Imagine transporting back to 415 BC in Athens, Greece. What would it be like? Well, it would not be what was expected. Picture men, women, and children sick and dying crawling into the sewer systems in the streets. People starving because there were no supplies left over from the war. At this time the Athenians had just experienced the plague and were on the verge of losing the Peloponnesian war. Though, their downfall as an empire did not come until after they lost fifty thousand soldiers in their
the tool they use to wield their power, the Athenian trireme. By looking at the design of the trireme, and the work and numbers put both into the ship and the men that drive it, hopefully
The Tacos lived on a slender coastal strip of fertile land between the Taco Sea and the Lettuce Mountains. The Tacos civilization lived around the time 1200 BCE to 300 BCE, about 3,000 years ago. Tacoland was made up of four small city-states: Taco Bell, Taco Cabana, Del Taco, and Taco Loco. Although each city-state was ruled by a king, they all joined together in times of danger for better defense. The Tacos looked at the sea to expand rather than on land, because they always thought of the mountains
person in front of me is or isn’t. Micro interactions breaks all of these barriers and rules of our society to basically make us wonder what the person next to us is really feeling. Ironically, this idea comes from a book designed on improving joy in everyday life but the action is free and nothing needs to be bought to act it out. It might seem completely out of the question for most, primarily because it 's an uncomfortable thing to think about any interaction with strangers period. Sense we were raised
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy focuses on increasing emotional responsiveness and boding interactions. EFT synthesizes the constructionist and systemic approach and also includes contributions attachment theory. The experiential influences include a therapeutic alliance, acceptance and validation of the client’s experience, the acknowledgement that humans choose creative, healthy choices when possible, a look at how inner and outer realities define each other, an understanding that we are all
field of education. She argues that with technological advancement, it is no longer necessary to have students sit in class and wait to be guided, instructed, and examined by experts. On the other side, Sherry Turkle discusses the human-machine interaction in her work “Selections from Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other” as an aspect of the changing paradigm. Nafisi’s article “Selection from Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books” then presents a society
This exercise was definitely an eye-opener for me on what I should work on to improve future interactions. The whole process of the feedback was a little hard to listen to but each step was necessary to get good honest feedback. Next comes processing the information and seeing what things I need to work on to become a better leader with the interactions of hearing thoughts on these words. The final step was to figure out a SMART goal that I could use to improve on the liabilities and build off the
Attractiveness ratings as a short-term and a long-term romantic partner, as well as an opposite-sex friend and a friend to other opposite-sex people are shown in Fig.1 (women’s rating for attractiveness of male dates) and Fig.2 (men’s rating for attractiveness of female dates). In Fig.1 and Fig.2, it is noteworthy that men considered even low willing female dates as attractive as more than 5 out of 10 in the scales, but women never gave men with low willingness such high ratings in all four categories
consciousness of a group reminiscing on past experiences and interactions, opening them to discover personal potential. This process acts as a catalyst for an evaluation of the impact of change, leading to new discoveries. In exploring composer’s representations of discoveries, individuals learn the symbiotic relationships of new insights and their intrinsic value. Discoveries that are catalysed by unexpected an unprecedented human interaction, are often the most powerful and lead to immense personal
It is commonly observed in children at their primary education level that conversation among their peers does not always take a pattern and as such; respect of their peers is not given a proper attention. However, interactions among pupil or students and their teachers in school used to be in turn, when the teacher speaks; it is not expected for the pupil to interrupt his/her discussion, the pupil listen to the teacher and take a turn on his own response to what he’s been asked, where this rule is