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    The Romantic Movement‚ which contains main ideas of liberty and conservatism‚ begins at the end of eighteenth century‚ and this era lasts for half century (Perry et al. 2009‚ pp.520-521). Romanticism’s relationship with the Enlightenment is like day and night‚ they seem to be the opposite of each other but they still have innumerable links. This essay will agree that Romantics’ thoughts on painting and poetry. Romanticism paintings have discriminable features such as strong emotions and free imagination

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    and scope of enquiry‚ purpose of social and political enquiry‚ and the distinct area of intellectual endeavor (Burchill et al 2005). While current efforts are being made across the globe to expand the frontiers of the discipline from the

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    what ways may the Renaissance be regarded as a turning point in the Western intellectual and cultural tradition? 2. ’81: Compare the ways in which two works of art reproduced below express the artistic‚ philosophical and cultural values of their times. (Pictures of Michelangelo ’s David and Giacometti ’s Man Pointing 1947). 3. ’82: Compare and contrast the cultural values of the Enlightenment with those of the sixteenth century Northern Renaissance. 4

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    1. Enlightenment Setting a. The Enlightenment is a combination of the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution‚ marked with a sense of less spirituality and more secularism. i. Less spirituality‚ more secularism. ii. During this time‚ people questioned authority more than ever before. People wanted equality – or at least semi-equality – where the masses weren’t dirt-poor and the middle class totally unobtainable. iii. Not only were more people learned (thanks to the printing press in the Renaissance)

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    ENLIGHTENMENT ERA The Age of Enlightenment (or simply the Enlightenment) is the era in Western philosophy and intellectual‚ scientific‚ and cultural life‚ centered upon the 18th century‚ in which reason was advocated as the primary source for legitimacy and authority. Developing simultaneously in France‚ Great Britain‚ Germany‚ the Netherlands‚ Italy‚ Spain‚ the American colonies‚ and Portugal‚ the movement was buoyed by Atlantic Revolutions‚ especially the success of the American Revolution‚

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    Intellectual property is the property generated in the process of intellectual activities. It can be possessed and used‚ and generated benefits. The major components of intellectual property include copyrights‚ patents‚ and trademarks. Similar to tangible property‚ intellectual property which is an intangible property is also protected by the law. The governments and parliaments have given the creators the rights as an incentive to produce ideas that will benefit society as a whole‚ by preventing

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    Chapter 4 The Period of Enlightenment (1872-1898) Historical Background After 300 years of passivity under Spanish rule‚ the Filipino spirit reawakened when the 3 priests Gomez‚ Burgos and Zamora were guillotined without sufficient evidence of guilt. This occurred on the 17th of February. This was buttressed with the spirit of liberalism when the Philippines opened its doors to world trade and with the coming of a liberal leader in the person of Governor Carlos Maria de la Torre. The Spaniards

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    As the most profound and significant intellectual movement since the Renaissance in Europe‚ the Enlightenment in eighteenth century was never a coincidence‚ instead it was set in complicated economical‚ scientific and social context. With the growing power of emergent capitalist industrialism‚ the new middle class who had known poverty and hardship‚ and most of whom had obtained their present social statue through hard work‚ put high value on the virtues of self-discipline‚ thrift and hard work.

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    course of the enlightenment‚ there was a surge of reformation through reason and logical thinking‚ and a major shift away from the values of nature and love‚ characteristic of romanticism. Thus‚ in a time of radical change of thought‚ the Mary Shelley uses the ambitions and hungers of certain characters in the novel to represent specific points on a scale of romanticism versus empiricism‚ and their ultimate endpoint to represent how the search for knowledge present throughout the enlightenment damaged

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    Known operating system security flaw in Microsoft® Windows®‚ Mac OS X®‚ Linux®‚ or UNIX® Lance Branford POS/355 January 13‚ 2015 Eugene Gorbatov Known operating system security flaw in Microsoft® Windows®‚ Mac OS X®‚ Linux®‚ or UNIX® In describing known operating security with in the operating systems. I will be describing how the systems are compromised how to counter the attack and what the attack does to the system. In the UNIX systems the vulnerability named shellshock which is a command line

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