Leiden Essays

  • Jan Steen’s Self Portrait in “The Continence of Scipio” as a Social Commentary

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    Jan Steen’s Self Portrait in “The Continence of Scipio” as a Social Commentary There is a tremendous difference between a fool and a jester. Fools are regarded as light-hearted, dim-witted, and absent-minded people whose outrageous stupidity amused the rest of the population. These jovial folk represented the lowest in society: too carefree to get ahead in society and too stupid to care. Many people believed that Jan Steen, a prominent and well-educated artist of the Dutch Golden Age, was a fool

  • Rembrandt's Painting An Old Man in Military Costume

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    The delicate details that may be missed by a digital image are easily caught by the human eye. The proper way to view a Rembrandt is in the flesh; the difference is amazing. Born in Leiden, Netherlands, Rembrandt was the son of a miller and a baker’s daughter. Unsatisfied with life at the University of Leiden, Rembrandt left school to pursue painting. He studied under Pieter Lastman who introduced the young painter to the works of Italian masters, particularly Caravaggio. Even though Rembrandt

  • Family Genogram Case Study: Mother And Family

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    Figure 1 shows the family genogram. S.S. has one sister, with both grandparents deceased on his paternal side, and one grandparent deceased on his maternal side. S.S.’s parents are both living. He has two paternal aunts, five maternal aunts, and one maternal uncle. The squares gray represent by Males and the gray circles represent Females. The blue square represents S. S. and the white circle represents his spouse, K. S.. The red lines represent people that are deceased. Yellow boxes represent family

  • Algebra Around The World Study Guide

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    It offers outstanding postgraduate course of Master of Science in Mathematics with specialisation in Algebra, Geometry and Number Theory. Established in 1575, the Leiden University offers this full-time course of 2 years in duration. This is an advanced level course that covers a variety of topics such as algebraic number theory, algebraic topology, algebraic geometry etc. It is a taught programme delivered in English

  • File Transfer Protocol: A White Paper

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    Historically, Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses have used a 32-bit addressing scheme, whereas IPv6 uses a 128-bit addressing scheme. As the world converts from IPv4 to IPv6, th... ... middle of paper ... ...y with the added security (Leiden 2009). Works Cited Allman, M., Ostermann, S., and C. Metz. "FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs", RFC 2428. September 1998. Clark, Martin P.. Data Networks, IP, and the Internet: Protocols, design, and operation. Chichester, West Sussex, England:

  • Mithraism

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    Mithrasstein von Dormagen," Jahrbücher des Vereins von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande 46 (1869): 1-25. Swerdlow, N. "Review Article: On the Cosmical Mysteries of Mithras," Classical Philology 86 (1991): 48-63. Turcan, R. Mithras Platonicus. Leiden, 1975. Ulansey, D. The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries. New York and Oxford, 1989. Vermaseren, M. J. Corpus inscriptionum et monumentorum religionis mithriacae. 2 vols. The Hague, 1956, 1960.

  • Who Is Armin Van Buuren: Well Known By The Music Industry?

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    2) Introduction Music is a necessary part of every person. Music inspire people, motivate them and make them feel better in their daily lives. People say that music was one of the greatest inventions. People can use music to communicate, erase the gap between people, making new friends and also bring people closer to each other. There are many genres of music currently. However, there is one particular genre of music that worth to be mention is trance music, also the person that bring it closer

  • Enrico Fermi And The Manhattan Project

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    Enrico Fermi and the Manhattan Project Enrico Fermi’s early education and career greatly impacted the Manhattan Project in Illinois and his work helped push America and the world into the Nuclear Age. Enrico Fermi is not only the Director of the Chicago Pile-1, but of all the Chicago Pile Projects and the Argonne National Laboratory. Enrico Fermi made multiple key discoveries in Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Energy, and the Atom. With Enrico Fermi’s work of Chicago Pile-1, Enrico Fermi

  • Rembrandt

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    etchings. Rembrandt’s full name was Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. He was born on July 15, 1606 in Leiden, the Netherlands. He was the ninth of ten children. His father was a miller, and even though he came from a family of modest means, his parents took great pride in education. Rembrandt began his studies at the Latin school. At the age of fourteen, he enrolled at the University of Leiden. This did not interest him and he soon left to study art. He was fascinated by the work of many Italian

