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Malcolm Knowles is credited with being the father of andragogy and outlined six assumptions associated with adult learning. These assumptions are 1) Learners need to know 2) Self-directed learning 3) Prior experience of the learner 4) Readiness to learn 5) Orientation to learning and 6) Motivation to learn. My personal experiences with each of these assumptions, while working with adults through professional learning experiences, have provided me with a certain degree of insight to help confirm…

This essay will analyse and discuss the political impact of the iconography of Roman Republican Coinage. Using ancient and modern sources, it will consider the development of coinage as monumental, and analyse whether its political impact was for the purpose of propaganda, or simply as a means of documentation. In the Roman Republic, coinage served as goods themselves, in a system of bartering, not like money used in modern times. Early Roman coins were stamped on the obverse only, serving as a…

There are two origin myths for Rome. These two myths were created separately but later were joined together by the Romans in order for them to become basically one long tale. The chronologically first myth was the most popular in ancient Rome. The myth of Aeneas was told through Virgil’s The Aeneid which was arguably the most popular poem of Ancient Rome and it has long been considered the national epic of the Roman Empire. The tale of Aeneas, a Trojan hero who fought the Greeks in the Trojan…

individuals, it is apparent that composers must utilize a variety of complex techniques to stimulate our myriad of senses. Most simply, perhaps, is the usage of musical patterns that match the lyrics of a piece. For an early example, in Weelkes’ madrigal As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending, when the text says “chase after” or “move quickly”, “…the music becomes fast… voices chase [each other].” (Wright 77). Additionally, when words like “pain” and “anguish” are used, “…biting dissonance and…

Reflective Statement Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a novel that is greatly affected by time and place. In Colombia in the 1950’s where Gabriel Garcia-Marquez set his novel, people had different thoughts and ideals. In our class discussion, it was made clear that a woman’s virginity was important during that time period. It was a sign of purity and honor in the girl’s family. The class agreed that the townspeople did not do anything to prevent the murder of Santiago Nasar because the villagers…

common practice used among 99% of college students is note taking (Palmatier & Bennett, 1974). Note taking is said to benefit students in two different ways. Taking notes helps to aid in the encoding and external storage processes of learning. (Di Vesta & Gray, 1972). Encoding is the effective processing of new material and…

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, has been around for fifty-eight years now! NASA is a United States government agency that is responsible for air and space travel. It has accomplished several different things pertaining to air and space travel. The biggest accomplishes are: human space flight, first human landing on the Moon, they also have humans living on the ISS (International Space Station), They have sent space probes to every single one of the planets in…

Women in Ancient Rome Society It clear that the women in the Roman empire had influence the once great city, many enjoyed a life of luxury depending on their statues, the women have been depicted in the arts, literature, yet Rome had denied their women the status of being equal to men. For such an advance city, their women have less rights and privilege than men, not that they are oppress, they do enjoyed freedom, compare to other countries around that time, to an extent. But none the less,…

The Visigoths sacked Rome in the year of 410 A.D. The Pagans held the Christians responsible for the fall of the Roman Empire. Augustine of Hippo was a man of religious faith, in which he writes a book called The City of God. In his work, The City of God, he defends Christianity against the accusations made by the Pagans. He bases this book off of to two cities which are known as the Heavenly City and The Earthly City. Each of these cities are constructed on either a love of god or a love of…

sketches of Monticello are illustrated. The sketches showed how Jefferson added and removed some parts of his home. The dome on Monticello was the first one on an American house in 1800. Jefferson got this idea of a dome from an ancient Temple of Vesta in Rome. Jefferson decided to uniquely connect the “Appendix” (bedroom), the cabinet (study), and the book room. By doing this it made an L shaped suite. In Jefferson's nineteenth foot long chamber, he decided to include the “Iconic entablature”…