Alban Berg and Anton Webern: Serialism Pioneers
Alban Berg
Alban Berg was a favorite pupil of Schoenberg. He is considered the most lyrical of the three (Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg), perhaps because of his friendship with Mahler. Mahler’s works, especially the 6th and 9th Symphonies, exerted a great influence on Berg, despite his music being strictly atonal. Even in his strictly twelve-tone second stage, Berg remained lyrical, ordering the series on a pitch with reminiscences, making his work more easily accepted by the general public than Schoenberg’
Read MoreUnderstanding Text Types and News Structure
Types of Texts
Exposition: Is the linguistic manifestation of content. Such exposure may follow a deductive approach (idea-analysis) or an inductive approach (analysis, idea).
Demonstration: Try using the statement of observable facts and a hypothesis. You can also develop these through deductive or intuitive approaches.
Argumentation: Used when the argument is to prove an idea.
Description: This is when parts of a very important whole are exposed. It is in spatial order.
Commentary Text
1. Type
- It is
Contract Law and Commercial Agreements: Key Elements
Unit 2: Contract Law
What is a Contract?
A contract is an agreement between two or more people which is legally binding.
Was there a Binding Contract?
A legally binding contract must have five elements:
- Offer: An expression of willingness to contract on certain terms, made with the intention that it shall become binding as soon as it is accepted by the person to whom it is addressed.
- Offeror: The person making the offer.
- Offeree: The person to whom it is made.
- Counter-offer: If the offeree rejects the offer
World War I: Causes, Conflicts, and Consequences
A Different War: Total War
World War I was a “total war,” meaning the nations involved committed their entire population and resources to annihilate the enemy. The colonialism of previous years led to fighting in many nations and distant, exotic landscapes. It was the first large-scale industrial war, which introduced new and deadlier weapons (airships, airplanes, tanks, submarines, poison gas, etc.) and the application of industrial logic to warfare.
Rising Tensions in Europe (1870-1914)
Otto von
Energy, Heat, and Temperature: Understanding the Basics
Energy
Energy is a physical quantity that represents the capacity of bodies to cause transformations in themselves or in other bodies.
Types of Energy
- Mechanical Energy: Possessed by bodies in motion (kinetic energy), those at a certain height (potential energy), or those that have experienced deformation (elastic energy).
- Electrical Energy: Possessed by electric current.
- Nuclear Energy: Produced in nuclear reactions of fusion and fission.
- Thermal Energy: Energy that flows from one body to another when
Sovereignty: Concepts of Bodin and Hobbes
The Concept of Sovereignty
Popular sovereignty is a concept often debated. Today, the concept of sovereignty is sometimes seen as in crisis or inappropriate, especially when considering public international law and justified claims of universal human rights. International law, by its nature, seeks supranational universal validity.
The validity of international law can conflict with the recognition of state sovereignty. For example, a country might refuse to sign or complete a treaty because it clashes
Read MoreGermany: Nazism, Totalitarianism, and the Rise of Hitler
Germany and the Rise of Nazism
In 1918, after Germany’s defeat in World War I, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated. The Weimar Republic was founded, and a democratic constitution was established. The Weimar Republic was threatened by left-wing revolutionary movements and by several coup attempts from the extreme right. Much of the unrest was due to the fact that Germany had to accept military defeat and the harsh peace terms imposed on them. Germany considered the Treaty of Versailles humiliating. The post-
Read MoreRomantic Poetry in 19th-Century Spain: Evolution & Themes
The Lyric of the 19th Century: Poetry as Self-Expression
Poetry is the genre par excellence to express subjectivity. In the 19th century, with Romanticism, poetry re-emerged with vigor and became the natural range of Romantic writers, concerned about feelings and self-expression. In the second half of the 19th century, with the advent of Realism and an objective view of reality, lyric poetry experienced another period of decline. Lyric poetry evolved dramatically: first with Modernism, conceived
Read MoreNeo-Darwinism vs. Saltationism: Evolution Theories
Neo-Darwinism vs. Saltationism (Punctuated Equilibria)
Neo-Darwinism:
- The variability of populations is genetic and is due to two processes: mutation and genetic recombination.
- The gene pool is defined as the sum of all genes (each with their different alleles) present in all individuals of a population.
- Natural selection acts on genetic variability. Each individual in a population carries different alleles responsible for their phenotype.
- Natural selection leads to changes in the set of alleles of the
Classroom Management and Literacy Development
Classroom Management Techniques
Classroom Management refers to the wide variety of skills and techniques that teachers use to keep students organized, orderly, focused, attentive, on task, and academically productive during a class. Adapt what you like to your classroom.
Personal Relationships & Class Climate (Teacher)
The teacher must create a warm and trusting community of learners by:
- Getting off to a good start
- Establishing rules
- Over-planning lessons
- Being firm and consistent
- Using effective teacher