PROFESSOR ANDREA DAVIS DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES Course: AP/HUMA 1300 9.0 Course Webpage: http://moodle.yorku.ca/ Term: Fall/Winter 2014-2015 Prerequisite / Co-requisite: none Course Director Dr. Andrea Davis (416) 736-2100 x 55158 821 Kaneff Tower aadavis@yorku.ca webpage: http://www.yorku.ca/laps/huma/faculty.html Course Consultation hours:
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unions * Clear definition and articulation of company’s mission and values. Challenge to the established norms of customer service. Making sure that every employee is aware of his goals and the ultimate purpose * Improvements in design and manufacturing process. Most GM cars were criticized for obsolete designs and engines. Saturn wanted to change that perception by making frequent incremental improvements and designing the cars with advanced engine components and features as well as offering generous
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Sierra Furtado Neil Campbell ENG 1010 2.21.13 China’s Invisible Children & The One Child Law. “In order to stabilize the world’s population‚” wrote Jacques Yves Cousteau “350‚000 must be eliminated per day.” This powerfully haunting statement has been regulated and reinforced in China‚ by their government‚ since 1979. Although Chinese officials don’t eradicate nearly even a quarter as many lives daily‚ their One Child Law does put a reasonable dent into the lives that are brought into the
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One for One American Transcendentalist writer‚ Ralph Waldo Emerson once said‚ “to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” In today’s society many entrepreneurs and businessmen do not see this as the definition of success. However‚ thirty-five year old entrepreneur and adventurist‚ Blake Mycoskie‚ agrees with Emerson’s definition of success. In 2006‚ Mycoskie started the for profit company‚ TOMS. The company sells shoes here in the United States
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educator (1870-1952). Dr. Maria Montessori developed her educational philosophy as a result of her observations of the way children naturally learn. Dr. Maria Montessori’s first class consisted of 50-60 children‚ ages 3-6‚ and most of them suffered from problems in nutrition and were shy and fearful since they lived in the slums of Florence‚ Italy. Montessori found that the children needed very little persuading to do everyday tasks‚ puzzles or other interesting activities which allowed them to not direct
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Francisco Goya Artists frequently respond to the world around them and this is highly evident with the Romanists artist Francisco Goya in his painting Colossus (panic) c. 1808‚ through his unique visual language; The language of his unique painting style‚ through his use of personal symbols for example the Colossus figure and the gesture of the face of the Colossus and its fist. Goya’s painting technique is using long brush strokes especially in the sky with exaggeration of the sky on the dawn
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Still Life with Golden Bream‚ by Francisco de Goya‚ is a painting painted 1808-1812. This painting expresses sympathy for uncorrupted innocents‚ a tyranical authority‚ and the imagination and intensity of feeling‚ all big points that Romanticism taught. It depicts a group of fish all piled upon each other‚ staring dead into the sky. While this painting was in the works‚ the peninsular War was going on. The conflict was between Napoleon and the Allied powers of Spain; in its wake‚ many suffered casualties
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Picasso ’s "Guernica" (1937) and Goya ’s "The Third of May" (1814) are paintings that are created to communicate an issue of concern of the artist. In order to truly understand the impact that these paintings have on people‚ and why that impact is so strong‚ a person must analyse the content of them. The first reaction of the "Guernica" by Picasso is one of mayhem‚ destruction‚ lost souls and death. The entire painting is dark with cool colours and no sign of warmth. There are scattered distorted
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Rivers to one of his patients (e.g.‚ Prior‚ Burns‚ Sassoon). What challenges does the patient present to Rivers and does Rivers overcome those challenges? As Rivers is a psychiatrist at Craiglockhart‚ his perceptions of the world are altered by the patients that he treats. Characters such as Prior‚ Burns and Anderson influence the doctor‚ but the person who changes Rivers the most is Sassoon‚ the author of the declaration. Sassoon challenges Rivers on a personal level‚ changing his viewpoint towards
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