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The Victorian Web

The Victorian Web

Victorian England For much of this century the term Victorian, which literally describes things and events (roughly) in the reign of Queen Victoria, conveyed connotations of "prudish," "repressed," and "old fashioned." Although such associations have some basis in fact, they do not adequately indicate the nature of this complex, paradoxical age that saw great expansion of wealth, power, and culture. In science and technology, the Victorians invented the modern idea of invention -- the notion that one can create solutions to problems, that man can create new means of bettering himself and his environment. In religion, the Victorians experienced a great age of doubt, the first that called into question institutional Christianity on such a large scale. In ideology, politics, and society, the Victorians created astonishing innovation and change: democracy, feminism, unionization of workers, socialism, Marxism, and other modern movements took form. Born on 24 May 1819. Pounds (£) Shillings (s.) Dr.

Virtue Epistemology First published Fri Jul 9, 1999; substantive revision Wed Jan 12, 2011 Contemporary virtue epistemology (hereafter ‘VE’) is a diverse collection of approaches to epistemology. Two commitments unify them. First, epistemology is a normative discipline. This entry introduces you to many of the most important results of the contemporary VE research program. It will be helpful to note some terminology before proceeding. 1. We'll start by explaining contemporary VE's two basic commitments. One of VE's commitments is that epistemology is a normative discipline. First, it signals opposition to Quine's radical suggestion in “Epistemology Naturalized” that philosophers should abandon questions about what's reasonable to believe, and should restrict themselves to questions about cognitive psychology instead. Second, it implies that epistemologists should focus their efforts on understanding epistemic norms, value and evaluation. Beyond those basic commitments, we find great diversity in the field.

Victorian literature, art, history and religion on the Internet: plucked from the web by Sylvia Milne,a retired librarian American Choral Music, 1870-1923 Amusing America: American amusement parks, world’s fairs, arcades, seaside resorts and dance pavilions from the 1880s to World War II Herrmann's Book of Magic: Black Art Fully Exposed: a complete and practical guide to drawing room and stage magic for professionals and amateurs by Prof. Pepys' Diary

Five Things Everyone Should Know About the Victorians What do we think of when we ponder the Victorian era? I for one almost always think of steam trains, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper, Charles Dickens, pea-soupers (thick London fog), public libraries, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. These are the first things that come to my mind but of course that’s only me! William Powell Frith, Many Happy Returns of the Day, 1856, oil on canvas, The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, London. Others might rightly mention Oscar Wilde, the rise of the British Empire, Rossetti, the typewriter, and the invention of photography. Steam travel – not just puffs of ‘smoke’ Joseph Mallord William Turner, Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway, 1844, oil on canvas, National Gallery, London. The Victorian era saw the rise of steam-powered travel. The evolution of the steam ship was not far behind. Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Romantic Graham and Victorian Frith

Simple Liberty - What is Liberty? Written by Darrell Anderson. The word freedom implies an individual is unfettered in any manner to act. Freedom implies no boundaries to limit human actions. The concept of boundaries, however, transforms the word freedom into the word liberty. Whereas the concept of freedom ignores the concept of obligations, the concept of liberty implies potential obligations. The word freedom ignores interactions with other humans, the word liberty acknowledges those interactions. There is another word that describes the concept of liberty. A straightforward definition of anarchy means “without rulers.” From Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, second edition, 1983: Anarchy: (Greek) anarchia, lack of ruler or government, from anarchos, without chief or ruler; an privative, and archos, ruler. Privative: in grammar, changing a positive term to give it a negative meaning. Trespass is any violation of an individual’s body or resources. Anarchy means self-government. Liberty is anarchy. Finis.

Outils et ressources : guide | Classe Inversée Vous trouverez ici les meilleurs outils et ressources pour inverser votre classe. Cette section sera mise à jour régulièrement. N’hésitez pas à donner vos avis et suggestions dans le forum. – Création de contenu et annotation Visme : Permet de créer des animations, slides et infographies de manière très intuitive (gratuit).EdPuzzle : Outil de création de vidéo qui permet d’utiliser des bouts d’autres vidéos trouvées sur le net (youtube, vimeo…). – Screencast (pour enregistrer ce qui se passe à l’écran) Screencast-O-Matic : option “picture in picture” (permet d’inclure dans la vidéo une petite fenêtre qui affiche ce que filme votre webcam), partage en ligne avec notes et sous-titres. – Gestion de classe / LMS (Learning Management System) Canvas : LMS très complet. – Autres Sophia : “semi-LMS” qui permet d’organiser son contenu éducatif et de créer des pages appelée “tutoriels” contenant tout type de ressources, puis de les inclure dans des playlists (exemple : playlist “géométrie”).

