5.2 Wilberforce’s anti-slavery campaign in context Certainly the outcome was a positive one from Wilberforce’s point of view in that abolition of the slave trade in British ships and colonial possessions passed rapidly through both Houses of Parliament, and became law in March 1807. This result in part implied an increased receptivity to Wilberforce’s religious arguments against slavery, but there were also other factors at work. These included the advance of liberal ideas of justice and toleration, themselves reflecting the influence of
21W.730-5 Writing on Contemporary Issues: Imagining the Future (MIT)
Turn-of-the-century eras have historically been times when people are more than usually inclined to scrutinize the present and speculate about the future. Now, the turn not just of a century but of a millennium having recently passed, such scrutiny and speculations inevitably intensify. What will the future that awaits us in this twenty-first century and beyond be like? And how do visions of that future reflect and respond to the world we live in now? In this course we will read and write about
Creating documents with interactive features
Connecting customers deeply with a brand is more important than ever before. Hear from Tina Alexander, AVP Digital & Web Marketing, how Celebrity Cruises is reinforcing its “modern luxury” brand promise through a dynamic customer communications app that not only showcases its sailings around the globe, but lets prospects experience them too.
Meta-Lab: programa??o de um laborat?rio interativo [Metal-Lab: the programming of an interactive lab
Here we discuss the technological and theoretical issues that conform the restructuring proposal of the Computer Laboratory of Escola de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da UFMG, reconfiguring it in what we call ?Meta-Lab?: a space composed of programmable modules that make up the so called Sistema Hidra(!), a system structured in three levels (sensory, processor and actuator level) which receives environmental information via sensors, processes these information and changes the environment using actuato
Pachelbel Canon in D Major
This is an audio recording of Pachelbel's "Canon in D Major" with a picture of Pachelbel as the backdrop. It was originally scored for three violins and basso continuo and paired with a gigue in the same key. THis cannon has a basso continuo playing an independent part. The three top parts enter one by one playing the exact same part-beautifully layered. This piece is often used in commercials as well as weddings.
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2.9 Iron (Fe) The ability of blood to carry oxygen is due to the presence of the red pigment, haemoglobin, present in red blood cells. Haemoglobin is a protein formed from four polypeptide chains called globins, in the centre of each of which is a small non-protein part called a haem group (haima is Greek for ‘blood’). Each of the haem groups has an iron atom within it (Author(s):
Great War Centenary
A collection of Great War themed photographs and articles by Geograph contributors
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, Women and Leadership: Turning our Differences into Strengths
Talks at Google and Women at Google were excited to host Sheila Lirio Marcelo, Founder, Chairwoman and CEO of Care.com.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from Sheila Lirio Marcelo as she shares her wisdom and experience as a female executive. Sheila focuses her discussion on women and leadership - specifically, how women are influenced by preconceived ideas, and how differences can be turned into strengths.
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Care.com was founded in 2006 and went public in
Introduction To set up a care relationship that works well is a delicate matter, whether you are at the giving or the receiving end. In this unit we explore the very varied meanings of care relationships and how these meanings arise. Millions of care relationships are going on as you read this, and each carries its own particular meanings for those involved. But where have all those people picked up their ideas of how to relate to each other? How does any of us know where to begin? This material is
2.4 Can GM crops feed the world? The issue of global food security is at the heart of many of the ethical issues related to GM technology. United Nations population scientists estimate that the world's population will increase by 2 billion over the next 30 years, posing huge challenges for global food production. More than 842 million people are currently chronically hungry. Proponents of GM crops argue that further development of this technology is vital to meet this challenge. However, a more equal distribution of ex
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
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The Semantics of Graphical Input
This paper describes the semantics of action, an approach to describing input devices which allow the full utilization of all useful device characteristics and provides a high degree of hardware device independence. Part one discusses the semantics of graphical input device. The second shows how to create hierarchies of devices which provide a large measure of hardware independence. The third part applies these concepts to some typical problems, to demonstrate their completeness
Sam Tanenhaus; Bill Fletcher and Michael Zweig
Digging deep into the roots and evolution of the American conservative movement, Sam Tanenhaus talks with Bill Moyers about why he believes that conservatism is dead and how it might yet come back to life. Tanenhaus is the editor of both THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW and the Week in Review section of the TIMES. And, with public support for labor unions at its lowest point in 70 years, Bill Moyers talks with experts Bill Fletcher, co-author of SOlIDARITY DIVIDED: THE CRISIS IN ORGANIZED lABOR AN
Biomedical Technician Career
This three minute video explains what biomedical technicians, also called biomedical equipment technicians, or BMETs, are medical equipment maintenance and repair specialists. They work with a wide variety of biomedical devices that diagnose, treat or assist patients. This video provides insights into what is required in this job, but it is also good to show students that there are a variety of occupations available that they might not have thought about previously.
14.282 Organizational Economics (MIT)
This course in organizational economics prepares doctoral students for further study in the field. The course introduces the classic papers and some recent research. The material is organized into the following modules: boundaries of the firm, employment in organizations, decision-making in organizations, and structures and processes in organizations. Each class session covers a few leading papers.
This course was joint-taught between faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harv
Introduction This unit is from our archive and it is an adapted extract from Systems thinking: principles and practice (T205) which is no longer in presentation. If you wish to study formally at the Open University, you may wish to explore the courses we offer in this curriculum area.
This unit has been written because it is al
Lesson 01 - One Minute Romanian
In lesson 1 of One Minute Romanian you will learn how to say 'hello' and 'goodbye' in Romanian. Remember - even a few phrases of a language can help you make friends and enjoy travel more. Find out more about One Minute Romanian at our website - http://www.oneminutelanguages.com.Author(s):
1.3.2 The reduction of chromosome number: meiosis If you look at the chromosomes shown in Figure 8 you will see that they have been lined up in pairs. The members of each pair are of similar shape and size, and unlike the members of other pairs. At a molecular level these distinctions are maintained: the order of the bases in the DNA is very similar in both members of a pair, but is quite different from that found in other pairs. By ‘very similar’ we mean that the order of the particular genes on each chromosome of the pair is the same,
