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Central to Russell’s “On Denoting” view is the propositional function. The propositional function is an abstract entity that comes about from the extraction of the denoting phrase such that a gap is produced or some variable, x, that is “essentially and wholly undetermined” (“On Denoting”, 480). In the proposition “an Athenian studied with Plato”, the logical form for such a sentence is “there is an x, x is Athenian, x studied with Plato”. Russell’s analysis of the phrase “an Athenian studied…

CINEMA BUSINESS IN LAGOS, NIGERIA SINCE 1903 Oladipo O. Olubomehin, PhD Department of History and Diplomatic Studies, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Nigeria. E-mail:olubomehind@yahoo.com Abstract Cinema business constituted an important aspect of the local economy in Nigeria during the colonial period. The business flourished from 1903 when the first film was shown in Lagos through into the 1970s and 80s. Lagos, being the nerve centre of commercial activities in Nigeria with a…

The Metropolis and Mental Life (1903, cited in Giddens and Sutton, 2017, pp. 211), adopt a “seen-it-all-before” attitude; thus make no conscious effort to intercommunicate with those around them. Despite Simmel noting that inhabitants aren’t inherently indifferent to each other, they do avoid contact with one another – physically and emotionally in order to protect themselves from the city’s demands. According to Simmel’s The Metropolis and Mental Life essay (1903, pp. 12), “instead of reacting…

claims that filming in the early 1900s was rather basic, as of being almost dependent on images and visual elements. The actors had to rely on their costumes, facial expressions and the set to be able to get the message across to the audience. After 1903 and 1906 the film industry flourished, describes Maloney, and new techniques and equipment such as the mobile camera, the close-up and the editing of the films was introduced. Still exaggerated facial expressions, emotions and actions were…

Dudley Weldon Woodard, was an African American Mathematics Professor. Dudley went to a College called Wilberforce University in Ohio (1903-1906) he worked at a University of Chicago (1907). Dudley Weldon was born October 3(1881,Galveston Texas). Dudley died on a Wednesday in a Jewish hospital of old age on July 1,1965 in Cleveland Ohio. Dudley was a smart curious child Dudley’s father had a great job he worked at postal office . There is little or no information about Dudley…

Adolfus (Adolf) Hitler was born on the evening of 20 April 1889, in the Gasthof zum Pommer, in the small town of Braunnau on the River Inn which forms the frontier between Austria and Bavaria. Adolf was the third child of his father, Alois Hitler’s third marriage. His other siblings, Gustav, Ida, both died during infancy; his younger brother, Edward, died at age six. His only younger sister, Paula, born in 1896, lived to grow up. His half-brother Alois, and half-sister Angela (only one of his…

will the little ones do for fun when they got nothing to do. Lastly the crayons changed the world for artist because it added a less messy way to add color to their creation. Crayons were invented in 1902 by Binney and Smith, but wasn’t sold tell 1903. Binney’s wife Alice is a school teacher. Alice named their creation, but she named them after things that were already made in the past or a word that means something in a different language. (The link of the evidence)“Crayola…

Although Mead does not explicitly account for inequalities among race, class, or gender, his conceptualization of the “me” constitutes a survival mechanism for that is used for individuals to be accepted (Mead,1934). The more recent version of the Clarks Doll test, 2005 documentary A Girl Like Me by Kiri Davis, supports the argument that African-Americans, especially dark-skinned, have an overdeveloped “Me” compared to light-skinned and Whites. In the beginning stages of socialization,…

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” In the early 1900s, Teddy Roosevelt led the way that left a trail still traveled today. This trail is one of America’s greatest achievements. The Panama Canal , built during the 1900s, allowed for more efficient trading and easier warship travel. In 1513, Spanish explorer Vasco Nurez de Balboa became the first European to discover the Isthmus of Panama was just a slim land…

canal was very hard to build they had lots of problems. Panama at that time was trying to seperate from columbia.The separatist movement was on November 1903. The Government deployed troops and instructed the commander to take over the Governor of Panama The Tiradores Battalion got to the Panamanian city of Colón the day of November 3 1903. There was some delays on the way to Panama City caused by the Panama Railway authorities who were against the separatist movement. The Colombian…