Arts & Humanities - 1 November 2006

I've heard alot about this book, mostly good stuff and i was wondering if it was worth the buy and hoping someone could give me a "you'll prolly like "the androids dream" if you liked..." type of deal.

2006-11-01 16:25:36 · 3 answers · asked by C 1 in Books & Authors

"Briefly put, the conception is that mind is the one ultimate reality; not mind as we know it in the complex forms of conscious feeling and thought, but the simpler elements out of which thought and feeling are built up. The hypothetical ultimate element of mind, or atom of mind-stuff, precisely corresponds to the hypothetical atom of matter, being the ultimate fact of which the material atom is the phenomenon. Matter and the sensible universe are the relations between particular organisms, that is, mind organized into consciousness, and the rest of the world. This leads to results which would in a loose and popular sense be called materialist. But the theory must, as a metaphysical theory, be reckoned on the idealist side. To speak technically, it is an idealist monism

2006-11-01 16:20:30 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

Vincent Van Gogh is known to have sold one painting in his life, I was wondering which one is it? See a list of van gogh oil paintings at: http://www.overstockart.com/vangogrprod.html

2006-11-01 16:20:20 · 3 answers · asked by amitai 1 in Painting

2006-11-01 16:18:12 · 14 answers · asked by 1001Questions 2 in Books & Authors

more books of this nature for me?
P.S. I know that the titles of books should be underlined, and not identified in quotation marks, however, Yahoo! does not have this feature.
Thank you for your time and assistance.

2006-11-01 16:15:10 · 2 answers · asked by James 2 in Books & Authors

i want to know, if a person has a last name as "jaja", from which country would s/he is likely to be from?

2006-11-01 16:15:05 · 4 answers · asked by vande_mataram 2 in Genealogy

John Adams and John Q Adams were completely against slavery. Jefferson and Washington owned them, but are considered great. Just keep that in mind when you answer.

2006-11-01 16:14:45 · 7 answers · asked by lucky 2 in History

Esta Bien o mal?


Es retogrado ,superretogrado o ultraretogardo?


Spanish as the second most spoken language in the country must be taught in all Public Schools, starting at KinderGarde. The advancement of kindergarten education was a major focus for the energies of female reformers in Germany during the 1848 revolution and the rest of the nineteenth century. Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852), an educator and philosopher who had studied with Swiss pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, formulated the educational philosophy of the kindergarten. Froebel, who was born in Oberweissbach, Thuringia as the son of a pastor, had attended the University of Jena. A veteran of the Wars of Liberation, he had previously founded schools for boys and written several treatises on education. Following Pestalozzi's teachings, he believed that mothers should take a leading role in the education of small children. His best-known book, written in 1843, was Mutter- und Koselieder, a series of songs designed to help mothers provide sensory stimulation and educational play for children from the first months of life.

Froebel, however, believed that most mothers were not qualified to perform this crucial educational function, and therefore designed a new type of institution for early-childhood education, which he called the Kindergarten. He founded the first kindergarten in Blankenburg, Thuringia in 1840. The kindergarten differed from existing preschool institutions, most of which were church-run day-care centers known as Bewahranstalten or Kleinkinderschulen. These institutions provided chiefly custodial services for the children of the very poor. Their pedagogy was based on traditional Christian doctrines of original sin, and their teaching staff was largely male; beginning in the 1830s, Protestant deaconesses were also sometimes employed in these institutions. By contrast, Froebel designed the kindergarten for children of all classes, though at first it attracted chiefly middle-class children. Its pedagogical approach, based on that of Rousseau and Pestalozzi, denied original sin and affirmed the child's innate capacity for rationality and spiritual growth, which must be encouraged by a nurturing and supportive classroom atmosphere. Froebel, having failed to interest the male-dominated teaching profession in his ideas, called upon women to staff the kindergarten. Strongly believing that child rearing skills, though resting on an innate maternal instinct, must nonetheless be developed through training, he set up the first institute to train women kindergarten teachers at Keilhau, Thuringia in the early 1840s.

2006-11-01 16:13:19 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

If life is a cycle of happy things and let down, and everything good gets taken away, whats the point?

2006-11-01 16:12:17 · 16 answers · asked by ABK_SCRUB 2 in Philosophy

2006-11-01 16:11:03 · 1 answers · asked by campbell j 1 in Philosophy

How (by what method) did Jacques Barraband do his prints? The first person to answer this sufficiently will get 'Best Answer'.

