22 abr 2008

Roman Style

The Romans used only 7 letters to represent all numbers . . .
I = 1 V = 5 X = 10 L = 50 C = 100 D = 500 M = 1000
Letters are placed before or after each other to lower or increase their value.
IX = 9 MXI = 1011 MCMLXXXVIII = 1988 IIMM = 1998
On the other hand, The Roman Language is based on the Latin alphabet. The Romans spoke Latin. These are the letters of the Roman alphabet . . . The letters K, Y and Z weren't used very often. The letter J was the same as I, and U the same as V.
Roman Schools Rome didn't have any public schools. Most children went to private school or studied at home.Their subjects were reading, writing, and arithmetic. In many homes, the slaves taught the children. Before the age of fourteen, they studied Latin and Greek.

Roman Wears

A Roman CitizenMost of the time the Roman men would wear a simple tunic which was fastened with a belt and went down to his knees. He would wear sandals in the house called SALEAE and when he went out he would wear heavier sandals called CALCEI. On important times he wore a TOGA made of fine wool . it went over the body hanging over the right shoulder.
A Roman LadyThe women wore a STOLA over their bodies. This was made of fine wool and reached down to her ankles. The roman women liked their hair well done and piled high on top of their heads with a lot of curls. They wore make up on their cheeks, lips and eyes. They also wore jewellery like earrings and bracelets.
How do you put on a toga

Julius caesar

Julius caesar was a Roman military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Romann Empire. His conquest of Gaul extended the Roman world all the way to the Atlantic Ocean and he also conducted the first Roman invasion of Britain 55 BC; Caesar began a civil war in 49 BC from which he became the undisputed master of the Roman world.After assuming control of government, he began extensive reforms of Roman society and government. He was proclaimed dictator and heavily centralised the bureaucracy of the Republic.Caesar was born into a patrician family.
Caesar may have suffered from epilepsy. He had four documented episodes of what were probably complex partial seizures. There is family history of epilepsy amongst his ancestors and descendants.However, the claim of epilepsy is disputed by some historians and is countered by a claim of hypoglycemia, which sometimes causes epileptic-like fits.

Cause and Effect.

Considering that the economy is changing so fast in the United States, teenagers graduating from high school are getting prepare to decide what way should they take to confront their future. Should they go to college? Or should they start working right now? The thing is that the change of the manufacturing economy to service is one of the principal effects of the United States job market in the last 100 years ago. And if these teenagers want to have a good job that pay well, the best way they should take is go to college; because of 25 excellent service jobs in the United States at least 18 require a bachelor’s degree.
One of the principal effects of the job market change in the last 100 years is the change from a manufacturing economy to a service economy. A lot of reasons explain this change in the U.S economy. First of all, the numbers of manufactory jobs has decreased significantly because two basic causes; the automation replacing factory workers and the manufactory is now done outside of the U.S. For example, the percentage of manufacturing jobs has gone down dramatically since the beginning of the 20th century and it will continue to decrease in the 21st century. But on the other hand, the number of service jobs has increase a lot, again because two reasons, one is the change of the American population and the other is the technology. At the same time that the manufacturing jobs has gone down, there has been a great increase in percentage of service jobs. Basically 100 year ago the, only 20% of workers worked in service, but today 80% do. And we can see too that by the 2020, the percentage will increase to 90%; in other words the workers in U.S will supply services and not products. Well other important effect of the changing job marked in the Unites States, and one of the most important around the world capitalized is the development of new technologies applied to the industry, the economy and the urbanization of most of the countries, I mean, the automation of the factories, the technician of the agro industries, the use of the microchip in almost all the appliances and the majority of the tools in the emprises. All of this have changed the modality of working now day, as example, in a factory, the factory needs personnel staff that must be qualified to work with machines, therefore if you expect to work in a factory you should start your training, other simple example is that the people who work now day in a job with a good salary have to know how to use an computer, I mean, that if you want to join of the culturing of consumerism, you have to know how to go with the hand with the technology.

1 abr 2008

PLATO (WORK)

Plato was a classical greek philosopher, who together with his teacher,Socrates, and his student Aristoteles, helped to lay the philosophical foundations of western culture. He was also a mathematician and writer of philosophical dialogues of theAcademy in Athens.Plato was originally a student of Socrates, and was influenced by his thinking, before his death.The dialogues have since Plato is time been used to teach a range of subjects, including Philosophy, Logic, Rhetoric and Mathematics.
He was born in Athens or Aegina between 424 and 423 BC His father was Ariston. Ariston descent from the king of Athens, Condrus, and the king of Messenia, Melanthus. Plato's mother was Perictione, family of a relationship with the famous Athenian lawmake and lyric poet solon.
According to Diogenes Laertius, the philosopher was named Aristocles after his grandfather, but his wrestling coach, Ariston of Argos, dubbed him "Platon", meaning "broad" on account of his robust figure.