end suffering or Dukkha - the view of some Buddhist scholars: - while the self will not be found in body, feeling, perception, mental formations or consciousness, that doesn't mean there isn't a self - some practicing Buddhists find this a more useful teaching instead of the idea ... Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:04:21 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=eventsclocksobservers ...concepts that are fundamental to the special theory of relativity - events, clocks, and observers - this concept is almost trivial in a sense - part of Einstein's genius was to look at these concepts that many people took for granted - what does it mean to observe something? - where something happened - when something happened - e.g. a flash occurring at a specific p... Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:20:31 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=themistoclesnavalpolicy ...domestic politics in Athens - not idle during the Persian wars - Miltiades - very respected - victory at Marathon - launched a campaign against the island of Paros - expedition was a failure - upon his return, he was prosecuted - he belong to a clan called the Philaidae - was charged of deceiving the people - had to pay fee which was the annual income of ... Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:21:41 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=diraceinstein ..."make things as simple as possible, but not simpler" - Occam's Razor - we don't want to multiply hypotheses unnecessarily - strike a balance between explanatory power and over-complexity- "Our experience hitherto justifies us in trusting that nature is the realization of the simplest that is mathematically conceivable." - how is it that mathematics is so successful in describi... Tue, 23 Jun 2015 08:01:46 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=bobmarley ...Reggae is often grouped with black pop music of the 1970s - but Reggae music is not really African American music - it's music that comes out of Jamaica- Jamaica - 1950s - they were close enough to New Orleans that they could get the radio broadcasts - rock and roll and R&B perhaps the most influential - tried to imitate the sounds but ending up adding a lilting rhythm... Sat, 20 Jun 2015 02:56:13 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=geologictimescale ...history of the Earth - events in billions of years ago - 4.57 Earth's formation (Hadean Eon) - 3.8 first evidence of oceans (Archaen Eon) - 2.5 oxygen-rich atmosphere (Proterozoic Eon) - 0.542 explosion of fossils (Phanerozoic Eon) - 0.065 dinosaurs go extinct (Phanerozoic Eon - Cenozoic Era) - 0.0002 first hominids - 0.000022 maximum extent of last Ice Age - ... Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:39:38 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ottomanempiretanzimatreform ...early 19th century, new concepts of citizenship - always present, especially in the colonies - especially in the slave utterly bereft of rights and the master who enjoyed among other things the right to brutalize and rape slaves - Dominican Republic - the question of exclusion and inclusion is poised and electrified - Haiti - Toussaint L'Overture - the black Napoleon... Mon, 15 Jun 2015 08:13:35 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=twelvetribes ...Jacob became the twelve tribes of Israel - Leah - although the first born, was the less beloved of Jacob's two wives - she gave birth to Jacob's first sons Reuben, Simeon, and Levi - Rachel - in despair over her barren state, provides Jacob with her maidservant Bilhah - the idea being that the sons that Bilhah conceives, Dan and Naphtali, will be adopted by Rachel as her ... Sat, 13 Jun 2015 23:12:54 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=earlymacedon ...for most of its early history, Macedonia was a potential superstate - fitfully slumbered through most of that early history waiting for someone to come along and master its fiercely independent tribes and harness its rich resources - that person turned out to be Alexander's father, Philip II - the sheer size of Macedon potentially made it into a dominant power in Greece and even ... Sat, 13 Jun 2015 06:13:53 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=greekofhomer ...the Iliad - product of an oral tradition, as with the the Odyssey - composed over 500 years after the events they describe - most scholars believe there is some historical kernel that got preserved in the memory of the Greeks - was handed down from one generation to another - maybe the war didn't last 10 years - maybe it didn't involve the entire Greek world - maybe Ac... Wed, 10 Jun 2015 08:26:32 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=telmeggido ...most Biblical archeologists and historians of ancient Israel no longer work with the periodization of the Biblical narrative - Biblical narrative - the patriarchs - Abraham, Isaac, Jacob - the matriarchs - Sarah, Rebekah, Leah and Rachel - exodus from Egypt - conquest of Canaan - have instead recognized that the Biblical narrative is a composite piece - was comp... Sun, 07 Jun 2015 22:34:37 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=subsidiariteetcomplementarite ...selon une tendance qui est assez communément répandue, les droits de l'homme eclipseraient les droits fondamentaux d'origine nationale - ils auraient ainsi vocation en quelque sorte à les remplacer - cette vision n'est pas exacte - les rapports entre les droits fondamentaux et les droits de l'homme sont effectivement souvent méconnus et incompris- pour comprendre cette articulatio... Sat, 06 Jun 2015 16:05:33 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=pieterbruegel ...Pieter Bruegel el Viejo - nació hacia 1525 y murió en 1569 - aparte de pintor, fue un gran dibujante - trabajó principalmente en Bruselas y en Amberes - sus ideas sobre los seres humanos y el mundo eran propias del Renacimiento - pero su estilo pictórico está lejos de los cánones de la pintura italiana del siglo XVI- "La cosecha" - data de 1565, cerca del final de la v... Fri, 05 Jun 2015 21:26:19 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=uniquenessofjamesbrown ...the two founding fathers of funk and black pop in the 1970s - 1. Sly Stone - 2. James Brown - came out of 1950s into 1960s - groove-based approach - interesting kind of aggressive yet absolutely non-threatening vocal approach with outrageous phrases as the key lyric - you wouldn't listen to these songs to be edified by the lyrics - these are not singer-songwriter lyri... Fri, 05 Jun 2015 01:13:46 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=conceptofnotself ...the concept of the not-self - two ways to understand it - 1. intellectual: reading about it - 2. experiential: meditating on it - the discourse on the not-self - where the Buddha talked about the not-self - the second sermon he delivered after his enlightenment - first was discourse on the four truths - testament to the importance of the not-self in Bu... Thu, 04 Jun 2015 22:13:53 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=jacobandangel ...one can understand Christianity by focusing on three questions - 1. who is Israel? - 2. who is Jesus? - 3. who is the Church? - answering each one of the questions has implications for answering the other two - as the three questions are intimately related- 1. who is Israel? - the Book of Exodus Chapter 4 answers this question - Lord says to Moses: - go back to Egyp... Tue, 02 Jun 2015 07:41:56 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=dollreemapp ...Penn Law has this goat as mascot - based on Chinese legend that a goat would decide who was guilty- Dollree Mapp (1923-2014) - 1957, police searched her house looking for someone - she know she was protected to tell them no if they didn't have a warrant - she asked to see the warrant - most of us have learned about warrants from the TV or movies - but a warrant actually... Sun, 31 May 2015 12:57:16 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=pressrelease ...why care about news - some news stories directly affect our lives - numerous people taking to the street in your community - a deadly disease that breaks out - the unemployment rate reaching a record high - today what we do on the Internet can determine news - e.g. picture posted on Facebook of racist restaurant sign in China that was picked up as a story by many internat... Fri, 29 May 2015 22:43:51 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=peloponnesianwarhoplites ...Athenians in second half of the 5th century BC - recapture the Aegean Islands from the Persians - push the Persians away from the coast of Asia Minor - 450 BC peace signed - gave Greek cities on coast of Asia Minor the right to follow their own laws - soon the ever quarreling gave the Persians reasons to reassert their influence there - 431-404 BC Peloponnesian War - 4... Fri, 29 May 2015 04:48:24 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=historicaltroy ...the Trojan War - if it was fought, was the first great encounter between East and West - the origin of the divide between us and the others - a divide which continues to play itself out today in the context of Middle Eastern politics - the Trojan War reminds us that the divide has always been there - its roots are so ancient that they may never be eradicated - Homer tells us ... Mon, 25 May 2015 21:17:40 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ancientcorinth ...slavery and freedom - 1 Corinthians 6:20 - "You were bought with a price" - 1 Corinthians 7:17, 21-24 - "For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedperson of the Lord. Likewise s/he who was free when called is a slave of Christ. You were bought with a price, do not become slaves of humans." - 1 Corinthians 9:19 - "For though I am free from a... Mon, 25 May 2015 18:33:59 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=patinirlandscapes ...Patinir - nació en el sur de Bélgica - trabajó la mayor parte de su vida en Amberes, desde 1515 hasta 1524 - Amberes era una de las principales ciudades de Europa - sobre todo por su actividad comercial - el incremento de la riqueza en Europa en este momento - llevó a un aumento en la producción de todo tipo de bienes, entre ellos las obras de arte - una de las in... Wed, 20 May 2015 04:56:22 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=alcibiadesandsocrates ...Symposium (Συμπόσιον) - a Greek drinking party - Plato's Symposium is about giving speeches - Alcibiades [al-si-BIGH-i-deez] - last famous member of his mother's aristocratic family, the Alcmaeonidae [Ἀλκμαιωνίδαι] - gives a speech about how great Socrates is - Socrates is a great man, but it's hard to say what makes him great - 1. you can't compare him to anyone... Mon, 18 May 2015 22:05:41 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=napoleonsmolensk ...with kings and queens no longer seen as the custodians of sovereignty - who is going to protect these human rights? - how would societies protect these rights? - it was the nation which was the new place in which sovereignty was being invested - the nation would protect the rights of the citizens of the nation - everyone in the nation was equally endowed with these rights -... Mon, 18 May 2015 07:37:37 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=annusmirabilis ...in 1905, Einstein, a 26-year-old patent clerk, wrote five papers which changed how humanity views reality - completely unexpected - he certainly was a good physics student but up to this point had done nothing extraordinary - the five papers - 1. March 1905: light quantum - "On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light" - introduced the idea... Sun, 17 May 2015 17:14:02 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=elbosco ...Hieronymus Bosch [high-RON-i-mos] - en España se conoce como El Bosco - trabajó a finales del siglo XV - principios del XVI - un artista muy original - autor de escenas moralizantes de gran fantasía - se encuentran más cerca de la mentalidad medieval que del Renacimiento - pero también fue un hombre de su tiempo - tuvo mucho éxito y fue muy imitada - se fals... Thu, 14 May 2015 07:54:10 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=membershipinsociety ...the French Revolution changed the nature of imperial rivalry - now total wars were fought over the very existence of the colonies within empires - Goya and many other painters - wars are now between peoples for peoples - bodies were now sites for political conflict - not fighting over territory or dynasty - fighting over the meaning of membership in society - shifting... Tue, 12 May 2015 01:20:49 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=magi ...the end of the Roman world - the beginning of the Late Antiquity - dismantling of previous structures - Roman, Judeo-Christian, and Germanic cultures merged - the magic practiced in these cultures merged as well, producing new combinations of magic practices - the frontiers between magic and religion were not so clearly established in people's minds - among Romans, magical pra... Sun, 10 May 2015 01:33:32 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=backgroundtrojanwar ...the Greeks have left us extraordinary testimony about war - they were as bellicose as any people who ever lived - they were also highly literate - and some of their greatest writers wrote about war - Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) - greatest poet of WWI - Anti-war poem which ends with the words, "It is fine and honorable to die for your country" - a quotation from the ... Sat, 09 May 2015 21:49:55 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=renatidescartes ...Confucius on learning - xue [shee-AY-ah] - often translated as "study" - better translation is "learning" - just as process of ritual gives us a language for acting, allows us to behave like cultured human being - hand shakes - thank you notes - xue (learning/studying) allows us to think like cultured human beings - today in Western society we are very much believers in ... Fri, 08 May 2015 04:37:40 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=descendimiento ...Rogier Van der Weyden - nació en Tournai, en Bélgica - trabajó allí y en Bruselas - fue muy valorado ya en vida - realizó su obra entre las décadas de 1430 y 1460- El Descendimiento - lo pintó hacia 1435 - un cuadro grande para el siglo XV - mide 220 X 260 centímetros - las figuras son casi de tamaño real - el cuadro está en el Museo del Prado, en Madrid -... Wed, 06 May 2015 07:58:41 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=corentindechatelperron ...Corentin de Chatelperron - ingénieur généraliste - il a commencé avec un copain à vouloir monter une boîte d'écotourisme - le project n'a pas marché - on voulait développer un concept d'écotourisme - où les gens viennent vivre une expérience très proche de la nature - où ils comprennent le fonctionnement de la nature - pour créer de l'empathie avec les gens - il a ... Tue, 05 May 2015 02:11:21 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=superfly ...Blaxploitation films - an important step in film making for African American actors, writers and producers - if you look at the history of film leading up to the early 1970s - you will see that while there were in fact black actors who were featured in films - they didn't have the exposure or important and central roles that the white actors had - as directors and producers, ... Mon, 04 May 2015 01:08:53 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ashkelon ...John Bright - A History of Israel (1959) - chapters - Age of the Patriarchs - Exodus and Conquest - Period of the Judges - United Monarchy of Saul, David and Solomon - Divided Monarchies of Israel and Judah - Exile, Return, Restoration - a conservative history which for the most part replicates the Biblical story- since the 80s and 90s most historians ar... Sat, 02 May 2015 01:09:10 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=persianwars ...Cyrus II of Persia [SIGH-rus] (576–530 BC) - conquered Croesus [KREE-sus] and took over Lydia - 530 BC killed in battle - Magi {MAY-jigh] took over for a short time - 6th century BC followers of Zoroastrianism - Darius I [dah-RIGH-us] 550-486 BC - ruled for long time: 522-486 BC - modern day Iran - Bahiston inscription [bah-HIS-ston] - "the place of god" -... Fri, 01 May 2015 13:22:14 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=soultrain ...Philadelphia Sound - Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff - had been independent producers in 60s - working like Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller - writers of such crossover hit songs such as "Hound Dog" - Black Pop and Funk start to have commercial potentiality - CBS strikes a deal with Gamble and Huff - established Philadelphia International Records - characteristics - l... Thu, 30 Apr 2015 07:17:20 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=croesusandcyrus ...Herodotus (484-425 BC) - [hair-ODD-ih-tus] - invented the genre of history - born in Halicarnassus (today: Bodrum, Turkey) - we don't know much about his personal life - he comes up in his texts now and then but doesn't tell much about himself - tells legends but none very reliable - lived among the survivors and witnesses of the war against Persia - traveled quite w... Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:26:36 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=einsteinto1905 ..."annus mirabilis" - phrase originally referred to - the year 1666 for Isaac Newton - in London at university - outbreak of plague - retreated to family farm to get away from plague where he - 1. laid his foundations for the theory of gravity - 2. came up with his theory of calculus - because of these astounding discoveries by someone in his 20s, 1666 was c... Tue, 28 Apr 2015 07:38:43 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=howwehearmusic ...music's influence on us - the poetry of the air - can move your emotions - music can manipulate us - advertisers know this - to persuade us to buy something - e.g. a high end watch - Mozart, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - reinforces the message, that this watch is a classic - it's timeless like Mozart's music - certain music works better at different times... Mon, 27 Apr 2015 01:39:50 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=tempations ...Motown comes from "Motor City" or Detroit - Berry Gordy Jr. - founder of the Motown record label - one of the most important record labels of the 60s - Motown in the 70s - happens mostly in Los Angeles - Barry Gordy wants to expand into movies and television - located in Los Angeles- The Temptations - being produced by Norman Whitfield - interested in doing what S... Sat, 25 Apr 2015 02:47:28 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=janvaneyckcrucicifixion2 ...Jan Van Eyck - uno de los pintores más famosos de Europa, en el siglo XV - trabajó fundamentalmente en la ciudad de Brujas - pintor de corte de los Duques de Borgoña, que gobernaban los Países Bajos - el arte de Van Eyck se caracteriza por un realismo muy meticuloso y por la intensidad de las expresiones de sus figuras - los pintores flamencos - preferían la intensidad expres... Fri, 24 Apr 2015 20:37:49 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=goyagrandehazana ...the birth of nations, like the United States, perhaps the first nation, was the effect of global, imperial crises, not the cause of it - colonies had built up first national identity and they want to be free from their colonial masters - the story of the freedom of the United States and the separation from the British Empire has family resembles to other theaters around the world - the ... Thu, 23 Apr 2015 05:21:07 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=definitionentrepreneurduchangement ...deux voies pour devenir entrepreneur du changement - 1. l'entrepreneuriat social - André Dupon de Vitamine T - un entrepreneur social - un dirigeant qui met ses qualités d'entrepreneur au service d'un projet d'intérêt général en cherchant à résoudre une problématique sociétale - un entrepreneur social crée une organisation - une entreprise - une association -... Sat, 18 Apr 2015 20:10:41 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=battleofthermopylae ...Alexander the Great may have been inspired to greatness by reading about the struggles of the Aecheans and the Trojans in the Iliad - the historical experience of the Greeks, however, had often been defined by violent encounters with their neighbor to the East, the kingdom of the Persians - one of these encounters provided Alexander justification for his war against the Persians - 480 BC... Fri, 17 Apr 2015 08:07:21 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=slytone ...two names that helped shape black pop throughout the 1970s - 1. James Brown - 2. Sly Stone - Sly and the Family Stone - led to a rise of Funk - comes out of the primarily white rock scene in San Francisco at the end of the 1960s, with: - Grateful Dead - Jefferson Airplane - Janice Joplin - not really thought of as a San Francisco band - responsible for a genre... Thu, 16 Apr 2015 01:32:04 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ingodwetrust ...the relationship of government and religion - our currency says "In God We Trust" - millions of school children recite "One Nation Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance everyday - nativity scenes are displayed on state property - high schools have prayers at sports events- Establishment Clause - "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting... Wed, 15 Apr 2015 22:18:23 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=theoclymenusandtelemachus ...while Odysseus is making his connections with Eumaeus - Athena tells Telemachus to get going - appears to him in a dream - gods in dreams often came as hovering pretense - a standard feature of how epic poetry works - Homer understands that dreams come in the middle of the night and a god or goddess will take a particular form, hover over a persons head, and say, hey, wh... Wed, 15 Apr 2015 00:49:29 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=derivees ...la dérivation d'une fonction simple - comment calculer la dérivée d'une fonction de fonction - je considère la position d'un point sur un axe cartésien - je repère la position par la coordonnée x - je dis que x est une fonction du temps - je peux calculer la vitesse de ce point - x est une fonction du temps - on peux calculer une vitesse - on mesurerait le temps qu'il ... Tue, 14 Apr 2015 20:14:45 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=laconnaissancecomplexe ...la connaissance complexe - une connaissance qui relie - c'est une connaissance globale - c'est le rapport entre le tout et les parties - il y a une tendance intellectuelle qui est pour le holisme, ou la connaissance du tout - mais si vous avez une connaissance du tout sans connaître la relation avec les parties, c’est une connaissance vide - prenez le cas de la mondialis... Mon, 13 Apr 2015 02:09:48 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=reformsofcleisthenes ...Cleisthenes - 508 BC: set Athens on democratic footing - came from the Alcmaeonidae [alk-MEE-an-id-igh] clan - was originally mistrusted because of impiety and sacrilege committed by Megacles - 632 BC: Megacles was the archon eponymous was convicted of killing Cylon's supporters and was exiled from the city - story of revolution of Athens - shows how controversial this famil... Sun, 12 Apr 2015 23:06:33 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=magicofmotown ...black pop coming out of the 1960s and into the 1970s - there were two different worlds concerning what was happening in music in the 1970s - 1. mainstream rock - mostly FM rock and roll radio - mostly white rock and roll fans - Led Zeppelin - Deep Purple - Yes - Doobie Brothers - 2. black pop - AM radio - was a kind of blending together or white ... Sat, 11 Apr 2015 07:17:56 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=winecolorclarity ...sensory evaluation of wine accesses: - appearance - aroma - flavor - taste - texture (mouth-feel) - uses - sight - smell - taste - touch - determined by components - alcohol - sugars - color - tannin - acids - aroma and flavor compounds- color and clarity of wine - color - intensity - depth - hue or shade - wines - colorles... Fri, 10 Apr 2015 02:33:51 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=doubleapprochdumarketing ...une double approche du marketing - la vision du marketing la plus répandue dans la littérature - 1. marketing stratégique - la facette « analyse » - toute une série d’analyses et de décisions sont prises en amont des actions marketing - les tâches du marketing stratégique sont nombreuses et variées - analyse tout d’abord - les besoins des consommateurs - comm... Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:26:29 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=platosocratesdialogues ...Plato (427 BC - 347 BC) - his complete works are like a Matryoshka doll - you open Plato and you find mostly Socrates - Socrates is the substance - Plato is like a shell that keeps Socrates safe and preserved for posterity - but you also find many other characters than Socrates - Anytus - Euthyphro - Apollo - Meno - Cephalus - Polemarchus - Bendis... Thu, 09 Apr 2015 20:42:07 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lessourcesinternationales ...des sources internationales des droits de l'homme - la protection strictement nationale - n'a pas empêché: - des dérives majeures - des violations massives de ses droits durant l'histoire - par examples - la seconde guerre mondiale - un point d'orgue dans cette tragédie - illustré ce phénomène de façon abominable et tragique - des persécutions i... Thu, 09 Apr 2015 07:17:18 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=harmodiusandAristogeiton ...Peisistratos was a tyrant but a good ruler - Aristotle devised a special category for him - tyranny is bad but he had to make an exception for Peisistratos - as an accomplished ruler- Hippias and Hipparchus - 527 BC: overtook Peisistratos' rule when he died - tyranny was passed on to them - tandem rule - ruled well and peacefully for over a decade - supporte... Tue, 07 Apr 2015 23:31:29 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=creedenceclearwaterrevival ...the idea of blending country music together with rock and roll at the end of the 1960s was kind of a bold thing to do - because in the United States country music was the music of relatively conservative, what we would call today "red state" people - who had no respect or regard for hippies or hippy music and rock and roll - we often associate red state people with country music whi... Tue, 07 Apr 2015 22:57:59 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=entrepriseinnovante ...Anaïs Barut - Présidente de l'entreprise DAMAE Medical - parcours de la création de l'entreprise - parcours académique - après le bac, elle n'arrivais pas à se décider entre ses deux désirs : la science ou le commerce - elle a choisi des classes préparatoires PCSI - Physique, Chimie et Sciences industrielles - elle a intégré la grande école d'HEC Paris - elle a ... Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:08:16 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=peisistratos ...Solon's reforms addressed issues of his time - political problems - social problems - allowed for more mobility - but didn't undermine the underlying qualities in Athenian society- after Solon's reforms, continuing tension and trouble - 590 BC, a year without an archon - similar to year 404 with the year of the Thirty Tyrants - one archon stayed in office for two years ev... Fri, 03 Apr 2015 21:14:52 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=eumaeusandodysseus ...Odysseus finding his way into his own house - Odysseus in disguise - makes contacts - dog - sad - a puppy when Odysseus left - Eumaeus [oo-MAY-us] - Odysseus' former swineherd - social position is at low as it can go - has a position in the household with no prestige - Odysseus is entering his house at the lowest points - but he receives hospitality... Thu, 02 Apr 2015 00:40:14 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=futureofhumanbeings ...today only a fraction of the potentiality of biological engineering, cyborg engineering and the engineering of non-organic life has been realized - yet we are already dealing with the social, political and ethical issues of these changes - lawyers and judges need to rethink issues of privacy and identity - governments need to rethink issues of healthcare and equality - educationa... Tue, 31 Mar 2015 21:12:42 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=discreteInfinity ...human language is about diversity - but many things are similar- basic questions of human languages and linguistics - what is language? - do animals have language? - how many languages are there? - how do we count languages? - how are they related to each other? - what do linguists do? - how do they get their data? - what are informants?- do animals have a language a... Tue, 31 Mar 2015 07:26:53 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=nicolascordier ...André Dupont, dirigeant de Vitamines T - l'entrepreneuriat social - consiste à créer une activité économique viable pour répondre aux besoins sociaux et environnementaux - c'est un mouvement de fond mondial qui participe au renouvellement des modèles économiques dominants qui ont montré leurs limites - économie de marché financiarisée ou bien prédominance de l'Etat - en cr... Tue, 31 Mar 2015 05:41:03 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=peyoteceremony ...suppose a city decides to make a laws prohibiting the consumption of alcohol - would this be constitutional? - suppose Christians want to celebrate communion or Jews who want to observe Passover with wine - under this law they could not- the free exercise clause - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abri... Sun, 29 Mar 2015 21:12:51 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=jonimitchellneilyoung ...British/Irish singer-songwriters - Van Morrison - Irish - in group "Them" - had the hit "Gloria" - 1968 album: Astral Weeks - experimental - 1970 Moondance - 1971 album: Tupelo Honey - Cat Stevens - 1977 changed his name to Yusef Islam - early 1970s radio played a lot of Cat Stevens even in the States - 1971 Tea for the Tillerman - 1971 Teaser and the ... Sun, 29 Mar 2015 15:54:59 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=einsteinnotebook ...the discovery of galaxies - before we began studying the universe in a scientific sense, we learned about galaxies which are its constituents - but first people didn't know what they were - they were just smudges in the sky, called "nebulae" - first cataloged by Charles Messier - before this, philosophers tried to address the question - sometimes called "island universes", w... Fri, 27 Mar 2015 08:20:48 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=droitdelibertedexpression ...la question des sources nationales des droits fondamentaux et des droits de l'homme - sur le plan étatique - ce développement très différencié, très hétéroclite - il y a une grande disparité entre les systèmes nationaux de protection des droits de l'homme - aussi bien pour les mécanismes qui visent à assurer leur respect - la constitution belge - garanti un droit original... Fri, 27 Mar 2015 03:01:21 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=civilwarrichmond ...a war is fought by soldiers - young soldiers - when people went off to the Civil War, they often sat for photographs, daguerreotypes - gave it to their families or loved ones - probably three million people fought in the Civil War at one time or another - when you study the details, it's hard to romanticize about war - more Americans were killed in the Civil War than in th... Thu, 26 Mar 2015 21:17:22 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=euthyphro ...Euthyphro - someone in your family does something ethically wrong, what do you do? - A) you act according to the rule "family is family and friends stick with friends", so you support them in their time of trouble - B) you act according to the rule "wrong is wrong, and I can't defend someone who is wrong" - C) I need more information to answer this question - the best answer i... Thu, 26 Mar 2015 07:46:17 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=earlytheater ...The Red Lion Theatre, 1567 - first theater in London - Elizabethan playhouse located in Whitechapel just outside the City of London - owners decided to build a new theater called "The Theater"- The Theater, 1576 - the building of this theater was a transformational event in theater history - before the building of the theater - professional actors were legally classified wi... Wed, 25 Mar 2015 02:31:50 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=multiculturalism ...how to live together peacefully in a diverse society - an issue that vexes societies around the world - how can people with different beliefs, backgrounds, looks, and ideas live together with as little conflict as possible- immigration is as old as humanity itself - 100,000 years ago: the march out of Africa for homo sapien sapiens - modern migrations across the Atlantic or As... Wed, 25 Mar 2015 00:29:56 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=electromagneticinduction ...1800 is good place to start talking about physics - but the term "physicist" was not coined until about 1840 - before that people who worked in physics might be called natural philosophers - 1800 there was a split based on what "natural philosophers" worked on - organic matter - inorganic matter - the branch that became physics focused on inorganic matter - 1800: battery... Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:17:01 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=frenchindianwar ...the results of pressures on empires intensified the stakes of global competition - heightened the cycle of mercantilist wars - resulted in a cascade of revolutions of many sorts - the globalization of empires across the world meant the globalization of warfare - everywhere in the contested zones - in particular the neo-Europes, the new model colonies - eventually meant a g... Sat, 21 Mar 2015 16:40:29 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=solonandcroesus ...circumstances that make a state ripe for a tyranny - entrenched, old elite who control: - 1. most of the good land - 2. political and legal processes - this was the situation in Corinth with Cypselus [KIP-sel-us] and his son Periander - a paradigm of how tyranny- background to Solon - in Athens - domination of clans who called themselves the Eupatrids - established ... Sat, 21 Mar 2015 12:40:02 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=janvaneyck2 ...Bélgica - junto con Italia, la región de Europa que lideraba la producción de pintura en el siglo quinze, coincidía approximadamente con la actual Bélgica - algunos de los mejores pintores europeas del momento trabajaron allí - Jan Van Eyck - Rogier Van der Weyden - Jan Van Eyck (1390-1441) - El matrimonio Arnolfini, 1434 - ##elMatrimonioArnolfini - la National Galler... Tue, 10 Mar 2015 23:09:20 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=andreamantegna ...Andrea Mantegna - pintor que trabajó en la segunda mitad del siglo XV - Padua - Mantua - su arte nos ofrece la mejor muestra del entusiasmo que existía en la época por la Historia y por el Arte de la antigua Roma - uno de los pintores más rigurosos de todo el Renacimiento en su fidelidad a los textos y las obras de arte de la Antigüedad - fue amigo de algunos de los principale... Thu, 05 Mar 2015 11:50:47 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=cottonmill2 ...Adam Smith called those worlds that Europe was occupying "wastelands" - their potential was latent - to turn them into productive assets it would take: - colonization - settlement - privatization - the transformation of wastelands into fertile, arable lands - a kind of ecological windfall - in the same way silver had been a windfall in an earlier cycle of European expan... Sat, 28 Feb 2015 19:31:26 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lordreetledesordre ...le paradoxe - les vérités apparemment contraires se retrouvent pour définir une même type de réalité - il y a une complémentarité entre ces vérités contraires- des paradoxes de la complexité - pour êtres autonomes - il faut que nous soyons dépendants de notre environnement - ne serait-ce que pour nous nourrir - l'environnement naturel - l'environnement culturel ... Sat, 21 Feb 2015 23:08:30 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=danielboone ...in 1767 a man named George Washington wrote a letter to William Crawford - "any person who neglects the present opportunity of hunting out good lands and in some measure marking them for his own, in order to keep others from settling them, will never regain it" - capturing the mood of an era we might call The First Great Land Rush - people from around the world were turning frontiers ... Sat, 21 Feb 2015 01:28:28 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=botticellinascita ...Sandro Botticelli - un florentino de la segunda mitad del siglo XV - muy conocido ya en su época - trabajó - para los Medici, una importante familia de mecenas - para el Papa en Roma - pintó sus obras principales entre 1470 y 1490 - La Anunciación - ##anunciacion - es un cuadro pequeño, apenas veinte centímetros de alto - en el cuadro vemos el momento en el qu... Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:06:22 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=paulsimon ...1960s authenticity trend in rock music - when you write a song, the lyrics should be about something important and serious-minded - it shouldn't just be about I want to hold your hand, and she loves you yeah, yeah, yeah - Dylan lead the charge in that direction - came from the folk tradition - one of the critics of Dylan was that he took the "we" out of folk music and turned it int... Thu, 19 Feb 2015 02:59:02 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=delorsthatcher ...how the world's economic system became what it is today - the history of the 70s and 80s were like a global election - choosing among different sets of ideas - how to solve problems of systemic crisis that seemed evident in the 70s - which parts of the world would be the "swing states" in this global election? - 1. Europe - 2. China - the fate of China - 1976 Mao Z... Wed, 18 Feb 2015 23:37:23 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=moons ...what is a moon? - a planet is an object that orbits a star - a moon is an object that orbits a planet - some moons are shaped like asteroids - can be a quite small - we have not defined the cutoff point where a moon is a moon and not just debris - our solar systems number of moons has been steadily increasing - in the last 20 years we have found many new moons around Jupit... Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:17:33 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=kisslive ...theatrical rock - sometimes referred to as glam rock - but glam rock only become popular in the UK - e.g. David Bowie - the U.S. really didn't have a glam movement as you did in the mid 1970s in the UK - in this genre, rock music which was conceived primarily for its theatrical production - relied in an important way on you seeing it to understand it - in the 1980s, this... Sun, 15 Feb 2015 00:42:57 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=nicolasdebari ...La Virgen de la humildad - Fra Angélico - un pintor florentino de la primera mitad del siglo XV - trabajó en Roma para los papas - uno de los principales pintores de los principios del Renacimiento italiano - vemos a la Virgen María, vestida de azul y al Niño Jesús - los materiales - es típico de la pintura medieval, de la pintura antigua, utilizar materiales muy caros... Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:00:01 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=herculesvictor ...el Renacimiento - un período en la historia cultural de Europa que tuvo lugar en los siglos XV y XVI - a continuación de la Edad Media - las explicaciones de la vida y el mundo basadas en la religión, comenzaron a ser sustituidas por otras basadas en la razón y en la ciencia - los seres humanos comenzaron a creer más en sus propias capacidades - a intentar comprender la natural... Thu, 12 Feb 2015 22:44:58 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=mahavishnuorchestra ...Jazz Rock is a funny kind of stylistic orphan in the history of popular music - Jazz Rock Fusion - Miles Davis - John Mclaughlin - Return to Forever - most rock historians would say that it is not rock - most jazz historians would say it is not jazz - by the virtue of bringing together rock and jazz music, it falls into a kind of no-man's land between the two so that it is ... Mon, 09 Feb 2015 21:53:00 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ritualastool ...ritual is a humanizer - it restrains and reforms human nature - without ritual we don't know how to act - a behavioral language - metaphor of carving and polishing - becoming a proper human being is like shaping a raw material - reshaping your emotions - acting out ritual emotions - allowing you to achieve the mean - in our natural state we tend toward excess... Sat, 07 Feb 2015 16:45:21 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=freespeech ...First Amendment - protects: - freedom of speech - freedom of the press - right to peaceably assemble - right to seek the assistance of the government without fear of punishment - freedom to exercise a religion - freedom from government establishments of religion- Mary Beth Tinker - 1965 wore a black armband to school - expressed her opposition to the Vietnam Wa... Fri, 06 Feb 2015 22:39:21 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=enlightenmentorempire ...Mary Wollstonecraft - questioning the aim of science - giving voice to an important key to the Enlightenment - that one had to now be skeptical of the world - skeptical about claims and subject them to rational, scientific inquiry - a man of reason had to query all verities, to prove them to be true, not simply to assume them to be true- some began to query whether the empire... Tue, 03 Feb 2015 00:18:07 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=pyramidlocations ...Heliópolis - la ciudad del sol - el lugar de origen - el principal centro de culto de la divinidad solar en Egipto - Benben - colina primordial - el objeto de culto más importante del templo solar de Heliópolis - una piedra meteórica, es decir caída del cielo - una manifestación del propio Dios Solar - evidentemente el Benben no ha llegado hasta nosotros - pero los ... Mon, 02 Feb 2015 07:50:49 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=tonicdominant ...form - necessary when discussing the effect of music - people hear form or analysis in a musical context and they tend to think of something dry - form is indeed about rules - and about the grammar and construction of music - it is ultimately all about psychology - not just the way the music is put together or works - but the way it works on the listener - to stu... Fri, 30 Jan 2015 02:14:46 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=octoberdays ...National Assembly had laid down a blueprint for a new society and a new political system - August Decrees on Feudalism (19 decrees made in August 1789) - Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen - the fundamental problem was: Louis XVI had withheld his consent on these two documents - after all Louis XVI had convened the Estates General to give him advice on the reform nec... Mon, 26 Jan 2015 06:50:16 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=exodus ...Biblical history runs from the Book of Genesis to the Book of Kings - presents Israel as naturally evolving from the family of Abraham to a prodigious nation consisting of twelve tribes - twelve sons of Abraham's grandson Jacob whose name was changed to Israel - but this Biblical description is not historical - at least not in its basic contours - most scholars believe that the... Sun, 25 Jan 2015 19:09:14 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=bonjovitchaikovsky ...most of the world generally listens to what is called "popular music" - it is the "music of the people" - music that most everybody likes - downloads of popular music outnumber download of classical music about 30 to 1- classical music - the adjective "classical" generally applies to an artifact that has been around for centuries, passed down from generation to generation - in Wes... Sat, 24 Jan 2015 22:58:40 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=emersonlakepalmer ...Progressive Rock - the style that develops in the 70s that is most consistent with the values of the hippy aesthetic - importantly happened in Britain - some progressive rock happened in the States but it was mostly an echo of the progressive rock going on in Britain - an obsession with concept albums - the important thing - the big idea - the album - the artwork - ly... Sat, 24 Jan 2015 00:38:36 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ren ...Confucius sees himself as merely passing on the Western Zhou tradition - Analects 7.1 - "I transmit, I do not innovate." - doesn't see himself as a creator or an innovator- however, Confucius did actually innovate or transform Zhou thought - 1. idea of a gentlemen - he's democratizing the idea of junzi - anyone can become a junzi - at least any male can - simil... Fri, 23 Jan 2015 00:06:15 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=leshommesnaissent ...les États sont peu enclins: - à limiter leur souveraineté - de donner suite aux demandes d'internationaliser les droits de l'homme - malgré le fait qu'il y a eu - plusieurs propositions dans la période d'entre-guerres - ces efforts se sont intensifiés pendant la deuxième guerre mondiale- pendant la deuxième guerre mondiale - les droits de l'homme sont invoqués comme le ... Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:44:11 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=anxietyragesweettooth ...does the Buddhist prescription help us see the world more clearly? - one of the main parts of the Buddhist prescription is viewing the world mindfully - this can change your relationship to your feelings - there are feelings that perhaps used to mediate your interaction with reality in a way they no longer will - but does this changed relationship to your feelings help you see the w... Tue, 20 Jan 2015 04:01:20 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=pyramidsandgods ...qué es una pirámide - ejemplos - las pirámides de Guiza - las pirámides de Khufu - Jafra - Menkaura - hay muchos preguntas que los aspectos - formales - tecnológicos - exteriores - pero si queremos definir realmente qué es una pirámide, debemos tener muy en cuenta que una pirámide esun artefacto ritual - una tumba que atender al sibolismo y al ritual que subyac... Fri, 16 Jan 2015 08:50:30 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=progressiveAmendments ...the Progressive Era Amendments - 1890s to 1920s - they are connected with a kind of optimism about government and society - government can be improved following scientific methods - good government can be a force for good - these amendments have interesting aspects of the amendment making process to teach us - constitutional design in general - our Constitution in part... Thu, 15 Jan 2015 02:30:44 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=magnacarta ...England 800 years ago when the Magna Carta was signed - differences - communication much slower - society was much more localized - much less crowded, 3 million compared to today's 60 million - the landscape peppered with villages - surrounded by wide open fields - tilled by the peasantry - a small proportion were free - not slaves, but tied to the land... Wed, 14 Jan 2015 22:20:45 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lowliteracyshopping ...low literacy and consumer behavior - for those with low literacy it is difficult to: - locating the product - when you can't read, it takes a long time just to find the product, so when you find one, you buy it without deciding if it is the best one - locating the right price - there are many prices: - regular price - sale price - price per kilogram -... Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:13:37 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=xraytelescopes ...visible light can be bounced of a curved mirror and directed to a focal point- x-ray light, however, will be absorbed by the mirror - will not bounce back to the focal point - X-ray photons penetrate into the mirror in much the same way that bullets slam into a wall - likewise, just as bullets ricochet when they hit a wall at a grazing angle, so too will X-rays ricochet off mirr... Mon, 12 Jan 2015 20:31:52 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=analects ...The Analects ("Lúnyǔ", or "Edited Conversations") - or "collected sayings" or "categorized sayings" - a record of Confucius' teachings as put together by disciples after his death - we don't have written texts directly from the pen of Confucius - we have an account of his teachings from people who know him and interacted with him - tradition view is that the whole text was reco... Wed, 07 Jan 2015 20:17:34 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=frankzappa ...Frank Vincent Zappa - Kindheit - geboren 21.12.1940 in Baltimore, Maryland - gestorben 04.12.1993 in Los Angeles - das erste Kind eines sizilianischen Ehepaars Francis Zappa und Rose Marie - zwei kleiner Brüder - Bobby - Karl - eine kleine Schwester - Patrice - Vater arbeitet im Verteidigungsministerium - deswegen musste seine Familie oft umziehen... Sun, 04 Jan 2015 23:04:32 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lynyrdskynyrd ...you would think that American blues-based rock bands would take most of their influence from American blues - but the case is that most of these bands were very influenced by the British bands of the 1960s - it's as if the blues as to leave the United States, go to Britain, and come back again for Americans to play it - e.g. the Stones and Creme were so big that when the American kids w... Sun, 04 Jan 2015 02:33:25 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=narmersymbols ...el paso del predinástico al dinástico - se producen cambios determinantes en el proceso histórico y cultural de Egipto - la conceptualización y la organización de del tiempo cultural - una impronta de sello cilíndrico sobre arcilla - recoge los nombres de Orus de los ocho reyes que constituyen la primera dinastía - procede de la tumba del rey Ka - cada uno de los no... Sat, 03 Jan 2015 14:03:51 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=liji ...philosophical and conceptual innovations in Zhou thought: - 1. ritual (li) - any type of ceremonial activities that have a religious character - ritualized offerings to the ancestors - ceremonies surrounding divinations - in the Zhou dynasty, ritual became more of a formal system of behavioral guidelines - ritual qua ritual seems to become more important - document:... Mon, 29 Dec 2014 21:01:22 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lightlens ...the image that we produce inside of our view camera is upside down - takes a picture with lens - a clear picture - takes a picture without the lens - "all you see is more or less uniform nothing" - why does this happen? - light spreads out from a point in all directions - we assume that but there is proof of this - you point out an object to a frien... Mon, 29 Dec 2014 07:56:59 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=nuremburgtrials ...le droit pénal international - c'est en réalité une discipline récente - dont le développement ont été laborieux, difficiles, et complexes - ceci du fait de la particularité de son objet - l'objet de cette discipline c’est au fond: - l'incrimination - la répression - la prévention de crimes - il s'agit de crimes qui ont tous une ampleur particulière, une gravité part... Fri, 26 Dec 2014 01:10:36 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=daguerreotype ...images - we are inundated with images in our daily lives - enticing us to buy products - to remind us of an event - to please our artistic tastes- photographs - it's hard to imagine a time when people didn't have photographs - 1840 - people were astonished to find that they could capture a visual image of a moment in time in the minutest detail far surpassing any method th... Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:49:37 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=wenwuzhou ...Zhou dynasty [joh] - followed the Shang dynasty - preceded the Qin dynasty - 1046–256 BCE"The Western Zhou": 1046-771 BCE - looked backed to as a Golden Age - China was settled - the world was the way it needed to be - Confucius (551–479 BC) used the Western Zhou as a blueprint of what China should be - we know a lot more about the Zhou than we do about the Sha... Mon, 22 Dec 2014 01:07:05 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ledzeppelin ...blues rock - as with most modern rock music, Blues rock was grounded in the 60s - easy to see its roots - Rolling Stones and Yardbirds - revived the Chicago Electric Blues tradition as part of the British Invasion - British Invasion - The Beatles, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and The Dave Clark Five - you have to ask what counts as blues rock - ZZ Top?... Sun, 21 Dec 2014 17:46:57 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=kingjosiahreforms ...Manasseh of Judah (697-643 BC) - son of Hezekiah - 55 year reign - the Bible vilifies him - Judah had a steadfast loyalty to the Assyrian empire - resulted in remarkable prosperity- King Josiah (reign 640–609 BC) - properity changed under his reign - began reigning as a boy (age 8) in 640 BCE - father was King Amon - instituted major reforms - credited by most h... Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:16:39 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=oraclebones ...the individual is tied up in their social role - identified and honored on basis of role, not individual life history - e.g. as ancestry or father or son - not so much concern as individuals qua individuals - visual representation of this - early bronze vessels - individuals hard to identify - large numbers of people engaged in group activities - they are all playi... Wed, 10 Dec 2014 01:23:49 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=unificaciondinastico ...los tres estados incipientes del alto Egipto Predinástico - el reino de Hieracómpolis - el reino de Nagada - el reino de Tinis o Abidos - se unieron muy a principios de Nagada III - en un único reino unificado del alto Egipto predinástico - muy pronto emprendió un proceso de expansión política y militar- este proceso de unificación política y militar - tuvo lugar durante Nag... Tue, 09 Dec 2014 00:43:01 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=kansascity ...1950 was a long time ago - but cities of around 1950 where people went to a single urban center to work, shop, and entertainment are still what many people think cities are or should be - evolution of cities were frozen by - 1929 worldwide depression - 1939-1945 WWII - after destruction in WWII, building began again with established systems and more modern buildings - the... Sun, 07 Dec 2014 19:48:17 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=billofrights ...Constitution was written in 1787 and ratified in 1788 - but that Constitution, the Founders constitution, isn't the one we live under today - in part because of Supreme Court decisions on amendments - how judges should apply old constitutional provisions to modern circumstances is a difficult question- the words of the Constitution are changed through amendments - our history... Sat, 06 Dec 2014 23:03:37 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=qindynasty ...when dealing with Chinese material, you have to deal with the Romanization problem - Wade-Giles - when you see "Dao" spelled "Tao", that's the Wade-Giles system - D sound = T - T sound = T' - aspiration is symbolized by the apostrophe - this makes sense to linguists but is not immediately clear to others - given completed form with Herbert Giles's Chinese–English Di... Tue, 02 Dec 2014 23:29:00 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=declarationrightsofman ...the National Assembly - composed of the representatives of the three states called together by Louis XVI in May 1789 - it becomes transformed by the victory of the revolution into the National Assembly - July 1789 - after storming of the Bastille - one of Louis XVI's brothers is so disgusted with the political situation and the intervention of the populace, so he decides to emig... Mon, 24 Nov 2014 22:12:24 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=littlerock ...Article III of the Constitution gives us the courts - actually it only gives us the Supreme Court - that there are lower federal courts at all depends on Congress- Supreme Court - decides cases, but not just any case - cases that you cannot leave to state courts - where we need to have one interpretation for the whole country, not for only one state - when you can't trust... Mon, 24 Nov 2014 01:49:22 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=relativeabundanceofelements ...nuclear synthesis models come from three separate lines of evidence - 1. composition of our solar system - the elemental abundances we have in the solar system - the most important of the three type of evidence - the atomic structure of atoms - nucleus - protons - neutrons - electrons - an element's character is defined by the number of protons in the nucleus... Sat, 22 Nov 2014 03:17:44 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=paradigmshift ...before Karl Popper developed falsification as a possible method of science - Pierre Duhem (1861-1916) - "No scientific hypothesis can ever be tested in isolation, but only in conjunction with other main hypotheses and auxiliary hypotheses" - we don't test Newton's law of gravity by itself - main - three laws of motion - auxiliary - number of planets - ... Fri, 21 Nov 2014 23:39:47 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=shangbronze ...Shang Dynasty (1554-1045 BC) - first clearly archeologically attested dynasty - with Shang Dynasty the historical record matching up with the archeological evidence - alternate name is the Yin Dynasty - the first source of significant written records - oracle bones - inscriptions in bronze vessels - once you have writing, you can match it up with the historical record ... Thu, 20 Nov 2014 01:56:17 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=destructionoflachish ...Assyria has now conquered Samaria - reduced the Kingdom of Israel to a small, petty kingdom - within a couple decades, they would do the same to Israel's southern neighbor, the Kingdom of Judah - the Syro-Ephraimite War - took place in the 8th century BC - Assyria was a great regional power - the smaller nations of Syria (Aram) and the northern Kingdom of Israel (Eph... Mon, 17 Nov 2014 01:55:03 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=agpalilik ...the largest meteorite slice in the world - 550 kilo slab - found in 1963 in northern Greenland - found by Vagn Buchwald - wrote a 2,500 page book describing every iron meteorite known on the planet - has a crystal structure - formed from when the iron core of the asteroid from which this meteorite came crystallized 4.5 billion years ago - you can see how slowly the ... Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:22:28 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=wuwei ...wu wei [OO-way] - an important concept in Taoism that means "without effort" or "without control" or "effortless action", the way beings in harmony with the Tao behave, - in a completely natural, uncontrived way, which is the goal of spiritual practice for the human being - the attainment of a purely natural way of behaving, as when the planets revolve around the sun - engaging i... Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:46:34 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=banqueterandmusician ...music from 1500 BC to 1300 AD - understanding the developments of this period is critical in understanding the development of music - the era not only covers music of: - Babylonians, Ancient Greece to the Renaissance - also covers the development of our musical notation - changed the way music was conceived, composed, and the way it sounded - Mesopotamia - going back almost 400... Fri, 14 Nov 2014 04:01:17 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=laoracion ...la oración - ese pedacito de discurso - como una pieza del rompecabezas que es nuestro texto completo - la unidad más pequeña de sentido completo en sí misma en que se divide el habla real - en un discurso cualquiera, las oraciones se van sucediendo una tras otra - pero cada una de ellas es autosuficiente para decir algo - una afirmación - una pregunta - un deseo -... Thu, 13 Nov 2014 19:30:32 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=trumansteelseizure ...Article II - creates the executive branch - while Article I spells out what kind of laws Congress can make, Article II doesn't do this for the president - it gives the president different roles and powers - enforce the laws - like a sheriff - with the help of - executive officers - members of cabinet - federal prosecutors - FBI - most of th... Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:46:05 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=tumbaujdeabidos ...la transición de Nagada II a Nagada III - 3500 BC - 3000 BC - la situación política y cultural del Alto Egipto se transforma profundamente - existían tres grandes núcleos urbanos de la región y el acompolis Nagada y Abidos - Abidos convertido ya muy probablemente desde principios de Nagada III en la capital de un nuevo reino predinástico unificado del Alto Egipto - las subestructu... Tue, 11 Nov 2014 23:50:31 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=musicof70s ...the 60s and 70s - many music historians make a break at 1969 with Woodstock and Altamont - the end of psychedelic era with something new happening in the 70s - but in many ways the late sixties and the 70s can be seen as a continuous piece music history- overview of the 1970s - the rise of musically ambitious groups - most groups playing music in the 70s were: - concerned w... Sat, 08 Nov 2014 23:01:38 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=sargonii ...the Arameans played a more prominent role than the Assyrians for most of the 9th century BC - this situation slowly changed - Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III - thought to display the earliest ancient depiction of a Biblical figure - Jehu King of Israel - 803 BC: Assyrian king laid siege to Damascus - this weakened the area - enabled Jehoash and Jeroboam II to reconquer... Fri, 07 Nov 2014 20:29:49 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=legislativeBranch ...even though the president is often thought of as the head of the nation, the president doesn't come first in the Constitution - it is congress that is described in Article I - it's probably an over-simplification to call the president the leader - each branch is supposed to lead in some ways or circumstances- what is congress - the Senate - represents the states - 2 senators ... Thu, 06 Nov 2014 00:03:49 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=grandepeur ...two early events of the Revolution encouraged and raised hopes of rural France that their condition might change - 1. the drawing up of the Cahiers de doléances - 2. elections of the Estates-General - the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General, a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy (First Estate), the nobles (Second Estate), and the... Wed, 05 Nov 2014 05:35:34 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=artistotle ...civilization is a relatively new development for human beings - for most of evolutionary history, and that of our line of primates, we live in small-scale societies - usually groups of no more than 150 - most of them relatives or at least others known to us - you could generally keep track of others within the group - this is how primates still live - around 12,000 years... Tue, 04 Nov 2014 02:22:30 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=xinmind ...mind/body dualism in the West - very old tradition going back to people like Plato - seen as fundamentally in opposition - the rational faculties, the mind, trying to control the body - Plato's chariot allegory - charioteer (intellect) tries to control the first winged horse (rational/moral impulse) and the second winged horse (irrational passions/appetites) with the goal o... Mon, 03 Nov 2014 05:44:09 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ummelqaab ...el reino más meridional es el de Hierakompolis - el reino que queda en el centro es el de Nagada - el yacimiento de Nagada es el que conocemos peor - lo que conocemos de Nagada, se debe a las excavaciones que allí condujo a finales del Siglo XIX Flinder Pitri - él pudo documentar - una serie de zonas de enterramiento - un Cementerio general - un Cementerio para la éli... Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:55:10 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=whitecourt ...how do we know what the Constitution means? - the people who wrote it believed many things that we don't believe now - that white men could own black slaves - that the government could deny the vote to free blacks and women - that men should not be allowed to marry other men - so in some ways, our constitutions is different than the framers Constitution - does the fact tha... Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:01:42 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=galileoandbellarmine ...two contrasts set scientific inquiries apart from other inquiries - 1. science and pseudo science - astronomy vs. astrology - similar - same subject matter: what is in the sky - pseudo-science inquiries look very much like scientific inquiries - both gather evidence - both make predictions - dissimilar - astronomy makes bold claims that are testable... Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:47:55 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=definitionofreligion ...what does it mean to study thought? - it is easier to study thought than practice, especially in ancient cultures - thought travels better - it's easier to learn from thought rather than particular practices of other cultures- studying ancient Chinese thought - we don't know that much about what people were actually doing in ancient China - we have texts, so we know what people... Tue, 21 Oct 2014 00:15:02 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=americansouth ...we can think of the South at one time both as the most American and most un-American part of our nation - American - it was here that Thomas Jefferson shaped the nation-state by writing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution - it's in the South we see deep roots of family, religion, and patriotism - un-American - it's also in the south that we see that most un-America... Mon, 20 Oct 2014 21:30:54 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=defaultmodenetwork ...much recent research has been about the brain and meditation - increases gamma wave activity - increases white matter in the brain - it's difficult to know what findings are significant for you or to even understand what these mean - one finding is more meaning: - when people meditate, the default mode network gets less and less active - default mode network - active when ... Sun, 19 Oct 2014 03:15:34 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=hastingsvsburke ...science of the 18th century - new laws of - economics - social sciences - it occurred to people that these sciences could be used to make societies more efficient than they had been - instead of these pellmell, piled- upon, amalgamations of ad hoc rules and practices that juggernaut empires had invented and arrived at over the centuries - by the time they were in competition w... Fri, 17 Oct 2014 19:18:11 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=trexfoot ...most of what we know about dinosaurs comes from their skeletons - in order to understand dinosaurs, we need to understand how skeletons are put together - luckily we have a great learning resource: our own skeletons - dinosaurs and humans have basically the same skeletons - they have the same bones in the same places - the bones may be used for different purposes and therefore... Wed, 15 Oct 2014 03:49:40 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=kansascity1906 ...while every city before the Industrial Revolution had a different location and culture, pre-industrial cities also had a lot in common - if a resident of 5th century BC Athens were transported to London in 1750, the difference would have been amazing but still understandable - sailing boats - horse drawn carts - buildings only a few stories high - but if you transport the same pers... Mon, 13 Oct 2014 08:48:44 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=luxortebas ...yacimiento predinástico de Hieracómpolis y su cementerio - un área arqueólogica muy extensa - donde el Nilo hace un meandro - donde lleva su curso primero hacia el este - es la zona de la actual cuidad de Luxor, antigua Tebas - donde a principios de Nagada II, surgieron las primeras entidades estatales, los primeros estados tempranos del valle del Nilo - Nagada III - 3100... Sat, 11 Oct 2014 04:26:22 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=article1 ...the Revolution succeeded by the Articles of Confederation failed - there is a tension between these first two lessons of American history - the delegates represent states with many different views - the Revolution teaches that a general government can become tyrannical and the states can stand up to defend the liberty of their citizens - the failure of the Articles of Confederatio... Mon, 06 Oct 2014 20:26:11 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=estatesgeneralmay1789 ...the Third Estate - King Louis XVI required the members of the three estates to formulate lists of grievances - also lifted constraints on freedom of press - so that debates would be freer, more open and more fertile - Abbé Sieyès (SEE-yez) takes advantage of this - from common birth - brilliant young man but experienced frustration because the fact of his common birth mea... Sun, 05 Oct 2014 22:31:01 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=deathofjezebel ...Biblical authors - wrote from a southern Judahite perspective - had little to say about the northern kingdom's cultural, military and political achievements - although they give glimpses of it - in contrast to the single, Davidic dynasty of Judah, Israel witnesses a succession of dynasties - each lasted only two or three generations - the Omride dynasty - most successful dy... Sat, 04 Oct 2014 07:47:54 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=laneolitizaciondelvalledelnilo ...nos situamos cronológicamente en el paso del Pleistoceno al Holoceno - hacia el diez mil antes de Cristo - Pleistoceno - comienza hace 2,59 millones de años y finaliza aproximadamente 10.000 años - Holoceno - 10.000 hasta el tiempo presente- Sahara - un periodo de extrema aridez fría correspondiendo a la última glaciación en Europa - las condiciones climáticas hicieron imp... Thu, 02 Oct 2014 08:49:12 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=mindfulmeditation ...meditation - comes easily to some people, for others it is rather difficult - often people meditate many times without feeling it is sufficiently rewarding to sustain the practice - people go on mediation retreats to focus on learning how to meditate and learn practices which they carry on in their daily lives later - it is more or less a lot of work to learn how to meditate to a point... Mon, 29 Sep 2014 08:20:20 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ottomancapitulations ...19th century Middle East politics - governments were diverse and minimal - governments recognized the existence of groups and not individuals - each group was governed in different ways and by different laws - Muslims followed the Sharia - Christians and Jews followed their ecclesiastical or legal frameworks - tribesmen had their own modes of settling disputes - foreigner... Sat, 27 Sep 2014 20:49:26 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=israeljudah ...during the early Iron Age - 1200 BC - 1000 BC - kingdoms of Ephraim and Judah experiences the building of many new villages - the Tribe of Ephraim was one of the Tribes of Israel - very small, 15 inhabitants per place - no public community building or administration buildings - archeologists can't find defense systems or military fortifications - perhaps they didn't have e... Thu, 25 Sep 2014 23:47:52 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=whyconstitution ...Independence Hall in Philadelphia - Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence - on July 4, 1776 congress met here and approved it - that was the beginning of the American nation - after the Declaration came the Revolutionary War - 1781: ratification of the Articles of Confederation - the first, but failed, attempt at a national government - 1787 deleg... Wed, 24 Sep 2014 06:14:25 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=dinosaursdifferent ...paleontology - began as an organized study of knowledge in the 19th century - ways of studying dinosaurs - fossils - comes from the Latin fossilis which means "dug up" from fodere or "dig" - comparative biology - uses natural variation and disparity to understand the patterns of life at all levels - genetic analysis- we still have thousands of species of dinosaurs liv... Mon, 22 Sep 2014 06:20:02 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=citydesign ...cities in the per-industrial revolution - in older cities, you can see signs of cities of hundreds of years ago just by walking around - but even in newer cities, you can see aspects which have these roots - in the earliest settlements - people simply gathered around the campfire - house emerged around it - settlements developed in this informal process- at least 3000 years a... Fri, 19 Sep 2014 07:07:52 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=upperloweregypt ...Egipto, como escribe Heródoto, es un don del Nilo - Heródoto se refería al Delta, a toda la parte bajo-Egipcia - si el Nilo no hubiera existido, en la actualidad esta parte de la Sierra sería un desierto absolutamente árido- el Nilo - el río más largo del mundo - seis mil kilómetros - las fuentes del Nilo son dobles - 1. el Nilo Blanco, que nace de los lagos del África Cen... Sun, 14 Sep 2014 09:51:03 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=billdeaverinterview ...Bill Deaver - American archaeologist specializing in the history of Israel and the Near East in Biblical times - 1966: Ph.D. from Harvard - 1975 to 2002: Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Arizona in Tucson - books - "The Lives of Ordinary People in Ancient Israel" - Deals with the 8th century BC and shows how those people whose lives are ... Sat, 13 Sep 2014 02:15:26 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=1980sPoliticalPolarization ...1970s: looking for new ideas to get out of the economic malaise - economic liberalism - instead of larger government control of the economy, retreat from a government role in the economy - Milton Friedman, 1975 interview - he calls himself a liberal as in freedom instead of a conservative as in conserving the current economic practices - says its a mistake to judge policies ... Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:37:58 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=journeeDesTuilesInGrenoble ...two major political events that affected France leading up to the French Revolution - 1763: After French and Indian War, French expelled from North America and being reduced to its key colonies in the Caribbean - 1776: France aided America in the War of Independence from Britain - its actions in 1781 were crucial to the American colonists because the French navy effectively blockaded Ch... Thu, 11 Sep 2014 07:50:38 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=enlightenmentstrains ...people in the 18th and early 19th century had to consider what they wanted to do with all this new information, artifacts, discoveries, and inventions - new information came in from far-flung corners of the world - a challenge of this age was to repackage this information and derive new laws which made sense of it all - new kinds of institutions to organize knowledge - 1838: Royal ... Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:34:48 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=historicalbiblicalregions ...Assyrian Empire (911 BC - 612 BC) - between Greece to Persia - from Egypt to the Black Sea - two main cultural centers - in the East: Mesopotamia - has been an area of civilization - writing - in the West: Egypt - higher culture on the Nile - Israel - served as a land bridge between Mesopotamia and Egypt - when the cultural center in the West wanted to a... Sat, 06 Sep 2014 04:19:32 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=queeslaverdad ...durante todos estos siglos la ciencia ha generado múltiples conocimientos - han dado muchos beneficios a la humanidad - una red de comunicación global - sólo en el último siglo se ha duplicado la esperanza de vida en todo el planeta- todavía hay muchísimas preguntas que la ciencia no puede responder - la economía - la ecología - el cerebro - las relaciones humanas- ... Fri, 05 Sep 2014 06:05:43 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=republicofletters ...how the world of the Atlantic contributed to the French Revolution - the French Atlantic seaports - Nantes - La Rochelle - Bordeaux - part of triangular trade across the Atlantic - 1. Britain, France, Spain - 2. colonies - 3. slave trade from West Africa - this triangular trade was essential to the dynamics of the world economy - the importance of the Atlantic... Wed, 03 Sep 2014 00:46:34 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=adamsmith ...Adam Smith (1723-1790) - studied in Glasgow and Oxford - 1746 returned to Scotland - taught at Edinborough and Glasgow- concept of the Invisible Hand - forces that allow a system that is fueled by personal satisfaction and the pursuit of profit to produce results that are beneficial for a society as a whole - the competition between buyers and sellers, each motivated by the maxi... Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:16:26 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=matrixbuddhism ...first two noble truths - the bad news and good news respectively - the bad news is that life is full of unsatisfactoriness - the good news is that we have at least isolated the cause: craving, clinging to things that don't last - third and fourth noble truth - more good news and then some bad news - the third noble truth tells us what the cure is, i.e. the abandonment of cr... Sun, 31 Aug 2014 06:47:55 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=edadcontemporanea ...la Edad Contemporánea - se dieron avances vertiginososo en la generación de conocimiento - han transformado nuestra sociedad - la Revolución industrial - la Revolución Francesa - la independencia de las colonias de América - la colonización europea - de África - parte de Asia - la ciencia comenzó a institucionalizarse - fue más allá de las universidades - se... Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:35:32 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=battleofplassey ...the 18th century brought about a blurring of the relationships between collecting and conquest - Robert Clive - as Captain Cook was an icon of discovery, Robert Clive was an icon of discovery in its relationship with conquest, particularly in Bengal - rose up through the ranks of the East-India Company - Battle of Plassey (1757) - decisive victory of the British East India ... Wed, 27 Aug 2014 05:03:35 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=thatcherheath ...direction of global economy in 1970s - the social democracy model failing - the model of big companies, big government, big unions doesn't seem to be working culturally or economically - capitalism being questioned - 1975, Time Magazine cover, "Can Capitalism Survive?" - 1980, Time Magazine cover, "Is Capitalism Working?" - the rise of communist parties in Western Europe -... Tue, 26 Aug 2014 04:25:17 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=diegorivera ...communities and networks - artists and creative people need communities and networks in order to flourish - the history of much of modern art is a history of people who either found their community and their networks or they didn't - this wasn't always the case - Still Life with Oysters, a Silver Tazza, and Glassware - Willem Claesz Heda, 1635 - Netherlands - is painting in... Mon, 25 Aug 2014 02:01:44 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=endofeegyptianimperialcontrol ...300 years after the fall of the Egyptian New Kingdom - the states of Israel and Judah to take shape - also Aram Damascus, Ammon, Moab, and Edom - at fall of New Kingdom (1050BC) - the reforms of Akhenaten had drawn Egypt out of international affairs - Ramside Period (ending of the New Kingdom up to 1050BC) - Egypt started to make its presence felt again in the Levant... Mon, 25 Aug 2014 00:21:18 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=battleofsolferino ...deux domaines des droits1. les droits de l'homme2. droit international humanitaire- droit international humanitaire - autres noms - droit de la guerre - droit des conflits armés - est une branche du droit international public - contient des règles visant à apporter des solutions aux problèmes humanitaires que l'on rencontre dans des situations de conflits armés, qu'ils... Sun, 24 Aug 2014 05:18:56 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=18thcenturyfrancereading ...what were people in 18th century France reading? - Encyclopédie - this work had a price that only a thin section of society could hope to afford - Rousseau - his most radical and revolutionary works were not comparatively popular - Émile, ou De l’éducation - Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique - Daniel Mornet in the 1900s reviewed 500 libraries of people ... Fri, 22 Aug 2014 22:49:53 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=piedradepalermo ...la piedra de Palermo - se guarda hoy en el Museo de Palermo en Sicilia - nadie sabe muy bien como llegó hasta ahí - es un documento de una importancia excepcional - es un fragmento - es un trozo de piedra basáltica - es debió ser mucho más grande y mucho más completo - tenemos otros fragmentos de este gran documento - un fragmento que se guarda hoy en el Museo del Cairo... Fri, 22 Aug 2014 20:06:48 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=teahouse ...17th century - spaces in Afro-Eurasia began to be filled in by competing empires - colonization of distant lands increased this velocity - particularly after: - 1644 China: beginning of Qing dynasty - 1648 Europe: signing of the Peace of Westphalia - regimes resolved inner conflicts, but this intensified the external conflicts with other empires - led to a shift in the w... Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:32:35 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=egyptnewkingdomthutmoseiii ...Egypt's imperial presence in the late 2nd millennium - this is the New Kingdom Period 1550-1077 - Thutmose III (1479 - 1425 BC) - has been called the Napoleon of ancient Egypt - greatest military leader in Egyptian history - no record tells of him losing a battle - erected many buildings - several obelisks (e.g. those now in Rome and London) - conducted tours as fa... Tue, 19 Aug 2014 01:36:19 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=revolucionsientifica ...la revolución científica - hubo muchos eventos que marcaron el inicio de la Edad Moderna - la caída de Constantinopla - motivó la exploración de rutas alternas hacia Oriente - lo cual llevo al descubrimiento y a la colonización de América, inicialmente por España y Portugal - seguidas de Inglaterra, Francia, Holanda y Suecia - los musulmanes fueron expulsados de la P... Mon, 18 Aug 2014 23:43:31 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=oilcrisis ...large bureaucracies produced by the Cold War began show signs of inefficiencies - socialist economy models were beginning to show signs of erosian - the feeling that both socialist and capitalist governments were become too big, bureaucratic entities engaged in a military competition - the inflation of 1970s - governments are spending and printing too of money - common economic ... Sun, 17 Aug 2014 07:12:55 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=philosophes ...17th century France had many characteristics of an older France - hundreds of years of state building had allowed many regional exceptions and exemptions and particularities to develop in terms of administration - characterized by local authorities and regional ties - this continually frustrated royal government to run an efficient kingdom - but these conditions can't be said to ha... Fri, 15 Aug 2014 04:34:08 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ottoman19thcentury ...19th century Middle East - population approximately 30 million - Iran: 6 million - Ottoman territories: 24 million - Egypt: 3.5 million - since 1800, Egypt's population has increased 25 times - in 1800, the Middle East was underpopulated, today it is highly populated - population was kept low - wars that continuously broke out between the Ottomans and the Persians, ... Thu, 14 Aug 2014 00:26:09 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=berlin1885 ...plusieurs institutions de l'ordre juridique international ont favorisé l'internationalisation des droits de l'homme - 1. la lutte contre la traite des esclaves et contre l'esclavage - au dix-neuvième siècle, à l'élargissement du cercle des destinataires des droits de l'homme - elle n'a pas été confinée au sein des États, elle a aussi eu une dimension internationale - sur le plan inte... Mon, 11 Aug 2014 06:01:23 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lacienciaenlaedadmedia ...periodos históricos - la Edad Antigua concluyó con la caída del Imperio romano - la edad moderna comenzó con la caída de Constantinopla, el descubrimiento de América y el Renacimiento- Edad Antigua - se desarrollaron métodos para la preservación y propagación del conocimiento - escritura y papel - la vida en las grandes ciudades permitía la especialización de distintos oficio... Mon, 11 Aug 2014 05:00:53 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=disruption1968 ...middle of 1960s Cold War begins to decay - settles into its second decade - relations become routine - both sides stepped back from the brink of the Cuban Missile Crisis - both sides seem to want to make the conflict just a part of ordinary life - popular culture reactions - movies - 1964: Fail Safe - about a nuclear crisis where the Soviets are not the villains and th... Sun, 10 Aug 2014 00:31:52 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=thomaskuhn ...what does science provide us? - Socrates (470BC-399BC) - one of the great heroes of scientific endeavor - society was hierarchical - Socrates employed critical free thought to this hierarchical society and its ideas - use reason and discuss - dialectical method - learning through disciplined, rigorous, and thoughtful dialogue and logically defending one's ideas durin... Fri, 08 Aug 2014 23:56:07 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=frenchlinguisticregions ...the tension between the center and the provinces - this tensions is crucial in understanding the course of the French Revolution and its outcomes - agriculture - subsistence poly-culture - no national or international market as there is today - surrounding forest provided crucial firewood - languages - only a minority of people spoke French in daily life - e.g. in ... Fri, 08 Aug 2014 22:14:37 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=papirodelosreyesturin ...el cuarto milenio antes de Cristo - las tres etapas centrales de la historia de Egipto - Reino Antiguo - Reino Medio - Reino Nuevo - los ingleses y los italianos - kingdom - regno - los franceses y los alemanes - empire - reich - la tradición egiptológica española - reino - porque un imperio siempre es un reino y en cambio un reino no necesariamente... Fri, 08 Aug 2014 08:28:27 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=calvinpredestination ...la doctrine de la prédestination - Calvin est principalement le théologien de la prédestination - pour quelques théologiens ce serait la thématique centrale dans sa pensée - pour d'autres, la doctrine de la prédestination n'est qu'un détail de sa pensée, sans importance majeure - en fait la doctrine de la prédestination se trouve, en effet, dans le troisième livre de l'Institution... Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:54:03 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=eisenhowerwithdiem ...four regions of the world into the 1960s - Southeast Asia - communism vs. non-communism is an issue all over Southeast Asia - Communist North Vietnam is trying to help South Vietnamese dissidents overthrow the South Vietnamese government - Malaysia and Indonesia also have communist parties - connected to Chinese who have migrated there - Middle East - the superpowers a... Tue, 05 Aug 2014 01:55:59 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=qingvsgaldan ...as the Ming Dyansty ends, China does not follow the fate of India - India faced a slow corrosion to Mugal authority - the new Qing dynasty that was created in China in the wake of the Manchu invasions (1627, 1636) - China was in many respects the world's superpower at the time - the Ming dynasty fadedsuperpower - agrarian expansion - climate change - people fleeing... Sun, 03 Aug 2014 22:37:56 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=bionichand ...cyborg engineering - combining organic and inorganic parts such as a human with bionic hands - in a sense all of us are cyborgs today since our natural senses and functions are supplemented and improved by eyeglasses, pace-makers, synthetic teeth, plastic hips, or metal screws in our joints - however, in the future, this process is likely to go much further - we are likely to have ... Sun, 03 Aug 2014 12:54:28 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=worldatbrink ...1958-1962: the years of maximum crisis during the Cold War - 1957: Sputnik - the curtain raiser for this four-year period - USSR demonstrates its ability to launch heavy missiles and put things into space - October 4, 1957: Sputnik - circled globe at 18,000 M.P.H. - was crossing the United States - 1958 crises - 1. Middle East crisis - Iraq - monarchy that had... Sat, 02 Aug 2014 02:56:31 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=focuseddiffuse ...examples of bringing ideas from diffuse mode into focus mode - Salvador Dalí - would fall asleep in his chair with his keys dangling in his hands - when he began dreaming his grasp would relax and he would drop his keys - the keys falling to the floor would wake him up - he would rush to his painting and paint the ideas from his dream onto his painting - Thomas Edison - w... Fri, 01 Aug 2014 20:11:13 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=pippinderjuengere ...die Herkunft der Franken - zahlreich, lebten an der Grenzen des römischen Reiches - während des Rückzuges der Römer herausbildete sich aus dem besetzten Teil Germaniens durch Bündnisse mehrerer Kleinstämme - 260 AD erstmals im römischen Quellen erwähnt - das Land war "Francia" - 358 AD siedelte Fränkische Stämme im Nord-Brabant (Niederlanden) innerhalb des Imperiums - sie erhi... Thu, 31 Jul 2014 07:12:45 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=egyptlevantmesopotamia ...Egyptian interest in the Levant can be traced back very early in Egypt's history - back to Stone Age (3.4 million years to 3100 BC) - civilization had developed in two epicenters: - 1. Mesopotamia - 2. Nile Delta - rivers in these areas were the main reason for the civilizational competition in the Ancient Near East between these two areas - this duality will continue to deter... Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:02:36 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=powdereddonuts ...Buddhism writing teaches - the source of unsatisfactoriness is our craving and our attempt to hang on to pleasurable things that don't last - the biological mechanics of craving show that we focus on and anticipate pleasure - we tend to forget that pleasures we will last only a very short time - when eating pleasant food, we don't literally think that the pleasure will last forever... Tue, 29 Jul 2014 06:24:52 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=bandungconference ...the Suez Canal background tension - how does the United States reconcile its anti-communist goals with the imperialist goals of the British and French - imperial interests are creating colonial rebellions that are playing into the hands of the communists - the United States wants to be on the side of aspiring nationalists for the sake of its anti-communist confederation - that pu... Mon, 28 Jul 2014 04:36:24 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=reductionismholism ...scientific approach of the world - 1. at some level, no matter how complex our object of study gets, any system is understandable - 2. scientific ideas are subject to change - scientific theories can stand the test of time in terms of being evaluated, but they can always be replaced by or accompanied by other testable theories - 3. scientific knowledge is durable - the more a t... Sun, 27 Jul 2014 07:50:43 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=earlyastronomy ...la historia necesariamente es parcial e incompleta - se domina la agricultura - se generaron los conocimientos necesarios para la vida en las grandes ciudades y la expansión de los primeros imperios - las civilizaciones antiguas se formaron un poco después del desarrollo de la agricultura - les permitió a nuestros ancestros pasar de ser nómadas a sedentarios - para dominar la ag... Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:25:26 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=soma2 ...in Huxley's Brave New World, everyone takes drugs given out for free by the government in order to be happy - most people see this to be a monstrous future scenario, but it's difficult to say why, since in the scenario, everyone in the world is happy, so what could be wrong with that? - the reason why this scenario makes us uneasy is that the definition of happiness in the novel is simplifi... Fri, 25 Jul 2014 00:49:20 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=queeslaciencia ...la ciencia trata de entender al mundo - ha desarrollado métodos para tratar de distinguir entre distintas explicaciones posibles - podríamos decir que trata de buscar verdades - al entender mejor las cosas podemos tratar de controlarlas - la palabra ciencia viene del latín 'scientia' que quiere decir conocimiento - podemos decir que la ciencia trata de la generación, la verifica... Thu, 24 Jul 2014 02:47:54 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=clergyandnobility ...18th century France was a society based on a medieval conception of three estates (orders): - 1. clergy - duty was to pray and worship - 2. nobility - duty was to fight and protect - 3. commons - duty was to obey and work- the privileged orders were the clergy and nobility - 1. clergy - 140,000 people - 0.5% of the total population - regular clergy - 26,000... Wed, 23 Jul 2014 01:53:03 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=casosespeciales ...aquellas palabras formadas por dos o más voces simples - pelapapas - pela + papas - veintidós - formado por veinte + dos - arcoíris - la unión de arco + iris - baloncesto - compuesto de balón + cesto - teórico-práctico - formada por teórico y práctico, pero unidas con un guion - para saber qué lleva tilde y qué no en estos casos, tenemos que saber que en la for... Fri, 11 Jul 2014 23:32:13 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=18thcenturyfrance ...contemporary Paris - we are used to a France that is dominated by Paris - today 1 in 7 people in France live in Paris and its suburbs - 2.3 million people - Paris was almost fully rebuilt in the middle of the 19th century- 18th century Paris - a far more congested, medieval city of winding, narrow streets - was much smaller - only 1 in 40 people in France lived in Paris... Thu, 10 Jul 2014 07:06:22 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=1950sconfederations ...the ways in which governments organized themselves began changing significantly in the 1950s - in the mid-1950s, apart from India and Indonesia, the main empires are mainly still there - British Commonwealth - independent states that still regard the Queen as their sovereign - dedicated to their common heritage - political cooperation - French colonial empire - still... Wed, 09 Jul 2014 01:14:06 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=dimedone ...la tilde diacrítica se usa para diferenciar dos palabras que aparentan ser la misma - pero que realmente tienen diferente significado - se pronuncian con diferente intensidad dentro de la oración- se necesita un tilde en las palabras interrogativas qué, cómo, cuándo, cuánto, dónde, cuál, cuán - se tildan estas palabras cuando directa o indirectamente tienen un valor interrogativ... Mon, 07 Jul 2014 15:12:06 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=17741806 ...the half century after 1760 was one of the most tumultuous and significant periods in European, American, and world history - at the heart of this extraordinary half-century of upheaval is the French Revolution - a time of social, political, economic, and military upheaval- Louis XVI - 1774: his coronation at the age of 20 - came to the throne in a time of upheaval: bad crop... Mon, 07 Jul 2014 13:12:49 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=1954hydrogenbomb ...at first the atom bomb was just a colossal kind of destructive force, but then they became bigger than that - from 1945 to 1949 only the United States had them - this was a reassuring monopoly - the Americans didn't feel that they had to build up the rest of their conventional forces as much - considered putting atomic bombs and this technology under international control - a... Mon, 07 Jul 2014 02:38:49 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=1950satomicbombawareness ...societies all over the world by the early 1950s were realizing that WWIII had almost come in the Korean War, and could now come at any time - societies began to prepare for WWIII and to survive WWIII- what did the general sense that WWIII was coming do to political culture? - overwhelming national mobilization - profound insecurity that general war could come at any time - futu... Sun, 06 Jul 2014 01:40:17 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=acentodiacritico ...el acento diacrítico causa más confusión en cuestión de acentuación - esa es la tilde que a veces vemos y a veces no vemos en la misma palabra - mais no es la misma palabra - la tilde diacrítica se usa precisamente para diferenciar dos palabras que aparentan ser la misma - pero que realmente tienen, no solo otro significado, sino que se pronuncian con diferente intensidad dentro ... Fri, 04 Jul 2014 12:23:49 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=palabraaguda ...hemos visto que - 1. cada sílaba cuenta con una vocal - 2. podemos tener dos o tres vocales juntas- ahora veremos cómo decidirás si marcar la tilde o no en este tipo de palabras - hay dos tipos de vocales - vocales abiertas (a, e, o) - vocales cerradas (i, u) - no tenemos diptongos o triptongos formados solamente con vocales abiertas (a, e, o) - cuando tengas la conjunción ... Thu, 03 Jul 2014 11:43:44 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=scalabilitybasics ...what does scalability mean? - operationally - in the past, "scale up" - needs to work even if data doesn't fit in main memory on one machine - need to bring in data, work on it, then bring in more data, work on it, etc. - what was important was the size of the memory footprint - this was "out of core" processing of large datasets - but this began to not be enough sinc... Wed, 02 Jul 2014 13:56:16 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=acentuacion ...todas las palabras polisílabas del español, o sea, con más de una sílaba, tienen una sílaba que se pronuncia con más intensidad - esta es la sílaba tónica o la sílaba con el acento prosódico - a-NUN-cio - co-MIÉN-do-se-las - tu-CÁN- solo en algunas circunstancias la sílaba que se pronuncia con más intensidad tendrá que llevar un acento escrito o tilde - va a depender de su pos... Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:07:25 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=fragmentclass ...fragments were added to Android 3.0 to better support interfaces for devices with larger screens - some of the design heuristics that made sense for smaller phone display no longer work - example application: quote viewer - two activities - 1. shows titles of Shakespeare plays - 2. when title is selected, a quote from that play is shown - this is an appropriate interface ... Tue, 01 Jul 2014 07:12:07 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=earlycanaan ...many references of early Israel are found in Egypt - defeat, subjugation, conquest and destruction stand at the beginning of Israel's history - these kinds of events also mark the pivotal events in Israel's history - Israel's experience of defeat is closely tied to the rise and fall of empires throughout the ancient Near East - so to understand the history of Israel, you need to un... Mon, 30 Jun 2014 20:30:24 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lasvocales ...la división silábica es la pieza clave en este rompecabezas de la acentuación- ¿qué es una sílaba? - un sonido o grupo de sonidos que se pronuncian en una emisión de voz - al pronunciar las palabras, hacemos estas divisiones silábicas, que notarás cuando las dices lentamente - veamos: - ca-fé - sáns-cri-to - es-cri-to-rio - a-ro-ma - las sílabas no tienen que ve... Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:00:02 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=androidpermissions ...Android uses permissions to protect resources - which applications can use cost-sensitive APIs, e.g. SMS - protects user information - system resources such as the camera- permissions are represented as strings - stored in `AndroidManifest.xml` file- when application wants to use a permissions - specifies a `uses-permission` tag in `AndroidManifest.xml` file - when user inst... Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:01:16 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=koreanwar1951 ...the Korean War intensified in a way that it felt as though WWIII was about to begin - WWII had two theaters which eventually combined and became a global war - people in 1950 still had this in mind - June 1950, Korean War starts - September 1950: Americans get enough forces so that they can turn the tide - America controls the air and the sea - launches a high-risk invasion... Sun, 29 Jun 2014 00:35:51 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lespritsanctificateur ...Calvin est un des plus cohérents théologiens du Saint-Esprit - la doctrine du Saint-Esprit constitue plus des deux tiers de l'ensemble - la doctrine du Saint-Esprit exprime quelque chose de tout à fait central pour Calvin - le Saint-Esprit est présent dès le début - le Saint-Esprit veut dire dans la pensée de Calvin, Dieu, en tant qu'il est à l'oeuvre; Dieu en tant qu'il agit - ... Thu, 26 Jun 2014 05:12:04 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=firstsecondnobletruth ...which recording artist sang the most Buddhist song in recording history? - Mick Jagger - "I can't get no satisfaction" - if you've read much Buddhist literature you probably don't recall running into that phrase, because I don't think it's there - but Mick Jagger's song captures the spirit of Buddhism's First Noble Truth, or "Duhka" is usually translated into English as "The Truth ... Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:29:49 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=intentfields ...the intent class is basically a data structure - it serves two purposes in Android: - 1. specifies an operation - 2. represent an event that has occurred in the system that you want to notify other components about- intents are a kind of language for specifying operations that you want to have performed - give you an easy way to say: - "I want to select a contact" - "I want to ta... Wed, 25 Jun 2014 11:17:24 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=karldergrosse ...Wer war Karl der Große? - in seiner Zeit war er unterschiedlich gesehen von unterschiedlichen Gruppen: - von den Bischöfen seine Reiches - "Garant einer Christlichen Weltordnung" - von den Gelehrten an seinem Hof"Förderer der Wissenschaften" - dem Papst - "Schutzherr der Römischen Kirche" - von seinen unterworfenen Völkern - "Karl der Eroberer" - von den ... Wed, 25 Jun 2014 06:25:04 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=concurrentissues ...prime reason for concurrency - leveraging advances in hardware and software - it's hard to buy a computing device that has just one core - today there are even quad-core Android phones- historically - event driven architecture - one thread - for blocking operations, had to post on message queue, then handle it later on an event loop - awkward to program - hard to optim... Tue, 24 Jun 2014 20:34:45 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=applicationfundamentals ...resources - layout files - specifies what some part of your application will look like - these are XML files - in `res/layout/\.xml` - access them in Java as `R.layout.layout_name` - access them by other resources as `@layout/layout_name` - you can have multiple layout files which android can choose from at runtime based on your configuration - e.g. `main.xml` - Re... Mon, 23 Jun 2014 14:14:30 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=koreanwaraugust1950 ...the Korean War (1950-1953) - it's important not to see the Cold War as just a simplistic linear story of two sides in conflict with each other - the character of this confrontation in 1949-1950 changed much of how the world progressed in the subsequent decades - this is a pivotal point in world history - in 1949, important parts of Europe and Asia are being organized around complet... Sun, 22 Jun 2014 09:19:09 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=cartography ...représentation - l'échelle - petite échelle - une carte qui donne une vue d'ensemble à une échelle du 1:25000ième - grande échelle - une échelle plus grande, comme le plan au 1:1000ième - dix mètres sur le terrain - les informations vectorielles - des limites de parcelles - l'emprise des bâtiments - les informations Raster - le Raster va attribuer chaque pixel... Fri, 20 Jun 2014 03:52:02 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=pasdereciprocite ...en 1945 encore, cette idée des droits d'hommes paraissait utopique, révolutionnaire - l'internationalisation des droits de l'homme a nécessité une évolution importante de l'ordre juridique international- les fondements du droit international classique - le modèle classique de droit international est souvent appelé le modèle westphalien - assurer la coexistance entre les États - ... Thu, 19 Jun 2014 08:51:34 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=postwaramerica ...the age of the Americas - 1950s: the United States takes on a particularly important role in shaping world history - 1920s was important for the United States, but most of that was commercial and cultural - in the 1940s, the United States becomes exceptionally important militarily and politically- 1940-1954: formative period - 1940: after the fall of France, the United States decl... Wed, 18 Jun 2014 23:08:39 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=sqlmongocompare ...schema design - in RDBMS it is best to keep it in the third normal form - in Mongo, it is more important to keep the data in a way that the data will be used, e.g. keep together the data that is: - used together - used read-only - written- basic facts of mongodb - rich documents - not just tabular data - can store key/value - can store arrays - can store compl... Wed, 18 Jun 2014 20:01:07 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=chinasreverberations ...16th century China exemplifies the ways in which the arrival of new wealth can lead to new concentrations of authority and power - but it is hard to predict at the outset the affect this wealth will have, not only on the country but on the surrounding political landscape - what was happening in China (Ming dynasty 1368–1644) began to have an effect on its surroundings - Japan - hithert... Wed, 18 Jun 2014 06:06:34 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=developingandroidapp ...four kinds of application components - 1. Activity - users see these - enables users to give and receive - 2. Service - supports long-running background operations - 3. Broadcastreceiver - listens for and responds to device events - 4. Contentprovider - stores and shares data between multiple applications - applications have any number of the above kinds of compone... Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:07:33 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=nodeandcrud ...modifying documents - API for updating can update in various ways: - wholesale replacement - replacement of fields - upserts - updates take two arguments - everything you learned about find is applicable to updates - wholesale replacement - `db.people.update({name : "Smith"}, {name : Thompson", salary : 50000 }` - warning: the other fields will be deleted, it disregards... Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:33:53 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=indexing2 ...Turing Test - based on 1950s party game where a person takes type-written answers to questions and tries to determine if it was written by a man or a woman - human tries to determine if text is written by human or computer - a CAPTCHA is an example of a Turing Test in reverse- examples of successful artificial intelligence - instant translations of hundreds of texts - object rec... Mon, 16 Jun 2014 00:21:24 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=morequeries ...sometimes you want a union of operators - use `$or` - ##oroperator - the shell helps you with this by highlighting - `$and` is also available, but there is an easier way to do it in most cases except those are are very complicated - ##andoperator - the following is the case because JavaScript object in the shell will simply replace the second "score" with the first - ##lessthan6... Sat, 14 Jun 2014 20:30:07 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=androiddevenvironment ...Android development environment - you need JDK6 - JDK7 will work but is not fully supported by Android- download and install the Android Tools ADT Bundle - latest Android platform - Eclipse + ADT Plugin - latest system image for emulator - run and debug applications - additional development tools - link: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html; Android SDK with Eclipse an... Sat, 14 Jun 2014 07:13:31 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=basicquerying ...CRUD/Mongo/SQL terminology - Create = Insert = INSERT - Read = Find = SELECT - Update = Update = UPDATE - Delete = Remove = DELETE- MongoDB's CRUD operation exist as methods/functions in programming language APIs - MongoDB does not have a separate language that needs to be embedded as strings inside code that operates on MongoDB - as a developer, you manipulate the database us... Wed, 11 Jun 2014 00:41:47 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=androidstack ...android platform - software stack to support phones and tablets - has several layers software from the low-level OS kernel up to key apps - comes from SDK- Android Architecture - Linux Kernal - lowest layer of software - provides core services - permissions - memory and process management - file and network I/O - device drivers - Android specific services... Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:47:51 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=mongo3 ...npm - package manager for node.js - `node app.js` - cannot find package - express = require('express') in app.js - so we have do `npm install express` - also requires express and mongodb - we could install these indivually or with package.json - we just have to say `npm install` - installs them in `node_modules` directory - you could also install them globally... Mon, 09 Jun 2014 22:28:20 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=nodehelloworld ...installing MongoDB on Mac - mongodb.org/downloads - always use 64-bit versions - 32-bit are only suitable for development - they limit total amount of data to 4 GB - stable releases are always even, e.g. 2.6.0 - terminal window - tar xvf mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.6.0.tgz - cd into it - bin where the action is - mongo is shell to connect database - mongod runs the ... Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:35:47 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=mongodbintro ...what is MongoDB - non-relational - doesn't store in tables - stores in JSON documents - key/value - can also be key/array - and key/array(key/...) - MongoDB is a JSON document store - MongoDB data looks a lot more like the data you have in your programs than relational data does - schemaless - two documents don't need to have the same schema as two SQL rows do... Wed, 04 Jun 2014 09:01:47 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=dwarfplanets ...solar system - dwarf planets besides Pluto - Eris - most massive of the dwarf planets - 1% of earth's mass - discovered in 2005 - has one moon Dysnomia - Ceres - the largest object in the asteroid belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter - a ball of rock and ice 950 km in diameter, containing a third of the mass of the asteroid belt - the l... Mon, 02 Jun 2014 00:53:45 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=biologicalhappines ...many theories of happiness base happiness on material factors like health, diet, and wealth - however, many theories of happiness include social, ethical, and spiritual factors as well - in recent decades, psychologists, economists, biologists have taken up the challenge of scientifically studying what makes people happy, and through that, understanding the dynamics of happiness in societ... Thu, 29 May 2014 23:37:09 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=merneptahstele ...the history of Israel is a history of defeat and the response to defeat - most concretely, the military and political catastrophe in which the states of Isreal and Judah were destroyed by Assyrians and Babylonians - Israel (9th century BC - 722 BC) - fell to Neo-Assyrian Empire - Judah (8th century BC - 586 BC) - was client-state of Assyria, then Babylon - revolt again Neo-Ba... Tue, 27 May 2014 08:37:25 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=middleeastpopulations ...groups as the components of societies rather than individuals - Malcom Yapp, 1923: "Middle Eastern society is composed of various groups whose relationship to each other is like that of pieces in a mosaic. Government recognized the existence of these groups and dealt with them in different ways. There was no assumption that society was composed of individuals who should be treated in a unifor... Mon, 26 May 2014 23:42:56 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=rousseau ...on entend par droits de l'homme des droits qui sont garantis par le droit international - c'est d'abord au niveau national qu'ils ont fait apparition- le siècle des Lumières a été une époque cruciale pour l'émergence des droits de l'homme - la naissance des droits de l'homme au siècle des Lumières est étroitement liée à la théorie du droit naturel - dans la pensée scolastique, le dr... Mon, 26 May 2014 05:22:58 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=nairobi ...il y a une nécessité de planifier la ville - de manière spontanée, la ville ne se développe pas de manière rationnelle - l’ensemble des stratégies, des tactiques individuelles, ne forment pas une ville mais forment un ensemble de stratégies - pour intégrer les populations, intégrer les activités, les services, les infrastructures au sein d'un même espace - mais aussie comme la vill... Sun, 25 May 2014 02:21:53 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=evolutionshells ...what is evolution? - evolution means in Latin "evolutio", or, "unrolling" - in everyday language we use the word evolve in many ways, e.g. attitudes evolve, the earth evolves, ideas evolve, our solar system evolves - however, biologists are much more specific in using the term evolve - not every kind of biological change is an evolutionary change - understanding how evolution ... Fri, 23 May 2014 08:52:06 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=1947china ...two revolutionary models forming in Asia - 1. Guomindang (GMD) - also known as: Kuomintang (KMT) - Chinese Nationalist Party - current ruling political party in Taiwan - had started as a revolutionary party in the 1920s - national conservative - top-down modernizer - the restorer of ancient Chinese traditions - United States takes a lead in sponsoring Nationalist... Thu, 22 May 2014 08:31:57 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=heart ...heart located right below sternum - between two lungs - in thoracic cavity - enclosed by a membrane layer called the pericardium - lungs are also surrounded by membrane layers - it's very common in the body to have organs surrounded by membranes which help to anchor the organs in position and protect them - located in the mediastinum - contains the heart, the great vessel... Thu, 22 May 2014 04:08:42 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=mingsilver ...Ming China (1368-1644) - China recovered from Mongol conquests and Black Death in the 13th century with the creation of the Ming Dynasty - became a major importer of silver - from mines in Japan - trade through Manila - from 1570s onward, through supplies in the New World, increasing demand for silver in China - silver coins from the New World, many minted in Mexico from Mexican... Mon, 19 May 2014 03:58:24 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=kennedycatholic ...after 1960 nominating convention, Kennedy turned to convincing the American people to elect him - Kennedy was popular with the young - elderly were interested in his support of a national health insurance for the aged - picked Lyndon Johnson as running mate - over objections from his brother Bobby - but without Texas and a "good chunk of the South", Kennedy could not possible ... Sun, 18 May 2014 00:15:38 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=concretisation ...la dignité reste un concept assez abstrait - il ne nous fournit pas une liste concrète des droits de l'homme - les droits de l'homme ont été définis d'une façon négative à traverse expériences concrètes de violations et d'injustices - ils sont des réponses concrètes à des expériences d'injustices- cinq exemples historiques - 1. l'esclavage - l'esclavage est un clair affront ... Sat, 17 May 2014 21:46:35 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=humanhappiness ...much of humankind today enjoy a wealth that used to be the stuff of fantasies and fairy tales - science and the industrial revolution have given humans superhuman powers and practically limitless energy - many aspects of human life have been completely transformed - the social order - daily life - politics - human psychology- but are we happier? - did the wealth that hum... Sat, 17 May 2014 19:04:20 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=silentlanguage ...intercultural communication history - brought about by the practical demands of the second half of the 20th century world - the discipline emerged as a response to practical demands- our world is the world of globalization - trade across borders - more travel between cultures - developing economies - mass tourism evolved as a new phenomenon in the world - the presence of... Sat, 17 May 2014 17:04:00 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=marshallplan ...Marshall Plan - the name was deliberate because George Marshall was considerably more popular than Harry Truman - would raise the odds of getting it through congress - but it was a team effort: - Dean Acheson - played key role - stressed anti-communist message to congress - advocate of free trade - George Kennan - contain Soviet communism and it will "expire... Fri, 16 May 2014 23:23:22 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lechristcomme ...la question de l'identité et de l'oeuvre de Jésus Christ - c'est la question centrale en théologie chrétienne - cettes deux thèmes sont les deux grandes thématiques de la christologie de Calvin et de bon nombre d'autres théologiennes et théologiens- pour Calvin - Jésus le Christ est le rédempteur - c'est-à-dire celui qui sauve - le Christ est médiateur en tant qu'il réunit ... Fri, 16 May 2014 08:41:25 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=baubystory ...story: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - the editor of Elle, leading fashion magazine of France - was driving and had a sudden, massive stroke in his brain stem - left him paralyzed - couldn't point - couldn't swallow - couldn't talk - couldn't move- the way he wrote - often people with the locked-in syndrome can move an eyelid - this was the case with Bauby - an ... Fri, 16 May 2014 01:14:35 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=barnga ...Russians are very proud of their culture, their nation, their history - this is a, of course, complicated statement and not always true - but this pride in culture, nation, and history is a serious component of being Russian - true for other cultures as well - cultures make us emotional, not an object that we study away from us - Barnga - a simulation game of cross-cultural en... Thu, 15 May 2014 08:09:30 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=worldpeace ...last few decades have been characterized by the peaceful collapse of the European empires - these empires have been replaced by dozens of new independent states - this could have created new opportunities for wars between all of these new, independent states - since 1945, however, states generally don't forcibly invade other states anymore as they have throughout history - such conqu... Wed, 14 May 2014 18:17:10 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=violentpast ...traditionally throughout history, the social order, no matter what it looked like, was hard and rigid - order implied stability and continuity - swift social revolutions were rare and exceptional - most transformations in human society came about from the accumulation of numerous small steps over decades and centuries - people generally believed that their particular social structur... Sat, 10 May 2014 07:54:57 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=feelingsandillusions ...feelings and emotions from the perspective of Buddhism - how can meditation change the way you view your feelings? - when you are angry or have a great emotion, you grasp that feeling of anger as real - but when you meditate or contemplate on those sensations: anger, fear, or anxiety, you experience these feelings of anger as not real, not concrete - in our daily hectic lives, we... Fri, 09 May 2014 19:46:03 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=partitionofindia ...conflicts in postwar nation building - Germany - divided up into military zones of occupation - no separate East and West Germany yet, just different zones occupied by different armies - Soviet Union - moved west annexing West Ukraine (former East Poland), West Belorussia (former East Poland), Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, liquidating the Baltic Republics which had been created aft... Thu, 08 May 2014 08:40:40 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=immanuelkant ...la dignité humaine est une, voire la valeur fondatrice des droits de l'homme- le préambule de la Charte des Nations Unies - se réfère à la dignité et la valeur de la personne humaine - résolution 41/120 - il s'oppose à un autre concept, celui du mérite - le mérite peut se perdre, une personne peut perdre toute considération sociale - l'histoire abonde d'exemples où on a trait... Mon, 05 May 2014 23:05:18 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=christophecalamet ...toute la création raconte la gloire et la bonté de Dieu - gloire et bonté sont ces qualités de Dieu et vont de pair - Dieu est celui qui crée et qui donne la vie bien entendu - son amour est encore plus grand que l'amour d'une mère pour son enfant - Dieu est la bonté même - l'Ancien Testament témoigne de cela comme le Nouveau - le Christ a beaucoup mieux éclairci la miséric... Sat, 03 May 2014 00:13:25 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=nehruandgandhi ...the state of the world in 1945 - countries that have been completely defeated - Germany - ideologies that have been completely discredited - Nazism - Fascism - millions of people displacedfrom their homes - Jews of Europe migrating to Palestine, a territory under control of a British government mandate - dreams that have been deferred for a long time - 1945 elec... Thu, 01 May 2014 22:07:20 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=statemarket ...one of the most important changes for human life over the last two centuries has been the eroding of the family and community by the industrial revolution, and their replacement by the state and the market - from the earliest times, over a million years ago, humans most always lived in small, intimate communities, most of whose members were related to one another - the cognitive revolutio... Wed, 30 Apr 2014 23:13:56 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=icecreamscoopdesign ...what are artifacts? - objects that were created by humans - as opposed to artifacts found in nature - e.g. a fossil of a fish is an object but not an artifact - in contrast, an ice cream scoop is an object and an artifact - clearly made by humans - the term artifact includes non-physical objects - software - services - business models - processes - design is the... Tue, 29 Apr 2014 20:58:49 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=zerohour ...Zero Hour, or "Stunde Null" - "everything is destroyed and we are starting over from scratch"- total war - means if your military situation is unstable, you might not just lose the war, you might lose everything, e.g. be enslaved or murdered- nations in arms - mobilizing men, women and children - everyone in the war effort, everyone working in, for, or around the government - ... Sun, 27 Apr 2014 22:49:59 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=changing ...a CEO is in charge of change - we have to understand the deep nature of change in order to be a good manager of change - Parmenides was convinced that change is not possible - Heraclitus believed in ever-present change - Machiavelli - The Prince, a book about change and resistance of change- to change is a challenge - there are two types of change - 1. the change of rea... Sat, 26 Apr 2014 21:21:17 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ecrithistorique ...la guerre - 1943, les auteurs étaient au cœur de la seconde guerre mondiale - la guerre a imprimé leur marque sur l'écriture de la philosophie- Simone Weil - a écrit les textes entre 1933-1941 - le risque de l'aveuglement - pour fausser son jugement et paralyser son action - elle reste la plus déterminée des opposantes à la guerre - le guerre est une affaire de politique i... Sat, 26 Apr 2014 04:35:10 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=warhol2 ...Andy Warhol's early life - interest in celebrities began at a young age - collected signed portraits of Hollywood stars - Mae West - Shirley Temple - was born in 1928 and grew up in Pittsburgh where he is now buried (died in 1987) - made his name as an artist in the early 1960s - paintings of everyday household objects: Coca Cola bottles, Campbell Soup cans - probably ... Thu, 24 Apr 2014 23:19:33 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=utagawasadahide ...Jacques-Louis David, "Intervention of the Sabine Women", 1799 - very complicated painting - very large, almost cinematic in its scale - tells of a complicated story drawn from Roman history - observe the feet of the figures - animators could learn a great deal from Jacques-Louis David since one of the difficulties for artists and animators is to make figures and characters that... Tue, 22 Apr 2014 06:53:25 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=timetables ...the industrial revolution gave humankind control of enormous sources of energy and raw materials - this liberated humankind from its dependence on the surrounding ecosystem, humans could now: - cut down forests and jungles - drain swamps - dam rivers - flood plains - lay down tens of thousands of kilometers of roads and railroad tracks - build new and giant cities - h... Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:54:52 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=merleaupontyandcamus ...Camus et Merleau-Ponty - a connu avec Sartre une amitié - mais aussi une rupture très profonde motivée d'abord par des questions politiques - il partagent avec Sartre: le problème de l'existence, c'est à dire l'existentialisme - mais qu'ils n'en proposent pas la même solution - ils reprennent avec Sartre les termes du problème de l'existence, mais d'un autre côté, ils en changent ... Sun, 20 Apr 2014 18:11:44 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=napoleoninegypt ...it is customary in the writing of Middle East history to start the modern era with Napoleon invading Egypt in 1798 - this issued in a long period of rapid and radical change - but there is an assumption that the beginning Middle East history with Napoleon's invasion of Egypt - that the modern era was created through European influence and supremacy on an era that is in decline and stag... Sat, 19 Apr 2014 06:02:58 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=connaissancededieuetsoi ...quel est le sens de la vie humaine, il y a deux parties: - 1. connaissance de Dieu - Calvin aime bien ce terme "la sagesse" - mais il déteste le terme "théologie" - si on avait voulu insulter Calvin, la meilleure chose à faire, ça aurait été de lui dire: vous n'êtes qu'un théologien - Calvin ne cherche pas la théologie, mais il veut énoncer une sagesse - la vraie sagess... Sat, 19 Apr 2014 05:00:52 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=nordicdiet2 ...why there is a need for a Nordic Diet - many diseases today are diet related - concern for the environment and the planet's health calls for an update for the food culture in many countries- goals are to improve: - health - gastronomic potential - Nordic identity - sustainability- principles - 1. more calories from plant foods and fewer from meat - over the past 50 year... Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:19:20 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=casablancaconference ...why did the Allies win WWII? - which model of government would be most effective in mobilizing its resources to pass the ultimate test of survival in an all out war - Germany: War of Annihilation - Nazis had a vision of a New World Order, one in which a master race which they defined would be on top, and all the other races would be subordinate - 1942: large area of Europe under t... Wed, 16 Apr 2014 22:03:33 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=humanrightspaniards ...Déclaration Universelle des Droits - adoptée par l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies le 10 décembre 1948 à Paris au palais de Chaillot - tous les êtres humains naissent libres et égaux en dignité et en droits - est normative et non descriptive - ils sont doués de raison et de conscience - la liberté, l'égalité, la dignité - l'article un de la Déclaration Universelle ne ga... Tue, 15 Apr 2014 23:56:14 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=capitalismconsumerism ...one of the most important developments in the industrial revolution was the changes that took place in agriculture - it enabled smaller and smaller number of farmers to produce more and more food - this enabled other people to move to the city to start working in offices and producing all kinds of cars, refrigerators, etc. - this created a new problem: - the modern, capitalist econom... Tue, 15 Apr 2014 19:13:45 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=beatleshamburg ...1960-1962 Hamburg and Liverpool - the Liverpool scene was extremely active, but was made up of many amateurs who had day jobs, a rich musical environment - conducive to young musicians - pop music in West Germany in late 1950s and early 1960s - Schlager scene - Freddy Quinn - Tommy Kent - Ted Herold (Germany's Elvis) - this was the German version of American Rock a... Tue, 15 Apr 2014 00:05:01 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=decolonisation ...violences du système colonial - mystification - cet oubli, cette minimisation, cette façon de ne pas voir - jamais celle-ci n'a été aussi forte qu'appliquée au système colonial - la mystification tente de s'en sortir en distinguant les bons des mauvaise colons - entre 1957 et 1961, Sartre s'engage dans la lutte pour la décolonisation - la mystification reconduit ces prétend... Thu, 10 Apr 2014 08:00:56 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ottomanempire ...What is the Middle East? - in the Middle East, both geography and time has been defined by outsiders - geography - if you look at cities from the perspective of Istanbul, Cairo or Tel Aviv, it's not apparent that they are in the middle or at the east of anything - the term Middle East makes sense if you are looking at this area of the world from Paris, London or Washington -... Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:38:01 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=sartrenetre ...les problèmes métaphysiques à l'épreuve de la politique commence en 1943 - L'Être et le Néant (1943) - un essai d'ontologie phénoménologique - le objectif était d'affirmer que l'existence individuelle précède l'essence individuelle et de démontrer que le libre arbitre existe - il faut pour comprendre cet livre de passer par la métaphysique singulière de livre - il y a deux sources... Tue, 08 Apr 2014 08:18:22 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=midway ...Critical gambles at the end of 1941 - the grand strategy for the U.S. up to 1941 was "Germany First", so why did the war with Japan begin? - America hoped to deter Japan from attacking - put sanctions on Japan constraining oil and vital resources - wanted to keep the Japanese from attacking the Soviet Union, which succeeded (!) - America prodded Japan making it clear that if the... Mon, 07 Apr 2014 01:37:42 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=harryharlow2 ...the industrial revolution was the result of combining cheap and abundant energy and raw materials - this was felt first in agriculture - when thinking of the industrial revolution, we usually think of cities and factories and terrible working conditions - machines such as tractors began to do the work which had been performed by humans and animals or not performed at all - artific... Sun, 06 Apr 2014 11:40:53 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=energy3 ...economic growth is not only dependent on a trust in the future and the willingness of people participating in a capitalist system to reinvest their profits in increasing production, economic growth also requires energy and raw materials - we often hear that energy and raw materials as we know them today will not exist forever, and we wonder what will happen when they run out and as they begin... Wed, 02 Apr 2014 05:16:50 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=droitsdelhomme ...les droits de l'homme - subjectifs - impliquent donc toujours une relation entre deux parties - 1. le titulaire - 2. la personne qui est tenue au respect du droit - une entreprise commerciale peut-elle invoquer les droits de l'homme? - la réponse varie en fonction des systèmes de protection - une entreprise de presse peux invoquer la liberté d'expression, pour s'opposer... Tue, 01 Apr 2014 08:59:43 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=atlanticslavetrade ...a common argument for capitalism is that governments should interfere as little as possible with the workings of the markets - reduce taxation to the minimum so as not to take money out of the market - the logic is that markets know far better than governments where to invest the money - this is called a belief in the free market - but it is extremely rare in history that the market w... Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:06:13 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=buddhism ...as with other religions, there are varieties of Buddhism - different varieties of Buddhism in Asia - Western Buddhism - people who weren't born Buddhist but who have chosen to adopt Buddhism - don't pay much attention to the supernatural parts of Buddhism - e.g. being reincarnated as a hungry ghost- naturalistic ideas in Buddhism - what is the human mind? - why do people s... Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:02:00 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=archoftitus ...Arch of Titus - built in 82 AD by Domitian - commemorates Titus' victories including the Siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD - holes in the letters are where bronze letters were attached - shows parade when Titus returned from Jerusalem - in spandrals, flying female figures of victory - a capital and the column - combines Corinthian but also Ionic, composite capitals - center of ba... Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:03:44 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=templevenusroma2 ...Hadrian - born in 76 AD - emperor at age 41 after serving together with Trajan for a number of years - born in Spain, like Trajan - one of the most educated and most intellectual of the Roman emperors - traveled extensively - reversed Trajan's policy - Trajan involved in many wars and extended empire beyond its reaches - Hadrian was more of a peaceful emperor - concer... Wed, 19 Mar 2014 08:40:28 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=tableofelements ...Galileo - se ho dei sistemi che si muovono uno rispetto all'altro, con velocità costante, le leggi della fisica devono rimanere le stesse - se voi state su un treno e qualcosa lasciate cadere, non ve ne accorgete, che state su un treno in movimento - e cioè la legge con cui cade questo corpo è la stessa- Einstein era preoccupato con due problemi - 1. che la velocità della luce ... Tue, 18 Mar 2014 08:56:31 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=colosseum ...the Colosseum - the most famous building constructed by Vespasian - construction began in 70 AD, two years after Nero died - Vespasian died in 79 so never saw it complete - 80 AD: his son Titus completed it and dedicated it to Vespasian - could hold 50,000 people - made of concrete - near the Arch of Constantine - near the Temple of Venus and Roma- location of the Coloss... Sat, 15 Mar 2014 01:45:03 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=corinth ...1 Corinthians - background - written in 52 or 54 - written from Ephesos (modern day Turkey, across the Aegean Sea from Athens) - not his first letter to them - we know that the Corinthians wrote to Paul - he writes e.g. "now concerning idol food" or "now concerning spiritual gifts" indicating tha the is responding to topics they had mentioned in their leters - this letter i... Fri, 14 Mar 2014 08:59:22 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=michelsonmorley ...il problema della velocita della luce - come funzione un nastro trasportatore? - il nastro trasportatore si muove con una velocità di 2 metri al secondo rispetto al terreno - sul nastro trasportatore ce sono due persone: - 1. una donna - lei sta ferma sul nastro, non cammina sul nastro - e rispetto al nastro, quindi ha una velocità zero - 2. un uomo - lui invece... Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:36:35 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=pantheondome ...Pantheon - the word "pantheon" is derived from the Ancient Greek "pantheos" meaning "all gods" - 118-128: built by Hadrian - actually it was rebuilt by Hadrian, originally another Pantheon had been built by Marcus Agrippa during Augustus' reign - the Pantheon one of the greatest architectural masterpieces of all time - most architects would list the Pantheon in the top ten of the ... Tue, 11 Mar 2014 03:14:14 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=newtonslaws ...all'inizio del 20° secolo, Lord Kelvin dichiarò che non c'è niente die nuovo da scoprire in fisica ora, tutto ciò che rimane è fare misure più precise- ma invece no, c'erano tantissime cosa e dall'analisi di queste cose nascono due nuove teorie - 1. le teorie della relatività - create da una sola persona, Albert Einstein, in due anni precisi - 1905 la Relatività speciale - 19... Mon, 10 Mar 2014 08:42:59 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=unitedeastindiacompany ...credit and capitalism were not unique European inventions - early modern China, India and the Muslim world - some merchants and bankers thought along capitalist lines - however the kings and generals in the palaces and forts of Asia tended to despise merchants and their mercantile way of thinking - most non-European empires of the early modern era financed their wars and activitie... Sat, 08 Mar 2014 00:54:58 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=octagonalroom ...64 AD: the great fire of Rome - after the fire, Nero expropriated 300 acres of downtown real estate to build his private Golden House - dug an artificial lake - only one part remains today on the Esquiline hill, which is why it is called the Esquiline wing - dozens of rooms around a five-sided courtyard - octagonal room - the single-most important room in Roman architecture... Fri, 07 Mar 2014 08:52:06 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=undergroundbasilica ...Caligula - emperor 12-41 AD - was young, reigned for only three years - he was unbalanced, became a despot - mostly occupied with odd projects (e.g. fighting faux wars) instead of architecture, but he made some contributions - like Tiberius, more interested in private villas - also finished buildings begun by Tiberius - two new aqueducts and circus near Vatican city area... Thu, 06 Mar 2014 03:45:51 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=apotheosis ...1. local leaders nurture patron/client relations with Rome - mutual benefaction, gift exchange - time and space are marked in provinces in Rome - calendar changes in Asia - cult for the goddess Roma and honoring the imperial family - we shouldn't think as provinces and cities outside Rome as on the margin, but as areas appealing to make a connection to Rome to tie themselves into ... Wed, 05 Mar 2014 01:02:35 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=tolerance ...tolerance and intolerance - we use these words to characterize individual people or whole societies - these are more or less black and white terms, they are polar - we rarely think of people as being "sort of tolerant" - not neutral terms - in most contexts, tolerance is good and intolerance bad - we usually ascribe these terms to the majority in a society and not the minorit... Mon, 03 Mar 2014 20:34:44 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=villajovis ...Augustus founded the Julio-Claudian dynasty - "Julio" for the Julian side, i.e. Julius Caesar and Augustus - Augustus was the son of Caesar's sister Julia and Caesar adopted him in his will - "Claudian" for the Claudian side, i.e. Augustus' wife's side of the family - four more emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty: Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero - all four of these made an i... Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:41:54 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=meiermusuem ...Richard Meier Museum - built to enclose the Ara Pacis [AHR-ah PAHK-is] - the original location of the Ara Pacis was elsewhere in the vicinity, ended up beneath a palace - it was Mussolini who sponsored the project to bring all the pieces together for display - together with other buildings in Mussolini's fascist architectural style - Meier was careful to use at least some traverti... Fri, 28 Feb 2014 05:45:18 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=casbahclub ...the pre-1964 British pop scene: - highly indebted to American pop music - some British music historians will argue that pre-1963 UK pop music was more sophisticated that US pop music of that time - but when you talk to the people in the business, you learn that the product that the UK industry could sell the most of what American popular music - UK songs that sold were mostly either... Wed, 26 Feb 2014 05:23:30 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=prieneinscription ...the communities to which Paul writes are part of a broader range of Jewish identity - Gentiles were interested in Judaism - diaspora Jews were interested in being in Christ - Polybius offered story of the succession of empires from 264-146 BC - Book of Daniel offered story of the succession of empires set in the time of Babylonian captivity- Josephus writes not as an objective h... Wed, 26 Feb 2014 02:58:00 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=flaviusjosephus ...the historical Josephus - Josephus has a complicated Jewish identity - he's a debated and controversial character - he started out as a leader in the movement rebelling against Rome - then went over to the Roman side and wrote history of the Jewish War at the pay of the Flavian emperors - he called himself a prophet but was salaried by the Romans - some see him as a traitor... Mon, 24 Feb 2014 08:27:40 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=araPacisAugustae ...Augustus tells us about this structure in his work "Res Gestae" [rez JEST-ee] - after successfully restoring law and order to Spain and Gaul, the senate decided to consecrate the Ara Pacis Augustae [AH-rah PAHK-is ah-oo-GOOS-tigh] on the Campus Martius in honor of my return, at which officials, priests, and Vestal Virgins should offer an annual sacrifice"- made entirely of solid Luna ... Sat, 22 Feb 2014 11:45:21 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=africanurbanisation ...l'urbanisation est un processus de changements multidimensionnels - les changements sont à la fois spatiaux, démographiques, économiques, culturels ou même infraculturels - dans le monde entier, nous sommes à peu près à 52% d'urbains - mais pour l'Afrique et l'Asie, on voit que les deux continents sont extrêmement peu urbanisés - les pays les moins développés sont aussi des pays les m... Thu, 20 Feb 2014 03:31:21 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=thomasjefferson ...how people in America and around the world see Thomas Jefferson - what most people know about him is that he is the author of the Declaration of Independence - the creation of a new American nation was an important event in world history - Jefferson's understanding of history that is crucial to our understanding of Jefferson - he sees the revolution in the context of the progress ... Wed, 19 Feb 2014 23:42:55 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=laocoon ...in book 2, Aeneas begins to narrate for his Carthaginian hosts, his own past - Trojan War has ended - he experienced the fall of his beloved city - in a customary twist, modifies and extends Homer's story, tells of Sinon - Sinon was a Greek warrior during the Trojan War - near end of war, Aeneas is leaving the city, sees this Sinon who says he had been abandoned - standing n... Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:20:31 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=templeofmars ...Forum Augustum - building this was on his mind from the beginning of his reign - even though there were already two forums, the Roman Forum and the Forum of Julius Caesar, the population of Rome was growing as was the need to try judicial cases - more likely Augustus before the Battle of Philippi where Octavian and Mark Antony joined to defeat Brutus and Longinus, Augustus vowed that... Tue, 18 Feb 2014 00:10:48 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=precurseurs2 ...différents types de politique - le politique - comme la notion "polity" en anglais - la politique - comme la notion "politics" en anglais - la mobilisation des acteurs - les politiques - comme la notion "policies" en anglais- la sphère privée - du choix personnel des individus - le fait de fumer ou de ne pas fumer- la sphère public - le fait de fumer peut deve... Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:50:50 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=josephusworks2 ...a study of Paul's letters leads us to a better understanding of Judaism in the ancient world - Jews fall into three categories: orthodox, reformed, conservative - but this is true of other religious identities as well, e.g. within Christianity you have Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestants, and within each of these there are many branches - in antiquity it was also hard to say exact... Mon, 17 Feb 2014 01:14:23 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=carraramarble ...Mark Antony and Octavian - 44 BC: Caesar's assassination, Mark Antony rises to power - Octavian was only 19 and grand nephew of Caesar, tries to overthrow him and fails - 43 BC: Octavian, Mark Antony, and Lepidus form Second Triumvirate - 42 BC: Octavian and Antony join military forces and defeat Cassius and Brutus at the Battle of Philippi - Mark Antony joins Cleopatra - Octav... Sun, 16 Feb 2014 07:13:52 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=sciencecapitalism ...in pre-modern world, credit was very limited - because limited credit, few new businesses - because few new businesses, economy didn't grow - because economy didn't grow, lack of confidence in future - because of lack of confidence in future, limited credit - therefore, frozen economy - then came the scientific revolution and the idea of progress - if we admit our ignorance o... Sat, 15 Feb 2014 08:51:56 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=libraryAlexandria ...Ancient Rome was at that time the world's greatest superpower, which had an impact on its architecture - four men who had a large impact on the architecture of Rome - 1. Julius Caesar - 59 BC: elected consul - joins First Triumvirate - gets consulship in Gaul - 54 BC: triumvirate falls apart - 53-50 BC: difficult times, food shortages in Rome - Pompey took charg... Thu, 13 Feb 2014 08:06:16 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=earlycommunities ...the texts of the New Testament, crafted from 49 to 120 CE are heavily influenced by the history of empires of that time - Paul and the authors of the Gospels had an awareness of the succession of empires - they were living under Roman rule and were thinking of their place in history, e.g. - 1. who are the people of Israel and what is the relation of Jews to Gentiles and other people'... Wed, 12 Feb 2014 08:33:51 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=beatles1 ...members - John Lennon (1940-1980) - guitar, lead vocals - Paul McCartney (1942-) - bass vocals - George Harrison (1943-2001) - lead guitar vocals - died of lung cancer - Ringo Starr (1940-) - original name: Richard Starkey - drummer - important to note: their date of birth - when they began to be popular 1963 in UK, 1964 in the US, they were only 20-23 years ol... Tue, 11 Feb 2014 20:40:34 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=alexanderaristotle ...why study Alexander the Great?1. his story is amazing, it's the stuff of fiction, not history - his father, Philip II, was perhaps the greatest king and certainly on of the most effective leaders that Greece ever produced - his mother, Olympias, was one of the most formidable women of the ancient world - Alexander may be the only man in Macedon who wasn't afraid of her - his... Tue, 11 Feb 2014 03:46:31 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=molecularclock ...phylogeny [figh-LAH-jin-nee] - understanding of the relationship between species - the relationship between species is a fundamental aspect of how evolution happened - when we add genetics to phylogeny, it gets complicated and involves math - how we use phylogeny to understand when certain species shared common ancestors with each other - humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans -... Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:03:19 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=alexander2 ...throughout history, Alexander the Great has been seen as a hero, or even more than a hero - as a Platonic philosopher king (Willian Tarn) - or even a Messianic figure like Jesus, sent on a mission to be the reconciler of the world - since the mid 20th century, however, a far less flattering portrait of Alexander has been drawn - an unstable alcoholic given to wine-fueled rages and ... Mon, 10 Feb 2014 06:06:20 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=whitman ...only in the 19th century do the cities we now live in begin to be built - 19th cities for the first time become larger and more populated than any person can easily know - vast grids of streets - where many thousands of people live pressed in together - the first buildings with 4,5, and 6 stories were beginning to be constructed - how to fireproof them, make them accomodate unprece... Mon, 10 Feb 2014 04:57:01 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=treatyofwestphalia ...16th century complicated interconnections between European and Indian powers - interconnections gave way to interdependence - from changing commodities with each other, they also became aware of each other - began exporting slaves from Africa, deployed in the new colonies - slaves and colonies were used to create new levels of wealth which was used to change the relations with the... Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:30:35 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=captitalismfuture ...economics is often seen as a notoriously complicated subject - understanding modern economic history and the rise of the capitalistic system is quite easy - to understand it, you have to only understand a single word: growth - the most unique and important characteristic of the modern capitalistic economy is that it is growing constantly: every year we have more goods, more money -... Sat, 08 Feb 2014 15:47:53 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=aeneidodyssey ...Virgil's Aeneid and Homer's Odyssey - similarities - Aeneas is traveling around the Mediterranean in a way that parallels Odysseus' journey home - Odysseus is harried by Poseidon whereas Aeneas is harried by Juno - Odysseus is protected and looked after by Athena, Aeneas is protected by his mother, Venus (who parallels the Greek Aphrodite) - differences - Aeneas' purpose o... Fri, 07 Feb 2014 05:09:02 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=pantheonunivvirgina ...tomb architecture - particularly interesting because the only practical function of the structure was to house the remains of the deceased - therefore personal, even whimsical - tomb of Augustus - A large tomb built in 28 BC by Augustus, the founder of the Roman Empire. Although built for Emperor Augustus, it also held the remains of emperors after him including Tiberius, Caligula, an... Wed, 05 Feb 2014 23:37:32 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=siegeofjerusalem ...Paul was a Jewish man writing in the context of the Roman Empire - writes to Jews and Gentiles who are interested in participating in Judaism- four contextual stories of empire - 1. Babylonian and Persian Empires - 587: Jerusalem destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylonia - many of the elites of Judah were taken into exile to Babylonia - this is where the story of Dani... Tue, 04 Feb 2014 00:03:14 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=bathsofdiocletian ...every Roman city had its bath buildings - houses did not have running water, so bath buildings were extremely important, obviously - most cities had at least one, ancient Pompei seems to have had three - these bath buildings responded to both a practical and social need - bath houses were also interesting for their architectural experiments - baths buildings had multiple spac... Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:59:25 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=fourinformationages ...four information ages - 1. invention of writing - 4000 BCE: Mesopotamia - cuneiform - early writing used for commerce and poetry - 400 BCE: Golden Age of Greece - Socrates thought writing ruined the dialogue process between people, since people aren't engaged with each other anymore - fortunately Plato wrote everything down - 2. movable type - 9th and 10th centu... Sat, 01 Feb 2014 05:25:51 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=obamamccainpaul ...a sampling of the foreign policy debate within the U.S. - videos: - President Barack Obama - 2004-2008 senator from Illinois - Senator John McCain - 1967-73 naval officer taken prisoner of war in Vietnam - 2008 ran against Obama - Senator Rand Paul - 2010 elected Republican senator in Kentucky - support of and supported by the "Tea Party" movement - how to ana... Fri, 31 Jan 2014 08:38:58 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=polybiusdaniel ...strategies of talking about their place in history - often ancient histories gave reasons for the succession of empires - Polybius (200BC-118BC) - Greek historian - noted for his work: The Histories, which covered 264 BC to 146 BC - the rise of the Roman Republic to world power - separation of powers in government - a time of ethnic fermenttalks about a succession... Fri, 31 Jan 2014 05:46:55 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=tabularium ...Tabularium - 78 BC - used to house the state archives at that time - by Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (120BC–77BC) - situated on the north side the Roman Forum, on the south side of the Capitoline Hill - today the Tabularium is only accessible from within the Capitoline Museum, but affords an excellent panoramic view over the Forum - Michelangelo, when building the Senatorial Palace o... Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:46:00 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=fongolichimps ...if we want to understand early hominids, we have to compare ourselves to our closest living relatives today: the chimpanzees and bonobos- Jill Preutz - primatologist and professor at Iowa State University - has been working with chimpanzees for over a dozen years years in Fongoli, Senegal - living in a unique environment, a Savanna context - they are dealing with some of the env... Tue, 28 Jan 2014 22:53:40 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=templeterracina ...Temple of Jupiter Anxur at Terracina - 100 BC to 70 BC - spectacularly sited - accentuated the buildings from a distance - gave those in the buildings amazing views - best view is from the sea - you can only see the podium today, but it is well preserved - podium supported temple - temple - Etruscan plan and Greek elevation - probably stone construction - angle i... Mon, 27 Jan 2014 00:08:59 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=marcion ...we often read Paul's letters in the context of the Bible - HarperCollins Study Bible - used to understand the ancient, historical context of the writing of the Bible - all historical writings have biographies - where they originated - where they traveled - who reads them and where - how they were interpreted- circulation of Paul's letters - written as individual letters... Sat, 25 Jan 2014 05:00:09 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=porticusaemilia ...in the age of Augustus (63BC-14AD), Rome began to colonize cities around it- Porticus Aemilia - large warehouse on banks of Tiber - 193 BC, restored in 174 BC - only small fragment survives - Livy (59BC-17AD) ##livy - Roman historian - wrote "Books from the Foundation of the City" - from traditional foundation of Rome in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus in Livy's o... Fri, 24 Jan 2014 05:07:45 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=mohenjodaro ...what united science and European imperialism was the urge to discover and conquer - at first the empires supported science mainly in terms of geographical explorations - however, soon followed medicine, botany, history, linguistics studies - even studies that seemed useless were supported by the European empires because you could never really know what might be useful - 19th century... Thu, 23 Jan 2014 08:31:05 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=opusincertum ...concrete (Opus Caementicum [kigh-MENT-tee-kum]) changed the concept of architecture for the Romans - a shift from tradition architecture to innovative - tradition Roman architecture - Temple of Portunus - derivative that looked back at Greek and Etruscan religious architecture - Etruscan - tall podium - deep porch - single staircase - Greek elements - ... Thu, 23 Jan 2014 04:30:47 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=risingstar ...Cradle of Humankind, South Africa - World Heritage Site first named by UNESCO in 1999, about 50 kilometers northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa - a site that in the past has produced a large number and some of the oldest hominid fossils ever found, some dating back as far as 3.5 million years ago- Rising Star expedition - end of 2013 - recovered over 1000 hominid bone fossils... Wed, 22 Jan 2014 01:45:56 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=apostlepaul ...background - you have to remember that Paul's letters did not originate packaged as a unit, they were individual letters with individual audiences and purposes - intimate and familiar - much as we engage in letter writing today - distant and unfamiliar - reading Paul's letters we are engaging in a cross-cultural and cross-historical investigation - we have to exercise our histo... Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:06:06 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=worldmap1525 ...early European maps (e.g. 1459) left no part of the world was uncharted and gave you the impression of familiarity with the world - in the 15th century Europeans began to draw maps with many empty spaces, indicating that they were ignorant of large parts of the world - 1492 Christopher Columbus' voyage was based his "complete" world maps from the Middle Ages - when the Pinta reached ... Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:38:13 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=templehercules ...Temple of Vesta in Tivoli - beautifully situated - built 80 BC - a round temple and temples of Vesta were round so tended to be called by scholars "Temple of Vesta" - this is as Greek as we have gotten so far - Greeks liked round temples - round structure - low base - free-standing columns - Temple of Vesta in Tivoli has higher podium - staircase on on side, so has a... Tue, 21 Jan 2014 01:14:49 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=portunushercules ...Temple of Portunus - dates between 120BC and 80BC - near the Tiber river - which "looks nasty as it usually does, it's very green and not the sort of place you would want to take a swim in" - next to Temple of Portunus is round temple called the "Round Temple by the Tiber" for obvious reasons - the plan of Temple of Portunus - more like an Etruscan temple with Greek features... Mon, 20 Jan 2014 05:50:42 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=institutionchretienne ...L'institution de la religion chrétienne - 1536 Calvin le publia d’abord en latin - "Christianae Religionis Institutio" - Calvin avait 27 ans - 1541 à Genève, Calvin le traduisit lui-même en français - sans aucun doute l'oeuvre maîtresse de Calvin - ce devenu la somme de la théologie réformée - c'était une somme théologique - une somme de piété - pourquoi cet ouvrage?... Sat, 18 Jan 2014 19:17:46 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=servianwall ...very many structures were built after the Temple to Jupiter - however, very little of these survived from this period - fires destroyed them, as many were made out of wood - many buildings became quarries for architects using them as a source of stone - any city that has been inhabited for two and a half millenia is obviously going to lose many of its structures over time -... Sat, 18 Jan 2014 12:13:34 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=templeofjupiter ...Temple of Jupiter OMC - 509 BC building of the temple commenced - Etruscans were ascendant (768BC-264BC) - Etruria - area of Italy north of Rome - now Tuscany, Lazio, and Umbria any, Lazio and Umbria - unique language - D. H. Lawrence's Sketches of Etruscan Places and other Italian essays - used power to gain ascendancy in Rome itself - period of Etruscan ... Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:36:37 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=didoascanius ...how Vergil thought about myth - asking this of Homer or the tragedians, we wouldn't get much of an answer, since they didn't have much meta-thought on what myth was to them, they just employed it - with Virgil we have evidence of him using myth as a tool - has large tradition of the interpretation of Homer - Vergil is a scholar poet, an artist - an extremely learned person -... Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:26:07 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=romulusrome ...April 21, 753 BC - one could say the day Roman architecture began - according to legend, Romulus founded the city of Rome on the Palatine Hill on this day- on the Palatine Hill - Colosseum - Forum - Via dei Fori Imperiali - runs in a straight line from the Piazza Venezia to the Colosseum - built by order of Mussolini, from 1924-1932 - also the start of the marathon - ... Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:44:49 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=correlation ...people often tell us about associations between two variables which seems profound or important - example: on radio, the more cheeseburgers one eats, the lower the chance that you'll dye of cancer - eating a large amount of cheeseburgers increases the likelihood of dying of a heart attack, and if you die of a heart attack, you can't die of cancer. - association in information can be enl... Thu, 16 Jan 2014 01:01:58 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ancientletterwriting ...epistolography - the study of letter writing - letters were their means of circulating news, requests, and communicating ideas- what kind of letters existed in antiquity - business letters - notes to lovers - children to parents asking for things - letters of condolence - letters of advice - letters are found both in literary form and non-literary, i.e. non-studied - it's ... Tue, 14 Jan 2014 03:19:37 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=aeneid ...Aeneid - written between 29BC and 19BC - tells the story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans - first half: journey from Troy to Italy (like the Odyssey) - second half: Trojans' victorious war upon the Latins (like the Iliad)- the text - "I sing of warfare and a man at war" - Virgil makes clear at the beginning that he is going ... Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:48:31 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=dishonesty ...in what ways do people lie and cheat yet still think of themselves as good people? - often we have a very simple model of dishonesty: what do we stand to gain and what do we stand to lose - this is not actually a good model, many other aspects are driving us to be honest and dishonesty- we often lie or cheat yet don't think of ourselves as being immoral, this is a commonly shared dil... Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:59:38 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lettersofpaul1 ...authorship - in Paul's letters, other figures begin to emerge as authors - e.g. Silvanus, Timothy, Sosthenes, Tertius - what was going on as these letters were produced and first read aloud among the ekklesia? - in some letters we see that a community begins to emerge- prescripts - a prescript consists of three parts - superscriptio: the name of the sender - adscriptio: ... Sat, 11 Jan 2014 03:48:01 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=nationalstage ...1956 National Convention - launched Kennedy onto the national stage - his book Profiles in Courage brought much attention, but his key moment was at the National Democratic Convention in 1956 in Chicago - Adlai Stevenson was being renominated to challenge Eisenhower again - Kennedy had hoped to be picked by Stevenson as his running mate - had a televised spot at the convention -... Sun, 05 Jan 2014 00:27:43 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=akbar ...Mughal Empire (1526–1857) - northern India, being then under mainly Muslim rulers, fell to the superior mobility and firepower of the Mughals - resulting Mughal Empire did not stamp out the local societies it came to rule, but rather balanced and pacified them through new administrative practices - it's one thing to create a regime as the Mughals did, it's another thing to sustain it,... Sat, 04 Jan 2014 02:04:19 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lagbehind ...in the last 500 years, the scientific revolution has almost completely changed the lives of humans - science can only flourish in alliance with an ideology which justifies, guides, and finances scientific research and decides what to do with the new powers scientific research brings- the two most important forces which have shaped scientific revolution1. European imperialism2. capital... Wed, 01 Jan 2014 23:23:07 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=aeneas ...Virgil (70BC-19BC) - major works: Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid - Aeneid is the national epic of ancient Rome - influenced Divine Comedy - lives tumultuous times- 70BC: Roman Empire is emerging - has many different groups which it has brought under its sway - Romans were rightfully amazed at their own powers - now controlling power in the Mediterranean - what does it mean to... Wed, 25 Dec 2013 02:28:01 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=calvinbible ...la pensée théologique de Jean Calvin - il est centré l'interprétation et la prédication du message biblique - la moitié du corpus de Calvin consiste en ses sermons- comment considère Calvin la Bible - l'accent sur l'utilité de la Bible - c'est l'Écriture toute entière qui compte pour Calvin, et pas tel ou tel passage, tel ou tel livre - entre la Nouveau Testament et l'Ancien Tes... Mon, 23 Dec 2013 23:54:24 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=mercantilistwars ...the concentration of power and wealth led to internal sources of disequilibrium - economics on a global scale was nothing new, but mercantalism added a source of financial and dependency disequilibrium - affects not just the relationships between states and merchants but between states and states - a monopoly is that one person gets a right to trade and another party doesn't and the st... Fri, 20 Dec 2013 01:37:16 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=mythAndHistory ...jumping from Greek to Rome, a very different culture- we learn that the Romans borrow all of the Green myths and change the names and adopt the stories for themselves - there is some truth to that - it is more accurate to say that both Greeks and Romans were working from a common pool of Mediterranean materials which they each put their own spin on - it's not quite right to look at the ... Fri, 20 Dec 2013 00:16:01 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ruejeancalvin ...les dix dernières années de Calvin à Genève: 1555 à 1564 - Calvin triomphe à Genève - on élit au Conseil des gens qui sont favorables à Calvin - il avait un certain nombre d'adversaires - il sera au fait de son pouvoir, son autorité - il était le leader de politique de Genève - il n'a jamais exercé le moindre pouvoir politique; toute son autorité est une autorité intellectuelle et... Wed, 18 Dec 2013 01:52:21 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=scienceempires ...over the last 500 years we have developed a belief that scientists just need to be left alone doing their research and development, and they will create for us the ability to live better and better lives - it's a common thought but also a simplistic one to think that science is simply working for the benefit of humankind - many scientists have been motivated by the wish to help humankind ... Mon, 16 Dec 2013 08:51:12 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=southseabubble ...increasing distinction between - 1. merchantilist regimes - government relies on social classes to generate pools of wealth and capital that will sustain it (merchants provide revenue to state and buys state bonds which enable the state to build up its military, which protects merchants' monopolies) - 2. agrarian regimes - Mughal India - China - to some extent the Hapsbur... Tue, 10 Dec 2013 01:43:04 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=instruction ...l'instruction - la construction du collège durera 3 ans de 1559 à 1562 et Calvin a vu ce collège encore de son vivant - il s'agit de deux départements. - le premier département "Scola Privata" - les petites classes, les garçons, les adolescents, qui pendant sept ans, sont instruits, en français, en latin, en grec, en dialectique, et en rhétorique - cinq professeurs - deux... Tue, 03 Dec 2013 02:31:53 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=mercantilism ...the rising pools of wealth and capital in Europe spawned a set of important institutional changes - had a profound effect on the organization of global market places - gave birth to merchant trading companies - The Muscovy Company (1555-1917) - first major chartered joint stock company - monopoly on trade between England and Muscovy (principality centered around Moscow) until ... Mon, 02 Dec 2013 23:55:18 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=servetus1 ...Michael Servetus (1509-1553) - un théologien et médecin espagnol - il redécouvrit la façon dont le sang passe dans les poumons pour s'oxygéner - développa un protestantisme radical, refusant notamment le dogme de la Trinité, qui lui valut diverses persécutions, dont la condamnation par le Grand Conseil de Genève à être brûlé vif pour hérésie le 27 octobre 1553. - est autant médecin ... Sun, 01 Dec 2013 22:54:52 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=kennedylegislative ...legislative career - made friends with other 69 veterans of WWII elected to congress in 1946 - including young Republican legislator Richard Nixon from California - Nixon's career began to rocket, not Kennedy's - headed up investigation of the House about communist infiltration which led to the arrest of Alger HissAlger Hiss (1904-1996) - American lawyer and governme... Sun, 01 Dec 2013 14:10:31 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=reformeageneve ...la Réforme à Genève est opérée par Calvin - retourne à Genève au mois de septembre 1541- 1542 rédaction d'un catéchisme - à Strausbourg, Calvins catéchisme a été publié aussi vite qu'il pouvait être écrit - il y a eu de très nombreuses impressions - ce catéchisme qui a formé des générations et des générations - il a été traduit dans un grand nombre de langues, aussi en latin et grec, e... Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:24:31 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=strasbourg ...Calvin a cassé de Genève en 1538 et il se rendre à Strasbourg - plus du double environ, avec ses 22,000 habitants - une ville où l'humanisme a fleuri - Sébastien Brant (1458-1521) - un humaniste et poète satirique - livre: "La Nef des fous" illustrée par Albrect Dürer - ce récit versifié recense divers types de folie, brossant le tableau de la condition humaine, sur ... Mon, 18 Nov 2013 08:47:29 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=sugar ...the explosion of world trade created vast pools of wealth - colonization began the accumulation of resources above what was necessary for societies to subsist or survive - no longer did wealth come from the skimming off of what a village could produce - now societies were being constructed primarily for the production of goods for other societies and specializing in this goods - we... Sat, 16 Nov 2013 09:49:17 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=empires ...the main direction of humanity since the agricultural revolution has been global unity - during the agricultural revolution 10,000 years ago, the world was divided up into small societies each of which was relatively small and simple - as time went by these small and simple societies combined to make larger, more complex societies until today, the entire world became a single, global, interco... Sun, 10 Nov 2013 12:15:42 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=coinage ...how does money work? - why have people throughout history been willing to trade e.g. a fertile rice field for a number of coral shells? - why are people willing to work for 8-12 hours a day doing things they don't entirely like in order to get at the end of the month a higher number in a field in a database in their bank? - the reason we do this is that we trust the collective imagination... Thu, 07 Nov 2013 08:27:25 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=essenceofmoney ...three main forces that drove humans to unify: money, empires, and universal religions- the history of money - hunters and gathers had no money - each band hunted, gathered, and manufactured almost everything it needed - they didn't buy and sell anything - some members had skills that others did not but they lived in an economy of favors and obligations - e.g. boot repair from one ... Wed, 06 Nov 2013 08:33:52 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=farel2 ...Calvin était à Bâle - 1536 il y publie ce texte "Institutio Christianae religionis" - il se rend à Ferrare, Italie, mais à Ferrare, le climat est malsain pour les évangéliques - il repart à Bâle - il voudrait à Strausbourg mais il y a la guerre entre la France et l'Empire, et à Lorraine, que Calvin voulait traverser, est absolument infranchissable - alors il retrouve à Genève - ... Wed, 06 Nov 2013 01:15:40 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=kennedy1 ...Kennedy family was combination of immigrant and success story - grandparents on father's side came over after potato famine in Ireland in 19th century - John Kennedy's father Joe Kennedy first one to make it big - in stock market - sensed stock market crash in 1929 and took his money out before if occurred - family was very well set - one of the richest families in America -... Mon, 04 Nov 2013 22:20:28 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=bartholomew ...for all of the European bullying in the Indian Ocean, they had to adapt to existing institutions - gaining access to the supply of goods that they wanted was very complicated - in the rivalry between the European powers, local traders could use this to their advantage and play them against each other - local traders were making money in this business as well - pepper prices were very h... Sun, 03 Nov 2013 08:43:29 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=merindolmassacre ...livre: "Institution de la religion chrétienne" - un traité de théologie - la somme de la théologie réformée - 1536 publié d'abord en latin- Calvin jusqu'à l'âge de 27 - nous n'avons que très peu de sources - son nom était Cauvin en français - il grandit avec au moins trois frères et deux sœurs, dans une famille d'artisans bien situés - son père prévoit son fils très tôt pour... Sat, 02 Nov 2013 16:19:20 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=globalunity ...while wolf or bee societies are very similar, human societies are very different from one another - even when living in the same environment, human societies have different imagined orders and different social hierarchies- what happened when these societies encountered each other? - various kinds of interactions - war - trade - immigration - religious missionaries- do interac... Mon, 28 Oct 2013 08:11:19 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=geneve1536 ...-on associe souvent le nom de Calvin au concept de réforme à Genève - mais quand Calvin est arrivé à Genève, la réforme était déjà sur ses rails.- Genève est la seule ville de toute l'Europe qui conquiert et qui parvient à maintenir son indépendance, au moment de la réformation- l'ennemi numéro un de Genève c'est la Savoie. - les hommes qui se battaient pour l'indépendance de la vil... Sun, 27 Oct 2013 02:22:13 +0100 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=womenequality ...almost all societies throughout history have been patriarchal - divided societies into men and women and privileged men over women - one would think that this is such a universal phenomenon, it probably results from a biological reason and not from a chance, historical event such as the way the caste system in India developed or racial tensions in America- theories of why most societi... Wed, 23 Oct 2013 07:22:30 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=calvin3 ...Calvin ça n’est pas l’homme de la Réforme, c’est l’homme d’une réforme. - il y avait beaucoup des réformes à travers l'histoire, il y a d’innombrables réformes ecclésiastiques - la réforme, qu'est ce cela veut dire? - Calvin n'était le premier à vouloir réformer l'église - toutefois, il a dit qu'il voulait la réformer - Bernard de Clairvaux (1090-1153) - un moine français... Tue, 22 Oct 2013 00:11:42 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=gender ...each society adopts specific social distinctions and imagined hierarchies - race became very important in American society, but was relatively insignificant to medieval Muslim society - caste was a matter of life and death in medieval India but in modern Europe it is practically non-existent - one hierarchy, however, which has been of supreme importance in almost all human societies i... Mon, 21 Oct 2013 08:53:12 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=alzheimer ...dementia - hallmark symptoms once it reaches a certain point - memory impairment - loss of ability to find words (aphasia) - changes in emotion (apathy and lack of interest in things) - loss of ability to interpret sensory information - challenges providing an accurate diagnosis - these influences can mimic dementia symptoms and need to be ruled out: - Drugs - Emo... Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:49:43 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=macao ...Europe set for more sea trips to the Indian Ocean - the news of da Gama's discovery of the Indian Oceans turned into a rampage - da Gama, humiliated by his experience in Calicut, was determined to return - 1502: second trip to Calicut - went through every ship in the harbor - cut off the hands, noses and ears of sailors - burned ships with sailors aboard - burned a sh... Sat, 12 Oct 2013 00:46:35 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=segregation ...what accounts for all the different societies and hierarchies throughout history? - in most cases, hierarchies were based on historical circumstances and then simply perpetuated over many generations - Hindu caste system - the peoples of central Asia invaded the Indian sub-continent and subjugated the local population, created a stratified society in which they were on top - inva... Fri, 11 Oct 2013 23:15:14 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=beethoven1803 ...Beethoven was the first composer who had models to follow - although he may have dislike some of his employers, musically, at least, he had all the tools to thrive within the system - notably bad at taking orders - would have made a terrible court composer - was able to make decisions about his music in a way that Haydn and Mozart never could, particularly in their youth- he compo... Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:09:49 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=hinduhierarchies ...history after the agriculture revolution can largely be understood by answering this question: how did humans organize themselves into large cooperative networks when they lack the instinctive ability necessary to sustain such networks? - the short answer to this question is that humans created imagined orders and invented writing which filled the gaps left by our biological inheritance- wh... Wed, 09 Oct 2013 00:49:28 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ladivision2 ...le type des expressions est important - si j'écris la valeur 1, cette valeur est de type int - si j'écris 1.0, cette valeur est de type double- on peut écrire 2e3, et c'est équivalent à 2 fois 10 puissance 3, c'est-à-dire 2000- un piège - si les deux valeurs qui interviennent dans la division sont toutes les deux de type int, il s'agit de la division entière.- il explique que l'... Tue, 08 Oct 2013 01:09:29 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=kierkegaard ...Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) - first existentialist philosopher - fondness for metaphor, irony and parables - how one lives as a "single individual" - priority to concrete human reality over abstract thinking - personal choice and commitment - critic of idealist intellectuals of his time such as Hegel, Goethe and Hans Christian Andersen- ask yourself how much time you spend u... Mon, 07 Oct 2013 02:25:48 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=mathematicalWriting ...throughout history, in order to build a large kingdom or city or modern state, humans needed (1) enough food, (2) an imagined order, and (3) techniques for storing large amounts of information - up until the agricultural revolution, all information needed was stored in the human brain - but as societies grew larger and larger, two things happened - 1. amounts of necessary information... Sat, 05 Oct 2013 14:05:15 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=dagamawithzamorin ...pepper, from preciosity to necessity - the way we use pepper today: - from berry, harvested green - left to ferment to allow the skin to flake off, so the insides can darken and shrivel - crucial for masalas in India and grilled meats in the Arab world, and Romans loved their pepper- Vasco da Gama (1469-1524) - Portuguese explorer - commander of the first ships to sail dire... Fri, 04 Oct 2013 22:52:15 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=variables2 ...ces différentes parties sont composées àl'aide du signe plus- si on veut affichez un saut de ligne, on utilise la commande println, autrement on utilise la commande print- on peut aussi afficher un valeur d'une expressions- pour faire un addition des numéros dans une chaîne, on doit utiliser les parenthèses- il montre comment on peut mettre la valeur d'une variable dans une autre variable... Thu, 03 Oct 2013 02:00:05 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=neoassyrianempire ...fertile crescent - cradle of ancient Middle Eastern civilizations - 4500-2000 BC: rise of civilization - social and economic powers grew on both sides of the crescent - Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia, Phoenicia, Assyria and Egypt were the dominant cultures until around 335 BC with the conquests of Alexander the Great- Mesopotamia - between Tigris and Euphrates Rivers - Sumer (4500 BC... Wed, 02 Oct 2013 00:01:36 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=intersubjectivereality ...if human rights are just a story that we create and believe, isn't there a danger that the social order will collapse? - the answer is yes, which is why the social order of humans is much less stable that the social order of chimpanzees, or wolves, or ants which have their rigid social structures, i.e. how to deal with large numbers of strangers, hard-coded into their genes, and it is why w... Tue, 01 Oct 2013 18:40:24 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=batavia ...triangular system of the Atlantic world - Africa, Europe and the Americas - new models of colonies which augment this circulation - exploitation of labor and natural resources - this also began to change the relation between Europe and the rest of Eurasia- Indonesia - Batavia - a fortification with command over one of the great harbors of the new age - Chinese and Portuguese ... Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:40:51 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=bachhaydnmozart ...while Bach was a reference point for almost every composer after him, he represents an end of an era- Haydn - chronologically, Haydn marks a new beginning - father of the forms that came to dominate the classical era - we see the place of the composer in society undergo an evolution - Haydn was born in 1732, 18 years old at the time of Bach's death - from 1761, employed as Kapellm... Sat, 28 Sep 2013 00:07:30 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=laterre ...quels types de charges peuvent agir sur les structures - gravitation - précipitations - des circulations de courants et les vents - séismes - les personnes- exemples de charges - un gratte-ciel - la neige - des charges de gravité sur le poids propre de la structure - des personnes, utilisateurs de la structure - les charges de vent et agissent généralement à peu près... Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:28:32 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=rosehan ...approaches to seeking truth about the world - rationalists - knowing by thinking - Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz - you can come to understand something well enough and deeply enough simply by thinking about it and discussing it with others - empiricists - knowing by the senses - Berkeley, Locke, Hume - thinking, talking and arguing wasn't enough, you could arrive at wh... Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:49:28 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=gravitation ...gravitation universelle - les forces qui agissent, agissent toujours selon l'axe qui réunit les centres de gravité - la constante G est appelée constante de gravitation universelle.- il montre comment on calcule la force qu'exerce la Terre sur le Soleil ouréciproquement la force qu'exerce le Soleil sur la Terre- dans le deuxième exemple, on peut voir un homme qui est debout sur la... Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:36:06 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=codeofhammurabi ...impact of the agricultural revolution on humans - led to far more complex human societies - foragers lived in small bands of a few dozen individuals - farmers and peasants lived their lives in towns of hundreds, thousands and ultimately millions of people working on a daily basis towards common goals - a reason for this growth was that agriculture could support far more people - mor... Tue, 24 Sep 2013 22:29:10 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=japanese ...Japan in early 1930s: a stalemate of two conflicting ideals - 1. with Japan's enormous modernization, many people appealing for - liberal ideas - international cooperation - 2. also a national conservative faction - Japanese nationalism - purity of Japanese traditions - therefore must not be vulnerable from economic pressure from England and other countries - needs to reje... Mon, 23 Sep 2013 04:01:18 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=gobeklitepe ...the agricultural revolution occurred very gradually - a collection of attempts to improve life resulted in a more difficult life for most humans - why did humans make these choices to make their lives more difficult - it was a miscalculation, as in other times in history - they were unable to foresee the full consequences of their choices - every time they decided to do extra wor... Sun, 22 Sep 2013 06:28:11 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=variables ...une variable - une zone en mémoire qui possède un nom dans laquelle on va pouvoir stocker une valeur - si on a une valeur qui doit utilisé à plusieurs reprises, alors une variable doit être créé- des règles des variables - chaque variable a une type particulier, quel genre de donnée exactement qu'on veut utiliser - si on ne définit pas une variable en Java, elle ne peut pas être ... Sat, 21 Sep 2013 01:47:54 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=domestication ...Sapiens who lived 30,000 years ago had all the physical characteristics we had and so were capable of being as intelligent, curious and sensitive as we are - they probably had their own share of religious movements, artistic movements, and political struggles - we don't know much about these events for lack of evidence- the agricultural revolution - transition from hunting and gathering t... Tue, 17 Sep 2013 01:20:18 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=agricultureEmerges ...the life of farmers and peasants was quite difficult compared to the way of life of previous Homo sapiens- as humans slowly became dependent on wheat, there is much that it did not offer us: - it's very clear that wheat did not offer us a better diet - humans are omnivorous, they survive by eating a very wide variety of foodstuffs - grains like wheat made up only a small fraction ... Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:40:18 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=jonathanbiss ...our response to Beethoven's sonatas - music undeniably has an ineffable quality that can't be explained, but a large part of how we respond to it has to do with how it fulfills or confounds our expectations - based on our culture - its culture - effect the structure, harmony in particular has on us - the reason that we're still playing, listening to, talking about the Beethoven son... Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:27:53 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=migrationAmericas ...the first globally influential event that humans achieved was cause the ecological catastrophe in Australia 50,000 to 40,000 years ago- the second globally influential event was a similar ecological catastrophe on the American continents - humans arrived about 14,000 BC - arrived on foot while sea levels were low enough that a land bridge connected north Eastern Siberia with northwestern ... Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:55:20 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=kennethpike ...Freud's clinical and subliminal focus on human nature created a fork in the disciple of psychology - psychology had been developing as a scientific discipline which studied the conscious mind - Freud shaped it toward the study of pathology, of mental disorders with an emphasis on the subconscious mind - later Freud's theories developed more into theories on human behavior, but there w... Thu, 12 Sep 2013 23:28:33 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=attika ...Theseus - mythical founder-king of Athens - son of Aegeus (goat-man) and Poseidon - his story is told by Plutarch - visit to Crete - slays the Minotaur who is kept in the labyrinth, get assistance from Minos' daughter Ariadne [air-ee-AD-nee] - when Theseus got back to Athens, he had a great idea "Synoecism", the idea of communities combining - sets up a temple where everyone ... Thu, 12 Sep 2013 02:18:22 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=1930s ...modern capitalism was a system created in the late 1800s - standardized money built around the gold standard - gold standard - demand = how much we can buy, how much money is available - if you have a gold standard system, then demand is tied to the amount of gold available - advantage: more stable - disadvantage: if you have a growing economy (increased amount of goods on the... Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:19:09 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=largeaustraliananimals ...ways in which humans related to other animals and plants and became the most important factor in the ecology of planet earth long before the agricultural revolution - until the rise of Homo sapiens, all other human species lived on the Afroasian land mass - no other human species has the ability to cross the open sea or large expanses - plants evolved in each of these places in each of th... Mon, 09 Sep 2013 23:05:09 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=warfare ...there is not sufficient evidence to determine if in the Stone Age people had private property, nuclear families and monogamous relationships- we do, however, have some evidence of what political and social life was like- Sungir burial site - 28,000 to 30,000 years old - discovered in 1955 - 200 kilometers east of Moscow - a society of mammoth hunters - wolly mammoth - 10,... Sun, 08 Sep 2013 01:09:01 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=lascauxpainting ...mental and spiritual lives of pre-agricultural-revolution humans - it's a lot harder to know what ancient people believed than what they ate, especially with no records of writing - animist beliefs - it is generally believed that ancient peoples had animist beliefs - Latin "anima" = soul or spirit - world is full of animated beings which can communicate with each everything dire... Sat, 07 Sep 2013 22:50:18 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=locarno ...a common term for the time around 1930 was the "inter-war period" - we're so conscious of WWII coming, that we tend to look at the time of history around 1930 almost like a brief interval between wars, some historians even write of it as a truce period - the reality is that life and society during the 20s and 30s was not so linear and destined for another World War as we might think, ye... Fri, 06 Sep 2013 01:16:49 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=communevarieties ...the cognitive changes that took place around 50,000 years ago enabled humans to create and believe in stories - this helped them organize themselves in groups much larger than 150 - humans used their imagination not only to adapt themselves to the world as it is, but to create new worlds- what was physical, cognitive, and spiritual life like for people 40,000 years ago? - the vast m... Wed, 04 Sep 2013 08:41:37 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=modernwomen ...19th century - traditional roles - almost all women were in traditional roles - womens' role may have been just as important as mens' but from a legal point of view, women were subordinate - lack of rights to vote - lack of rights to own property - China - foot bindings were for women a mandatory custom for upper class women - from childhood crushing their feet... Mon, 02 Sep 2013 23:01:53 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=languageorganize ...since large scale cooperation between sapiens is based on stories, the way that people cooperate and build their societies can be changed pretty quickly by changing the stories - 1789 in France, in a short period of time, the people switched the story from the sovereign right of kings to the sovereign right of people - genetic evolution based on physical changes is very slow, cultural e... Mon, 02 Sep 2013 22:27:46 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=freud5 ...Freud's influence on psychology as a discipline was to fork a non-scientific branch - he was exposing his ideas in the Victorian Era - a time when men were gentlemen and women were ladies - there was a properness as to how things were supposed to happen - the topics sex and aggression were not talked about, they were not polite, not the sort of things people discussed - th... Sun, 01 Sep 2013 03:03:22 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=imaginedrealities ...it is easy for us understand how primitive cultures believed in ghosts and spirits- it is harder for us to appreciate is that our own modern institutions such as banks, governments, and countries function on the same basis- the legend of Peugeot car company - one of the biggest and oldest car manufactures in Europe - began in 1896 as small village in North East France - today it empl... Sat, 31 Aug 2013 17:55:37 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=periander ...meaning of "tyrant" - the modern meaning of the tyrant is extremely negative, suggesting brutality, greed, and lawlessness - the original Greek meaning of tyrant was "someone who seized power in a non-constitutional way and held it personally" - one of the ironies in ancient Greece is that tyranny was a necessary prelude to democracy- Corinth - strategically very important - contr... Fri, 30 Aug 2013 01:41:58 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=boccionicityrises ...after WWI the common sentiment was that Europe was a broken world - the certainties of the past seemed gone - human losses: - 9-10 million people killed - 10s of millions people damaged in some way, physically or psychologically - conditions of war helped produce the worst outbreak of disease, the Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918 - 90% of the people killed were soldiers, so ... Thu, 29 Aug 2013 20:50:15 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=largergroups ...what is it that makes human language so powerful? - talk about exterior events, e.g. where lions and food is - gossip about others in your group in order to know who you can best trust and cooperate with - human language is a fictive language, and is unique, no other animal does this - you can't convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him that he will go to monkey heaven... Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:47:09 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=languagesymbols ...something amazing started happening to Homo sapiens about 70,000 years ago which had to do with our language, the way we talk and think, it is our language which has made us the masters of this world- what is so special about Homo sapiens language - Homo sapiens are not the only animals with vocal communication abilities - other animals can communicate through less sophisticated sou... Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:09:58 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=oillamp ...for more than 2 million years, the earth was populated with a number of human species, not just one- from 2 million years ago to around 70,000 years ago, these human species were for the most part unimportant animals living in the middle of the food chain and had a small impact on the environment around them, and they had not done anything particularly influential- 70,000 years ago someth... Mon, 26 Aug 2013 01:02:30 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=neanderthals ...the significant revolution in the status of humans in the ecosystem came only after the appearance of our own species, Homo sapiens - appeared between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago in Africa - by 150,000 years ago, East Africa was populated with Homo sapiens which looked much like us - around 70,000 years ago, some of these Homo sapiens left East Africa and reached the Middle East and beg... Sat, 24 Aug 2013 08:45:26 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=bowerbird ...avoid anthropomorphism - e.g. are dolphins happy and content when free to jump in the water? - this is a bad question, since we have no way of knowing if dolphins are happy in the same way as humans are happy - we can, however, measure things like heart rate - cows are known to have higher heart rates when around certain other cows - whether or not this means they are happy a... Fri, 23 Aug 2013 01:03:26 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=fireandcooking ...humans for most of their existence had large brains, the ability to produce and use tools and had complex social structures - however, they were weak and marginal in the ecosystem - yet in the last 100,000 years, humans ascended to the top of the food chain and became the most powerful and influential animals- how did humans make the jump to the top of the food chain? - one skill ... Sun, 18 Aug 2013 06:06:42 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=pogrom ...one of the biggest effects of World War One was the rise of modern communism and the communism vs. anti-communism split was the biggest fault line of the new politics of the 1920s - war - ruling parties were not able to prevent the war, communism was portrayed as a solution that would prevent war - chaos - what takes the place of those shattered empires - communist revolutions h... Sat, 17 Aug 2013 19:15:46 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=hunger ...glucose - a kind of sugar (the suffix "-ose" denotes a sugar) - glucose levels have much to do with how we feel, e.g. if we are hungry - after a meal, you accumulate glucose in your blood - gradually the level of glucose in your blood declines - glucostats (glucose sensitive receptor cells) monitor the amount of glucose and signal when there is not enough - when you have low glu... Fri, 16 Aug 2013 04:48:29 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=upright ...the various species of human (those species which belonged to the genus Homo) shared many characteristics with each other - had extraordinarily large brains - mammals weighting 60kg usually have a brain 200cc (cubic centimeters) - homo sapiens today who weigh 60kg have a brain weighing 1200-1400cc - 2.5 million years ago, the earliest men and women had smaller brains than we do today... Fri, 16 Aug 2013 04:10:01 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=europeafterwwi ...Woodrow Wilson had talked about a peace without victory - popular vision for a world exhausted by war - but if you were e.g. France where the Germans had largely destroyed your country, you may not be for this vision- problems that peace makers faced - five empires collapsed between 1912 and 1922 - Qing Empire - The Qing dynasty that had ruled China since 1644 was over - Ch... Wed, 14 Aug 2013 20:46:10 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=mainpoints ...the skill set of developing main points and then being able to talk through each one is hugely useful in job interviews, informational interviews, client meetings, anytime you need to craft a message in a semi-formal setting- inventing main points - decide on your position, one side or the other - ask yourself why your thesis is true - try to come up with ten claims why your position... Tue, 13 Aug 2013 20:05:48 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=humanhistory3 ...background and context - about 13 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space came into being in what is known as the Big Bang - the story of these fundamental features of our universe is called physics - about 300,000 years after their appearance, matter and energy began to combine into structures which we call atoms and these atoms then combine into even more complex structures ca... Mon, 12 Aug 2013 08:54:06 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=1918leaders ...America officially entered WWI in April 1917, and even in early 1918, it was not clear who was going to win the war- situation in 1917 - Britain and France - in terms of lack of military advancement and sheer casualties, both countries had another terrible year - yes the Americans had joined the war in April 1917 but the American soldiers were just being trained to fight and hardly ... Sat, 10 Aug 2013 22:05:52 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=littlerichard ...Bill Haley (1925-1981) - Bill Haley and His Comets - Bill Haley the first musician to "really get this Rock and Roll thing" - sold over 25 million records worldwide - self-admitted alcoholic, had alcohol problems at end of life, cancelled European tour- Fats Domino (1928-) - a friendly, cheerful, a bit overweight, and in no way would white audiences feel that he was threatening as was... Fri, 09 Aug 2013 23:11:37 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=sparta5 ...as with other ancient civilizations, what we have with Sparta are a number of stories which we can try to turn into a coherent narrative- Lycurgus [ligh-KER-gus] (820BC-730BC) - law-giver - established the military-oriented reformation of Spartan society in accordance with the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi - The Rhetra [RAY-tra] - the Spartan Constitution, believed to have been formul... Thu, 08 Aug 2013 08:21:07 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=totalstates ...World War I was not just a war but an event in history that changed the ideas of how to organize these modern, industrial societies, and during the war, this took the form of moving the warring countries, some more than others, toward total states - the war was absolutely devastating, more than any other war people could remember, on a scale no one had ever experienced - the idea of 100,000... Tue, 06 Aug 2013 23:49:56 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=eudeepening ...1951 European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) - failed to come to a defense or political community - 1957 European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) - purpose: to create a specialist market for nuclear power in Europe - today legally distinct from the European Union - 1957 European Economic Community (EEC) - created by the Treaty of Rome - known as Common Market - und... Tue, 06 Aug 2013 08:18:42 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=james ...psychology has a tension in terms of its scientific merit, which leads to two kinds of psychology - clinical approach - scientific approach- late 1800s: psychology was born in Germany - late 1800s, a period where Germany was economically a very strong country, the strongest in Europe and perhaps in the world - invested their money in research to stay at the leading edge - wanted... Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:49:22 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=extemporize ...how are we going to evaluate speeches? - standardizing of grading is an important aspect but not the most important aspect - we are going to evaluate rubrics, i.e. various aspects of the speech - we get better at speaking by studying these parts in isolation and in tandem with each other- parts of impromptu speech - invention: main points - main points - coming up with claims ... Mon, 05 Aug 2013 02:06:58 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=woodrowwilson ...choices made in late 1916 on whether to continue the war - the study of history is analyzing choices as stories in which people confront a situation, try to make sense of it, see their problems there, try to figure out what is the best way to solve these problems, and then take action, which then leads to new situations - we want to discover why choices made towards the end of 1916 merged toget... Sun, 04 Aug 2013 20:46:22 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=paulbroca ...throughout the centuries, humans have generally perceived themselves as distinct in some way, i.e. spirits in a material world - yet for things that were physical, as the scientific method was developed, humans began to see that interactions that those materials show show adherence to physical laws, and through careful observation and systematic experimentation, they could figure out what t... Sat, 03 Aug 2013 00:57:54 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=billhaley ...Cashbox and Billboard - record industry charts - Cashbox - from 1942 to 1996 - now revived online - unlike Billboard, Cashbox initially combined all currently available recordings of a song into one chart position with artist and label information shown for each version, alphabetized by label - Billboard (1894-today) - international news magazine devoted to music and the music i... Fri, 02 Aug 2013 07:04:57 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=heatcapacity ...conduction - thermal energy is transferred from one molecule to the nearby molecule by means of a collision, there is no relocation of molecules - during cooking, heat is transferred from the outside to the center of a solid piece of food by means of conduction, e.g. steak - cellular structure of food impedes heat transfer - rate of heat transfer is determined by - thickness of f... Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:35:38 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=impromptustructure ...Why are we doing an impromptu speech? - it is a good model to take to any speech setting where you have to speak without much preparation - the format allows you to quickly put together a speech that is easy to listen to - this is the first speech assignment because it is a base model for the other speeches - has fewer moving parts than the other speeches, but - "Sorry, I was t... Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:45:22 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=westernfront ...all elaborate plans to win the war are failing - vast plans moving millions of men, huge amounts of artillery, careful railway time tables comes to bloody wreckage - war starts out with social unity - management vs. working class now takes a second seat to war-time unity as countries rally to their flags- what did countries expect of WWI? - expected what had happened in the past -... Wed, 31 Jul 2013 04:56:05 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=paradox ...Zeno of Elea (490BC-430BC) - in southern Italy - member of Eleatic School founded by Parmenides - Eleatic School - rejected the epistemological validity of sense experience - Zeno primarily employed the reductio ad absurdum, attempting to destroy the arguments of others by showing their premises led to contradictions- Parmenides (515BC-430BC) - founder of Eleatic school ... Mon, 29 Jul 2013 23:57:52 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=ferdinand ...it starts with an assassination in Sarajevo - capital of Bosnia - Serbia, to the east, believes it should expand to include much if not all of Bosnia as well as other areas in the Balkans - Serbians are supported by their Slav kindred in the Russian Empire - Bosnians (1878 administrated by and 1908 annexed by Austro-Hungarian Empire) are also backed by the Germans - Italy was pa... Sat, 27 Jul 2013 02:16:11 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=zeus ...Hesiod (750BC-660BC) - around the same time as Homer - one of the first European poets to regard himself as a topic - Hesiod and Homer established Greek religious customs - major source on Greek mythology, farming techniques, early economic thought, archaic Greek astronomy, and ancient time-keeping - Homer composed heroic epic, Hesiod composed didactic epic (emphasizing instruct... Fri, 26 Jul 2013 23:23:59 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=1914alliiances ...Balkan whirlpool - Germany is getting sucked into this area of the world and its issues - the Balkans are "toxically anti-imperialist" - against the Austrian-Hungarian Empire - against the Ottoman Empire - they've thrown off imperial rule, but now they are full of quarrels with each other, the Balkans has become a battle ground of warring new nationalities - 1908: Bosnia i... Thu, 25 Jul 2013 04:55:14 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=alanfreed ...how did white teenagers get to listen to rhythm and blues in the early 1950s? - country was still very segregated - African-Americans were largely living in separate towns and neighborhoods than whites - for white kids to go into those parts of town was still largely forbidden by their parents - there wasn't a conscious effort to for rhythm and blues labels to reach white teenagers... Wed, 24 Jul 2013 20:54:57 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=jinshi2 ...Max Weber (1864-1920) - German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist whose ideas influenced social theory, social research, and the entire discipline of sociology - studied the religions of China with regard to the apparent non-development of capitalism in the corresponding societies, as well as to their differing forms of social stratification- Imperial China - major dyna... Wed, 24 Jul 2013 01:36:16 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=adpatp ...skeletal muscle - actin and myosin filaments interact to generate force - actin - participates in many important cellular processes including muscle contraction, cell division cell signalling, and the establishment and maintenance of cell junctions and cell shape - myosins - ATP-dependent motor proteins best known for their role in muscle contraction and their involvement in a wid... Tue, 23 Jul 2013 00:27:04 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=recordSpeech ...tips for recording your video - we don't want your head right in the camera, stand back so that viewers can see you walk and move around - audience should see you from the thighs up - make sure lighting is bright enough - close all windows to reduce outside sounds such as sirens or dogs barking - you want your laptop or camera up on books or a shelf about chest level, otherwise if ... Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:58:42 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=germany1914 ...In 1914, Germany has two different personalities - if you were going to look at the empires whose fears and insecurities were at the root of what happened in 1914, you would also look at: - Austria-Hungarian Empire - Russian Empire - so why look at Germany in particular? - they controlled the strategic initiative for World War I - they were the country which was able to set th... Sun, 21 Jul 2013 22:52:12 +0200 http://tanguay.info/learntracker/page/lectureNotesItems?idCode=1450_2 ...to understand the collision that happened after 1492, we have to understand what was happening in the Old World- Russians moving north and east, many legends from this time, fish with men's heads, etc.- in West, forces of Christendom not faring too badly, Portugal and Spain, pushing Muslim forces south, culminating in alliance of Castille and Aragon, formed by marriage between Isabella ... Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:02:07 +0100