2006-11-01 16:08:06 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Painting

2006-11-01 15:49:44 · 2 answers · asked by TeaLily 2 in Books & Authors

What were the terms of the Louisiana Purchase and the Embargo Act? What were the American negotiators, Monroe and Livingston, originally directed to seek purchase of? How did they and in what ways did they both contradict Jeffersonian principles? Why did Jefferson deem those actions necessary?

2006-11-01 15:45:00 · 4 answers · asked by ♥_mrs.smith 4 in History

We just watched the movie "Glory" about the civil war, and we have to write how Colonel Shaw and the 54th challenged the fortunes of war.
Thanks!

2006-11-01 15:41:39 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

2006-11-01 15:40:10 · 10 answers · asked by mom of a boy and girl 5 in Books & Authors

Well, since I live in the country and there aren't many people around to ask about personal books ideas, I thought I'd try here. I have an idea for a novel. The main character is a Senior named Benjamin who is pretty rich, has an absent father, dead mother and no friends (but doesn't want any at all because people annoy him.) He meets and over the course of a year befriends a boy who is his exact opposite named Arian. Benjamin has a crush on a girl named Taylor, is stalked by a girl named Madison, and is kissed by Arian's brother Christopher (all funny stories, of course). At the climax of the story, Arian is hospitalized for heart complications and is revealed to have once been unpopular and fat. He lost weight, became popular but when his father died he became anorexic, thus causing heart problems and evolved into a positive outlook on life. Would you read it?

2006-11-01 15:32:53 · 7 answers · asked by beautydivagurl 1 in Books & Authors

2006-11-01 15:32:35 · 4 answers · asked by Mere Mortal 7 in History

In what sense did Jefferson's actions to limit the nat'l debt, to shrink the size of the army, and to allow many Federalsist gov't workers to remain in office reflect his Republican principles? How effective was Albert Gallatin as Jefferson's Sec. of the Treasury in overturning Hamiltonian ideas?

2006-11-01 15:32:17 · 3 answers · asked by ♥_mrs.smith 4 in History

The poem is called "working with tools" by A.R. Ammons

2006-11-01 15:27:57 · 6 answers · asked by mnitzani 2 in Books & Authors

I believe utilitarianism is the best system thought up so far but i am no expert in ethics.

2006-11-01 15:25:25 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

Do you see any similarities between My Lai and some of the recent military "scandals" that have emerged from Iraq and Afghanistan?
Any information on My Lai would help. Thanks

2006-11-01 15:24:40 · 3 answers · asked by kuzya 1 in History

I have looked at the website for the Commune of Grottaminarda, but I do not see anyplace for birth certificates. Also, I do not know what department or government level issues birth certificates.

2006-11-01 15:24:36 · 3 answers · asked by Joyce M 1 in Genealogy

I came across this book once about a rock climber who got stuck in a crevice (or under a rock, I'm not sure), and I don't remember the title.

One of his hands was stuck, and I think he cut it off and survived. Anyone read it before?

2006-11-01 15:24:00 · 3 answers · asked by espers_cypher 2 in Books & Authors

2006-11-01 15:19:17 · 8 answers · asked by memotonemo2 2 in Other - Arts & Humanities

ok, PLEASE explain to me how the main conflict in the story "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" was resolved and what led up to this resolution

2006-11-01 15:18:37 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

This has boggled many great philosophers I think, and that is why it hasn't been tackled recently for fear of failure. I have to say it has given me many a sleepless nights, so I was hoping to turn it to the Yahoo! community to see how you could possibly answer this question.

2006-11-01 15:16:58 · 28 answers · asked by hondapride67 2 in Philosophy

2006-11-01 15:13:34 · 2 answers · asked by BlueAgleDDie 1 in History

2006-11-01 14:55:07 · 22 answers · asked by BB 2 in Philosophy

I just created a user account to join in the fun, but the site is either glitched or terribly slow, if not-is there some setting issue on my computer that I need to be aware of? To all of you that is doing this, good luck!

2006-11-01 14:53:45 · 5 answers · asked by Jean Low 2 in Books & Authors

2006-11-01 14:50:02 · 17 answers · asked by maxfliguy21 1 in Books & Authors