What is the Golden Ratio The golden ration can occur anywhere. The golden proportion is the ratio of the shorter length to the longer length which equals the ratio of the longer length to the sum of both lengths. The golden ratio is a term used to describe proportioning in a piece. In a work of art or architecture‚ if one maintained a ratio of small elements to larger elements that was the same as the ratio of larger elements to the whole‚ the end result was pleasing to the eye. The ratio
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Rhetorical Theory centered on the 4th Century BC writings of Aristotle. Aristotle’s Rhetoric was the seminal work which was later revised by others including Kenneth Burke (dramatism) and Toulmin (argument model). George A. Kennedy (2004) wrote the most respected‚ authoritative and explanatory translation of Aristotle’s Rhetoric but an older translation by W. Rhys Roberts (1954) is available online for free. Aristotle’s mentor‚ Plato (385 BC)‚ reacted to the unjust rule of Athenian culture
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The Golden Number 1.61803 39887 49894 84820 is by no means a number of memorization. However‚ it is a recognizable one. Never will you find a combination of numbers that is more significant than this one. This ratio is known as the Golden Number‚ or the Golden Ratio. This mystery number has been used throughout different aspects of life‚ such as art‚ architecture‚ and of course‚ mathematics. One may wonder where the Golden Ratio came from? Who thought to discover it? When was it discovered? And
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Book Report: The Golden Notebook Meg 1011325 The author Doris May Lessing is a British writer. Her novels include The Golden Notebook‚ The Golden Notebook‚ and five other novels collectively known as Canopus in Academy. Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was described by the Swedish Academy as "that epicist of the female experience‚ who with skepticism‚ fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny". She was also the eleventh woman and the
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negated. Further‚ the second argument entails that since Aristotle can depict an excellent human and define the human good‚ does not mean there is any reason for anyone to actually be good or that goodness follows as a function. Both of the responses I provided disprove to this claim and eliminate the argument entirely. The first reply involves linguistics. Aristotle’s argument begins with “if” rather than “because” but he is not claiming his premises are undoubtedly true to prove his point. He explicitly
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The Golden Ratio Body‚ art‚ music‚ architecture‚ nature – all connected by a simple irrational number – the Golden Ratio. According to Posamentier & Lehmann in their work The (Fabulous) Fibonacci Numbers‚ there is reason to believe that the letter φ (phi) was used because it is the first letter of the name of the celebrated Greek sculptor Phidias (490-430 BCE). He produced the famous statue of Zeus in the Temple of Olympia and supervised the construction of the Parthenon in Athens
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Effective Logical Fallacy Aristotle‚ in his Rhetoric‚ said that an arguer must state a claim (or a proposition) and prove it. He went into detail about the broad categories of proof and how they are still useful today. Aristotle divides his second category into three subcategories. The Greek words refer to the proof are logos (logic)‚ ethos (credibility)‚ and pathos (emotion). In my discussion‚ I’m going related this to my Solid State Devices class. I have over 30 years’ experience in the installation
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Ethics comes from. Both Aristotle’s father and his son were named Nicomachus‚ so it is possible that the book is dedicated to either one. Other scholars suggest that Aristotle’s son may have edited the book after Aristotle died‚ so that the title “Nicomachean” may refer to this particular edition of Aristotle’s ethical works. Happiness is the highest good and the end at which all our activities ultimately aim. All our activities aim at some end‚ though most of these ends are means toward other ends. For
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While Aristotle’s work is centuries old‚ it is a testament to him as a philosopher that his work is still read‚ discussed‚ and debated to this day. In the field of philosophy of emotion‚ his work‚ called Aristotelian analyses‚ forms part of the fundamental foundation on which the field is built. Aristotle defines and gives several examples of this analysis of emotions in the second book of his work Rhetoric; however‚ he does not cover every emotion in those examples. After explaining what constitutes
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Golden Parachutes Often in a stack of current newspapers‚ the front page topics that will catch your attention are ethical issues behind upper management compensations; in this case‚ on March 30th 2009‚ the issue that surfaced was Rick Wagoner’s leave from GM and his retirement package and how his actual/ base compensation doubled in his last year from approximately $7M to $15M.(7) With the current economic crisis‚ many people outside the business society have become aware of the ridiculously
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