  • project management techniques

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    were: What kind of think tank would we want to produce, ... ... middle of paper ... ...ter University Leiden. Additionally, members of the project development were satisfying a need they had found personally identifiable and important. As our project is a volunteer Think Tank, there would be no cost outflow due to wages. Resource Tools All project members study at Webster University Leiden, which maintained the status of “base point” throughout the project lifecycle. Virtual methods were used

  • William Bradford Research Paper

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    fear of persecution. His family was not supportive of that decision at all. After a year he traveled with his church to a couple different towns, Leiden and Holland. They lived their for the following eleven years. In 1613 Bradford returned to Amsterdam for a while to marry his very young 16 year-old bride Dorothy May. William and his new wife moved to Leiden. Bradford took up work as a silk weaver to make ends meet. He was also able to recover some of the estate in England his father left behind, which

  • The Concept Of Intertextuality

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    64 readers and brings perlocutionary effects through what is said in the biblical text. The triune communicative action continues through the subsequent work of the Spirit in the church over time and space. Similarly, Seitz also maintains a Trinitarian understanding of divine discourse. He says, “As the Son and the Father are one, so, too, is the witness to them from the Old and New Testaments, which witness is perceived by eyes of faith through the work of the Holy Spirit.”101 Intertextuality One

  • The Island At The Center Of The World Chapter 1 Summary

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    Part two begins in September 1638 in Holland in a town called Leiden. The University of Leiden was created and one very important person to attend this school was Adriaen van der Donck in the year 1638. “He would play a decisive role in the creation of a great city and a new society.” (94) Adriaen was a young man with family who

  • Hadith Reports as a Historical Source

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    Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Print. Brown, Daniel W. A New Introduction to Islam. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2004. Print. Brown, Jonathan A. C. "How We Know Early Hadīth Critics Did Matn Criticism And Why It' So Hard To Find." Islamic Law & Society 15.2 (2008): 143-184. Academic Search Premier. Web. 20 Mar. 2014. Motzki, Harald. The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence: Meccan Fiqh before the Classical Schools. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Print.

  • The Age of Reformation

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    Colloquy of Marburg (1529) by Luther and Philip MELANCHTHON on one side and Zwingli and Johannes Oecolampadius on the other. More radical ideas were spread, particularly among the lower classes, by such leaders as CARLSTADT, Thomas MUNZER, and JOHN OF LEIDEN. In 1536 Geneva became the center for the teachings of John CALVIN, perhaps the greatest theologian of Protestantism. In France the HUGUENOTS, fired by Calvin's doctrine, resisted the Catholic majority in the Wars of RELIGION (1562-98). Calvinism

  • The Renaissance

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    The Rennaisance The fluorishing of arts and sciences literally "rebirth," the period in European civilization immediately following the Middle Ages, conventionally held to have been characterized by a surge of interest in classical learning and values. The Renaissance also witnessed the discovery and exploration of new continents, the substitution of the Copernican for the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, the decline of the feudal system and the growth of commerce, and the invention or application

  • Essay On Epagomenal Days

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    The epagomenal days were five days that were added to the end of the typical three hundred and sixty-day year of the Egyptian civil calendar. These days were said to be introduced for the sole purpose of aligning the calendar with the Sothic cycle. Along with this, the Old Kingdom is indicated to be when the epagomenal days were first mentioned in Ancient Egyptian text; verifying that the addition of these days within the calendar had taken place no later than this period of time. Due to the common

  • Enrico Fermi Research Paper

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    perform physics experiments. In 1918, He won a scholarship to Scuola Normale Superiore University in Pisa, Italy. Enrico also spent four years at the University of Pisa when he was seventeen years old. He also went to the University of Göttingen, Leiden University. In 1923, was awarded a scholarship from the Italian government and spent months in Göttingen with Professor Max Born. In 1924, with the Rockefeller Fellowship,

  • William Bradford

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    “Some are born great others achiever greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them” Shakespeare’s, Twelfth Night Throughout history, there have been great leaders, some for the good of humanity, and some for the not-so good of humanity. The one element all leaders have in common is in some way, have changed the course of history. The one great leader I have found to be interesting and envision of a great leader is William Bradford, an original passenger on the Mayflower, and the first

  • Vanita Paintings: The Beauty Of Vanitas

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    skulls, skeletons, or decomposing corpses. While similar in motif, memento mori were more obvious in their statements, while a vanitas had greater depth to what was being said. Vanitas were heavily influenced by the location in which it originated, the Leiden area of the Netherlands in particular had a large Calvinist population, and the moral teachings of the denomination are apparent in these works. Calvinist of the time put an emphasis on strong moral foundations and a great self-awareness of the deprivations