Chapter One The Art of Benin I I. Introduction A. Cultural Encounters Between Europe and Benin from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century 1. The trade in objects in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries 2. The imperial confrontations of the late nineteenth century 3. The engagement with ideas about art in the twentieth century B. European Contacts with Benin Europeans first became aware of the existence of Benin through Portuguese traders in the fifteenth century. The accounts left behind indicate
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Out of Africa Chapter One: 1. New Characters: • Denys Finch Hatton- was a man in love with nature and humanity • Farah Aden- Somali boy that was a member of the Habr Yunis tribe • Kabero- seven year old kitchen boy • Belnapp- Manager of the Coffee Mill • Berkeley Cole-British man living in Kenya‚ and also fought in the Boer war • Kinanjui- Chief of the neighborhood 1a. New Settings: The Ngong Farm 2. Summary Sentences: Chapter one was about the narrator and one of the Belnapp having some coffee in
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Robotic Development The researchers in “New Robot Has Come to Conquer Human Race…With Snacks!” By Aaron Saenz are on the frontier of robot development. The researchers at Carnegie Mellon are developing a robot named SnackBot which goes around offering snacks to people. In the experiment of SnackBot in the workplace the researchers were observing the social interaction of humans and robots as well as the aesthetics. They were determining if it was well received‚ if its height was too small or too
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Professor John Danisi Learning Community 9 31 August 2014 The Line Between Logic and Emotion‚ In Relation to I‚ Robot Life is seen as a wide spectrum of things‚ most of them living. It is hard to conceive the fact that artificial intelligence will soon become a large part of our society and that it may someday try to take over. But what will always separate us from robots is the fact that we can separate our logical brain from our emotional brain‚ without having either act too extreme. To
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interesting potential field because people expect robots to come into their lives. Robots will make our lives more comfortable‚ doing household duties‚ security jobs‚ tending the elderly‚ etc. Therefore‚ it is essential that people become more familiar with our future helpers. However‚ many people do not take interests in knowing about robots because people are not aware of the meaning of robots’ names. It is a good idea for inventors to name their robots or project after themselves on their company
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England in the late eighteenth – early nineteenth century Major World Events * 1810s – 1820s – Latin American wars of independence which saw many colonies in the region gain independence‚ freeing themselves from Spanish and Portuguese empires * 1810 – University of Berlin was founded and among its students and faculty were Hegel and Marx * 1812 – The French invasion of Russia‚ which led to‚ the eventual defeat of Napoleon’s French empire leading to the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy
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The Giver placed his hands on Jonas’s bare back‚ and suddenly Jonas was on a hard ground. He was laying down with a bunch of small‚ tiny rocks digging into his skin. Jonas stood up and wiped the rocks from his skin. From the distance he can see these boats. They are not like the boat he was on when The Giver gave him the memory of the sea. These boats were much bigger. “Ships”. They are sitting on the water. Peacefully flowing with the current of the moving‚ clear‚ beautiful water. Jonas has never
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Thoracic Surgery 9 (2009) 500–505 www.icvts.org State-of-the-art - Cardiac general Robot-assisted cardiac surgery Paul Modi‚ Evelio Rodriguez‚ W. Randolph Chitwood Jr.* East Carolina Heart Institute‚ East Carolina University‚ Pitt County Memorial Hospital‚ 600 Moye Boulevard‚ Greenville‚ NC 27834‚ USA Received 10 February 2009; received in revised form 5 June 2009; accepted 7 June 2009 Summary Recognition of the significant advantages of minimizing surgical trauma has resulted in a
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By cutting through the forrest‚ Jonas walked over to the so called “Music”. He saw a lot of people gathered up like a ceremony‚ but it was different. They were all wearing “multi-coloured dresses”. “Gabe‚ what do you think this is?”‚ Jonas asked. “Ghaa”Gabe stuttered to say. Jonas walked over to the group of people while holding Gabe in his arms. Jonas saw what looked like a giant sled with people on it. He remembered something like this from one of the memories‚ something called a “foat”
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APUSH Study Guide Pre-Colonial America Pre-Columbian 3 most advanced civilizations: Incas‚ Mayas‚ Aztecs European Exploration Treaty of Tordesillas (1494): “Line of Demarcation” (division of the Americas into two equal parts for Spain and Portugal to share – Spain‚ west; Portugal‚ east) moved further west since it was unfavorable to Spain and Portugal had a stronger navy Brazil becomes Portuguese colony and Spain maintained claims to rest of Americas Reasons for Colonization: money‚ power
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