sábado, 29 de marzo de 2014

WOOW! Sinkholes

10 Of The Largest Sinkholes In The World

Bimmah, Oman



Agrico Gypsum Stack, Florida



Sarisarinama Sinkholes, Venezuela



Texas Devil’s Sinkhole



Daisetta Sinkhole, Texas



Guatemala City (2007)



Qattara Depression, West of Cairo, Egypt



Macungie Sinkhole, Pennsylvania



Guatemala City (2010)



Berezniki, Russia


You Have Never Seen a Dog Like This!

Every Dog Has Done This 1000 Times, But You've NEVER Seen It Captured Like This Before...

















miércoles, 26 de marzo de 2014

exam revew

VOCABULARY
Scientific revolution: new inventions and theories
Geocentric: earth centered
Heliocentric: sun centered
Elliptical: movement
Scientific world: Poland, Denmark, germany, Italy
Latin: lingua Franca
Empirical observation: sense data -> hypothesis -> experimentation -> observation -> analysis -> revised hypothesis
95% Consensus (agreement) is perfect

Englightment: cultural and philophosical movement   “Coming to the light of knowledge”
Empirical: sense-sata
France: most important country
Republic: they loved it
Wemen: treat as equal
Salon: social gathering
Symphony
Opera: extended synphoney 
Synphoney: piece of an orchesta
Epistolary novel: fiction characters writing letters to each other
Catrato: by voice

American Revolution
England: Had to be a protestant.
American colonists: complained about “taxation without representation”

French revolution
First: clergy
Second: nobility
Third: everyone else
Problems in France:
Femin: food shortages
Storming of the bastille: third state took it, prison, they wanted guns
Declaration of the right of men: liberty, equality, fraternity.
Women’s march on Versailles: were hungry, send Luis and Mary to Paris
Guillotines: a lot of people died.
The reign of terror: people put into guillotine

Scorched earth policy: burn your things before the enemy comes.
Negotiation: discussions
Leverage: power point in a negotiation, something you have that the other people want
Compromise: when you give soothing that you want a lot. 
Hard Power: guns and military force, money and economic strength
Soft power: Culture, Admiration, Good will: good feeling “
Quid pro guo: This for that. Money for job. Money for learning.
Left: communist, big changes, Cuba
Center: socialism, some public, some private. Germany.
Right: capitalism, status guo, the way things are now. Mexico

PERSONS
Nicolas Copernic: heliocentric without a telescope, followed by
Galileo galilee: telescope/ recant by the church/ house arrest
Giordano Bruno: there are other stars
Isaac newton: gravity/ eccentric (weirdo)
Francis bacon: scientific method
John Locke: elected government, people have the right of revolution, social contract
Mozart: child prodigy, orchestra
Catherine the Great: from Russia, interested on enlightenment
Ann: sad, problems with babies
George I: he didn’t talk English
Thomas Gefferson: part of the founding fathers, ideas from john lock
Maximilier Robespierre: woow of the committee of public safety.
Charlotte Corday: killed a person in his bathroom
The dauphin: he survived?
Napoleon: from Corsica, Italy.

NAPOLEON: he was sent to have a military career.
Talleyrand: represent napoleon, good
Better at land even though he was from land and sea
Horatio nelson: bad for him, his nemesis
Coup d’etat: tack over France
Napoleonic code: French laws, new constitution
Wars of the coalitions
Peninsular war: Spain and Portugal because he didn’t had it; he put joseph Bonaparte, his brother.
Battle of Austerlitz: good for napoleon
Battle of waterloo: bad!
Naval blockade: good for hi, it was his idea.
Invasion to Russia: bad
Elba: bad
St, Helena: bad

GROUP
Republic of litters: intelligentsia everyone can write.
The founding fathers: founded the USA.
Hessians: Germans mercenaries.
National assembly: tennis court oath, made by the third state, Louis XVI kicked them out of Versailles.
Emerges: people who go to other country, they move out, French nobility, third state.
Jacobins: revolutionaries, radicals.
The committee of public safety: collected people in order to go to the guillotine.


martes, 25 de marzo de 2014

Fenton Crimean War Collection

Roger Fenton's Crimean War photos represent the earliest organized event to document a war through photography. Fenton, who spent almost 4 months in the Crimea (between march 8 to June 26, 1855), made 360 photographs under really extremely conditions. Even though these photographs capture lots of participants and the landscape of the war, there are no actual combat photographs.
            The library of the congress bought 263 of Fenton’s works and albumen prints from his grandniece, Frances M. Fenton. Including his most known photograph, “valley of the shadow od death”. This group of photos is really unique because they reflect an arrangement imposed by Fenton. It is possible that this collection is composed of a set of Works kept and annotated by the only Roger Fenton.



martes, 18 de marzo de 2014

Essay

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand & Klemens von Metternich

The congress of Vienna on September 19, 1814 to June 6, 1815 was an assembly agreed upon in the peace of Paris. All of the representatives of the most important Europe countries attended this congress. The goal of this assembly was to reorganize the lines of the map of Europe after the Napoleonic wars. The countries that attended this congress were: Russia, Prussia, England, Austria and France.

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand (Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord) was the prince of Benevenr was born in February 2, 1754 on Paris, France; and died in May 17, 1838 on Paris too. According to Encyclopedia Britannica “He was a French statesman and diplomat noted for his capacity for political survival, who held high office during the French Revolution, under Napoleon, at the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, and under King Louis-Philippe” (Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, 2014)

Klemens von Metternich (Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Fürst Von Metternich-Winneburg-Beilstein) was born in May 15, 1773 on Koblenz. He dies don June 11, 1859 on Vienna. Klemens, prince von Metternich, was an Austrian statesman, minister of foreign affairs and champion of conservatism, who helped from the victorious Alliance against napoleon I and restores Austria as a leading European power, hosting the congress of Vienna (Klemens, 2014).

These two important ministers were representing their country during the congress of Vienna. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand was representing France; similarly, Klemens von Metternich was representing Austria. They both were foreign ministers. A foreign minister is a minister of the cabinet who helps form the foreign policy of a sovereign state. The foreign minister is often regarded as the most senior ministerial position below that of the prime minister or president.

Austria, since the beginning was part of the group formed by the four major powers of Europe (Austria, Russia, Prussia and great Britain) all of the decisions were took by these four powers. “This group of major powers decided that France, Spain, and the smaller powers wouldn’t have power in important decisions. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, was successful in allowing France to have an equal voice in the negotiations” (D. E. Snyder, 2010). After this Talleyrand became the deciding vote in many of the decisions because he was the 5th country, the 5th vote.

These tow persons have lots of similarities. They both participate on the congress of Vienna, they have the same stand and they both represent their native country. The difference between these ministers is that the country of Metternich, Austria, was part of the group of powers since the beginning; On the other hand, France practically invited him by himself. Even though France entered to the congress of Vienna at last moment, it had a lot of power and voice.



References

Klemens, prince von Metternich. (2014). In Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved from http://0-www.britannica.com.millenium.itesm.mx/EBchecked/topic/378934/Klemens-Furst-von-Metternich

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, prince de Bénévent. (2014). In Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved from http://0-www.britannica.com.millenium.itesm.mx/EBchecked/topic/581601/Charles-Maurice-de-Talleyrand-prince-de-Benevent

D. E. Snyder.(2010). Personalities of the Congress of Vienna: copyright. Retrieved from:

http://teacherweb.ftl.pinecrest.edu/snyderd/mwh/projects/cov/index/index2.html