The SCETI Collections The Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection The Schoenberg Collection includes three separate on line sites: - A private library of manuscripts focusing on the late Medieval and early Renaissance periods. This site includes full bibliographic information for over 400 manuscripts and online facsimiles for more than 30. - An on line catalog of the Schoenberg manuscript colleciton. - A searchable database that includes catalog descriptions of almost 100,000 early manuscripts written prior to 1600. Schoenberg Collection home page Schoenberg Manuscripts in the Penn in Hand Collection The Edgar Fahs Smith Collection of Chemistry and Science Edgar Fahs Smith (1854-1928) was a professor of chemistry and a provost of the University of Pennsylvania. The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection is devoted to the history of chemistry, emphasizing the periods prior to 1850. Smith Collection home page The Furness Collection of English Renaissance Literature and History Furness Collection home page ERIC home page

Five MORE Things Everyone Should Know About the Victorians The last time that we talked about the Victorians we looked at steam travel, Alice in Wonderland, Romanticism, the Pre-Raphaelites and Sherlock Holmes, so what shall we look at next? How about The Gothic, Jack the Ripper, Photography, Zoological Gardens, and the Victoria & Albert Museum to further build our visual picture of the Victorians and the world that they inhabited? John Atkinson Grimshaw, The Haunted House, c.1868, oil on canvas, private collection The Gothic in Literature and Art The Gothic in the Victorian Era was replete with strange writing, painting, and illustration. The cover to the 13th edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker, William Ryder & Son, London, 1919, The British Library The Victorians were fascinated by death, decay and ideas of the supernatural so it makes sense that the literature and art of the era reflect this rather morbid interest. Henry Fuseli, Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers, exhibited 1812, Tate Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781, Detroit Institute of Arts

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Les outils qui rendent possible la classe inversée | Carrefour éducation La notion de classe inversée tourne beaucoup autour de la vidéo. Mais pourquoi? Selon Caroline Hétu et David Chartrand, enseignants, elle constitue un outil pédagogique très puissant, permettant « d'expliquer des notions, substituer une partie du cours et donner des instructions claires, autant en classe qu'à la maison ou à l'étranger ». De plus, elle favorise l’autonomie des jeunes en leur permettant d’apprendre à leur rythme, laissant par le fait même plus de temps à l’enseignant pour aider les autres. Introduction à l’infonuagique Quiconque a déjà travaillé avec la vidéo sait à quel point ce média est « lourd » côté informatique. Le fait de déposer un fichier (dans ce cas-ci, un fichier vidéo) sur un service en ligne pour y avoir accès de partout s’appelle l’infonuagique, ou l’informatique en nuage. Il existe d’autres applications de l’infonuagique. La fabrication de capsules vidéo Pour la création de capsules vidéo originales, il y a différentes façons de procéder. Khan Academy Sophia

The Cotton Nero A.x Project L'époque victorienne — Anglais Laurence Talairach-Vielmas - publié le 02/11/2009 publié le 18/05/2009 Dans le cadre du cycle de conférences "Ecrivains de toujours", la Bibliothèque municipale de la Part-Dieu (Lyon), invite des auteurs à venir parler des écrivains qu'ils aiment. Le 25 mars 2009, elle recevait Alberto Manguel, qui avait choisi, parmi ses multiples amours, l'écrivain écossais Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), auquel il avait consacré un roman, Stevenson sous les palmiers (Actes Sud, 2005). David Amigoni - publié le 13/06/2008 In his book "Colonies, Cults and Evolution", David Amigoni shows how the modern concept of "culture" developed out of the interdisciplinary interactions between literature, philosophy, anthropology, colonialism, and, in particular, Darwin's theories of evolution. publié le 05/02/2008 David Amigoni, Sophie Lemercier-Goddard - publié le 05/02/2008 Hubert Malfray - publié le 26/10/2007

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