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Sophists
Sophists , originally, itinerant teachers in Greece (5th cent. BC) who provided education through lectures and in return received fees from their audiences. The term was given as a mark of respect. Protagoras was perhaps the first to style himself a Sophist and to receive payment for his... Read more |
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Eunapius
Eunapius , b. c.347, Greek Neoplatonic philosopher, whose Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists is a most valuable primary source. His continuation of Dexippus' history is lost. Like many Neoplatonists he opposed Christianity.... Read more |
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Charlie Christian
Charlie Christian Guitarist Attention of Hammond Led to Goodman Gig Sophisticated Beyond His Years Minton Read more |
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Gorgias
Gorgias , c.485-c.380 BC, Greek Sophist. From his native city, Leontini, Sicily, he was sent as an ambassador to Athens, where he settled to teach and practice rhetoric. Gorgias pursued the negative implications of the Eleatic school and asserted: (1) Nothing exists; (2) If anything does exist, it... Read more |
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Ruth Draper
Ruth Draper 1884-1956, American monologist, b. New York City. The author of 36 monologues, ranging from farce to tragedy, she played the various characters within each sketch with only a change of costume and props. Her delicate and sophisticated art gained her worldwide acclaim.... Read more |
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Urbanity
Urbanity BIBLIOGRAPHY Over the course of the nineteenth century in Europe and North America, urbanity came to be conceived as a personality trait. According to Richard Sennett (1974), public experience outside the private sphere of the home became an obligation for the self-development of men.... Read more |
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Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance term used to describe a flowering of African-American literature and art in the 1920s, mainly in the Harlem district of New York City. During the mass migration of African Americans from the rural agricultural South to the urban industrial North (1914-18), many who came to New... Read more |
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Hippias of Elis
HIPPIAS OF ELIS Hippias of Elis, the Greek Sophist and polymath, was probably born before 460 BCE. The date of his death is not known, but Plato speaks of him as one of the leading Sophists at the time of the death of Socrates in 399 BCE. On a number of occasions he acted as ambassador for his... Read more |
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Protagoras
Protagoras The Greek philosopher Protagoras (ca. 484-ca. 414 B.C.) was one of the best-known and most successful teachers of the Sophistic movement of the 5th century B.C. Protagoras was born in Abdera, the native city of Democritus, and spent much of his life as an itinerant Sophist,... Read more |
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Harlem Renaissance
...to produce a race‐conscious community of unprecedented sophistication in this northern Manhattan neighborhood. Harlem‐based...Opportunity, stressed the importance of the great migration from rural South to urban North and encouraged black writing “which... |
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industrial revolution
...what brought about the transformation from a predominantly rural society, whose major source of livelihoods derived from the...of processes and discoveries of new materials increased the sophistication of products available. Examples of these occurred in metallurgy... |
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Britons
...government were in the areas which had shown political sophistication before the invasion—Kent, Essex, Hertfordshire, and Buckinghamshire...element of the population was in the minority. Yet even in rural settlements which show few signs of Romanized architecture... |
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Farmers' market; After rural sophistication with rough-hewn charm? Then cosy...
...stable block converted into three houses, The Barn suggests rural seclusion but is only seven miles from Edinburgh city centre...shelter. PLUS POINTS: When urban visitors descend on your rural idyll, keep friendships intact by putting them up in the two... |
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Homes - Past meets present; Erika Wood on a set of barn conversions that...
Byline: Erika Wood INDING a unique property that combines the best of country life without losing touch with city sophistication is no easy task,but Bryn Barns,near Ebistock, Wrexham does fit the bill rather nicely. Bryn Barns is in the hamlet... |
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MARY'S OFFERS SOPHISTICATION AMID RURAL CHARM
...what looked like the parlor of an old farmhouse, though the red-painted walls reflected an urban sophistication a bit out of step with rural Vermont. The menu named, and listed offerings from, several local meat producers and vegetable growers... |
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Keeping it in the family; The picturesque town of Guildford has rural charm...
Byline: ANTHEA MASEY GUILDFORD, the county town of Surrey, is one of the best places within easy commuting distance of London to bring up a family. This is a town that really caters for children. Spectrum, Europe's largest sports centre, offers everything from 10-pin bowling, to swimming and ice |
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NETNEWS.(number of people online, technology sophistication)(Brief Article)
...Technology Sophistication Stats Schools that are small, rural, and have a tow...in technology sophistication, according to...high technology sophistication scores tend to...projects serving rural America. The... |
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UPTAKE OF INTERNET RISING IN RURAL AUSTRALIA: STUDY.
...attitudes, behaviours and sophistication of rural and regional Australians...More than 90 per cent of rural and regional users who had...research also shows that the sophistication of PC set-up within rural and regional households... |
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Addressing Rural Ethics Issues
...a rural setting? A. Since rural facilities are less likely...like urban ethics committees, rural committees vary in functions, sophistication, leadership, and respect...specific conflicts or questions. Rural ethics are distinct in terms... |
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Peasants Against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica
...Peasants Against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica...cultural context and everincreasing sophistication of the rural population. He acknowledges but...agricultor, worn with pride by the rural population. Of particular interest... |
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How Size and Setting Impact Education in Rural Schools
...Research reveals that students in rural schools face many personal and education...poverty to having less opportunity and sophistication in technology. Rural schools also have fewer course offerings. While rural schools are a unique, urban and... |
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A rural nursing center without walls.(Report)
...multidimensional characteristics of the population, the rural environment, and rural sub-cultural values. Likewise, rural nursing research differs widely in its levels of sophistication (Weinert & Burman, 1996; Weinert, 2006), and there... |
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